Foreign Films

[figsfiggyfigs]

Which are some of your favourite foreign films?

By foreign: any movie whose main language is not English.

 

[chickpea]

y tu mama tambien, volver, city of god, talk to her, bad education, amelie, amores perros, the discreet charm of the bourgoise

 

[FigerPuppet]

The Classic

I cried like I was a woman going through menopause. I felt so emasculated.

 

[Qlip]

The Legend of Drunken Master

 

[figsfiggyfigs]

The Legend of Drunken Master

I adore that movie. Anything with Jackie Chan really. He gets the green light on anything he makes, no matter how crappy.

 

[Beargryllz]

 

[Beorn]

I don't even like horror films typically, but this was the most recent foreign film I really liked.

It should have won an oscar.
Stupid swedes nominating the wrong film.

 

[Qlip]

I adore that movie. Anything with Jackie Chan really. He gets the green light on anything he makes, no matter how crappy.

Right on.. I was going to put up Rumble in the Bronx to be a smartass, couldn't pass up repping my favorite Jackie movie.

Also: Amelie, Umbrellas of Cherborg, The Labrynth of the Faun, all those Zhang Yimou movies that got released for English Speaking audiences (Hero, Curse of the Golden Flower, etc), Akira Kurasawa flicks.

 

[Nicodemus]

- La battaglia di Algeri (1966)
- Play Time (1967)
- Fanny och Alexander (1982)

 

[entropie]

 

[Nicodemus]

... seriously?

 

[entropie]

Yea that whole movie was my youth, I am living next to Essen and D&W

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[Anew Leaf]

Pan's Labyrinth

After the Wedding - Danish film of quiet amazingness... Hollywood is doing an American version that is sure to botch it all up.

 

[EffEmDoubleyou]

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Au Revoir Les Enfants
Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
Wings of Desire
Nosferatu
Ran
Cinema Paradiso
Persepolis
The Host

 

[Glycerine]

Europa Europa
Hero

 

[Mae]

There's a list, but I can't remember them all off the top of my head. Several have already been mentioned in previous posts. The most recent ones I've seen are Ip Man (1 and 2).

 

[MacGuffin]

Cheating by using the English titles:

La Dolce Vita
Seven Samurai
High and Low
Throne of Blood
Hard Boiled
The Seventh Seal
Bicycle Thief
Wild Strawberries
Infernal Affairs
Oldboy
City of God
Pan's Labyrinth
In the Mood for Love

Probably more if I could think better...

 

[Thunderbringer]

Amelie, Coco Before Chanel, Curse of the Golden Flower, Eat Drink Man Woman, With a Friend Like Harry, Pan's Labyrinth

 

[Southern Kross]

Oooh, good thread topic

Amelie
The Seventh Seal
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The Red Violin
Les Diaboliques
Three Colours: Blue
Old Boy
The Lives of Others
Pan's Labyrinth
Life is Beautiful
M
Seven Samurai
Princess Mononoke
Y tu Mamá También
A Very Long Engagement
Fanny and Alexander
Walk on Water
C.R.A.Z.Y.
Downfall
All About my Mother
My Neighbor Totoro
City of God

I'd better stop there before I go on and on...

 

[Octarine]

In no particular order:

The Lives of Others
Solaris
Lives of others
Amelie
Amores Perros
Three Colors Trilogy
Life is Beautiful
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Bicycle Thief
Delicatessen
The Quiet Family (Choyonghan kajok)

Actually, there are a whole bunch of foreign films on my list (pile) of films to watch, so more could be added in future.