
A psychotic small-time criminal realizes that the everyday robberies, rapes and murders he commits aren’t making him all that much money, so he figures to hit the “big time” by kidnapping the daughter of a rich man.
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Author Archives: rarefilm
Amsterdam (2013) Stefan Miljevic, Gabriel Sabourin, Louis Champagne, Robin Aubert, Thriller

Natives of a small lumber town in Northern Quebec, three childhood friends decide to treat themselves to a dream weekend. Pretending that it’s their annual fishing trip, the three buddies slip away secretly for a wild vacation in Amsterdam. On their return, one of the friends goes missing and this triggers an unstoppable chain of deceit that shatters their beautiful friendship
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The Trouble with Women (1947) Sidney Lanfield, Ray Milland, Teresa Wright, Brian Donlevy, Comedy

Milland is charming as Gilbert Sedley, an innocent professor – he’s apparently been isolated working in the Orient too long – who is baffled by his strong reactions to a young newspaper reporter, Kate Farrell (Teresa Wright). Why does he think of Niagara Falls whenever he’s around her?
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Tomboy (1985) Herb Freed, Betsy Russell, Gerard Christopher, Kristi Somers, Comedy

Scrappy, willful, and fiercely self-reliant spitfire hoyden automobile mechanic Tomasina ‘Tommy’ Boyd develops a huge crush on cocky race car driving dreamboat hunk Randy Starr after meeting Randy at a party held at a jerky rich guy’s house.
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Fluchtweg St. Pauli – Großalarm für die Davidswache / Hot Traces of St. Pauli (1971) Wolfgang Staudte, Horst Frank, Christiane Krüger, Heinz Reincke, Thriller

The dangerous violent criminal Willy Jensen flees from a prison in Hamburg and seeks shelter at his brother Heinz’ apartment. Heinz, an honest taxi-driver, believes in his innocence and helps him – until Willy kills another man in a robbery. After an argument Willy takes his wife Vera, who now lives with Heinz, as hostage on his further flight from the police.
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Kapurush / The Coward (1965) Satyajit Ray, Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, Haradhan Bannerjee, Drama, Romance

Amitabha Roy (Soumitra Chatterjee), a sriptwriter has a breakdown near a tea-estate and he is offered a place to stay by the estate manager (Haradhan Banerjee) at his bungalow. When he reaches, Amitabha finds out that the manager is married to his ex-girlfriend, Karuna (Madhabi Mukherjee).
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Djeca / Children of Sarajevo (2012) Aida Begic, Marija Pikic, Ismir Gagula, Bojan Navojec, Drama

Rahima (23) and Nedim (14) are orphans of the Bosnian war. They live in Sarajevo, a transitional society that has lost its moral compass, including in the way it treats children of the people who were killed fighting for the freedom of their city.
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Arrebato / Rapture (1979) Iván Zulueta, Eusebio Poncela, Cecilia Roth, Will More, Drama, Horror

Madrid,1980. Jose Sirgado, a labouring bohemian b-movie filmmaker finishes editing the sequel to a previous film. Visibly displeased he journeys home to his girlfriend strung out on heroin. After attempting to tidy his home and taking some heroin himself he opens a mail package from an old acquaintance Pedro P. containing a reel of super-8 film, a cassette tape and a key to his apartment.
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Wiener Blut / Viennese Spirit (1942) Willi Forst, Willy Fritsch, Maria Holst, Hans Moser, Comedy, Music

Willy Forst of course is famous for looking back on the ‘old Vienna’ in a mixture of nostalgia and gentle irony in his films, but “Wiener Blut” may be the one which most highlights the question of what makes the ‘true’ Viennese style. We get a first answer right at the beginning, when Forst himself masqueraded as a medieval alchemist mixes the ingredients for the brew of this film, which are ‘humour’, ‘frivolity’, ‘heart’, ‘history’ and most of all, ‘music’. And the film gets this mixture right.
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College Girls (1968) Stephen C. Apostolof, Forman Shane, Capri, Marsha Jordan, Comedy, Erotic

A bunch of sorority sisters from “LSD University” go out “looking for kicks” and get it on in a variety of ways.
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