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)
Red Lion (1969)
7.1/10
Director: Kihachi Okamoto
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Shima Iwashita, Etsushi Takahashi, Ito Yonosuke
The always mesmerizing Toshiro Mifune plays an enthusiastic, if dim-witted imperial emissary, sent to break the good news about the fall of the shogun... Read more
Red Sorghum (1989)
7.5/10
Director: Zhang Yimou
Starring: Gong Li, Wen Jiang, Liu Jia, Rujun Ten
A vivid, richly coloured drama about a young woman who takes on the management of her late husband's distillery in Northern China. All appears to be g... Read more
Reincarnation (2005)
6.2/10
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Starring: Karina , Yuka , Shun Oguri, Kippei Shiina, Tetta Sugimoto, Taro Suwa
An actress starts having disturbing visions and visitations after accepting a role in a film about a real-life mass murderer who stalked Tokyo Univers... Read more
Remember Me (2003)
6.5/10
Director: Gabriele Muccino
Starring: Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Laura Morante, Monica Bellucci, Silvio Muccino, Nicoletta...
A.k.a. "Remember Me, My Love". This finely judged, complex drama is about two generations in an Italian family. Carlo (Fabrizio Bentivoglio) and Giuli... Read more
Requiem (2001)
5.2/10
Director: Herve Renoh
Starring: Patrick Dell'Isola, Moussa Maaskri, Julie-Anne Roth, Jo Prestia, Marc Chapiteau
Four hardened crooks break out of prison. Hunted down, with nowhere to run, they seek refuge in the only place the police cannot follow: a Cistercian... Read more
Respiro (2002)
7/10
Director: Emanuele Crialese
Starring: Valeria Golino, Vincenzo Amato, Francesco Casisa, Veronica D'Agostino
Welcome to Lampedusa, a Mediterranean island paradise as mysterious as it is beautiful, a tropical heaven where ocean waves pound deep mysterious cave... 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
Rice Rhapsody (2004)
6.6/10
Director: Kenneth Bi
Starring: Sylvia Chang, Martin Yan, Melanie Laurent, LePham Tan, Craig Toh, Maggie Q
After being abandoned by her husband years earlier, Jen has raised three boys on her own. Her two eldest sons are gay, and fearing she will have no g... Read more
Ridicule (1996)
7.5/10
Director: Patrice Leconte
Starring: Fanny Ardant, Charles Berling, Jean Rochefort, Judith Godreche, Bernard Giraudea...
A delightful tale of a young landowner who tries to obtain an audience with King Louis XVI in order to get grant money to drain a swamp. He soon disco... Read more
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles (2005)
7.5/10
Director: Zhang Yimou
Starring: Ken Takakura, Nakai Kiichi, Shinobu Terajima, Jiamin Li
Ken Takakura gives a career-defining performance as an old Chinese fisherman who has been estranged from his son for many years. When he receives a c... Read more