foreign thrillers

M cebee

just watched the swedish dragon tattoo trilogy-awesome and only stumbled across them by chance

any more out there of a similar genre?

thanks

spacecoyote

Not exactly in the same vein but you could try the Korean vengeance trilogy:

Sympathy for Mr Vengeance
Old Boy
Lady Vengeance

The stories aren't linked to each other but all are quite dark thriller movies

Technocentral

M cebee wrote: »

just watched the swedish dragon tattoo trilogy-awesome and only stumbled across them by chance

any more out there of a similar genre?

thanks

Tons of French thrillers, Mesrine and A Prophet being 2 great recent examples.

Edit: And from every other country on earth too of course.

M cebee

thanks

i saw 'a prophet'

Tusky

As mentioned above, if you haven't seen Oldboy yet that should be your first port of call!

Also check out La Haine, Infernal Affairs (Departed is a remake of this), Mesirin and Hidden. Also the Danish TV series 'The Killing'.

brian_t

Tusky wrote: »

Also the Danish TV series 'The Killing'.

If you like this you may want to catch Borgen which starts on BBC4 tomorrow (Saturday).

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/nothing-like-a-dane-new-thriller-borgen-centres-on-a-trailblazing-female-politician-6285065.html

M cebee

ok thanks for the replies

i'll take a look

Padraig Mor

Just watched 'Transsiberian' last night which I recorded from BBC4 the other night. Was actually excellent! UK/US principal cast but very much a 'foreign' production. Best described as Strangers on a Train meets Fargo (without the humour).

Links234

french film 'tell no one' is really good!

it's not quite the same as the girl with the dragon tattoo, but kinda similar in a lot of ways. an old crime, a cover up, and a bit of a conspiracy. so you should like it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryMVzQsTmZY

tim_holsters

^^ The above is a superb thriller! Watch it OP and you'll enjoy it so much you'll tell everyone.

M cebee

thanks i'll check out all these

the only downside of great tv/film is trying to match it after

i'll take a look at 'tell no one' first if possible

The Pontiac

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cNd1OIp808

losthorizon

I like Hitchcock so two of my favourite foreign language films are Hitchcock in tone. One is Korean - "Mother" with fantastic visuals and a certain Asian oddness that you dont find in the west.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPcijFQ4PpU

and also Le Boucher a French thriller by Claude Chabrol (who died recently) who produced a string of quality films.

Links234

Mother is brilliant

Typhoon.

Incendies is an excellent film..... jaw dropping :eek:

Paddy Samurai

Mr 73
I got a copy of it recently and thought it was a good movie.Well worth watching.Daniel Auteuil is a great actor.

A washed-up Marseilles cop (Auteuil) earns a chance at redemption by protecting a woman from the man who killed her parents as he is about to be released from prison

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mr_73/

36
Another good movie I seen a few years back.

Leo Vrinks (Auteuil) and Denis Klein (Depardieu) are at the head of two different departments of the Paris police force, located at Quai des Orfevres. Once close, they are no longer friends, mainly due to their differing work methods and Vrinks' wife, Camille.

An audacious gang of robbers stage seven armed robberies throughout Paris leaving a bloody trail in their wake. After a year of terror, the Chief of Police orders that Vrinks and Klein bring the criminals to justice with a substantial boon to the man who brings them in... His job. As the competition between the two men hots up, the lines between right and wrong become blurred. Both men find themselves sinking into a hellish place not far removed from that of the criminals

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390808/

M cebee

watched tell no one
i thought it was good but not outstanding

wouldn't blow me away at any rate

OldeCinemaSoz

LA BALANCE is a great french cop thriller if you're up for that.
it features the gorgeous nathalie baye which helps alot!

tim_holsters

M cebee wrote: »

watched tell no one
i thought it was good but not outstanding

wouldn't blow me away at any rate

I know I shouldn't be but I'm always surprised when somebody watches this film and then doesn't enthuse about it.

OldeCinemaSoz wrote: »

LA BALANCE is a great french cop thriller if you're up for that.
it features the gorgeous nathalie baye which helps alot!

I really disliked La Balance. I thought it was a French derivative of a made for TV American cop film. Granted Nathalie Baye is easy on the eye though.

Tindie

I am planning on seeing Cold Fish (2010) this weekend.

Buddinplant

The skin I live in

Martyrs

I saw the Devil

Das Experiment

Confessions

all good movies, some including myself will say great, only the tip thats out there. I will watch the originals with subtitles, rather then hope someone makes a carbon copy of it just so its in english. Noomi Rapace is Lisbeth Salander in my eyes

MisterAnarchy

Tattoo ,German film similar to Seven is a cracking thriller.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qiViZHhhhA

kraggy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3_iLOp6IhM

Absolutely brilliant.

losthorizon

tim_holsters wrote: »

I really disliked La Balance. I thought it was a French derivative of a made for TV American cop film. Granted Nathalie Baye is easy on the eye though.

Might be because the Director was American. Cant remember his name but Bayes love interest in the film (the crook) died a few years later from a drugs overdose.