Film Dictionary

Average police drama directed by Claude Chabrol.

Sandine Bonnaire plays a vagabond woman wandering in the French countryside.

A married woman seduces a theology student. Directed by Krzysztof Zanussi.

A "bunuelesque" film about a Spanish cardinal who returns to his native village.

A boring film about sadomasochism, directed Monika Treut.

A left-wing fairy-tale about a British Cinderella, who chooses a Soviet sailor as her Prince Charming and wants to live with him in the Sovi...

Superb commercial for the Swedish Social Democratic Party, directed by Roy Andersson.

Five years before directing the first "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" movie, Steven Barron helmed this memorable music video from...

Campy short film made for the Vancouver Expo in 1986. Silly, but enjoyable. Inspired by Disney's short "Music Land" (1935), ...

Conventional documentary about a famous musician.

A wild ride. An imaginative cartoon. A wow!

A tremendously entertaining musical cartoon about finding a job, and a Genie winner for best short film. Clearly inspired by such Warner...

Excellent cartoon about a married couple playing scrabble and screaming at one another. Meanwhile, a nuclear war is coming. The film rec...

Italian cartoon directed by Bruno Bozzetto.

Beautiful music, superb images. No plot.

An eventful elevator ride, followed by a series of surrealistic nightmares.

A brief, one-joke cartoon about a green dragon emerging from a pile of garbage.

A series of amusing anecdotes presented as news headlines. Funniest bit: energetic seniors participating in "demolition walker".

Semi-abstract cartoon about the Mardi Gras festival in South America. It won the First Prize at the L.A Animation Celebration.

A neat little diatribe against Reaganomics. Witty script by Jules Feiffer.

Music by Offenbach. Animation by Pierre Hebert.

A pretty funny, one-joke toon about a rapacious toilet.

More a music video than a cartoon, it's an energetic, dynamic, but unimaginative film about life in a mobile home.

Directed by Garri Bardin. Clay animation film about boxing. It won the Second Prize at the L.A Animation Celebration.

Very ugly animated film.

The subject of this film is a shipwreck.

Rays of sunshine are moving across a room.

A pianist remembers his past glories. This computer-animated film has won the First Prize at the L.A Animation Celebration. It was co-direct...

Weird film about an old woman ordering a package containing an inflatable doll.

A husband buys his wife a perfume that turns her into a nymphomaniac.

Very short film set in a tropical country. Its message is somewhat obscure.

Seriously weird porn documentary allegedly paying an homage to Shauna Grant, a porn star who committed suicide, but actually insulting her r...

Anne Bancroft gives a superb performance as a Mother Superior in a Quebec convent where a young nun (Meg Tilly) has strangled her newborn ba...

A disappointing sequel to "Romancing The Stone".

The portrait of the great detective as a young man.

A fairly memorable Bond villain (Christopher Walken) and some spectacular stunts fail to redeem this otherwise boring and uneven movie. Rog...

This is a very lousy film, even though it was written by the Coen Brothers and directed by Sam Raimi.

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