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)
The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
8.1/10
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Takeshi Kato, Masayuki Mori
Reflecting his fondness for American crime films and motifs this stylish Akira Kurosawa thriller stars Toshiro Mifune and delves into corporate corrup... Read more
The Barbarian Invasions (2003)
7.7/10
Director: Denys Arcand
Starring: Remy Girard, Stephane Rousseau, Marie-Josee Croze, Dorothee Berryman
Reuniting the characters first introduced in his 1986 "The Decline of the American Empire," director Denys Arcand's Oscar-winning (Best Foreign Langua... Read more
The Beat My Heart Skipped (2005)
Director: Jacques Audiard
Starring: Romain Duris, Niels Arestrup, Linh Dan Pham, Aure Atika, Emmanuelle Devos
This powerful French drama finds Tom (Romian Duris) torn between two worlds. His love of music and desire to be a concert pianist and his job working... Read more
The Beautiful Person (La belle personne) (2008)
6.6/10
Director: Christophe Honore
Starring: Louis Garrel, Lea Seydoux, Gregoire Leprince-Ringuet
Cute Junie starts at her cousin Matthias' high school and class after her mom's death. She meets his friends. The boys want to date her - even her han... Read more
The Best Man's Wedding (2000)
Director: Josef Fares
Starring: Fares Fares, Torkel Petersson, Tuva Novotny, Laleh Pourkarim
Aka "Jalla! Jalla!" Roro (Fares Fares) works as an attendant in a Stockholm park with his best friend Mans (Torkel Petersson) and dotes on his Swedish... Read more
The Best of Youth (2003)
8.5/10
Director: Marco Tullio Giordana
Starring: Alessio Boni, Luigi Lo Cascio
An engrossing and intimate epic, originally produced as a miniseries for Italian television, following the divergent paths taken by brothers Nicola (L... Read more
The Big Hit (2020)
7.3/10
Director: Emmanuel Courcol
Starring: Kad Merad, Marina Hands, Laurent Stocker
Etienne, an often out of work but endearing actor, runs a theater workshop in a prison, where he brings together an unlikely troupe of prisoners to st... Read more
The Bird People In China (1998)
7.6/10
Director: Takashi Miike
Starring: Mako , Renji Ishibashi, Masahiro Motoki
Set in the beautiful Yunnan Province of China, a comically lyrical story of a Tokyo salaryman and a Yakuza debt collector on the trail of a lucrative... Read more
The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant (1973)
7.8/10
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Starring: Margit Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla, Irm Hermann
A lurid and stylized account of the mangled web of domination, sado-masochism and jealousy among three lesbians. One of Fassbinder's most controversia... Read more
The Blue Angel (1930)
7.8/10
Director: Josef Von Sternberg
Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron, Emil Jannings
Von Sternberg's classic study of sexual humiliation made Marlene Dietrich a star as Lola-Lola, the vulgar nightclub singer who brings the dignified un... Read more