Foreign Films: Yeah proper ones with subtitles and everything!

Matblack · 13 Mar 2006 at 18:35

My wife got me into watching foreign movies, I was alway a bit a snob about them because I has to go to the effort of read subtitles but I got used to it and realised I was missing some great cinema.

These days I will still rather have a decent (not that, thats very important) dub but will watch films with subs without baulking, I really was missing some great cinema.

So what foreign films (not UK or US) movies have you watched and enjoyed.

My favs are

Manon de Source & Jean de Florette
Ameile
Cashern
Bad Education
Woman on Top
Loads of anime stuff

I have the 3 colours trilogy here too much I bought for the wife and I really want to see

MB

G|mp · 13 Mar 2006 at 18:37

La Haine

Brilliant film with an even better soundtrack

Matblack · 13 Mar 2006 at 18:39

How could I forget!

City of God

MB

BoomAM · 13 Mar 2006 at 18:54

3 popular ones that i think are very good (imo) are Hero, House Of Flying Daggers & Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

King4aDay · 13 Mar 2006 at 18:55

Ewww, Casshern was truly dire, one of the worst films I've seen in a long time.

InsomniaCalls · 13 Mar 2006 at 18:57

'City of God' was great.
Also a big fan of 'Go' (japanese film rather than the US one of the same name).

Curiousalien · 13 Mar 2006 at 19:05

I said some of these in another thread but i might as well put them here where it fits with the thread title.

Amores perros (loves a bitch)
The Tin Drum
Cinema Paradiso
Intacto
Y tu mamá también
Run Lola Run
Spirited away

sure there is more but thats just some of the ones that have not been mentioned yet.

Werewolf · 13 Mar 2006 at 19:09

I've seen a few Japanese films, such as The Happiness of Kirikani's (i think it was), very strange film about a family running a guest house who end up disposing of some bodies, I think it was a comedy with (if memory serves) at one point some zombies singing???

Most of the ones i've seen though are horrors, things like The Ring and Ring 2, Audition (parts of that really made me cringe), Battle Royale (a favourite), and it's much inferior sequel Battle Royale 2.

I've also watched quite a few of the various HK action type films, although they've never really caught my attention (and i'd be hard pressed to name them).

Mainly though i'm an anime fan when it comes to foreign films (as you already know

), with tastes that vary from the Miyazaki family orientated films, to the likes of Gunbuster, Wings of Honemaese (great Gainex film about war/how small the world is told as the main character prepares to take part in his worlds first space flight), and on to the Patlabor films which are largely detective stories.

Dinomania · 13 Mar 2006 at 19:13

A couple of Swedish ones:

Änglagård (House of Angels)
****ing Åmål (Show Me Love)

Both V good

Scam · 13 Mar 2006 at 19:46

Matblack said:
City of God

Exactly what i came in to suggest.

Betty Blue is excellent as well.

Tsotsi (cinemas now i think) looks good.

MikeTimbers · 13 Mar 2006 at 19:52

Un Homme et Une Femme (classic 60s French B&W/Colour movie)
Diva (French cult movie with amazing soundtrack)
Delicatessen (French black humour - very weird but hilarious)
Suriyothai (Thai movie made by Francis Ford Coppola)

Abraham · 13 Mar 2006 at 20:00

Avalon (Mamoru Oshii - near futuristic poland set)

Curiousalien · 13 Mar 2006 at 20:08

OH! you have to watch the film Ladri di biciclette (the bycicle thief) as well, Its old 1948 so its in black and white (imagine that, black and white and foreign! how cultured can we get??) its a story of a guy whos job/life depends on a bike but it gets stolen. very emotional (sounds it doesn't it.)

ALSO how could i forget the oscar winning Life is Beautiful - Italian comedy starts off as a romantic comedy as a poor jewish man falls for a nice school teacher. Then after about an hour, a certain war starts and the rest of the film is set in a concentration camp, with one of the greatest endings to any film I have ever seen.

Jet · 13 Mar 2006 at 20:12

Das Boot
Das Experiment

Harriet · 13 Mar 2006 at 20:15

French film ages ago

Ages ago I went to see a french film(with subtitles which was handy as I can't speak a word of french!)called Yamakazi,it was about a gang of people who did Parkour/Free running.I thought it was well cool.Story line was a wee bit cheezy but it felt great to sit there and watch a film in french.Don't know if you agree but I felt a bit more cultured watching a film in another language.LOL

maddad68 · 13 Mar 2006 at 20:19

G|mp said:
La Haine

Brilliant film with an even better soundtrack

Gret film ... french with english subtitles , The sound tack is great and the acting very gritty , Filed in black and white but its a very modern film .

With the riots in paris not so long ago it make's this film seem a lot more modern

benjo plz. · 13 Mar 2006 at 20:19

Jet said:
Das Boot

Yep, that and City of God. Also 龍的方式.

Pigeon_Killer · 13 Mar 2006 at 20:34

Taxi, City of God and Battle Royale.

Big Kev · 13 Mar 2006 at 20:39

I've seen these and they're all very good:

La Haine
City Of God
Tsotsi (supposed to be good)
Central Station
Nikita
Das Boot
Downfall

alexakasloth · 13 Mar 2006 at 22:21

G|mp said:
La Haine

Brilliant film with an even better soundtrack

Excellent film, I would highly rate this!

Other ones i've enjoyed are (of the top of my head):

Audition
Ichi The Killer
Battle Royale
The Grudge
The Eye
Conspirators of Pleasure (the sounds in this, especially the opera singing with one of the characters, is quite funny in some parts).
Amelie (beautiful film

)
i'm sure i've seen others...