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)
Made in USA (1966)
6.8/10
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Starring: Marianne Faithfull, Anna Karina, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Laszlo Szabo
Set in the alternate-universe fictional location of Atlantic-Cite, with comic book-bright colours and playful sound effects, Jean-Luc Godard pays trib... Read more
Maigret (2022)
5.9/10
Starring: Gerard Depardieu, Melanie Bernier, Aurore Clement
In Paris, a young girl is found dead in a Parisian square, wearing an evening dress. Commissioner Maigret will try to identify her and then understand... Read more
Malena (2000)
7.5/10
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Starring: Monica Bellucci, Giuseppe Sulfaro
From Giuseppe Tornatore ("Cinema Paradiso") comes this sexy and sensitive coming-of-age saga set in 1940s Sicily, where 13 year old Renalto (Giuseppe... Read more
Mamma Roma (1962)
7.9/10
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Starring: Anna Magnani, Franco Citti, Ettoro Garofolo
Pier Paolo Pasolini's neo-realist masterpiece stars the great Anna Magnani ('Open City') as a middle-aged prostitute who saves money to buy an apartme... Read more
Man of Marble (1976)
7.9/10
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Starring: Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Krystyna Janda, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Jacek Lomnicki, Michal Ta...
Perhaps Andrzej Wajda's most important film, this documentary-style expose of Stalinist corruption paralleled attempts of the contemporary regime to c... Read more
Manual of Love ( Manuale d'amour) (2005)
Director: Giovanni Veronesi
Starring: Carlo Verdone, Luciana Littizzetto, Silvio Muccino
A box-office smash in Italy, this charming, bittersweet comedy is study of the mysterious nature of love. The ups and downs of relationships are chron... Read more
Marebito (2004)
6.1/10
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Starring: Shinya Tsukamoto, Tomomi Miyashita, Kazuhiro Nakahara, Miho Ninagawa, Shun Sugat...
A cameraman captures a suicide on tape and becomes obsessed with what the man saw just before his death. This leads him on a harrowing journey throug... Read more
Marie-Jo and Her Two Loves (2002)
Director: Robert Guediguian
Starring: Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gerard Meylan
On the old smugglers' trail, during a picnic, Marie-Jo presses the blade of a knife to her wrist. She is very much in love with Daniel, her husband, a... Read more
Marquise (1997)
6/10
Director: Vera Belmont
Starring: Sophie Marceau, Thierry Lhermitte, Lambert Wilson
A sprightly, lavish costume drama based on the fetching dancer-cum-thesp who dazzled Moliere, Racine and the Sun King himself before making a suitably... Read more
Marriage Italian Style (1964)
7.5/10
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Starring: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Puglisi
A prostitute has to use all her wits to get a client of long standing to take the plunge and marry her when he announces his forthcoming marriage to a... Read more