Film Dictionary

Directed by Jean-Marc Barr. Dogma 5 film about a French girl (Elodie Bouchez) falling in love with an illegal immigrant from Yugoslavia.

Directed by Eric Valli. With Thilen Lhondop, Gurgon Kyap, Lhaka Tsamchoe. Unlike Khyentse Norbu’s The Cup, this film set in the Himalayas wa...

A pale copy of “Last Tango in Paris”.

Directed by Olivier Assayas. With Francois Cluzet and Vieginie Ledoyen. Is there a movie here?

Seriously overrated social drama about a young girl forever changing her boots.

Directed by Sophie Tatischeff. With Mireille Perrier, Maurane and Michel Laprise. This film will try the patience of any viewer. It's ne...

Directed by Raoul Ruiz. With Catherine Deneuve, John Malkovich and Emmanuelle Beart. Ruiz is an odd maestro - absolutely brilliant one momen...

Directed by Sam Karmann. With Jean-Pierre Bacri, Nicole Garcia, Patrick Chesnais. After “American Beauty” and “Wonder Boys”, here’s another ...

Directed by Stephane Giusti. With Julie Gayet, Brigitte Rouan and Marie-France Pisier. Uplifting French film about a bunch of happy-go-lucky...

Directed by Gerard Depardieu and Frederic Auburtin. With Gerard Depardieu, Carole Bouquet and Charles Berling. This must be the zillionth Fr...

Directed by Raymond Depardon. Documentary about a young woman caught stealing a car.

Drame d’Emilie Deleuze. Avec Samuel Le Bihan, Catherine Vinatier, Claire Nebout, Candice Dufour et Fabien Lucciarini. Fatigué par son travai...

Directed by Pierre Carles. With Pierre Carles, Karl Zero and Anne Sinclair. A biting expose denouncing the hypocrisy of the French media est...

Directed by Remi Waterhouse. With Jean Yanne, Guillaume Canet and Laurence Cote. Amusing little French farce about a father-and-son team of ...

Directed by Regis Wagnier. With Sandrine Bonnaire, Catherine Deneuve, and Oleg Menchikov. A French woman (Bonnaire), married to a Russian ph...

Drame biographique de Diane Kurys ("Entre nous", "La Baule les Pins"). Avec Juliette Binoche, Benoît Magimel, Robin Renu...

"Les Convoyeurs attendent"... et les spectateurs restent stupéfait devant cette étrange comédie belge, à la fois absurde, réjouiss...

Directed by Djamel Bensalah. With Djamel Debbouze, Olivia Bonamy et Stephane Soo Mongo. "La Haine" meets "Conte d'ete...

Story of an elementary-school principal in a poor town in northern France.

Directed by Danielle Thompson. With Emmanuelle Béart, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Sabine Azéma. Question: is the director English or French? It...

Directed by Stephane Brizé. With Florence Vignon, Antoine Chappey and Mathilde Seigner. Who wants to see a movie about a female trafic cop w...

Directed by Claude Chabrol. With Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacques Gamblin and Valeria Bruni-Tedeshi. When a little girl is raped and murdered, her...

Directed by Claude Zidi. With Gerard Depardieu, Christian Clavier and Roberto Benigni. An entertaining, live-action-packed adaptation of Alb...

Directed by Romain Goupil. With Romain Goupil, Marianne Denicourt and Dani. Pretty cruel, but not particularly funny satire about the old Fr...

Directed by Francois Ozon. "Hansel And Gretel" meets "Natural Born Killers".

Directed by Andre Techine. With Juliette Binoche, Alexis Loret and Carmen Maura. A solid, well-directed French drama about a young man (Lore...

Directed by Guido Henderickx.

Directed by Mario Camus. An entertaining, but confusing adaptation of Eduardo Mendoza's novel set in 19th-century Spain.

Breadtaking scenery of the Three Gorges of the Yangze River. An IMAX film.

Depressing crime movie from Poland.

Directed by Joao Cesar Monteiro. Portugese comedy about a 60-year-old Casanova sleeping with girls almost a quarter his age.

Stephen Chow plays a struggling actor in this parody of Hong Kong films.

Romanian film about a marital crisis caused by revelations that the husband was a Securitate informer spying on his wife.

An inevitable consequence of the world-wide success of "Pulp Fiction" - a yet another tense gangster film with a fragmented storyl...

