Film Dictionary

Boring film about a lonely man meeting some bizarre characters on Christmas Eve.

Une histoire d'amitié entre deux jeunes filles juives à Paris.

Gerard Depardieu plays a colonel who must prove his identity.

L'idée de depart est geniale, mais l'execution nous laisse a notre faim. C'est l'histoire d'un acteur celebre qui se fai...

Lame swashbuckler directed by Bertrand Tavernier. Sophie Marceau stars as d'Artagnan's daughter, who discovers a plot against the Ki...

Extremely fast-paced comedy starring Gerard Depardieu.

Unsuccessful documentary, consisting mostly of interviews with juvenile delinquents in Russia. Directed by Vitali Kanevski.

Japonska adaptacja "Idioty" Dostojewskiego, zrealizowana w stylu teatru kabuki. Najgorszy i najnudniejszy film Andrzeja Wajdy.

Hungarian film about a cop receiving seven magic bullets from the Devil. Directed by Ildiko Enyedi ("My 20th Century").

Moving drama about Spanish nuns raising a little orphan girl. A quiet film, winner of three awards at the Montreal Film Festival (Best Direc...

Directed by Jan Svankmajer, it's mostly a live-action film, with very little animation (mostly claymation).

Turkish drama about a middle-aged spinster fantasizing about sex.

German film about an American Jewish couple visiting Europe.

Obviously inspired by the Kevin Costner-Whitney Huston vehicle, it's a shamelessly subserviant allegory about People's Republic of C...

A sword & sorcery film from Japan.

A campy fairy-tale from Cameroun, about a little boy and his pet turtle.

Tunisian film about the mistreatement of women in Arab society.

Campy drama about the Romanian mafia.

Nieudany film o tragicznych losach Slaska.

Melancholijny i monotonny bialoruski film milosny o mlodym studencie, sypiajacym ze swa zalotna kuzynka, lecz zakochanym w jej niesmialej pr...

Directed by Gordon Chan. With Michael Wong and Carmen Lee. The harsh training of new recruits to a special police SWAT team unit.

Long, tedious film about an Italian castrato. It will only please opera music fans.

Bizarre Norvegian film about a little boy befriending a young adolescant.

Complex film about ethnic hatreds in Macedonia. A co-winner of the Gold Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

La montée de l'integrisme musulman en Algérie.

Michelle Yeoh plays a female martial arts expert in this entertaining film from Hong Kong.

A cross between Sergio Leone and Michelangelo Antonioni, directed by Wong Kar-Wai.

German comedy about a lonely store detective falling in love with a pretty thief.

Zhang Yimou's epic drama about the tribulations of an ordinary Chinese family.

interesting film about a poor Israeli family.

Wstrzasajacy dramat o tzw. "docieraniu kociakow" - okrutnym traktowaniu mlodych poborowych przez starszych rezerwistow. Film Felik...

Predictable German film about two lovers separated by the Berlin Wall.

Adaptacja powiesci Kornela Makuszynskiego.

A white Canadian medical student returns to his native country of Guyana.

Canadian film about pilots stationed in the Prairies during World War II.

An unusual relationship between a father and his gay son.

Sad British film about a pathetic woman whose children are taken away from her by social workers. Crude and extremely manipulative.

Uneven comedy about a Chinese immigrant family in Vancouver.

Canadian film about a reclusive composer and a delinquant girl who ran away from an institution. **

Very unpleasant and very disturbing New Zealand's film about spousal abuse. The winner of the Grand Prix des Ameriques at the Montreal F...

A Canadian film set on a train.

A woman is searching for her son that was taken away from her at birth when she was 17.

Video feature about a young music student falling in love with his new girlfriend. Well acted.

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A German POW works on a farm in Quebec.

Somber drama about young bisexual couples in Edmonton.

The filming of "Nanook Of The North" by Robert Flaherty in Northern Quebec in 1921 is the subject of this picture.

Directed by Didier Flamano. Bizarre film (set in a bizarre department store) about bizarre people speaking a bizarre language. Nominated f...

An excellent music video by Weezer, a post-modernist homage to "Happy Days". Edited by Eric Zumbrunnen and directed by Spike Jon...

Directed by Yvon Marciano. An actress is auditioning for a role by talking about the contents of a purse.

A superb Pet Shop Boys' music video directed by Howard Greenhalgh. Beautiful, computer-animated imagery.

Directed by M.Lozinski. Trains in Europe travel on tracks that are 1435 mm wide. The width of the train tracks in the former Soviet Union...

A Beastie Boys music video directed by Spike Jonze.

An Aerosmith video starring Alicia Silverstone and Liv Tyler.

Amusing short about a card game.

Directed by J.Fawcett. A short film from Alberta, about two young guys winning an instant lottery ticket and getting into trouble. It won th...

An art critic cannot bring himself to deflower his beautiful wife (Neve Campbell).

A guide at the Chinese Garden in Montreal encounters some weird people. Length: 31 min.

A game of "Truth or dare".

Short drama about virginity.

A dentist ruins his surprise birthday party.

A fine parody of "Frankenstein", "The Brady Bunch" and countless other films and TV shows. It begins in a rustic setti...

A reinterpretation of biblical events, told from the point of view of God's janitor.

A young girl slowly discovers her musical talent.

The horrible realities of industrial chicken farming are denounced with biting humor and cruel satire.

Melancholic cartoon about a young girl with a wooden leg. Animation consists of etchings on negative.

A 13-year-old boy is drafted into the army. An impressive cartoon about the ravages of war. Like all Drouin's films, it uses the pinscre...

Very short cartoon with three Kirk Douglases at different stages of his career.

A man tries to catch an elusive mouse. Directed by K.Bronzit.

Directed by A.M.Fleming. Two girls are singing a weird song.

A puppet-animated adaptation of Rossini's famous opera.

A poor chap cannot open his car, but still refuses to take the bus or even a bicycle. If it wasn't for his daughter's roller skates,...

Directed by A.M.Fleming. Crudely drawn, but quite amusing little cartoon.

A condemnation of violence on television.

Two kids are playing chess.

A pretentious New Age fantasy full of spiritual mumbo-jumbo. Visually very imaginative, but hopelessly naive in its anti-technological preac...

Computer-animated film about sweet dreams and harsh realities.

The daily routine of a child: breakfast, school, homework and bed. Over and over again.

Rotoscoping was used in this adaptation of Bizet's famous opera.

A cartoon about a woman and her cat.

Puppet-animated film about racial tolerance. It's about children playing on a thin ice.