The widows of Ahatovici reminisce stories about their husbands and sons who were killed in a massacre during the Yougoslav civil war in 1992. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Schatten der Engel / Shadow of Angels (1976) Daniel Schmid, Ingrid Caven, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Annemarie Düringer, Drama
Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. Read More »
The Way Ahead (1944) Carol Reed, David Niven, Stanley Holloway, James Donald, War, Drama
A group of conscripts are called up into the infantry during WWII. Read More »
Lady Windermere’s Fan (1925) Ernst Lubitsch, Irene Rich, May McAvoy, Bert Lytell, Comedy
Mrs Erlynne, the mother of Lady Windermere – her daughter does not know about her – wants to be introduced in society, so that she can marry Lord Augustus Lorton. Read More »
Die Puppe / The Doll (1919) Ernst Lubitsch, Ossi Oswalda, Hermann Thimig, Victor Janson, Comedy, Fantasy
Because the Baron of Chanterelle wants to preserve his family line, he forces his timid nephew Lancelot to choose one of the village maidens to wed. Read More »
McVicar (1980) Tom Clegg, Roger Daltrey, Adam Faith, Cheryl Campbell, Crime, Drama
‘John McVicar’ was a London Bad Boy. He graduated to armed bank robbery and was Britain’s “Public Enemy No. 1”. He was captured and put into a high security prison. Read More »
Sentô shôjo: Chi no tekkamen densetsu / Mutant Girls Squad (2010) Noboru Iguchi, Asami, Naoto Takenaka, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
On her sixteenth birthday, Rin (Yumi Sugimoto), a bullied, timid schoolgirl witnesses her parents killed by fearful, anti-mutant humans. Read More »
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947) Alberto Cavalcanti, Derek Bond, Cedric Hardwicke, Mary Merrall, Drama
Nineteenth century England. When Nicholas Nickleby’s father dies and leaves his family destitute, his uncle, the greedy moneylender Read More »
Metaal en Melancholie / Metal and Melancholy (1994) Heddy Honigmann, Jorge Rodríguez Paz, Documentary, Drama
In 1992, Peru was just emerging from one of its darkest moments in its entire Republican History (1821- onwards). Read More »
Knights and Emeralds (1986) Ian Emes, Christopher Wild, Beverly Hills, Warren Mitchell, Drama, Music
A white boy lives in a racially divided town. The only thing he cares about is playing his drums. Read More »