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Favourite Foreign Language Film/s
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I love foreign language films.
Deriving a glimpse into other cultures, differing ways of life and even the observation of the architectural styles all prove absolutely fascinating for me.
So, fellow fans, list me some of your faves if you’d be so kind  |
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By *eliWoman
over a year ago
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"The Swedish version of the girl with the dragon tattoo films are very good.
Oh, that reminds me, I also love Let the Right One In. Another good Swedish film."
Yes! Brilliant.
I'm going to add...
The Devil's Backbone
Host
Rare Exports
Oldboy
The Raid
Show Me Love
Rec (2  )
A_elie
Under the Shadow
Y Tu Mama Tambien
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Tell no One - french thriller
The Lives of Others - German movie about the stasi
Sophie Scholl, the final days - German movie about the white rose group
The Seven Samurai - original from the 50s
First they killed my father - set during the start of the Khmer Rouge
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Downfall
Cinema Paradiso
The Raid
Subway (early Luc Besson film)
9th Company (glad to see I’m not the only one, Russia’s ‘Platoon’)
Koyla
La Haine
Irreversible (glad I’ve seen it, but wouldn’t recommend it)
Pusher
Let the right one in
Das Boot
Diva
Man Bites Dog
These are a few that are on my bookcase currently on DVD.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy in Swedish "
YES to the above,one of my favourite films, plus La cage aux folles
Jean de florette and
Manon des sources |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Delicatessen, hugely imaginative and very funny.
The Hairdresser's Husband."
The hairdresser’s husband. Yes, very good. It had a profound impact on my choice of hairdresser |
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By *.D.I.D.A.SMan
over a year ago
London/Essex... ish... Romford to be exact |
Blue is the Warmest Colour
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Incidentally both are films about French speaking lesbians. That's my jam.
Dogman - Italian movie. Can't remember the plot but I enjoyed it! |
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Some superb choices good folks
I especially love the works of Federico Fellini and Werner Herzog but also can’t resist so many contemporary foreign films.
La Haine for instance, which has been mentioned by a few of you is a true, gritty modern classic |
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By *viatrixWoman
over a year ago
Redhill |
Love to see many of you enjoy the Mexican Trinity in film directing (Del Toro, Cuarón and González Iñarritu... )
Amores Perros is really good. One of González Iñarrutu’s initial works before he went international. Highly recommended. |
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By *viatrixWoman
over a year ago
Redhill |
For vintage- Luis Buñuel was the Pedro Almodovar of the ‘60s in Spain. He has many surreal films, but my favourite is El Angel Exterminador. Worth a watch! It kind of reminds me the last couple of years we’ve had... |
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I see with great sadness that no one has mentioned any of the masterpieces as bequeathed unto us by the late, incredibly prolific Spanish director, Mr Jesus Franco…
(You may be correct in detecting a semblance of sarcasm in the above sentence…)  |
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Das Boot and Downfall are both superb German war films.
Pretty much and Studio Ghibli film, but particularly The Wind Rises and Grave of the Fireflies. That last one is a beautiful film but needs tissues because it is such a tragic film. |
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By *yronMan
over a year ago
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Come and See
Cyrano de Bergerac
Train to Busan
Downfall
Seven Samurai
Master and Cub series
Throne of Blood
Aguirre, The Wrath of God
The Battle of Algiers
Donzoko (The Lower Depths). |
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A_elie
City of God
Cyrano De Bergerac
Jean De Florette/Manon De Dources
Mic-Macs
La Haine
Delicatessen
The Bicycle Thieves
Life is Beautiful
Il Postino
Les Visiteurs
And I’m sure many, many more, I can’t remember. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Irreversible
120 Days of Sodom
A Serbian Film
Spirited Away"
Spirited Away. Top film. Animation produces so many classics. I just wish they weren’t turned into “live”. |
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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago
Dubai & Nottingham |
I recent watched Wadjda, the first full length movie shot in Saudi and first movie by a female Saudi director.
Very brave film about a young girl who wants to ride a bicycle but is discouraged being a girl, tackling issues and poking fun at Saudi culture and beautifully shot |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Love to see many of you enjoy the Mexican Trinity in film directing (Del Toro, Cuarón and González Iñarritu... )
Amores Perros is really good. One of González Iñarrutu’s initial works before he went international. Highly recommended. "
Another vote for Amores Perros and great soundtrack too |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"In darkness by Agnieszka Holland
Love her work. She also directed several episodes of The Wire among lots of the other great TV."
The wire is on my freaking long list of TV shows to catch up on.
How about Europa Europa? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I recent watched Wadjda, the first full length movie shot in Saudi and first movie by a female Saudi director.
Very brave film about a young girl who wants to ride a bicycle but is discouraged being a girl, tackling issues and poking fun at Saudi culture and beautifully shot "
Ah, that's a brilliant film. Lots of humour among the social commentary. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"In darkness by Agnieszka Holland
Love her work. She also directed several episodes of The Wire among lots of the other great TV.
The wire is on my freaking long list of TV shows to catch up on.
How about Europa Europa?"
That was the first of her films I saw, on DVD. Not all her films are easily available here unfortunately. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"In darkness by Agnieszka Holland
Love her work. She also directed several episodes of The Wire among lots of the other great TV.
The wire is on my freaking long list of TV shows to catch up on.
How about Europa Europa?
That was the first of her films I saw, on DVD. Not all her films are easily available here unfortunately."
That's a shame. Her daughter became director too btw
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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago
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"I recent watched Wadjda, the first full length movie shot in Saudi and first movie by a female Saudi director.
Very brave film about a young girl who wants to ride a bicycle but is discouraged being a girl, tackling issues and poking fun at Saudi culture and beautifully shot
Ah, that's a brilliant film. Lots of humour among the social commentary. "
If you like this , you might like Samson and Delilah, 2009 Australian film. Barely any dialogue and shot in the desert SW of Alice springs , we visited the area and stayed a couple of weeks |
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By *ornyguyMan
over a year ago
Hillsborough, NI |
can't believe I didn't put "goodbye lenin" in my list.
as someone who lived in Berlin when the wall came down it maybe has more appeal to me.
has Daniel Bruhl in it who later was in Inglorious Bastards and Winter Soldier. |
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Probably easier to go by directors than individual films:
Claude Chabrol's satires on the bourgeoisie are reliably sharp and entertaining
As others have said, Almodovar is also good value and Dolor y Gloria was fantastic with an excellent performance by Antonio Banderas.
Francois Ozon and Michael Haneke are another couple of filmmakers working in French whose work is top notch.
And if anyone fancies seeing Emmanuelle Béart in the buff for the best part of 2 hours (and frankly why wouldn't you), la belle noiseuse is a must |
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