Foreign Language Movies.

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I'm becoming more and more peeved by the junk coming out of the States and have thus started watching movies from other countries.There are some gems that I've seen lately such as:


The Lives of Others - Germany.
The Millenium Trilogy - Sweden.
Elite Squad - Brazil.
Pans Labyrinth - Mexico
Audition - Japan
IP Man - Hong Kong
A Separation - Iran
Goodbye Children - France.
Cinema Paradiso - Italy
Life is Beautiful - Italy
The Diving bell and the Butterfly - France
Open Your Eyes - Spain.

Do you guys watch them and if so which ones would you recommend.
:)
 
I'm becoming more and more peeved by the junk coming out of the States and have thus started watching movies from other countries.There are some gems that I've seen lately such as:


The Lives of Others - Germany.
The Millenium Trilogy - Sweden.
Elite Squad - Brazil.
Pans Labyrinth - Mexico
Audition - Japan
IP Man - Hong Kong
A Separation - Iran
Goodbye Children - France.
Cinema Paradiso - Italy
Life is Beautiful - Italy
The Diving bell and the Butterfly - France
Open Your Eyes - Spain.

Do you guys watch them and if so which ones would you recommend.
:)

Thanks for this - I will definitely have a look :D
 
I do tend to indulge in a good foreign flick from time to time and as you've said they are better than the generic crap.
 
millenium trilogy (girl with dragon tattoo etc)
amelie
city of god (cidade de deus)
persepolis
crouching tiger hidden dragon
seven samurai
 
Der Schuh des Manitu. :D

A german Western, bloody well done too! Prolly my favourite foreign piece, ever!
 
