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Invisible
18-Jun-09, 20:02
I don't have many foreign films, 3 to be exact.
They are Taxi, Taxi2 and Taxi3. Brilliant french films and even though i have to read the subtitles i still can laugh and cry when im meant too?

whats your fav foreign film?

Kevin Milkins
18-Jun-09, 23:02
I have a few good Swedish films.;)

squareman
19-Jun-09, 00:55
Das boat was a classic in my opinion !

davem
19-Jun-09, 09:34
Diva is my fav.

honey
19-Jun-09, 15:34
Pans Labrynth was fantastic.

squareman
19-Jun-09, 15:39
Das Boot ! My German is not as good as my English. ;)

Kenn
19-Jun-09, 23:17
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday.
Hiroshima Mon Amour.
Brides.
Never on a Sunday.

ShelleyCowie
20-Jun-09, 15:41
Pans Labrynth was fantastic.

I completely agree! That is one of my favourite all time movies! The spanish brings feeling to the movie i thought.

Brill film!! :Razz

Fluff
20-Jun-09, 16:51
The lives of others,
Amelie,
Chocolat,
Battle Royale,
The Host.

I don't know if it counts but the Studio Ghibli films are awesome.
My OH quite likes Night Watch and Day Watch

sassylass
20-Jun-09, 17:56
The Dinner Game was interesting.

emb123
20-Jun-09, 19:38
"Le ballon rouge" (the red balloon) is a magical classic that really captured my imagination when I was younger -but I think it still would delight most viewers today of any age. Worth checking out.

These days my tastes are a bit more grown up and "Le Pacte des Loups" (a martial arts film) is one of my favourites.

I love french farces and Marcel Pagnol's trilogy of films "Marius", "Fanny" and "César" are hilarious.

sassylass
20-Jun-09, 22:09
"Le ballon rouge" (the red balloon) is a magical classic that really captured my imagination when I was younger -but I think it still would delight most viewers today of any age. Worth checking out.

These days my tastes are a bit more grown up and "Le Pacte des Loups" (a martial arts film) is one of my favourites.

I love french farces and Marcel Pagnol's trilogy of films "Marius", "Fanny" and "César" are hilarious.


French farces are high on my list too so I'll be looking for that trilogy, thank you. You might like Le dîner de cons (The Dinner Game), it was also farce.

Rheghead
21-Jun-09, 00:13
Letters from Iwo Jima has to be one of the best 'foreign' films I've seen. Absolutely captivating from start to finish.

Aaldtimer
21-Jun-09, 03:09
"Babette's Feast".

loganbiffy
23-Jun-09, 15:16
A good few lurking about, especially some J-Horror.

Ju-On: The Grudge.
Battle Royale.
Honogurai mizu no soko kara: Dark Water.
City of God: amazing film.

Shabbychic
28-Jun-09, 15:11
I love foreign films as my DVD collection will testify. Some goodies are:-

Evil (Swedish)
Antibodies (German)
Pan's Labyrinth and The Devil's Backbone (Spanish)
Kung Fu Hustle (Chinese)
House of Flying Daggers (Chinese)
Ong Bak (Thai)
Le Cage Aux Folles 1&2 (French)
Wasabi (French)
Le Bossu (French)
Quai des Orfevres (36) (French)
Brotherhood of the Wolf (French)

I could go on all day, but I can recommend all of the above. :D

sassylass
10-Jul-09, 19:58
"Le ballon rouge" (the red balloon) is a magical classic that really captured my imagination when I was younger -but I think it still would delight most viewers today of any age. Worth checking out.

These days my tastes are a bit more grown up and "Le Pacte des Loups" (a martial arts film) is one of my favourites.

I love french farces and Marcel Pagnol's trilogy of films "Marius", "Fanny" and "César" are hilarious.


I got hold of this trilogy and have thoroughly enjoyed the first two 'Marius' and 'Fanny', am eagerly looking forward to 'César'. Thank you for suggesting them.

weefee
06-Aug-09, 11:09
A good few lurking about, especially some J-Horror.

Ju-On: The Grudge.
Battle Royale.
Honogurai mizu no soko kara: Dark Water.
City of God: amazing film.


totally agree logan, city of god one of my fav films of all time, not seen city of men yet.....

Oldboy..also very good, if a bit bizzare, compulsive viewing though and has some twists!!!

The Host, hilarious!!!!

Cinema Paradiso

Dog-eared
26-Aug-09, 00:05
Cinema paradiso
Amelie
Loads of Russian animation films.
Das Boot

Fitzcarraldo - written and directed by Werner Herzog and starring Klaus Kinsky.
The one about the opera guy dragging a boat across Peru. They nearly killed each other before the filming was finished !!
[edit (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fitzcarraldo&action=edit&section=1)] Story

