
A young, impoverished German woman named Hanna (Maria von Tasnady) gives her infant up for adoption and emigrates to American to live with her husband. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Necropolis (1970) Franco Brocani, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Tina Aumont, Pierre Clémenti, Fantasy, Horror

Brocani conjures together all your favourite European cultural and historical myth figures in order to attack the centuries of ‘sublimation’ that have produced our cities and their inhabitants. Read More »
Peccato che sia una canaglia / Too Bad She’s Bad (1954) Alessandro Blasetti, Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Comedy, Romance

Rome Cabbie Paolo (Marcello Mastroianni) almost gets his cab stolen by two punks in the company of knockout Italiana Lina Stroppiani (Sophia Loren). Read More »
Zur Chronik von Grieshuus (1925) Arthur von Gerlach, Arthur Kraußneck, Paul Hartmann, Rudolf Forster, Drama

Hinrich, the son of a feudal German landowner, falls in love with the beautiful daughter of one of his father’s serfs despite opposition from both families. Read More »
Every Night at Eight (1935) Raoul Walsh, George Raft, Alice Faye, Frances Langford, Comedy, Musical, Romance

Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to ‘lease’ the dictaphone of their boss to make a record of their singin, but they are caught and fired. Read More »
Cimarron (1931) Wesley Ruggles, Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Estelle Taylor, Drama, Western

When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita. Read More »
Shameless / Schamlos (1968) Eddy Saller, Thomas Astor, Gino Baldini, Rolf Eden, Crime, Drama

A very dynamic Udo Kier stars as Pohlmann, a teenager setting up a gang to collect protection money, who falls in love with an exotic dancer, who gets murdered. Can Pohlmann revenge her?
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The Mountain Road (1960) Daniel Mann, James Stewart, Lisa Lu, Glenn Corbett, Drama, War

In 1944, in eastern part of China, U.S.Army Major Baldwin and his volunteer team of demolition engineers are left behind the retreating Chinese forces. Read More »
Movers & Shakers (1985) William Asher, Walter Matthau, Charles Grodin, Vincent Gardenia, Comedy

Joe Mulholland, Head of Production at a Hollywood studio, makes a rather fool-hardy promise to a dying friend. Read More »
Slunce, seno, jahody / Sun, Hay, Strawberries (1984) Zdenek Troska, Pavel Kikincuk, Bronek Cerny, Veronika Kánská, Comedy

A Czech agricultural student, Šimon Pláni?ka, arrives at the small South Bohemian town of Hoštice, and joins the local JZD (agricultural co-op) with the intention of trying out his experiment regarding the “Milk yield of cows in regards to a cultured environment”. Read More »