Favorite FOREIGN Films?

[Papa Deuce]

Do you watch them? Do you like them? What are your favorites?

I just saw one that I really liked called Nine Queens. It is a twisty, turny, swindler film about a swindler trying to make a big score selling a block of stamps called "The Nine Queens". I don't really enjoy subtitles, but this film was worth it. ( No English audio track )

 

[pooksma]

So far I'd have to say Amelie. Great movie.

 

[smilingmouse]

I also liked Amelie. I really liked Bend It Like Becham (sp?), too.

 

[Tiziminchac]

I also liked Amelie. I really liked Bend It Like Becham (sp?), too.

I liked "Amelie" too. So much so that I bought it. I also liked "Bend It Like Beckham". But I never really think of British films as foreign. Maybe because I don't need the subtitles. If I were to go with British films I'd throw in "About A Boy" and "Love Happens". There are too many good British films to even start naming them. I also liked the Chinese film "Raise The Red Lantern". And the classic German flick "Das Boot". I liked the Japanese film "Shall We Dance" but I haven't seen the American version yet.

 

[perdidobay]

Life is Beautiful- Italy
The Boys and Girl from County Claire- Ireland

 

[MinnieM21]

Love them! My favorite is Run Lola Run (Lola Rennt). The actress in the movie, Franka Potente is one of my favorites and I have a picture with her autograph.

I like some of Vanessa Paradis' films too. (prefer her as a singer though)

 

[Disney Cakers]

I also loved Run Lola Run. But my absolute without a doubt favorite foreign film is Amelie... its just magical & funny.

 

[Zippa D Doodah]

I'm not much into foriegn films, but I truly enjoy just about everything by Monty Python. Funny stuff

 

[Cool-Beans]

Generally don't like subtitles, as cannot watch movie and read at same time...too distracting. But...

Life is Beautiful was an amazing movie.

I also liked the one about the little boy who stole a typewriter...forgot what that was called. Foreign film people will know.

 

[TDC Nala]

There was a South African movie called "The Gods Must Be Crazy" which I remember as being really, really funny.

 

[Missamoncus]

The National Flamenco Co. of Spains Carmen. Academy award for best foreign film in 1983-84. It is just the best.

Melissa

 

[Quinn222]

I like foreign films and watch a lot of them. One that spring to mind (because I just re-watched it) is La Buche, from France. I also like J'en Suis from Quebec. OH, and also from Quebec with the same leading man, Being at Home With Claude. But it's not good in the dubbed version. If you don't understand the language then go with the titled version. I hate dubbed movies anyway, it's always awful. Il Postino from Italy is fun.

 

[perdidobay]

There was a South African movie called "The Gods Must Be Crazy" which I remember as being really, really funny.

Oh my gosh, I forgot this movie. It was sooo funny!

 

[Crankyshank]

I like a lot of British films but don't consider them to be foreign. My favorite foreign films have been mentioned here all ready - Run Lola Run, and Amelie.

 

[joha]

Yes, love them.
I did see the "Nine Queens", Las Nueve Reinas, great movie ( I caught it a while back on HBO, at 2:00 AM). I seen all the ones mentioned, except Run, Lola, Run and Amelie.

Did anyone see The Rabbit Proof Fence?
Please recommend more.

Thanks!

 

[Crankyshank]

Rabbit Proof Fence was very good (another movie I wouldn't consider foreign). Very moving and informative.

 

[darrose]

My two favorite foreign to me films are House of flying daggers and Hero!!!

 

[Jimbo]

I saw the French version of "Beauty and the Beast," directed by Cocteau, when I was about 12. I couldn't believe my eyes! That was a long time ago (40 years), and I don't know how well it's aged. But the film was at least 15 years old when I saw it, so maybe it's held up OK.

I also liked another old French film called "Wages of Fear." In it, a couple of groups of people have to take trucks full of unstable nitroglycerin through a jungle. Very suspenseful. Hollywood remade it as "Sorcerer" and that one was pretty good too.

Both those movies were subtitled, but neither one had very much dialog.

I liked some of the old Japanese samurai movies too, especially "Seven Samurai" and "Rashomon."

 

[GoofyDad869]

"Downfall" is a German film. It's about the last few days of Hitler's life, when he's basically holding very tenuously to his sanity (if he could ever be considered to have once been sane). It's based on a biography written by one of his secretaries. Bruno Ganz is an Austrian actor who plays Hitler, and a lot of the general and political creatures hangers-on are very close physically to who they play (Joseph Goebbels in particular). The scene of Frau Goebbels killing her own children with cyanide capsules is very chilling.

 

[cardaway]

City of Lost Children
Amelie

Run Lola Run

Le Femme Nikita

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

Hero

Infernal Affairs

Cinema Parasido
Malena

The Experiment

Brotherhood of the Wolf