
A newly hired house-keeper in a secluded area is alarmed to discover that her boss’s eleven-year-old daughter is using her supernatural powers Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
The Safety of Objects (2001) Rose Troche, Glenn Close, Dermot Mulroney, Mary Kay Place, Drama

A series of overlapping stories about four suburban families dealing with different maladies. Read More »
Taxi, roulotte et corrida / Taxi, Trailer and Corrida (1958) André Hunebelle, Louis de Funès, Raymond Bussières, Annette Poivre, Comedy

Louis is a hard working but crazy Paris taxi driver. Today he’s finishing work for the summer holiday: his family is going to Spain with his sister-in-law and her family Read More »
Mujô / This Transient Life (1970) Akio Jissôji, Kotobuki Hananomoto, Akiji Kobayashi, Eiji Okada, Drama

Set around a remote Buddhist monastery, it features Masao, a young son of a rich merchant who doesn’t want to follow his father into business or go to college Read More »
Huan le ren jian / Change the World (1959) Tian Wu, Dezhang Bai, Qi Guo, Yiwen Guo, Drama

Wei uncle from the off with her daughter Shirley flee from famine came in the northeast, under the rule of the puppet work in the coalmine. Read More »
Be My Guest (1965) Lance Comfort, David Hemmings, Steve Marriott, John Pike, Drama, Music

A family inherits a seaside hotel and has trouble filling it up until their son’s rock group begins packing ’em in. Read More »
Strictly Dynamite (1934) Elliott Nugent, Jimmy Durante, Lupe Velez, Norman Foster, Comedy, Musical

When timid aspiring poet Nick Montgomery loses his book reviewing job, his wife Sylvia convinces him to write gags for radio comedian Moxie Slaight. Read More »
Professor Beware (1938) Elliott Nugent, Harold Lloyd, Phyllis Welch, William Frawley, Comedy

Egyptologist, Dean Lambert (Lloyd), accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. Read More »
The Suspect (1944) Robert Siodmak, Charles Laughton, Ella Raines, Dean Harens, Drama, Thriller

In 1902 London, unhappily married Philip Marshall meets young Mary Gray, who is unemployed and depressed. Read More »
Crimes of Passion (1984) Ken Russell, Kathleen Turner, Anthony Perkins, Bruce Davison, Drama, Romance, Thriller

The thirty year-old hard-worker Bobby Grady is married with two children to the frigid Amy Grady and their marriage is in crisis. Read More »