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Author Archives: rarefilm
Diary of a Passion / Brogliaccio d’amore (1977) Decio Silla, Enrico Maria Salerno, Senta Berger, Paolo Carlini
Enrico Maria Salerno stars as an upper-class middle aged man trying to find himself. Read More »
Our Miss Doctor / Unser Fräulein Doktor (1940) Erich Engel, Jenny Jugo, Albert Matterstock, Heinz Salfner
At an all male school where it is assumed that women are inferior Read More »
Romance for Bugle / Romance pro kridlovku (1967) Otakar Vávra, Jaromír Hanzlík, Zuzana Cigánová, Janusz Strachocki
A lyrical story about first love, death and disappointment, based on a poem of the same title. Read More »
May Fairytale / Pohádka máje (1940) Otakar Vávra, Filip Balek-Brodský, Svatopluk Benes, Marie Blazková
Otakar Vávra turned to Mrštík’s love novel, which had already served Read More »
Wimps (1986) Chuck Vincent, Louie Bonanno, Tracey Adams, Jim Abele
A nerdy college student is pressured to help a jock write love letters Read More »
A Fire in the Sky (1978) Jerry Jameson, Richard Crenna, Elizabeth Ashley, David Dukes
Astronomers discover a comet that they believe will crash into Phoenix, Arizona. Read More »
She Cried Murder (1973) Herschel Daugherty, Telly Savalas, Lynda Day George, Mike Farrell
A model, while riding in the front car of a subway train, witnesses a woman being pushed in front of the train. Read More »
Union Station (1950) Rudolph Maté, William Holden, Nancy Olson, Barry Fitzgerald
Secretary Joyce Willecombe grows suspicious of two men boarding her train Read More »
The River Fuefuki / Fuefukigawa (1960) Keisuke Kinoshita, Hideko Takamine, Takahiro Tamura, Kôshirô Matsumoto
A young man decides to become a warrior, causing trouble for his clan. Read More »