Foreign Films- Do you like them?

[madlilnerd]

When I say foreign films, I mean any film that wasn't originally aired in English.
I personally love foreign films. I think that they're a lot more original and gripping than Hollywood movies, and they're a great way to pick up other languages. Here's a list of ones I've seen recently and loved:

Amelie- starring Audrey Tatu, it's about a french girl who decides to dedicate her life to helping people, and ends up falling in love. It's very quirky, unique and funny

He loves me, He loves me not- also with Audrey as the main character, but told from two different sides of the story- told by a girl who's fallen madly in love with a man and refuses to believe that he doesn't love her, and then re-told from the point of view of the man. The ending is absolutely priceless.

The Nest- a french movie about the police transportation of a terrorist leader which goes very very wrong. Action packed and excellent!

So, what foreign films do you like?

[Solitary Poet]

Of course! Jean-Pierre Jeunet is one of the best French directors of all time! He did �The City of Lost Children� (La Cit� des enfants perdus), �Delicatessen�, �Am�lie� and even �ALIEN: Resurrection�! Now Jean-Pierre Jeunet is making �Life of Pi� onto a movie (I can�t wait)!

[Kilgore]

I think we (Denmark) have produced / made some very entertaining movies.

I can't remember exact names I like the old Louis DeFunes movies. Germany also make great movies and have super actors. The old Akira Korusawa movies were great (The Hidden Fortress, Seven Samurai, Yojimbo etc.) not to mention Sergio Leones movies. I remember wishing I had seen the entire movie called Lagaan (an Indian movie about a cricket game)


And I seem to remember a beautyful Indian movie named Devdas

[madlilnerd]

Wild Zero
A japanese zombie movie starring the rock and roll band Guitar Wolf. Features many exploding heads and very little sense, but it was fun to watch.

[Lord Borg]

hmmm... I am under the assumption this movie works, while not really in a differnt language, it IS a french movie, and despite taking place in new york, few little of the movie was filmed in the USA.

L�ON (AKA: L�ON: The Professional, The Professional)
A 'Cleaner' takes a young girl (Natalie Portman) under his wing when her family is murdered by crooked DEA agents. She hires him to hunt down the murders and 'clean' them. (Kill them for those that don't catch what it means)
Directed by: Luc Bennson, Staring: Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, and Natalie Portman.

[IntrepidIsMe]

I like foreign fims a lot, with French ones being the best. So yeah, I liked Amelie and A Very Long Engagement with Audrey Tautou and Cache with Juliette Binoche.

[Sam Kenobi]

The Happiness of the Katakuris

My very favorite foreign film. Japanese, because they're crazy. It's kind of a mix between England's Shallow Grave and our own The Rocky Horror Picture Show with a crazy quirky Japanese twist, and it's hilarious. Seriously if you want a good laugh. It's meant to be a cult musical comedy. Mmm. Best ever.

A family in the mountains is trying to run a bed and breakfast for travellers in the mountains, but luck isn't with them as every customer they get (which is about 1 a week) dies the first night they stay there for various, purely coincidental reasons. Not knowing what else to do to be able to keep their business open, the family finds themselves forced to bury the bodies in the forest behind the B&B. But things go awry when the government decides to build a highway through the forest where the bodies are buried.

[Solitary Poet]

"The Happiness of the Katakuris" was a wicked-cool movie, I lived it!

[lionhead]

I like the Asterix and Obelix movies. french of course.


Also, Der Untergang. German movie about Hitlers bunker.

[madlilnerd]

[lionhead]

Das boot.... nah, nevermind. I didn't liek that. But could be a good choice. Actualyl there arem ore oreign movies that you might think of...

Actually, now that i think of it, American movies are foreign movies for me as well....

[5thhouse]

A good, but somewhat sad, movie from Spain is 'The Sea Inside' (and yes I love foreign films)

[Ziona]

A really good foreign film is The Triplets of Belleville. There's hardly ANY dialogue, which is good so you don't have to worry about knowing French. But it's a really spectacular film!

So is Todo Sobre Mi Madre but that ones a little harder to stomach.

[sixofthree]

Foriegn films are excellent depending on your research/taste.

I can recommend Takeshi Kitano from Japan, after his early Yakuza films, for those who like a bullet fest, he made the film Dolls, based on a traditional form of Japanese puppetry, cinematography in the film is brilliant, whilst the story is a little difficult to follow unless you read the synopsis first. He followed that film with the equally excellent Zatoichi which many of you may have heard of because of the references to Kill Bill. This film is funny and well filmed and I took it as a seperate entity to the Kill Bill pair, as whilst they are of a similar genre, they are completely different stories.

You can really relate to the central character. After a couple of viewings the comedy becomes more apparent.

Several years ago I came across Mohsen Makhmalbaf, an Iranian director whose film Kandahar was captivating in the way that he chose to protray Afghanistan.

This guy really knows how to frame a shot, I have investigated 2 other films of his and this "framing" along with his love of strong colours creates a wonderful companion to his "poetic" style to story telling.

Again I can strongly recommend his work, but suggest that you read the synopsis for the film first to unerstand the context with in which he "paints" his story.

[Sonic74205]

foreign films are excellent.

Maria Full of Grace

Battle Royal

House of Flying Daggers

Intital D

and ive also herd that the origional Japanese version of The Grudge is Far superior to the Sarah Michelle Gellar ones.

[borgslayer]

Amelie - I love Audreys acting.

Happenstance - Another of her film where she has bad luck throughout the film and meets a guy with the same situation.

The Cube - This stars Nicole DeBoer and it is a very interesting Canadian Film.

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[Tuvok8917]

I like Japanese Ghost movies, but i can't recall the names of any of them..

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[Sevenofninenz]

Whale Rider... It's not exactly foreign to me, but it is to you guys. I like it though

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