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re: Foreign Films, looking for recommendations
Posted on 5/9/25 at 11:10 am to cinemaguy23
Posted on 5/9/25 at 11:10 am to cinemaguy23
Go to the Criterion Collection, and find something that interest you.
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Posted on 5/9/25 at 11:18 am to SlowFlowPro
That is a good list and you took most of what i would recomend but would still add:
Rififi great crime caper movie from france
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari one of the greatest silent movies of all time from Germany; Shutter Island completely ripped it off.
M Fritz Lang's classic serial killer drama from Germany in 1931
Harakiri my favorite samurai movie about the end of the samurai
Stroszek no list is complete without genius Werner Herzog; this one's a film about immigrating to America by a German; Aguirre Wrath of God also great.
Edited to add: The Live of Others from Germany in 2006.
Rififi great crime caper movie from france
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari one of the greatest silent movies of all time from Germany; Shutter Island completely ripped it off.
M Fritz Lang's classic serial killer drama from Germany in 1931
Harakiri my favorite samurai movie about the end of the samurai
Stroszek no list is complete without genius Werner Herzog; this one's a film about immigrating to America by a German; Aguirre Wrath of God also great.
Edited to add: The Live of Others from Germany in 2006.
This post was edited on 5/9/25 at 5:39 pm
Posted on 5/9/25 at 11:53 am to cinemaguy23
The Piano Teacher (dir. Michael Haneke)
It’s a disturbing character study. Think of the female equivalent to Taxi Driver.
It’s a disturbing character study. Think of the female equivalent to Taxi Driver.
Posted on 5/9/25 at 12:23 pm to pevetohead
quote:
It’s a disturbing character study
quote:
Michael Haneke
Posted on 5/9/25 at 12:42 pm to SlowFlowPro
Posted on 5/9/25 at 1:01 pm to cinemaguy23
Speak No Evil (European version) American version sucked.
Posted on 5/9/25 at 1:14 pm to VOR
When The Dreamers came out I recommended it to a friend. A few weeks later he says "Dude why didn't you warn me about that movie. I ended up watching it with my mother-in-law."
Posted on 5/9/25 at 1:56 pm to SlowFlowPro
I highlighted everything I have seen. I guess I have seen more than I thought, also you suggested the library, I use Plex. Thanks for the list.
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Japanese Horror (Modern)
Cure***
Audition***
Ringu
Ju-On
Pulse*
Tetsuo
Battle Royale*
Uzumaki
Dark Water
Noroi
One Missed Call
Suicide Club
Japanese Horror (Classic)
Kwaiden
Ugetsu
Godzilla
House
Onibaba
Lady Snowblood
Korean Horror
Wailing***
I Saw the Devil **
A Tale of Two Sisters **
The Host **
Train to Busan
Project Wolf Hunting
Gonjiam
Bodyparts
The Witch
Other Asian Horror
The Medium**
Satan’s Slaves
Shutter
Japanese Crime
First Love
Ichi the Killer
Outrage 1 & 2
Korean Crime
Oldboy***
Deliver Us From Evil
The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil
Midnight
The Man From Nowhere
Hong Kong crime
The Killer ***
Hard Boiled ***
Fallen Angels ***
Internal Affairs***
A Better Tomorrow
Other Asian Action
The Raid
The Raid 2***
The Mountain Patrol***
13 Assasins
Asian Drama
Seven Samurai***
Ran***
Rashamon***
Chunking Express*
In the Mood for Love***
The Handmaiden
A Taxi Driver
Parasite
French Horror (Some of these are gross)
Martyrs
High Tension
Brotherhood of the Wolf***
Climax
Time of the Wolf
Inside
Frontiers
British Horror
Kill List ***
Borderlands/Final Prayer***
A Dark Song***
Sunshine*
Dog Soldiers
The Descent ***
The Wicker Man***
Starve Acre
Possum
Sightseeers
Black Death*
The Blood on Satan’s Claws
Other European Horror
REC***
Trollhunter***
Possession
Speak No Evil
Let the Right One In***
Inferno
Suspiria***
The Vanishing
Demons
Zombi
The Beyond
City of the Living Dead
French Drama
Love Me If You Dare***
The Three Colors series
Delicious***
Blue is the Warmest Color
Partisan
British Drama/Crime
Layer Cake***
Trainspotting***
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Snatch
The Crying Game***
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy***
The Hit
Sexy Beast*
Bronson
‘71
European SciFi/Fantasy
Brazil***
The Devils
Pan’s Labyrinth***
Border
Attack the Block
Under the Skin
The City of Lost Children
Asterix and Obelix
European Drama
Amadeus***
In Bruges***
Barry Lyndon***
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
The Robber
Steve + Sky
Run Lola Run
The Princess and the Warrior*
Headhunters
Children of Men***
Amelie**
Russian Existentialism
Stalker***
Solaris***
The Return***
Misc Horror
Wake in Fright***
Speak No Evil**
When Evil Lurks***
Terrified
Dust Devil
Picnic at Hanging Rock***
Hagazussa
History of the Occult**
A Girl Walks Alone at Night*
Demon
Come and See
Misc Drama
Russian Ark
Dogtooth*
The Lobster**
The Virgin Spring
Wild Strawberries
Lilya-4-ever
Valhalla Rising
Pusher 1, 2, 3
Downfall
Another Round
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
The Hunt
The Seventh Seal***
City of God***
El Topo
The Holy Mountain
The Lives of Others
The Sea Inside
Posted on 5/9/25 at 1:58 pm to ThoseGuys
quote:
Das Boot is a great German film.
