Film Dictionary

Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov.

A typical Alfred Hitchcock's suspense film.

East German drama about the future leader of the German Communist Party in the 1920's. More conventional than its more interesting seq...

Legendary German film directed by Leni Riefenstahl. It had the longest production time of a film to date - 14 years (a record broken si...

Roberto Rossellini's best film, starring Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders as a British couple visiting Italy.

A minor work from Luis Bunuel, a well-made, amusing comedy about two drunks stealing as streetcar and taking it for a ride. The second in Bu...

Less impressive than Kenji Mizoguchi's 1944 version.

Basically, it's the story of a passenger plane taking off in Honolulu and then... SPOILERS ALERT!.. landing safely in San Francisco. Pre...

An inferior remake of "Holiday Inn" (1942), again starring Bing Crosby, but with Danny Kaye instead of Fred Astaire.

Classy Argentinian melodrama about a fisherman's wife adopting the son her husband had with his former mistress.

Probably the worst MGM musical of the 1950's.

Oscar-winning documentary short about deaf children. Codirected by Lindsay Anderson. Touching and memorable.

A short film by Eric Rohmer. Very different from his later films.

A commercial for White Rain Shampoo.

A soap commercial from Finland. Memorable and sexy.

Canadian documentary about a working man from Winnipeg. Directed by Roman Kroitor. Length: 9 minutes.

Truly powerful drama starring Marlon Brando.

An absolutely one-of-a-kind, unique black comedy set among small-time crooks in Italy and North Africa. The film was decades ahead of its ti...

Federico Fellini's most powerful drama, less stylistically accomplished than many of his later films, but more emotionally disturbing.

Memorable western starring Joan Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge.

Excellent adaptation of the famous novel by Jules Verne. 

A Mexican version of "Wuthering Heights", directed by Luis Bunuel. The second film in his "sexual obsession trilogy", ...

Fascinating drama about military discipline and leadership qualities. Humphrey Bogart has never been better in a role unlike any other has h...

Piano music in CinemaScope, inexplicably nominated for an Oscar.

Short film set during the Civil War.

The first, and the best, of all Godzilla films. There are two versions of this film: the Japanese version, which is 98 min long; and the Ame...

Grace Kelly won an Academy Award as Best Actress for this film. There was a lot of controversy about whether or not she should have won it o...

James Stewart plays the famous jazz band leader.

British comedy set in a shoe store.

Charlton Heston must defend his farm from an attack by red ants. It might be an allegory about his own life.

Romantic film starring Audrey Hepburn.

Quite a rarity - a prime example of Soviet socialist realism in American cinema. Produced outside of the Hollywood system, at the height of ...

A great melodrama from Luchino Visconti. An inspiration for the first episode of "Lucia" (1968).

Memorable suspense film starring Frank Sinatra.

Excellent sci-fi classic about giant spiders.

Good western starring Gary Cooper.

Memorable documentary about naval combats during World War II. 

Memorable film about a motocycle gang terrorizing a small town.

Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece and that's saying something. Photographer James Stewart, forced to stay in his appartment because of ...

Superlative melodrama starring Rock Hudson as a careless playboy, who becomes a surgeon. One of Douglas Sirk's finest films.

One of the best MGM musicals and a perfect example of the "folk" tradition in the musical genre. The story is inspired by the Ra...

It's a familiar story about a rising star marrying a once-popular screen legend whose career is crumbling. First filmed in 1932 as ...

Tragic story of a pure girl destroyed by Hollywood moguls, millionaires and aristocrats.

Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte star in this adaptation of Bizet's "Carmen" with an all-black cast. Songs: "Dat...

Ed Wood's most competently directed film and therefore his least interesting one. The highlight is a burlesque number featuring a strip...

Film Aleksandra Forda, ktorego akcja rozgrywa sie po wojnie w ruinach Warszawy.

Along with "Ugetsu" (1953), this is Kenji Mizoguchi's finest post-war film. It's a sad story of slavery in medieval Japa...

Assets include - stage legend Ethel Merman in a rare screen appearance, Marilyn Monroe and a couple of nice musical numbers. Main liability ...

Beautiful film about three American secretaries finding love and romance in Rome.

Disney's True-Life Adventure documentary about prairie dogs, coyotes, rattle snakes and other animals living between Mississippi and the...

The finest Walt Disney cartoon of 1950's, directed by Jack Kinney with a remarkable feel for rhythm, timing and pace. The story conce...

Magoo mistakes an airplane for a movie theater and keeps wandering on its wings during the flight ! Good final gag (Magoo complaining tha...

One of the best Tweety-Sylvester cartoons, set on a sunny beach with the cat risking his life to snatch the cute birdie. Even tidal waves...

Possibly the funniest of the four cartoons directed by Tex Avery for Walter Lantz's Universal animation studio in 1954-1955. Less inno...

A bank robber on the run forces Woody to play the piano, while he's hiding inside. A dumb policeman tries to catch the thief, while ot...

A cat tries to swallow a bird, but two other birds drop a brick on his head. He searches for food, but always bumps into a cute puppy dog...

Tex Avery's achievements as creator of cartoon superstars haven't always been fully recognized. Nevertheless, during his illustri...

A remake of Disney's "Officer Duck" (1939) with a neat role reversal: a ruthless, but diminutive criminal pretends to be a c...

Czech puppet-animated film about the dangers of drunk driving. Tense and memorable.

A Chip and Dale cartoon set in the Far West, with our heroes trying to catch a bank robber with a large price on his head. Some clever gags...

Foggie marries a rich widow to avoid another cold winter in his miserable shack. But he also has to deal with her smart-ass son.

A bird-loving dog sabotages Barney's quail hunt.

Chip and Dale are afraid of Donald's earth-mover. Energetic cartoon with plenty of gags.

Surrealistic cartoon about a goat that eats everything. I mean EVERYTHING.

While the film tells the story of Donald's love affair with Daisy, the first person voice-over narration doesn't belong to Clarence ...

Silhouette-animated film about wasting of wishes.

A curious cartoon, a didactic expose on the benefits of capitalism, nicely wrapped into a story of Sylvester chasing after German immigrant ...

Hungry Sylvester tries to catch Tweety, but the smart bird hides in a dog pound. Many familiar, but funny gags. Pepe le Pew makes a brief ...

Barney invites a squirrel to hibernate with him.

Silhouette-animated film about a kidnapping.

Jerry is a teacher.

A strange little cartoon about a desperate 1950's housewife and her hectic day. Completely different from other Warner Bros' cartoon...

Salesman Daffy installs various gadgets in Elmer's house. They include an automatic fire extinguisher, a mechanical dog to bite trespas...

An alley cat pretends to be a toddler in order to steal food from Tom and Jerry.

Cool Porky and nervous Sylvester visit a ghost town. Countless variations on the same gag, beautifully designed backgrounds.

Little Audrey is arrested, tried and condemned by a fish court. She's even sentenced to an eel-lectric chair. Imaginative cartoon.

Casey's nine daughters are great baseball players. A sequel to "Casey At The Bat" segment from "Make Mine Music" (1...

A woman falls in love with a trapeze artist and rejects her boyfriend. A rather amazing film, very complex in its narrative construction, s...

A famous professor tries to teach Gerald how to speak, but it's obviously a hopeless case. He finds out, however, that the boy's ...