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)
Godzilla vs Ebirah (1966)
Director: Jun Fukuda
Starring: Akira Takarada, Kumi Mizuno, Chotaro Togin, Hideo Sunazuka, Toru Watanabe
The island of Letchi is home to terrorist group, Red Bamboo, who have enslaved the local inhabitants and have big ideas about world domination. Guard... Read more
Godzilla vs Hedorah ( aka Godzilla vs the Smog Monster ) (1971)
6/10
Director: Yoshimitsu Banno
Starring: Akira Yamauchi, Hiroyuki Kawase, Toshie Kimura
A.k.a. "Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster". Pollution versus Pre-History! The Earth is being polluted by humans and still its inhabitants will not learn o... Read more
Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla II (1993)
6.6/10
Director: Takao Okawara
Starring: Masahiro Takashima, Megumi Odaka, Ryoko Sano
AKA 'Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla II'. In response to Japan's request for a countermeasure against Godzilla, UN engineers construct Mechagodzilla, a gia... Read more
Godzilla vs Megalon (1973)
4.5/10
Director: Jun Fukuda
Starring: Hiroyuki Kawase, Yutaka Hayashi, Robert Dunham, Kotaro Tomita
The undersea world of Seatopia is upset with the surface-dwellers because of nuclear tests being carried out in the Pacific. They send up the giant b... Read more
Godzilla vs Mothra (1964)
Director: Ishiro Honda
Starring: Akira Takarada, Yuriko Hoshi, Hiroshi Koizumi
'Mosura tai Gojira', probably the finest and best-loved by fans of the Godzilla series. Once again the tiny citizens of Tokyo tremble before the migh... Read more
Godzilla vs Spacegodzilla (1994)
5.9/10
Director: Kensho Yamashita
Starring: Megumi Odaka, Jun Hashizume, Zenkichi Yoneyama, Akira Emoto
Godzilla faces a new foe. And this one is a clone of himself, somehow accidentally formed in the outer reaches of the galaxy and returned to Earth in... Read more
Godzilla: All Monsters Attack (1969)
6.4/10
Director: Ishiro Honda
Starring: Tomonori Yazaki, Eisei Amamoto, Sachio Sakai, Kazuo Suzuki, Kenji Sahara
A bullied schoolboy dreams of befriending Godzilla's son, Manilla, on Monster Island. Through this ethereal relationship Ichiro sees Godzilla and Man... Read more
Godzilla: Final Wars (2004)
6.5/10
Director: Ryuhei Kitamura
Starring: Masahiro Matsuoka, Rei Kikukawa, Kazuki Kitamura, Don Frye, Akira Takarada
Godzilla's 50th birthday sees him travelling the globe as evil aliens have landed with evil alien thoughts. Only Godzilla and the Earth Defence Force... Read more
Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S (2003)
6.4/10
Director: Masaaki Tezuka
Starring: Noboru Kaneko, Miho Yoshioka
Mechagodzilla, the superior-armed, state-of-the-art, all-robot version of Godzilla, is undergoing repairs after his devastating battle against the wor... Read more
Gohatto (1999)
6.9/10
Director: Nagisa Oshima
Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Shinji Takeda, Tadanobu Asano, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Tomoroh Taguchi...
Master filmmaker Nagisa Oshima (In the Realm of the Senses) returns to the screen with this fascinatingly ambiguous tale of homoerotic desire and jeal... Read more