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)
Madame Bovary (1991)
6.7/10
Director: Claude Chabrol
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Francois Balmer
The gloriously filmed, spectacularly designed adaptation of Gustave Flaubert's once controversial novel features performances by Isabelle Huppert as E... Read more
Rhapsody In August (1991)
7.3/10
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Sachiko Murase, Richard Gere, Hisashi Igawa
This moving drama, set in Nagasaki, explores the trauma of World War II and the after-effects of the atomic bomb. Four children on a visit to their Gr... Read more
Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (1991)
6.4/10
Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
Starring: Tomoroh Taguchi, Nobu Kanaoka, Shinya Tsukamoto
More of a companion piece to "Tetsuo: The Iron Man" than a sequel, "Tetsuo II: Body Hammer" sees director Shinya Tsukamoto's disturbing vision of a wo... Read more
Halfaouine: Boy of the Terraces (1990)
6.7/10
Director: Ferid Boughedir
Starring: Mustapha Adouani
A coming-of-age comedy/drama set in Tunisia. Twelve-year-old Noura is an impressionable boy who must learn to reconcile two conflicting worlds - the l... Read more
The Ages Of Lulu (1990)
5.6/10
Director: Bigas Luna
Starring: Francesca Neri, Maria Barranco
In Madrid, teenager Lulu has a crush on Pablo, who is the best friend of her brother Marcelo. One day, they go together to a concert and Lulu loses he... Read more
The Sissi Collection (1990)
Director: Ernst Marischka
Starring: Romy Schneider
The beautiful Romy Schneider stars in three captivating films (plus a prequel) based on the tumultuous life of the beloved Austrian Empress, Sissi. Th... Read more
Battle Heater (1990)
Director: Joji Iida
Starring: Pappara Kawai, Akira Emoto, Kaoru Okunuki
When the Kotatsu heater he finds on a rubbish dump turns out to be the host for a demonic entity, Furuchi has to find a way to return it to its rightf... Read more
Europa Europa (1990)
7.6/10
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Starring: Julie Delpy, Marco Hofschneider
A riveting and moving fact-based WWII Holocaust drama about a German-Jewish teenage boy who flees the Nazis and conceals his identity - only to find h... Read more
Akira Kurosawa's Dreams (1990)
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Akira Terao, Mieko Harada, Mitsuko Baisho
Eight mesmerising tableaus explore the subconscious at various stages of an elderly mans life in this visually stunning work from the master Japanese... Read more
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1990)
7/10
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Loles Leon, Victoria Abril
In perhaps his most outrageous and controversial film, Pedro Almodovar follows the strange relationship that grows between an obsessive ex-mental pat... Read more