Winnie Slade, a young divorcee, buys an old historic house from nutty Professor Billings, who lives there with his daffy housekeeper and bizarre neighbors, in order to convert it into a hotel. She allows them to continue to live on the property – unaware that the Professor continues to experiment unsuccessfully on traveling salesmen, the bodies of whom have filled the cellar. They are joined by a variety of eccentric characters including a quack doctor who doubles as the town’s sheriff, Winnie’s frenetic ex-husband, an oddball choreographer, a punchdrunk traveling salesman, and a lunatic escapee from the Italian army.Read More »
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Lew Landers – The Boogie Man Will Get You (1942)
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Alfred Hitchcock – Stage Fright (1950)
1941-1950Alfred HitchcockMysteryThrillerUSAA 1950 British crime film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock starring Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding and Richard Todd. Others in the cast include Alastair Sim, Sybil Thorndike, Kay Walsh, Hitchcock’s daughter Patricia Hitchcock in her movie debut and Joyce Grenfell in a humorous vignette.
The story was adapted for the screen by Whitfield Cook, Ranald MacDougall and Alma Reville (the director’s wife), with additional dialogue by James Bridie, based on the novel Man Running by Selwyn Jepson.Read More » -
Bertrand Blier – Merci la vie AKA Thanks for Life (1991)
1991-2000Bertrand BlierDramaFranceSynopsis:
Camille, a naive schoolgirl meets an intiguing influence in Joelle, a slightly older and much more experienced spirit. Camille follows her new friend through the discovery of sex and the darker side of life. As the film progresses Camille discovers Aids and the fear that she may have picked up the disease in her early encounters.Read More » -
Nobuo Nakagawa – Kenpei to yûrei AKA M.P. and the Ghost AKA Ghost In the Regiment (1958)
1951-1960HorrorJapanNobuo NakagawaWar

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Desiring another officer’s new wife, a military police lieutenant fabricates evidence of treason that consigns the innocent man to torture and a firing squad. The lieutenant rapes the wife, but is haunted by bad dreams which after he is assigned to a battalion with the victim’s brotherRead More » -
Elaine May – The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
1971-1980ComedyElaine MayRomanceUSAThree days into his Miami honeymoon, New York Jewish Lenny meets tall, blonde Kelly. This confirms him in his opinion that he has made a serious mistake and he decides he wants Kelly…Read More »
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Robert Lapoujade & Jacqueline Plessis – Le Socrate [Jacqueline Plessis version] (1968)
1961-1970ArthouseExperimentalFranceJacqueline PlessisRobert LapoujadeShows the eccentricties of Le Socrate, a philosopher who has divorced himself from materialistic society and a local policeman assigned to watch him.
scenario : Jean-Patrick ManchetteRead More »
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Toshiaki Toyoda – Nain souruzu AKA 9 Souls (2003)
2001-2010ArthouseAsianJapanToshiaki ToyodaQuote:
Nine convicts escape from prison; most are convicted murders. They commandeer a van from a strip club. Their plan is to find a stash of counterfeit money that a deranged cell mate told them about, divide it, then part ways. They make it to the site where the money is supposed to be hidden, and then one by one, each seeks out the place he wants to be, a version of home, somewhere to connect. Will it end well for any of them?Read More » -
Hadar Friedlich – Emek Tiferet AKA Beautiful Valley (2011)
2011-2020DramaHadar FriedlichIsraelThe world of Hanna Mendelssohn, an 80 year old widow, disintegrates as the Kibbutz which she helped to found undergoes privatization.Read More »
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Maya Da-Rin – A Febre (2019)
2011-2020BrazilDramaMaya Da-Rin

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A middle-aged native widower in Brazil, Justino lives his life according to set patterns. He puts in long shifts as a security guard in the Port of Manaus, then returns to the Amazon where he lives with his family. When his daughter says she wants to study in Brasilia, Justino’s regular life gradually becomes disrupted. His pain manifests itself in the form of a mysterious fever.Read More »






