Best foreign movies you've seen

[tqpix]

Here are mine:

• Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain {U.S. Title: Amelie} (2001) [France]
• Les Diaboliques (1955) [France]
• Ringu (1998) [Japan].

 

[twosteppin]

Amelie Is such a beautiful movie. I love that film! That is the best foreign film I have seen with "life is beautiful" coming in second.

 

[oneiric]

Amelie.

 

[wonder111]

the eighth day I love, and Amelie of course

 

[desi]

Now I'll have to see Amelie.

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is my favorite. The end is just too good, its up to you to believe in hard reality or the legend...

 

[peanutbutter12]

WOGBOY!!!!!

 

[PaladinValer]

All three of these tied:

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

And yes, I believe them to be completely foreign to the US of A.

 

[trunks2k]

Run Lola Run
Life is Beautiful
A bunch of anime movies by Hayao Miyazaki.

 

[theFijian]

Some of my absolutely all time favouirite 'foreign language' films....

Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain - Amelie
La Vita è bella - Life is beautiful
Wo hu cang long - Crouching Tiger
Det Sjunde inseglet - The Seventh Seal
Cidade de Deus - City of God
Shichinin no samurai - The Seven Samurai
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes - Aguirre, the wrath of God (in fact almost anything by Werner Herzog)
Rashômon

Oooh I really have to watch some of those again soon.

Andy

 

[jidujiao]

A few additions:

Citee des Enfants Perdus (France)--City of the Lost Children
Jean de Florette (France)
Les Miserables (France)--the version set in WWII, with Jean-Paul(?) Belmondo
Il Postino (Italy)
Hero (China)
Goodbye Lenin (Germany)
Not One Less (China)
The Road Home (China)

 

[kurabrhm]

Amelie Is such a beautiful movie. I love that film! That is the best foreign film I have seen with "life is beautiful" coming in second.

I agree! Amelie is a great film!

 

[kurabrhm]

Now I'll have to see Amelie.

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is my favorite. The end is just too good, its up to you to believe in hard reality or the legend...

I tried to watch Crowching tiger hiddern pussycat. But i just found it way too longwinded! So i gave up watching half way through.

 

[kurabrhm]

How about THE RING?

Made in Japan.

 

[KenobiKid]

Some of my absolutely all time favouirite 'foreign language' films....

Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain - Amelie
La Vita è bella - Life is beautiful
Wo hu cang long - Crouching Tiger
Det Sjunde inseglet - The Seventh Seal
Cidade de Deus - City of God
Shichinin no samurai - The Seven Samurai
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes - Aguirre, the wrath of God (in fact almost anything by Werner Herzog)
Rashômon

Oooh I really have to watch some of those again soon.

Andy

Wow! You know good movies, your list is a near carbon copy of what I was going to post going into this thread. Kurosawa can do no wrong in my eyes, and you can't forget about The Hidden Fortress. And I adore Bergman, I need to save up to get the dvd boxset that was rereleased a few weeks back. On the initial released I had the money but it was recalled due to some misframing of 2 of the films so I held off, now I'm broke.

Some of my favorites are:
Abre Los Ojos-Open Your Eyes. This is the film that Vanilla Sky was based off of. The director, Alejandro Amenabar, also did Tesis-Thesis which is brillaint. He's best known for The Others.

Talk to Her is a great film too. I believe you can pick that one up at Best Buy for 12.99 now, everyone who likes a good film should check that one out.

Malena
Life Is Beautiful
Irreversible
Kairo-Pulse
Dogville-If you want to count that one.

 

[Sanguine]

Das Boot

 

[KristianJ]

WOGBOY!!!!!

When did the Wogboy reach the US?

I remember seeing a really funny Japanese movie a few years ago called Sumo Do, Sumo Don't, all about sumo wrestling and the thinner variations on the theme. It was one of the most hilarious movies I have ever seen.

 

[Roo6339]

since i'm australian, do hollywood movies count as foreign?

if not, i haven't seen any "foreign" movies lol...

 

[kurabrhm]

since i'm australian, do hollywood movies count as foreign?

if not, i haven't seen any "foreign" movies lol...

No, they don't. Mel Gibson, Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe - these are all Australian actors in Hollywood. So how can Hollywood be 'foreign' to Australians? Hollywood also speaks the same language as Australians.

 

[mametz]

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Run Lola Run

two of the greatest movies ever!

 

[Rokedwin]

Akira (Japan)
Chungking Express (HK)
Kikujiro (Japan)