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Must see foreign films
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The Wave (Die Welle, 2006) - No, not that one about a tsunami. This is the German one. Makes you realize how easily a dictortorship could rise again.
A Prophet (Un prophète, 2009) - This one is longer than it needed to be, but it's a fantastic crime drama.
The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen, 2006) - It's been a while since I watched this, but it's a great political drama.
A Prophet (Un prophète, 2009) - This one is longer than it needed to be, but it's a fantastic crime drama.
The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen, 2006) - It's been a while since I watched this, but it's a great political drama.
GifGafIsTheBestGaf
Member
man on high heels Seung-won Cha is a fucking badass
fluffydelusions
Member
I just saw Mother last night (only film of his I haven't seen)...shit is fucked up
Search function didn't catch Jagten mention in this thread. It's really haunting.
Edit: Ah, it has been mentioned several times with the English title. Still, great film.
Really happy to see a thread like this in Gaf, great contrast to all that usual comic/geek stuff. Keep up the recommendations!
Edit: Ah, it has been mentioned several times with the English title. Still, great film.
Really happy to see a thread like this in Gaf, great contrast to all that usual comic/geek stuff. Keep up the recommendations!
GifGafIsTheBestGaf
Member
going by the book really cool cop comedy movie
hobblygobbly
Member
I am German so it will be weird to post German films even if it is not in English. However since people have mentioned many German films but not "Good Bye Lenin!" yet... go watch that.
I will reiterate some that have been mentioned already, they are must-see and my favorite films.
Amélie (French)
Delicatessen (French) - Also by Jean-Pierre Jeunet who did Amélie.
Stalker (Russian)
The Return (Russian)
The Seventh Seal (Swedish)
Oldboy (Korean)
Pan's Labyrinth (Spanish)
Both The Seventh Seal and Stalker have my favourite imagery in film ever.
I will reiterate some that have been mentioned already, they are must-see and my favorite films.
Amélie (French)
Delicatessen (French) - Also by Jean-Pierre Jeunet who did Amélie.
Stalker (Russian)
The Return (Russian)
The Seventh Seal (Swedish)
Oldboy (Korean)
Pan's Labyrinth (Spanish)
Both The Seventh Seal and Stalker have my favourite imagery in film ever.
Psychoward
Banned
Truman (2015)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3754940/reference
Don't let the bad poster on IMDb fool you, it's a really heartfelt movie about friendship between middle-aged men, and also a dog. I won't spoil the main premise.
Puck Beaverton
Banned
I assume and hope someone already mentioned Wong Kar-Wai, so I'll go with the wonderful Korean director Kim Ki-Duk, who helped me get into Buddhism.
I dare you to dislike 3-Iron
I dare you to dislike 3-Iron
Fried Food
Banned
anyone say Stalker yet? They did. Wong Kar Wai, they did.
lightskintwin
Banned
no
What's wrong? It already made a killing internationally and the original will always exist.
I plan on watching it before seeing the remake.
Plus I'm curious how true The Independent's review of it is, "a third-rate buddy movie that hardly understands its own condescension....Why has the world flipped for this movie? Maybe it's the fantasy it spins on racial/social/cultural mores, much as Driving Miss Daisy did 20-odd years ago uptight rich white employer learns to love through black employee's life-force. That was set in the segregationist America of the 1940s. What's this film's excuse?"
LOL
Puck Beaverton
Banned
like I got time to read through a whole thread
I don't trust any of you to mention the classics
Last Life in the Universe is my favorite film of all time. I highly recommend it to all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu1auTtJxlo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu1auTtJxlo
Puck Beaverton
Banned
I appreciate the climax involves diarrhea
It's ironic, because the film is incredibly beautiful in so many ways.
purseowner
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Saddened at only one mention of Love Exposure.
Sion Sono is the god of cinema.
Also this is a bizarre idea for a thread - different films are 'foreign' to different people unless you're adopting a rather America-centric view of the world.
