Film Dictionary

A little girl in Afghanistan tries to get to school. One of the greatest Iranian films of all times, directed by 18-years-old Han...

Terrific animated film about a fin gourmet rat.

While also being a terrific and exciting gangster film in its own right, David Cronenberg's "Eastern Promises" is above all a ...

This is an amazing film. Amazing for many reasons. It's an amazing film because it's fiercely anti-Communist, denouncing Soviet crim...

Hilarious, intelligent, bittersweet and deeply touching comedy about a teenage girl who gets pregnant and decides to give her baby for adopt...

A superlative musical film from Ireland. A pure delight.

Excellent Mexican drama directed by Rodrigo Pla, a powerful allegory about fascism. Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

Incredibly powerful film about the massacre of the Polish POWs at the Katyn Forest by the Soviets in 1940.

Excellent film about alienation and solitude. In its own, uniquely Canadian style, this gently, ever-so-bittersweet comedy recalls the upbea...

As its producer Harvey Weinstein was the first to admit, to release Quentin Tarantino's ''Death Proof'' and Robert Rodri...

This marvelous black comedy by Jiri Menzel, set in Czechoslovakia before, during and after the World War II, has been adapted, as was Menzel...

The Coen Brothers have came up with another cinematic gem. An ingenious mix between "Fargo" and "The Terminator", it...

The mullahs in Iran have correctly identified the real message of the film, and denounced ''300'' as a pro-American diatribe...

Sean Penn has made one of the best and most memorable films of 2007 - "Into The Wild". The film tells the fascinating true story o...

This is what a certain Martin Kelly wrote about this film on imdb.com: "I didn't know too much about Gustav Klimt before watching t...

Michael Moore's best movie in years, a hilarious indictment of the health care insurance system in the United States. He's as manipu...

Excellent horror movie from France, about a pregnant woman in danger.

The ''Hostel'' series is doing to Eastern Europe what ''Deliverance'' did to the American South. With memori...

David Fincher's take on the infamous serial killer from San Francisco.

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"Black Snake Moan is the oddest, most peculiar movie I've seen about sex and race and redemption in the Deep South", wrote Rog...

The best "Die Hard" movie since the first "Die Hard" movie. "Yippy-Kay-Yay-Motherfucker".

Great satire about Sylvio Berlusconi.

Touching drama about an elderly couple.

Excellent British drama about migrant workers in London.

The childhood and early adulthood of Gengiz Khan.

This Russian remake of "Twelve Angry Men" (1957) isn't as good as the original, but it has a much more surprising ending.

Excellent western starring Russell Crowe and Christian Bale.

Superb musical film by Carlos Saura. It's the final part of his trilogy about Ibero-Latin music, after "Flamenco" (1995) and ...

Excellent horror movie from Spain.

Suprising Disney animated film, very different from their usual fare.

The fifth ''Harry Potter'' film. Quite good.

Terrific action film, the best in the series.

Memorable police drama from Hong Kong. Directed by Johnnie To ("The Mission") and Wai Ka Fai ("Too Many Ways To Be Number One...