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)
Double Vision (2002)
6.4/10
Director: Chen Kuo Fu
Starring: Tony Leung (Ka Fai), David Morse, Rene Liu, Dai Li Zen
How do you explain the unexplainable? A wealthy Taiwanese businessman is discovered frozen to death at the desk of his penthouse office. A government... Read more
Downfall (2005)
8.2/10
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Starring: Bruno Ganz, Thomas Kretschmann, Ulrich Matthers, Heino Ferch, Ulrich Noethen, Ju...
Bruno Ganz is rivetting as the mad dictator during his final days in the Berlin Bunker. But director Hirschbiegel understands that evil does not exis... Read more
Downfall (Blu-ray) (2005)
8.2/10
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Starring: Bruno Ganz, Thomas Kretschmann, Ulrich Matthers, Heino Ferch, Ulrich Noethen, Ju...
Bruno Ganz is rivetting as the mad dictator during his final days in the Berlin Bunker. But director Hirschbiegel understands that evil does not exis... Read more
Dracula (1931)
7.6/10
Director: Tod Browning, George Melford
Starring: Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Helen Chandler, Dwight Frye, Edward Van Sloan, Carlo...
Although there have been numerous screen visions of Bram Stoker's classic tale, none is more enduring than this 1931 original. Towering ominously amon... Read more
Drunken Angel (1948)
7.8/10
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura
Takashi Shimura plays an alcoholic doctor trying to bring about both spiritual and physical recovery of the human debris living in the yakuza-infested... Read more
Dumplings (2004)
6.8/10
Director: Fruit Chan
Starring: Bai Ling, Miriam Yeung Chin, Tony Leung (Ka Fai), Pauline Lau
Originally featured as a short in the anthology '3 Extremes', director Fruit Chan has expanded the concept into this feature-length, satirical treatis... Read more
Dus Kahaniyaan (2007)
5.7/10
Director: Sanjay Gupta, Meghna Gulzar, Jasmeet Dhodhi, Apoorva Lakhia, Hansal Mehta, Rohit Roy
Starring: Arbaaz Khan, Mandira Bedi, Sudhanshu Pandey, Jimmy Shergill, Masumi Makhija, Amr...
Some of India's finest writers and directors teamd up to make this epic series of dramatic vingettes featuring 25 actors. Grand romance is given as mu... Read more
Eagle Shadow Fist (1973)
Director: Zhu Wu
Starring: Jackie Chan, Wang Qing
In 1937, Japanese Imperial Forces invaded and occupied areas of mainland China. With their occupation came oppression and brutality. Jackie Chan is a... Read more
Early Spring (1956)
7.8/10
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Starring: Chikage Awashima, Teiji Takahashi, Keiko Kishi, Chishu Ryu
A young man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital romance. Read more
Early Summer (1951)
8.2/10
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Starring: Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara, Ichiro Sugai, Chikage Awashima, Kuniko Miyake
Setsuko Hara has been promised an arranged marriage in post-war Japan, but too much in the world has changed for her not to challenge this tradition.... Read more