Your Favourite Non-English Films?

[Neversoft]

Unfortunately foreign cinema isn't really discussed much on this forum, but I was just wondering what all of your favourite foreign, non-English films may be.

Personally I feel that Oldboy is not only the best foreign film ever made, but also one of the best films ever made. Period. I am also a huge fan of Kurosawa's works, most notably Seven Samurai, Yojimbo and Ran and love a good Jackie Chan movie. Shinjuku Incident, which is finally released on DVD in February, completely blew me away. A big fan of Takeshi Kitano as well; Kikujiro is my favourite movie of his. Fumihiko Sori's Ping Pong is another of my all time favourites. A special mention to Yoji Yamada's The Twilight Samurai as well. Moving out of Asia now - I'm also a huge fan of the Swedish horror-romance Let The Right One In. Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth is another fantastic foreign film, along with The Good, The Bad and the Ugly and many other Sergio Leone westerns.

They're most of my favourites, what about yours? :)

[dirrty]

erm crouching tiger hidden dragon, hero and house of flying daggers.

[Misawa]

Leone, Let The Right One In (which, funnily enough, I'm about to watch now on Blu), Pan's Labyrinth, Inglourious *******s (joke), Oldboy, Inside, Martyrs.

[Neversoft]

erm crouching tiger hidden dragon, hero and house of flying daggers.

Damn, I totally forgot about House of Flying Daggers. Love that film.

No Kurosawa, Misawa?

[Misawa]

Don't own any Kurosawa flicks for some reason (on DVD). Have a couple of VHS bootlegs but no VHS player anymore. Haven't seen them in YEARS. But yes, Ran and The Seven Samurai are a couple of my foreign film favourites. I could go on and on and on really.

[colourpot]

run lola run :)
i love the film.

[Gibs960]

I like that film about that general (Chinese) and he grows old and he faces a massive enemy on his own at the end

[Black_Apalachi]

Can't say I've seen many, but it would probably be a Jackie Chain one. I hate Crouching Tiger, it bored me sooooo much. A film came on the TV the other day and I just started watching it. Most of it was in Italian with subs but it was almost as if I didn't even realise it wasn't English, just thought that was kind of cool. Think it was called Heaven.

[Neversoft]

Can't say I've seen many, but it would probably be a Jackie Chain one. I hate Crouching Tiger, it bored me sooooo much. A film came on the TV the other day and I just started watching it. Most of it was in Italian with subs but it was almost as if I didn't even realise it wasn't English, just thought that was kind of cool. Think it was called Heaven.

You should really check out some more foreign films, they offer a perspective Hollywood just can't offer. If you haven't seen Oldboy stop what you are doing, go to the place nearest to you that sells DVDs and buy it. If the shop is closed steal it. Oldboy must be watched.

[superstar911]

Let The Right One In and City of God. Two incredible foreign language films.

It saddens me that not many people would watch a subtitled movie, a lot of them are better than Hollywood movies.

[Neversoft]

Oh my I've forgotten Downfall as well. Fantastic German film.

[Charles]

I don't have a favourite seeing as I don't watch many non-english speaking films, but I'd like to mention 'Y tu mamá también' if anyone has managed to see it. Worth a watch (there is a storyline over the sexual scenes).

[Misawa]

Y Tu Mama Tambien is a good one, if a bit weird at times.

[hah]

rec lol probs only one i watched in full

[untrustus]

amelié, das leben der anderen (the lives of others), http://www.imdb.com/images/b.gifel laberinto del fauno (pan's labyrinth)
(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457430/)

[FlyingJesus]

Shaolin Soccer

Nah that is hilarious but somehow doesn't seem as well made as some others.. Pan's Labyrinth is genius, so that can be on the list, City of God is also entirely unmissable and last weekend I went to see A Prophet (Un Prophète) which is an extremely clever and action packed film having won a load of awards already

[clueless]

amelie
pans labyrinth
battle royale
the hairdressers husband

probs my fave 4

ive seen lots of foreign films i find i prefer them to yeh hollywood films

[Oleh]

has to be Ong-bak 1

[Stryderman]

Idno if this counts but "The ring" the japenese version its so much scarier than the english one just with subtitles :rolleyes:

[Black_Apalachi]

You should really check out some more foreign films, they offer a perspective Hollywood just can't offer. If you haven't seen Oldboy stop what you are doing, go to the place nearest to you that sells DVDs and buy it. If the shop is closed steal it. Oldboy must be watched.

I will do this, sir!

Only thing about subtitled films is that I have to be not tired when I watch them. But most stuff I watch on my own is in bed while falling asleep :P.

[DrLacero]

Der Untergang, Battle Royale (sequel sucked), Das Boot, The Qatsi trilogy (okay so technically they're American films, but they're all in Hopi), Ringu and Rasen were pretty good, superior to the American ones anyway.

[superstar911]

Oh and Let's not forget 'Passion of the Christ'

[Black_Apalachi]

Oh and Let's not forget 'Passion of the Christ'

I thought that was good when I first saw it but if I watched it again now I would think it was crap.

[Misawa]

Another Mel Gibson rip-off.

[Narnat,]

Mulan Rouge is amazing sorry if im spelling it wrong but yeahh. :D
It's so romantic (A):eusa_booh

[LuketheDuke]

The Chorus and Y Tu Mama Tambien

[-Creative-]

Best foreign movie that i saw was Love me if you dare. It's in french.

[FlyingJesus]

Mulan Rouge is amazing sorry if im spelling it wrong but yeahh. :D
It's so romantic (A):eusa_booh

Unless you mean the 1944 film of that title which is hardly known, any film called Moulin Rouge is to my knowledge very much British or American made and presented in English. Non-English film doesn't mean a film not set in England :P

[-Xiangu-]

House of Flying Daggers, Curse of the Golden Flower and Spirited away <3

[clueless]

oh yeah i liked spirited away