Favourite non-English language films

[krissy]

girl who leapt through time

run lola run

the princess and the warrior
The Princess and the Warrior trailer - YouTube

[Shiny]

Oh I forgot about Run Lola Run. That was soooo goood. Battle Royale I love because I love Lord of the Flies but it was hardly a good movie in retrospect. They were in middle school and they had people who look 20-30 playing the damn roles. Come on now. Also choppy ass story and random ass basketball shots. I think I watched the directors cut my second viewing so maybe that's why it was worse the second go around.

[Rocket Edge]

The Raid
City of God
Bicycle Thieves
The Seven Samurai

I kinda struggle to remember any others I've enjoyed.

[XxSephirothxX]

basically most everything Kurosawa but Seven Samurai is such a top-to-bottom masterpiece.

Similarly, I love almost everything Miyazaki, but Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro is the best adventure movie ever made behind Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Bonus award to Battle Royale. I saw that in a movie theater last year packed with a thousand movie geeks and that was goddamn incredible.

I'm slowly seeing more Korean movies, but my knowledge of European films (outside the UK) is pretty limited.

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

Pan's Labyrinth (Spanish), Incendies (French/Quebecois), My Sassy Girl (Korean), Love Exposure (Japanese), and most things by studio Ghibli (Japanese).

[DK]

pretty much similar to trout that's already been mentioned for me, Shichinin no Samurai, Old Boy, Battle Royale, Infernal Affairs etc.

Dare mo Shiranai is one of the better films I've seen, probably in my top 5 personally. Kikujiro no Natsu is also fun to watch, and has one of my all time favourite OST's because Joe Hisaishi is a badass. Also Kitano Takeshi.

Also, Jackie Chan. God damn I love me some Jackie Chan. In a full on Chan-spamfest at the moment. Police Story 1, Project A and Drunken Master hands down three of the best martial arts films ever made for mine. Although my personal favourite is Dragons Forever because smurf yes Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao. Even Yuen Wah got a spot.

I love some Thai films as well, and intend to try and watch more. Ong Bak is brilliant, imho the best martial arts action film ever made (though 2 and 3 are utter abortions, possibly the worst sequels ever), Tom Yum Goong is also excellent, and I love the thai film Chocolate too.

Also, Taxi. Taxi 2. smurf. Yes. I think the guy who plays the main character in those films is possibly the greatest Frenchman to ever live. Also probably the only acceptable French films full stop. Truffaut and French New Wave can smurf right off.

[Loony BoB]

Also probably the only acceptable French films full stop. Truffaut and French New Wave can smurf right off.

Not 100% sure, but I think you'd like Untouchable. But then, I think everyone should like Untouchable.

I think I have Ong-bak on my PC somewhere... maybe I'll give it a watch sometime. This thread is a proper goldmine of ideas of things to watch.

[Calliope]

La Grande Illusion
Man On Wire
On Mon Oncle
Three Colours Trilogy

[Skyblade]

My Best Friend

Although it's one of those movies I can't watch all the way through (part of it is just too emotionally painful to watch), it's a phenomenally well done film.

[Yar]

Okuribito (Departures is the English title)
Tokyo Sonata
Goodbye Lenin!


Just a few of my favorites.

[DanielCLFFF13]

Final Fantasy VII : Advent Childern Movie and Tekken Blood Vengeance
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[Rebellious Eagle]

I've been watching quite a few foreign movies lately. L'argent de Poche (French) and Band Baaja Baaraat (Hindi) are some favorites as of right now.

[Daylight]

The film festival in my city showed quite a few this year. I really liked "Wadjda" by Haifaa Al-Mansour.

[Mirage]

Life is Beautiful is kind of insulting to the Holocaust, in my opinion.

I didn't really like that movie myself. It felt a bit, well, icky.

[krissy]

well if we're putting ong bak in here

Chocolate Trailer ("?????????") - YouTube