The UItimate Foreign Film Thread

[zaephyr]

No Ki-duk Kim love here?

I think all of hes films are very good

Pretty much the same goes for Emir Kusturica

[jackhigh]

Wim Wender's:
Until the End of the World (awesome soundtrack too)
Wings of Desire (watch closely... it will reveal "god" - it's that fk'n good!)

Kieslowski:
Double Life of Veronique
3 Colors, Red, White, Blue
Decalogue

Goddard:
Breathless
Masculin Feminin
My Life to Live
Contempt

Fellini:
8 1/2
La Dolce Vita

Truffaut
Shoot the Piano Player
The 400 Blows

[xenthebrain]

In China They Eat Dogs - Pretty cool Danish movie, about a guy who works at a bank and gets robbed but knocks out the robber.He then discovers why the robber needed the money and trys to make things right again. Very black humor.

Adam's Apples - Also a Danish movie (no I am not Danish). Tagline from IMDb: A neo-nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devotional priest.

Das Experiment - German movie about simulating a prison with average people. Very good and intense movie.

Audition - A movie by Takashi Miike.

Matando cabos - Spanish: "A dark, offbeat comedy about a group of Mexico City teens embroiled in a kidnapping involving a retired wrestling legend and a parrot."

Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring - South Korea: "This film takes place in an isolated lake, where an old monk lives on a small floating temple. The wise master has also a young boy with him that teaches to become a monk. And we watch as seasons and years pass by"

Lammbock - German stoner movie.

The machinist - Don't know if it qualifies as foreign. It's in english and with Bale, but a great movie.

Killing Words - Very cool spanish film. If you want to get the most out of this film, you better don't know anything about it.

[FlyWf]

Joint Security Area

The rest of Park's vengeance trilogy is worth watching, though not as good as Oldboy.
Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance
Lady Vengeance


An absolutely brilliant bit of entertainment is the South African cop turned bank robber flick Stander

English count? I liked Dead Man's Shoes

[TimTimSalabim]

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Wings of Desire (watch closely... it will reveal "god" - it's that fk'n good!)

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Awesome. Would have been my #1 pick had I thought of it last night.

[SZEppi]

What about Hable con Ella (Talk to her), directed by Pedro Almodovar? Not exactly unknown or underrated, but certainly one of my favourites. Check it out if you haven't seen it yet.

http://www.amazon.com/Hable-Ella-Talk-RE...3184&sr=1-2


Edit to add another: Nobody Knows, a (I think) Japanese film, really liked that: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/nobody_knows/

[ncboiler]

Das Boot

[TimTimSalabim]

Grave of the Fireflies

probably the saddest movie ever made

[iSTRONG]

La Haine (FRANCE, 1995)

[ClassicBob]

Les Enfants du Paradis

Hadn't seen it mentioned yet. One of my top 10 of all time, featuring one of my favorite performances.

Jean-Louis Barrault mimes, sings, and acts his ass off in this gem. Please please plz check it out.