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)
Parineeta (2005)
7.3/10
Director: Pradeep Sarkar
Starring: Saif Ali Khan, Sanjay Dutt, Vidya Balan, Raima Sen
Set in the Calcutta of 1962 then known as 'the Paris of the East', this timeless love story is based on Saratchandra Chatterjee's 1924 novel. Little... Read more
Paris Vu Par... ( aka Six in Paris ) (1965)
5.7/10
Director: Claude Chabrol, Eric Rohmer, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Douchet, Jean Rouch, Jean-Daniel Pollet
Starring: Stephane Audran, Claude Chabrol, Jean-Pierre Andreani, Jean-Francois Chappey, Ba...
Six young guns from the French New Wave combined their talents for this entertaining and evocative anthology of shorts, set of course, in Paris. Jean... Read more
Paris, 13th District (2021)
7/10
Director: Jacques Audiard
Émilie meets Camille who is attracted to Nora, who crosses paths with Amber. Three girls and a boy - they're friends, sometimes lovers and often both. Read more
Paris, Je T'aime (2006)
7.3/10
Director: Alexander Payne, Alfonso Cuaron, Gurinder Chadha, Gus Van Sant, Joel Coen, Oliver Schmitz, Olivier Assayas, Tom Tykwer, Walter Salles, Wes Craven, Sylvain Chomet, etc , Gerard Depardieu
Starring: Leila Bekhti, Juliette Binoche, Steve Buscemi, Sergio Castellitto, Willem Dafoe,...
A grand anthology of love letters to the city of romance from a stunningly varied array of international directors from the Coen Brothers to Alfonso C... Read more
Pars Vite et Reviens Tard (Have Mercy On Us All) (Blu-ray) (2007)
5.6/10
Director: Regis Wargnier
Starring: Jose Garcia, Marie Gillain, Olivier Gourmet, Nicolas Cazale, Michel Serrault
A modern-day Parisian town crier gradually learns that someone is using him to give cryptic warnings of a plague outbreak in the city. Read more
Partner (2007)
5.7/10
Director: David Dhawan
Starring: Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif, Lara Dutta, Govinda
David Dhawan directs this entertaining Bollywood comedy about matchmaking gone mad. Love guru Prem (Salman Khan) likes nothing better than to help lon... Read more
Passing Fancy (1933)
7.2/10
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Two Tokyo co-workers come across a destitute young lady in search of a place to live. Read more
Passion (1982)
6.4/10
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Hanna Schygulla, Michel Piccoli
Godard takes the themes of love, work and the cinema, and weaves around them an extraordinary mix of sounds and images. The plot concerns a film direc... Read more
Pauline and Paulette (2001)
7/10
Director: Lieven Debrauwer
Starring: Dora Van Der Groen, Ann Petersen, Rosemarie Bergmans, Idwig Stephane
Mentally-challenged Pauline is obsessed with pretty flowers and her glamourous sister Paulette. When Martha, her caretaker sister, dies suddenly, Paul... Read more
Pauline at the Beach (1982)
7.5/10
Director: Eric Rohmer
Starring: Amanda Langlet, Arielle Dombasle, Feodor Atkine
Eric Rohmer explores the complicated and comical romantic and sexual entanglements of six people on summer holiday. The coincidences, misunderstanding... Read more