Rinne (2005) by Takashi Shimizu
aka: Reincarnation

Together forever. An innocent rhyme, coming from a dolls mouth. But she means it. She won’t let go her little owner. And somebody made sure, that her words will always be heard.

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The illustrated man (1969) by Jack Smight

One moment there, next moment gone.  All that she left are a chair, and a furious Carl (Rod Steiger) who now wishes that he would have never met her. The woman he fell in love with, one hot and sunny day. The woman who follows him everywhere, in his life, in his dreams, in his past and in his future. She is so close, that he will never be able to escape and forget about her. And so will nobody else who gets involved with him and his magic traces of her. He has to find her. And he will kill her.

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Jigoku (1999) by Teruo Ishii
aka: Hell

Hell is obviously not a very pleasant place to be. Goddess Lord Emma reveals the very colour,- and painful details to her chosen protective Rika (Miki Satô), in order to get her back on the right track of life. Rika still has a chance and she will take it, unlike filthy (in)sect leader Shyoko who will lead himself and his so called inner circle directly through the eight infernal gates.
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Kôrei (2000) by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
aka: Seance

Medium and clairvoyant Junko Sato (Jun Fubuki) should have known better, when destiny brought her a tragic but tempting present, promising the long and desperately desired acknowlodgement of her controversial gifts. So she opened the present but then selfishly hid it away, to reveal its content very slowly. Far too slow, unfortunately.

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La Piscine (1969) by Jacques Deray
aka: Swimmingpool

The romantic summer idyll of Marianne (Romy Schneider) and Jean Paul (Alain Delon) gets dangerously electrified when old flame Harry (Maurice Ronet) unexpectedly sparks up with his young daughter Penelope (Jane Birkin). As seductive Marianne enjoys the play with fire, and Harry purposely adds some fuel, Jean Paul has to drown the spreading flames.

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Dead ringers (1988) by David Cronenberg

The mutual inspiriation between the famous identical twin gynaecologists, – Elliot Mantle (Jeremy Irons), the medical dandy and ladykiller, and Beverly Mantle, a passionate and introverted theorist/activist of the internal beauties and mutations of women, – culminates in a fatal harmonical disaster, when Beverly tries to keep his delicate love for the insights of actress and patient Claire Niveau (Genevieve Bujold), unshared with his inseparable and demanding double.

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Calvaire (2006) by Fabrice Du Welsz
aka: The ordeal

The women in the villages, no matter what age, adored him and would have done anything to see him stay. But Marc Stevens (Laurant Lucas), the touring entertainment singer has to move on his merry way to spread his songs of happiness and love all over the country. Who knows, but this time the better choice would have definetely been to stick to Mademoiselle Vicky (Brigitte Lahaye), as other unexpected fans – and not quite the familiar kind – might be a bit more insistent.

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L’enfer (1994) by Claude Chabrol
aka: Hell, Jealousy

Suddenly everything starts to make sense. The puzzle is completed, the truth is clear as crystall and awkwardly visible for everybody. His lovely wife has been (is) cheating him. Right in front of him. He saw it with his very own eyes. First with Martineaux (Marc Lavoine), one of the waiters, and then she seduced frivolously one hotel guest after the other, sneaking out during the night, while he was asleep, and off she run, into their beds. And she (Emanuelle Béart) really thought he (Francois Cluzet) would be too stupid to detect her lies? Oh no! No, no.

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Witness to murder (1954) by Roy Rowland
aka: Zeugin des Mordes

For the police this case is an easy one: because there is no case. This poor woman Cheryl Draper (Barbara Stanwyck) must have suffered of hallucinations and than got possibly carried away by her confused womenly phantasies, when she witnessed honourable writer and opposite neighbour Albert Rethi brutally strangling to death a young woman. And on top of all she even dares to accuse him of threatening and stalking her. Just as well that eventually her miserable and hopeless situation of helplessness and despair gets her the sympathies of the investigating police inspector Lawrence Matthews (Gary Merrill)….

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