Favourite Foreign Films, Movies

[LaRoza]

What are your favourite foreign films, movies, or TV shows?

Foreign is relative here, anything not from your country counts.

I like many Chinese films because of the way the story is presented, and I like British comedy, namely, Hawlty Towers and Red Dwarf.

[Kingsley]

I love Nigerian comedy films, especially if it stars Osita Iheme. My favorites are Mr. Ibu and Local Champions.

Check out this clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke27F_4Tywg

[anemptygun]

I like Akira.

[akiratheoni]

Battle Royale & Summertime Machine Blues. I loved both movies :)

[Vitamin-Carrot]

Pans Laberinth and anything mad in my country new zealand like Once were warriors, stick men and black sheep ... but i guess that cant be called foreign but deffinatly underdogs.

[-grubby]

I like the movie Hot Fuzz, don't know if it's american, but it stars british actors

[ticopelp]

Delicatessen
Blue
White
Red
Seven Samurai
Yojimbo
Sanjuro
Seventh Seal
Wild Strawberries
Amelie
Pan's Labyrinth
The Devil's Backbone
Ran

[p_quarles]

Pretty much anything by Godard. Especially Breathless and Contempt.

Most recently: 28 Days Later. I finally saw it this weekend (I know, old news) and it blew my socks off. :)

[darweth]

cries and whispers, persona, wild strawberries, winter light, scenes from a marriage, volver, all about my mother, matador, 3-iron, before sunrise, before sunset, annie hall, chungking express, dancer in the dark, dogville, dersu uzala, chinatown, the tenant, rosemary's baby, mala noche, the discreet charm of the bourgeoisie, ghost world, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, down by law, high and low, the bad sleep well, jules et jim, last life in the universe, peppermint candy, le samourai, north by northwest, pan's labyrinth, the squid and the whale, that obscure object of desire, the 400 blows, spirited away, blue, white, the double life of veronique etc etc etc

[kodak]

Foreign Films i like are


Akira
Heat
Most early Jackie Chan films (the ones made in HK)
Terminator (1&2)
Pans Labyrinth
Delicatessen

[toupeiro]

Cidade Deus
Cidade Baixa
3 filhos de Francisco.
Pans Labyrinth
Like Water for Chocolate

[Nano Geek]

Lord of the Rings?

[mips]

People might want to have a look at the following thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=464302

[tbroderick]

the double life of veronique etc etc etc

You location says NY. A lot of those films you listed are American.

[ozzyprv]

Secuestro Express - a Venezuelan film

[SupaSonic]

In no particular order:

The Fountain
Requiem For a Dream
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Big Lebowski

[gn2]

Wasabi
Romuald et Juliette
Zazi Dans Le Metro
37°2 le matin (Betty Blue)
Three Colours series
A River Runs Through It
Paris Texas
Repo Man
Meet Joe Black
Donnie Darko
and
EVERY film directed by David Lynch.

[trash]

movies:
Wings of desire
Shaolin soccer
Kung-fu hustle and the rest of his stuff:)

tv:
most brit stuff as i was raised on it
latest fav would be Little Britain
Shameless

[nrs]

Cidade de Deus (City of God)
Seven Samurai

[defenestratos]

I like anything by Herzog!
Fitzcarraldo was a mad film!
Good the bad and the Ugly was made in Europe with no less than three official languages on set. If that isn't international, then what is.
I like the Mad Max Trilogy
I like all that expressionistic stuff like Cabinet of Dr Calgari and Metropolis.

[Dixon Bainbridge]

Tokyo Fist
Chungking Express
Night Watch/Day Watch
Withnail and I
Fallen Angels
In The Mood For Love
Kitchen
Hong Kong Jackie Chan Films
Any Kurosowa
Metropolis
Hitchcocks 39 Steps
Ealing Comedies
Bladerunner
Happiness of the Katakuris
SPirited Away
Delicatessen
Amelie
Princess Mononoke
Actually, and Studio Ghibli
Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker
Raise the red lantern
Farewell my concubine
Yuri Norsteins animations - Tale of tales, Hedgehog in The Fog
Sonatine
Hana Bi

Loads more..... :)

[harlan]

Bin-Jip, by Kim Ki-Duk
Ran, by Akira Kurosawa
Paths of glory, by Stanley Kubrick

And all great American classics

[bash]

Just a question: What kind of definition of foreign are we using here? Anything not US made? Because for me living in Europe, technically foreign would be anything not European made. I know the definition if more also towards main steam in western world, but for example as has been posted here in the thread, classing Hot Fuzz as foreign sounds strange for me. As would any European movie. Same goes for Americans movies. On the other hand a Japanese movie would fall for me under foreign.

While contrary a japanese user might find it ridiculous to classify the movies from his own country as foreign.

[p_quarles]

Just a question: What kind of definition of foreign are we using here? Anything not US made? Because for me living in Europe, technically foreign would be anything not European made. I know the definition if more also towards main steam in western world, but for example as has been posted here in the thread, classing Hot Fuzz as foreign sounds strange for me. As would any European movie. Same goes for Americans movies. On the other hand a Japanese movie would fall for me under foreign.

While contrary a japanese user might find it ridiculous to classify the movies from his own country as foreign.
That was laid out in the OP:
Foreign is relative here, anything not from your country counts.

[trash]

Oh speaking of Japanese, The Face of Another is a brilliant film from the 80's i think.

EDIT: Good idea including links ryphix... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061065/ and this film is 1966 no less, how i forgot that i don't know it was the year i was born lol

[ryphix]

City of God is a great flick.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317248/

[LaRoza]

Just a question: What kind of definition of foreign are we using here? Anything not US made? Because for me living in Europe, technically foreign would be anything not European made. I know the definition if more also towards main steam in western world, but for example as has been posted here in the thread, classing Hot Fuzz as foreign sounds strange for me. As would any European movie. Same goes for Americans movies. On the other hand a Japanese movie would fall for me under foreign.

While contrary a japanese user might find it ridiculous to classify the movies from his own country as foreign.

I outlined it on the first page, anything foreign to the poster from any country.

If you feel anything not from you city to be foreign, it would count, and you have stated you consider anything not European to be foreign which is a continent, so anything from another continent counts.

One could even list movies that are not foreign, how would we know?

[LaRoza]

Foreign Films i like are

Akira
Heat
Most early Jackie Chan films (the ones made in HK)
Terminator (1&2)
Pans Labyrinth
Delicatessen



+1 to Jackie Chan (HK, not american)

I love T1 and T2, they are my favourite movies.