Your Favorite Foreign Film

[Rude]

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.

The Quiet Earth?

-Rude

[mrbasehart]

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.

The Quiet Earth?

-Rude

That's the one. 

It's really good, but it falls apart in the final third. 

[gbeenie]

Le Dernier Combat.

[GregMcduck]

Just off the top of my head

England - The Red Shoes
France - Amélie
Italy - Amarcord
Japan - Ikiru
China - 2046
Australia - Walkabout
Germany - Metropolis
Iran - Taste of Cherry
Taiwan - Yi yi

[anais.jude]

Oh, and The Seven Samurai

[Piobman]

Martial art/stunt movie - Ong Bak (or anything with Tony Jaa in it), and any OLDER jackie chan film (police story, operation condor, etc..)

Favorite mob/con-man film: Nine Queens

Favorite fantasy: Pans Labyrinth. Beautiful and disturbing film.

Bollywood: Lagaan, Dil Se & Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

Silent film: Cabinet of Dr Caligari (original) or any 'silent' chaplin films

Favorite Egoyan Directed film: Sweet Hereafter and Exotica (yes he deserves his own category IMO)

Military Film - Das Boot

Best what the hell was I watching movie? : Persona (Too complex for my brain to fully comprehend)

Best unhappy happy ending (it makes sense if you watch it! : Old Boy.

Best Creepy movie: Devil's Backbone

Best Love Story: The Road Home, Princess and the warrior....  these are very atypical of that genre.

Best Heart Warming movie :  Children of Heaven,  Not One Less, Shall We Dance (japanese original)

Favorite Horror: Three Extremes and a slew of other japanese films. The japanese know how to do 'em right. Too bad we botch up their work.

And lastly, favorite film that hollywood destroyed. Insomnia. The original was superb.... the new version was a hacked version with horrible over acting.

These are just a few off the top of my head. I could go on forever. I think this thread should have been A LOT more specific. I'll definitely be checking out other people's recommendations here.

[mearnest]

And lastly, favorite film that hollywood destroyed. Insomnia. The original was superb.... the new version was a hacked version with horrible over acting.

When it comes to a great foreign film Hollywood destroyed 'The Vanishing' is always the first that comes to my mind.

Some of my favorites off the top of my head:
Le Circle Rouge
Walkabout
Seven Samurai (hell just about anything by Kurosawa)
Twilight Samurai
Triplets of Belleville
Nosferatu (both Murnau and Herzog)
Fitzcarraldo
Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
The Holy Mountain
M
Oldboy
Blow Up
Passion of Joan of Arc
Metropolis

[Piobman]

When it comes to a great foreign film Hollywood destroyed 'The Vanishing' is always the first that comes to my mind.

Some of my favorites off the top of my head:
The Holy Mountain
M
Oldboy
Blow Up
Passion of Joan of Arc
Metropolis

Since you have Holy Mountain up there... I think El Topo deserves a mention. Also another good one by that director. Kind of love or hate sort of movies. Good stuff though. I never saw the vanishing remake they made. The original one was awesome though.

[mearnest]

The remake of Vanishing had a happy ending.

[gojikranz]

Gojira  too obvious?

also love me some kurosawa, leone, herzog, lang

Since you have Holy Mountain up there... I think El Topo deserves a mention. Also another good one by that director. Kind of love or hate sort of movies. Good stuff though. I never saw the vanishing remake they made. The original one was awesome though.

el topo and the holy mountain are great.  when are they gonna have a good release of santa sangre in the states im dying to see that.

[Tripe]

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.

The Quiet Earth?

-Rude

That's the one. 

It's really good, but it falls apart in the final third. 

Yep, thanks Rude, and yes fair point basehart

[Scrivener]

The Seven Samurai.  I'm surprised it took until the second page of this thread for someone to name it.  A film so great, it got churned through the Hollywood Remake Machine, and was still good.

[Trumpysgirl]

I will also have to name Pan's Labyrinth as another favorite. I could watch that movie over and over and never get bored.

And just for clarity, let's say that "foreign film" means any film does not use your native language.

[Trumpysgirl]

"Hay-ted it!"

Pan's? You die now.....

[ImOscardotcom]

"Hay-ted it!"

Pan's? You die now.....

Don't take it personal. He hates everything.