
Painter and poet Yumeji Takehisa (1884-1934) gets involved with a beautiful widow, becoming a rival of her dead husband’s ghost and the jealous lover who murdered him. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Summer Vacation 1999 (1988) Shûsuke Kaneko, Eri Miyajima, Tomoko Ôtakara, Miyuki Nakano, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance

Summer vacation has emptied a Japanese boys’ school of all but three boys: the junior Norio & the seniors Kazuhiko & Naoto. Read More »
Contempt (1963) Jean-Luc Godard, Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Michel Piccoli, Drama

Paul Javal is a writer who is hired to make a script for a new movie about Ulysses more commercial, which is to be directed by Fritz Lang and produced by Jeremy Prokosch. Read More »
House of the Damned (1963) Maury Dexter, Ron Foster, Merry Anders, Richard Crane, Mystery, Thriller

An architect and his wife are staying in an empty castle in California. They are joined by an unhappily married lawyer and his wife. Read More »
House of the Damned (1974) Gonzalo Suárez, Carmen Sevilla, Donald Pleasence, Michael Dunn, Drama, Horror, Thriller

Four villains seek to wrest from a mute girl the secret location of a prehistoric gold statuette discovered by her father. Read More »
Gebo and the Shadow (2012) Manoel de Oliveira, Michael Lonsdale, Claudia Cardinale, Jeanne Moreau, Drama

Set in the late 19th century, about a honored but poor patriarch who sacrifices himself to protect his fugitive son. Read More »
56 rue Pigalle (1949) Willy Rozier, Jacques Dumesnil, Marie Déa, Aimé Clariond, Drama

Lucien Bonnet, Jean Vigneron’s manservant, blackmails his boss, who is having an affair with Inès de Montalban, married to Ricardo. Read More »
Le corps de mon ennemi / Body of My Enemy (1976) Henri Verneuil, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bernard Blier, Marie-France Pisier, Crime, Drama, Mystery

Francois always despised the textile barons who ruled his local town. But he fell in love with the family heiress Gilberte. Read More »
The Day of Despair (1992) Manoel de Oliveira, Teresa Madruga, Mário Barroso, Luís Miguel Cintra, Biography, Drama

Portrait of the last years of the XIX century’s Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco, who had been suffering from an eye disease and one day wakes up blind. Read More »
The Cat and the Canary (1939) Elliott Nugent, Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, John Beal, Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Ten years have passed since the death of millionaire, Cyrus Norman. Read More »