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)
Drunken Angel (1948)
7.8/10
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura
Takashi Shimura plays an alcoholic doctor trying to bring about both spiritual and physical recovery of the human debris living in the yakuza-infested... Read more
La Terra Trema (1948)
7.9/10
Director: Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti's epic-saga of Sicilian fisherman remains one of the most important films of Italian neo-realism. Shot entirely on location in Sicily... Read more
Quai Des Orfevres (1947)
7.7/10
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Starring: Louis Jouvet, Simone Renant, Bernard Blier, Suzy Delair
Blacklisted for his daring "anti-French" masterpiece, 'Le Corbeau', Henri-Georges Clouzot returned to cinema with this provocative adaptation of autho... Read more
Sanshiro Sugata II (1945)
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Susumu Fujita, Denjiro Okochi, Ryunosuke Tsukigata, Yukiko Todoroki, Masayuki Mo...
This sequel was suggested by the Japanese government, in the wake of a devastating loss in the second world war. Set in 1887, the Japanese culture is... Read more
Children of Paradise ( Les Enfants du Paradis ) (1945)
8.3/10
Director: Marcel Carne
Starring: Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur
Poetic realism reaches sublime heights with "Children of Paradise" ("Les Enfants du Paradis"), the ineffably witty tale of a woman loved by four diffe... Read more
Sanshiro Sugata (1943)
6.8/10
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Takashi Shimura, Denjiro Okochi, Susumu Fujita, Yukiko Todoroki, Ryunosuke Tsuki...
Based on a best-seller, the debut film from master auteur, Akira Kurosawa, tells the beginning of Judo in Japan. The eponymous protagonist is on a qu... Read more
There Was A Father (1942)
7.8/10
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Starring: Chishu Ryu, Shin Saburi
Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects. Read more
Ossessione (1942)
7.8/10
Director: Luchino Visconti
Starring: Massimo Girotti, Clara Calamai, Juan Delanda
A.k.a. 'Obsession'. One of the great revelations of the cinema: Luchino Visconti's adaptation of James M. Cain's 'The Postman Always Rings Twice', abo... Read more
Le Jour Se Leve ( Daybreak ) (1939)
7.8/10
Director: Marcel Carne
Starring: Jules Berry, Jean Gabin, Jacqueline Laurent
AKA 'Daybreak'. Icon of French fatalism, Jean Gabin, plays Francois, who sits locked in his room, a gun in his hand, having just committed the murder... Read more
The Rules of the Game (La Regle du Jeu) (1939)
8.1/10
Director: Jean Renoir
Starring: Marcel Dalio, Nora Gregor, Jean Renoir, Mila Parely
AKA 'La Regle du Jeu'. One of the greatest films of all time, a satirical anatomy of polite bourgeois society, with a mixture of farce and black comed... Read more