re: Favorite Foreign Films (Looking for Suggestions)

Posted by ffishstik

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Posted on 6/1/15 at 4:17 pm to Dandy Lion

Good suggestions. I'll probably get flak for this, but I liked the original Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy.

Posted by LoveThatMoney

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Posted on 6/1/15 at 4:18 pm to STLhog

The Raid
Flame and Citron
Princess
All of Studio Ghibli's library
All of Kurosawa
Mongol
The Zatoichi movies as played by Shintaro Katsu
House of Flying Daggers
Hero
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Let the Right One In
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Funny Games
Infernal Affairs Trilogy
Shaolin Soccer
Kung Fu Hustle
Life is Beautiful

The others listed are also great.
City of God and Seventh Seal are essential viewing, as are the Kurosawa films (e.g. Seven Samurai, Rashomon, Ran, and Throne of Blood) and Pan's Labyrinth.

Others that I haven't seen but feel I should are Pierrot le Fou, Run Lola Run, the Killer, Jules and Jim, and Cinema Paradiso

Posted by ffishstik

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Posted on 6/1/15 at 4:20 pm to LoveThatMoney

Also:

Oldboy
Bande Part

Posted by flvelo12

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Posted on 6/1/15 at 4:25 pm to STLhog

The Lives of Others
Amelie
Run Lola Run
Diva
The Secret in Their Eyes
Rififi
Belle de Jour
Das Boot

Posted by STLhog

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Posted on 6/1/15 at 4:31 pm to ffishstik

quote:
Good suggestions. I'll probably get flak for this, but I liked the original Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy.

Man I def did myself.

Posted by Carson123987

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Posted on 6/1/15 at 4:37 pm to Scruffy

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Pan's Labyrinth is the only movie that I consider perfect.

same. maybe No Country as well

Posted by GetCocky11

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Posted on 6/1/15 at 4:41 pm to STLhog

Check out The Hunt

It is about a teacher who was falsely accused of molesting a little girl in a daycare by the little girl. It is really good.

Posted by LoveThatMoney

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Posted on 6/1/15 at 4:44 pm to Carson123987

quote:
same. maybe No Country as well

City of God is mine. No Country is good to me, not great. Pan's Labyrinth is stunning, but City of God still holds my crown for best foreign film of all time.

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Posted by AbuTheMonkey

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Posted on 6/1/15 at 4:57 pm to LoveThatMoney

Goodbye, Lenin!

Posted by constant cough

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Posted on 6/1/15 at 5:02 pm to STLhog

Le Jour se Leve
Pépé le Moko
Le quai des brumes
Les bas-fonds
Le Cercle Rouge
Le Doulos
Le Samouraï
Bob le flambeur
Du rififi chez les hommes
Le salaire de la peur
Les diaboliques
Cyrano de Bergerac
M
Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse
Der amerikanische Freund
Delicatessen
La cité des enfants perdus
Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
Un long dimanche de fiançailles
Il gattopardo
Carne trémula
Yoidore tenshi
Ikiru
Yôjinbô
Rashômon
Ran
Nora inu
Ladri di biciclette
Belle de jour
Smultronstället
Det sjunde inseglet
Jungfrukällan
Sei donne per l'assassino
Pickpocket
Fah talai jone
Orfeu Negro
Klopka
Monsieur Hire
13 Tzameti
La mariée était en noir
La sirène du Mississipi
La femme infidèle
Los abrazos rotos
L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo
Lola Montès
Revanche
El aura
Tirez sur le pianiste
Touchez pas au grisbi
La grande illusion
Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie
Cet obscur objet du désir
Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution
Dalkomhan insaeng
De battre mon coeur s'est arrêté
La règle du jeu
Tsubaki Sanjûrô
La battaglia di Algeri
La strada
Nueve reinas
Ascenseur pour l'échafaud
Micmacs à tire-larigot
Il conformista
La belle et la bête
Le pacte des loups
Ne le dis à personne
Les quatre cents coups
El mariachi
Milano calibro 9
Quai des Orfèvres
Il posto
Fukushû suru wa ware ni ari
Mafioso
La flûte à six schtroumpfs
Coup de torchon
Män som hatar kvinnor
El secreto de sus ojos
Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
Amores perros
Zwartboek
Le corbeau
Se, jie

This post was edited on 6/1/15 at 5:11 pm

Posted by JombieZombie

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Posted on 6/1/15 at 5:09 pm to LoveThatMoney

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Kurosawa films (e.g. Seven Samurai, Rashomon, Ran, and Throne of Blood)

I consider Seven Samurai to be the definitive foreign language film. Kurasawa's non-samurai films are wonderful too - Ikiru, Drunken Angel, Stray Dog, High and Low, The Bad Sleep Well. Too many great films.

Posted by constant cough

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Posted on 6/1/15 at 5:11 pm to JombieZombie

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Kurasawa's non-samurai films are wonderful too - Ikiru, Drunken Angel, Stray Dog, High and Low, The Bad Sleep Well. Too many great films.

Couldn't agree more. Maybe its because I'm such an Noir enthusiast but Drunken Angel just might be my favorite of his.

Posted by Cdawg

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Posted on 6/1/15 at 5:19 pm to STLhog

Amores Perros

Posted by JombieZombie

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Posted on 6/1/15 at 5:22 pm to constant cough

Mufine is a revelation in those films. It's mind-boggling how many great films Kurosawa and Mifune made together.

Posted by Marciano1

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Posted on 6/1/15 at 5:44 pm to STLhog

City of God
Seven Samurai
Amores Perros
Das Boot

Also, the Les Revenants (The Returned) TV series.

Posted by uway

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Posted on 6/1/15 at 8:07 pm to Marciano1

Tell No One (94% fresh) is one of my favorite recent foreign films on Netflix.

Kid With a Bike (97%)

This post was edited on 6/1/15 at 8:10 pm

Posted by StrongBackWeakMind

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Posted on 6/1/15 at 8:30 pm to STLhog

Let the Right One In
Das Boot
Mostly Martha
Nine Queens
Malena
House of Flying Daggers
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Ip Man
Rashomon
Chungking Express
Eat Drink Man Woman
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
The Lives of Others
Come and See
Tell No One
Cinema Paradiso
The Secret in their Eyes
Seventh Seal
Seven Samurai
Pusher Trilogy
Waking Ned Devine
Princess Mononoke
Spirited Away
Porco Rosso

This post was edited on 6/1/15 at 8:33 pm