Your Favourite Foreign Film?

[Placebo]

I'm such a sucker for all things French, so I'd probably say Son Frere

[BigMcLargehuge]

1. Yojimbo

[arwalden]

2. Das Boot

[webjamn]

104. I second that

Das Boot is a masterpiece

[malmapus]

123. Third'rd that

Classic one

[Nadienne]

3. Le Pacte Des Loups

Brotherhood of the Wolf. Love that movie.

[WMliberal]

4. tooooooo many to choose. I'll do it by country

France: Le Fableaux Destin d'Amelie Poulain, Le Placard
Germany: The Nasty Girl
Russia: Council for the Defence Sidov
Italy: Life is Beautiful
China: The Road Home

[sir_captain]

18. The Road Home

is a really terrific film...there's an excellent DVD if you didn't already know that...

[GrapesOfWrath]

92. The Road Home is an all-time favorite of mine

Definitely check it out on DVD but don't forget to grab your hankies!

[rwenos]

5. Belle Epoque

Or anything by Almodovar. Also fond of "Le Dernier Metro," with Deneuve - Truffaut directed I think.

"Tora Tora Tora" is also great.

[bettyellen]

6. children of paradise, all about my mother....jules and jim

la atalante, in the mood for love...... hobsons choice and the lady vanishes if you count britain and i could go on for a while.....

[sir_captain]

21. Woo hoo!

In the Mood for Love! I honestly think it's the best movie made in the last 10 years or so.

And I love The Lady Vanishes too! Definitely my favorite of Hitch's British films--though I think I'd take Vertigo if you put a gun to my head. ;-)

[Cadence]

7. Is Swimming Pool considered a foreign film?

[Placebo]

9. I think so...

It's directed by a Frenchman, Mr François Ozon, and was filmed there.

I loved it too. :)

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

8. Amelie

and Happenstance

[nytemare]

33. I love Amelie!!

What a great movie!

[Abelman]

40. Great picture

Really fun movie.

[gingergreen]

53. yes my fave too

I love the gnomes

[WMliberal]

65. you should rent "He loves me, He loves me not"

If you're an Audrey Tautou fan.

[knowbody0]

10. the battle of algiers

highly recommend this film. after 130 years of french occupation the people took back their country..gives insight into the insurgency in iraq, and the hopelessness of winning hearts and minds by torture and execution..

[Nadienne]

11. I'd like to see this.

I heard something about it on Now with Bill Moyers.

[tishaLA]

54. One of the great films of all time

I'd put Hiroshima, Mon Amour and Le Samourai on my list, too.

[enigmatic]

12. "Man Facing Southeast", "Ikiru", or "Betty Blue"

Anyone of the 3 is jake by me!

[u4ic]

13. Zentropa

Johnny Stecchino
The Kingdom
Emma's Shadow
Pelle the Conqueror
The Best Intentions

[JohnKleeb]

14. hmm I enjoyed Life is Beautiful

Touching Italian Film. Sigh what a sad ending.

[talk hard]

119. Me Too

And must be seen with subtitles.

Funny, heartbreaking.

[GRLMGC]

15. All About My Mother n/t

[AngryLizard]

16. "Blue" and "Cinema Paradiso"

So, so, good.

[sir_captain]

17. In the Mood for Love

is probably it, though there are far too many to name. Raise the Red Lantern is up there too.

[Oddly Stevenson]

19. Monsieur Hire

Directed by Patrice LeConte.

I'm also a big fan of Jean De Florette.

[Pale Blue Dot]

97. Patrice LeConte is great.

I'm a huge fan. I loved Monsieur Hire and Girl on a Bridge (in my opinion, one of the sexiest movies ever).

[Ron Green]

20. The Bicycle Thief.

[talk hard]

120. Bravo

Great film.

[bloodyjack]

22. Seven Samurai, Pyaasa, El Ángel exterminador

Le Extension du Domaine de la Lutte

Indian Superman

Korean Streetfighter II

Turkish Star Wars

[FredScuttle]

23. Ran

om edit: one of my favorites as much for the backstory as the actual film, which is brilliant. Kurosawa spent 10 years developing this adaptation of King Lear and was pretty much blind by the time principal photography began. His assistants helped him frame each shot using the storyboard paintings he had done in the 10+ years leading up to the beginning of filming. He also lost his wife of many years while making the film, but completed it. An absolutely life-affirming story of a genius going out like a lion in winter in this, his last masterpiece.

