Recommend This: FOREIGN films
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Well, that's one. Another that I would say is Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai) from 1954. Fairly slow, but it was pretty cool to see how life was for them. Not sure if it was mentioned, but also Das Boot. Once Upon a Time In the West is also a great film. If it's really considered foreign film, I don't know. Does have an Italian director though.Wadders said:DOWNFALL, or Der Untergang.
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
Billy Elliot
The Tiger and the Snow
El angel exterminador
Los olvidados
Dois perdidos numa noite suja
Madeinusa
The Tiger and the Snow
El angel exterminador
Los olvidados
Dois perdidos numa noite suja
Madeinusa
Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (also known as just Amélie)
A beautiful and quirky film about an introverted girl learning how to deal with other people. Part of it's greatness (beyond the extreme charm of Audrey Tautou) is that it really feels explicitly and unapologetically French in the best way possible.
Goodbye Lenin
A film about the fall of communism in the most important way possible: how it affected the people living under it. Set in Berlin during the fall of the Wall it gives a genuine depiction of the changes in society and how confused it left many of the East Germans. The mother (an enthusiastic communist) in the family it's about falls into a coma just before the wall falls and when she wakes up her family needs to hide the changes from her.
Lilja 4 Ever
Taking place in a nondescript post-soviet country it's about Lilja who is abandoned by her mother and ends up in Sweden doing forced prostitution. The movie is probably the most emotionally shattering experiences I have had with any piece of art.
A beautiful and quirky film about an introverted girl learning how to deal with other people. Part of it's greatness (beyond the extreme charm of Audrey Tautou) is that it really feels explicitly and unapologetically French in the best way possible.
Goodbye Lenin
A film about the fall of communism in the most important way possible: how it affected the people living under it. Set in Berlin during the fall of the Wall it gives a genuine depiction of the changes in society and how confused it left many of the East Germans. The mother (an enthusiastic communist) in the family it's about falls into a coma just before the wall falls and when she wakes up her family needs to hide the changes from her.
Lilja 4 Ever
Taking place in a nondescript post-soviet country it's about Lilja who is abandoned by her mother and ends up in Sweden doing forced prostitution. The movie is probably the most emotionally shattering experiences I have had with any piece of art.
I'm having easy pick seeing anything in English is Foreign for me.
But I need to recommend all of you to watch, Tuntematon Sotilas (The Unknown Soldier) (1955 vers).
It is classic and shows annual on TV during Finlands Independence Day.
It talks about the front line heroes and soldier of the continuation war of Finland. I'm sure it is pain in the ass to find with English Sub's, like the Book is ( The Unknown Soldier by Väinö Linna ). But if you can get hold either of these you are in for a treat.
But I need to recommend all of you to watch, Tuntematon Sotilas (The Unknown Soldier) (1955 vers).
It is classic and shows annual on TV during Finlands Independence Day.
It talks about the front line heroes and soldier of the continuation war of Finland. I'm sure it is pain in the ass to find with English Sub's, like the Book is ( The Unknown Soldier by Väinö Linna ). But if you can get hold either of these you are in for a treat.
"Amores Perros" and "Y tu mamá también" are great, great movies. "Let the Right One In" and "Pan's Labyrinth" are also very good. "REC" if you like horror movies. ("REC 2", on the other hand, while also very scary wasn't as good as REC in my opinion.)
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Dekalog
Not for the faint of heart in terms of patience, but if you love film this is a brilliant Polish series about morality in an apartment complex. Runs about 9 hours over 10 different stories. Some are better than others, but much of that is subjective.
Well done sir, I'll add.sammyfreak said:
Dekalog
Not for the faint of heart in terms of patience, but if you love film this is a brilliant Polish series about morality in an apartment complex. Runs about 9 hours over 10 different stories. Some are better than others, but much of that is subjective.
We had to see that movie in school. I think I was about 13-14. Kind of weird, at that age...
Anyways, American movies would technically be 'foreign' for a good chunk of people here. If you mean movies in a language other than English, I would recommend:
The Orphanage, by a certain Guillermo del Toro, who also directed a lot of the other movies recommended here.
Taxidermia. A very, very strange Hungarian movie about three generations of men with strange fixations, and a look into their lives. The three stories are meant to parallel Hungary's history during the 20th century. A very intelligent movie. Also very, very disgusting. Watch at your own risk.
Tetsuo: The Iron Man and Tetsuo II: Body Hammer. Japanese 'body horror' movies about a person who starts to grow metallic tumours and mechanical growths all over, turning him into some sort of a human/engine/weapon hybrid. Very surrealistic cinema, recommended if you like strange movies.
Also, for a laugh, watch Pulgasari. North Korea's Godzilla. I believe it can be watched legally on Google Video.
Honestly? No-one has mentioned District 13 or Ong-Bak yet?
District 13 is a French action movie with lots of parkour, and it kicks ass! It's awesome!
And Ong-Bak is a muay-thai martial arts film from Thailand. This is one of the best martial arts films I have seen in ages.
These aren't just my favourite foreign films, but two of my favourite films. Watch these both in subs and you won't be dissapointed. (Although Ong-Bak's dub is hilariously bad)
EDIT: Good to see people recommending [REC], good film. I have yet to see the new [REC]2, which apparently takes place immediately after the first. Empire Magazine said watching the two back to back would be a seemless (and great) experience.
District 13 is a French action movie with lots of parkour, and it kicks ass! It's awesome!
And Ong-Bak is a muay-thai martial arts film from Thailand. This is one of the best martial arts films I have seen in ages.
These aren't just my favourite foreign films, but two of my favourite films. Watch these both in subs and you won't be dissapointed. (Although Ong-Bak's dub is hilariously bad)
EDIT: Good to see people recommending [REC], good film. I have yet to see the new [REC]2, which apparently takes place immediately after the first. Empire Magazine said watching the two back to back would be a seemless (and great) experience.
Y Tu Mama Tambien (can't put the accents...)
Great movie from Mexico, about two best friends "coming-of-age".
Plusit has a gratuitous amount of nudity I can watch without subtitles and it makes me feel closer to my cultural heritage (although I'm Ecuadorian, not Mexican....)
EDIT: Damn ninja'd
Great movie from Mexico, about two best friends "coming-of-age".
Plus
EDIT: Damn ninja'd
I believe an American remake is coming out very soon? Hopefully it can live up to its Swedish predecessor.FargoDog said:
OT: um... Let me look at my film drawer...
Nope, without cheating and claiming American films are foreign (they are to me), I'm done. I suppose I could probably come up with some obscure French comedies, but I can't remember the names of any of them. 'Jean de Florette' is quite good (although not a comedy, by any stretch of the imagination)
