A couple in their forties face an unplanned pregnancy after many years of marriage. They long since gave up trying to have children, believing it wasn’t possible. While the husband is thrilled, the wife has conflicting feelings. She is happy with their life, has a job she loves and thinks they are too old to be having their first child, but isn’t sure that having an abortion is the right decision. The pair receive a lot of advice, some solicited and some not, from friends, family, doctors and even strangers.
rarefilmm | The Cave of Forgotten Films Posts
British politician Clara Paige will do anything to get ahead, often to the detriment of her relationship with her husband, Gerald. When Clara believes that former business partner Michael Swanton is blackmailing her, she ruthlessly murders him, and enters an even more tangled situation as his daughter seeks her help in finding him. As the murderous plot thickens, Gerald has a surprising revelation that will further complicate Clara’s life.
When the police discover that their motorcycles are concealing heroin, Waco and his motorcycle gang hides out in a desert convent. A highway patrolman hunts down the gang after they kidnap a nun, Sister Anna and flee the convent. Soon Waco and the young nun fall in love and she is forced to decide whether or not to leave the church for him.
Clepsydra is an ancient Greek water clock (literally, “to steal water”). This film envisions the strip of celluloid going vertically through a projector as a sprocketed waterfall (random events measured in discreet units of time), through which the silent dreams of a young girl can barely be heard under the din of an irresistible torrent, an irreversible torment.
While the prestigious Cannes Film Festival goes on around him, American movie producer Jesse Craig struggles to develop a pitch-worthy thriller about a terrorist plot. Before long, Craig becomes concerned that a shocking act of real-life terrorism already may be underway. Meanwhile, radical actor Bret Easton works in cahoots with a group of extremists to coordinate the hijacking of a trio of passenger planes in a devastating, multi-city nuclear attack.
A young man returns home from Vietnam blind. He is very bitter about the war and alienates his family and friends. This movie deals with the aftermath of war and how people react to it both veterans and their families.
Horrendous acts of sexual abuse were discovered at Miami’s Country Walk Day Care Center in 1984. The ensuing investigations required unprecedented work and a pair of University of Miami psychologists were called upon for assistance. This case paved the way for a successful legislation in the protection of children during court proceedings and mandatory finger printing of adults who work with young children.
Cageman is a focused social critique of a uniquely Hong Kong phenomenon: in this city with the world’s most unequal wealth and income gap, many unfortunate middle-aged men can’t afford the most basic lodging, and live in low-rent cages inside squalid tenements. Cageman is a microcosm of Hong Kong, where most citizens must live squeezed into incredibly dense neighbourhoods, prey to monopolistic ‘tycoons’ – the (Chinese government-supporting) land-owning billionaire class – while nevertheless enjoying a way of life that, despite its frictions, forges a uniquely communal, indomitable ‘spirit of Lion Rock’.