What is your favorite foreign (non-US) film?

[Squilookle]

I'm a pretty big film fan and I'm looking for something good from outside of the states.

If I were you, I'd really want to get rid of the word 'foreign' in your thread title. To label all media from outside the US as 'foreign' on the internet -an international medium- just makes you look really ignorant. You could avoid all that by not stating the thread title that way.

 

[Vault101]

Murels wedding..but thats hardly foregn to me since its Australain

Muriel's Wedding is my favourite movie too.

I saw parts of it when I was a kid, so I rememberes it to be a (more or less) light hearted comedie

I watchted years later there was some SERIOUS drama there I really didnt expect, which of coarse made it better

(never really did get what the deal with the mum was...)

 

[MrTub]

Let the Right One In.
[sup]Not to be confused with the butchered American remake 'Let Me In'.[/sup]​

I really should check that one out

have you seen the american version of "girl with the dragon tatoo"?

I havnt seen it...I am surprised they arnt setting it in america (are they? please god they arnt, right?)

The american version of The girl with dragon tattoo is placed in Sweden

 

[s0p0g]

ooh, favourite...
Der Schuh des Manitu (ger) - funny as,
Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (fr) - beautiful as can get, and
Ying xiong (Hero), although i cannot watch the latter in its orignal version due to insufficient (non existent) Mandarin - pure awesome

 

[Grey Day for Elcia]

No worries, I'm not the type to jump down someone's throat over differing opinions.

I see what you're saying; guess it just didn't bother me as much, even though it was an obvious misstep on the part of the re-makers

I'm just so harsh on it because I love the original so much.

Call me a fanboi

 

[Shoqiyqa]

"The Wave"

It's a movie about a German high school teacher who tries to convince his students that an autocracy is still possible in Germany. It's on direct watch on Netflix if you want to see it.

I've seen parts of it. It's rather scary, isn't it?

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
Based off an ancient TV show from 80s in the UK (and an original book?)

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinker,_Tailor,_Soldier,_Spy
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is a 1974 British spy novel by John le Carré, featuring George Smiley. Smiley is a middle-aged, taciturn, perspicacious intelligence ...

not sure if us but a bridge to far is an awesome war movie about operation market garden

A Bridge Too Far, a non-fiction book by Cornelius Ryan published in 1974, tells the story of Operation Market Garden, a failed Allied attempt to break through German lines at Arnhem across the river Rhine in the occupied Netherlands during World War II in September 1944.

A Bridge Too Far is a 1977 epic war film based on the 1974 book of the same name by Cornelius Ryan, adapted by William Goldman. It was produced by Joseph E. Levine and Richard P. Levine and directed by Richard Attenborough.

Regarding the Hollywood Depiction
When I interviewed Legs Johnson in the late 1990s, he commented on how he and Sgt Dohun were portrayed in 'A Bridge Too Far', the 1977 Hollywood version of Cornelius Ryan's book about Operation Market Garden.

I can't believe that they made another Mission: Impossible (the first one was boring enough) and with talk of another die hard (what is that like 8 now?) more and more sequels being announce and all the films i see ads for being nearly carbon copies of films i've seen or at least heard summaries of.

Have you seen that our Prime Minister wants the body that funds British film projects to concentrate on ones that are likely to be financial successes? In other words, no more daring, original, interesting ideas that may or may not work, just lots more M:I 7, Die Hard 6, Jurassic Park 13, 5ast 5urious and so on and so forth. Save the fifth-from-last dance for me.

 

[Da Orky Man]

Spirited Away.

I've seen that in the local video rental store. Worth a £2 rent?

 

[BiscuitTrouser]

Let the right one in. The original. Touching, creepy and it sticks with you. It sticks with you for a long time. Very surreal kinda experience. Very harsh and cold. This movie doesnt fuck around or play games. Its the brutal reality of reality with no ommissions made.

 

[Ekit]

Spirited Away.

I've seen that in the local video rental store. Worth a £2 rent?

If you like movies that are kind of abstract and more like a dream than a coherent narrative. Movies like 2001: A Space Oddysey, that are more about the experience than the story.

The animation is truly spectacular and it has a special, outer worldly feel to it.

It's difficult to explain what it's like, but I would recommend it because there really isn't anything quite like it out there.

 

[KILRbuny]

I'm a pretty big film fan and I'm looking for something good from outside of the states.

If I were you, I'd really want to get rid of the word 'foreign' in your thread title. To label all media from outside the US as 'foreign' on the internet -an international medium- just makes you look really ignorant. You could avoid all that by not stating the thread title that way.

I say that because TO ME, being from the United States, these films are foreign. If I were you, I would worry about yourself looking ignorant if you care that much about what other people think. I am more concerned with becoming less ignorant (as I know I am) than making a facade for people I've never met.

 

[Squilookle]

I'm a pretty big film fan and I'm looking for something good from outside of the states.

If I were you, I'd really want to get rid of the word 'foreign' in your thread title. To label all media from outside the US as 'foreign' on the internet -an international medium- just makes you look really ignorant. You could avoid all that by not stating the thread title that way.

I say that because TO ME, being from the United States, these films are foreign. If I were you, I would worry about yourself looking ignorant if you care that much about what other people think. I am more concerned with becoming less ignorant (as I know I am) than making a facade for people I've never met.

Dude- it was just a heads up- if you were only talking to people also from the 'States, then your title would make sense. Since this is an international community, it doesn't. If you were really concerned with being less ignorant, you'd do well to realise this. The only 'facade' going on here is you're branding all non-US films as 'foreign', but for every film you mention, a heap of escapists here wouldn't see it as a foreign film to them at all, because they're from that country.

I mean, I may as well start a thread saying 'what's your favourite awesome film' and then go on to say all awesome films have explosions in the OP. Surprise surprise, it becomes clear that my viewpoint is different from many, many other people, and the definition I used is wrong. Thus, ignorance.

 

[TipsyRam]

I was look through these and I might of missed it but I have to put these in here cause the movies are just awesome.

Night Watch
Day Watch