Film Dictionary

Roy Andersson's masterpiece and that's saying something. Yet when first released in 1975, this film was a complete flop with both th...

Tolstoy's "War And Peace" is hilariously parodied in this excellent comedy from Woody Allen.

Pier Paolo Pasolini's masterpiece. Adapted from Marquis de Sade's infamous novel, it's one of the most disturbing works in the e...

Charlotte Alexandra, who plays the title role in Catherine Breillat's 1975 directorial debut, "Une vraie jeune fille", gives a...

Orson Welles' last film is also one of his best - an innovative and clever pseudo-documentary about fraud artists.

Excellent film about young girls who disappear while on a picnic in the Australian wilderness.

A non-narrative film by Andrei Tarkovsky. Beautiful, memorable images.

A typical Inspector Clouseau comedy.

Excellent western starring Gene Hackman and Candice Bergen.

A Soviet film directed by Akira Kurosawa, set in the Siberian taiga.

Memorable heist film starring Al Pacino.

A sequel to "Funny Girl" (1968), again starring Barbra Streisand.

Excellent one-man-show film about Harry Truman.

Ingmar Bergman's adaptation of Mozart's famous opera.

George Burns won a well-deserved Oscar (Best Supporting Actor) for this excellent film (his first since 1939).

Film Krzysztofa Zanussiego.

Japanese monster movie starring Godzilla and other fearsome creatures.

The legend of King Arthur gets a trashing from Britain's most iconoclastic comedy team.

A pastiche of 1930's musicals, with classic songs by Cole Porter sang (atrociously) by Burt Reynolds and Cybill Shepard (and only passab...

Tragic life of Victor Hugo's daughter Adèle (superbly played by Isabelle Adjani).