Film Dictionary

La vie secrete des insectes.

Charming little film about a young woman looking for her missing cat.

World War I as seen by French soldiers fighting in Bulgaria and Romania.

Ingeniously plotted film about a young man searching for a woman of his dreams. It's a neat mixture of romantic comedy and film noir th...

Story of three half-sisters and one half-brother, children of a murderer.

Marie Trintignant's finely nuanced performance earned her a Cesar (i.e. Gallic Oscar) nomination as best actress for playing a young wom...

A divorced businessman (Daniel Auteuil) befriends a mentally-challenged man (Pascal Duquenne). Sentimental, often ridiculous film. Also quit...

Un jeune Francais se fait passer pour un heros de la Resistance.

Often amusing, nice film about the career of Jeanne Moreau.

French film set in an insane asylum.

A bizarre love triangle involving a woman (Fanny Ardant), a straight man (Richard Berry) and a gay man.

Charlotte Gainsbourg, Charles Berling and Yvan Attal star in this rather boring film loosely inspired by "Jules et Jim".

A Claude Lelouch film with a typically far-fetched narrative.

A young man is hired as a tutor.

It might well be the meanest and most disgusting French film ever made.

Belgian film about illegal immigrants and people who exploit them.

Disturbing film about suicide and child abuse.

Un jeune homme s'accuse d'un meurtre dont il n'a pas commit.

Tragic story of Fernando da Silva, a young Brazilian actor, who first played the title role of a delinquant in "Pixote" (1981), bu...

Two Russian soldiers are captured by Chechen rebels.

In Poland under Stalin, a young nun is forced to cooperate with the secret police by spying on a bishop.

Two young boys are kidnapped in this amusing comedy from Taiwan.

Japanese film about a young woman suffering from schizophrenia.

The daughter of a prostitute finds love and happiness.

Slickly edited action scenes and beautifully composed images in this memorable Japanese gangster pic. 

Serious film about the famous First Lady of Argentina and her husband.

One lie leads to a nightmare in this Spanish drama. Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at the Montreal Film Festival.

A brechtian and modernist film from Hong Kong that uses story-within-a-story format.

Autobiograficzny film Krzysztofa Zanussiego, opisujacy jego dziecinstwo w czasach stalinowskich.

A French chef falls in love with Georgia and a Georgian princess in the 1920's. There are some lovely close-ups of culinary delights, bu...

The portrait of the famous Polish filmmaker.

Czech film about an older man who takes care of a little Russian boy while his mother defected to the West.

A prequel to the earlier films.

Stephen Chow's clowning can get on one's nerves sometimes, but there are some fine moments in this Hong Kong comedy about a great cu...

A typical Stephen Chow's farce.

A wacky funeral in South Korea.

Wim Wenders' tribute to Max, Emil and Eugen Skladanowsky, the inventors of Bioskop.

Taiwanese drama directed by Edward Yang. With Virginie Ledoyen.

Chinese film about a mistress of a nobleman who falls in love with a singer.

A boy and a girl are wandering around Havana.

Pretentious Romanian film about a musician interrogated by the authorities.

Cuban film about a woman and her daughter.

Embarassingly bad Italian film about a horny mother-in-law lusting after her daughter's husband.

Maurizio Nichetti's comedy about a mousy woman and her more provocative shadow. Good idea, tediously executed.

Cuban film about bank robbers.

The communist regime in Albania is denounced in this somber film.

Croatian film about a chance meeting of three people.

The life of the famous Norvegian writer, who collaborated with the Nazis during World War II.

Film Ryszarda Bugajskiego, ktorego akcja rozgrywa sie podczas kampanii prezydenckiej w 1990 roku.

In the age of "Jurassic Park", those Japanese monsters are just plain pathetic.

Documentary film about religious conflicts in India.

A documentary about the filming of Antonioni's "Beyond The Clouds".

Greek film about a beautiful actress and her lover.

Polish film about love, infidelity and the Holocaust.

German film about two physicians accused of rape.

Danish film about juvenile delinquants.

Adaptacja powiesci Kornela Makuszynskiego.

Mloda Zydowka ukrywa sie przed Gestapo podczas powstania w getcie warszawskim.

Directed by Billy Chan. With Jade Leung and Farini Cheung. A Chinese "G.I.Jane".

An Iranian film director is looking for a young boy to play in his movie. Originally planned as a work of fiction, it ultimately became a ci...

A fascinating portrait of the Russian society in 1990's.

Two young students find a videotape with a recording of a real-life torture and murder. A suspense thriller from Spain.

"Bez znieczulenia" (1978) meets "Kramer vs Kramer" (1979).

Fine martial arts film "dealing", among other things, with opium trade. Directed by Yuen Woo-Ping.

Film dokumentalny o polskich filmach i ich wielbicielach.

A young woman is torn between two men.

A young man travels along the Ganges.

La jeunesse allemande en 1938.

A very ordinary travelogue, made in the IMAX format.

Directed by Ronnie Yu. With Leslie Cheung and Wu Chien-Lien. Sad melodrama about true love.

This adaptation of Gogol's play starts well, but soon becomes much too burlesque for its own good.

Very slow-moving film from Japan. There is pratically no narrative.

In 1920's China, a peasant woman becomes a mistress of a bandit-soldier.

Modernist German film about a murderer suffering from a brain tumor.

A Japanese "Reservoir Dogs", very violent.

A martial arts/horror movie from Hong Kong. The Devil is searching for his daughter. Nice ending.

Israeli film about school children cheating on exams.

Boring film about a kabuki actor.

A Japanimation feature with impressive sea battles. Directed by Mitsuo Fukuda.