Film Dictionary

A Canadian adaptation of Agatha Christie's "Ten Little Indians". Very low-budget, but ingenious.

Superlative human drama about survivors of Hiroshima. Great portrait of Japanese customs and moral principles.

A humorous tale about jealousy and success is contrasted with a serious story about obsession and murder. Excellent Woody Allen's film,...

Vietnam War seen through the lenses of a reporter's camera.

This musical biography of rock 'n' roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis (played by Dennis Quaid) focuses on his controversial marriage to h...

Good special effects and some clowning from Rick Moranis just about save this otherwise average science-fiction/comedy/adventure.

A fine crime flick starring Cynthia Khan and Donnie Yen. The film is surprisingly anti-American - the villains are CIA agents who deal drugs...

An American cartoonist tries to find his daughter while attending an art exhibition in Paris. Screamingly funny comedy written by Jules Feif...

An unusually serious James Bond flick with Timothy Dalton seeking revenge. Dark and violent.

Film biography of Christy Brown, the famous Irish poet and painter, who suffered from celebral palsy that crippled his arms and right leg.

A chop socky film from Hong Kong; one of the best of its kind.

Powerful documentary about the economic disaster in Flint, Michigan, where GM closed a large plant in the mid-1980's. Director Michael M...

An interesting film about complex relationships between family members and friends. Winner of the Palme d'or in Cannes.

Hal Hartley's feature film debut.

Memorable film about a poetry teacher (Robin Williams) and his students, set in a Vermont private school in the late 1950's.

Very campy musical comedy about three hunky aliens (Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carrey and Damon Wayans) landing their spaceship in Geena Davis' ...

Set in Saigon in 1974 and 1975 (with a brief intermission in Hong Kong), it's a prequel to the first two films. Directed by Tsui Hark, w...

Conventional, but impressive historical drama about the fall of the French monarchy from 1789 to 1794, focusing on the central figures of th...

Une belle lavandière devient la modèle et la maîtresse du peintre Honoré Fragonard.

Interesting French drama directed by Jacques Doillon.

An intriguing French film about a misantropic tailor falling in love with a mysterious woman who lives across the street. Very slow moving.

Tedious French film about the identification of MIA's from World War I.

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...