[Phentex]

62. did you see my worst date thread?

heh heh

I probably ought to see this in a better frame of mind.

[chaska]

24. Manon of the Spring and Jean de Florette.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

28. Oui! Oui!

Just saw them again last week. Terribly beautiful.
Humanity! Love! Heartbreak!

[cleofus1]

43. I love jean de florette....

both are great films...

but I'll always have a soft spot in my head for the "red balloon"

[fleabert]

49. great films! Reminds me of high school french class! Tres Magnific!

[fluffernutter]

82. yes, this one and Amelie

[chaska]

25. There's a great film for musicians called Tout le Matin du Monde.

All the Mornings of the World in english.

[chaska]

26. And the French titles just keep coming: 'Delicatessen'.

[messyca]

27. I agree!!!!!

I was just going to add that. I love Jean-Pierre Jeunet's films, he is one of my favorite directors, and I love Dominique Pinon, he's just so endearing!

[shinju1985]

29. and from the other side of the globe...

My favorite is Sakura Wars, a Japanese film.

[Briarius]

30. Nosferatu

even better, silent and foreign!

[Fenris]

31. The Seventh Seal or the Virgin Spring

[yellowdogintexas]

32. Amelie, Like Water for Chocolate, Spirited Away,Life is Beautiful

Il Postino, Crouching Tiger, HIdden Dragon

[kodi]

34. Ran

if you have seen it you know what i mean.

[drhilarius]

35. La Strada.

[andino]

36. Rachel Rachel

A young girl's erotic journey from Milan to Minsk

j/k

I liked Shawn of the Dead ;)

[aaronbees]

37. I have three faves with...

"Red" on top. After that, "Jules et Jim" and "Chocolat."

[2008]

38. He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not

starring the young woman who starred in Amelie

[WMliberal]

66. as hot as she is, she still creeps me out in that one!

:scared:

[Abelman]

39. Godzilla

What? Stop looking at me like that. IT'S FOREIGN!

Fine. That snoozefest "Throne of Blood."

Seriously, Godzilla, followed by "Battleship Potemkin," "Amelie," and anything from Pedro Almodovar.

[darkism]

41. Attack the Gas Station

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0262246/
Hilarious Korean movie.

Oh and the ever-popular My Sassy Girl
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0293715/

I'm such a oegugin...

[billyskank]

42. Delicatessen

by the same director as Amelie:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101700/

[cleofus1]

44. I still love the first forign film I ever saw....

[Magrittes Pipe]

45. Another vote for "Delicatessen."

[jdots]

46. black orpheus (brazil 1959)

sort of my favorite all time film,music,color,story,actors.It is a super film that looks like it was made yesterday.Romantic,best music and what a story.

[sasquatch]

47. Trainspotting

I still can't get over the Scottish accents.

[billyskank]

50. Funny

I'm British, but I don't consider American films foreign. (I see them all the time, of course). Yet you consider Trainspotting, a British film, to be foreign.

[sasquatch]

76. America is damn close to not being on the same planet with Britian

Besides the scottish accents are damn near impossible too understand what they're saying.

[Zuni]

124. I disagree--When I see British movies I don't think of them as foreign

Well some I do, but others I don't.
28 Days later and Monty Python don't seems so foreign, but some others do....strange, I never really thought about it

[Zuni]

126. I don't usually consider British movies foreign

I never really think about it. Continental European ones seem to be from another world altogether, but British is close enough to not seem alien.

[talk hard]

121. I don't think English-speaking films are considered foreign films.

But Trainspotting is brilliant nonetheless.

[fleabert]

48. Favorite? No clue, too hard to pin down, but I can say which is the most

memorable:
The Cook, The Theif, His Wife, and Her Lover. very interesting.

most recent good one I've seen is The Motorcycle Diaries.

okay, remembered another one I loved, but can't remember the name, it's about Rodin's lover who may or may not have done one of his more famous sculptures (the foot) Grrrrrrr. I have no memory at 3am. I'm even wondering if it wasn't in French after all... ack.

[CBHagman]

94. You're thinking of Camille Claudel.

With the lovely and talented Isabelle Adjani.

As far as foreign films, I can't pick just one. I can only say what makes for pleasurable watching again and again.

French Cancan

Die Marquise von O... (based on the Heinrich von Kleist novella, NOT that work you're probably thinking of)

Blue

Ingmar Bergman's film of Mozart's The Magic Flute

Amelie

Shall We Dance? (The Japanese one, not the one with J-Lo)

On edit: How did I forget Babette's Feast?

