Great foreign films

[Legend83]

To go with the Zombie / Horror film in the other thread, I want to get said mate a top foreign film.

Any recommendations? Thinking along the lines of Mesrine or A Prophet.

[thebluebus]

Korean film The Chaser is a phenomenal thriller. Really very good.

There's lots of extreme foreign horror too - you could combine gifts and save a couple of quid.

[Legend83]

thebluebus said:

Korean film The Chaser is a phenomenal thriller. Really very good.

Cheers - that looks really good!

Will stick with the plan as it becoming tradition that we buy each other one excellent film and one dodgy / ;alternative' film.

For instance, last birtday I got The Machinist and I Know Who Killed Me, with a startling performance from Linsay Lohan .

[andy_s]

Prophet, will have to track that down and have a look.

[lauda]

La Haine is very good. I've heard it described as a French Trainspotting which maybe isn't a million miles from the truth but it doesn't have the humour of Trainspotting and is therefore more bleak. Great film though.

[thebluebus]

I love a good Korean film tbh.

I saw The Good The Bad & The Weird recently, which was extraordinary. A Korean Western set in Manchuria.

I really can't wait to see I Saw The Devil, another Korean thriller which has apparently caused some furore at home because of its extreme brutality.

[PaulHogan]

Diva

[onomatopoeia]

anonymous said:

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Indeed, can't go far wrong with anything with Kieslowski's name on it (or Juliette Binoche) for that matter.

How about Let the right one in (Swedish vampire film).

[Legend83]

onomatopoeia said:

How about Let the right one in (Swedish vampire film).

Seen that - cracking film.

Thanks for the suggestions so far!

[Ozmira]

lauda said:

La Haine is very good. I've heard it described as a French Trainspotting which maybe isn't a million miles from the truth but it doesn't have the humour of Trainspotting and is therefore more bleak. Great film though.

+1 for this, I saw this in 97' in a little indi cinema and loved it. Quiet moody in b&w.

[Ozmira]

lauda said:

La Haine is very good. I've heard it described as a French Trainspotting which maybe isn't a million miles from the truth but it doesn't have the humour of Trainspotting and is therefore more bleak. Great film though.

+1 for this, I saw this in 97' in a little indi cinema and loved it. Quiet moody in b&w.

[SwanJack]

Pan's Labyrinth.

[gjf]

Downfall
not only a great foreign film but a great film per se.

[Eric Mc]

Das Boot

[StevieBee]

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days - gritty but compelling Romanian film (and very, very close to the truth)

Betty Blue

Taxi (the original one!)

[Sprouts]

A Short Film About Killing, very sad.
Amelie, just fantastic, and the best soundrack ever !

And some Tinto Brass films too.

[ewenm]

Delicatessen - post-apocalyptic French.

Of course, for the car-lovers there's the Taxi series

[ritmo]

36
A winters tale
Mesrine
Other peoples lives
Jean de Florette & Manon des Sources

[B Huey]

Battle Royale.

[Sprouts]

Mon Oncle, Play Time, Jour de Fete, Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot, Trafic.