
The poor, downtrodden (beautiful, of course) “dutiful” daughter in a London society family falls for a barrister, disguises herself Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
Ghost Meets You (2000) Kwok-Kuen Cheung

Winnie is a wandering soul cursed by the evil master Hui at death. She seduces honest man Kai Mun in order to seek his help to reincarnate. Read More »
Ghetto (2006) Audrius Juzenas, Heino Ferch

In 1942, in Vilnius, the Nazi annihilate 55,000 Jews and squeeze the 15,000 survivors in a seven blocks ghetto. The twenty-two year old sadistic commander Kittel Read More »
Don’t Turn ’em Loose (1936) Benjamin Stoloff, Lewis Stone

A conscientious attorney who is a member of the State Parole Board, finds his own son, using an alias, up for parole and makes the decision to cast the approving vote. Read More »
Ballad of a Worker (1962) Keisuke Kinoshita, Hideko Takamine

A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Read More »
The Adventures of Pinocchio (1972) Luigi Comencini

Based on Carlo Collodi’s classic novel, this mini-series is about an animated puppet named Pinocchio and his father, a poor woodcarver named Geppetto. Read More »
Marrakesh Cult (1979) Eddy Matalon, Patrice Valota

The crime squad follows a track that leads to a Moroccan drug and prostitution ring. They end up involved into an international school to form a mercenary Read More »
In the King of Prussia (1982) Emile de Antonio

Dramatization of the trial of Christian anti-war activists, known collectively as the “Plowshares Eight”. In September 1980, they broke into a General Electric weapons Read More »
On Approval (1944) Clive Brook, Beatrice Lillie

Victorian London. George, the 10th Duke of Bristol, and his equally upper class friend Richard Halton are both broke. Read More »
Mikkai / The Assignation (1959) Kô Nakahira

Young Kikuko (Yoko Katsuragi) is married to an older university professor Read More »