101 Reykjavík
36 Quai des Orfèvres (Department 36)
3 idiots
9 (by Ümit Ünal, 2002)
Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes)
All About Lily Chou-Chou (リリイ・シュシュのすべて Rirī Shushu no Subete)
All About My Mother (Spanish: Todo sobre mi madre)
A Man and a Woman (French: Un homme et une femme)
Amélie (Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain)
Amores perros (Love's a Bitch)
And God Created Woman (French: Et Dieu… créa la femme)
And your mum too (Y tu mamá también)
Aparajito (Bengali: অপরাজিত Ôporajito; English: The Unvanquished)
Apur Sansar (Bengali: অপুর সংসার Opur Shôngshar, yr. The World of Apu)
Atanarjuat (Inuktitut syllabics: ᐊᑕᓈᕐᔪᐊᑦ (fonts required)) (also known as Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner)
A Very Long Engagement (Un long dimanche de fiançailles)
Ben X
Bicycle Thieves (Italian: Ladri di biciclette)
Black Cat, White Cat (Црна мачка, бели мачор; Crna mačka, beli mačor)
Burnt Money (Plata quemada)
Caramel (Sukkar banat)
Carandiru (Carandiru Station)
Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso)
City of God (Cidade de Deus)
Dolls (ドールズ Dōruzu?)
Don't Move (Italian: Non ti muovere)
Downfall (Der Untergang)
El Topo (The Mole)
Eternity and a Day (Μια αιωνιότητα και μια μέρα, Mia aioniotita kai mia mera)
Fist of Fury (Chinese: 精武門; aka The Chinese Connection and The Iron Hand)
Good Bye, Lenin!
Grand Illusion (La grande illusion)
Grave of the Fireflies (火垂るの墓 Hotaru no Haka?)
Hero (英雄 英雄 Yīngxióng)
Himalaya, (Himalaya - l'enfance d'un chef, Caravan)
Hula Girls (フラガール Hura Gāru?)
Ichi the Killer (殺し屋1 Koroshiya Ichi?)
Il postino (The Postman)
Jean de Florette
Jesus of Montreal (Jésus de Montréal)
Ju-on: The Grudge (呪怨 Juon?)
Knafayim Shvurot (כנפיים שבורות / Broken Wings)
Koyaanisqatsi (Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance)
La chèvre (The Goat)
La Haine ('hatred')
Late Spring (晩春 Banshun?)
L'Auberge espagnole (Pot Luck or The Spanish Apartment)
La Vie en Rose (Môme, La)
Life is Beautifull (La Vita è bella)
Lilya 4-ever
Lovers of the Arctic Circle (Spanish: Los amantes del círculo polar)
Malèna
Man Bites Dog (C'est arrivé près de chez vous)
Manon des Sources (Manon of the Spring)
Maria Full of Grace (Spanish title: María llena eres de gracia, lit. "Maria, you are full of grace")
Marusa no onna (A Taxing Woman)
My Wife is an Actress (Ma Femme est une actrice)
Nikita
No Man's Land (Ničija Zemlja)
Oldboy (Hangul: 올드보이; RR: Oldeuboi; MR: Oldŭboi, the phonetic transliteration of "old boy")
Ostrov (Russian: Остров, The Island)
Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno, "The Faun's Labyrinth")
Paradise Now (الجنّة الآن)
Pather Panchali (Bengali: পথের পাঁচালী, Pôther Pãchali, [pɔt̪ʰer pãtʃali], English: Song of the Little Road)
Pixote (Pixote: A Lei do Mais Fraco)
Rain Fall (No good ratings but I liked it)
Ran (乱?, Japanese for "rebellion", "uprising" or "revolt", or to mean "disturbed" or "confused", 1985)
Rashomon (Rashômon)
REC ([●REC])
Renaissance
Ring (リング Ringu?)
Run Lola Run (Lola rennt)
Russian Dolls (Les Poupées russes) sequel to L'Auberge espagnole
Seven Samurai[1] (七人の侍 Shichinin no Samurai?)
Sholay (English: Ember)
Show Me Love (fscking Åmål)
Stealing Beauty (French: Beauté volée; Italian: Io ballo da sola)
The 400 Blows (Les quatre cents coups)
The Apu Trilogy, Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road), Aparajito (The Unvanquished) and Apur Sansar (The World of Apu) 1955-1959
The Baader Meinhof Complex (German: Der Baader Meinhof Komplex)
The Big Blue (Le Grand Bleu)
The Bothersome Man (Den brysomme mannen)
The Bridge (Un Pont entre deux rives)
The Celebration (Festen)
The City of Lost Children (French: La Cité des enfants perdus)
The Counterfeiters (German: Die Fälscher)
The Count of Monte Cristo (Le Comte de Monte Cristo) TV serial of 400min and the best version I have seen, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0167565/
The Decalogue ("Dekalog")
The Devil's Backbone (Spanish: El espinazo del diablo, literally The Backbone of the Devil)
The Double Life Of Veronique (La Double vie de Véronique)
The Dreamlife of Angels (La Vie rêvée des anges)
The Illusionist (L'Illusionniste)
The Lives of Others (German: Das Leben der Anderen)
The Man Without a Past (Mies vailla menneisyyttä)
The Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de motocicleta)
The Science of Sleep (La Science des rêves)
The Seventh Seal (Det sjunde inseglet)
The Son's Room (Italian: La stanza del figlio)
The Sword of Doom (大菩薩峠 Dai-bosatsu tōge?, "Boddhisattva Pass")
The Twilight Samurai or Tasogare Seibei (たそがれ清兵衛?, literally "Twilight Seibei")
The Widow of Saint-Pierre (French: La veuve de Saint-Pierre)
The Woman in the Dunes (砂の女 Suna no onna?, literally "Sand woman," also translated as The Woman of the Dunes)
Three Colors: Blue (French: Trois Couleurs: Bleu, Polish: Trzy kolory. Niebieski)
Three Colors: Red (French: Trois Couleurs : Rouge, Polish: Trzy kolory. Czerwony)
Three Colors: White (French: Trois Couleurs: Blanc, Polish: Trzy kolory. Biały)
Throne of Blood (蜘蛛巣城 Kumonosu-jō)
Tokyo Story (東京物語 Tōkyō Monogatari?)
Tous les matins du monde (English Translation: All the Mornings of the World)
Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog)
Ushpizin (Hebrew אושפיזין) (lit. "Sukkot guests", from Aramaic uspizin אושפיזין 'guests')
Volver
When Father Was Away on Business (Otac na službenom putu, Отац на службеном путу)
Yojimbo (用心棒 Yōjinbō?)
 
