Favourite Foreign (non-English Language and Non-Anime) Films

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Downfall.

Elling
Flåklypa Grand Prix
Izzat
Villmark
Diarios de Motorcicleta (The movie is a f*****g lie, but it's still a very nice fairytale)
Amsterdamned
Der Tunnel
Das Boot

Shall we Dance

No, not the crappy second rate barely a shadow of the original one with Richard Gere. The original Japanese version is far more sweet.

Black Rain

Another Japanese flick -- older this time -- about a young woman living in the aftermath (a few years later) of the Hiroshima A-Bomb. And about the effect that it has on people after years -- fear of cancer, shellshock &c.

Waterboys

More comical. Again Japanese. Some high school boys decide that they want to form a synchronised swimming team. Love especially the ending.

China/Hong Kong

The Big Boss(Bruce Lee)
Fist Of Fury(Bruce Lee)
Way Of The Dragon(Bruce Lee)
Game Of Death(Bruce Lee)

Thailand

Ong Bak(Tony Jaa)
Warrior King(Tony Jaa)

Avalon

The Voyage of Chihiro
Laputa/castle in the air

Ring I ( the original)

Kaos ( 1984, by the Taviani brothers)

Jean de Florette
Betty Blue
Les Visiteurs ( in VO)
Subway
Vagabonde

almost everything by Pedro Almodovar, especially "women on edge of nervous breakdown", "all about my mother", "volver" and the one with the guy in the wheelchair, can't remember title.

For a Few Dollars More ( made in italy and spain )

Jesus of Montreal ( french and english canadian)

Babette's Feast

and others too but can't remember them right now.

Battle Royale
Run Lola Run
Pan's Labyrinth
Ringu
everything Kurasowa's done
The American Friend (there's parts in English, but its still mostly in German AND by Wim Wenders)

all the miyazaki films, especially nausicaa
amelie
delicatessen
city of lost children
babettes feast
il postino
the white balloon
englar alheimsins
three colours trilogy
wings of desire
far away so close?
the spanish apartment
travelling birds (does that count?)

One of the great things about living in the Washington DC area was being able to go to the museums to watch foreign language films for free.

Just before I left, they had a series of Romanian films that were quite good.

"California Dreaming" was great

http://imdb.com/title/tt0449573/

Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain

It's also my favourite movie of all time

Another Amelie fan here. If you like Japanese romantic comedies, Adrenaline Drive is certainly worth renting. For kung-fu parodies, check out any Stephen Chiau movie - my favorite is The God of Cookery.

Japanese
<li>Tampopo (dandelion) - Food porn

French
<li>Doberman - Gangster movie
<li>District B13 - Parkour as a martial art

Foreign title / English title

Jui kuen II / The Legend of Drunken Master
Kirikou et la sorcière / Kirikou and the Sorceress
Laberinto del fauno, El / Pan's Labyrinth
Shichinin no samurai / The Seven Samurai
Zatoichi (I like all 26 of them starring Shintaro Katsu)
Andrey Rublyov / Andrei Rublev
Ging chaat goo si / Police Story
Jui kuen / Drunken Master
Ran
Wo hu cang long / Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Yojimbo
'A' gai waak juk jaap / Project A II
À bout de souffle / Breathless
Amores perros / Love's a b***h
Bacheha-Ye aseman / The Children of Heaven
Bande à part / Band of Outsiders
Boot, Das / The Boat
Cidade de Deus / City of God
Dîner de cons, Le / The Dinner Game
Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le / Amelie
Ging chaat goo si 4: Ji gaan daan yam mo / Police Story 4: First Strike
Hung faan aau / Rumble in the Bronx
Jing wu ying xiong / Fist of Legend
Kikujirô no natsu / Kikujiro
Lat sau san taam / Hard Boiled
Lin Shi Rong / The Magnificent Butcher
Ong-bak
Rashômon
Se ying diu sau / Snake in the Eagle's Shadow
Siu lam juk kau / Shaolin Soccer
Sugata Sanshiro / Sanshiro Sugata
Tai ji: Zhang San Feng / Twin Warriors
Tasogare Seibei / The Twilight Samurai
Tsubaki Sanjûrô / Sanjuro
Xizao / Shower
Bo ming chan dao duo ming qiang / Odd Couple
Invención de Cronos, La / Cronos
Cercle rouge, Le / The Red Circle
Dung fong tuk ying / Eastern Condors
f*k sing go jiu / My Lucky Stars
Kakushi-toride no san-akunin / The Hidden Fortress
Kerd ma lui / Born to Fight
Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia / Curse of the Golden Flower
Meng long guo jiang / Return of the Dragon
Quatre cents coups, Les / The 400 Blows
Sanada Yukimura no bouryaku / The Shogun Assassins
Shôgun Iemitsu no ranshin - Gekitotsu / Shogun's Shadow
Shaolin Si / The Shaolin Temple
She hao ba bu / Snake and Crane Arts of Shaolin
Tang shan da xiong / Fists of Fury
Xin liu xing hu die jian / Comet, Butterfly and Sword
Ying hung boon sik / A Better Tomorrow
Ying hung boon sik / Shaolin Challenges Ninja

If you count The Man With No Name Trilogy(Per un pugno di dollari/A Fistful of Dollars, Per qualche dollaro in più/For A Few Dollars More, and Buono, il brutto, il cattivo, Il/The Good, the Bad and the Ugly), starring Clint Eastwood, directed by Sergio Leone, as it's labeled under Italian, then I'd have to add them too.

EDIT: I could have swore I voted on this one at IMDB and noticed that it was missing, so here's another one I really liked - Abre los ojos / Open Your Eyes.

I deliberately excluded anime because then the whole thread would be anime and we wouldn't learn anything new.

I just watched Angel-A which is a french film about someone in a lot of debt who decides to commit suicide. He gets rescued by a tall blonde "slut" who claims to be an angel.

He's got only a few hours to come up with a huge sum of money to pay off the mob.

very, very cool.

All B/W with some fantastic shots of Paris.

Most a mine been said, but I actually got a kick out of the Hungarian movie Kontroll. (I really ain't seen too many non-English language films)

Silly, dark, a lot of fun. Not exactly high art, and way pretentious, but hey...