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Cannibal Campout
A crappy-looking gore fest dating back to the 80's, Cannibal Campout is the kind of amateur movie that you would shoot during a weekend in a forest with your friends and then watch for fun.
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Captain Ahab
This quite interesting variation on Herman Melville's character is solely the fruit of Mr. Ramos' imagination in which Captain Ahab was the chance to interpret and complement Moby Dick, which pretty much started where this film ends.
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Carandiru
Adaptation of a best-seller by Drauzio Varella, Carandiru proposes diving into the heart of São Paulo's prison, guided by a humanist doctor who's fond of the prisoners.
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Carlos
Olivier Assayas embraces three decades of international geopolitics and delivers a movie marathon as explosive as a charge of C-4 explosives.
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The Cat's Meow
A Hollywood legend can mean many things. Here Peter Bogdanovich takes on a murder and cover-up that may or may not have happened aboard William Randolph Hearst's yacht Oneida in the middle of the Roaring Twenties.
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Catch Me If You Can
We're used to heartier fare from director Steven Spielberg, but in Catch Me If You Can he serves up an elegant amuse-gueule, quite fun and a little decadent.
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Cecil B Demented
Cecil B Demented makes terrorist cinema. And that's exactly what John Waters does through his main character's film in the film.
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The Cell
Though The Cell has a conventional framework in terms of the "serial killer" genre to which it belongs, it is only to reinforce the importance of the psychological scenes that use surrealism.
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Centurion
While you might rightfully argue that Mr. Marshall didn't reinvent the wheel and is only recycling other filmmakers' works, he certainly knows his craft.
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Certified Copy
For his first film shot outside Iran, Abbas Kiarostami defines the different stages of a couple's life with an intimate style that stands apart form the rest of his filmography.
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Cet Amour-Là
What this film really offers is a chance to study the marvelous Jeanne Moreau: her aged yet beautiful face, her still quite energetic and strong body, her velvet voice, her startling smile. Her persona, period. Without its stunning star, the film goes nowhere. With her, it also goes nowhere, but at least you get to go nowhere with Jeanne Moreau.
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Chainsaw Sally
With a title like Chainsaw Sally, you know what to expect and it's exactly what you get: some good campy gore that doesn't take itself seriously.
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Change of Address
Trying too hard to be charming and funny while dangerously perched on the peak of awkwardness and failure, Change of Address is most unfortunate in trying to be an American romantic comedy.
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Chaos
In French director Coline Serreau's social drama Chaos, Hélène, a "petite bourgeoise", gets her life turned upside down when she witnesses the beating of Noémie, a prostitute. From that moment Hélène's life won't be the same, as the film becomes a plea for women's freedom denouncing physical and psychological abuse from men.
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Chaos and Desire
In Chaos and Desire director Manon Briand plays with the laws of nature as well as cinematic clichés for a film that is both poetic and lighthearted.
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Charlie's Angels
Miss Drew Barrymore has shown she has her finger on our uncultured pulse by correctly gauging how to make tons of money: combine 3 cutie pies (preferably with different colored hair), seventies camp, martial arts sequences pulsating with techno music, and a big sly wink that lets us in on the joke that is pop culture and BAM! You’ve hit the jackpot.
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The Château
A small-budget indie film shot in digital, The Château throws together a couple of Americans and a few French countrymen and kicks back, making fun of the cultural clash that ensues.
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Chatroom
Thinking he has found an original concept that would allow him to showcase his prowess as a director, the director of Ringu adapts to the screen a play destined for a teen audience, and embarks completely into the realm of caricature.
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Che
Anti-dramatic, anti-charismatic and as anti-Hollywood as possible, the icon of the Cuban Revolution as seen by Steven Soderbergh puzzles and even disappoints.
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Chelsea on the Rocks
Messy, uninhibited, relaxed, eclectic, crazy. These qualifiers apply as much to Abel Ferrara as they do to his subject.
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Chicago
In 2002 Chicago emerged twice as the den of sin, once in The Road to Perdition, and now in the eponymous Chicago.
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Chicken Run
The British team of Peter Lord and Nick Park, creators of the Wallace & Gromit short films joined with Dreamworks to present us with a creative, touching film poulet about the chicken underworld.
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Chico & Rita
From pre-revolutionary Havana to New York and Hollywood in the fifties, Paris in the sixties and modern day Las Vegas, the retro animation of Chico & Rita is visually stunning.
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Chongqing Blues
Predictable from start to finish, served by lackluster direction and with no surprises, Chongqing Blues disappoints.
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Chrystal
Some movies are problematic as they embark you on a great voyage before getting you lost on some sort of screenwriting back roads.
