Foreign Films
 

Having grown weary of Hollywood and its
pointless remakes of films

does anyone have any suggestions of foreign films I might enjoy?
e.g. - subtitled dramas and the like

I was thinking of sending of for a few DVDs and would appreciate suggestions

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Try this :tu: :)

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What sort of films? what genre?

I can recommend you lots of good thai films... but don't know if it is your cup of tea :shrug:

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Have you seen "The Motorcycle Diaries" yet?

http://www.motorcyclediaries.net/index.html

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I would recommend Amelie, which i thought was excellent, Run Lola Run, Das Experement, and i know a lot of people seem to like the Three colours movies, (Blue, Red and White), but i havent seen them myself.

Then there is Belleville Rendez Vous which is a animated feature but its quite funny and quirky as hell, City of God (a very good movie) set in the slums of Brazil, and finally a couple of my favourites...

Battle Royale

and

Spirited Away

A couple of films i would definately recommend to anyone, although Battle Royale could be concidered an aquired taste, Spirtied Away is simply a Beautiful movie.

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what about Good bye lenin? :O

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The origonal "Das Boot" is a great show, but not a film. Well worth watching though.

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I really liked Zatoichi. It is a Japanese samurai movie. Part-drama, part-comedy, part-martial-arts.

There have been loads of Zatoichi movies made over the years though. Stick to the 2003 version.

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I'll second that!...

"Hero" is excellent :tu:




"Zatoichi" is very good :tu:



Another foreign film I've seen recently:

"Brotherhood of the Wolf"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0237534/

http://www.sendit.com/video/item/7000000072504


Very good film.

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Ever been to a black Welsh film festival? I hear you might get some interesting ideas there. :)

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Spirited Away

i just ordered that one - will tell you what I think of it if you like

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I enthusiastically second City of God and Goodbye Lenin.

Those ware the best ones I've seen recently. The most recent one I've seen is House of 1000 Daggers (I believe it's the same guy who directed Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon). It wasn't exactly bad, but it's not worth recommending either.

Oh! I just remembered one. It's quite old. I saw it for a foreign film class last year, but it was really good. In the Name of the Father. It's Irish.

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I can strongly recommend watching 3 films by Luc Besson, if you've not already seen them:

Leon
Le Grand Bleu
Nikita

Each one is superbly written, the casting is excellent, the acting is first class, the directing is formidable, etc... I'm not a fan of all of Besson's work, but these 3 are not to be missed.

Hope that helps.

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Oh, just saw that Bishop's status is 'Banned'. Is that true.... or am I just being gullible?

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Quite true. :)