Film Dictionary

Wong Kar-Wai's second film is a slow-moving melodrama.

Andy Lau and Stephen Chow star in this film about Hong Kong gamblers.

A sympathetic devil tries to enjoy himself after escaping from Hell. Director Roberto Benigni plays the title role.

A minimalist Finnish film about a young girl looking for love and only finding rejection.

A gangster falls in love with a girl he took as a hostage. Weak melodrama from Hong Kong.

Federico Fellini's last film and possibly his worst.

A Chinese girl from Hong Kong accompanies her Japanese mother on a visit to her homeland. **

A friendship between a Moscow taxi driver and a musician.

This esoteric film consists of eight segments. It begins with a little boy sent away from home by his mother. In the second episode, anoth...

Directed by Chu Yin-Ping. With Tony Leung Kar-Fai, Jackie Chan, Andy Lau, Samo Hung). A prison drama from Hong Kong.

Turkish peasants try to immigrate to Switzerland. Predictable film that undeservedly won the Oscar for best foreign film over such masterpie...

At first, it looks like a serious drama about atrocities commited by the Japanese Army in Manchuria during World War II. Later, however, the...

The portrait of the famous Italian filmmaker.

Beautiful, but difficult film from Burkina Faso.

Confusing, self-reflexive satire about Communist censorship. An unsuccessful pastiche of Woody Allen's "The Purple Rose Of Cairo...

Trois survivants d'une tempête sont recuillit a bord d'un mysterieux bateau de cargaison. Un film étrange, presque surréaliste.

David Fincher directed this music video from Madonna.

Directed by Ridley Scott.

Amusing, Oscar-winning short about an old lady who sees a black man eating her salad.

An inspiration for "Groundhog Day".

A Deee-Lite music video. It received five MTV Video Music Awards nominations.

There are many supermodels in this excellent music video. The lyrics were sufficiently cryptic for most people not to realize George Michael...

Directed by A.M.Fleming. A woman is talking about her crazy boyfriend.

Oscar-nominated short film.

Directed by Lee Sook-Yin. Short film about a working girl. Length: 11 min.

Directed by Pascal Ferran. Facial expressions of people who are kissing.

Short film about a returning soldier befriending a boxer.

A white basketball player is trying to impress a black girl.

Hilarious interviews with zoo animals, who complain about their treatment, but are weary about returning to the wilderness. The animation...

Roger Rabbit takes Baby Herman to an amusement park.

It's a 24-minutes short subject adapted from Mark Twain's famous story about a pauper changing places with his royal look-alike (M...

Wallace and Gromit build a spacecraft and they travel to a distant planet, where there is lots of cheese. An Academy Award nominee.

A funny little cartoon about cloning.

A series of amusing spot gags, including one on the evolution from apeman to human to football player and another one on the early days of t...

A perfectly inane little cartoon about the Canadian Prairies. This one really stinks.

Najlepszy ze wszystkich kabaretow Olgi Lipinskiej. Piosenki: "Jeszcze nigdy tak nie bylo" *** "Muzeum i dziewczyna" **...

Piosenki: "Naga rurka" * "Pteromania" * "Wesole zycie jest"  ** "Moczmy nogi" ** "To byla piekn...

Pani Basia chce zeby Blake Carrington wygral wybory prezydenckie w Polsce. Piosenki: "Idziemy do Europy" ** "Dziewczyna w nie...

Brilliant film about Russian writer Venedikt Yerofeyev and the plague of alcoholism in the Soviet Union. A TV documentary directed for the B...

Piosenki: "Kabaretowa mysz" ** "Rach-ciach i twardo" ** "Bylem idiota" ** "Stary Gaucho" * "Bar...

Piosenki: "Kabaretowa mysz" * "Sluniczko" ** "Schowalem do kuferka" *** "10 limerykow" ** "Ze...

Pierwszy odcinek ostatniego cyklu Kabaretu Olgi Lipinskiej. Piosenki: "Kabaretowa mysz" ** "Ni to ni sio" ** "Weso...

Directed by Donald McWilliams. A documentary about Norman McLaren, Canada's greatest animation artist.

This might be one of Woody Allen's weakest films, but it's still very original and surprising.

A routine film noir. Director John Dahl's film debut is clearly a warm-up before his two masterpieces, "Red Rock West" (1994) ...

Interesting adaptation of a bestselling novel about an uptight DA (Harrison Ford), who's accused of murdering his former mistress (Greta...

A modern fairy tale starring Julia Roberts as a vulnerable hooker who falls in love with a rich business executive (Richard Gere). Manipulat...

Three sympathetic loonies (Bill Murray, Geena Davis and Randy Quaid) manage to pull off an expert bank heist, but their desperate attempts t...

Gerard Depardieu's first Hollywood film.

Robin Williams plays a doctor.

Tribulations of a Jewish family in Baltimore.

Mel Gibson as Hamlet.

A perplexing adaptation of Tom Wolfe's bestselling novel about a rich New Yorker involved in a nasty racial controversy. Tom Wolf's ...

A wacky, but annoying spoof of the private-eye genre, starring Andrew Dice Clay as the "rock'n'roll" detective investigati...

The third part of the "Back To The Future" saga, set in the Old West circa 1885.

Horrible action film starring Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn.

A film adaptation of the popular comic strip. The cinematography is impressive, but Warren Beatty gives a one-note performance and the plot ...

A very inferior sequel to the 1988 hit. Bruce Willis again prevents a group of terrorists from acomplishing their evil deeds (something abou...

A bleak vision of the future from Richard Stanley, starring Dylan McDermott.

A young man (David Duchovny) seduces a woman over the phone.

A sad drama about a young woman (Jessica Lange) dealing with the sudden death of her husband. A typical tearjerker.

A comedy about two robbers hiding in a convent to escape their double-crossing pals. A very inferior imitation of "A Fish Called Wanda...

Robin Williams and Tim Robbins star in this tedious, confusing and disappointing comedy-drama about a used-car salesman held hostage by a wa...

A philandering husband (Kevin Kline), who's almost killed by his jealous wife, reconciles with her and they live happily ever after. It...

Incredibly nasty, ultra-violent and fascistic film about a cyborg cop fighting against drug dealers. The villains are particularly forgettab...

Badly acted, poorly written and weakly directed sequel to the remake of an excellent French film "Trois hommes et un couffin" (198...

1. "Brazil" (1985, Terry Gilliam, UK) 2. ''The Unbearable Lightness Of Being'' (1988, Philip Kaufman, USA) 3...