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)
First Name: Carmen (1983)
6.6/10
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Starring: Maruschka Detmers, Jacques Bonnaffe
A.k.a. 'Prenom: Carmen'. Jean-Luc Godard's irreverent satire of 'Carmen' stars Maruschka Detmers as a femme fatale who plans to rob a bank while prete... Read more
Barefoot Gen / Barefoot Gen 2 (1983)
Director: Kazuo Oga
The powerful and tragic autobiographical story of manga artist Keiji Nakazawa, just six years old when an atomic bomb was dropped on his hometown of H... Read more
The Lady is the Boss (1983)
Director: Liu Chia-Liang
Starring: Liu Chia-Liang, Kara Hui, Chia Hui Gordon Liu, Hsiao Hou
Veteran director Liu Chia-Liang plays a martial arts teacher whose old-fashioned ways threaten to close down his school. He calls his daughter back f... Read more
The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982)
7.5/10
Director: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Starring: Omero Antonutti, Margarita Lozano, Norma Martel
Aka "The Night of San Lorenzo". During the final days of World War II, a small town in Italy finds its residents divided into two factions - those who... Read more
Wim Wenders' Documentaries: Tokyo-Ga / Notebook on Cities and Clothes / Room 666 (1982)
Director: Wim Wenders
This collection of three documentaries from the iconic German filmmaker includes: 'Tokyo-Ga' (1985) - Using the work of acclaimed Japanese director Ya... Read more
Passion (1982)
6.4/10
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Hanna Schygulla, Michel Piccoli
Godard takes the themes of love, work and the cinema, and weaves around them an extraordinary mix of sounds and images. The plot concerns a film direc... Read more
Danton (1982)
7.6/10
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Starring: Gerard Depardieu, Patrice Chereau, Roger Planchon
Gerard Depardieu takes the title role in this dramatic recounting of the power struggle between the leading figures of the French revolution, Danton a... Read more
Pauline at the Beach (1982)
7.5/10
Director: Eric Rohmer
Starring: Amanda Langlet, Arielle Dombasle, Feodor Atkine
Eric Rohmer explores the complicated and comical romantic and sexual entanglements of six people on summer holiday. The coincidences, misunderstanding... Read more
The Return Of Martin Guerre (1982)
7.4/10
Director: Daniel Vigne
Starring: Gerard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Roger Planchon
Dramatisation of an extraordinary imposture that took place in the 16th century and became a legend; the husband leaves his family and years later, re... Read more
La Chevre ( The Goat ) (1981)
7.4/10
Director: Francis Veber
Starring: Gerard Depardieu, Pedro Armendariz, Pierre Richard, Corynne Charbit
A classic French farce from Francis Veber, his first with comic duo Gerard Depardieu and Pierre Richard. Depardieu is the top private eye and Richard... Read more