
Kenji (Kenji Mizuhashi) has a dull life. He is unmotivated at the office, and unable to break Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Spellbound / Kin’yû fushoku rettô: Jubaku (1999)

Tapping into the economic malaise and the growing outrage against endless tawdry financial scandals Read More »
None But the Lonely Heart (1944) Clifford Odets, Cary Grant

A sickly English woman runs a store by herself, while her irresponsible son travels aimlessly, refusing to contact her. Read More »
A Handful of Love / En handfull kärlek (1974) Vilgot Sjöman

Set in 1909: A working-class girl is refused marriage by her politically committed boyfriend. Read More »
The Mad Monster (1942) Sam Newfield, Johnny Downs

A mad scientist changes his simple-minded handyman into a werewolf Read More »
Dangerous Game / Ossessione fatale (1992) Joe D’Amato

Tony is a young man with a gambling habit: he loses $10,000 in a poker game with Drumond Read More »
Two Sons of Trinity / I due figli di Trinità (1972)

Franco and Ciccio are two cousins who, in the old West, have opened a service station Read More »
Mother’s Boys (1994) Yves Simoneau, Jamie Lee Curtis

Jude Madigan abandons her husband Robert and her three sons without any explanation. Read More »
Dead of Night (1945) Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton

Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse Read More »
Older Brother, Younger Sister (1953) Mikio Naruse

The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata Read More »