Film Dictionary

Alain Resnais' first English-language film.

 

Historical and political drama about the assasination of the first Polish president in 1922.

One of Wim Wenders' most complex works, partly a film noir and partly a psychological drama. A demanding, but also very rewarding pictur...

Bizarre black comedy about a bunch of criminals.

Good aliens pay us a little visit. The special effects are gorgeous in this Steven Spielberg's film.

Richard Dreyfuss won an Oscar playing an Off-Broadway actor, whose interpretation of a gay Richard III drew less than enthusiastic reviews.

Lillian Hellman (Jane Fonda) travels through Nazi Germany to help her childhood friend (Vanessa Redgrave).

A very astute mixture of two genres: detective drama and romantic comedy.

Musical film set during the Big Band Era (i.e. the 1940's).

The lives of poor Sardinian shepherds. Winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

Delighful children film about an orphan boy befriending an invisible dragon named Elliot. A musical film that mixes live-action with animati...

A Texas sheriff (Jackie Gleason) is chasing after the Bandit (Burt Reynolds) from Texarcana to Georgia.

One of Werner Herzog's masterpieces, starring Bruno S.

Evil witches persecute young schoolgirls. A stylish giallo directed by Dario Argento.

Simple and powerful film about the boredom and hopelessness of life in the Watts ghetto.

Luis Bunuel's last film. It's also the final instalment of his "sexual obsession trilogy", preceded by "Susana" ...

Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni star in this fine film set in Rome during Adolph Hitler's state visit in 1938.

An adaptation of a Chekhov's story.

Canadian film about a travelling photographer and his wife.

A semi-abstract film with plenty of travelling shots. Set in a maze of almost empty corridors, it's described as a series of "stu...

Touching film about a handicapped girl.

Hilarious comedy short starring Steve Martin as a waiter.

Excellent documentary about the Shetland Islands.

An experimental music video with a terrific song and superb visuals. Bizarre images pulsating with frenetic energy. Directed by Bruce Conn...

Quite a curiosity - a videoclip directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Needless to say, it's quite different from all the other music videos. It...

Nice images from various space missions, but nothing deserving an Oscar nomination.

In the 1970's, the so-called “silent majority” fretted that their children were rejecting their values, and that the culture was leavi...

A bizarre parody of "Pinocchio".

An Oscar-winning claymation short about little creatures living in sand dunes.

Imaginative cartoon about human evolution. An Academy Award nominee.

Strange life of a teacher trainee.

Jimmy Carter singing "Georgia On My Mind".

One morning, a man wakes up as a huge cockroach. An adaptation of a Franz Kafka's story.

An ear of corn is picked, sold and eaten.

With Koo Stark.