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.
My Way Home (1964)
7.5/10
Director: Miklos Jancso
In the final days of World War II, a young Hungarian is making his way home, through countryside full of the debris of war, when he is captured and im... Read more
Dead in 3 Days (2006)
5.5/10
Director: Andreas Prochaska
Starring: Sabrina Reiter, Julia Rosa Stockl, Michael Steinocher, Laurence Rupp, Nadja Voge...
An ominous text message is followed by a horrific series of murders that confounds the authorities and strikes fear into the hearts of local high scho... Read more
Too Late (1996)
7.7/10
Director: Lucian Pintilie
Starring: Razvan Vasilescu
Aka "Trop Tard". Dumitru Costa (Razvan Vasilescu), a young trainee Public Prosecutor, is given his first investigation - the suspicious death of a min... 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
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
Man of Iron (1981)
7.5/10
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Starring: Krystyna Janda, Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Marian Opania
Winner of the Golden Palm (Best Picture) at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival, Andrzej Wajda's film is a continuation of the story of Maciej Tomczyk (Jerz... Read more
Debajo Del Mundo ( Underground ) (1987)
8.1/10
Director: Beda Docampo Feijoo, Juan Bautista Stagnaro
Starring: Sergio Renan, Barbara Mugica, Victor Laplace
Aka 'Underground', 'Under the World'. The true story of a Polish Jewish family whose members had to literally bury themselves alive underground in ord... Read more
WR - Mysteries Of The Organism (1971)
6.9/10
Director: Dusan Makavejev
Starring: Milena Dravic, Jagoda Kaloper, Tuli Kupferberg
WR is Dr Wilhelm Reich, eulogized here in the documentary section as one who advocated orgasm as a means of releasing inhibition, includes such bizarr... Read more
Last Stop Paradise (1998)
Director: Lucian Pintilie
Starring: Costel Cascaval, Dorina Chiriac
Aka "Terminus Paradis". On the outskirts of Bucharest one hot summer day, Norica, a young waitress, and Mitu, a pig-farmer, meet, flirt with each othe... Read more
My Twentieth Century (1989)
7.1/10
Director: Ildikó Enyedi
Two twin sisters, who grew up separately, Dóra, a pseudo-aristocrat, and Lili, an anarchist bomber, are reunited through Z, a mysterious traveller of... Read more