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)
Shikoku (1999)
5.6/10
Director: Shunichi Nagasaki
Starring: Chiaki Kuriyama, Yui Natsukawa, Michitaka Tsutsui, Toshie Negishi, Ren Osugi
One of Japan's most rural island provinces, Shikoku translates as 'Four Countries', though an alternate spelling can be read 'The Land of the Dead'.... Read more
Shopgirls: Series 1 (1999)
7.8/10
Director: Giorgio Capitani
Starring: Sabrina Ferilli, Nancy Brilli, Veronica Pivetti, Caterina Vertova, Anna Valle, E...
Six very different women work together in an elegant boutique in Rome in this quintessentially Italian soap opera. Through their daily struggles with... Read more
Shower (1999)
7.5/10
Director: Zhang Yang
Starring: Zhu Xu, Pu Cun Xin, Jiang Wu
This acclaimed drama from Zhang Yang is set in and around a Beijing bathhouse run by its elderly owner and his slow witted son. The proprietor's older... Read more
Since Otar Left (2003)
7.6/10
Director: Julie Bertuccelli
Starring: Ester Gorintin, Nino Khomassouridze, Dinara Droukarova
Three generations of women share a crowded apartment in the Georgian capital city of Tbilisi. Strong-willed, elderly matriarch Eka lives for letters a... Read more
Skate Kitchen (2018)
6.8/10
Director: Crystal Moselle
A teenaged skateboarder makes friends with a bunch of other skateboarding girls in New York City. Read more
Skies Of Lebanon (2020)
6.7/10
Starring: Alba Rohrwacher
In the 1950s, Alice leaves her Swiss homeland for Lebanon, a sunny and exuberant country where she enjoys the best years of her life. In the 1970s, ci... Read more
Sleepless Town (1998)
Director: Lee Chi Ngai
Starring: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Mirai Yamamoto, Kathy Chau, Long Sihung
A contraband dealer living in Kabukicho discovers there is danger lurking behind every corner when his untrusting exterior is slowly eroded by love, i... Read more
Small Change (1976)
7.8/10
Director: Francois Truffaut
Starring: Nicole Felix, Chantal Mercier, Jean-Francois Stevenin, Virginie Thevenet, Tania...
In the quaint French town of Thiers, the streets abound with the sound of children laughing and playing. Most are dealing with such straightforward is... Read more
Son of the Bride (2001)
7.9/10
Director: Juan Jose Campanella
Starring: Norma Aleandro, Hector Alterio, Ricardo Darin
After a middle-aged restaurateur suffers a heart attack, he takes stock of his life and re-examines his relationships with his bitter ex-wife, his est... Read more
Sonatine (1993)
7.6/10
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Starring: Aya Kokumai, Takeshi Kitano, Tetsu Watanabe
'Beat' Takeshi Kitano stars in this very original tale of the last days of a Tokyo gangster. Hard action combines brilliantly with haunting stillness. Read more