Your Favorite Foreign Film

[Trumpysgirl]

To the best of my knowledge and searching we don't have a post on this.

Last week in my Film History class we watched two Italian neo-realism films: The Bicycle Thief and Umberto D. Both awesome movies (Umberto especially blew me away), and it got me thinking about what foreign films that you guys have seen and loved.

For me it will always be The Lives of Others. What's yours?

[Tony]

I thought about this (probably too long) and defining "foreign" might be a good idea. Is it anything that isn't made in the US, or non-English, or non-Western culture, or made in the US if you aren't American? Leaves a lot of room if you're thinking globally...

I love Australian films so of course my favorite foreign film is: Breaker Morant (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0080310/).

Edward Woodward is awesome, the story's very compelling (and true), the screenplay is well-done, the acting is superb. Exxxxxcellent movie.

[anais.jude]

I think of all time, my fave foreign film is Blue starring Juliette Binoche

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

Paprika

[a pretty girl is like]

I think of all time, my fave foreign film is Blue starring Juliette Binoche

That's my favorite of Kieslowski's films. 

Me and Tripe are foreigners technically still.  Does this mean we gotta pick American movies?  What about our friends across the water? 

Anyways.  I pick Ikiru or Chungking Express.

[Rude]

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The Passion Of Joan Of Arc by  Carl Theodor Dreyer.

-Rude

[mrbasehart]

Aww man, there are so many foreign movies that I love.  I couldn't possibly pick one.  Criterion put out some really great ones though, like The Battle for Algiers or Wages of Fear.

[Bob]

Yeah, you could probably spend several months strolling through the Criterion DVDs and find winners.

I am partial to Yojimbo and Ivan the Terrible.

[mrbasehart]

I love, love, love the comedies of Jacques Tati.  Monsieur Hulot's Vacation is almost perfect. 

[Courtney]

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The Passion Of Joan Of Arc by  Carl Theodor Dreyer.

-Rude

Concurred.  I also have to say Amelie, Cinema Paradiso, and The Virgin Spring.

[TeamRAD]

Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain



It will forever be my favorite movie and is absolute magic. It plays as a huge inspiration in my life, and some of its many nuances can be found in what I'm working on creatively too.

[mrbasehart]

That's a friend of mine's favourite movie, too.  Her daughter is called Amelie, in fact. 

[a pretty girl is like]

Aww man, there are so many foreign movies that I love.  I couldn't possibly pick one.  Criterion put out some really great ones though, like The Battle for Algiers or Wages of Fear.

Good call on both, especially Wages of Fear.   A lot of directors can definitely learn a thing or two about building and sustaining tension in a scene with that movie.

[Compound]

Double Vision, although I have a soft spot for Inside Information.

Oh, foreign films. Sorry. I read it as something else.

[Tripe]

*cracks knuckles*

OK by country

France

Tatie Danielle
Les Diaboliques
Ne le dis à personne
La Haine
Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien
Le Pacte des loups

Italy

Ladri di saponette
Volere volare
Allegro non troppo

Spain

Vacas
¡Átame!

Mexico

Cronos

French Canadia

Black Robe
Jésus de Montréal

India

Lagaan
Mr India
Bandit Queen

Austrailia

Picnic at Hanging Rock
Romper Stomper

New Zealand

Once Were Warriors
Bad Taste
Braindead

And there's another Kiwi film that I really liked but I can't remember the name of; it's about a man who finds he's the only person still left on the planet because, at the moment everyone else disappeared, he died for a moment.