Film Dictionary

Unusual, quirky little film about immortality, the soul etc.

Six illegal immigrants are fighting, arguing and starving inside a sealed container on a cargo ship in the middle of Atlantic Ocean. If you ...

First, we have a haunted house in a small Quebec town in the middle of a harsh winter. Then, a tropical island with pirates, treasures and a...

It's supposed to be a murder mystery, but the pacing is so sluggish, the characters so ill-conceived, the story so boring and the suspen...

Un desastre ennyant, degoutant and plein des confusions. Andre Forcier essaye d'imiter l'elan surrealiste de ses films precedants, m...

This documentary about Muslim women won't tell us anything we don't already know.

One week in the life of a loser.

Very popular comedy about an amateur hockey team from Quebec.

Set in Montreal, it's a film about two adulterous couples.

Film documentaire sur le chomage a Montreal.

Profoundly depressing film about three homeless men in Montreal.

After making an award-winning film about sex and car crashes ("Crash") and a tasteful movie about necrophilia ("Kissed")...

"The Taste" segment of Bashar Shbib's "The Senses". A self-reflexive film about an amnesiac filmmaker. It's the ...

Campy film tries hard to imitate a "Women On The Verge of A Nervous Breakdown" Almadovar, but fails miserably. The third installem...

The fifth, i.e. "The Hearing", segment of Bashar Shbib's "The Senses". It's the story of a transvestite who tell...

One of the better segments of Bashar Shbib's five-part "The Senses" cycle. This one (the second) deals with "The Look...

An extremely disappointing sequel to "L'Assassin jouait du trombone" (1991). Inferior in every respect.

A Backstreet Boys music video, clearly influenced by "Interview With The Vampire" (1994). Full title: "Everybody (Backstree...

Christopher Nolan's film debut, a Kafkaeske short.

An IMAX documentary.

Music video directed by McG.

A rap music video.

Music video directed by Jonathan Glazer.

A DJ wants to play an album, but it flies out the window.

Excellent rap music video. It received several MTV Video Music Awards nominations. Gently poking fun at Tiger Woods, The Notorious B.I.G. an...

Sentimentality, pathos and then ... a surprise ending. The film won a prize at the Montreal Film Festival. A Mexican short directed by Ari...

A dog with a ghetto blaster moves to a big city. A Daft Punk music video directed by Spike Jonze. Techno music.

Aqua video about the famous doll. The song became quite controversial due to its sexual suggestiveness, and the Mattel company filed a lawsu...

Inventive and clever film about a series of strange incidents. A German short directed by Maria Von Heland.

Clever film about nicotine addiction. Directed by George Langworthy.

A young girl wants to prove to her parents that she's no longer their baby. Bloody mayhem ensues. A Belgian short directed by Dominique ...

Two moles are fighting.

Oscar-winning Pixar cartoon about an old man playing chess with himself.

The Wolf travels back in time to finally eat Red Riding Hood.

A beautiful cartoon about... a woman sold into sexual slavery.

A scientific experiment gone wrong produces a creature of living sound, that turns music to crystal. An exciting thrill ride of a movie, wit...

Powerful condemnation of child labor in the Third World. An Indian cartoon co-produced with the National Film Board of Canada.

A bizarre, surrealistic and witty tale of a poor Parisian policeman, who must dress as a giant pigeon to get fed by a kind old lady. Direc...

Animated film about a mother losing her child.

Books are shredded to pieces with scissors and other blunt instruments. Possibly inspired by Jan Svankmejer's "Dimensions Of Dialog...

Oscar-nominated cartoon about a cat.

Piosenki: "Zyczenia na Nowy Rok 1998" ** "Szanta polityczna" * "Inflacja marzen" ( "Kulig w strusich jaj...

Piosenki: "Zima Mikolaj" ** "Gdziezes ty Misiu byl?" * "Puszka z Pandora" ( "Kulig w strusich jajach...

Piosenki: "Osiolkowi w zlobie dano" ** "Mysmy juz byli" ** "Polskie pieklo" ( "Tok szol" ) ** "...

Piosenki: "Cud w winiarni" * "Jak za komuny" * "Upal w raju" ( "...zza krzaka" ) ** "Gdyby Adam...

