Recommend This: FOREIGN films
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- Malena
- Novecento (1900)
- City of God
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That's just off the top of my head, I might add more later.
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- Innocent Voices
- Hero
- Novecento (1900)
- City of God
- Let the Right One In
- Ils
- Y Tu Mama Tambien
- Respiro
- Au Revoir Les Enfants
- Pelle the Conqueror
That's just off the top of my head, I might add more later.
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- Innocent Voices
- Hero
Also this, it's brilliant.Aerowaves said:
I would suggest, the host (it's weird but very well made) and Dellamorte Dellamore (released in America as "Cemetery Man"in the case of Dellamorte Dellamore, I learned to NEVER judge a movie based on a simple tivo description, it sounded like a cheesy zombie flick but turned out to be a crazy perception bending movie where the viewer loses touch with the reality of the movie's world.
Ah Yojombo and lets not forget its sequal, Sanjuro.
Yeah there are plenty of foreign films that are awsome but don't get the time of day becasue there subtitled.
My personal pics:
Oldboy: man is imprisoned for 15 years for no reason and when released he seeks revenge
Run Lola Run: Girl has 20mins to figure out a way to come up with $30,000 or her boyfriend dies
City of Lost Children: Ron Pearlman stars in an amazing dark sci-fi flick about a mad scientist that is kidnapping children and a circus strong man who teams up with a child pic pocket to save his little brother.
Anegla: small time crook saves a woman who tries to kill her self and it turns out she's a gaurdian angel.
Battle Royale: A class of high school students are abducted by the military and forced to fight to the death. (you should have heard of this one)
Attack the gas station: A group of south korean punks decided to knock over a gas station and it turns into a halarious series of events (one of the few foreign movies that had me rolling with laughter)
Yeah there are plenty of foreign films that are awsome but don't get the time of day becasue there subtitled.
My personal pics:
Oldboy: man is imprisoned for 15 years for no reason and when released he seeks revenge
Run Lola Run: Girl has 20mins to figure out a way to come up with $30,000 or her boyfriend dies
City of Lost Children: Ron Pearlman stars in an amazing dark sci-fi flick about a mad scientist that is kidnapping children and a circus strong man who teams up with a child pic pocket to save his little brother.
Anegla: small time crook saves a woman who tries to kill her self and it turns out she's a gaurdian angel.
Battle Royale: A class of high school students are abducted by the military and forced to fight to the death. (you should have heard of this one)
Attack the gas station: A group of south korean punks decided to knock over a gas station and it turns into a halarious series of events (one of the few foreign movies that had me rolling with laughter)
Any one of Kurosawa's more famous samurai movies could be recommended, but Yojimbo is probably the best one to watch, if you haven't seen other Kurosawa flicks. Mifune's character not only influenced the Man With No Name, Sergio Leone's Fistful of Dollars is actually a remake of this film. So if you liked Fistful, watch it. If you haven't seen Fistful, watch it, then watch this. Both films are great.
After Yojimbo, I'd heartily recommend another Kurosawa classic, Rashomon [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042876/]. It really is the kind of movie you won't see in today's Hollywood. It's ten years older than Yojimbo, which shows in it being less influenced by western cinema, when compared to Yojimbo.
The plot is quite simple. A bandit kills a samurai in order to get down with the samurai's wife. This crime is then told through the eyes of the bandit, the woman, and other people, each telling the same story, but they never quite add up, as people tend to saturate their stories, intentionally or not.
It features some Japan weirdness, especially at the end, but it's a great movie, and stands out for being different, yet not pretentious, nor intentionally weird.
After Yojimbo, I'd heartily recommend another Kurosawa classic, Rashomon [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042876/]. It really is the kind of movie you won't see in today's Hollywood. It's ten years older than Yojimbo, which shows in it being less influenced by western cinema, when compared to Yojimbo.
The plot is quite simple. A bandit kills a samurai in order to get down with the samurai's wife. This crime is then told through the eyes of the bandit, the woman, and other people, each telling the same story, but they never quite add up, as people tend to saturate their stories, intentionally or not.
It features some Japan weirdness, especially at the end, but it's a great movie, and stands out for being different, yet not pretentious, nor intentionally weird.
Actually, I got very annoyed with Nightwatch. It just felt so...Terrible. Generally, it felt tacky and contained one of the very few scenes I've actually laughed at how bad it was done (the subway train scene where the main guy ends up screaming while holding a torch). Although that's just personal opinion and I'm sure there is plenty of people like you who loved it. I just didn't like it at all.Cpt_Oblivious said:
Anyway, off the top of my head, Battle Royale is the only foreign film that springs to mind as good. Then again, I don't really watch much foreign films.
Seven Samurai hasn't been mentioned, except in passing by the OP, which is shameful. Not only is it one of the best foreign films out there, it is one of, if not the best film of all time. In my opinion, at least. Other than that, some good wuxia is never a bad thing. Hero and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon are particularly recommended.
I got Oldboy on DVD recently; I need to get round to watching it soon.FargoDog said:
DOWNFALL, or Der Untergang.
It's a German film about Hitler's last days in his bunker surrounded by his closest followers, and the other people who happen to be trapped there with him, as the Russian Army moves through Berlin and closes in on them.
It's so much more than that though, and it's fucking brilliant.
Also, Assembly
It's a Chinese film based in the Chinese civil war. It's brutal and pretty damn moving and it seems to be on DVD for like £4 in every Morrisons and Tesco, so you have no excuse not to see it
It's a German film about Hitler's last days in his bunker surrounded by his closest followers, and the other people who happen to be trapped there with him, as the Russian Army moves through Berlin and closes in on them.
It's so much more than that though, and it's fucking brilliant.
Also, Assembly
It's a Chinese film based in the Chinese civil war. It's brutal and pretty damn moving and it seems to be on DVD for like £4 in every Morrisons and Tesco, so you have no excuse not to see it
My favorite Foreign Language Film is 2008's Okuribito (Departures), it also happens to be one of my top five films of all time (Domestic and Foreign).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtdENmR6jKw
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtdENmR6jKw
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I'd probably recommend either Black, a Dutch WWII flick and then Tropa de Elite, a Brazilian action film about a special ops team raiding favelas and its affect on the people.
I'll say Ladron que Roba a Ladron "How to Steal from a Thief."
Excellent Mexican heist comedy, it's better than the similar "Ocean's 11,"by:
A televangelist/drugdealer/conman villain,
A hot chica,
And a thief mastermind with a greasy ponytail... "wait, what?"
Excellent Mexican heist comedy, it's better than the similar "Ocean's 11,"by:
A televangelist/drugdealer/conman villain,
A hot chica,
And a thief mastermind with a greasy ponytail... "wait, what?"
Seems interesting, but mainly because i want to see how the film portrays the Chinese nationalists. Funnily enough, i watched another Chinese foregin film recently, Mulan. It was an alright film...it had all the standard "war" stuff in it, but failed to stand out in an kind of way. Also, i should say that Der Untergang was a brilliant film, very well done. Das Boot was also epic.Wadders said:Also, Assembly
It's a Chinese film based in the Chinese civil war. It's brutal and pretty damn moving and it seems to be on DVD for like £4 in every Morrisons and Tesco, so you have no excuse not to see it
I've heard quite a bit about Nightwatch and Daywatch...they are mostly mixed opinions...so i don't know if i should watch these films or not.
Definitely Pan's Labyrinth. I can't really explain it too much without giving it away. It's basically about a family living in Spain just after the Spanish Civil War. It focuses on the young daughter and her escapism from reality.