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 | DeadblogI'm quite partial to German films and I think Daniel Brühl is quite a talent (and also hot
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edited 19th Sep '11 3:53:35 PM by PiccoloNo92
- 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/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.

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."