Movies from YOUR country

[blankedboy]

Boy.

Iz awesome.

 

[Snipermanic]

Best foreign films I've seen are either Max Manus (Norway) or the 2 Mesrine films (France)

each time my group of friends were the only people in the cinema other than 1 other person (not the same person each time) and we were just totally blown away by it, and the fact that my little backwater town has a cinema with waiters AND leather chairs AND a bar you can text for more drinks - brilliant.

 

[-Ulven-]

From my hometown in Norway, see a movie called "Nokas", it's about a robbery that kinda went wrong (got a policeman killed) and ended up in turning Stavanger into a miniature war zone for the day, and the film kinda shows what happened.

 

[Wicky_42]

Hot Fuzz, Four Lions, Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Layer Cake, Dog Soldiers, 28 Days and 28 Weeks, Girl With a Pearl Earing, Harry Potter, Descent, V for Vendetta, James Bond, Sunshine... man, Britain's got a pretty good list :3 Plus a load of assorted crap, heh.

Which James bond, theres been some pretty crappy ones too

Hah, well there's been plenty of them and they're all British. GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, World is Not Enough, Casino Royal and Quantum of Solace are ones I'd focus on personally.

 

[yizas]

From México Ahua !

We have

"La invención de Cronos" or simply "cronos" and "Pans labyrinth" both by guillermo del toro (pans labyrint is a spanish/mexican movie but still counts)

And "Y tu mama tambien" , i cant think of any other movies because i dont really watch a lot of mexican films and for that i am ashamed u.u, still drink lots of tequila tough

 

[Danik93]

Sweden got The Seventh Seal! we rule!

 

[likalaruku]

There's an awesome thriller movie from Spain called The Baby's Room & an actually good horror movie from Japan called Infection.

 

[AnAngryMoose]

We in my country have a television channel just for Irish-language TV, but there aren't really any full movies made in Irish, probably because of lack of funds. Strangely, from what I've seen, all the films on that channel are french films subtitled into English.

Here's the first half of a short Irish film, subtitled of course:
It's got one of the most disturbing endings of a film I've ever seen. The rest can be found on Youtube.

Have you ever seen The Dentist? It's an even more messed up Irish short film. My personal favourite is Yung Ming is Ainm Dom.

There's also a load of good Irish films that are in English; Michael Collins and The Buthcer Boy to name a couple

 

[Switchlurk]

The Australian film scence has enjoyed quite a few decent movies, especially this year with Animal Kingdom, Tommorow when the War Began and Bran Nue Dae. You also have the classics such as The Castle and Priscilla Queen of the Desert. It's worth noting that while pretty much all of the aformentioned films are distincly Australian, in both style and substance, thus making them the more "Australian" movies, big name Holywood stuff like Mad Max and Daybreakers were all made and shot here.

 

[teebeeohh]

Germany
we have a couple. most of them are set in the magical time between 1933 and 1945 wen everyone was the good guys but(and Japan and Italy and Hungary and Austria and well you get the picture)
to name one : The downfall(also has on of scenes most cannibalized on youtube)
oh and we have Metropolis

And "M" another Fritz Lang classic. And the little known 'Love is Colder Than Death'. It makes me wish I was German/could speak German just so I could watch it without subs. Good call on Metropolis one of the three greatest Sci-Fi movies of all time in my opinion. I am lookign forward to seeing the new extended/fuller version.

now that you mention it, something i forgot: EVERYTHING Fassbinder ever did. The guy is genius

 

[theriddlen]

I think that only good Polish movie is comedy "Kiler" (exact this name).

 

[Broady Brio]

Rock N' Rolla

It's a modern English gangster film. And one scene with running involved is pretty awesome.

 

[Sara Fontaine]

I'm english, and for my Film Studies A-Level we had to watch a "homegrown" film, and as such I was forced to sit through Morven Callar; quite possibly one of the most boring films I've ever seen and yet it somehow got recognition. It takes talent to play someone who doesn't seem quite all there that convincingly, but that's the only praise I have for it. I don't recommend it.

On the flip side, The Crying Game is quite good. It's a clever plot; you think it's a political story and then it suddenly becomes personal. Plus there is a "didn't-see-that-coming" moment in it, and it was quite funny watching the reactions of my fellow Film Studies students (particularly the guys.)

 

[fullbleed]

Not seen any Finnish films, seen Swedish films. I'll keep an eye out for Rare Exports, I've heard of it recently but I doubt it'll get shown near me at all.

I'm British so its easy to list off British films and film makers and stars ect. Danny Boyle, Ken Loach, Shane Meadows, Mike Leigh, Edgar Wright, Duncan Jones.

My favourite British film of all time? Children of Men. In my top 5 films of all time easily, I could gush about ti for hours. but I wont because I alway do that on here and I'm tired of it. Just... here's the opening scene.

 

[Diablo2000]

There is Elite Squad, City of God and I guess that Blindness can also be fit as a brazilian movie, since a good of the production is brazilian...

 

[Raziel_Likes_Souls]

Since I live in the of those mythical, diverse, multicultural melting pot of Canada, I'll just leave 2-ish movies here.
First, the Impossible Kid, from the Phillipines:
Next, Thank You For Smoking:

 

[Squilookle]

So I wanna know if you guys have had similar thoughts about your own countries and if there's a movie that you'd recommend.

Also, just out of curiosity, have you ever seen any Finnish films? If yes, did you like it?

Now that i think about it, didnt Finland make some pretty awesome WW2 movies? I think i have heard that somewhere...

The only movie I've seen that I knew was Finnish was Talvisota, about the Winter War (part of WW2) when the Russians invaded and the Finns completely annihilated them. Unfortunately it fell into the same trap most countries do when doing a war film on a budget. It focussed entirely on the men and didn't say anything about the overall strategy. In the end it was like a bunch of guys in a trench for 2 hours then being told to go home.

As an Aussie, all we really have to offer that's good is Mad Max and Wolf Creek.

Our movie industry has been in the dumps for years churning out film after film that are all the same- a depressing inner suburbs story about someone dealing with loss.

BUT, this year we made Beneath Hill 60, which I think is now one of my top five WW1 films of all time- depicting a kind of warfare I knew nothing about before- digging tunnels underneath the enemy's trenches to blow 'em up. And with the enemy doing it too, expect lots of counter/attack tunnels and tension.

So yeah. Highly recommend Beneath Hill 60