A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Mon seung / Diary (2006) Oxide Chun Pang, Hin-Wai Au, Charlene Choi, Isabella Leong, Horror, Thriller
Winnie Leung becomes more disturbed and depressed after her boyfriend Seth Lau breaks up with her and she turns schizophrenic – imagining events which never occurred Read More »
Ana Yurdu / Motherland (2015) Senem Tüzen, Esra Bezen Bilgin, Nihal G. Koldas, Semih Aydin, Drama
Nesrin, an urban upper-middle class woman, goes back to her parents’ old village in Anatolia to finish a novel and live out her dream of being a writer. Read More »
Let Us Live (1939) John Brahm, Maureen O’Sullivan, Henry Fonda, Ralph Bellamy, Crime, Drama
Two innocent men are wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to death. The fiance of one of them convinces a police detective of their innocence, and together they try to find the real killer before the men’s execution date.
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Gold is Where You Find It (1938) Michael Curtiz, George Brent, Olivia de Havilland, Claude Rains, Drama, History, Romance
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the 1870’s Read More »
Bottoms Up (1974) Franz Josef Gottlieb, Alena Penz, Alexander Grill, Rinaldo Talamonti, Comedy, Erotic
A scientist discovers a way to turn cow manure into energy. Two secret agents are dispatched to find out the formula but they devote more time to having sex with each other than they do going after the scientist. Read More »
Sweet Captive (1979) Lee Frost, Rhonda Jo Petty, Dorothy Lemay, Brooke West, Brien, John Holmes, Adult
Discover the highest ransom conceivable–the price of a debt unpaid. From total exploitation and perversion, to moving and sensual love scenes; a sweet is transformed to a submissive love object by her captors.
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Duplo Exilio / Double Exile (2001) Artur Ribeiro, John Gardner, Joana Seixas, Diana Costa e Silva, Drama
David Santo was born in Portugal, in the Atlantic islands of the Azores, and was five months old at the time his parents immigrated to the US. Read More »
Key Exchange (1985) Barnet Kellman, Brooke Adams, Danny Aiello, Seth Allen, Comedy, Romance
A young woman wants to get her boyfriend to commit to her, but the most she can get him to do is exchange apartment keys.
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The Devil Is a Woman (1935) Josef von Sternberg, Marlene Dietrich, Lionel Atwill, Edward Everett Horton, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Film told in flashbacks of an older man’s obsession for a woman who can belong to no-one but can frustrate everyone. Read More »