Eastern European Cinema
Again this category lumps a lot of countries together where the Alice collection is not large enough to warrant separate shelf-space for each country represented. Eastern European films are often categorised by a healthy black humour, an ability to look hardship in the eye and laugh - if somewhat bitterly at times. Included here are films from Poland, Austria, Yugoslavia, the Czech Republic and Hungary. To look for films from a specific country refer to the 'By Country' link on the left.
Quo Vadis, Aida? (2020)
8/10
Director: Jasmila Zbanic
Starring: Jasna Djuricic, Izudin Bajrovic, Boris Ler
Bosnia, July 1995. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the... Read more
Never Gonna Snow Again (2020)
6.5/10
Director: Malgorzata Szumowska
Starring: Maja Ostaszewska, Agata Kulesza
Zhenia, a Russian-speaking immigrant from the East works as a masseur in Poland and becomes a guru-like figure in a wealthy gated community of his cli... Read more
Corpus Christi (2019)
7.7/10
Director: Jan Komasa
Daniel experiences a spiritual transformation in a detention center. Although his criminal record prevents him from applying to the seminary, he has n... Read more
Dogs Don't Wear Pants (2019)
7.1/10
Director: Jukka-Pekka Valkeapaa
Starring: Krista Kosonen, Pekka Strang
Juha has lost his wife in a drowning accident. Years after he still feels numb and unable to connect with people. Meeting Mona, a dominatrix, changes... Read more
Cold War (Blu-Ray) (2018)
7.7/10
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Starring: Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Agata Kulesza, Jeanne Balibar, Cedric Kahn
A passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, who are fatefully mismatched and yet condemned to each other. Se... Read more
Cold War (2018)
7.7/10
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Starring: Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Agata Kulesza, Jeanne Balibar, Cedric Kahn
A passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, who are fatefully mismatched and yet condemned to each other. Se... Read more
The Teacher (Ucitelka) (2016)
7.3/10
Director: Jan Hrebejk
Starring: Zuzana Mauréry, Zuzana Konecná, Csongor Kassai
Since the arrival of the new teacher, Maria Drazdechova, to a Bratislava suburban school in the year of 1983, life has turned upside down for students... Read more
The Lure (Blu-ray) (2015)
6.3/10
Director: Agnieszka Smoczynska
In Warsaw, a pair of mermaid sisters are adopted into a cabaret. While one seeks love with humans the other hungers to dine on the human population of... Read more
Son of Saul (2015)
7.5/10
Director: Laszlo Nemes
Starring: Geza Rohrig, Levente Molnar, Urs Rechn
Saul Ausländer is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from the camp and forced to assist the Nazis in th... Read more
Goodnight Mommy (2014)
6.7/10
Director: Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala
Starring: Susanne Wuest, Lukas Schwarz, Elias Schwarz, Hans Escher
In a lonesome house in the countryside in the heat of mid-summer, nine-year-old twin brothers await their mother's return from the hospital. When she... Read more