Favorite Foreign Film

[Lawless People]

For u cats who dig 7 samurai and 13 assasins,
This is one of my all time favorites in that genre.

Persona

I enjoyed it so much that when I took my family for vacation in Tokyo I booked an air BnB 2 minutes from the train station in this movie

Was the train station a cartoon in real life?

 

[-Magua-]

Persona

Was the train station a cartoon in real life?

I’ll give it a whirl soon. Looks good.,

 

[sweetviolenturg]

Tell No One (2008)
French movie about a dude who starts getting emails from his wife, years after she dies (it’s not what you think). Not a supernatural movie at all, just a really good mystery thriller.

I've read the Coben novel but have yet to see the film adaption. Something that I'm going to have to remedy.

 

[sweetviolenturg]

Martyrs

Excellent fucking choice!
Just don't ever waste your time on the US remake. It's ( as I'm sure you can imagine ) horrible.

 

[Zer]

It might not be the GOAT foreign film (Ran) but it's prob my favourite, and still an ATG

 

[jericksen5]

I've read the Coben novel but have yet to see the film adaption. Something that I'm going to have to remedy.

I’ve only seen a handful of foreign films, other than being a Kurasowa junkie in high school. But I took this girl I was seeing out on a date and she wanted to go to this cool little foreign film theatre by my apartment, and picked this movie. I knew there were some great films outside of the US, but this one made me leave the the theatre like

Also, not even bothering to look at what the movie was about before going in, and not looking at the cast, I was super confused when the movie started, thinking I wasn’t aware Dustin Hoffman spoke French and appeared in french films.

 

[sweetviolenturg]

There's no way that I could list all my favorites because I'd be typing away all night.
But, here are some of them in no particular order:
I SAW THE DEVIL
MARTYRS
Argento's PHENOMENA
Argento's SUSPIRIA
THE WAILING
THE RAID
THE RAID 2
THE NIGHT COMES FOR US
KUNG FU KILLER
THE HOST
The Mo Bros. MACABRE
Bava's BLACK SUNDAY

 

[Amerikuracana]

Life is beautiful
Sex and Lucia
Dragon tattoo trilogy
Pans labyrinth
King fu hustle
A couple Franka potente movies


I've seen a few I really liked that aren't as well known, but I can't remember the names.

 

[sweetviolenturg]

I’ve only seen a handful of foreign films, other than being a Kurasowa junkie in high school. But I took this girl I was seeing out on a date and she wanted to go to this cool little foreign film theatre by my apartment, and picked this movie. I knew there were some great films outside of the US, but this one made me leave the the theatre like

Cool.
Yep, getting to love subtitles will open up a whole new world of films that will blow your mind. Enjoy.

 

[zapataxiv]

Been on a Kurosawa kick lately
Shout out to stray dog, yojimbo,sanjuro, hidden castle, bad sleep well, and drunken angel

 

[jericksen5]

Cool.
Yep, getting to love subtitles will open up a whole new world of films that will blow your mind. Enjoy.

Oh this was probably 12 years ago, when that movie was in theaters. I’ve gotten balls deep in foreign films since then.

 

[Sonny Qc]

Martyrs

That one is fckd Up....

 

[CodeBreaker]

Assuming I'm also from the US since the point here is not a Hollywood movie

3 Idiots

 

[TSK]

The Conformist (1970)

The cinematography was off the wall, and screenshots really don't remotely do it justice. Storaro is the GOAT.

Damn. I need to check that out.

 

[TSK]

City of God. I feel like in recent years people have started hating on it but it's still one of my all time favorite movies, going back to when I was in high school and first saw it.

 

[-Magua-]

I’m surprised no one mentioned this.
It’s great, but I feel more resonance with the Princess and The Warrior... Thomas Tywkers sorta follow up.

 

[Amerikuracana]

I've read the Coben novel but have yet to see the film adaption. Something that I'm going to have to remedy.

You recently watched braveheart.

 

[KOQ24]

Japan: Kagemusha,Seven Samurai,Tokyo Story
France: Wages of Fear,Diaboliques,La Haine,Basically everything by Jean Pierre Melville,Au Revoir Les Enfants,400 Blows
Korea: Most of Chan wook Park/Kim Ki Duk/Boon Jong Ho/Kim Ji Woon
Sweden: Pretty much all of Ingmar Bergman
Italy: La dolce Vita (as most of Fellini ),Bicycle Thieves,Sergio Leone's complete filmography,Gomorrha,Suspiria

i could name well over 100 others.


One recent recommendation from Lebanon: