mine would be;

battle royale
city of god
seven samurai
ringu
delicatessen

Nikita (France)
Amelie (France)
Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown (Spain)
Delicatessen (France)
8 Women (France)

Laputa
Star Wars
Once Upon a Time in the West
Annie Hall
Sonatine

star wars?

Yes 'Star Wars Episode 4 A New Hope' is one of favourite films, I know the Empire Strikes Back is a superior film in many ways but I have more affection for Star Wars.

you pedant you, i meant foriegn language films :roll:

You asked what peoples favourite foreign films were so amongst others I listed Star Wars what's wrong with that? It's one of my favourite foreign films and also one of my favourite films full stop because it's ace.

Jesus Of Montreal
Downfall
Fanny & Alexander
Pan's Labrynth
City Of God

Or any five Isabelle Adjani films :love:

Ooo, difficult to do.

Etre et Avoir - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318202/

Homem Que Copiava, O - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367859/

Central do Brasil - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0140888/

Entre las piernas - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177747/

Kung Fu Hustle - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0373074/

My list is always changing as World Cinema is my thing.

Studio Ghubli, Downfall, Shaolin Soccer, 2046, Oldboy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Amores perros, Lady Vengeance, Brotherhood of the Wolf, The Apartment, Battle Royale, Dobermann, City of God, La Haine, Betty Blue, Nikita, and many many more...
:cool:

Brotherhood of the wolf is a quality film :D

Battle of Algiers
Mephisto
City of God
Amores Perros
Central Station

hmm

Solaris
City of Lost Children
Taxi
Tilsammans (Together)
Accion Mutante
All about My Mother
Close encounters of the spooky kind
The Icicle Thief & Volere Volare
erm
The Seventh Seal
Fanny & Alexander
er..
that's it

Irreversible
Downfall
Baise Moi
Run Lola Run
City Of God

Rottweiler
Killing Zoe
City of God
Metropolis
Baise Moi

Though I do find as i get older that subtitled films are a pain

City of God
Babel (some foreign language)
Amelie

They're the ones that spring to mind....

Goodbye Lenin
Abre los ojos
La Femme Nikita
Y tu mama tambien
Spoorloos

Amelie is a very good film too. I always think Leon is a foreign film but it’s not really.

Belleville Rendez-Vous....Magic! :clap:
Ringu
Amelie
Das Experiment
Pans Labyrinth

I have more

"Downfall" German
"Aguirre, Wrath of God " German
"Azumi" Japanese
"Black Angel" Japanese
"Come and See" Russian/Belarusian

CENTRAL STATION (BRAZIL)

AMELIE (fRANCE)

PAN'S LABYRINTH (SPAIN)

ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER (SPAIN)

A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT (FRANCE)


RUNNERS UP INCLUDE
ALL OF HER (SPAIN),BATTLE ROYALE (JAPAN) THE SEVEN SAMURAI (JAPAN) THE PAGE TURNER (FRANCE) THE CHORUS (FRANCE) :hihi:

The Lives of Others (Germany) is a brilliant film, well worth watching!! Not seen Pan's Labyrinth yet but I want to!

City of Lost Children
Delicatessen
Betty Blue
A Better Tomorrow
Wings of the Honeamise

city of god, kung fu hustle and battle royale are all good films, aslo tsotsi (african) is good and black cat white cat (turkish) is a brilliant comedy

Star Wars
Pulp Fiction
Blues Brothers
Clerks
The Terminal

You may laugh, but technically, America is a foreign country!

in no particular order

La Jette
A self-made Hero
Man Bites Dog
Ong Bak
Fist of Legend

Probably Man Bites Dog being my favourite - classic darkness!

Star Wars
Pulp Fiction
Blues Brothers
Clerks
The Terminal

You may laugh, but technically, America is a foreign country!

LAME :roll:

LAME :roll:
What's 'lame' about it? The UK isn't part of the US as such American films are quite obviously foreign, it's not anyone else's fault if you meant to write 'foreign language films' but actually wrote 'foreign films'.

yeah, but the intention of the OP was to see which films people had seen which fall outside the conventional US/UK groupings.

The UK, insofar as cultural links, heritage, global foreign policy, secret societies, reptillian hybrids and such like, is far closer to the USA than any other country...to identify this as 'foreign', simply on a technicality, suggests you just want an argument:)

I'm British not American so I consider American films to be foreign, the OP can hardly complain if people respond to what he posted as opposed to what he intended to post.

the intention of the OP couldnt be clearer if it came up and walloped you round the head!

stop being an arse plek.

the intention of the OP couldnt be clearer if it came up and walloped you round the head!
The intended meaning of the op would have been perfectly clear had it included
a single additional word. As it was I responded to the meaning it had and that I understood.