[fleabert]

112. merci beaucoup! C'est vrai! n/t

[peacefreak]

51. Antonia's Line

The Visitors
King of Hearts

[Dzimbowicz]

52. Goodbye Lenin!

[terrya]

55. "Querelle"

Bizarre, but very erotic.

[Placebo]

78. Andy Warhol did something for that movie.

A poster or billboard, something.

[Atlas Mugged]

56. 'Aquirre - The Wrath of God'

'Un Chien Andalou'
'Caspar Hauser'

[chaska]

108. Yes. Aguirre, the wrath... awesome, horrific, terrible and beautiful.

[Atlas Mugged]

114. And....

...then there's the black guy going, "Booga booga booga!".

[SCDem]

57. The french version of Les Miserables starring Gerard Depardieu

[auburngrad82]

58. Babette's Feast and...

Rabbit Proof Fence
Whalerider
Spirited Away
Life is Beautiful
Amelie
The Triplets of Belleville

[Hans Delbrook]

105. Love Babette's Feast

Incredibly moving film! I cried when I tried to explain what it was about to my husband (then boyfriend.)

[chaska]

109. I love that 'un.

[Boswells_Johnson]

59. The Russian Ark was a visually stunning film

but I suffer from having a new favorite every third movie I watch:)

[NightTrain]

89. I agree wholeheartedly!

Saw it in the summer of '03. That film was breathtakingly gorgeous!

[RUDUing2]

60. Purple Noon (Plein Soleil)

[vonZapfenau]

61. Chunking Express, The American Friend, & yes, Delicatessen

Chunking Express or anything by Wong Kar-Wai

The American Friend, or Wenders' other masterpieces Wings of Desire and Paris, Texas.

And one more vote for Delicatessen. The followups from that director are also wonderful but lack that perfect mix of whimsy, surrealism and pathos.

[Ravenseye]

63. Europa Europa and/or Pathfinder

Europa Europa - a true story about a jew who pretended to be a german growing up in Nazi germany, poland, russia, serving with the nazi's, Nazi Youth, etc.

Pathfinder - about a Saami (Lapp) boy surviving his family being slaughtered and then plays a cat and mouse game with the people who killed his family.

[PittPoliSci]

64. Shaun of the Dead

Britain isn't America therefore it is foreign.

Best movie ever, by the way.

but if you want my favorite foreign language film, I'd probably have to say Stalingrad.

[Jean Louise Finch]

84. Mwa ha ha

Saw it last night and about died. I don't know if I have EVER laughed so hard at a movie. I had heard good things, but had no idea it would be THAT great.

Excellence. Oh, hilarity.

[Nevernose]

67. Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Absolutely hilarious.

[Bertha Venation]

68. Europa Europa. n/t

[devilgrrl]

69. 'Il Mostro'

With Roberto Benigni

[Merrick]

70. Underground

a Bosnian movie by Emir Kustarica. Friggin' hilarious.

Man Bites Dog is up there too. There are a lot though.

[Kire]

81. very friggin' hilarious.

[XNASA]

71. "Hero"

I just saw it last weekend, so it's fresh in my mind.

I just loved it.

[talk hard]

122. May be Oscar-worthy.

Beautiful film.

[Mrs. Venation]

72. Small Change

A François Truffaut film from the 70's.

"In the town of Thiers, summer of 1976, teachers and parents give their children skills, love, and attention. A teacher has his first child, a single mother hopes to meet Mr. Right, another mom reaches out to Patrick, a motherless lad who is just discovering the opposite sex. Patrick befriends Julien, a new student who lives in poverty with his mother and has a terrible secret. Bruno shows his friends how to chat up girls. Sylvie stages a witty protest against her parents. Brothers give a friend a haircut. A toddler falls from a window and is unhurt. Everybody goes to the cinema. At camp, Martine catches Patrick's eye. A teacher explains: "Life is hard, but it's wonderful."

[AlCzervik]

73. The Triplets of Bellville

[Justitia]

74. Camille Claudel, Blue, Belle du Jour, Sex & Lucia -eom

[vikegirl]

75. Louis Malle's....

....Au revoir, les enfants

[silverpatronus]

77. der tweeling (twin sisters)

followed closely by muriel's wedding, dirty pretty things, monsoon wedding, and anything by guy ritchie not starring madonna.

