
A group of middle class tosspots find their cosy dinner party disrupted when boorish, borderline misanthrope Art Witz (Alexander, aka Seinfeld’s George Costanza) Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Compartiment tueurs / The Sleeping Car Murders (1965) Costa-Gavras, Catherine Allégret, Jacques Perrin, Simone Signoret, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Six people travel in a railroad sleeping car from Marseilles to Paris. Upon their arrival, a woman is found dead in one of the berths. Read More »
Man on a Tightrope (1953) Elia Kazan, Fredric March, Terry Moore, Gloria Grahame, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller

In 1950s Czechoslovakia circus manager Karel Cernik is planning an escape from Communism to freedom. Read More »
Mortal Possession The Reincarnation of Sex (1982)

A farmer kills the servant who have sex with his daughter. The soul of the servant haunt the farm along Read More »
Donne-moi la main / Give Me Your Hand (2008) Pascal-Alex Vincent, Alexandre Carril, Victor Carril, Anaïs Demoustier, Drama, Romance

Twin 18-year-olds hitchhike to their mother’s funeral in Spain. The journey changes their lives forever. Read More »
Three Times / Zui hao de shi guang (2005) Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Qi Shu, Chen Chang, Fang Mei, Drama, Romance

There are three stories of women and men: in “A Time for Love” set in 1966, a soldier searches for a young woman he met one afternoon playing pool Read More »
The Red Dragon (1945) Phil Rosen, Sidney Toler, Fortunio Bonanova, Benson Fong, Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Charlie Chan is faced with suspects in a stolen atomic bomb formula case, that are being killed with bullets that are not fired from a gun. Read More »
Across the Rio Grande (1949) Oliver Drake, Jimmy Wakely, Dub Taylor, Reno Browne, Action, Adventure, Music

Outlaws attempting to kidnap Steve Blaine from a stagecoach are ran off by the sharpshooting of his sister, Sally and rescuers Jimmy Wakely and Cannonball Taylor. Read More »
L affittacamere (1979) Mariano Laurenti, Gloria Guida, Lino Banfi, Enzo Cannavale, Comedy, Erotic

Gloria and her sister go with Grandma to the horse track. Grandma has Gloria make a bet, and her horse wins, but Gloria has bet on the wrong horse. Grandma drops dead on the spot. Read More »
The Red Beret (1953) Terence Young, Alan Ladd, Leo Genn, Susan Stephen, Drama, War

Alan Ladd is the focus of this story based on the wartime raid on the German radar station at Bruneval. Read More »