Foreign Films! (...From the perspective of an American)

So, what are you favorite non-English language films?

Mine are: -Let The Right One In

-John Rabe

-L'Affaire Farewell

-Ip Man (I and II)

-Mongol

-Max Manus

edited 18th Sep '11 2:10:26 PM by Pyroninja42

"Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person that doesn't get it."

• Casshern
• Gojira
• Kung-Fu Hustle
• Pan's Labyrinth
• Persepolis
• Seven Samurai
• Seventh Seal

edited 18th Sep '11 4:49:35 PM by NULLcHiLD27

Everything by Akira Kurosawa.

Oldboy.

Das Boot.

Downfall.

Anything by Takashi Miike.

The Lives of Others.

That's pretty much everything I can think of off the top of my head.

"Delenda est." "Furthermore, Carthage must be destroyed." -Common Roman saying at the end of speeches.

Oh, Oldboy. I'm debating whether or not I should allow that on my list

"Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person that doesn't get it."

The hallway sequence and dentists everywhere demand it!

"Delenda est." "Furthermore, Carthage must be destroyed." -Common Roman saying at the end of speeches.

And so do the Southern Fried Rednecks.

Bonus points if you understand what I mean.

"Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person that doesn't get it."

The concept of "Foreign Film" doesn't really hold up on the internet, but yeah, non-american films. Favorites include:

Oldboy, Run Lola Run, Cinema Paradiso, My Sassy Girl, Dead Snow *

, The Professional,Paprika, Perfect Blue, and a couple of others I've probably forgotten.

Liveblog | Deadblog

The Professional counts?

Wait, that one wasn't in French, was it? *quick check*

No, it wasn't. Egg on my face, and so on. Oh well, still French-produced.

edited 18th Sep '11 2:52:54 PM by slowzombie

Liveblog | Deadblog

Pans Labyrinth by Guillermo Del Toro

edited 18th Sep '11 4:42:58 PM by terlwyth

Pan's Labyrinth and Persepolis and I know there are others I like but I forgot.

Seeing all these piss ant tropers trying to talk tough makes me laugh. If Matrix were here, he'd laugh too.

I might be a bit biased as I'm Danish myself but Danish dark-humor films such as Blinkende Lygter and Adams Æbler.

True Art is Foreign:

• Amelie
• Day for Night
• Ran
• Seven Samurai
• Confessions
• Yojimbo

This level of trolling is reasonable for Commander Obvious. What do you think of this, everyone?

• Goodbye Lenin,
• Run Lola Run,
• The Livesof Others.

I'm quite partial to German films and I think Daniel Brühl is quite a talent (and also hot )

• He Loves Me He Loves Me Not,
• Persepolis,
• The Spanish Inn,

• REC,
• Pans Labyrinth

edited 19th Sep '11 3:53:35 PM by PiccoloNo92

Do silent films count? If so:

• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
• Nosferatu

• Sonatine and other Takeshi Kitano films.
• Oldboy.
• Akira Kurosawa.
• Satoshi Kon.
• Guillermo Del Toro.
• Jean-Luc Godard.
• Andrei Tarkovsky.
• Kim Ji-Woon.
• John Woo.

Just some off the top of my head.

edited 19th Sep '11 5:40:49 PM by HerrKman

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

John Woo? Dammit! I left Red Cliff off my list.

"Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person that doesn't get it."

Amelie is probably my favorite foreign film. High And Low and The Hidden Fortress are two more favorites.

More Buscemi at http://forum.reelsociety.com/

Just naming a few

• The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
• The Twins Effect
• Wuxia in general
• The Myth

edited 19th Sep '11 7:54:26 PM by vanthebaron

Untitled Power Rangers Story

Ok, how could I forget Amelie. Actually, never mind that, how could I forget REC. Granted, it speaks the international language of fear, but still

edited 20th Sep '11 1:49:30 AM by slowzombie

Liveblog | Deadblog

how the hell did i forget Run Lola Run
and if we're including silent german films
Fritz Lang's Metropolis
adding to my totally incomplete list because terrible memory

• Andrei Rublev
• Battleship Potemkin
• M
• Antichrist
• Pierrot le fou

edited 20th Sep '11 2:51:08 AM by CommanderObvious

This level of trolling is reasonable for Commander Obvious. What do you think of this, everyone?

Antichrist isn't a foreign language film. =/

edited 20th Sep '11 6:41:55 AM by HerrKman

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

More will come to me but so far I've thought of a few

• Perfect Blue - Japanese (animated, but whatever)
• Millennium Actress - Japanese (also animated)
• Oldboy - Korean
• Sauna - Finnish
• Bright Future - Japanese
• Sonatine - Japanese
• Mother - Korean

edit: Mother doesn't have a wiki page? Someone should get on that.

edited 20th Sep '11 5:11:44 PM by Dekunobo

• The Lives Of Others
• The Diving Bell And The Butterfly
• When Night Falls
• Four Months, Three Weeks, and Two Days
• Volver

edited 20th Sep '11 8:26:38 PM by BetsyandtheFiveAvengers

I've watched many foreign films online but not too many on the big screen. I think Americans should be given the opportunity of watching more foreign material (not just movies but also tv series) as a way of understanding the values and cultures of other societies. It may allow us to better relate or socialize with those outside our country.