Foreign Movie Recommendations

[satin chic]

Goodbye Lenin! (Germany)
Verschwende deine Jugend/Play It Loud! (Germany)
Swimming Pool (France)

 

[Hanne]

Das Leben der Anderen - The Life of Others (Germany)
Goodbye Lenin (Germany)
Volver (Spain)
Festen - The Feast (Denmark)
Swimming Pool (France)
Nueve Reinas - Nine Queens (Argentina)

 

[Profiterol]

I don't know if these have already been mentioned...


Hable con elle (Talk to her...by Almodovar)
La Strada (The Road, by Fellini)
Les Choristes
Cinema Paradiso
Ladri di biciclette (The bicycle thief)
8 1/2 (Fellini)
La vie en rose (Biographical picture of Edith Piaf)
The films of Jan Svankmajer

 

[leda]

some of my world cinema faves

valerie and her week of wonders (Jaromil Jireš)
adam's apples (Anders Thomas Jensen)
a bittersweet life (Kim Jee-Woon)
3-iron / samaritan girl (Kim Ki-duk)
the vengeance trilogy (Chan-wook Park)
hana-bi / kikujiro / dolls /sonatine (Takeshi Kitano)
happy together / chungking express / in the mood for love (Wong Kar-wai)
monsoon wedding (Mira Nair)
the scent of green papaya / the vertical ray of the sun (Tran Anh Hung)
eureka (Shinyi Aoyama)
last life in the universe (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang)
noi albinoi ([SIZE=-1]Dagur Kári)
after life (Hirokazu Koreeda)
[/SIZE]mephisto (István Szabó)
ten (Abbas Kiarostami)

and the short films by the Quay brothers

 

[modillustr]

Johnny Got His Gun is a novel written in 1938 (published 1939) by American novelist and screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. It has strong anti-war, pro euthanasia and anarchist themes. It also explores individual morality and the interplay between science, medicine, religion and politics.(wikipedia)
Grand prix spécial du jury , prix de la critique internationale ,Cannes 1971.

 

[vogueness]

Habla con Ella is great and so is the Lives of Other
I also really love Y Tu Mama Tambien

 

[kissmesweet]

Pan's Labyrinth. - A fun, entertaining film with fantastic effects and animation.

 

[Annabel]

Pan's Labyrinth. - A fun, entertaining film with fantastic effects and animation.

I saw that in theaters and just got it in the mail from Netflix . Can't wait to watch it again. I watched Mostly Martha last night, which is the German film that No Reservations (w/ Catherine Zeta-Jones) is based on. I'd definitely recommend it, but I have to say that the English subtitles were awful. Half the time they didn't even use subtitles .

 

[style_expert]

I'm not sure if they were mentioned before but my faves are:

Funny Games (Austria)- dir. Michael Haneke
Twin Sisters (Germany/ Holland)- dir. Ben Sombogaart
Volver (Spain)- dir. Pedro Almodóvar
Cache/ Hidden (France)- dir. Michael Haneke
La Pianiste (France)- dir. Michael Haneke
Code Inconnu (France)- dir. Michael Haneke
8 Femmes (France)- dir. Francois Ozon
Sous le Sable (France)- dir. Francois Ozon
Lemming (France)- dir. Dominik Moll
Vers le Sud (France)- dir. Laurent Cantet
La Tourneuse de Pages (France)- dir. Denis Dercourt
L'enfant (Belgium)- dir. Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
Czlowiek z zelaza (Poland)- dir. Andrzej Wajda
Central do Brasil- dir. Walter Salles
As it is in heaven (Sweden)- dir. Kay Pollak
Festen (Denmark)- dir. Thomas Vinterberg

 

[lisandwich]

Little Otik
Grave of the Fireflies
Nobody Knows
Kamikaze Girls
A Tale of Two Sisters

 

[Orane]

Les Chansons d'Amour

 

[leda]

i'd like to add Crimen ferpecto by [SIZE=-1]Álex de la Iglesia
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[Aby]

i'd like to add Crimen ferpecto by [SIZE=-1]Álex de la Iglesia[/SIZE]

I enjoyed this movie so much, it's both fun and cruel!

Lately, I fully recommend to anyone Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi which is an animated French movie. Really you won't regret it!

 

[ToxicMoxie]

Amores Perros
Run Lola Run
Maria Full of Grace
Pan's Labyrinth
Downfall

 

[Mistique]

Some of these has probably been mentioned before, but oh well..

Goodbye Lenin! (Germany)
Flickering Lights/ Blinkende Lygter (Denmark)
Truly Human/ Et Rigtigt Menneske (Denmark)
f*cking Åmål (Sweden)

 

[BadHairDay]

"The Elementary Particles" aka "Atomised" (German) is a brilliant film, highly recommended B)

 

[modillustr]

Nobody Knows (誰も知らない; Dare mo shiranai) is a 2004 Japanese film directed by Hirokazu Koreeda. The movie is based on a 1988 event best known as the "Affair of the four abandoned children of Sugamo". The story is about four children, each a child by a different father, abandoned by their mother. They are then forced to survive on their own.(wikipedia)

sancho-asia.com
This movie trailer(allocine.frDaremo shiranai_trailer
Homepage:Daremo shiranai_homepage

 

[city girl]

Great thread!

My rec's:
The Spanish Apartment and Russian Dolls -funny and poignant
Lilya 4-ever - the most disturbing film i've ever seen. So heartbreaking yet touching
The motorcycle diaries - the scenery is so beautiful, found it boring otherwise ( )
The Edukators - Great storyline and overall a must see foreign film
Love in thoughts - Beautiful scenery and good storyline

One of my favourite things to do is watching foreign films on TV

 

[Al3ksandra]

Anything by Almodovar...I know it's already been said 100 times ... and Princesa I have to say you speak as an authentic spanish ...most don't quite apreciate Almodovar's way of expression...(you're absolutely entitled to not like his work)...

I don't think anyone mentioned Alejandro Amenabar... Tesis and Abre los ojos(the original Vanilla Sky with Tom Cruise & Cameron Diaz that I didn't really liked)...

And as some of you already mentions Federico Fellini's work

 

[blue.]

Angel-A

by Luc Besson