Tucson, Arizona, circa 1910: Emily Hefferan wants a divorce. In flashback, she recalls twenty years of marriage to Jim Hefferan, who sinks every cent of each new windfall in harebrained investments. Emily only keeps a roof over the family by taking in boarders…more and more of them. But Jim’s latest deal goes just a little too far.
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Author Archives: rarefilm
Lone Wolf with Child: Assassin on the Road to Hell (1989) Tokuzô Tanaka, Action
The story of Lone Wolf and Child has been told many times, but never before like this. With the magnificent sword skills of Takahashi Hideki as Ogami Itto, the Shogun’s Decapitator and Wakayama Tomisaburo as the power hungry Lord Yagyu Retsudo the story has come full circle.
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A Noite do Espantalho / The Night of the Scarecrow (1974) Sérgio Ricardo, Geraldo Azevedo, Fátima Batista, Ana Lúcia Castro, Drama
A psychedelic Brazilian musical with much of the esthetics of Cinema Novo and Tropicalismo; feels a bit like a Brazilian, more modest (and linear) version of “El Topo”. The music is what really shines here; one of the stars (the narrator, featured in the posters above) is now famous musician Alceu Valença.
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M’Liss (1918) Marshall Neilan, Mary Pickford, Theodore Roberts, Thomas Meighan, Drama
M’liss, a feisty young girl in a mining camp, falls for Charles Gray, the school teacher. Charles is implicated in a murder of which he is innocent, and the two must fight to save him from a lynching.
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Girls of the Night (1984) Ned Morehead, Colleen Brennan, Robert Kerman, Amber Lynn, Adult
They will make your deepest desires come true
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Amanda By Night 2 (1987) Jack Remy, Krista Lane, Nina Hartley, Tracey Adams, Adult
Veronica Hart returns to the screen to reprise her role in Amanda By Night 2. A reformed prostitute, Amanda now runs a counseling service.
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Coffee, Tea Or Me (1984) Bob Vosse, Tara Aire, Jamie Gillis, Juliet Anderson, Paul Thomas, Adult
Getting it up is a moving experience. These flights take you places you have never been before. The sexual exploits of those hot and sexy stewardesses and the pilots will have you wishing you were in the airline industry.
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Heavenly Desire (1979) Jourdan Alexander, Serena, Johnnie Keyes, Seka, Adult, Comedy, Fantasy
The Devil recruits two seductive ghosts to try to make two virgins lose their virginity in a sorority house in order for them to gain entrance into Hell.
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Les États-Unis d’Albert / The United States Of Albert (2005) André Forcier, Éric Bruneau, Émilie Dequenne, Andréa Ferréol, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Albert Renaud, a young Quebec actor with aspirations to become the next Rudolph Valentino, sets off by train for Hollywood with a letter of recommendation from his drama teacher who is Mary Pickford’s aunt.
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Conception / A Concepção (2005) José Eduardo Belmonte, Juliano Cazarré, Milhem Cortaz, Murilo Grossi, Drama
A group of bored well-off young adults come up with anarchic concept of Conceptionism, that promotes absolute looseness when it comes to sex and drugs, but total rejection of money and ego. However, their movement won’t last long.
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