ETA: talk to her was also fantastic.

[Kire]

79. Bunuel's "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie"

A complex, shifting, virtually plotless web of dreams within dreams within dreams, centered around a group of six outwardly respectable upper-middle class members of society and their repeatedly thwarted attempts to have a meal together - the interruptions becoming more and more surreal as the film progresses.

[Kire]

80. Hiroshima Mon Amour, real images of post-nuclear Hiroshima and hot romance

1959. A French young woman has spent the night with a japanese man, at Hiroshima where she went for the shooting of a film about peace. He reminds her of the first man she loved. It was during World War II, and he was a German soldier. The main themes of this film are memory and oblivion.

[chaska]

110. Very powerful film. Loved it.

[MikeDuffy]

83. Picnic At Hanging Rock

There is a rational (and really interesting!) explanation for the story...

[Flammable Materials]

85. Seul Contre Tous (American Title: I Stand Alone)

Most honest film ever made.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

86. my current favourite is "Life Is Beautiful"

Followed by "Goodbye Lenin!" and "Europa Europa".

[TexasLady]

87. damn, a movie from India

I think it was called Bombay. I love Indian movies. The songs and the dancing are just beautiful.

[bigwillq]

88. Run, Lola, Run

The soundtrack kicks ass too.

[Placebo]

90. Ooooh, I AGREE.

Great movie, even better musique.

[talk hard]

118. Described as ULTRAHIP.

I agree.

[bikebloke]

91. A few tied at the top

Jean de Florette & Manon de Source
Run Lola Run
Amelie
Gallipoli
El Sexo y Lucia

[philosophie_en_rose]

93. Tokyo Godfathers

http://www.metacritic.com/video/titles/tokyogodfathers/
http://www.dvdvisionjapan.com/godfathers.html

"Hana, Gin and Kiyuki are three homeless people living on the streets of Tokyo. While looking through the trash for a Christmas present, the three of them discover an abandoned baby. Taking it back to their shack, the three argue about what they are going to do. Hana decides that they are going to find the kids mother. Calling the baby Kiyoko, they head out into the vast world of Tokyo.

As they travel, they encounter a strange and interesting group of people who help them on their quest. Sending everything from gangsters to transvestite angels in their path, it seems that God is guiding their journey."

[Kat45]

95. Puberty Blues (Australian); Life Is Beautiful

Gallipoli.

[DaveinMD]

96. auvoir les enfants

is a great movie about nuns who tried to hide Jewish children from the Nazi's while France was occupied.

[212demop]

102. Au Revoir Les Enfants is my favorite movie, foreign or domestic n/t

[DaveinMD]

106. I didn't think

anyone else would have heard about it. Its been about 15 years since I've seen it.

[212demop]

116. I've got it on tape and seen it so many times I'm afraid of wearing out

the video- I already ruined Annie Hall and Cinema Paradiso that way

[vikegirl]

125. see #75.

:) I found out about it because it was assigned by my history professor about 7 years ago.

[Pale Blue Dot]

98. "Cinema Paradiso", both the original AND the Director's Cut

2 completely different films, with completely different messages.

[Sabriel]

99. M, with Peter Lorre

That balloon floating away scene gives me the shivers every time. Plus it's a teeny bit campy, although I'm sure it wasn't intended that way at the time.

[AbbeyRoad]

100. "Huozhe" also known as "To Live"

I can't get through it without my eyes watering at least once.

[alpaca]

101. Before the Rain

[Fleurs du Mal]

103. The Seven Samurai, La Dolce Vita, The Grand Illusion n/t

[bobbieinok]

107. Mon Oncle; Tales of Hoffmann; Drei Groschen Oper

[chaska]

111. God yes, Mon oncle. One of my favorites.

[Cats Against Frist]

113. Lars Von Trier -- "The Kingdom" (series) and Bergman's "Persona"

I also love "From the Life of the Marionettes." And the Swedish commune movie that is called "Together," but I can't remember the Swedish name.

There's also this film that I saw on IFC about these two crazy motherfuckers in golfing whites that terrorize this family in their house. If ANYONE knows the name of it, please tell me, because I've forgotten. It's a totally raw movie.

[terrya]

115. One more: "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari"

A German silent film. VERY interesting film.

[talk hard]

117. Il Postino

A beautiful moving film.

[mpendragon]

127. Life is Beautiful - La Vita è bella

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