A veteran rodeo rider takes on a young apprentice in order to “teach him the ropes”, and winds up competing against him. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Protocol (1984) Herbert Ross, Goldie Hawn, Chris Sarandon, Richard Romanus
The US needs to convince the visiting emir Khala’ad of Othar to allow an American military base in his strategic realm. Read More »
Agitator / Araburu tamashii-tachi (2001) Takashi Miike, Taisaku Akino, Mickey Curtis, Yoshiyuki Daichi
A fearless Yakuza captain’s loyalty is tested as two ambitious Read More »
Assigned to Danger (1948) Budd Boetticher, Gene Raymond, Noreen Nash, Robert Bice
A gang of ex-convicts pull and holdup in an office building and the night-watchman is killed. Read More »
Germany Year Zero / Germania anno zero (1948) Roberto Rossellini, Edmund Moeschke, Ernst Pittschau, Ingetraud Hinze
Edmund, a young boy who lives in war-devastated Germany after the Second World War Read More »
Desperate Decision / La jeune folle (1952) Yves Allégret, Danièle Delorme, Henri Vidal, Jean Debucourt
1922: Irish Revolution. Catherine, a servant in a convent goes to Dublin to meet Read More »
The Marriage of Mademoiselle Beulemans / Le mariage de Mademoiselle Beulemans (1927) Julien Duvivier, Andrée Brabant, Jean Dehelly, Gustave Libeau
The daughter of a Brussels restaurant proprietor prefers the company Read More »
The Maelstrom of Paris / Le tourbillon de Paris (1928) Julien Duvivier, Lil Dagover, Léon Bary, Gaston Jacquet
An opera singer,restless in her marriage to an elderly Scottish lord Read More »
She Woke Up Pregnant (1996) James A. Contner, Michele Greene, William R. Moses, Lynda Carter
A sleazy dentist sexually assaults his patients while they are under heavy sedatives Read More »
Cyclops / Kiklop (1982) Antun Vrdoljak, Frano Lasic
Just before the breakout of World War II in Yugoslavia in 1941, young artist and theater critic Read More »