
Cecile is a young and beautiful Frenchwoman married to a much older Englishman. She loves her husband and seems to be content with her life, until she meets a younger man and feels forgotten passions stirring within her. She now finds herself confronted with a choice: to stay with the steady and peaceful love of her husband, or to run off for excitement and adventure with a new love?
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Author Archives: rarefilm
The Beasts Are on the Streets (1978) Peter R. Hunt, Carol Lynley, Dale Robinette, Billy Green Bush, Thriller

Panic grips a small community after a tanker truck crashes through a fence at a wild animal park, freeing dozens of dangerous beasts.
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Richie Rich’s Christmas Wish (1998) John Murlowski, David Gallagher, Eugene Levy, Keene Curtis, Family, Comedy

After getting blamed for spoiling Christmas, the richest kid in the world wishes he’d never been born. Unfortunately, a wishing machine, invented by professor Keenbean, picked up the wish and made it come true. Now Richie finds himself in a parallel world where his only hope is to find professor Keenbean and the wishing machine so he can wish things back to normal.
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Raaz (2002) Vikram Bhatt, Dino Morea, Bipasha Basu, Malini Sharma, Drama, Horror, Musical

Sanjana and Aditya retreat to Ooty to give a last chance to their crumbling marriage. But the break turns into a nightmare when Sanjana starts hearing screams. A spirit is haunting Sanjana, while Aditya is hiding a secret that could steer him from life to death.
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Strangers When We Meet (1960) Richard Quine, Kirk Douglas, Kim Novak, Ernie Kovacs, Drama, Romance

The awarded architect Larry Coe lives a boring marriage with his wife Eve Coe and their two young sons in the suburb. Larry is designing and constructing an unique house to the successful writer Roger Altar (Ernie Kovacs) on the top of a hill. Margaret ‘Maggie’ Gault is a sexy blond sexually neglected by her husband Ken Gault that lives in the same neighborhood and they have a young son.
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The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) Vincente Minnelli, Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Drama, Romance

Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer James Lee Bartlow, a star Georgia Lorrison and a director Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone – including the writer, star and director – on the way to becoming one of Hollywood’s top movie makers.
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Histoire de Marie et Julien / The Story of Marie and Julien (2003) Jacques Rivette, Emmanuelle Béart, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Anne Brochet, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Julien lives alone with his cat. He dreams of Marie, and a few minutes later, he sees her on the street and makes a date. He asks her to move in with him, and she does. Her boyfriend is dead, the rest of her past a mystery.
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TNT Jackson (1974) Cirio H. Santiago, Jeannie Bell, Stan Shaw, Pat Anderson, Action

Her name is Diana Jackson, but you can call her T.N.T. When T.N.T.’s brother is killed by ruthless drug dealers, the beautiful young karate expert goes to the most dangerous part of Chinatown to find the killer.
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Uncut Family (2004) Costas Zapas, Maria Dima, Alex Kelly, Dimitris Yiannakopoulos, Drama

“Uncut Family” focus upon a three member family that is presented in its most sensitive and raw form, right at the point where its apparent stability collapses. On the pretext of uncovering the relationship the young boy has with his mother and father, Zapas dares in the five chapters of his movie (The Son, The Father, The Mother, The Father and Son, The Holy Family) to draw attention to an endo-family sexuality which stands outside normal societal taboos, mapping a transcendental intra-family universe, painting with a regardless realism the cosmology of a contemporary world less remote than we imagine and closer than we could tolerate.
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Nam yi nui / Hong Kong, Hong Kong (1983) Clifford Choi, Cherie Chung, Alex Man, Tsai-Ling Ao, Drama, Romance

A story of the illegal immigrant experience of people from the mainland of China who have made it to Hong Kong for a better life.
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