Favourite foreign-language films

[Deleted member 48881]

For me:

Das Leben der Anderen (Germany)
Oldboy (South Korea)
Klopka (Serbia)
Barbara (Germany)
Mar adentro (Spain)
Hable con ella (Spain)
Relatos salvajes (Argentina)
Capernaum (Lebanon)

Would love to read some recommendations, I know I still have a lot to see

 

[Golan]

City of God (Brazil)

 

[The binman chronicles]

Alien Autopsy.

Battle Royale for me.

 

[Philw]

Plenty of recommendations here: https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/the-world-cinema-thread.106515/

 

[Deleted member 48881]

Plenty of recommendations here: https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/the-world-cinema-thread.106515/

ha! thanks. I am glad they didn't lock that one. Lots of great threads got locked, no idea why.

 

[Deleted member 48881]

Oh.
Jodaeiye Nader az Simin / A Seperation (Iran) by Asghar Farhadi also.

 

[Daz1878]

A dozen off the top of my head:

Under the Sun of Satan (France)
Muriel (France)
Mommy (Canada)
Last Year at Marienbad (France)
I Stand Alone (France)
Come and See (USSR)
Laurence Anyways (Canada)
Jesus of Montreal (Canada)
Amelie (France)
Calvaire (Belgium)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (France)
Nitro (Canada)

 

[sageyefc]

Das Hintertür Aktion

 

[Philw]

ha! thanks. I am glad they didn't lock that one. Lots of great threads got locked, no idea why.

They auto lock after a certain amount of time with no new posts.

 

[Deleted member 48881]

A dozen off the top of my head:

Under the Sun of Satan (France)
Muriel (France)
Mommy (Canada)
Last Year at Marienbad (France)
I Stand Alone (France)
Come and See (USSR)
Laurence Anyways (Canada)
Jesus of Montreal (Canada)
Amelie (France)
Calvaire (Belgium)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (France)
Nitro (Canada)

Thanks, bunch of them I didn't see.

Come and See was depressing and so powerful!

 

[LostLegend]

Old boy (Korean)
Johnny Mad Dog (French/Lingala)
Jiburo (The Way Home) (Korean)
Battle Royalè (Japanese)

 

[FCBarça]

Lady Vengeance (Korean, 3rd in the Old Boy trilogy)
Le Scaphandre et le Papillon (French)
Lucía y el sexo (Spanish)
Spirited Away (Japanese)
El laberinto del fauno (Spanish)
Das Experiment (German)
Water (Hindi)
Lagaan (Hindi)
Rang de Basanti (Hindi)
King of Masks (Chinese)
Kung Fu Hustle (Chinese)
Children of Heaven (Farsi)

 

[coollino]

A dozen off the top of my head:

Under the Sun of Satan (France)
Muriel (France)
Mommy (Canada)
Last Year at Marienbad (France)
I Stand Alone (France)
Come and See (USSR)
Laurence Anyways (Canada)
Jesus of Montreal (Canada)
Amelie (France)
Calvaire (Belgium)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (France)
Nitro (Canada)

Loved the soundtrack of this one too. Worked so well.

 

[Nymzee]

The Silence.

 

[widnesblue]

Infernal affairs. The departed is based on that. Battle Royale is a classic.