Film Dictionary

Superb drama set in pre-war England.

Truly marvelous and incredibly inventive film about Halloween ghosts taking over from Santa and organizing their own Christmas celebrations....

Superb mixture of horror and sci-fi genres, based on Michael Crichton's bestselling novel.

Tremendously exciting chase picture about an innocent convict escaping from the gallows.

Excellent adaptation of John Grisham's best novel. The finest chase thriller since "No Way Out". 

A three-part Italian comedy. The first episode consists of a series of travelling shots revealing the great beauty of little-known distric...

An amusing comedy with Kevin Kline impersonating the president of United States. Full of hilarious, self-reflexive jokes (including Oliver ...

A "wu xia pian" pic from Hong Kong, whose action sequences were directed by Ching Siu-Tung. Directed by Michael Mak and produced b...

Unlike Chen Kaige's "Farewell My Concubine" (1993) and Zhang Yimou's "To Live" (1994), two other Chinese films a...

Very philosophical, gently satiric film set in a quiet French village.

Social conventions in snobbish 19th-century New York.

Excellent sequel to the 1991 hit.

This isn't the final installement of the "Once Upon A Time In China" saga (there were two more films after that), but it is th...

Fascinating documentary about the controversial German filmmaker. A close friend of Adolf Hitler, she directed "Triumph Of The Will...

The life of Tina Turner. Songs: "Let It Shine" * "I Know You Love Me Baby" * "Make Me Over" * "Roc...

Bittersweet comedy about a gay Taiwanese-American living in New York, who tries to please his traditional parents by arranging a "gre...

Silly, but screamingly funny comedy about two medieval knights getting stranded in present-day France.

Very stylish, slow-moving drama about a young woman who looses her family and withdraws from the world.

Meditative, beautiful film about the great Canadian pianist. 

Excellent kung-fu/historical drama about two Shaolin monks joining a group of rebels.

A successful mixture of kung-fu and slapstick comedy. An entertaining film from Hong Kong.

A girl finds herself pregnant, but refuses to identify the father.

One of two films based on the notorious Patrick Wong case (the other being "Legal Innocence"). This film is better directed, more ...

Ciekawy film o powojennym Ruchu Oporu w Polsce.

Interesting courtroom drama about a lawyer with AIDS suing his former employers for wrongful dismissal.

"The Thin Man" meets "Rear Window" in this post-modernist Woody Allen comedy-mystery.

Weak action film, but a superb comedy - self-reflexive and almost brechtian in its daring criticism of Hollywood cliches.

Outstanding drama about Chinese immigrant women in America.

Tense drama about a wacko trying to assassinate the president of United States.

Almost no plot, but plenty of jokes in this funny spoof of "Rambo" and "Apocalypse Now".

Three butt-kicking heroines (Michelle Yeoh, Maggie Cheung and Anita Mui) join forces to fight an evil kidnapper.

Historical drama starring Jet Li.

"The Untouchables", Hong Kong version.

Made on a shoe-string budget by first-time director Robert Rodriguez, this well-directed, superbly photographed and perfectly edited film wa...

George Lucas' "American Graffiti" was a nostalgic look at 1963 made in 1973. This film is a nostalgic look at 1977 made in 199...

Martial arts film from Hong Kong, directed by Yuen Woo-Ping, and starring Donnie Yen.

Ambitious adaptation of Emile Zola's novel about striking coal miners in Northern France.

A video documentary about Martin Scorsese.

A young girl (Marie Gillain) takes care of a little boy whose father have just died and whose mother lives in Portugal.

Interesting film about a complex relationship between a brother and a sister (Daniel Auteuil and Catherine Deneuve).

This just might be the most demented film of all time, shocking even by Hong Kong's outlandish standards. Lily Chung plays an abused tee...

Italian drama about an epileptic girl.

Directed by Takao Okawara. Here, Godzilla and Rodan are bad guys, while Mechagodzilla (build by humans) is the hero.

Modernist film about a German gigolo arrested by the Nazis.

Nieciekawy film o powstaniu styczniowym.

Boring Dutch comedy about a young woman's adventures in Amsterdam.

"Nikita", Hong Kong-style. Very stylized, but incredibly gory and violent.

A typical martial arts film from Hong Kong, directed by Johnny To.

Stylish, but dull historical epic set in the turn-of-the-century China. The plot concerns a plot against the Empress Dowager. There are a fe...

A black comedy about two unlucky schoolgirls in Japan.

Directed by Johnny To and Ching Siu-Tung, it's a action movie about three women who defend an embattled government from a military coup ...

Visually impressive Chinese film about two opera singers. Too much melodrama, not enough subtlety.

Stephen Chow will do anything for a gag in this stupid, but funny comedy, co-starring Gong Li.

A "wu xia pian" pic starring Jet Li.

Poetic documentary about a famous star of the silent Russian cinema, Vera Kholodnaya.

Directed by Wong Jing, it's an entertaining martial arts film from Hong Kong. Particularly memorable are two fights involving a giant i...

Hong Kong martial arts film in a fairy-tale setting. A princess, her kung-fu master, his estranged daughter, two martial arts experts ...

A man unwittingly hires a killer to murder his wife. This film contains one of the most shocking scenes ever put on film: a demented killer ...

Directed by Jorg Buttgereit. The hero is a serial killer-slash-sex degenerate. The film has shocking, gory and sexually explicit imagery. A ...

A Japanimation feature about a female cyborg. Directed by Hiroshi Fukutomi.

Mediocre film about Russian gangsters organizing a robbery in Estonia.

Wim Wenders' most self-indulgent and least successful film, a pointless sequel to "Wings Of Desire" (1987).

Boring film about Chinese seniors organizing an Opera fan club.

Directed by Linda Ohama. Documentary about the persecution of the Japanese-Canadians during World War II. Length: 48 minutes.

Laborious adaptation of the children classic. Director Agnieszka Holland fails to find the right tone for the film.

Richard Stanley's stylish horror movie set in the Namibian desert.

Interesting political drama about a bunch of Irish misfits falsely convicted for being IRA terrorists.

Bizarre film, set in Ireland, about two young boys running away with their prize horse, with grotesquely ruthless policemen in hot pursuit.

Canadian drama about an actor who plays a cop on a TV show and slowly looses his grip on reality.