Film Dictionary

Superb film starring Alicia Silverstone as the most popular student in a Beverly Hills high school. She's gorgeous, blonde, fashion-cons...

This violent and gory swordpic about revenge is one of Tsui Hark's best films. Relentlessly kinetic, the film rejects standard heroic ...

Wonderful film about a little pig.

A mock documentary about that forgotten pioneer of cinema, Colin McKenzie. Colin Who ? Hilarious from start to finish. An extraordinarly ima...

Terrific stunts in this entertaining Jackie Chan's actioner. It's supposedly set in Bronx, but there are some magnificent mountai...

Taiwanese film about an actress who plays a role of a resistance fighter persecuted by the Kuomintang government.

Some desperate actors are preparing a theatrical performance of "Hamlet" in an old country church. Released as "In The Bleak ...

An excellent adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic children novel about an orphan girl mistreated by a evil schoolmistress. Su...

Musical ethnographic film about the Gypsies. ***

Sylvester Stallone plays a vigilante cop in this s-f action film, based on a popular comic strip. It's quite violent, but also very humo...

Hard-hitting drama about race riots in France.

Bajkowo-klechdowy swiat Jana Jakuba Kolskiego przedstawiony jest w tej surrealistycznej komedii o starym wiesniaku (Franciszku Pieczce), kto...

Papa Goof wants to spend some quality time with his teenage son. Songs: "After Today" * "Stand Out" * "On The O...

A fine James Bond film with spectacular action sequences. Pierce Brosnan's first, and best, 007 movie. Izabella Scorupco is the smartest...

Hugh Grant is an English cartographer, who perturbs a calm Welsh village by announcing that their beloved mountain is in fact only a hill....

Witty and very original comedy that consists entirely of phone conversations. A calls B, C calls A, A puts B on hold, C tells A to say hello...

Excellent documentary about the famous underground cartoonist.

High-voltage action film about a mutiny aboard a US nuclear submarine during an international crises.

A romantic drama starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy as two young tourists in Vienna who spend a night together visiting the city. Seen alo...

Pretty crazy Bollywood epic mixing martial arts and musical comedy

A sequel to "The Summer Of Aviya" (1988), set in an Israeli orphanage circa 1953. The children are mostly Holocaust survivors dea...

Directed by Jeanne Jordan and Steven Ascher. Banks versus Iowa farmers, the 1990's. The film is available (to buy or rent) here on YouTu...

The first computer-animated feature is a winner. It has a great story, memorable characters, exciting action scenes and amusing gags. Songs:...

The year 1995 belonged to Kevin Spacey. He won an Oscar for "The Usual Suspects" and was equally memorable as the creepy villain i...

Excellent comedy about marital tensions. Dennis Quaid plays Julia Roberts' philandering husband. Kyra Sedgwick steals the film as her g...

William Hurt, Harvey Keitel, Stockard Channing and Forest Whitaker star in this low-key, very profound drama set in New York City.

Stephen Chow stars in this absolutely crazy comedy from Hong Kong that parodies everything from "Pulp Fiction" to "Terminator...

A lush period drama about Chinese gangsters.

Wonderful British comedy about an effervescent flapper girl straightening out her hopelessly backward country cousins. Imagine a Jane Aust...

Bizarre drama about an old man stealing little children's dreams. Breathtaking visuals, mind-boggling script, superb sets, brilliant dir...

Very witty and intelligent film about three commitment-shy brothers. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

Riddler (Jim Carrey) and Two-Face (Tommy Lee Jones) join forces to defeat Batman (Val Kilmer), but the caped crusader can count on help from...

Sylvester Stallone, Julianne Moore and Antonio Banderas star in this action movie about professional hit men trying to knock each other off....

Excellent drama based on the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission in 1970. Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon and Bill Paxton play the three US astronauts strand...

Delicious comedy about a widowed President of United States (Michael Douglas) falling in love with an environmental lobbyist (Annette Bening...

Cold and calculating black comedy about a nymphomaniac nun (Isabelle Huppert) and a porno actress (Elina Lowensohn), who are chased by vicio...

An Iranian director is holding auditions.

Powerful, allegorical film from Hong Kong. It begins as a black comedy, and ends as an existential drama.

Controversial film about Richard Nixon.

Hugh Grant is an expectant father in this modest, but amusing comedy. The film also stars Julianne Moore, Robin Williams, Tom Arnold, Jeff G...

A loose adaptation of Victor Hugo's greatest novel. Its action takes place during World War II.

Enjoyable film starring Woody Allen as a sports writer befriending the biological mother of his adopted son.

A young British Communist comes to Spain to fight against Franco, but soon finds out that Stalinists are more eager to slaughter fellow Ma...

Bittersweet film about an Italian postman who befriends a famous poet, Pablo Neruda.

Excellent indie pic about a street vendor.

French comedy about innocent and not-so-innocent flirting among attractive young Parisians. Great dialogues.

Controversial drama about a gay priest. The film presents a confrontation of two visions of Christianity: the hard, dogmatic and unforgiving...

A Native American princess falls in love with a dashing English settler in 1607's Virginia. Pocahontas is the sexiest Disney heroine eve...

A faithful adaptation of Jane Austen's last novel. A quiet, very understated comedy of manners.

Michel Piccoli discusses the centennial of cinema with Jean-Luc Godard.

Interesting French film about a young girl encouraged into prostitution.

Interesting French film about a young woman (Emmanuelle Beart) and her friendship with an older man (Michel Serrault).

A French "Crocodile Dundee", starring Thierry Lhermitte as a Parisian stock-broker, whose son (raised among Amazonian Indians), co...

Vulgar, but enjoyable sex farce starring Victoria Abril as a young housewife torn between her lesbian lover (Josiane Balasco, who also direc...

Well directed film about two young people.

Une farce assez debile.

Depressing film set in a Vietnamese labor camp for Amerasian children, left behind by their American fathers after the fall of Saigon in 197...

Documentary about a food company facing bankrupcy.

A psychological thriller directed by Claude Chabrol.

A French drama about AIDS, love and heroism.

Marital infidelities, drugs, job contracts - a boring mess.

Amusing comedy about a middle-aged man (Michel Serrault) trying to find a new life.

Interesting film about love and revenge.

German comedy starring Katja Riemann as a radio talk show host who has an affair with her best friend's husband.

Story of a widow who remarries and lives happily ever after. A Japanese film inspired by Ozu.

Directed by Andrew Lau. With Chingmy Yau, Tony Leung Kar-Fai. Historical drama about the last Empress Dowager of China.

Weak movie about Polish immigrants in Germany.

Good Czech film about two young men meeting a young woman during a ride in the country.

Ciekawy film o terrorystach, alpinistach, zdrajcach i fotografach.

Well directed Russian film about revenge.

A Swedish drama about homosexuality, partly inspired by Pasolini's "Teorema" (1968).

This film explores the mysterious circumstances surrounding the tragic death of the great Italian filmmaker, Pier Paolo Pasolini.

A philandering husband is killed by a professional hit-man hired by his evil wife. A German black comedy starring Katja Riemann.

A tribute to the Latin American cinema in general and Mexican melodramas in particular. It features sequences from 17 classic films. Highli...

Mexican soap opera starring Selma Hayek. Interesting narrative structure.