
Kati and Steffi are best friends since childhood. But as they step into adulthood, both their perfect friendship and their personalities get harshly tested by a series of unfortunate events; mainly caused by Steffi finding out her father wasn’t quite faithful to her mother, and the two girls getting hit by the consequences of her delirious revenge plans.
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Author Archives: rarefilm
Lucía y el sexo / Sex and Lucia (2001) Julio Medem, Paz Vega, Tristán Ulloa, Najwa Nimri, Drama, Romance

Lucía is a young waitress in a restaurant in the centre of Madrid. After the loss of her long-time boyfriend, a writer, she seeks refuge on a quiet, secluded Mediterranean island.
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Tang shan da di zhen / Aftershock (2010) Xiaogang Feng, Daoming Chen, Yi Lu, Fan Xu, Drama

In Tangshan, the truck driver Da Qiang, his wife Yuan Ni and their twins Fang Da, their son, and Fang Deng, their daughter, are a happy simple family. On 27 July 1976, a devastating earthquake destroys Tangshan, and Da Qiang dies while trying to rescue his children from their apartment. Read More »
One-Trick Pony (1980) Robert M. Young, Paul Simon, Blair Brown, Rip Torn, Drama

Jonah (Paul Simon) is an aging rock star trying to put together a new album in the face Read More »
Some Days Are Better Than Others (2010) Matt McCormick, Carrie Brownstein, James Mercer, David Wodehouse, Drama

Some Days are Better Than Others is a poetic, character-driven film that asks why the good times slip by so fast while the difficult times seem so sticky.
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974) John Korty, Cicely Tyson, Eric Brown, Richard Dysart, Drama

Beginning during the racial turmoil of 1960s Louisiana, 110-year-old ex-slave Jane Pittman grants an interview to a persistent journalist and relates the remarkable story of her life. Orphaned early, she toils on a plantation until a chance meeting with a white Union soldier named Brown changes her outlook.
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Snackbar (2012) Meral Uslu, Ali Cifteci, Nazmiye Oral, Dilara Horuz, Drama

This snackbar, owned by Ali, in a suburb of Rotterdam is a refuge for the local Moroccan youth. They are wild, violent and criminal. To them Ali is like an old, trustworthy Turkish uncle, understanding, funny but also strict. But what if Ali, with his addiction to gambling jeopardizes their habitat? SNACK BAR is a film, which is as hard, funny, tragic, wild and unpredictable as life itself.
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Scherzo Diabolico (2015) Adrián García Bogliano, Francisco Barreiro, Daniela Soto Vell, Jorge Molina, Comedy, Horror, Thriller

A bored accountant can’t win for losing. He is passed over for promotion at work, has a nagging shrew of a wife, and is generally disrespected by all he comes in contact with. He devises a scheme to get what he feels he is owed. After executing his well thought out plan of kidnap and ransom, things soon go straight to hell.
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Novinar / Journalist (1979) Fadil Hadzic, Rade Serbedzija, Fabijan Sovagovic, Stevo Zigon, Drama

Stressful life of a journalist in the former Yugoslavia.
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Flat Top (1952) Lesley Selander, Sterling Hayden, Richard Carlson, William Phipps, War, Drama

Group Commander Dan Collier, on an aircraft carrier in Korean waters during the Korean War, starts to think back to the rough days of the air-war against Japan during World War II, when he was in the same squadron.
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