TV & Film Your Favourite Foreign Language Films

[Underdog]

What are your favourite foreign language (or your mother tongue if it's not English) films? Or do you not enjoy films with subtitles?

I love the sound of languages other than my own and watch a fair few films from continental Europe. I especially enjoyed Pan's Labyrinth, Volver, Delicatessen and Tsotsi.

 

[Rosie1]

Thank you for starting this thread! I'll be checking back to get recommendations.

-The Barbarian Invasions
-Pan's Labyrinth
-Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
-Sex and Lucia
-Goodbye Lenin!

 

[Amy SF]

*thinks* I don't think I have any favorites, but I liked The Bicycle Thief.

I also liked "M".

Those are really old movies.

 

[WonderRandy]

I'm behind on my foreign films, so my faves are a bit more "classic":
Y Tu Mama Tambien,
Cinema Paridiso,
Oldboy,
My Beautiful Laundrette,
Like Water for Chocolate,
Amelie,
anything Kurosawa,
Santa Sangre,
Lust Caution,
The Last Emperor

 

[Spang]

Does Inglourious Basterds count?

Also:

The Motorcycle Diaries
He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not
Sugar

 

[thefadedone]

Run Lola Run
The Orphanage

 

[Renee1]

Y Tu Mama Tambien,

Yessssssss

My absolute favourite foreign film is Quitting. It blew my ******* mind.

 

[Calliegirl]

I like a lot of those listed above, also Let the Right One In.

 

[Francesca_Bee]

Pans labyrinth
Happiness of the Katakuris
Hidden
The orphanage
Let the right one in
Amelie

Too many to mention

 

[hungryraccoon]

As mentioned, Let The Right One In & Amelie are great.

I ******* loved Apocalypto - that's one of my favourites.
Also Battle Royale & The Wave (German fillm, check it out.)

 

[Spang]

I almost forgot: Das Boot.

 

[Moll Flanders]

I was thinking I hadn't seen many foreign language films but I like quite a few of the movies mentioned.

I also liked Betty Blue and Hero.

 

[Rosie1]

I ****ing loved Apocalypto - that's one of my favourites.

That one was good. I forgot to add Aguirre: The Wrath of God to my list.

 

[Dedalus]

La Femme Nikita - rocks.

 

[Kitties]

I really like My Beautiful Laundrette also.

A rather short Israeli film: Yossi and Jagger. And by the same director: Walk On Water.

 

[WonderRandy]

As mentioned, Let The Right One In & Amelie are great.

I ****ing loved Apocalypto - that's one of my favourites.
Also Battle Royale & The Wave (German fillm, check it out.)

Apocolypto was brilliant.

 

[Scorpius]

Triplets of Belleville!

Apocalypto guys? . . . Really? Too much of a Melgasm for me.

 

[Rosie1]

Night Watch and its sequel Day Watch. I wish they'd make the 3rd one, but I don't know if that will ever happen.

 

[hungryraccoon]

I hated those films so much. Terrible compared to the books. Have you read them?

 

[Dave in MPLS]

Hero, Asoka, Ip Man, Ip Man 2, Ran, Sholay, Princess Mononoke, Tetsuo the Iron Man, Bullet in the Head, Adam's Rib (the Russian movie), Mongol, Shaolin Soccer, Zu Warriors (this is one of the trippiest movies ever), Bodyguard (the Thai movie), Chinese Ghost Story,Kung Fu Majong, Wild Zero (one of my all time favorites), Kakashi ... (and many more)

... and I'll just say kaiju rather than list all the Godzilla/Mothra/other big monster stuff I've watched with original (not dubbed) dialog ...

I watch a lot of movies