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)
Me You Them (2000)
7.1/10
Director: Andrucha Waddington
Starring: Regina Case, Lima Duarte
Based on a true story that comically depicts the relationships between an ordinary woman and her three husbands who live in the same house in a poor,... Read more
Medea (1970)
7.1/10
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Starring: Maria Callas, Guiseppe Gentile, Laurent Terzieff
Soprano Maria Callas stars in this dramatic, non-musical interpretation of Euripides' tragedy. 'Under Pasolini's direction, Callas becomes a fascinati... Read more
Mediterraneo (1992)
7.4/10
Director: Gabriele Salvatores
Starring: Claudio Bigagli, Diego Abatantuono, Ugo Conte
Winner of the 1991 Best Foreign Language Academy Award. A small, eight-man battalion is ordered to secure a strategically unimportant Greek island. Th... Read more
Men With Guns (1998)
7.6/10
Director: John Sayles
Starring: Federico Luppi, Damian Alcazar, Tania Cruz
From writer/director John Sayles comes this sobering and politically awakening film about a recently widowed doctor who returns to an unnamed Latin Am... Read more
Merci Pour Le Chocolat (2000)
6.7/10
Director: Claude Chabrol
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Anna Mouglalis, Rodolphe Pauly
Co-writer/director Claude Chabrol's taut thriller stars Isabelle Huppert as Mika, the villanous spider at the centre of an intricate and murderous web... Read more
Metro (2007)
5.5/10
Director: Anurag Basu
Starring: Shiney Ahuja, Shilpa Shetty, Dharmendra , Irfan Khan, Sharman Joshi, Konkona Sen...
AKA 'Life in a...Metro'. In the sprawling metropolis of Mumbai the lives of several people interconnect as they form relationships, have affairs and... Read more
Midaq Alley (1995)
7.5/10
Director: Jorge Fons
Starring: Salma Hayek, Maria Rojo, Ernesto Gomez Cruz
Aka 'Miracle Alley'. The winner of 45 International Film Awards, 'Midaq Alley' is set in the old downtown section of Mexico City and deals with all th... Read more
Millennium Actress (2001)
7.9/10
Director: Satoshi Kon
As an old movie studio is torn down, documentary filmmaker Genya tracks down its brightest star, Chiyoko Fujiwara, now an aging recluse. Together wit... Read more
Millennium Mambo (2001)
7/10
Director: Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Starring: Shu Qi, Jack Kao, Chun-hao Tuan, Yi-Hsuan Chen, Jun Takeuchi, Doze Niu
The first part of a planned series about life in modern Taipei, this intellectually challenging film begins with bar hostess Vicky (Shu Qi) imagining... Read more
Milou en Mai ( May Fools ) (1989)
7.2/10
Director: Louis Malle
Starring: Michel Piccoli, Miou-Miou, Dominique Blanc
An entertaining comedy of manners set against the backdrop of the 1968 student uprising in Paris, the film follows the Vieu-sacs as they converge on t... Read more