Recommend This: FOREIGN films

[Breaker deGodot]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064116/

Or, to be more accurate, every film that Sergio Leone ever made. (Yeah, all seven of them.)

 

[oktalist]

Orpheus (Orphee) (1949, French)
Stalker (1979, Russian)
The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) (2006, German)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Man som hatar kvinnor) (2009, Swedish)

 

[AndyFromMonday]

Spoiler

I saw the movie(I'm Romanian, DUH!)and it was pretty good. If you have money to burn then I suggest buying this one.

 

[Wrann]

The movie In Bruges its not foreign in the sense that it is black and white or not in English but it was not a major release in the U.S. and not a lot of people ever really saw it at least where I live.

 

[Zirat]

Pratically everything by Guillermo del Toro specifically Pans Labyrinth and The Devils Backbone.

Others I may recomend are The Lives of Others and Life is Beautiful both are wonderful and heartbreaking movies.

 

[Yeslek Ssomllur]

"Recycle" by the pang brothers. It's the closest thing to watching a Silent Hill movie I've ever done.
Far more so than the actual Silent Hill movie.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xa5ngy_recycle-trailer_shortfilms

 

[Escapefromwhatever]

Let The Right One In- This is how to make a vampire movie. Especially good if you were bullied a lot as a child.

Harakiri- The story of a ronin who's Lord is forced to commit Seppuku. Very entertaining, and yet also heavy on messages- kind of like The Dark Knight.

Pan's Labyrinth- Duh.

El Crimen Ferpecto- An excellent exercise in dark comedy. Very funny.

 

['Aredor]

El Orfanato
Nattevagten
I Kina Spiser de Hunde
Metropolis, of course

not going to name German ones, obviously, and the rest has been mentioned already

Pans' Labyrinth is the only foreign film I can think of that is pretty good.

pretty good? "the only" one, really? I wonder what you've seen?

'Antibodies' - the only good feature length movie to come from Germany in like the last twenty years.

Yeah, no, sure, it's way better than the Baader Meinhof Complex, or Downfall, or Nowhere in Africa, or the Lives of Others, or Run Lola Run, or the Experiment, or Deathmaker, or Beyond Silence, or Head-On, or even Anatomy. Mhm.

 

[dillirgaf]

I thought Pan's Labyrinth was good

 

[Mr. Mike]

No one's said it yet, and it's the one foreign film I've actually seen (and loved). The Wave, it's a German film about a teacher and his class who are doing this thing on autocracy, and... Argh I can't explain it, save me Wikipedia!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wave_(2008_film)

 

[Zannah]

'Antibodies' - the only good feature length movie to come from Germany in like the last twenty years.

Yeah, no, sure, it's way better than the Baader Meinhof Complex, or Downfall, or Nowhere in Africa, or the Lives of Others, or Run Lola Run, or the Experiment, or Deathmaker, or Beyond Silence, or Head-On, or even Anatomy. Mhm.

For the first half of the movies you name, I can indeed confirm the above statement - for the other half, would you be so kind as to offer their original titles?

 

[Vek]

No Das Boot? I'm shocked an appalled, sirs and madames.

Stalingrad, Joyeux Noel (about the 1914 Christmas Truce in WWI), The Emperor and the Assassin, and since I'm an American and they're technically foreign films, the James Bond movies.

I'll have to dig through my collection of foreign titles and look up some more.

 

[SkullCap]

Sergio Leone's Man with No Name trilogy.

Half the actors speak in English and are American, this is true, but the director is Italian and all these films were filmed in Italy. Hilarious dubbing abound, so be warned.

These were the movies (Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly) that put Clint Eastwood on the map, and they're freaking awesome to boot. Also having to do with Mr. Leone is Once Upon a Time in the West. If you have a problem with Westerns, watch these movies. Problem solved.

Funny how you should mention "THE MAN WITH NO NAME" trilogy.

"The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" is my all-time favorite movie. The characters are deeply developed; hundreds of memorable lines and moments; and the music is superb. It deserved more awards than it received. I can't believe I forgot the trilogy were foreign films. Great recommendation to those who haven't seen them.

 

[darkknight9]

Right, recommendations!


[HEADING=2]The Killer[/HEADING]

Perhaps the single greatest action film ever made (Besides Aliens of course), this Hong Kong epic is most definitely the best film by John Woo, better even than Hard Boiled. It follows the assassin Ah Jong (played by Chow Yun Fat) as he does one final job to pay for the surgeries of a girl he accidentally blinded on a hit. It also follows the policeman who tracks him, who discovers that they aren't so different after all.

It's pure action porn, from start to finish, in glorious slo mo. To get an idea of just how over the top the action sequences are, here's one of the many in this film.


If you love action films, you NEED to see this.

That's it for now. Nice thread.

This and Hardboiled... along with the Seven Samurai should be required viewing for all.

 

[Jonny49]

Oldboy
Sympathy for Mr Vengeance
I'm A Cyborg (But that's OK)
The Host
Hard Boiled
R-Point
Martyrs
Casshern
La Haine
City of God
Man Bites Dog
REC
Akira

...plenty more I'm sure.

 

[tehroc]

Let The Right One In, a more proper vampire romance.

 

[DuplicateValue]

You forgot Amores Perros.
XD

I've never seen it, any good?

 

[NoseDigger]

DOWNFALL, or Der Untergang.
Also, Assembly

It's a Chinese film based in the Chinese civil war. It's brutal and pretty damn moving and it seems to be on DVD for like £4 in every Morrisons and Tesco, so you have no excuse not to see it

Well, that's one. Another that I would say is Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai) from 1954. Fairly slow, but it was pretty cool to see how life was for them. Not sure if it was mentioned, but also Das Boot. Once Upon a Time In the West is also a great film. If it's really considered foreign film, I don't know. Does have an Italian director though.

 

[esperandote]

Billy Elliot
The Tiger and the Snow
El angel exterminador
Los olvidados
Dois perdidos numa noite suja
Madeinusa

 

[sammyfreak]

Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (also known as just Amélie)

A beautiful and quirky film about an introverted girl learning how to deal with other people. Part of it's greatness (beyond the extreme charm of Audrey Tautou) is that it really feels explicitly and unapologetically French in the best way possible.

Goodbye Lenin

A film about the fall of communism in the most important way possible: how it affected the people living under it. Set in Berlin during the fall of the Wall it gives a genuine depiction of the changes in society and how confused it left many of the East Germans. The mother (an enthusiastic communist) in the family it's about falls into a coma just before the wall falls and when she wakes up her family needs to hide the changes from her.

Lilja 4 Ever

Taking place in a nondescript post-soviet country it's about Lilja who is abandoned by her mother and ends up in Sweden doing forced prostitution. The movie is probably the most emotionally shattering experiences I have had with any piece of art.