Brian "Fitzcarraldo" Fitzgerald, a European living in a small city in Peru (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peru) in the early part of the 20th century, has a great love of opera and an indomitable spirit. He is a great fan of the famous tenor Enrico Caruso (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Caruso) and he dreams of building an opera house (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_house) in his city of Iquitos (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iquitos). This will require a lot of money, and the most profitable industry in Peru at the time is rubber (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber). The areas known to contain rubber trees (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_trees) have been parceled up by the Peruvian government and can be leased for exploitation.
Fitzcarraldo investigates getting into the rubber business. He is shown a map by a helpful rubber baron, who points out the only remaining unclaimed parcel in the area. He explains why no one has yet claimed the parcel: while it straddles the Ucayali River (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ucayali_River), the parcel is cut off from the Amazon by a treacherous set of rapids (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapids). However, Fitzcarraldo notices that the Pachitea River (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pachitea_River&action=edit&redlink=1), another Amazon tributary, comes within several hundred meters to the Ucayali upstream of the parcel.[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzcarraldo#cite_note-0)
To make his dream a reality, he leases the inaccessible parcel from the government. With the selfless underwriting of his paramour and brothel owner, Molly (Claudia Cardinale (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Cardinale)), he buys a steamer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_boat) (which he christens (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_naming_and_launching) the Molly Aida) from the same rubber baron, raises a crew and sets off up the Pachitea, the parallel river. This river is known to be more dangerous the further one gets from the Amazon because of the unfriendly tribes that inhabit the area. Fitzcarraldo's plan is to reach the point where the two rivers nearly meet and then, with the manpower of enlisted natives, physically pull his three-story, 320-ton steamer over the muddy 40° hillside across an isthmus, from one river to the next.[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzcarraldo#cite_note-Blank-1-11-25-1) Using the steamer, he will then collect rubber on the upper Ucayali and bring it down the Pachitea to market.
The 1982 book Fitzcarraldo: The Original Story from Fjord Press (ISBN 0-940242-04-4 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0940242044)) reproduces Herzog's first version of the story before the screenplay was written.

JamesMcVean
26-Aug-09, 08:24
The Promise
Red Cliff 1+2
Chocolate
Ong Bak

Looking out for the new DVD - ICHI

peter macdonald
26-Aug-09, 13:16
The Seventh Seal is my all time favourite.
A Knight and his squire are home from the crusades. Black Death is sweeping their country. As they approach home, Death appears to the knight and tells him it is his time. The knight challenges Death to a chess game for his life. The Knight and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval the plague has caused...



.but the rest of these are excellent Pelle the Conquerer ,Man of Iron,Battleship Potemkin and Jean de Florette

Metalattakk
27-Aug-09, 01:37
I don't have many foreign films, 3 to be exact.
They are Taxi, Taxi2 and Taxi3. Brilliant french films and even though i have to read the subtitles i still can laugh and cry when im meant too?

whats your fav foreign film?

The Shawshank Redemption. Best foreign film ever.

crayola
27-Aug-09, 10:27
Cinema paradiso
Amelie
Loads of Russian animation films.
Das Boot

Fitzcarraldo - written and directed by Werner Herzog and starring Klaus Kinsky.
The one about the opera guy dragging a boat across Peru. They nearly killed each other before the filming was finished !!
[edit (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fitzcarraldo&action=edit&section=1)] Story

Brian "Fitzcarraldo" Fitzgerald, a European living in a small city in Peru (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peru) in the early part of the 20th century, has a great love of opera and an indomitable spirit. He is a great fan of the famous tenor Enrico Caruso (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Caruso) and he dreams of building an opera house (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_house) in his city of Iquitos (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iquitos). This will require a lot of money, and the most profitable industry in Peru at the time is rubber (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber). The areas known to contain rubber trees (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_trees) have been parceled up by the Peruvian government and can be leased for exploitation.
Fitzcarraldo investigates getting into the rubber business. He is shown a map by a helpful rubber baron, who points out the only remaining unclaimed parcel in the area. He explains why no one has yet claimed the parcel: while it straddles the Ucayali River (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ucayali_River), the parcel is cut off from the Amazon by a treacherous set of rapids (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapids). However, Fitzcarraldo notices that the Pachitea River (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pachitea_River&action=edit&redlink=1), another Amazon tributary, comes within several hundred meters to the Ucayali upstream of the parcel.[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzcarraldo#cite_note-0)
To make his dream a reality, he leases the inaccessible parcel from the government. With the selfless underwriting of his paramour and brothel owner, Molly (Claudia Cardinale (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Cardinale)), he buys a steamer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_boat) (which he christens (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_naming_and_launching) the Molly Aida) from the same rubber baron, raises a crew and sets off up the Pachitea, the parallel river. This river is known to be more dangerous the further one gets from the Amazon because of the unfriendly tribes that inhabit the area. Fitzcarraldo's plan is to reach the point where the two rivers nearly meet and then, with the manpower of enlisted natives, physically pull his three-story, 320-ton steamer over the muddy 40° hillside across an isthmus, from one river to the next.[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzcarraldo#cite_note-Blank-1-11-25-1) Using the steamer, he will then collect rubber on the upper Ucayali and bring it down the Pachitea to market.
The 1982 book Fitzcarraldo: The Original Story from Fjord Press (ISBN 0-940242-04-4 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0940242044)) reproduces Herzog's first version of the story before the screenplay was written.
Yes! This is an ab fab movie.

Ich liebe 'Das Boot' auch.

I agree with Metalattakk about Shawshank. :cool:

hasterhall
02-Sep-09, 21:12
I don't have many foreign films, 3 to be exact.
They are Taxi, Taxi2 and Taxi3. Brilliant french films and even though i have to read the subtitles i still can laugh and cry when im meant too?

whats your fav foreign film?

You should check out "Man Bites Dog" and my personal favourite "OldBoy".
Nobody has mentioned the most famous Foreign film of all time yet:

"The Sound of Music"
[lol]