Foreign Films - Please Recommend

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Was wondering if anyone could recommend some good foreign films for me...
My favourite foreign movies are Funny Games, Run Lola Run, Pan's Labrynth, Goodbye Lenin and Rashamon.
I'm also about to watch Brotherhood Of The Wolf and The Edukators, so I'm looking for some other films besides those.

rudie-

you should watch amile, and seven samuri if you havent yet

Owen

I can recommend 3, 2 of which are cliché, but still great. Those two are Amelie, and Cinema Paradise. The third I watched recently is a Polish film called "Edi" or Eddie. A great story, and perfectly told.

Galvasean

I was about to recommend Brotherhood of the Wolf.
Why not try Ridicule, Belleville Rendevouz (sometimes called The Triplets of Belleville), OldBoy, Ichi the Killer, Audition, the Killers, Nikita, The Bear and Quest For Fire?

Fuzzy_Dunlop

City of God is a brilliant movie if you haven't seen it

MrBaseball

Sonatine

rahim

'Brick' is absolutely amazing in my opinion.
Also agree with the 'Ichi the Killer' (extreme but a good film) and 'Oldboy' (same but great) recomendations. If you like Oldboy, try 'Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance' and the third in that trilogy 'Lady Vengeance'. Very good films.

Auvers

Heres a few I love

Delicatessen
Nikita
City Of God
Oldboy
The Dinner Game
La Haine
Leben der Anderen, Das
Yojimbo
Downfall
Manon des Sources
Cyrano de Bergerac
Hopeaa Rajan Takaa

I might remember a few more later on

johnny_ultimate

Brick = English. Still worth many watches though.
Anyway here are some of the best:

Sympathy for Mr Vengance (over Oldboy IMO) - extremely well filmed slice of 'Asia Extreme'. Wonderful stuff.
Caché (Hidden) - from the director of Funny Games. Distrubing.
Audition - see film of the week a few weeks ago
Hani Bi, Kikujiro, Dolls - all from Takeshi Kitano, one of my new favourite directors
Studio Ghibli films, if you havent already. Best animé around.
Save the Green Planet - utterly loopers.
Together - quirky Swedish drama. Good if you like the works of Wes Anderson etc...
The Devil's Backbone - Del Toro's first fantasy Spanish Civil War flick. As good as Pan's.
Paris je taime - Not sure if this is still in the cinema, but a great collection of short films. Terrific entry from Tom Tyker (dir. of Run Lola Run)
Y Tu Mama Tambien - I loved this film. Fairly explicit but wonderful road movie from the excellent Alfonso Cauron.

And some classics: the 400 Blows, The Seventh Seal, Ran, The Seven Samurai (the latter two from Kurosawa - should like these if you watched Rashomon. Actually, must get around to watching that. w00t to public domain!)

rahim

johnny_ultimate wrote:

Brick = English. Still worth many watches though.

'Brick' is an Indie American film as far as I'm aware. That's foreign to me and judging by the Location of the OP it is to him too.
Also, I'm aware that by foreign the OP probably meant films not from Hollywood as we know it. I think 'Brick' deserves a mention under these circumstances.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Thanks everyone. This is exactly the response I was hoping for. I'm gonna check out most of those films asap.

Brick isn't a foreign film. It's a great film though.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

rahim wrote:

'Brick' is an Indie American film as far as I'm aware. That's foreign to me and judging by the Location of the OP it is to him too.
Also, I'm aware that by foreign the OP probably meant films not from Hollywood as we know it. I think 'Brick' deserves a mention under these circumstances.

Ok, I'll accept that definition.

Auvers

johnny_ultimate wrote:

The Devil's Backbone - Del Toro's first fantasy Spanish Civil War flick. As good as Pan's.

Oh nice, I definitely must check this one out.

