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)
Summer with Monika (1952)
7.6/10
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: Harriet Andersson, Lars Ekborg
An early Ingmar Bergman-directed melodrama about a trusting, perplexed young storeroom clerk (Lars Ekborg), whose summer interlude with the aggressive... Read more
The Idiot (1951)
7.4/10
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Masayuki Mori, Toshiro Mifune, Setsuko Hara, Yoshiko Kuga, Takashi Shimura
Based on Dostoyevsky's classic novel of love and murder, adapted by Kurosawa himself, the story tells of Kameda, a former soldier whose wartime experi... Read more
Early Summer (1951)
8.2/10
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Starring: Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara, Ichiro Sugai, Chikage Awashima, Kuniko Miyake
Setsuko Hara has been promised an arranged marriage in post-war Japan, but too much in the world has changed for her not to challenge this tradition.... 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 Flowers Of St. Francis (Francesco, giullare di Dio) (1950)
7.5/10
Director: Roberto Rossellini
Starring: Aldo Fabrizi
A series of vignettes depicting the lives of the original Franciscan monks, including their leader and the bumbling Ginepro. Read more
Scandal (1950)
7.3/10
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Yoshiko Yamaguchi, Yoko Katsuragi, Takashi Shimura
Ichiro (Toshiro Mifune) is a young painter on holiday in the mountains. By chance he meets Miyako (Yoshiko Yamaguchi) - a famous singer who is staying... Read more
The Quiet Duel (1949)
7.5/10
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Kenjiro Uemura, Miki Sanjo, Chieko Nakakita
Toshiro Mifune's second film with director Akira Kurosawa casts him in the role of a young war-time doctor, who accidentally contracts syphillis while... Read more
Stray Dog (1949)
7.9/10
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Isao Kimura, Keiko Awaji
Early Kurosawa film is a masterful mix of film noir and police thriller in which a rookie detective (Toshiro Mifune) has his pistol stolen, and his se... Read more
Eva (1948)
6.6/10
Starring: Birger Malmsten, Eva Dahlbeck
During WW2 in neutral Sweden, young sailor Bo, son of a railway stationmaster, comes home from the Navy and reminisces a childhood accident. At age tw... Read more
De Sica Collection: Bicycle Thieves / Miracle in Milan / The Roof (1948)
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Starring: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Emma Gramatica, Paolo Stoppa
The father of Italian neorealism, master director Vittorio de Sica won three Best Foreign Language Film Oscars for his compelling portraits of working... Read more