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Favorite Foreign Films?
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In no real order:
1) Shaolin Soccer
2) Zatoichi
3) Brotherhood of the Wolf
4) Lola Rent
5) Princess Mononoke
6) Battle Royal
7) Hero
I just got done watching House of Flying Daggers tonight and was once again amazed by the coolness of films not being made in the US.
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i am a huge fan of werner herzog's stuff..my faves chage all the time but at this particular moment in time i might say:
aguirre, the wrath of god
jeder für sich und gott gegen alle
fitzcarraldo
stroszek
herz aus glas
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Hero
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
House of Flying Daggers
countless other Jet Li films
Young and Dangerous series (used to like it cause i thought they were cool). Now that I'm a tiny bit more mature, I find it fun to watch (no one brought a gun or grenades to a massive street fight with machete's?!?)
Many more
oh .. not in any particular order
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Pantaleon y las Visitadoras
Shaolin soccer
Amelie
La Vita e Bella
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
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House of Flying Daggers
Le Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
Diarios de Motocicleta (Motorcycle Diaries)
Amores Perros
Tais Toi
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stuffing feathers up your b*tt doesn't make you a chicken.
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Abre Los Ojos
Enter the Dragon
Hidden Tiger, Crouching Dragon
Mad Max
Godzilla
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Infernal Affairs
Trainspotting
Nosferatu
Moulin Rogue
Ran
Raise the Red Lantern
The Seven Samurai
Forever Fever
In the Mood for Love
Yojimbo
Amelie
Das Boot
Cinema Paradiso
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amelie
Battleship potemkin (old but good)
annie hall
the crime of father amaro
irreversible
ohh its ameican but i wanted to add it anyway requeim for a dream
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And thats the bottom line!!!!!!!!!
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Le Grande Bleu (The Big Blue)
Leon (The Professional)
Cinema Paradiso
Das Boot
Seven Samurai
La Femme Nikkita
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Originally Posted by fulmer
Great flick!
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amelie is at the top of my favorite foreign film list. i love that movie.
shaolin soccer
kung fu hustle
and pretty much what has been said already are great.
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What I love is how most Chinese people I know think the Chinese films that are big here (e.g. Crouching Tiger and House of Flying Daggers) are stupid schlock with bad acting. I'm like, "Okay. They could be arguing over whether Batman can kill Spider-Man for all I care, just as long as the subtitles are interesting and Zhang Ziyi beats people up good."
My list (off the top of my head, obviously):
• Battle Royale
• Amelie (just like everyone else, of course)
• Rashomon
• Man with a Movie Camera (old silent documentary, but totally awesome)
Oh, and for the record: I had to sit through Cinema Paradiso twice in my film classes. Man, I'm glad I'm through with those.
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"Instead of either 'multi-talented' or 'multitalented' use 'bisexual'."
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*list of american movies*
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Originally Posted by :XI:
*list of american movies*
Ah. Good point 
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Originally Posted by The Godfather
Ah. Good point
Should I list my favourite non-american movies? 
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Man Bites Dog. Check it out, hilarious French movie about a film crew following a serial killer for a documentary.
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Nemo me impune lacesset
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Originally Posted by budster101
Le Grande Bleu (The Big Blue)
Leon (The Professional)
Cinema Paradiso
Das Boot
Seven Samurai
La Femme Nikkita
My list is very close to a carbon copy of this one except I havent seen The Big Blue. There was a film that Kevin Costner watched with Whitney Houston in The Bodyguard that I've always wanted to watch. I think it was Ran or Rashomon. I liked the french film, "Falling in Love."
A chilling and under appreciated film that underscores the hair-trigger times we lived during the cold war (and to sit right alongside Fail-Safe and Dr. Strangelove) is, The Bedford Incident, shot at Pinewood Studios, I believe. It stars Sidney Poitier, Richard Widmark, Kurt Jurgens and James MacArthur. Very chilling film. B&W if I recall.
A Fish Called Wanda was shot in britain but was it a brit film? I loved it.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Hang em High.
"Once Upon A Time in America"
I'm willing to give, "Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance" ONE MORE SHOT. I thought it was the most inane, obtuse, self-important, boring film I could ever imagine in life. But I was a young man in a hurry and had little patience or ability to think beyond immediate gratification when I walked out of the theater in 1985 or whenever it was. Maybe I just needed to grow and mature a bit.
When you see a film that people call, "One of the most brilliant movies ever made!" And which imdb rates: ********__ 7.9/10 (5,002 votes) then there HAS to be SOMETHING to it, right?
What, no Bergman fans here yet?
WOW!
I forgot a few here...
Help!
A Hard Day's Night
ABBA: The Movie
Goldfinger
Dr. No
Thunderball
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I enjoyed Old Boy. It was pretty messed up, though.
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The Duke
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Assuming "foreign" means "Not american" (in no particular order):
* Amélie
* Delicatessen
* Der Untergang
* Monty Python's Meaning of Life
* Monty Python's The Holy Grail
* Monty Python's Life of Brian
* Citadel Dei
* La Vita è bella
* Train spotting
* Black Cat, White Cat
* 101 Reykjavik
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