Film Dictionary

Raoul Ruiz co-wrote the script of this enigmatic mystery movie.

Romantic misadventures of a young Parisian writer. One of those French films where the hero lives with one woman, chases after another, slee...

Erotic adventures of a beautiful adolescent girl on the French Riviera.

Bizarre black comedy about a female terrorist who shoots her teammate instead of a target, and is forced to hide from cops. At first, the pl...

Directed by Pierre Jolivet. With Virginie Ledoyen, Carole Bouquet et Gerard Lanvin. What happens when a sexy-young-girl-in-trouble (Ledoyen)...

Boring pic about an older woman (Isabelle Huppert) falling in love with a young gigolo.

Under this non sequitur title hides a fairly ordinary, tender film about a gay man who marries a woman in order to get ten million franks fr...

Words can hardly describe the utter worthlessness and the painful wretchedness of this monumental disaster. The incoherent plot involves an ...

Un réalisateur décide de faire un film à Paris. Il cherche son héroïne et s'adjoint les services d'une jeune professionnelle du cast...

A middle-age woman (Girardot), who spent most of her life in Africa as a humanitarian aid worker, re-examines her values and commitments. In...

A knight (Reno) and his servant (Clavier) are time travelling again, trying to find some missing jewels. This sequel is bad. The pacing is t...

Under the influence of a little lab rat, a middle-class family sinks into debauchery and perversity. A sequel of sorts to Marina De Van'...

Plotless film about a little boy wandering around Nice, encountering many nice people. Those who won't fall asleep, will discover a nice...

A speed-loving cabbie will loose his licence, unless he helps a police detective catch a gang of Teutonic bank robbers in Marseilles. But ca...

Interesting French film starring Maggie Cheung. She plays herself - a Hong Kong actress who comes to France to appear in an artsy remake of ...

A mixed jury of white soldiers, black rebels and ordinary tourists, is asked to judge the actions of a Guadaloupean revolutionnary, Ignace, ...

It's Moving Day for a young couple, and their friends come to help, but everything that can possibly go wrong, does go wrong. It's a...

A film about the lives of Algerian immigrants in Paris. It's a slice-of-life drama full of revealing vignettes. There is hardly any plot...

Curious film about a poor peasant family in France. One of their sons is mentally-challenged, spending most of his time playing with a cow. ...

Directed by Christophe Ruggia. With Bouzid Negnoug, Mohammed Fellag and Nabil Ghalem. A neo-realist drama about Algerian immigrants in Franc...

Directed by Bruno Podalydes. With Denis Podalydes, Isabelle Candelier and Jeanne Balibar. Quirky, very pleasant comedy about a bumbling Fren...

Fred (Lindon) is an unemployed worker who finds himself in the middle of a dangerous affair involving murder, blackmail and illegal construc...

To prove their love for a deceased painter, his friends and family members take a train to Limoges. The reason: the painter had once said ...

Rai (i.e. Arabic rap) music sweeps across an immigrant neighbourhood in Paris, much to the chagrin of fundamentalist clerics from a local mo...

Directed by Jeanne Labrune. With Nathalie Baye, Daniel Duval and Jean-Pierre Darroussin. A respectable woman (Baye) meets a thugish man (Duv...

A nice Ashkenazi girl (Zylberstein) cheats on her Sepharadi boyfriend (Boujenah) with a goyim stud (Depardieu). Unexplicably, the guys quick...

Directed by Jacques Rivette. With Sandrine Bonnaire, Jerzy Radziwillowicz and Gregoire Collin. A young woman (Bonnaire) wants to kill a man ...

Boring pic about a married woman who has an affair with a younger man and becomes so overwhelmed with lust and desire that she goes insane. ...

Lifeless, ice-cold drama about French jewellers.

French cinema's unhealthy obsession with sex reaches another low point with this bizarre comedy/drama about a nymphomaniac determined to...

Dumb and tedious comedy about two relatives who decide to quit smoking. Deprived on nicotine, they soon freak out, annoying everyone in sigh...

Seriously overrated French drama about two young girls (Bouchez and Regnier) sharing a small appartment together. They're cute to be sur...

Responding to a letter from a right-wing government's minister, left-wing French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier visits a Parisian suburb o...

A well-researched and nicely crafted documentary about the famous turn-of-the-century pioneer of French cinema. The movie lets us discover a...

A compulsive liar with a history of mental problems (Trintignant) finds herself kidnapped by dangerous thugs, who mistakenly believe her par...

Directed by Claude Miller. With Clement van den Bergh, Lokman Nalcakan and Francois Roy. What makes Miller tick? The genius behind L'Ef...

