Controlling one .swf movie from another?

Is there any way of doing this? For instance, I would like to be able to do something like:

on (press) {
[/directory/anothermovie.swf].movieclipName.play ();
}

(the bit in square brackets represents the path through the directory structure to the other movie clip).

Any help on this would be much appreciated!

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hi,
for your requirement you have to load the movie i.e the swf you want to control in a movie clip through load movie action and then you can control it with the instance name

for eg

you have a movie by name test.swf in a folder and in the same folder you have a movie by the loader .fla

now in loader.fla you have to place a new blank movieclip by an instance name say testLoader drag it on to the stage and then in the action for that instance of the clip

onClipEvent(load){
this.loadMovie("test.swf");
}

now this instance of movieclip can be controlled as a normal movie clip .

like
on(press){
_root.testLoader.gotoAndStop(10);
}