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Shaun
08-01-2011, 06:23 AM
List your favourite films where English is not the spoken language. Eeeasy as that.
German:
Good Bye, Lenin! - beautiful film.
Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others) - likewise. Tragic that the star of the movie died only a year after it was made.
Lola Rennt (Run, Lola, Run)
Gegen die Wand (Head-On) - we studied the films of Fatih Akin for A Level...I recommend all of them really. They tackle a lot of gritty subjects and whilst the films are somewhat uncomfortable viewing, they're powerful.
Metropolis - pioneering.
Spanish:
Y Tu Mama Tambien - drugs, beaches, sexual experimentation, roadtrips, teenagers - perfect revelry film that somehow manages to pluck poignancy out of the air by the end.
Glue - an Argentinean film about a sexually-confused teenager...it's got some great scenery, and it's...hot *blushes*
Volver - intense, gripping stuff and it really roped me in.
French:
Amelie - just...brilliant. Clever, funny, tragic, cute and...actually makes me consider living in rural France.
Multiple-language:
Babel - English, Spanish, Japanese, Arabic - great editing of 3 totally different moving stories
Angus
08-01-2011, 07:01 AM
Spanish:
everything by Guillermo del Toro, especially The Orphanage
Rec
German:
Das Boot
Metropolis
Japanese:
The Ring
The Grudge
Chinese:
The Eye
Indian:
Mother India
Multi-lingual: Babel
Jessica.
08-01-2011, 07:23 AM
Italian - Cinema Paradiso.
Swedish - Show me love, Let the right one in.
I know I like way more than that but I can't think. D:
EDIT:
French - L'Enfant
RtooDee2
08-01-2011, 10:35 AM
French
Le Femme Nikita
La Haine
Switchblade Romance
District 13
A Prophet
Belgium
Man bites Dog
German
Downfall
Portugese
City of God
Cantonese
The Killer
Hard Boiled
Spanish
Rec 1&2
Korean
Old Boy
Australian
Wolf Creek
InOne
08-01-2011, 10:37 AM
City Of God
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Pans Labyrinth
Ong Bak
BB_Eye
08-01-2011, 12:04 PM
By language
Spanish:
All About My Mother
Los Olvidados
French:
Jules et Jim
Breathless
Weekend
The Barbarian Invasions
Le Roi Danse
Hidden
The Triplets of Belleville
La Jetee
Three Colours Trilogy
Queen Margot
Italian:
Obsession
The Earth Trembles
The Conformist
Swedish:
The Seventh Seal
Scenes from a Marriage
Wallander (more a TV show, but the episodes are very movielike, similar to the Decalogue)
German:
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
Woyzeck
Polish:
The Decalogue
Japanese:
Tales of the Moon and Rain
Rashomon
Ran
Ring
Cantonese:
In the Mood for Love
Happy Together
Korean:
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
German
The Lives of Others
Downfall
Swedish
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Russian
Admiral
Assassin of the Tsar
Serbian
A Serbian Film
I'd like to start watching more foreign cinema actually, going to watch City of God tonight I think
Shaun
08-01-2011, 08:12 PM
forgot Wallander and City of God.
Fetch The Bolt Cutters
08-01-2011, 08:15 PM
idk where its from but let the right one in
Tom4784
09-01-2011, 03:08 AM
Battle Royale - It's one of my favourite films, I pretend it's sequel doesn't exist though.
Death Note & Death Note: The Last Name
Let The Right One In
Pan's Labyrinth
REC - I need to get around to seeing REC2.
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
I love foreign films, I wanna watch more though. The next ones I'll watch will probably be the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy.
REC, Der Untergang, El Orfanato, Irreversible, Audition, City of God, A Prophet, Martyrs.
Mac Hiavellian
09-01-2011, 04:49 PM
German:
Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) - really haunting
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974) - really sad
Lola Rennt (1998) - like a cool '90s videogame
The Edukators (2004) - a good teen movie
Head-On (2004) - pretty depressing and strong violence
French/Polish:
Trois Couleurs: Bleu (1993) - like a depressing Amélie
Japanese:
Ringu (1998) - better than the U.S. remake
Spanish:
Jamón, Jamón (1992) - just really funny
Y Tu Mamá También (2001) - teen movie
Grimnir
10-01-2011, 12:03 AM
most of my favourites are well known or been mentioned already
one that is lesser known is a norwegian film called a bothersome man (2006)
GypsyGoth
10-01-2011, 01:26 AM
The Motorcycle Diaries.
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Che: Parts 1 & 2.
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Fallen Angels.
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Three Colours.
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
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Run Lola Run.
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Cinema Paradiso.
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Let The Right One In.
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Vagabond.
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Pan's Labyrinth.
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Chungking Express.
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****ing Amal.
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City Of God.
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Niall
16-01-2011, 02:28 PM
Fave foreign language film?
Downfall, its in German:
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City Of God.
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Watched that one on friday, loved it, definitely one of the best I've seen
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