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)
Children of Paradise ( Les Enfants du Paradis ) (1945)
8.3/10
Director: Marcel Carne
Starring: Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur
Poetic realism reaches sublime heights with "Children of Paradise" ("Les Enfants du Paradis"), the ineffably witty tale of a woman loved by four diffe... Read more
Children of the Marshlands (1999)
Director: Jean Becker
Starring: Jacques Villeret, Michel Serrault, Jacques Gamblin
AKA 'Les Enfants Du Marais'. A charming, beautifully told tale set in a provincial French community in the 1930s which recalls the warm friendship of... Read more
Chokher Bali (2003)
6.6/10
Director: Rituparno Ghosh
Starring: Aishwarya Rai, Lily Chakrabarti, Prasenjit Chatterjee
Bengali filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh adapted and directed this costume melodrama based on the classic 1902 novel by Rabindranath Tagore. Subtly using th... Read more
Christiane F (1981)
7.6/10
Director: Ulrich Edel
Starring: Natja Brunckhorst, Thomas Haustein, David Bowie
Powerful story of an alienated teen who falls into the degrading drug and prostitution scene of Berlin's Zoo station. Featuring the music of, and an a... Read more
City of Men: The Complete Series (2002)
7.3/10
Director: Fernando Meirelles, Philippe Barcinski, Regina Case, etc
Starring: Douglas Silva, Darlan Cunha
Following the outstanding success of the Oscar-nominated 'City of God', the same team made this incredible 9-part series for Brazilian television. Fi... Read more
Claire's Knee (1970)
7.8/10
Director: Eric Rohmer
Starring: Jean-Claude Brialy, Aurora Cornu, Beatrice Romand
Set in the French mountain lake resort of Annecy, writer/director Eric Rohmer's exquisite tale tells the story of Jerome (Jean-Claude Brialy), who, on... Read more
Clean (2004)
6.9/10
Director: Olivier Assayas
Starring: Jeanne Balibar, Maggie Cheung, Beatrice Dalle, James Johnston, Don McKellar, Nic...
Faded rock star Lee Hauser (played by James Johnston from Nick Cave's Bad Seeds) lives with his wife, former TV host Emily (Maggie Cheung) in a small... Read more
Close (2022)
7.8/10
Director: Lukas Dhont
Starring: Emilie Dequenne, Lea Drucker
The intense friendship between two thirteen-year old boys Leo and Remi suddenly gets disrupted. Struggling to understand what has happened, Léo approa... Read more
Closely Watched Trains ( aka Closely Observed Trains ) (1966)
7.7/10
Director: Jiri Menzel
Starring: Vaclav Neckar, Jitka Bendova, Vladimir Valenta
An ironic, funny film about a young man on his first job in a small town railroad station, trying to get sexually initiated (in hilarious scenes) who,... Read more
Coach To Vienna (Blu-ray) (1966)
Director: Karel Kachyna
Starring: Iva Janzurová
A WW2 story of a young Austrian soldier running from the Russian army and a woman whom he forces to come along in order to save his wounded mate. Read more