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I have a huge respect for US movie actors & directors such as kubrick, tarantino, de palma, coppola, carpenter etc ... (+long list); unfortunately usa also flood our movie theaters with pathetic comedies, stupid action movies and appaling(?) horror remakes.
Because of it it is almost impossible to watch foreign movies (understand non-american movies), most of the time they are simply not scheduled and when they are it's usually for one or two days in the smallest and crappiest movie theater...
I would like to take advantage of the TL community who own members from all around the world to discover movies from your country.
Please make a small list of the best movies produced in your country by a local director/actors.
Write something like:
I'm from zimbabwe and zimbabwe's best movies are:
- xxx
- xxx
...
Also forgive my poor english & thank you!
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Austin10831 Posts
Some good Irish films:
The Commitments
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
In The Name of the Father
Intermission
The Crying Game
Garage
Once
Hunger
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Not from India but I watched Lagaan and it was a great movie
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Canada:
-Bon cop bad cop
-Cube
-Hypercube
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Just a few swedish films I can come up with on the spot:
Evil Ed
Så som i himmelen (As in heaven)
Fucking Åmål, other swedes will prolly flame me now cuz it's a "fjortis-film" :D
Nattbuss 807
Let the right one in. <- I haven't actually seen it myself yet but I keep hearing good things about it so I take my chances here 
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The main problem is that many foreign movies can only be found in their native language and even if they get subbed or dubbed you will lose some of the content ( the jokes and all the little subtilities ).
Sometimes a foreign film can success outside of its own country ( like Infernal Affairs, Old boy or Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ) but usually they are just too subtile to be enjoyed by a foreigner.
I could make a list but i'm quite sure that you would not be able to find like 95% of it.
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Old Boy!
If you happen to have a girlfriend and are in the mood for a chick flick, Jeux D'enfants was pretty good.
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some good serbian movies are anything by Emir Kusturica, especially Underground and Black Cat, White Cat
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Yea Black Cat, White Cat is a great movie, you should definitly watch it.
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I urge everyone you have, must, HAVE TO, MUST see
Lilja-4-ever
Lilja-4-ever (russian / swedish) may perhaps not be the best movie of all time or the most epic movie of all time or the most whatever us movies are, but I consider it one of the most powerful, ground-shaking, down-to-Earth, down-to-reality, lesson-giver, eye-opener, make you get on your knees and say thank you every day for what you are and what you have movie.
it's a truly shocking movie of the reality of this world and this life, and it's powered on the fact that's based on a real story.
I am a huge fan of foreign movies, I utterly recommend:
Die blechtrommel (German) - unusual script and movie, almost 4 hours long yet never boring
Die welle (German) - a gem
das experiment (german) - a weird movie, yet good
Fucking Amal (sweden) -
Y tu mama tambien (mexico) - a sad movie about the plots and twists and odd turns of life
la reine margot (french) aka queen margot - sort of biographic
Karakter (dutch) - good perfomances
camille claudel (french) - a biographic about the genius french sculptor
festen (danish) - an excellent dogma '95 movie
la noche de los lapices (argentina) - a biographic about argentina's death camps in the 70s/80s
the grave of the fireflies (japan) - a WW2 cartoonish film that hasn't nothing cartoonish in it
Dev D (India)
la dolce vita - you can't go wrong with Fellini
8 1/2 - (read above)
la vita e bella (italy) - perhaps one of the most known foreign movies nowadays.
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others
- le salaire de la peur (french) - perhaps the only movie I've seen that at the end it makes you want to throw a hammer to the TV, hard to describe, you gotta see it, in the US is known as "wages of fear"
- bleu, blanc, red (poland) - these are a trilogy, I don't remember the name of the director, I think it's Kristof kkk..a..... he also has another movie called "a short film about love" which is awesome too.
- cidade de deus (brazil) - see it
- seven samurai, ran, yojimbo, kagemusha, rashomon (japan) - all from akira kurosawa. you may not like these maybe, cause they're somewhat of the equivalent of hollywood in japan, yet they're good.
- the seventh seal (sweden) - a movie about life and death. that is yes, life AND death.
- das boot (german) - a very interesting movie that tells WW2 from the german pov.
- cinema paradiso (italy) - good stuff
wow, I've watched a lot of foreign films
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also I noticed you named a lot of high profile directors, kubrick being the highest, but you didn't mention david lynch. have you watched any of david lunch film's ? although american, his movies are anything but hollywoodish films and are true art.
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United States12607 Posts
France:
Ne le Dis a Personne (mind-blowing murder mystery thriller)
The Beat that My Heart Skipped (must-watch if you enjoy music at all)
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i'm not korean but;
- oldboy
- the host
- tazza
and a few others i cbf mentioning, i'll leave that to the true koreans.
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City of God(Cidade de Deus)
Life is Beautiful (La Vita e Bella)
The Edge of Heaven(Auf der anderen Seite)
and +1 for Vengeance Trilogy and Old Boy
Edit: No Middle Eastern movies or any cinematic production produced here whether TV show/Movie because they just suck, well comedy is subjective, but the rest of it is meh productions that follow the same rehashed formula over and over again
Oh and Id add
Persepolis
REC
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On December 20 2009 14:09 rytas wrote:Just a few swedish films I can come up with on the spot: Evil Ed Så som i himmelen (As in heaven) Fucking Åmål, other swedes will prolly flame me now cuz it's a "fjortis-film" :D Nattbuss 807 Let the right one in. <- I haven't actually seen it myself yet but I keep hearing good things about it so I take my chances here
wow "Let the right one in" is a really fucked up movie
I mean who the fuck makes a movie like that.
Though it's a very good one.
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Sweden:
Kopps
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Casshern
Enjoyed it, especially some of the nice cgi fights in it. Think Matrix but with a little more drama.
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I seem to have a hard time finding "Lilja 4-ever" or "Venegance".. maybe I'm looking in the wrong places?
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These are some movies that I've watched in the past two years which stand out for me and so I'll recommend:
Seven Swords (action with seven swords with kick-ass powers)
The Myth (serious Jackie Chan movie and really well done, plus I love the theme song)
Ip Man (this was a great movie... apparently my dad agrees too; he watched it 4 times in a row and didn't go to bed... lol, he has never watched a movie more than once)
I really like Miyazaki movies from Studio Ghibli
oh, also I STRONGLY recommend Grave of the Fireflies!
oh yeah, and I just remembered, Nanking - the Movie (the version with Woody Harrelson)
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