Directed by Park Chong-Won. A South Korean version of "Deliverance", pitting sophisticated city folks against simple country bumpk...

Directed by Huo Jian-Qi. Chinese film about father and son.

Directed by Daniel Schmid. A very curious film about a Russian prostitute who deftly turns the tables on the male patriarchy, becoming a suc...

Directed by Shusuke Kaneko. Quite an impressive Japanses monster film, with Gamera battling giant Iris.

Documentary about Beijing's artists.

Directed by Kang Jegyu. South Korean thriller about a North Korean terrorist.

Directed by Tony Bui. Interweaving stories of several characters in modern-day Vietnam.

Directed by Joana Hadjitomas and Khalil Joreigne. After the war, several families are expelled from a Beyrouth appartment building to make w...

Naturalistic drama set in a small Chinese town.

Considering how bad this animé feature is, its title is a horrible threat.

The film is available on YouTube here .

Directed by Manoel de Oliveira. As bad as all his other crappy films.

A black comedy from Germany.

Directed by Bigras Luna. With Olivier Martinez, Romane Bohringer and Aitana Sanchez-Gijon. Weird drama about a young man (Martinez) who fall...

Directed by Carlos Saura. Life of the famous Spanish painter.

Slow.

Directed by Luis Galvao Teles. With Carmen Maura, Miou-Miou et Marisa Berenson. Pseudo-feminist drivel about five middle-aged women facing v...

Directed by Ventura Pons. A Spanish film about friendship and homosexuality.

Directed by Yossi Somer. With Ayelet Z'urer, Yehezkel Lazarov and Orna Porat. A disappointing adaptation of a classic Yiddish play, alre...

Directed by Guiseppe Piccioni. With Margherita Buy, Silvio Orlando and Carlina Freschi. An Italian drama about a Catholic novice who finds a...

Directed by Ettore Scola. Lame film set in a restaurant.

Directed by Abdelkader Lagtaa. With Abdelaziz Saadallah, Karina Atouf and Salah Eddine. The rise of Muslim fundamentalism in Morocco is forc...

A Taiwanese "20 Dates".

Directed by Glen Goei. A Singaporean rip-off of "Saturday Night Fever".

Directed by Wada Ben. A nice little drama about a polite middle-aged man who kidnaps a young schoolgirl, and keeps her tied in his apparteme...

"The Man Without A Face" meets "The Matrix", Spanish style.

Boring film from India.

Directed by Daniel Lind Lagerlof. Swedish drama about an unemployed actor staging a play inside a prison.

An empty-headed film about... Berlin and cinema, I guess.

Directed by Emmanuel Finkiel. With Shulamit Adar, Esther Gorintin and Nathan Cogan. After not fewer than three comedies about the Holocaust,...

Directed by Krsto Papic. Croatian black comedy about corpses and funerals. The film moves from a morgue to a hearse to a family grave, with ...

Directed by Hideo Nakata. A sequel to "Ring" (1998).

Directed by Kim Dong-Bin. A South Korea rip-off of "Ring" (1998).

Directed by Miklos Jancso. Self-indulgent mise-en-scene and pretentious ideas ruin this otherwise ambitious film. The old Hungarian master o...

A silent melodrama about a farmer's wife and a city slicker.

Directed by Roman Vavra. Czech film consisting of three segments, all set in the fields.

Directed by Wang Heng-Li. A Chinese rip-off of "Shall We Dance" and "Strictly Ballroom".

Directed by Masayuki Ochiai. A mysterious hypnotic spell induces people to kill themselves. A horror movie from Japan.

Directed by Rithy Panh. With Chea Lyda Chan, Narith Roeun and Ratha Keo. The plot is hardly original - a former soldier (now a boxer/gangste...

Directed by Paul Wagner. With Jampa Kelsang, "Name Withheld" and "Name Withheld". A political drama set in Lhasa, where ...

Directed by Dagmar Knopfel. Sexy German film about love and hate.

Directed by Sinan Cetin. With Kemal Sunal, Metin Akpinar and Meltem Cumbul. As result of a minor frontier readjustment, some inhabitants of ...

Directed by Werner Herzog. With Werner Herzog, Klaus Kinski and Claudia Cardinale. Thanks to documentaries like Burden Of Dreams, we already...

Weird tale of a man taking care of his mentally-challenged brother.