Foreign Language Films
Possibly Alice's strongest collection are the Foreign Language Films. Here you can totally immerse yourself in a veritable feast of titles from around the globe. We have divided this section into regional categories. There are many great films to be discovered within and they make for a preferred alternative to the steady input of Hollywood fodder that generally permeates our screens.
Right: The wonderful "Manon Des Sources" ("Jean de Florette" Part 2)
Sex is Comedy (2002)
5.7/10
Director: Catherine Breillat
Starring: Anne Parillaud, Gregoire Colin, Roxane Mesquida, Ashley Wanninger
Catherine Breillat's "Sex is Comedy" was inspired by her own experiences shooting a sex scene in her controversial feature "A Ma Soeur". Anne Parillau... Read more
Shadow Magic (1999)
7.2/10
Director: Ann Hu
Starring: Jared Harris, Xia Yu, Liu Pei Qui
Peking, 1902. Travelling English showman Jared Harris teams with photographer Xia Yu to bring the amazing new art form of motion pictures to remote vi... Read more
Shadow of the Wraith (2001)
Director: Toshiharu Ikeda
Starring: Yuichi Matsuo, Koji Matsuo, Hitomi Miwa, Asumi Miwa, Mikio Osawa
Two terrifying tales of suspense are interconnected in this chilling anthology by director Toshiharu Ikeda. While Ryoji already has a girlfriend, Asaj... Read more
Shadows of Time (2004)
7.7/10
Director: Florian Gallenberger
Starring: Prashant Narayanan, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Irfan Khan, Tilotama Shome
German filmmaker Florian Gallenberger makes her feature debut with this epic Indian love story spanning 60 years. In the early 1940s Riva and Masha a... Read more
Shanghai Triad (1995)
7.2/10
Director: Zhang Yimou
Starring: Gong Li, Li Baotian, Li Xuejian, Sun Chun
Zhang Yimou's absorbing tale of the Chinese underworld in the 1930s, focusing on a boy who's hired to be the silent servant of a pampered nightclub qu... Read more
Shaolin Soccer (2001)
7.3/10
Director: Stephen Chow
Starring: Stephen Chow, Vicki Zhao
Sing is an exceptionally skilled Shaolin kung fu devotee who's fallen on hard times when his amazing 'leg of steel' catches the eye of an equally down... Read more
Sheitan (2006)
5.7/10
Director: Kim Chapiron
Starring: Vincent Cassel, Roxane Mesquida, Olivier Barthelemy, Nico Le Phat Tan, Ladj Ly,...
A madcap French frightener featuring a suitably demented Vincent Cassel as Joseph, a rural, satan-worshipping handyman/caretaker! When Eve, the daugh... Read more
Shikoku (1999)
5.6/10
Director: Shunichi Nagasaki
Starring: Chiaki Kuriyama, Yui Natsukawa, Michitaka Tsutsui, Toshie Negishi, Ren Osugi
One of Japan's most rural island provinces, Shikoku translates as 'Four Countries', though an alternate spelling can be read 'The Land of the Dead'.... Read more
Shopgirls: Series 1 (1999)
7.8/10
Director: Giorgio Capitani
Starring: Sabrina Ferilli, Nancy Brilli, Veronica Pivetti, Caterina Vertova, Anna Valle, E...
Six very different women work together in an elegant boutique in Rome in this quintessentially Italian soap opera. Through their daily struggles with... Read more
Shower (1999)
7.5/10
Director: Zhang Yang
Starring: Zhu Xu, Pu Cun Xin, Jiang Wu
This acclaimed drama from Zhang Yang is set in and around a Beijing bathhouse run by its elderly owner and his slow witted son. The proprietor's older... Read more