Film Dictionary

Directed by Mabel Cheung. A New York cab driver (Samo Hung) returns to his native village in Mainland China.

Bizarre comedy about an Italian Communist.

Italian comedy about an adorable old lecher.

A story of a Danish couple, told mostly in flashbacks.

The first in a long series of Hong Kong gambling films.

A Finnish band from Helsinki is touring United States of America.

Tedious film starring Marcello Mastroianni and Massimo Troisi.

An adaptation of the Shakespeare's play about English invasion of France and the battle of Agincourt (1415). Not bad, but inferior to La...

Strange Australian film about rabbits, Communists and weird little girls.

One night in the lives of four weirdos (all played by Michel Côté): a hyperactive punk, an eternal looser, a pseudo-sophisticate and a fat, ...

Meandering film about artificial insemination.

Excellent music video from Madonna, directed by David Fincher.

Directed by A.M.Fleming. An excellent experimental film about a woman raped in Italy and hit by a car in Vancouver.

Directed by Mina Shum. A young guy, addicted to pornography, decides to find a real-life girlfriend.

Directed by Pascale Ferran. An excentric woman talks with two men in a restaurant.

Very witty cartoon about two dozen ways to avoid polluting the lungs. Hilarious.

Animated film about a cow.

An old man is telling about his life in "the old days". Often hilarious and very inventive.

Roger Rabbit and Baby Herman wreck havoc in a hospital. Jessica Rabbit plays a nurse.

A restaurant owner, trying to get rid of bugs, uses a juke-box to trap the pesky creatures. This cartoon received the First Prize (short su...

Kissing can lead in many startling directions, as demonstrated in this witty cartoon.

Very amusing Pixar cartoon about a little snowman dreaming of hot babes.

Five people find themselves of an unstable platform, which can only be kept in balance when the weight of all is distributed evenly. A mem...

British animated film about shepherds, fox hunters and a monster.

An actor is auditioning on stage. Unlike other Aardman's films, this one uses puppet animation. It's inventive, but a little incoh...

Interesting film about seal hunters in Canada facing pressure from animal rights activists in Europe.

Weird claymation film about ugly people in a labyrinth.

A persistent peddler tries to sell umbrellas of varying colors and sizes. His best customers are cactuses suffering from a rainfall.

A computer-animated film celebrating the 50th anniversary of the National Film Board of Canada.

An unremarkable cartoonby Bill Plympton.

A non-narrative, meditative cartoon full of melancholic images. Its main theme is sunbathing.

Unlike most Hoedeman's works, dominated by claymation and puppet animation, this film uses a different technique - it animates paper cut...

Jessica Tandy won a well-deserved Oscar for her superb performance in this hopelessly old-fashioned, conventional comedy-drama about a stubb...

Fifth entry in the "Star Trek" saga. The special effects are excellent, but the plot is quite mediocre.

Historical drama starring Denzelm Washington and Morgan Freeman. Possibly the first film since "The Birth Of A Nation" (1915) to t...

A disturbing thriller about a corrupt cop (Richard Gere), who faces an internal investigation. Slow, but violent.

Witty, but hopelessly sentimental film about six women living, loving and dying in a small Southern town. A blend of comedy and melodrama.

Yahoo Serious plays Albert Einstein, a Tasmanian farmer, who invents rock 'n' roll, beer and the atom bomb... while falling in love ...

Pleasant animated tale about a dog who takes care of a little orphan girl. Very corny, but often entertaining. A curious mix of "Little...

Fast-paced, but disappointing, complicated and confusing sequel to the 1985 blockbuster. This time, Marty and Doc travel to the future only ...

A soft Viking warrior (Tim Robbins) finds a magic horn that takes him over the edge of the world. A poor man's "Baron Munchausen...

Preachy drama about white South African teacher's gradual realization of horrible racial injustices in his country. Conventional (i.e. w...

A young farmer (Kevin Costner) hears some voices and builds a baseball field in the middle of his cornfield. Yes, corny.

Black comedy about two servants trying to seduce their employers.

A remake of "A Guy Named Joe" (1943). The immortal Jerome Kerns' song "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" adds a touch of blac...

Not to be confused with an excellent Japanese film of the same title (also released in 1989). This is an average thriller starring Michael D...

Paul Newman stars as Louisiana governor Earl K.Long, a flamboyant populist who falls in love with a stripper.

Boring drama about the tribulations of a Chinese-American couple.

A little film about a group of first-year med students.

A single mother falls in love with her babysitter. Some jokes misfire, others loose their momentum. Only gossiping infants are funny - the i...

A successful lawyer (Jessica Lange) defends her father accused of being a Nazi war criminal. A profoundly depressing film, scripted by Joe E...

A wacky Christmas in a weird family with crazy relatives and zany neighbors. All jokes miss their punch, comic situations are ill-conceived...

Joys and sorrows of parenthood are presented in this comedy/drama.

A dreadful "Christmas miracle" movie with plenty of sugar and corn. The story concerns a lost reindeer.

Political drama about the courageous archbishop of San Salvador, who was killed by death squads in 1980 for opposing the military dictatorsh...

A sitcom feature starring Roseanne Barr as a cheated wife plotting against her former husband and his mistress.

1. ''The Unbearable Lightness Of Being'' (Philip Kaufman, USA) 2. ''Dangerous Liaisons'' (Stephen Frears...