Recommend This: FOREIGN films

[Blue_vision]

I'm way too lazy to read all the other comments, but here are some of my favourites:

My Name is Khan, Paint it Saffron and Kites being some of my favorite "modern" Bollywood films, probably with Asoka taking 2nd place. The first 3 were just amazing emotional experiences, while Asoka for some reason makes me think of it as a Hindi version of Gladiator.

Another foreign film that was AMAZING was Bus 174, a Brazilian documentary about a bus hijacking. Amazing cinematography combined with a really moving topic made it astounding, and possibly the best part for your average joe is that I don't think subtitles would get in the way of it's meaning or good-ness at all (only guessing because I speak portuguese.)

Oldboy too, duh.

 

[Con Carne]

Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman, Perfume (an acquired taste), Run Lola Run

 

[More Fun To Compute]

El Topo. Brilliantly odd film about a gunfighter searching for enemies and enlightenment. Essential viewing.

The Seventh Seal. That black and film about a knight who plays chess with death that everyone really should watch at some point or another.

Delicatessen. Black comedy about an unemployed clown trying to avoid being eaten by cannibals.

XXY. Saw this was on the BBC the other week. Impressive film about a young intersex person.

 

[m.zajac]

Red Cliff

 

[octafish]

Ok, some good suggestions there...
I'll add some that haven't been mentioned as far as I can see.

Hana Bi (It's Beat Takeshi's best, that makes it one of the best films ever made.)

Delicatessen (Forget Amelie or even City of Lost Children this is the one to see.) **OK ninja'ed on this one, but still worth mentioning**

Cyclo (The very very mean streets of Saigon.)

The White Ribbon (This is just, wow, timeless.)

Rififi (This is the heist movie)

Le Samurai, À bout de souffle (Breathless), and Alphaville (See it is cool to be French)

Branded to Kill (I love this film, I love Jo Shishido, I love his chipmunk cheek implants, I love the strangeness of the editing, mostly I love the smell of cooking rice)

 

[Not-here-anymore]

Let the Right One in by Thomas Alfredson. Swedish, and one of my favourite films ever, never mind solely foreign films.

I believe an American remake is coming out very soon? Hopefully it can live up to its Swedish predecessor.

NO! We do not mention that abomination. The trailer is terrible, and they've taken everything that was dark and interesting about the film out of it.

I haven't seen the trailers yet - youtube time!

EDIT: It doesn't look that bad - assuming that the music over the trailer is just because people expect music to a trailer. It ruined the mood somewhat. It all kind of depends what they do with Hakan, really. But it looks like all the bits about Oskar being a repressed psychopath are being kept in, which is a little surprising.

 

[Rebellious_Gate]

Infernal Affairs is fantastic. It was remade by Scorsese into The Departed but the original is millions better IMO.

Also Amelie. Just cuz I love it

 

[King Crab]

Torrente http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120868/ (all three films)
-- the opening to torrente 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlG3mZxL0hM&feature=related

all three torrente films are great, but don't translate too well outside of spanish, unfortunately.

City Hunter - with Jackie Chan. I just love the manga, and the film is a pretty good live action.
-- street fighter scene http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA_ATLFxIA4 probably one of the greatest action sequences ever . . . yeah.

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp -- based on a short joke comic strip, a great film with a great moustache. Made during WWII in London and, well, just a great movie. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036112/

Don't really know where you could get them these days . . . . and I don't think torrente has been subbed. oh well, still good movies.

 

[Neurotoxin]

The Experiment (2001) is a good movie. It's based off of the Stanford Prison Experiment where there are 20 participants and they are split into Guards and Prisoners.

 

[monstersquad]

going with the initial post recommendation, I'll have to bring up Sanjuro. It also stars Toshiro Mifune, who is one of my favorite actors of all time( I have a huge hetero-mancrush on him). Sanjuro is the sequel to Yojimbo, and it's way more violent.

In terms of new movies, I'll have to go with Fulltime Killers, aka Number One Assassin. It's an Andy Lau movie, and at the end there's a huge showdown where they recreate Metal Slug in real life!!

 

[octafish]

*snippers* KUNG FU HUSTLE!

Damn forgot that one. I also forgot Cronos, Del Toro's vampire film.

 

[-Samurai-]

Crows Zero 1 and 2. If you like fighting films(realistic(ish) fighting), and you like foreign films, you'll love these two. I say realistic-ish because the amount of damage they take while continuing to fight is kinda unrealistic. The series is based off a manga.

The first movie is about a kid that transfers to the toughest school in town to conquer it by fighting and defeating all the other people. A feat that has never been performed in the schools entire history. They form groups and forge alliances. Some betray others. It all ends in a huge battle for the school.

I can't find the trailer for the first movie with English dubs, but both movies are subbed.​

In the second movie, a non-aggression pact with another tough school is broken and the two schools must go to war. All the while, they're still trying to conquer the school.

 

[VanityGirl]

The Vengeance Trilogy by Park Chan Wook. Korean films and absolutely stunning, if a little strange by western standards.

i agree but you might want to name them.

1) Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

2) Oldboy

3) Lady Vengeance

I LOVE Lady Vengeance. My friend and I watched it. It was very interesting.

 

[silentsentinel]

Watch Departures. It's a quiet Japanese film about an funeral-home worker. No action, no special effects, just a bit of quiet drama. Now don't get me wrong, I like big0budget action films just as much as the next guy, but sometimes you gotta go for something nice and introspective.

 

[gamefreakbsp]

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.

This movie is fascinatingly engaging and I absolutely recommend it to everyone here. Good stuff suggesting it first.

 

[Tanto-chan]

I have to say I really liked "Let the Right One in", "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", "Moon Child", and "Kagen no Tsuki"(aka Last Quarter). Other than that I liked the live action "Death Note" movies a lot.

 

[superbatranger]

Damn it, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Hard Boiled, and Pan's Labyrinth have already been mentioned. But, I got one no one has mentioned. Bajo la Misma Luna. I saw it when it came out, and damn it, parts of it made me cry and feel good at the same time. By the way, it's not drama, action, or horror. But, man, it's good.