The comfortable and amiable Daniel Boone Brown, a resident of New York’s water front, becomes the victim of a mad scientist’s psychological experiments. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Once a Thief (1950) W. Lee Wilder, Cesar Romero, June Havoc, Marie McDonald, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A down-on-her-luck San Francisco woman, turning in desperation to jewel robbery, barely escapes getting nabbed in a heist and moves to Los Angeles where she gets an honest job as a waitress. Read More »
Shiroi yajuu / White Beast (1950) Mikio Naruse, Mitsuko Miura, Sô Yamamura, Eiji Okada, Drama
The critical establishment was clearly not prepared to accept a woman’s prison film featuring former prostitutes recovering from venereal diseases, unwanted pregnancies, and estranged lovers. Read More »
Sleepy Eyes of Death 8: Sword of Villainy (1966) Kenji Misumi, Raizô Ichikawa, Shigeru Amachi, Shiho Fujimura, Action, Drama
Nemuri Kyoshiro discovers a conspiracy centering around a band of disgruntled samurai wanting to avenge the death of their sensei Read More »
Haruka naru yama no yobigoe / A Distant Cry from Spring (1980) Yôji Yamada, Ken Takakura, Chieko Baishô, Hidetaka Yoshioka
A mysterious stranger appears at the door of a farmhouse on a stormy night and asks for shelter. The young widow who owns the farm puts him up in the barn. Read More »
Never Weaken (1921) Fred C. Newmeyer, Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Roy Brooks, Short, Comedy, Thriller
Our hero (Lloyd) is infatuated with a girl in the next office. In order to drum up business for her boss, an osteopath, he gets an actor friend to pretend injuries that the doctor “cures”, thereby building a reputation. Read More »
The Art of Love (1965) Norman Jewison, James Garner, Dick Van Dyke, Elke Sommer, Comedy
Painter Paul Sloan feels he’s a failure, since nobody will buy his paintings. His art dealer informs him, that the works of an artist become much more wanted and valuable if the artist is dead. Read More »
Duffer (1971) Joseph Despins, William Dumaresq, Kit Gleave, Erna May, Drama
An intense and bizarre study of obsession that is by turns lyrical and disconcerting, Duffer tells the deranged story of a teenage boy torn between the womanly charms of a kindly prostitute, and the relentless, sadistic attentions of an older man.
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Hao duo da mi / So Much Rice (2005) Hongqi Li, Dong Han, Yaodong Zhang, Drama
In a game of hide-and-seek with his wife, Mao suddenly decides to leave home. He moves in with Xiao Ri, an acquaintance living in the small town of Liaocheng and the two of them embark on a routine of weird amorous encounters. Read More »
La fidélité / Fidelity (2000) Andrzej Zulawski, Sophie Marceau, Pascal Greggory, Guillaume Canet, Drama
A talented photographer who lands a lucrative job in Paris with a scandal-mongering tabloid and becomes romantically involved with an eccentric children’s book publisher while resisting the sexual advances of another photographer. Read More »