The sad life of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

French drug dealers are double crossing each other, while shooting at anything that moves. A pathetic attempt to imitate Quentin Tarantino. ...

Plenty of big explosions, gunfights, chases and last-minute rescues in this French action comedy that imitates the very worst in Hollywood c...

A comedy about Holocaust.

Set on the last night of 1999, it's a wacky, but singularly unfunny film about people driving around, carjackings, a pregnant woman abou...

This French comedy about marital infidelities takes a while to get started - the first half an hour is really boring - but stick with it bec...

A young woman (Kiberlain) can't decide if she wants to be a prostitute, a cleaning lady or a dutiful housewife.

A really vile film about a professional killer (Michel Serrault) who wants to take on an apprentice.

Directed by Jacques Nolot. With Jacques Nolot, Henri Gardey and Eloise Mignot. A well-known French actor (Nolot) returns to his native town ...

A really bad comedy about an American gigolo (Lambert) seducing a French waitress (Balasko) who doesn't know that she'll soon inheri...

Primo Levy's complicated journey back home from Auschwitz in 1945.

A moving human drama from Iran about a young country boy who comes to Teheran for a visit. On the train he meets an old lady, who suddenly b...

A documentary about Denmark's most famous contemporary filmmaker, co-founder of the Dogma 95 movement. It traces his career from the ear...

Touching story of two little children from Teheran, forced to share a single pair of shoes. Mixing pathos, comedy, and sentimentality, the f...

A young girl falls in love with a man wanted by police.

There are only topless women in this bizarre film made by street kids from Seoul.

Directed by Carlos Saura. With Miguel Angel Sola, Juan Luis Gallardo and Mia Maestro. The repressed eroticism of this intimate Latin dance i...

Touching love story between a kindergarden teacher and a mine worker. Directed by Ildiko Enyedi.

Well-directed film about a desperate mother.

An angry feminist drama from Morocco, full of nasty men and persecuted women. Quite good, actually, with admirable female characters. It mak...

Dutch film, with an Italian title, set in Japan.

An Elvis impersonator from Bulgaria and a Marilyn Monroe lookalike from Romania travel across war-torn Yugoslavia to hedonistic Italy.

Tragic story of Mariana Zaffaronni, whose parents were killed in Argentina by the military junta in the late 70's. She was adopted by Mi...

Argentinian film about two sisters whose parents died in a car crash. A charming, smart and intelligent work.

Two Korean movie extras pretend to be state prosecutors to get bribes.

Directed by Patrick Yau. With Lau Ching-Wan and Simon Yam. A tense police drama about heroic Hong Kong cops looking for - what else? - dange...

A horror film from Japan, about young people going to a place they know is dangerous, and getting killed one by one. It's one of those m...

Korean film about a photographer and his platonic relationship with a young woman.

An Italian comedy about a bank robber befriending his hostage.

An old Greek man befriends an Albanian refugee child.

A Brazilian "Gloria", but without guns.

An animated feature from Japan, about a high-tech hospital bed acquiring an artificial intelligence.

Boring Portuguese film about an old man, his wife, a young girl, a chair, a rope, some bees, etc.

Chinese film about unemployment and family ties.

Directed by Kim Ji-Woon. Corpses pile up in this wacky South Korean comedy about a weird family.

Directed by Carlos Martinez Suarez. Under a somewhat awkward title hides a fascinating documentary about the civil war in south-east Mexico....

A young man travels from one village to another, searching for a medicine man who could cure his sister. Set in Western Africa in the early ...

Directed by Shinya Tsukamoto. An avant-garde action thriller. Very painful to the eyes.

A film about Indian elephants being washed, fed, etc. A great subject for a National Geographic special, but hopelessly boring for a feature...

Directed by Hideo Nakata. A horror film from Japan.

Arty film about a Chinese ballet dancer.

Latvian comedy about a Soviet border patrol looking for a trespasser.

Directed by Hirotsugu Kawasaki. A Japanimé, full of usual clichés.

Directed by Santiago Segura. Annoying and stupid Spanish comedy about a filthy cop.

Directed by Park Ki-Hyung. An intriguing horror film from South Korea, set in an all girls college. But unfortunately, the sexploitation ele...

An Argentinian film about memory. The first half is nostalgic, the second half - very violent.

Bizarre thriller from Japan - gory, absurdist, occasionally quite funny, but ultimately very disappointing. Directed by Sabu.

Directed by Hitoshi Ozawa. With Yuko Moriyama. In feudal Japan, beautiful ninja women are fighting against seven beasts sent by an evil warl...