Could just call the thread 'best films', given that.
Sion Sono is the god of cinema.
Also this is a bizarre idea for a thread - different films are 'foreign' to different people unless you're adopting a rather America-centric view of the world.
Could just call the thread 'best films', given that.
lightskintwin
Banned
My God.
This is an American centric board.
Everybody knows what people mean when we're talking about foreign films.
Haven't seen Wages of Fear (I'll try to remedy that myself soon too), but Sorcerer is easily one of my absolute favorite movies. I'm really not convinced the original will match it for me, but hey, who knows!
Chuck Norris
Banned
Incendies is incredible. I believe a mix of Arabic and French covering an unnamed conflict which is obviously meant to be the Lebanese Civil War
TimeEffect
Member
Winter Sleep
City of God
The Salesman
A Separation
City of God
The Salesman
A Separation
purseowner
Member
No, this is an English language board.
The English speaking population of the world =/= America.
And OP specifically requested non-English films. You can take issue with the use of the term "foreign," but there's nothing wrong with the actual premise of the thread.
Fallen Angels is probably the best movie ever made, so that's probably the most important one for anyone to watch.
Flowers of Shanghai
Stranger by the Lake
The Turin Horse
Platform
Suzhou River
Blind Mountain (still probably the most depressing movie I've ever seen, highly recommend it)
man I don't know, I probably really love more foreign films than domestic.
Yeah I've been to the criterion website too
Flowers of Shanghai
Stranger by the Lake
The Turin Horse
Platform
Suzhou River
Blind Mountain (still probably the most depressing movie I've ever seen, highly recommend it)
man I don't know, I probably really love more foreign films than domestic.
Yeah I've been to the criterion website too
Grow up.
Fitzcarraldo
Simon of the Desert
Holy Mountain
Solaris
Stalker
The Mirror
Aguirre The Wrath of God
Heart of Glass
Rashomon
Seventh Seal
Persona
Seven Samurai
Santa Sangre
El Topo
Breathless
Sonatine
Dogtooth
Vivre Sa Vie
M
Just a few but there's so many foreign films worth watching that this list is silly and worthless
Simon of the Desert
Holy Mountain
Solaris
Stalker
The Mirror
Aguirre The Wrath of God
Heart of Glass
Rashomon
Seventh Seal
Persona
Seven Samurai
Santa Sangre
El Topo
Breathless
Sonatine
Dogtooth
Vivre Sa Vie
M
Just a few but there's so many foreign films worth watching that this list is silly and worthless
forgeforsaken
Member
Something no one has mentioned yet A Town Called Panic This is a great very funny stop motion with a quirky sense of humor.
KraftyKrankins
Member
Might've been mentioned, not sure. It's maybe my 3rd or 4th favorite movie of all time. I believe I saw it mentioned here on GAF a few years ago. Put it on Netflix to check out the first 15 minutes and ended up watching all SIX HOURS of it. It's the story of an Italian family set against the political situation in the country from 1966 to 2003. Don't think I've been more surprised by a movie before. It was shot as a made for TV movie and later shown on a few theaters as a 2 parter. The amount of directorial skill shown on screen and the actors performances are astounding. Everyone here that's into cinema needs to see it.
Might've been mentioned, not sure. It's maybe my 3rd or 4th favorite movie of all time. I believe I saw it mentioned here on GAF a few years ago. Put it on Netflix to check out the first 15 minutes and ended up watching all SIX HOURS of it. It's the story of an Italian family set against the political situation in the country from 1966 to 2003. Don't think I've been more surprised by a movie before. It was shot as a made for TV movie and later shown on a few theaters as a 2 parter. The amount of directorial skill shown on screen and the actors performances are astounding. Everyone here that's into cinema needs to see it.
Yeah. Brilliant film. It played (in 2 parts) in an arthouse here for almost two years! In the end they had to stop because the film was scratched and breaking.