
Because of the war, a 12-year-old boy from England, Hugh, is sent to live with the Andrews family in Ohio. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
L’Ultimo Capodanno / Humanity’s Last New Year’s Eve (1998) Marco Risi, Max Mazzotta, Monica Bellucci, Beppe Fiorello, Comedy, Drama

New year’s eve at “The Islands” condos. An aging countess’s party is crashed by the soccer team from her gigolo’s town. Read More »
Youngblood Hawke (1964) Delmer Daves, James Franciscus, Suzanne Pleshette, Geneviève Page, Drama

Youngblood Hawke is a truck driver from Kentucky who comes to New York City to become a hot-shot writer. Read More »
The FBI Story (1959) Mervyn LeRoy, James Stewart, Vera Miles, Murray Hamilton, Crime, Drama, History

The story of the FBI unfolds through the eyes of one of its agents. During his career he investigates gangsters, swindlers, the klu klux klan, Nazi agents and cold war spies.
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L’armoire volante / The Cupboard Was Bare (1948) Carlo Rim, Fernandel, Berthe Bovy, Germaine Kerjean, Comedy, Crime

Alfred Pic is a conscientious tax inspector who lives with his authoritarian aged aunt. Read More »
I’m a Stranger (1952) Brock Williams, Greta Gynt, James Hayter, Hector Ross, Crime, Comedy

When his grandfather dies, George Westcott (Patrick Doonan) returns home from India to collect his inheritance — only to find that the will has mysteriously gone missing. Read More »
Song of the Saddle (1936) Louis King, Dick Foran, Alma Lloyd, Charles Middleton, Action, Adventure, Music, Western

Frank Sr. sells his supplies to Hook, but then Hook has the Bannion Boys bushwhack his wagon to get the money back. Read More »
My Lover My Son (1970) John Newland, Romy Schneider, Donald Houston, Dennis Waterman, Drama

Francesca Anderson, the rich wife of an older millionaire, can’t cope with the death of her lover, who is the father of her only son, James. Read More »
Father’s House (1975) Alex Segal, Cliff Robertson, Robert Preston, Eileen Brennan, Drama

While recuperating from a heart attack–brought about in part by his job as a hard-charging but highly paid executive–a man begins to reflect on his life and the simpler time when he was growing up. Read More »
Fuga dal paradiso / Escape from Paradise (1990) Ettore Pasculli, Fabrice Josso, Inés Sastre, Horst Buchholz, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

In a futuristic society, an old man tells the legend of a strange medal to two children. In flashback, we learn that after a nuclear catastrophe Read More »