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Cinemania
Anyone who's held on to some movie ticket stubs or secretly plots to kill the person who takes 3 minutes to unwrap a candy bar during a crucial moment in a film will relate to this brilliant documentary film about the psychological compulsions of 5 obsessive cinephiles in New York City.
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The Citrillo's Turns
Not only is Las Vueltas del Citrillo one of these films that is in a constant state of inebriation, but it also features a gallery of — morally & physically — disgusting characters.
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City of God
In a scorching debut, director Fernando Meirelles doesn't create a world of crime, poverty, corruption and inevitable tragedy. Instead he takes us into the back alleys of cruel reality, a world that the camera cannot avoid and hits head on.
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The Class
The Class is based on a book and screenplay by François Bégaudeau, a teacher who plays his own role here and is directed by Laurent Cantet, an astute portraitist of French societal social mechanisms.
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Clean
The latest film by Olivier Assayas is just beautiful. A deposed rock star must give up drugs and her past way of life to get her son back. Assayas directs a melodrama imprinted with nostalgia.
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Cocalero
Unfortunately, Cocalero takes a rather meandering look down a wandering path with no sense of clear direction and we don't learn all that much about Evo Morales.
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Coffee and Cigarettes
While there is a dimension that one has trouble perceiving in Jarmush's films, it may well be the absurd dimension that here finally takes increases in scale without ever being the cornerstone.
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Come Early Morning
In Come Early Morning, Ashley Judd is Lucy, a beautiful and washed out woman, a lost soul in some remote Kansas town, who gets drunk in bars and picks up losers for the night
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The Company
The Company can certainly be credited for showing a facet of Robert Altman we have rarely seen before: his use of a camera as a tool to capture beauty.
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The Concert
Writer/director Radu Mihaileanu's The Concert has all the ingredients to become a European film favorite on the US film circuit.
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Concerto Campestre
A fable about a young womanizing maestro set in 19th century Brazil, Henrique de Freitas Lima's Concerto Campestre navigates between romantic comedy and musical film, with a strong dose of social commentary in the background.
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Confessions of a Superhero
If you've been on Hollywood Blvd., chances are that you've run into Superman, the Hulk, Wonder Woman, Batman or one of the multiple incarnations of Jack Sparrow.
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Corto Maltese
An adaptation of the adventures of Corto Maltese, a mythical figure of comics, this ecstatic dive into a universe set halfway between history and romantic poetry cannot be compared to current animated productions and is intended for sensitive souls in the audience.
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Just when you had lost any hope of ever seeing a decent Hollywood adaptation of an Alexandre Dumas novel—recall the excruciating The Musketeer, The Man in the Iron Mask and The Three Musketeers—along comes the dark and mysterious Jim Caviezel, who under the identity of the Count of Monte Cristo avenges years of shameful swashbuckling pictures.
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Cowards Bend The Knee
After having approached different universes—death, religion, vampires & even musicals—here Guy Maddin explores his own fantasies.
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CQ
With CQ, Roman Coppola offers a charming ode to 60's sci-fi films and a light satire of a European cinema in transition.
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Crazy in Alabama
Why couldn't Almodovar's offspring come up with something a little more offbeat and beautiful? As a European taking a look at race relations in the U.S. during the Civil Rights movement would Antonio Banderas show a different colored light through that painful prism? The answer is no: expect Thelma and Louise meets Mississippi Burning meets bad John Grisham courtroom drama.
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The Crimson Rivers
French director Mathieu Kassovitz’s new entry falls short for trying too hard to make a French thriller the Hollywood way. Set in the Alps, The Crimson Rivers is a cross between Seven and
The Name Of The Rose.
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Hong Kong martial arts, romance, magic, and drama combine to make a wonderful film. Ang Lee (The Ice Storm and Sense And Sensibility) has probably created the first Mandarin kung fu film that American girls can enjoy with their male counterparts.
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Cube
Gory sci-fi flick from Canadian director Vincenzo Natali: in the near future, a group of people find themselves closed in and trapped, without knowing why, in a cube made of cubic rooms (!!). Even if the dice seem loaded, the the small group decides to try to escape during 90 minutes of the film.
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The Cuckoo
A work of a bare beauty, The Cuckoo offers a subtle combination of humanity and humor set against the most absurd background, war.
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The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
As someone who feels somewhat cheated by the last few Woody Allen films, I didn't have high expectations of The Curse of the Jade Scorpion other than a few laughs. Celebrity, Small Time Crooks, and Deconstructing Harry started out well enough and then inexplicably veered off the path and lost me. Not so with The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, a charming ode (Woody Allen style) to 1940's New York that stays on track until the finish.
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