The intended meaning of the op would have been perfectly clear had it included
a single additional word. As it was I responded to the meaning it had and that I understood.

Are you suggesting that in order for you to understand something it has to be laboriously spelled out for you?

Anyway, continuing with the thread...

These are my favourite ones:
Amelie
Ring
Shaolin Soccar
Life is Beautiful
8 women
My Sassy Girl :hihi:

stop being an arse plek.
I responded to your OP as I understood it, as to me films from Australia, Canada, The USA & New Zealand are foreign what's arsey about that?

You might have 'meant' something else but I responded to what I actually saw and honestly understood, I fail to see how you think acting to an honest misunderstanding with aggression and abuse is justified.

Back on topic.

1. The Rules of The Game
2. Mirror
3. Seven Samurai
4. Persona
5. L'avventura

Best recent (last 10 years or so)

1. Cure
2. Pans Labyrinthe
3. Rosetta
4. Lilya 4 Ever
5. À ma soeur!/Fat Girl

Yep, I do a lot of importing.

LAME :roll:

It was also sarcasm. Got you talking for a bit though didn't it?

:hihi:

not really, plek done it on the 1st page..

I responded to your OP as I understood it, as to me films from Australia, Canada, The USA & New Zealand are foreign what's arsey about that?

You might have 'meant' something else but I responded to what I actually saw and honestly understood, I fail to see how you think acting to an honest misunderstanding with aggression and abuse is justified.

It wasn't a misunderstanding. It was a rather feeble attempt at humour. Of course I knew what the title of the thread meant.

My top 5 would be:

1. Hardboiled
2. Battle Royale
3. Amelie
4. Old Boy
5. Tae Guk Gi (Brotherhood Of War)

Honourable mentions to: Brotherhood Of The Wolf, A Very Long Engagement, Shiri, Joint Security Area, Sympathy For Mr Vengeance, A Bittersweet Life, The Killer

It wasn't a misunderstanding. It was a rather feeble attempt at humour. Of course I knew what the title of the thread meant.

i just think old plekky likes the battling -

On a pedantic note then - The Castle, most amusing ozzie film.

On a pedantic note then - The Castle, most amusing ozzie film.

After just getting back and being TOLD this is the film to watch for an aussie experience. Try 'Kenny' what a GEM!

Irreversible
Downfall
Baise Moi
Run Lola Run
City Of God

Baise Moi is one of the worst films I've ever seen. Downfall is amazing though and I wasn't so keen on Run Lola Run, it's not aged well.

La Dolce Vita
2046
Volver
A Time To Leave
A Tale of Two Sisters

Chocolat Jules et Jim La Dolce Vita Decameron Eight Days (Fellini)

La Strada too! I love Fellini.

nice to see amelie doing so well in the listing!!!!!!!!!

Baise Moi is one of the worst films I've ever seen. Downfall is amazing though and I wasn't so keen on Run Lola Run, it's not aged well.

La Dolce Vita
2046
Volver
A Time To Leave
A Tale of Two Sisters

Sarah have you included "Downfall" in your top 5 then?
"Downfall" is top of my list at the moment.

Howl's Moving Castle (Meh, it was made by a Japanese bloke)
Akira
Enter The Dragon (Made in China)
Street Fighter 2: Animated Movie

Pans Labrynth (Spanish)
Suicide Club (Japanese)
Amelie (French)
Oldboy (Koreon i Think)
Leon (French)

The Cat Returns

Nightwatch

La Conformista (if anyone has a copy or knows how to get one i will give you my first born)

Zatoichi

Kung-Fu Hustle

The Motorcycle Diaries
Cinema Paradiso
City of Lost Children / Amelie / Delicatessen
City of God
9 Queens

And one for luck: Old Boy

nice to see amelie doing so well in the listing!!!!!!!!!

I'd have put Amelie in my list, but the superior City of Lost Children and Delicatessen both nudged it out.

Also, would love to have put Nikita in there.

Sarah have you included "Downfall" in your top 5 then?
"Downfall" is top of my list at the moment.

No, but it's close to it. Definitely top 10.

The Cat Returns

Nightwatch

La Conformista (if anyone has a copy or knows how to get one i will give you my first born)

Zatoichi

Kung-Fu Hustle

I have copy. Use this link to get one.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Conformist-REGION-1-NTSC/dp/B000IHYXH6/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/026-8135051-8509254?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1182504553&sr=8-1

Use the used and new.

Its a good release at a bargain price.

PM me when you have your first born. I let you bring it up but when it gets to tea (cup of) making age its mine.

Kiki's Delivery Service
Ishtar
Stromboli
Hana-b
Le Plaisir

Some more favourite foreign films:

Lights in the Dusk-Kaurismäki
Early Summer-Ozu
De Battre Mon Coeur S'est Arrêté-Audiard
Le Fils-Dardenne
Francesco-Rossellini
Triple Agent-Rohmer

Nightwatch


Keep your eyes out on October 5th when Day Watch comes out over here. It is amazing!

