Laurence Olivier plays Logan, a barrister who falls in love with Leslie (played by Merle Oberon) Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
A Man Like Eva / Ein Mann wie EVA (1984) Radu Gabrea, Eva Mattes, Lisa Kreuzer, Werner Stocker
A bearded director named EVA, a fictive Rainer Werner Fassbinder Read More »
Rapture (1965) John Guillermin, Melvyn Douglas, Patricia Gozzi, Dean Stockwell
Agnes, a lonely teenage girl, and her father befriend an escaped convict Read More »
24 Hour Playboy / Ai to heisei no iro – Otoko (1989) Yoshimitsu Morita, Jun’ichi Ishida, Honami Suzuki, Kumiko Takeda
He is a dentist by profession. He is a saxophonist on the side Read More »
Sun on the Horizon / Hi wa katabuki (1996) Naomi Kawase, Uno Kawase
The last piece of the trilogy, following ‘Katatsumori’ and ‘See Heaven’, filming her grandma and herself. Read More »
Professor Mamlock (1961) Konrad Wolf, Wolfgang Heinz, Ursula Burg, Hilmar Thate
Professor Hans Mamlock is the distinguished chief of surgery in a university hospital. Read More »
Rangers Attack at Hour X (1970) Roberto Bianchi Montero, Dale Cummings, Carlo Hintermann, Franco Ressel
A special forces operative is smuggled into a German POW camp with orders to blow up Read More »
Vertigo / Iligos (1963) Giannis Dalianidis, Zoi Laskari, Alekos Alexandrakis, Voula Zouboulaki
By a twist of fate, Elli Kapralou, a 19-year-old temptress caught in the intoxicating Read More »
More Than Yesterday / Plus qu’hier, moins que demain (1998) Laurent Achard, Martin Mihelich, Laetitia Legrix, Mireille Roussel
A young woman’s return home brings up troubles from the past Read More »
Protection (2001) John Flynn, Stephen Baldwin, Peter Gallagher, Aron Tager
A mobster moves to a new town as a protected witness Read More »