Film Dictionary

Quirky spy drama about computer encryptions.

A peasant woman tries to appeal an unjust verdict. Very interesting film about life in China in the early 1990's.

Directed by Tsui Hark and Ringo Lam. With Jackie Chan, Maggie Cheung and Nina Li Chi. Basically a kung-fu adaptation of Shakespeare's ...

An exciting courtroom drama about two Marines accused of murdering a collegue.

Politically-correct animated film about the destruction of the Amazonian forest. Songs: "Life Is A Magic Thing" "Batty Rap...

Superb fantasy adventure film starring Brigitte Lin, Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung Kar-Fai. The best (and sexiest) fight scene has Brigitte a...

Cinema-verité style pseudo-documentary about a fascistic country singer who becomes a US senator.

Daniel ( "Heathers" ) Waters' screenplay lacks the author's usual wit, self-mockery, cruel irony and hilarious one-liners,...

A superior sequel to the 1990 hit. Brigitte Lin plays a gender-changing villainess.

An Iranian "Purple Rose Of Cairo".

Quirky, very sophisticated Australian musical. Irony and sarcasm galore. Songs include: "Happy Feet" "Time After Time...

Exciting horror film from Hong Kong, with brain-eating monsters created by a wizard from the corpses of two criminals. 

Hip, self-reflexive satire on post-modernistic 1990's.

Al Pacino won an Oscar for his excellent performance as a blind Army colonel who befriends a young college student.

A musical cartoon about an Elvis-like rooster. Some good tunes and a few exciting chases.

Good gangster film about a photographer (Joe Pesci) caught in the middle of a full-scale mob war in the early 1940's.

Hong Kong film about corrupted cops.

Cantonese humor isn't always easy to understand. This Hong Kong comedy might be a little too rooted in local traditions to translate eas...

Very old-fashioned musical about striking newspaper boys in the 1930's. Great musical score and terrific dance routines.

Long, interesting biography of the controversial black leader.

Mel Gibson and Danny Glover are back.

An off-beat farce about a young man discovering the identity of his real father. Co-directed by Vadim Jean and Gary Sinyor. ***

Excellent film about a trio of inner-city black youth.

A sequel to "Home Alone", set in New York City. This film really owes a lot to the classic Road Runner cartoons directed by Chuck ...

Light gangster film starring Andy Lau, Loletta Lee, Carrie Ng and Simon Yam.

Joan Plowright and Miranda Richardson are superb in this unusual comedy about four English ladies spending their Easter holidays in Italy.

Excellent Polish drama about former Communist policemen getting involved in mafia activities after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Hayao Miyazaki's surprising pastiche of Italian "telefoni bianchi" films of the 1930's

A lesbian romance between two young girls in a French provincial town after the war. Sensitively acted, but the ending is unnecessarily trag...

Historical drama about the founder of the Belgian Christian Socialist movement.

Directed by Claude Sautet. With Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Beart and Andre Dussolier. Boring drama about musicians.

A dull and boring French film. Nothing happens.

Policiers français luttent contre les trafiquants de drogue. Une réalisation de Bertrand Tavernier.

From Hong Kong comes this stylish, superbly directed thriller about a beautiful hitwoman named Kitty (Chingmy Yau), pursued by a psychotic l...

A CIA assassin (Jade Leong) foils a plot to kill Boris Yeltsin. Not nearly as a good as the original.

Directed by Wong Jing. With Jackie Chan, Joey Wong and Chingmy Yau. It looks more like a Stephen Chow comedy than a Jackie Chan kung-fu flic...

Dorota Kedzierzawska's film debut doesn't yet reveal her talent and sensitivity so evident in her later masterworks like "Wrony...

Directed by Clara Law, it's a boring film about a Japanese tourist in Hong Kong who befriends a 15-year-old girl. Unfortunately, nothing...

Bizarre sex comedy from Argentina. Winner of the Grand Prix des Amériques at the Montreal Film Festival.

Directed by Hiroshi Harada. An extremely sleazy Japanese animated feature about a little orphan girl abused and molested by everyone in sigh...

An undescribably boring Lithuanian film set in Kaliningrad.

Film o losach polskiej rodziny inteligenckiej pochodzenia zydowskiego, zeslanej na stepy Kazachstanu.

Directed by Danny Lee and Billy Tang. A shocking film about a serial killer. Its narrative structure became the model for countless other er...

Released in the United States in 1996 as "Supercop", it's an uneven Jackie Chan actioner. The first half is very boring, but n...

Tough prison drama from Hong Kong.

Gritty war drama about the greatest Nazi defeat of WWII.

Fine Italian film about a policeman escorting two children on their way to an orphanage.

Directed by Shinya Tsukamoto. As usual, the sequel is less impressive than the original .

Brazilian drama about an estranged husband of an actress who decides to kill her.

Un policier essaye de comprendre le comportement d'un prostitué homosexuel qui confesse d'avoir tué un client. Cette réalisation de ...

Post-modernist comedy about a young man running away from his girlfriend. Full of absurdist situations and surrealistic jokes.

A short sequel to Michael Moore's feature-length documentary hit "Roger & Me" (1989).

Directed by Pierre Salvadori. A housewife cleaning her appartment is visited by a dirty and depressed woman.

A music video from Mark Romanek.

An homage to Andy Kaufman. Directed by Peter Care.

A cigarette commercial directed by Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Mieville.

The infamous Leningrad Cowboys are back in this short film. They perform the title song. This picture is just as forgettable as their debu...

An old man is brutally murdered by two hired killers.

Directed by Matthew Brunner. Hilarious film about a mysterious box. Computer animation.