Top 5 foreign films?

[Anonymous]

It's really difficult to only list 5 films here. My fives, in no particular order:

La Haine

Cinema Paradiso

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

In the Mood For Love

Hana Bi

 

[John Duncan]

Clare Newsome:the original version of The Ring

Yeah, I loved that:

 

[Simon Lucas]

Delicatessen
Jamon Jamon
Spirited Away
Ringu
Infernal Affairs

 

[Anonymous]

Clare Newsome:Someone just mentioned Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and Hero as ones to add to the list, plus the original version of The Ring

Hero? I fell asleep through that. And that doesn't happen often. Thought it was underwhelming at best.

 

[Anonymous]

For martial arts i much prefer Tony Jaas Ong Bak and the superb Tom Yum Goong! Have a remote handy so you can rewind fairly regularly. No wires or CGI either!

 

[Anonymous]

Could not agree more about Once Were Warriors a stunning film. Also have a look at Whale Rider for more Maori culture. Also in my DVD collection are the Infernal Affairs trilogy, Brotherhood(korean), Brother (russian), The Orphanage & Pan's Labyrinth, El Mariachi, Y tu mama tambien (mexican).

 

[pierobotha]

As South African we have made one or two good movies worth whatching

Tsotsi

Jerusalema

other good foreign films

Antonias line

Kolya

Jeanne de Florette

Manon of the Spring

 

[Thaiman]

Better tomorrow

Akira

Shutter (very scary!)

City of god

 

[ElectroMan]

As most suggestions so far as fairly recent films, here are some older classics:

Tokyo Story

Alphaville

Orpheus

Bicycle Thieves

Man With A Movie Camera, a 1929 Russian Film that used a lot of seemingly modern techniques, such as split screens, jump cuts, fast/slow motion, tracking shots etc.

NB: none of the above will give your surround sound system a workout!

 

[the record spot]

In no great order:-

The Three Colours Trilogy (I know it's three films, but they're all tied in)
Hidden
Diva
The Seventh Seal
Downfall

Das Boot - the TV series however, brilliantly done, never saw the film.

 

[John Duncan]

the record spot:The Three Colours Trilogy (I know it's three films, but they're all tied in)

Yeah, but did you find the all good?

 

[the record spot]

JohnDuncan:the record spot:The Three Colours Trilogy (I know it's three films, but they're all tied in)

Yeah, but did you find the all good?

From memory, I thought TC Blue was best. The summary that brings all three films together was rather clever in the third film too I thought.

 

[idc]

Subway (1985) with Christopher Lambert and Isabelle Adjani, directed by Luc Besson.The first time I saw it was at a film club. The projectonist could not fit the picture onto the screen and so we watched it without the subtitles, a real workout for my O grade French. I like Euro thrillers so La Nikita (1991) with Anne Parillaud, directed by Luc Besson.

 

[Anonymous]

Seven Samurai

Ran

La Haine

City of Lost Children

City of God

 

[Anonymous]

A number of bollywood movies, which NO ONE has mentioned yet

 

[Anonymous]

I've just watched "Eastern Promises" and I quite wasn't prepared for it. I hadn't read up on the movie and knew nowt about the actors (we did recognise Vincent Cassel and the other leads) or who the director was. A very good movie, that would easily be in my top 10 or 20. Very enjoyable overall (some of the scenes made my g/f irk a bit though...

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[Anonymous]

idc:Subway (1985)

Yup, that would be my number 1.

 

[lonely boy]

Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica 1948)

The Blue Kite (Tian Zhuangzhuang 1993)

Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou 1991)

Russian Ark (Aleksandr Sokurov 2002)

The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman 1957)

I'm afraid I don't watch many movies these days...

 

[Anonymous]

Internal Affairs

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance

Ichi The Killer

Downfall

Audition

The Vanishing (original Dutch verson)

La Haine

 

[Anonymous]

2 french films my mate recomended to me and watched,although i hate subtitled films i managed to put up with

Baise Moi

Irreversible

 

[Anonymous]

Cinema Paradiso

Belle de jour

Akira

Rashemon

Pan's Labyrinth

 

[ElectroMan]

swuk37:

2 french films my mate recomended to me and watched,although i hate subtitled films i managed to put up with

Baise Moi

Irreversible

That wouldn't have anything to do with the ultra-violence and explicit sex scenes would it?

 

[Anonymous]

o were those sort of scenes in them hehe

the special effect in one part of Irreversable was very well done i gotta say,(fire extinguisher,mans face/head)

 

[ElectroMan]

Gaspar Noe, who made Irreversible, seems to specialise in extremely violent films. The one he did before Irreversible, I Stand Alone, is if anything even more disturbing, featuring as it does a lead character who is both repellent and brutal.

I didn't find the violence in Baise Moi as disturbing, as there's so much of it and it's so over the top that eventually it becomes almost funny!

 

[JoelSim]

I can't believe no-one has mentioned The Big Blue. I also really liked Jean de Florette.

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