Man eating cow

Battle Royale...

excellent movie

Maccattack

Schtonk


HIGHLY recommended. A german movie based on the hitler diaries. I love that movie.

nikolaitr

Brat (Brother) Russian Criminal Film
9 Rota (9th Platoon) Recent Russian Film on the Afghan Conflict
Kolya -Film about a Russian Boy growing up in Czech Rep with his father....as far as I know there is a Czech,Russian and Irish versiion but the Czech is considered the best
All quiet on the Western Front- Its in German as far as I can remember...very poignant war film
****ing Åmål - Swedish film about two girls growing in small town and them messing around with lesbianism
Voyna(war) Russian film, bit dramatic but showing how Chechnyan war was/is
Prisoner of the Caucauses(Cavcasnya Plenik) Russian film about the relationship between a captured Russian soldier and his chechen captor


I'm pretty sure all these films can be found at imdb.com

johnny_ultimate

rahim wrote:

'Brick' is an Indie American film as far as I'm aware. That's foreign to me and judging by the Location of the OP it is to him too.
Also, I'm aware that by foreign the OP probably meant films not from Hollywood as we know it. I think 'Brick' deserves a mention under these circumstances.

I suppose one can look at it this way, but I usually consider foreign as non-American. That's just me.
But anyway... check out Brick - it's great no matter the language

egan007

Crazy

Galvasean

When people say 'foreign' I assume they mean foreign language. Otherwise practically every film worth seeing is foreign (other than the handfull of good irish films).

Hagakure_irl

Last life in the Universe. Or Ruang rak noi nid mahasan

is_that_so

A few more.
Nóz w wodzie(Knife in the Water) Original version of Dead Calm, Polanski film.
The Tin Drum
El Espíritu de la colmena( Spirit of the Beehive)
Also if you can get your hands on the Spanish mini-series of El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes with Fernando Rey. A lot of fun.

rahim

johnny_ultimate wrote:

But anyway... check out Brick - it's great no matter the language

Agreed.

Karl Hungus

Some great films being suggested already, so I'll just throw in Das Experiment, which is from the same director as The Downfall. Definetly worth a look.

Cake Fiend

Abre los Ojos
Das Boot
Nightwatch
Juhong geulshi / The Scarlet Letter
Letters from Iwo Jima (Hollywood, but a foreign language)

Zaph

I'm surprised the Three Colours (Blue, White, Red) trilogy hasn't been mentioned yet. Excellent films.

I haven't seen it yet, but I hear Tsotsi is very good too.

calex71

been mentioned already but ill throw me weight behind "la haine" and "city of god" also 2 of my all time favorites. Irreversible was a great french movie (great maybe the wrong word considering the subject matter - not a happy movie at all) very well acted.

Someone else mentioned "nightwatch" excellcent special effects, i enjoyed the sequal more though.

Also i really liked the "death note" movies based on the anime series.

Others that come to mind ..... amores perros, anatomie, antibodies, the ordeal, battle in heaven, oh and i have to mention the infernal affairs trilogy much better than the departed (which was the american remake of it)
bittersweet life , tale of two sisters.

I started looking at my dvd collection as i'm typing so this could go on all day but has made me realise how many movies i want to watch again

Kintarō Hattori

Personal favourites of mine would be:

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Il Postino
Once Were Warriors
Audition
Run Lola Run
Amelie
Goodbye Lenin
Jean de Florette
Manon des Sources
Battle Royale
Pan's Labyrinth
The Devil's Backbone
Life Is Beautiful
Hard Boiled
Das Boot
Y Tu Mama Tambien

Wacker

Le Salarie de la Peur (I don't speak French, apologiesif that is totally wrong.) Better known as the Wages of Fear. Some seriously intense tension contained within.

biko

Together is a brilliant film!

Check out The Green Butchers

Galvasean

johnny_ultimate wrote:

But anyway... check out Brick - it's great no matter the language

*strongly disagrees* Of course this debate has been had before.

jackdaw

Hagakure_irl wrote:

Last life in the Universe. Or Ruang rak noi nid mahasan

anyone recommend good Japanese films that aren't ASIA EXTREME ?