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Author Archives: rarefilm
A Bittersweet Life (2005) Jee-woon Kim, Lee Byung-hun

Things go wrong for a high ranking mobster when he doesn’t proceed by his boss’s orders. Read More »
Curfew Breakers / Hooked (1957) Alexander J. Wells

Police Lieutenant Lacey, with aid from Coach Bettger, heads a crack-down on dope-peddling to high-school athletes. Read More »
Il medico della mutua / Be Sick… It’s Free (1968)

Dr. Guido Tersilli had to give up and apply for mutual. Once inside, not having many economic means Read More »
House of Strangers (1949) Joseph L. Mankiewicz

In New York, after seven years in prison, the lawyer Max Monetti goes to the bank Read More »
Difficult Years (1948) Luigi Zampa, Massimo Girotti

Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. Read More »
FBI Operation Pakistan (1971) Harald Reinl, Tony Kendall

Captain Tom Rowland and Commissioner X are sent to smash the Red Tigers Gang Read More »
Mr. Doodle Kicks Off (1938) Leslie Goodwins, Joe Penner

Ellory Bugs has offered a huge donation to his old alma mater, Taylor Tech, which is to be paid only if his son Read More »
The Boys from Syracuse (1940) A. Edward Sutherland

The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the story concerns the efforts of two boys from Syracuse Read More »
The Leopard / Il gattopardo (1963) Luchino Visconti

In the 1860s, a dying aristocracy struggles to maintain itself against a harsh Sicilian landscape. Read More »