Non-American movie recommendations
- Thread starter twistedmic
- Start date
Recommended Videos
definately this:
http://gizmodo.com/5744805/the-only-sci+fi-movie-you-need-to-watch-for-the-rest-of-your-life
Bollywood terminator spoof is a yes.
http://gizmodo.com/5744805/the-only-sci+fi-movie-you-need-to-watch-for-the-rest-of-your-life
Bollywood terminator spoof is a yes.
Definitely these as well as a collection of shorts called Memories.CkretAznMan said:
Amelie, City of Lost Children, and Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et La Bete) are three must see French films. A Little Romance is another- a sweet film about a French boy and an American girl who fall in love.
Life is Beautiful (La Vita e Bella) is a fantabulous Italian Roberto Benigni film. Another all time fave Italian film: Cinema Paradiso.
Someone already mentioned Pan's Labyrinth. Awesome movie. Another Spanish film is The Orphanage. Very scary.
English films? Wow, so many. I'll just go with my all star Team Python: Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Life of Brian, Time Bandits, Brazil, and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
Here's one I picked in High School
Knockin' on Heaven's Door [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knockin'_on_Heaven's_Door_(film)/]
It basically plays out as a sort of 'bucket list' movie. Two terminally ill guys get drunk while in the terminal illness ward of a German hospital, decided 'fuck it' and go on a bit of a bender.
The comedy is pitch black but also sort of sweet. Eagle eyed viewers will also recognise Rutger Hauer and keep an eye for Til Schwigger (sp) who played Hugo Stiglitz in Inglorious Basterds.
Knockin' on Heaven's Door [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knockin'_on_Heaven's_Door_(film)/]
It basically plays out as a sort of 'bucket list' movie. Two terminally ill guys get drunk while in the terminal illness ward of a German hospital, decided 'fuck it' and go on a bit of a bender.
The comedy is pitch black but also sort of sweet. Eagle eyed viewers will also recognise Rutger Hauer and keep an eye for Til Schwigger (sp) who played Hugo Stiglitz in Inglorious Basterds.
For a foreign but still English language film, watch The Ghost Writer, a slow, brooding, intelligent political drama that perfectly captures the coldness and harsh qualilties of the setting it depicts right down to the very last frame.
If foreign-language films are more your game, Waltz with Bashir is a great choice. The art style is original and intergral to the film, and some of the scenes will stay in your mind long after the movie is over.
If foreign-language films are more your game, Waltz with Bashir is a great choice. The art style is original and intergral to the film, and some of the scenes will stay in your mind long after the movie is over.
And it's a true story? Coolio, I thought it was purely fictional.Sodoff said:
I would go so far as to say that Flame and Citron is one of the best movies I've ever seen, not just a great foreign film.
Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJnfNAEwQ8U
It ends on a huge downer though, that's the only thing I can criticize it for. Not really a valid criticism though.
Goodbye Lenin was a movie that I always thought interesting.
Hibernatus or just about any movie with Louis de Funès. He's not well-known in the US, I think, but in Europe he's called a genius of comedy.
Amici Miei by Monicelli is another one and it's good. Don't watch the sequels.
Hibernatus or just about any movie with Louis de Funès. He's not well-known in the US, I think, but in Europe he's called a genius of comedy.
Amici Miei by Monicelli is another one and it's good. Don't watch the sequels.
Cube is a great one. After watching it I had a few dreams about it xDDags90 said:
Pandemic is probably the only good one I know of. If memory serves me correct, and my brain juices are flowing well, then it was remade into a movie called quarantine. Oh there is also another one I have heard of, but haven't dared watch. It is called martyrs, it is a French piece that I think is on the cusp between massive torture flick to one-way viewing mirror to the 9th level of hell. If you or anyone else do decide to check out martyrs then please email me about it, I want to know if my suspicions are true or if they are the just the incoherent mutterings of someone who has scared themselves senseless.
Sorry I can't be of more use. I guess you could go to your closest DvD rental (We just call it a Video shop) and check out the foreign section, that is of course, if you have one. Alas your search for a decent foreign movie will probably be fruitless, you will most likely end up with a Japanese samurai/ninja film that could be called art but is more accurately absurd, unless of course, you like that sort of movie, if so then your search will bear much fruit.
Well that's what happened ;P If they changed the ending it woulden't be accurate. They were betrayed by that double crossing b****, Citron held out against the Nazis until they got to him and The Flame took a cyanide pill in his parent's basement.wouldyoukindly99 said:And it's a true story? Coolio, I thought it was purely fictional.Sodoff said:
I would go so far as to say that Flame and Citron is one of the best movies I've ever seen, not just a great foreign film.
Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJnfNAEwQ8U
It ends on a huge downer though, that's the only thing I can criticize it for. Not really a valid criticism though.
Come and See. The best movie ever created. It's a Russian film about the Byelorussian Partisans during WWII, it's haunting, disturbing, and amazingly beautiful. Also the German films Downfall and Stalingrad are excellent as well, but I tend to like WWII films that aren't about the Americans stomping on Nazi faces and being generally the end all badasses.