This is likely to change, but here goes...

1. The unbearable lightness of being
2. Kolya
3. All about my mother
4. Cinema Paradiso
5. The Sheltering Sky

Haven't been to the pics for *ages* and really miss going

On connait la chanson( France)
Le gout des autres ( France)
High Heels ( Spain)
City of God ( Brazil)
Nine queens ( Argentina..I think!)

heres mine
nekromantic (germany )
azumi ( japan)
sword of vengence ( japan)
the eye (korea)
ebola syndrome (china) i think?

On a pedantic note then - The Castle, most amusing ozzie film.

On an even more pedantic note, an Australian film is not a foreign film, because Commonwealth countries are not "foreign". That is why we have a "Foreign and Commonwealth Office".

As America is not in the Commonwealth, its films are, indeed foreign (though not foreign language).

city if god (BRAZIL)
the warrior (JAPAN)
valley of the wolves (TURKEY)
the killers (JAPAN)
zatoichi (JAPAN) on my list to watch

city of god
tsotsi
amores perros
pan's labyrinth
jean de florette

Also, Letters from Iwo Jima was very good. Its mostly in Japanese so I suppose you could say its foreign.

Les Diaboliques
Les Enfants du Paradis
Rashomon

Any Jacques Tati, Nosferatu and Das Boot.

'' The Odd Angry Shot '', an Australian film concerning their involvement in Vietnam.

Five is not enough!!!

All About My Mother
Bad Education
Amelie
City of God
Central Station

Also The Motorcycle Diaries, Frida, most other Almodovar films, Cronos, Ma Vie en Rose, Oldboy, A Very Long Engagement, C.R.A.Z.Y., Could go on for ages........

Five is not enough!!!

All About My Mother
Bad Education
Amelie
City of God
Central Station

Also The Motorcycle Diaries, Frida, most other Almodovar films, Cronos, Ma Vie en Rose, Oldboy, A Very Long Engagement, C.R.A.Z.Y., Could go on for ages........

gud choices simon

finally got around to watching pans labyrinth. what a film!!

City of God (Brazil)

Oldboy (Korea)

Jean-Luc Godards Weekend (France)

Pans Labyrinth (Mexico)

Once Were Warriors (New Zealand)

I've only picked one film from any one country. In no particular order -

Bad Taste (New Zealand)
Cronos (Mexico)
Ichi the Killer (Japan)
Crocdile Hunter Collision Course (haha! Australia)
Irreversible (France)

The lives of others
Kung fu hustle
Dil se
Tosca
Y tu mama tambien

The lives of others
Kung fu hustle
Dil se
Tosca
Y tu mama tambien

Ooh, tThe Lives of Others....I Love that film!! Can't wait for the DVD!!

Don't forget 'La Haine' amongst all those french films! Has to be one of the best ever!!!

cinema paradiso
il postino
the motorcycle diaries
c.r.a.z.y.

and my absolute fave foreign film - festen

Some of Lars von Trier films spring to mind:
Breaking the Waves
Dancer in the Dark
The Kingdom
Dogville

I watched District 13 today, and although the actors won't be winning any awards and the storyline isn't the best, the action sequences were brilliant.

Oldboy
Infernal Affairs (part 1)
Hero
City of God
La Haine

All really nice movies to watch

Glad someone mentioned LEON eventually. Still think Cyrano de Bergerac is pretty good and deserves a mention, and also I've got to mention my namesake, DIVA of course, by Jean-Jacques Beineix, which I loved at the time, oh and Luc Besson's SUBWAY with a fine looking Christopher Lambert.

ooo i love forign films, but theres so many of them, city of god is probably my favourite. But i also like martial arts films such as omg-bak and hero and so on, their mainly chinese. Oldboy i spretty good too... theres too many good ones

hmm

Solaris
City of Lost Children
Taxi
Tilsammans (Together)
Accion Mutante
All about My Mother
Close encounters of the spooky kind
The Icicle Thief & Volere Volare
erm
The Seventh Seal
Fanny & Alexander
er..
that's it
In which case you might be interested to learn that we're showing Taxi 2 (which is which rather like the first one but with added free running ninjas) tomorrow night @ the Forum, free entry all night film starts @7:30pm.

Two films that everyone seems to have missed:

Eat Drink Man Woman - I defy anyone to watch this without drooling :P

Tomorrow I Wake Up And Scald Myself With Tea - a man chasing his identical twin brother backwards and forwards through time and reliving the same day over and over again. Difficult to follow & well nigh impossible with subtitles :D It's a fairly old film, 70's or early 80's I think, so probably hasn't aged well but it could be fantastic if it was re-made.