Film Dictionary

This Greek film directed by Nikos Nikolaidis is among the most perverse and deranged comedies ever made. Michelle Valley plays a demented mo...

Martin Scorsese's masterpiece and arguably the greatest American film of all time ("Citizen Kane" included). This is movie s...

Jane Austen in Manhattan. Wonderfully witty film about rich young preppies attending Christmas parties on the Upper East Side.

Flamboyant and dynamic adaptation of the classic tale, starring Gerard Depardieu as the long-nosed swashbuckler who falls in love with his...

Winona Ryder gives one of her best performances as a young girl growing up in the early 1960's. Cher plays her excentric mother.

An unusual picture for John Woo. It's a crime film, but one set in South Vietnam in the late 60's. It also bears some striking sim...

Charming and intelligent comedy directed by Eric Rohmer. Great dialogues.

Fine musical film with excellent dance numbers.

A Soviet film, clearly inspired by "Moscow Doesn't Believe In Tears".

Fantasy melodrama about undying love.

A race car driver (Tom Cruise) has a serious accident, but he manages to overcome his fears to win the Daytona 500 race. A fairly convention...

Musical film about an Amazonian princess who wants to dance and save the rainforest. A certain priscillagrrr took this film a bit too serio...

Very original fantasy fable from Tim Burton.

Fabrice Luchini stars in this French drama about relationships between men and women.

Directed by Sam Raimi, it's an effective action/horror movie about a masked avenger.

It will be forever remembered as that overpraised western that stole the best picture Oscar from "GoodFellas", but otherwise it...

An Iranian drama directed by Abbas Kiarostami. It's based on a true story of a fraud artist who pretended to be a famous Iranian filmm...

Beautiful film set in the south of France.

A deconstruction of "Hamlet". Witty and clever. Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

A spectacular sequel to the 1987 hit movie from Hong Kong.

A musical blend of fifties nostalgia, iconoclastic irreverance and pure campiness, courtesy of cult director John Waters. The film stars J...

An off-beat comedy about a film student (Matthew Broderick), who's hired by a mafia boss (Marlon Brando) to transport a giant lizard.

This sequel to the 1984 hit is a hugely entertaining comedy/horror/satire about a bunch of vicious monsters taking over a New York high-rise...

A taut and exciting adaptation of Tom Clancy's bestselling novel about a senior Soviet naval commander (Sean Connery) trying to defect w...

Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan star in this quirky pastiche of Hollywood romances.

Imaginative, visually splendid Chinese melodrama about an abused wife who seduces her husband's nephew. The film was banned in China not...

Very unusual, psychological horror film about a young boy suspecting his brother's girlfriend of being a vampire.

A hilarious action comedy starring Philippe Noiret and Thierry Lhermitte as a pair of slightly corrupted cops fighting against their more co...

An excellent kidpic from Quebec.

An excellent example of "wu xia pian" genre. Producer Tsui Hark and action director Ching Siu-Tung are credited as co-directors,...

Surprisingly good martial arts film about four huge turtles living in New York severs. Far superior to its sequels.

Entertaining chop socky film from Hong Kong. Borrowing from Hitchcock, it's a fast-paced, exciting film.

A small Nevada desert town is terrorized by four gigantic worms that crawl underground and devour people by sucking them with their snake-li...

A sequel to the 1983 hit from South Africa.

Impressive fantasy film about evil witches persecuting children.

Story of John Huston's adventures in Africa, shortly before the filming of "The African Queen".

Detective story for kids about a stolen painting by Vincent van Gogh.

Fascinating drama set in France after the end of World War II, when people justly or unjustly accused of collaboration found themselves pers...

True story of Claus of Bulow (Jeremy Irons), whose murder conviction was overturned on appeal by Alan Dershowitz (Ron Silver) and a team of ...

A sequel to "The Rescuers" (1977), set in Australia.

Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward star in this excellent drama directed by James Ivory.

Superlative adaptation of a Stephen King's novel.

Stylized, noir-ish gangster film from the Coen Brothers.

Life of the famous writer and physician.

Curious gangster film starring Christopher Walken as a New York mafia boss.

Very entertaining comedy starring Macaulay Culkin as a little kid left at home my mistake. There is a hilarious mock trailer that suggest a...

An original and surrealistic comedy from Quebec.

French drama adapted from a novel by Marcel Pagnol.

Jean-Luc Godard en mode mineur, mais avec des mouvements de caméra splendides et une trame sonore hors pairs.

A bittersweet, nostalgic film about two young girls coping with their parents' divorce during the summer vacations in 1958. With Valeria...

A mean old woman makes life miserable for all her relatives.

A typical French film, a bit more boring than the average.

Sexy, but ultimately disappointing film about nostalgia and desire.

Interesting French film directed by Benoît Jacquot.

Boring drama about a wife and a mistress talking about the man they both loved. Very French and very tedious.

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.