The UItimate Foreign Film Thread

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Der Untergang

Traudl Junge (Lara), the final secretary for Adolf Hitler (Ganz), tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.

8.5 out of 10 on IMDB

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OP, check out Curse of the Golden Flower if you haven't already, not as much action as Hero or HOTFD but so gorgeous.

Also, you may want to check out Akira Kurosawas stuff, very dry but really awesome if you like that kinda thing.

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Russian Ark

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One of the great movies of all time:

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The Girl on the Bridge

Devdas

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nights of cabiria
a short film about love
ikiru
the red circle
butley (british movies count as foreign?)
destiny (1921)
chinese roulette
crazy love (1987)
that obscure object of desire

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Pan's Labyrinth


The Seven Samurai

Yojimbo

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I find Kagemusha and Ran to be just as powerful. Kurosawa's use of color in a samurai film rivaled his use of shots and his scripts in his earlier work - he had years to storyboard the movies and did an incredible job.

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Underground:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114787/

Its the story of a people, a humanist film made from love and borne out of grief.

House of Flying Daggers?!?! I'd give that film like 1/5

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That's probably my favorite movie of all time.

Others mentioned that I think are great: In the Mood For Love, The Lives of Others, Amelie, A Very Long Engagement, Amores perros and Raise the Red Lantern.

Not so great in my opinon: Y tu mamá también, Battle Royale and Ran

A bunch of asian movies mentioned that I haven't seen yet but would like to eventually.

Some of my favorites:

Festen/The Celebration

The City of Lost Children

Anything by Kieslowski who hasn't been mentioned yet, especially of course his Trois couleurs trillogy.

Europa

Lilja 4-ever

Some may not enjoy him but I'm gonna say almost anything by Almodovar as well. Especially: Carne Tremula and Hable con ella

Tierra

Au revoir, les enfants

Tesis

Delicatessen

Fear X

and some Michael Haneke movies: Caché which is the most accessible and La Pianiste and Code inconnu as well.

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I am surprised to not see The Best of Youth yet.

Meglio gioventù, La

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City of God
Fanny and Alexander
Fitzcarraldo
Nosferatu
Rififi
Traffik
The General(1998)

the last two are UK and Ireland, does that count?