Film Dictionary

Interesting French drama set in a housing project near Paris.

Catherine Deneuve plays the wife of a factory manager who takes his place and solves a major labor dispute.

An animated film directed by Sylvain Chomet, and based on an unproduced, semi-autobiographical script that Jacques Tati wrote in 1956. The m...

French drama about the genocide of the Gypsies during World War II. Directed by Tony Gatlif, the film follows a Roma family travelling in th...

French drama about two suicidal girls.

Belgian film about a dying boy.

Lame French comedy about a romance between two emotionally immature chocolate makers. It's hard to believe that Isabelle Carre got a Ces...

French animated film about fairy-tale books coming to life.

A French melodrama about a circle of friends spending their summer vacation in Arcachon, while one of their friends is dying in a hospital.

Very bizarre comedy starring Gerard Depardieu. It's like "About Schmidt" on acid.

Clearly inspired by "The Good Thief" (itself a remake of "Bob le flambeur"), it's an otherwise routine caper flick w...

Conventional historical drama about Mozart's older sister.

Very bizarre film about a nurse who loses her job and her opera-loving husband. The beginning is quite intriguing, but the film goes complet...

Overly sweet romantic comedy about a love affair between a student from West Berlin and an East German border guard, in the fall of 1989 ...

Interesting, but uneven political drama from the Philippines. It's a story of a group of left-wing revolutionaries from the 1970's w...

A boxer is falsely convicted of murder. A Japanese "Hurricane". Unlike Banmei Takahashi's previous works, this is not an eroti...

Set in a remote rural estate in Poland during World War II, this is one of Jan Jakub Kolski's most depressing films. But unlike the equa...

A Japanese "Das Experiment".

Mexican drama about a widower carrying the ashes of his wife.

Japanese film about a samurai accountant forced to sell all his possessions to pay his family's debts.

Bruno Ganz is excellent as a Swiss president dealing with very serious difficulties in life.

One of Otar Iosseliani's worst films, a very tedious (and vaguely autobiographical) story about a Georgian filmmaker who comes to France...

Israeli melodrama about a Palestinian who accidentaly kills the brother of his Jewish girlfriend.

Belgian film about a young man who suffers from chronic cystic fibrosis.

Based on a true story that took place in Belgrade in 1979. While Yugoslav president Tito was visiting Cuba, a mysterious driver exhibited sp...

Interesting, but weird film from Sri Lanka.

One setting, one take, two people, one boring movie.

Weird film from Portugal.

Visually stunning Thai film about death and the meaning of life.

The third (and final) installement of the Lisbeth Salander's saga is extremely disappointing. In sharp contrast to its predecessors, ...

Epic "wu xia pian" directed by Tsui Hark.

Very tedious drama about a Japanese girl who travels to Germany to visit her parents' tomb. This very simple story would be told better ...

Mexican melodrama about suicide, infidelity and Judaism.