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)
Storm Over Asia (1928)
7.3/10
Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin
Starring: Valeri Inkizhanov, I Inkizhanov, L Dedintsev
Director Vsevolod Pudovkin's epic is set on the Soviet Asian frontier and tells of a rebellious young Mongol trapper who is set up as a "puppet leader... Read more
The White Sheik (1951)
7.3/10
Director: Federico Fellini
Starring: Alberto Sordi, Brunella Bova, Leopoldo Trieste
Fellini's first film as director chronicles the adventures of a provincial couple honeymooning in Rome and the wife's involvement with a cartoon hero,... Read more
The Magnificent Bodyguard (1978)
Director: Lo Wei
Starring: Jackie Chan
One of Jackie Chan's earliest vehicles before his comic adventure films made him an internatial star features the martial arts legend as a warrior who... Read more
Kaa Fila (2006)
Director: Ammtoje Mann
Starring: Sunny Deol, Ammtoje Mann, Sudesh Berry, Sumeep Kang, Sachin Parekh
This touching Bollywood feature from director Ammtoje Mann tells the story of a group of people travelling illegally to the UK in search of a better l... Read more
Tell Me Something (1999)
6.6/10
Director: Yoon-Hyun Chang
Starring: Eun-ha Shim, Suk-kyu Han, Hang-Seon Jang, Jung-ah Yum
After accepting cash from an underworld figure to pay his dying mother's medical bills, Seoul detective Cho sees a chance at redemption when he takes... Read more
Ip Man 4: The Finale (Blu-ray) (2019)
7.2/10
Director: Wilson Yip
Starring: Donnie Yen, Scott Adkins
The Kung Fu master travels to the U.S. where his student has upset the local martial arts community by opening a Wing Chun school. Read more
The American Friend (1977)
7.4/10
Director: Wim Wenders
Starring: Dennis Hopper, Bruno Ganz, Lisa Kreuzer, Sam Fuller
Using Patricia Highsmith's novel, 'Ripley's Game', Wenders has made a spellbinding existential thriller which moves from the docks of Hamburg to the s... Read more
The Translators (Les Traducteurs) (2019)
6.5/10
Director: Regis Roinsard
Starring: Lambert Wilson, Olga Kurylenko, Riccardo Scamarcio, Alex Lawther
Nine translators, hired to translate the eagerly awaited final book of a bestselling trilogy, are confined in a luxurious bunker. When the first ten p... Read more
In the Name Of The Land (Au nom de la terre) (2019)
6.6/10
Director: Edouard Bergeon
Starring: Guillaume Canet, Veerle Baetens
Pierre is 25 when he returns from Wyoming to his fiancée and take over the family farm. Twenty years later, the farm expanded and so did the family. 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