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)
Youth of the Beast (1963)
7.6/10
Director: Seijun Suzuki
Starring: Joe Shishido
Unique Japanese filmmaker Seijun Suzuki helms this audacious wild ride into the world of 1960s Japanese Yakuza. Police detective Jo Shishido winds up... Read more
Angel Negro ( Dark Angel ) (2000)
4.4/10
Director: Jorge Olguin
Starring: Andrea Freund, Alvario Morales, Blanca Lewin, Juan Pablo Bastidas
Angel Cruz (Blanca Lewin) is a beautiful young student who disappears on the night of her high school graduation. Was she killed in a tragic accident... Read more
Partner (2007)
5.7/10
Director: David Dhawan
Starring: Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif, Lara Dutta, Govinda
David Dhawan directs this entertaining Bollywood comedy about matchmaking gone mad. Love guru Prem (Salman Khan) likes nothing better than to help lon... Read more
My Twentieth Century (1989)
7.1/10
Director: Ildikó Enyedi
Two twin sisters, who grew up separately, Dóra, a pseudo-aristocrat, and Lili, an anarchist bomber, are reunited through Z, a mysterious traveller of... Read more
The Lighthouse (Mayak) (2006)
7.5/10
In the 90s, Lena returns to the home of her grandparents in a tiny, war-torn village in Armenia. Lena begs them to follow her lead and retreat to the... Read more
Into The Labyrinth (2019)
5.6/10
Director: Donato Carrisi
Starring: Toni Servillo, Dustin Hoffman
Samantha, a young kidnapped girl, resurfaces in shock after being imprisoned and hospitalized. Next to her is Dr. Green, a profiler who investigates v... Read more
Vengeance Is Mine (Blu-ray) (1979)
7.8/10
Director: Shohei Imamura
Starring: Ken Ogata, Rentaro Mikuni
Iwao Enokizu is a middle-aged man who has an unexplainable urge to commit insane and violent murders. Eventually he is chased by the police all over J... Read more
Martin Eden (2019)
6.9/10
Director: Pietro Marcello
Starring: Luca Marinelli, Marco Leonardi, Pietro Ragusa
Martin Eden struggles to rise above his destitute, proletarian circumstances through an intense and passionate pursuit of self-education, hoping to ac... Read more
Mad Detective (Blu-ray) (2007)
7.2/10
Director: Wai Ka-fai, Johnnie To
Starring: Lau Ching Wan, Ka Tung Lam, Andy On, Lee Kwok Lun, Kelly Lin
Back together again, directors Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai have set incendiary cinematic material ablaze to create a quirkry action-drama. Exposing the... Read more
Skate Kitchen (2018)
6.8/10
Director: Crystal Moselle
A teenaged skateboarder makes friends with a bunch of other skateboarding girls in New York City. Read more