Foreign Movie Recommendations

[polkadot_gun]

Amelie (French)
Delicatessen (French)
La Cite des Enfants Perdus - The City of Lost Children (French)
i love Jean-Pierre Jeunet <3

A Bout de Souffle - Breathless (French)
or anything by Jean-Luc Godard
Jules et Jim (French)
La Vie en Rose (French)
Irreversible (French) - this film is hard to watch but a definate must see!
Das Leben der Anderen - The Life of Others (German)
Cinema Paradiso (Italian)
Pans Labryinth (Spanish)
City of God (Brazilian)
Spirited Away (Japanese)
Howl's Moving Castle (Japanese)
Princess Mononoke (Japanese)

 

[ChristionCouture]

Polkadot gun, I loved a lot of those movies! Especially Pans Labryinth (creepy!), City of God (friendship is important), La Cite des Enfants Perdus (sad ending), and Ameile!

 

[make_me_whole]

jeux d'enfant
i really love french films.lol.

 

[franz_ferdinand]

love love foreign movie so much :

~m
~amelie
~a very long engagement
~stalker
~pan's labyrinth
~les choristes
~in the mood for love
~la belle et la bete
~suspiria
~good bye lenin!
~night of cabiria
~memento mori
~a tale of two sisters
~the spirit of the beehive
~the city of lost children
~samaria
~la haine
~the seventh seal
~dancer in the dark
~take care of my cat

 

[knightley]

Oi! Cannot believe Im Juli wasn't mentioned! Without a doubt it is the most lovely film I've seen in a long time. Such a sweet and moving story to it.

The Edukators, too. Was that mentioned? It has my future husband Daniel Bruehl in it! Which ought to be enough, but the story is absolutely maddeningly wonderful too! Disillusioned young adults and how far they'll take their want for change.

 

[stersita]

^your future husband? I really liked that film too

 

[knightley]

^your future husband? I really liked that film too

Yes, you can have Vincent! What a good trade!

 

[BooBah]

subscribing, sorry

 

[ChristionCouture]

The Orphanage (Spain) WHOAHHHHH!!!!! This movie deserves an Emmy!! 10/10

 

[em 692]

french film:

love me if you dare (jeux d'enfants)





amazon.com

 

[kezme44]

dom za vesanje aka le temps des gitans aka time of the gypsies (bosnian)
the tenant (french)
the nightwatch (danish)
suspiria (italian/german)
le cercle rouge (french)
downfall (german)
bicycle thieves (italian)
la dolce vita (italian)
divorce italian style (italian)

 

[secretforest]

The Orphanage (Spain) WHOAHHHHH!!!!! This movie deserves an Emmy!! 10/10

definitely, i love this movie so much. i liked ma mere also, although it was pretty weird. REQUIEM is one of my favorites also, its german.

 

[baddabling]

La Vie en Rose
and
Persepolis

 

[azote.]

^^ both incredible films. loved them!
i'll just reiterate some:
Les Choristes (Fr)
Spirited Away (Japan)
Wait 'Til You're Older (Hong Kong)

and anything by Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne (Belgium), i.e. L'enfant, Le fils, La Promesse, Rosetta, etc...

 

[ruslana rules]

Just saw the Swedish film "Everlasting Moments". Very moving. Takes place around the turn of the century. This housewife is encouraged by a shopkeeper to use this new device called a camera. Turns out she's quite good. Her husband is jealous of her talents & is abusive, etc. The ending surprised me. See it.

 

[Label Basher]

French comedies by Francis Veber -

La doublure (The Valet)
Pierre Levasseur, an important CEO, is photographed with his lover, Elena, a world-famous model. In an attempt to salvage his marriage, he tries to convince his wife that Elena is not his lover, but that of François Pignon, a valet who was passing by and ended up on the photograph. To make his story believable, Levasseur then has to convince Pignon and Elena to move in together and to pretend to be a couple. Things get more complicated when this creates tensions between Pignon and his former flatmate Richard and his love interest Émilie, and when Levasseur's wife discovers the truth and decides to play games with her husband. Also has a cameo by Karl Largefeld.

Le placard (The Closet)
François Pignon, a very bland sort of man who works as an accountant in a rubber factory, is about to be fired. His new neighbour comes up with an idea to prevent such a thing to happen: he spreads the rumor that he's gay so that the factory management might be afraid they'll be sued for sexual discrimination. Of course, nothing happens as it should, but the changes in François Pignon's life -and other people's too- is drastic!

 

[xerq]

Ondskan
L'auberge espagnole
Les Poupées russes
Dans Paris
La Reine Margot

 

[Scott]

anything by Czech filmmaker Jan Švankmajer but particularly Alice
Suspira & Profondo Rosso by Dario Argento
Maculin/Feminin & Alphaville by Jean-Luc Godard
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders/Valerie a týden divů by Jaromil Jireš
Les Diabolique by Henri-Georges Clouzot

 

[MulletProof]

^ I'll be on the lookout for Švankmajer's Alice .. kind of in the mood for something like that.

Does anyone have any good Scandinavian films to recommend? I've liked pretty much every Danish film I've seen, but they're not that many and I suddenly have an urge to watch something Swedish or Norwegian (and more Danish of course), but there are too many movies to choose and I don't want to end up watching something really crappy and lose interest.

 

[sobriquet87]

Some of my favorites:

Rashômon
El laberinto del fauno (Pan's Labyrinth)
La vita è bella (Life Is Beautiful)
Låt den rätte komma (Let the Right One In)
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Se, jie (Lust, Caution)