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No I have not watched all of the above movies yet but a fair amount of them anyway. I copied & pasted them from another forum where I started a similar thread and these have been the foreign suggestions that have come in over a period of a few years. If you check them out you will see most have a 7+ rating on imdb etc.

The older stuff is harder to find.

A good place to look out for fresh material are the foreign film festivals and see which movies got most of the accolades.

I would love it if dstv dedicated one channel just to foreign stuff.
 
...
Three Colors: Blue (French: Trois Couleurs: Bleu, Polish: Trzy kolory. Niebieski)
Three Colors: Red (French: Trois Couleurs : Rouge, Polish: Trzy kolory. Czerwony)
Three Colors: White (French: Trois Couleurs: Blanc, Polish: Trzy kolory. Biały)
...

Love these.
 
Here's a list of Movies I've watched and can recommend.I used to work in a video shop.
(Sorry for Doubles on Ponders List)

Amelie
Amores Perros
Angel A
Antonias Line
Apres Vous
Babettes Feast
Baise Moi
Bandit Queen
Betty Blue
Central Station
The Chorus
City of God
City of Lost Children
The Closet
Crime of Padre Amaro
Cronos
Das Boot
DayWatch/Nightwatch
Delicatessen
Devils Backbone
Downfall
Doberman
Earth/Fire/Water
Eat Drink Man Woman
Farinelli
French Twist
Girl Trilogy (Originals)
Goodbye Lenin
He Loves me He loves me not
Hidden
Heart of Glass
House of Flying Daggers
Il postino
Indochine
Infernal Affairs
Italian for Beginners
Jamon Jamon
Jean De Florette
Joy Division
Kagemusha
Kolya
La Dolce Vita
La Reine Margot
La Vie En Rose
Le Diner en Cons
L'Ennui
Life is Beautiful
Life is a Miracle
Like Water for Chocolate
Live Flesh
Lives of Others
Malena
Manon Des Sources
Maria Full of Grace
Mostly Martha
Namesake
Nikita
Old Boy
Open your Eyes (original Vanilla Sky also starring Penelope Cruz)
Ong Bak
Other Side of the Bed
Pans Labyrinth
Piano Teacher
Private Fears in Public Places
Road Home
Run Lola Run
Sea Inside
Seven Samurai
Talk to Her
Tell no One
Three Colours red/white/blue
Three Seasons
Triplets of Belleville
Twilight Samurai
Underground
Volver
The Willow Tree
Wings of Desire


Enjoy the Selection.
 
La Reine Margot- phenomenal.
Run Lola Run - watched it many times.
Seven Samurai - rather long but a must see.
Downfall - superb.
 
Sturgeon's Law. Not all that is subtitled is good. The good ones are already filtered from the s**t. Just saying.

I watched the Millenium trilogy last week in one night on Dstv. 3rd one was a bit convoluted but I still enjoyed it.
 
I've got these as well but yet to watch them.
Of Gods and Men.
Mesrine 1 and 2
Camille Claudel
The Rules of the Game
The Killer and Hard Boiled - dubbed.
Battle Royale.
13 Samurai
 
I'm becoming more and more peeved by the junk coming out of the States and have thus started watching movies from other countries.There are some gems that I've seen lately such as:


The Lives of Others - Germany.
The Millenium Trilogy - Sweden.
Elite Squad - Brazil.
Pans Labyrinth - Mexico
Audition - Japan
IP Man - Hong Kong
A Separation - Iran
Goodbye Children - France.
Cinema Paradiso - Italy
Life is Beautiful - Italy
The Diving bell and the Butterfly - France
Open Your Eyes - Spain.

Do you guys watch them and if so which ones would you recommend.
:)

Watched Cinema Paradiso recently - brilliant!

Another one I enjoyed immensely - As it is in Heaven (Swedish)
 
Anyone watch The Skin I Live In - great movie with a real wtf twist
 
Intouchables. French, but it can be overlooked for the story...:D
 
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