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Old 08-01-2011, 05:23 AM #1
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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
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Spanish:
everything by Guillermo del Toro, especially The Orphanage
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German:
Das Boot
Metropolis

Japanese:
The Ring
The Grudge

Chinese:
The Eye

Indian:
Mother India

Multi-lingual: Babel
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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.

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French - L'Enfant
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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
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Y Tu Mama Tambien
Pans Labyrinth
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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
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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
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idk where its from but let the right one in
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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.
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REC, Der Untergang, El Orfanato, Irreversible, Audition, City of God, A Prophet, Martyrs.
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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
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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)
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The Motorcycle Diaries.


Che: Parts 1 & 2.


Fallen Angels.


Three Colours.


Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.


Run Lola Run.


Cinema Paradiso.


Let The Right One In.


Vagabond.


Pan's Labyrinth.


Chungking Express.


****ing Amal.


City Of God.
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Fave foreign language film?

Downfall, its in German:

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City Of God.
Watched that one on friday, loved it, definitely one of the best I've seen
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