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)
The Big Hit (2020)
7.3/10
Director: Emmanuel Courcol
Starring: Kad Merad, Marina Hands, Laurent Stocker
Etienne, an often out of work but endearing actor, runs a theater workshop in a prison, where he brings together an unlikely troupe of prisoners to st... Read more
The Bird People In China (1998)
7.6/10
Director: Takashi Miike
Starring: Mako , Renji Ishibashi, Masahiro Motoki
Set in the beautiful Yunnan Province of China, a comically lyrical story of a Tokyo salaryman and a Yakuza debt collector on the trail of a lucrative... Read more
The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant (1973)
7.8/10
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Starring: Margit Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla, Irm Hermann
A lurid and stylized account of the mangled web of domination, sado-masochism and jealousy among three lesbians. One of Fassbinder's most controversia... Read more
The Blue Angel (1930)
7.8/10
Director: Josef Von Sternberg
Starring: Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron, Emil Jannings
Von Sternberg's classic study of sexual humiliation made Marlene Dietrich a star as Lola-Lola, the vulgar nightclub singer who brings the dignified un... Read more
The Blue Kite (1993)
7.7/10
Director: Tian Zhuangzhuang
Starring: Lu Liping, Zhang Wenyao, Pu Quanxin
This harrowing tale of a family's struggle to survive in revolutionary China is told from the perspective of a young boy, Tietou, who witnesses first... Read more
The Blue Umbrella (2005)
7.6/10
Director: Vishal Bharadwaj
Starring: Shriya Saran, Pankaj Kapur
Set in the idyllic region of Himachal Pradesh in India's northwest, this enchanting family film centres around Binya, a young girl who finds a blue um... Read more
The Boy And The Heron (2023)
7.4/10
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Starring: Ko Shibasaki, Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Mark Hamill, Robert Pattinson, Flore...
In the wake of his mother's death and his father's remarriage, a headstrong boy named Mahito ventures into a dreamlike world shared by both the living... Read more
The Boy And The Heron (Blu-ray) (2023)
7.4/10
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Starring: Ko Shibasaki, Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Mark Hamill, Robert Pattinson, Flore...
In the wake of his mother's death and his father's remarriage, a headstrong boy named Mahito ventures into a dreamlike world shared by both the living... Read more
The Brats (Les gamins) (2013)
6.1/10
Starring: Alain Chabat, Sandrine Kiberlain, Melanie Bernier, Arie Elmaleh
On getting engaged, Thomas meets his future father-in-law Gilbert, married for 30 years to Suzanne. Gilbert is disillusioned and feels like he missed... Read more
The Burmese Harp (1956)
8.1/10
Director: Kon Ichikawa
Starring: Shoji Yasui, Rentaro Mikuni, Naito Taketoshi
A moving anti-war drama about a wounded Japanese soldier in British custody during the last days of World War II. Sent out into the Burmese jungle to... Read more