Film Dictionary

A documentary about Britain, its industries and the owners of these industries. Pretending to be more naive than it really is, the film rev...

Funny stream-of-consciousness monologues enliven this Canadian film, reminiscent of "Swimming To Cambodia".

Australian film about love and mental illness.

An unsuccessful attempt to recapture the mood and feel of an Ingmar Bergman film. All the right ingridients are there: a small town in Nort...

A Chinese family struggles hard to stay together after moving from Hong Kong to Australia. The worst problems are caused by one of the daugh...

British film about a desperate woman.

This film isn't as good as "The Commitments" (1991) and "The Snapper" (1993) - two other pictures based on a novel b...

Has Quentin Tarantino been visiting Australia lately ?

Dirty family secrets are revealed in this provocative Canadian film.

US and Israeli secret services are trying to capture the notorious terrorist, Carlos The Jackal.

Boring drama about a boxing club in England.

Two little girls discover fairies in their backyard.

Judi Dench plays Queen Victoria.

Directed by Emme-Kate Croghan. Frances O'Conner is excellent in this charming film about university students in Australia.

If you liked "The Commitments", you might like this one too, though it's not nearly as good. Once again, we've got an Iri...

The story is about an Irish youth's mysterious disappearance and its effects on his friends and relatives. The film tries very hard to t...

There are elements of "Fitzcarraldo" and "Titanic" in this Australian film about a gambling Anglican minister (Ralph Fie...

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.