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)
Even Dwarfs Started Small (1969)
7.1/10
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Helmut Doring, Gerd Gickel, Paul Glauer
Strange, disturbing and truly unsettling parable about dwarfs and midgets confined to a barren correctional institution who literally take over the as... Read more
Le Boucher ( The Butcher ) (1969)
7.6/10
Director: Claude Chabrol
Starring: Stephane Audran, Jean Yanne, Antonio Passallia
'The Butcher'. An intense psychological thriller about a schoolteacher who begins an affair with the town butcher, but the affair is interrupted when... Read more
Kill! (1968)
7.6/10
Director: Kihachi Okamoto
Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Etsushi Takahashi, Akira Kubo, Naoko Kubo
A samurai satire, equal parts sword-play and jet-black comedy this is full of Japanese cinema inside jokes, double crosses and fast-paced action. Tat... Read more
Theorem (1968)
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Starring: Terence Stamp, Silvana Mangano, Massimo Girotti
Terence Stamp plays the mysterious Christ or Devil figure who stays briefly with a wealthy Italian family, seducing them one by one. He then goes as q... Read more
Weekend (1967)
7.2/10
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Starring: Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Kalfon
A mind-expanding anti-Western diatribe about one woman's road to guerrillahood is among Godard's more fully realised works, with a long traffic-jam se... Read more
Saathi (1967)
6.6/10
Director: Sridhar
Starring: Rajendra Kumar, Sanjeev Kumar, Vyjayanthimala
Raj, Simi and Vyjayantimala grew up together. Simi is in love with Raj, but he doesn't realise and marries Vy. When Vy gets ill she runs away not wa... Read more
Branded to Kill (1967)
7.4/10
Director: Seijun Suzuki
Starring: Annu Mari, Mariko Ogawa, Joe Shishido
A breathtaking blend of violence, eroticism and dark humour, 'Branded to Kill' saw director Seijun Suzuki's ('Tokyo Drifter') reinvention of the gangs... Read more
King of Hearts (1967)
7.5/10
Director: Philippe De Broca
Starring: Alan Bates, Francoise Christophe, Genevieve Bujold, Pierre Brasseur
A Scottish World War I explosive expert (Alan Bates) is sent to a French town abandoned by everyone except the escaped inmates from an asylum. This ra... Read more
The Firemen's Ball (1967)
7.6/10
Director: Milos Forman
Starring: Vaclav Stockel, Josef Svet, Josef Kolb
A milestone of the Czech New Wave, Milos Forman's first colour film "The Firemen's Ball" is both a dazzling comedy and a provocative political satire.... Read more
Elvira Madigan (1967)
7.5/10
Director: Bo Widerberg
Starring: Pia Degermark, Thommy Berggren
Is a simple and tragic story of a young Swedish officer who falls in love with a beautiful circus performer. Outstanding photography makes this film.... Read more