Great foreign films

[egomeister]

thebluebus said:

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

I wasn't sure about this when I bought it, but it was excellent!

Another I have really enjoyed is a French film called Tzameti 13. Worth reading as little as you can about it before you get it, as it really builds the suspense well when you don't know whats happening next.

[sato]

Waltz with Bahsir - Animated Beirut.
The Idiots - Danish film, very odd and highly contreversial.
Intacto - Had no idea where this was going.
Les Diabloques - Old school horror.
Harry. He's Here To Help - Really like this.
The Consequences Of Love - It this was n't Italian, it would probably be naff. But it is, so it is n't.

[NBTBRV8]

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Red Cliff
Detective Dee and the Mystry of the Phantom Flame

These are just three off the top of my head but I've seen quite a few good ones.

[Legend83]

Cheers for all the suggestions people!

I bought him The Chaser in the end - looks good.

[thebluebus]

Legend83 said:

Cheers for all the suggestions people!

I bought him The Chaser in the end - looks good.

[Peter101]

The Counterfeiters is a good film, we went to the cinema not realising it was in German with subtitles as thats not usually our thing. We said we would give it 15 minutes then leave if it was rubbish. Turned out to be one of the best films I have seen.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0813547/

[okgo]

City of God is always worth a watch

[sleep envy]

anonymous said:

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yep, me too

[sato]

anonymous said:

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Thats the one.
I knew absolutley nothing about it beforehand, so spent the entire film wondering if it was just just about to turn into some superhero action film! I'm glad to say it did n't.

[sato]

anonymous said:

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Have n't no. Will check it out, thanks.

[Mermaid]

okgo said:

City of God is always worth a watch

On right now on Sky HD

[sploosh]

Taxi / Taxi 2

[HeavySoul]

Angel-A

Purely for the cinematography if nothing else.

[Killer2005]

The Orphanage
Cronos
Old Boy

[DarrenL]

Top Gun. Its American, and great, and a film, therefore a great foreign film!

[Mojooo]

Literally just saw RUN LOLA RUN which was good.

[fluffnik]

Tampopo - food, sex and death; it's perfect.

[PimpmyHotwheels]

Goodbye Lenin

[Patrick Bateman]

Well I'll only watch well received foreign stuff (I'll assume we're talking about foreign language only as well) so here's a few I'd highly recommend-

REC
Battle Royale
The Host
The Secret in Their Eyes
City of God
Oldboy
Downfall
The Lives of Others
Infernal Affairs
Cell 211
Letters From Iwo Jima
Waltz with Bashir
The Orphanage

I doubt many of you have seen Cell 211 as it is quite recent but really fantastic. Here's the trailer with subs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbfadZUFrX4

Edited by Patrick Bateman on Saturday 4th December 12:49

[Mojooo]

Here are my highest rated foreign films on IMDB

M (german)
City of God (Brazil)
Ikiru (Jap)
The Good The Bad The Ugly (italian)
Amelie (french)
Rashomon (jap)
Sholay (indian)
Anand (indian, but a remake of Ikiru above)
Lives of others (german)
Irreversible (french
L'Appartmet (french)
Leon (french)
La Haine (french)
Metrolpolis (german)
Seven Samurai (jap)
Shaolin Soccer (china)
Three Colours: Blue (french but 3 part series)
Yojimbo (jap)
Battle Royal (jap)
Downfall (german)

Edited by Mojooo on Saturday 4th December 17:21

Edited by Mojooo on Saturday 4th December 17:21