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)
Summer with Monika (1952)
7.6/10
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: Harriet Andersson, Lars Ekborg
An early Ingmar Bergman-directed melodrama about a trusting, perplexed young storeroom clerk (Lars Ekborg), whose summer interlude with the aggressive... Read more
Suso's Tower (2007)
Director: Tom Fernandez
Starring: Javier Camara
Having moved to Argentina years earlier to seek a new life, Cundo is forced to return to his hometown in Northern Spain after the death of his childho... Read more
Swing (2002)
7.2/10
Director: Tony Gatlif
Starring: Oscar Copp, Lou Rech, Tchavolo Schmitt, Mandino Reinhardt
Max, a young boy on his summer holidays, finds himself drawn to the spellbinding guitar playing of Miraldo, a virtuoso of the guitar. This music becom... Read more
Sympathy For Lady Vengeance (2005)
Director: Chan-wook Park
Starring: Min-sik Choi, Yeong-ae Lee, Il-woo Nam, Byeong-ok Kim, Bu-seon Kim, Mi-ran Ra
The final instalment in Chan-wook Park's vengeance trilogy, after 'Sympathy for Mr Vengeance' and 'Old Boy', this follows the story of Guem-ja, impris... Read more
Szindbad (1971)
Director: Zoltan Huszarik
An old man is recollecting all the women he met in his youth. An old woman wants them to commit suicide together but changes her mind. The little town... Read more
Takeshis' (2005)
6.4/10
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Starring: Takeshi Kitano, Kotomi Kyono, Kayoko Kishimoto, Ren Osugi, Terajima Susumu, Tets...
Japanese film icon Beat Takeshi writes, directs, edits and stars as himself and his own doppelganger in this surreal, comic fantasy about a convenienc... Read more
Talk To Her (2002)
8/10
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Starring: Javier Camara, Dario Grandinetti, Leonor Watling, Rosario Flores, Geraldine Chap...
In this ravishing tale of romantic obsession, loneliness and friendship, director Pedro Almodovar crafts a life affirming story of two tragic women an... Read more
Tango (1998)
7.2/10
Director: Carlos Saura
Starring: Mia Maestro, Juan Carlos Copes, Cecilia Narova, Miguel Angel Sola
This beautifully crafted film from the director of "Carmen" and "Blood Wedding" tells of a middle-aged choreographer who is producing a film about tan... Read more
Tango (1993)
6.4/10
Director: Patrice Leconte
Starring: Philippe Noiret, Richard Bohringer, Miou-Miou
A wicked black comedy from the director of 'The Hairdresser's Husband', guaranteed to provoke and delight in equal measure about a man who got away wi... Read more
Tanguy (2001)
6.4/10
Director: Etienne Chatiliez
Starring: Sabine Azema, Andre Dussollier, Edith Guetz, Paul Guetz, Eric Berger
What do you do when your 28 year old son won't leave home? He leaves his washing on the floor, brings girls home all the time and treats the place lik... Read more