Piosenki: "Od Polski zrobic sobie wczasy" ** "Krakowiaczek jeden" ** "Rinaldo" ( "New age Niu Ejdz...

Piosenki: "Pioreczko" ** "Pospieszmy do szopy" ( "Kulig w strusich jajach" ) ** "Prosciutenka pioseneczka...

Nostalgic re-creation of the Kansas City jazz scene in the 1930's. No narrative interruptions, just a series of great jamming sessions....

Julia Ormond gives a great performance in this bizarre thriller.

Richard Gere plays a big-shot attorney who finds himself framed for murder while negotiating a huge satelite television deal in Beijing. The...

It's hard to make a movie about boredom that avoids being boring itself, but this cynical comedy succeeds quite nicely. It's about f...

An allegory about Hong Kong, Britain and China, starring Jeremy Irons, Gong Li and Maggie Cheung.

Bill Pullman and Ben Stiller star in this intelligent drama about a reclusive private eye investigating a blackmailing case.

If this were a silent movie, it would be highly watchable. The three young hunks are handsome enough to give any 12-year-old girl her first ...

While it's inferior to the 1949 William Wyler's version ("The Heiress"), this adaptation is much more faithful to Henry Ja...

Two junkies (Tupac Shakur and Tim Roth) try to kick their habit while their girl (Thandie Newton) recovers in a hospital.

Sex, love and friendship in 1950's Indiana.

Campy boot camp drama starring Demi Moore.

A mixture of sci-fi and detective genres.

This otherwise mediocre picture notheless achieves a perfect balance between a gritty police drama and a black comedy. Two evil cops (Shakur...

Many of Michael Douglas' previous films were misogynist ("Disclosure"), homophobic ("Basic Instinct") or even fascis...

Gorgeous Salma Hayek and Matthew Perry star in this romantic comedy about two young people who have sex, get married and then get to know on...

An FBI agent (Johnny Depp) infiltrates himself into the mob.

Three African-American men talk about racism, slavery etc.

Instead of one disaster movie, we get four: one about an earthquake, another about a flood, yet another involving an exploding volcano and f...

Thoughful, but unexciting film about a contact with an alien civilisation in the Vega system.

The villains (John Malkovich, Ving Rhames, Steve Buscemi) are great, one-liners are sharp, but the film fails to deliver the most important ...

Love turns into obsession in this inventive b&w film.

A perfectly fine action movie in the "Fugitive" mould. Not very original, but quite entertaining, enjoyable and very fast-paced. W...

Entertaining Eddie Murphy's action/police thriller with an impressive chase sequence.

A paraplegic policeman's soul enters a comatose gangster's body.

Evil terrorists take over a building, but the hero hides in the ventillation shafts and defeats them. No, it's not "Die Hard"....

An earthquake awakens a dormant volcano beneath the La Brea Tar Pits in downtown L.A. Better than "Dante's Peak", because its ...

Quentin Tarantino, Tim Robbins, Martin Scorsese and Jim Jarmusch are singing the praises of Sam Fuller, a great American filmmaker.

Life story of the 13th Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people.

Morgan Freeman plays a DC cop tracking down a psychopath who kidnapped several young college girls. This is a routine crime movie, neither f...

Flawed, but often hilarious comedy about homophobia. Inspired by Tom Hanks' Oscar-acceptance speech for "Philadelphia", it tel...

Directed by Bill Plympton. An outrageous animated feature. Obscenely amusing and amusingly obscene.

Fine horror movies about attractive young people stalked by a monstrous fisherman.

Family problems in middle-class America.

Samuel L.Jackson plays a Dirty Harry with a teaching certificate. Kevin Reynolds, the grossly underrated, brilliant director of such expensi...

Evil white gangsters, led by Dutch Schultz (Roth), want to take over Harlem's numbers racket, but local black gangsters, led by Bumpy Jo...

A remake of Billy Wilder's "Ace In The Hole". Once again, we've got an ambitious journalist who crosses the line between c...

A slice-of-life film about a carefree middle-age man, his sister and his wife.

A female vampire seduces an emotionally stressed man. **

Slightly overrated film about a runaway preacher (Robert Duvall) yelling at the Lord, invoking "Holy Ghost power", converting raci...

Quiet and intelligent little film about two young people dating. A "Booty Call" for a more sophisticated audience.