Recommend me good foreign/independent/lesser-known movies!

[frankster]

In this order:

Bin-Jip
Brotherhood of War
Oldboy
Samaria
Ichi the Killer

[AJW]

Mona Lisa UK
Le Haine France
Audition Japan
Old boy Korea
A bout de souffle France
Scum UK
Hearts and minds US
Once were warriors New Zealand

[john voight]

Foreign;
Knife in Water (polanski)
Le Samuri - avatar+great french movie
Z

Kurosawa;
Ran, Yohjimbo+Sanjuro, Kajemusha, Hidden Fortress, High and Low, Rashamon, Ikiru, 7 samuri, throne of blood, every other movie he's made

Italian;
Bycicle Theif
La Dulca VIta
Americord
8 and half
the movie w/ little girl and Anthony Quinn
any felini movie

another Jap; youth of the beast
another french; cercle rouge
another german 'M"
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non forign/ non hyped USA/GB;
hard 8
2 days in the valley
day of the jackal (original)
atlantic city
Blow Up
Flying Duces
Wild Bunch
Im too tiered to think anymore
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those ar movies I doubt youv seen and possibly not heard of.
If you want real classics I can tell you those also.

[RunDownHouse]

My three favorite foreign films are Goodbye Lenin (German), City of God (Brazilian), and Cache (Hidden) (French). I wrote a fairly short review of Cache in TLDR.

[The_Bends]

Man Bites Dog - Belgium

Camera crew follow around a serial killer in a documentary style.

[Pilket]

Leolo. French subtitled, kinda weird but the first story about how the kid was conceived is an all time classic.

Pilket

[MAF]

There are some great French films that you must see:

Diva (a bit dated now, but a classic)
Amelie
Babbette's Feast (ok, it's also half in Danish, half in French)
Delicatessant (sp?)
Jean de Florette and the sequel Manon Des Sources

[durkahdurkah]

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover is phenomonal if you like slow moving artsy psychological drama type stuff.

[Thundercat32]

One of the best foreign films I've ever seen (maybe the only) was a Japanese film festival movie I saw at SMU.

The film is a comedy about a guy who is a struggling university student in Japan and gets roped into joining the Sumo team. It's really funny and easy to understand. It's called Sumo Do Sumo Don't

[Jasper109]

Two 25+ year old obscure movies from New Zealand/Australia that I think are very good.

Smash Palace
Don's Party

Amazing performance by Ben Kingsley

Sexy Beast