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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)

Crazed Fruit (1956)

7.5/10
Director: Ko Nakahira
Starring: Masahiko Tsugawa, Yujiro Ishihara, Mie Kitahara

Two brothers compete for the amorous favours of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking in this film from director Ko... Read more

New Delhi (1956)

7.9/10
Director: Mohan Segal
Starring: Kishore Kumar, Vyjayanthimala , Jabeen , Nana Palsikar, Nasir Hussain

Anand is a Punjabi boy just arrived in New Delhi, only he can't find a place to stay because noone will take in someone from a different caste then th... Read more

And God Created Woman (1956)

6.3/10
Director: Roger Vadim
Starring: Brigitte Bardot, Curt Jurgens, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Christian Marquand

Brigitte Bardot's best known film. She plays a man teasing 18-year-old whose lustful encounters with the irresistible opposite sex are enacted out ami... Read more

Death of a Cyclist (1955)

7.7/10
Starring: Lucia Bose

A couple having an affair strike a bicyclist with their car and do not offer aid out of fear of their relationship being exposed. Read more

Les Grandes Manoeuvres (1955)

Director: Rene Clair
Starring: Michele Morgan, Gerard Philipe, Jean Desailly, Brigitte Bardot

AKA "Summer Manoeuvres" A rakish army lieutenant takes a bet from his comrades that he can make love to any woman in the town. The bet of course backf... Read more

Rififi (1955)

8.2/10
Director: Jules Dassin
Starring: Carl Mohner, Magali Noel, Jules Dassin, Jean Servais, Marie Sabouret, Robert Man...

After helming such American noir classics as 'The Naked City' and 'Brute Force', blacklisted director Jules Dassin moved to Paris and embarked on his... Read more

I Live In Fear (1955)

7.4/10
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Eiko Miyoshi, Minoru Chiaki

When a wealthy foundry owner and patriarch decides to move his entire family from Tokyo to Brazil to escape the nuclear holocaust which he believes is... Read more

Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)

8.1/10
Director: Keisuke Kinoshita
Starring: Hideko Takamine

A beautifully made, sensitive drama about a teacher (Hideko Takamine) beginning her long career. As the years pass we follow not only her progress, b... Read more

I Vitelloni (1953)

8/10
Director: Federico Fellini
Starring: Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi, Franco Interlenghi

This early Fellini masterpiece, and one of the great works of Neo-Realism, deals with the young, restless men in a small town on the Adriatic who are,... Read more

The Life of Oharu (1952)

8.2/10
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Kinuyo Tanaka, Ichiro Sugai

A poignant, exquisitely filmed portrait of a woman in feudal Japan who, after disgracing the honor of her samurai father, is sold into prostitution. "... Read more