
Captain Edward Hall returns to the USA after two years in a prison camp in the Korean war. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Maigret Sets a Trap / Maigret tend un piège (1958) Jean Delannoy, Jean Gabin, Annie Girardot, Olivier Hussenot

For some time now, women coming home at night have been savagely murdered by a mysterious serial killer. Read More »
Tough Guys Don’t Dance (1987) Norman Mailer, Ryan O’Neal, Isabella Rossellini, Debra Stipe

Writer, ex-con and 40-something bottle-baby Tim Madden, who is prone to black-outs Read More »
Earth Light (1970) Guy Gilles, Edwige Feuillère, Annie Girardot, Patrick Jouané

Pierre Brumeu, a twenty-year-old young man, leads a drab life in Paris with his father Read More »
Intimate Strangers (2004) Patrice Leconte, Sandrine Bonnaire, Fabrice Luchini, Michel Duchaussoy

Because she picked the wrong door, Anna ends up confessing her marriage problems to a financial adviser named William Faber. Read More »
The Ring (1952) Kurt Neumann, Gerald Mohr, Rita Moreno, Lalo Rios

A young American of Mexican decent in East Los Angeles, California uses the boxing ring to make a better Read More »
The Sewers of Paradise / Les égouts du paradis (1979) José Giovanni, Francis Huster, Jean-François Balmer, Lila Kedrova

Albert Spaggiari, who organises a group of gangsters to break into the vault Read More »
La mujer del ministro (1981) Eloy de la Iglesia, Amparo Muñoz, Simón Andreu, María Martín

Rafael, a young man from the provinces, works as a waiter in a resort Read More »
Lord of Steel Heart (1961) Kôkichi Uchide, Utaemon Ichikawa, Shingo Yamashiro, Tomisaburô Wakayama

A Tokugawa Daimyo rebels against an his lord after the battle of Sekigahara. Read More »
Soursweet (1988) Mike Newell, Sylvia Chang, Danny Dun, Jodi Long

Just married Hong Kong couple Chen & Lily emigrate to England, soon to become parents to a little baby boy and generally struggle through life. Read More »