I suggest "Franklyn," a UK movie. 4 different storylines, one of them very out there. All in all a good watch. If Canadian works for you I suggest "Bon Cop Bad Cop." It's not "Canadian so it may as well be American," but uniquely Canadian. It's "Lethal Weapon" but instead of black cop and white partner it's anglophone cop and francophone partner.
Sukiyaki Western Django, Audition, and Visitor Q. Those 3 are pretty much everything you asked for, right there.
Definitely check out Pan's Labyrinth.Link_to_Future said:
Also, Let the Right One In. Showing us how to do a vampire movie the right way.
Hmmm, I'll try to limit this to absolute classics (in my mind) - though most have them have been mentioned I'll just reiterate.
Let the Right One In - a modern day vampire movie done like nothing you've seen before
Seven Samuri - Pretty much a necessity for anyone that seriously wants to enjoy film. You almost have to watch that movie three or four times just focusing on one element at a time - sound, cinematography, costumes, etc.
Spirited Away - I know you've probably seen this already but if you haven't, you know, duh. Best animated movie of all time easily. Most would agree. And you don't have to like anime, I certainly don't. The dubbed version is solid if you want to watch that.
Slightly lower tier that hasn't been mention yet:
Infernal Affairs - The original The Departed from Hong Kong. Think Jack Nicholson played his role well? He can't hold a candle to the Hong Kongian actor. Sorry, I can't be bothered to figure out his name exactly right now.
AND AUDITION BECAUSE THAT'S NOT A CUT 'EM UP GORE FEST!!!!?!?!?!?
oh wait. it totally is.
Let the Right One In - a modern day vampire movie done like nothing you've seen before
Seven Samuri - Pretty much a necessity for anyone that seriously wants to enjoy film. You almost have to watch that movie three or four times just focusing on one element at a time - sound, cinematography, costumes, etc.
Spirited Away - I know you've probably seen this already but if you haven't, you know, duh. Best animated movie of all time easily. Most would agree. And you don't have to like anime, I certainly don't. The dubbed version is solid if you want to watch that.
Slightly lower tier that hasn't been mention yet:
Infernal Affairs - The original The Departed from Hong Kong. Think Jack Nicholson played his role well? He can't hold a candle to the Hong Kongian actor. Sorry, I can't be bothered to figure out his name exactly right now.
AND AUDITION BECAUSE THAT'S NOT A CUT 'EM UP GORE FEST!!!!?!?!?!?
oh wait. it totally is.
Without A doubt the infernal affairs trilogy the first one is the movie the americans remade into the departed one of the few conversion jobs I liked a;though they did cut off the routes for both the original sequels to be remade(well I say sequels one was actually a prequel but it came later in the number progression so Nyah)
A french flick whos name I can never remember but roughly translates to welcome to the sticks about a postal worker who is caught out trying to claim disability to get a better position as his wife is terribly depressed but insteade get's sent to the north rumours of which bare close similarity to the worst ones of buck teethed inbred hillbilly america, and are just as exagerated he loves it there but his wife who hasn't gone with him thinks he is merely being brave for her sake so he concedes and lies about it being everything the rumours say which works until the wife finally works up the courage to come north and stand by her man.
British flick Death at a funeral have it at home still love it far superior to that stupid american remake
caught a good french one on sbs the other night called fanfan la tulipe it was interesting
cheap laughs at bad bmovies? go any of the old japanese godzilla films or similar
True horror without being all blood andf gore The japanese are your folks again I swear the original grudge is the effing scariest flick I have ever seen for mood lighting see it in a darkenned room with no outside distractions doesn't work so well midday but midnight...Jesus I have a cat and after seeing that boy I jumped everytime he meowed. The sequels were good as well
Don't get me started one anime although I usually go for series and am currently rewatching clannad and choking back a tear over the fuuko arc
Hope some of these will be of aid to you
A french flick whos name I can never remember but roughly translates to welcome to the sticks about a postal worker who is caught out trying to claim disability to get a better position as his wife is terribly depressed but insteade get's sent to the north rumours of which bare close similarity to the worst ones of buck teethed inbred hillbilly america, and are just as exagerated he loves it there but his wife who hasn't gone with him thinks he is merely being brave for her sake so he concedes and lies about it being everything the rumours say which works until the wife finally works up the courage to come north and stand by her man.
British flick Death at a funeral have it at home still love it far superior to that stupid american remake
caught a good french one on sbs the other night called fanfan la tulipe it was interesting
cheap laughs at bad bmovies? go any of the old japanese godzilla films or similar
True horror without being all blood andf gore The japanese are your folks again I swear the original grudge is the effing scariest flick I have ever seen for mood lighting see it in a darkenned room with no outside distractions doesn't work so well midday but midnight...Jesus I have a cat and after seeing that boy I jumped everytime he meowed. The sequels were good as well
Don't get me started one anime although I usually go for series and am currently rewatching clannad and choking back a tear over the fuuko arc
Hope some of these will be of aid to you