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Author Archives: rarefilm
Woman of… / Kobieta z… (2023) Michal Englert, Malgorzata Szumowska, Malgorzata Hajewska-Krzysztofik, Joanna Kulig, Mateusz Wieclawek

Aniela has lived the first half of her life as a man: with an office job, a wife, and two children. Read More »
Woman Who Came Back (1945) Walter Colmes, John Loder, Nancy Kelly, Otto Kruger

An old woman flags down a bus in woods near Eden Rock, Massachusetts. Read More »
Espaldas mojadas / Wetbacks (1955) Alejandro Galindo, David Silva, Víctor Parra, Martha Valdés

Mexican worker Rafael Améndola runs from the police and cross the Mexican-American border Read More »
Rampo (1994) Rintarô Mayuzumi, Kazuyoshi Okuyama, Naoto Takenaka, Michiko Hada, Masahiro Motoki

Edogawa Rampo is a writer whose latest work is censored by the government Read More »
Larry (2022) Szilárd Bernáth, Benett Vilmányi, Szabolcs Thuróczy, Anna Szandtner

It tells the story of Adam who lives in isolation due to his stuttering Read More »
Enclosed Pain / Tojiru hi (2000) Isao Yukisada, Makoto Togashi, Tetsu Sawaki, Ayaka Maeda

A brother and sister share more than the standard love for each other, much more Read More »
Skeeter (1993) Clark Brandon, Tracy Griffith, Jim Youngs, Charles Napier

Another ecological disaster results in mosquitoes growing to the size of bats (very rubbery, non-scary bats). Read More »
Guilty as Hell (1932) Erle C. Kenton, Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen, Richard Arlen

The sister of a convicted murder is convinced that he is innocent in this cat-and-mouse Read More »
Bare Knees (1928) Erle C. Kenton, Virginia Lee Corbin, Donald Keith, Jane Winton

A young married woman in a small town is visited by her sister Read More »