Yes
quote:
And India has Bollywood
You gotta be joking, right
Posted on 5/9/25 at 2:08 pm to cinemaguy23
Yojimbo
Seven Samurai
The Hidden Fortress
Throne of Blood
Sanjuro
Sword of Doom
Harakiri
Miyamoto Musashi
Rashomon
Gate of Hell
Seven Samurai
The Hidden Fortress
Throne of Blood
Sanjuro
Sword of Doom
Harakiri
Miyamoto Musashi
Rashomon
Gate of Hell
Posted on 5/9/25 at 2:37 pm to cinemaguy23
The Gods Must be Crazy
Guy Drops a Coke bottle out of a plane in Africa. Tribes man sees it and thinks it came from Heaven. British movie and that's all I remember and it being funny.
Guy Drops a Coke bottle out of a plane in Africa. Tribes man sees it and thinks it came from Heaven. British movie and that's all I remember and it being funny.
This post was edited on 5/9/25 at 2:42 pm
Posted on 5/9/25 at 2:45 pm to cinemaguy23
What are some of the qualities you enjoyed in the foreign films you watched?
Posted on 5/9/25 at 5:27 pm to GeauxldMember
quote:
City of God (Brazil)
Still one of hardest scenes I’ve ever watched
Posted on 5/9/25 at 5:37 pm to cinemaguy23
No, or am I missing something?
Posted on 5/9/25 at 6:30 pm to cinemaguy23
Japanesse ,,, 
Posted on 5/9/25 at 6:51 pm to OWLFAN86
The City Below 2010
Posted on 5/9/25 at 7:22 pm to cinemaguy23
Dark
Posted on 5/9/25 at 8:45 pm to cinemaguy23
You’ve got some great recommendations already but I’ll add a few:
The Wages of Fear
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Breathless (anything directed by Jean-Luc Godard)
Dairy of a Country Priest (anything directed by Robert Bresson)
Diabolique (Inspired Hitchcock to make Psycho)
The Wages of Fear
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Breathless (anything directed by Jean-Luc Godard)
Dairy of a Country Priest (anything directed by Robert Bresson)
Diabolique (Inspired Hitchcock to make Psycho)
This post was edited on 5/9/25 at 8:46 pm
Posted on 5/9/25 at 9:29 pm to Geekboy
quote:This statement reminds me to add the three Swedish version's of Stieg Larsson's Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy. They are awesome. If you haven't seen them all, or read the books, you don't know the Lisbeth Salander character at all.
American version sucked.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (2009)
They are on Prime.
This post was edited on 5/9/25 at 9:39 pm
Posted on 5/9/25 at 9:40 pm to Gavin Elster
quote:
anything directed by Jean-Luc Godard
I would be very discerning post-1967.
I'll repeat a few
The films of Wong Kar-Wai, especially In the Mood for Love, Chungking Express, and The Grandmaster.
Everything from Bong Joon-ho pre-Okja: Memories of Murder, The Host, and Mother. Obviously, Parasite also
In addition to Oldboy, check out Decision to Leave and The Handmaiden.
Francois Truffaut, French new wave: The 400 Blows and Day for Night.
Lars von Trier for getting weird. Europa, The Element of Crime, and The Idiots. He has a bunch of weird films he made in English as well: Dogma, Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, and Melancholia.
I didn't notice much Herzog in previous posts. Aguirre, the Wrath of God; Fitzcaralldo; Heart of Glass.
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