Life is Beautiful is one of my favorites that should really only be watched with subtitles. It's a really sad movie, but sticks with you in a good way.
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Train to Busan
Das Boot might be my favourite movie full stop.
I really liked "Battle Royal" i feel like the hunger games may have been written taking HEAVY influence from this film.
Babette's Feast
The Raid: Redemption.
Rififi
Parasite
Seven Samurai
Manon Of The Spring
Babette's Feast
There are so many foreign language films I love. Several have already been mentioned here, but I'll add a few that haven't been:
- Rashomon - Kurosawa, 1950
- Umberto D. - de Sica, 1952
- Amarcord - Fellini, 1973
- Many films by the Dardenne brothers, in particular: The Promise (1996) and The Son (2002).
- Many films by Kore-eda - perhaps his most well-known one being Shoplifters (2018).
Le Chant du loup. A very decent submarine action movie.
Chungking Express
Heavy Trip
君の名は。 (your name.)
Also my favorite overall movie.
It is available in English but I prefer to watch it in Japanese. Without subs.
I assume that works only because you've seen it enough times you remember the intent of what is being said, even if you don't understand it to listen to?
I Am Not an Easy Man (French). It's outdated now, but when I watched it as a teenager/ young woman it opened my eyes to a lot that I took for granted. I still think of it all the time when I'm brushing my teeth.
Merci!
And the version of "You're the One that I Want" plays in my head all the time! So good!
My Neighbor Totoro
Such a perfect heartwarming movie.
Howl's Moving Castle Martyrs Paadmavaat
Oh I totally forgot about animated films
Kung Fu Hustle
Excellent film, and shaolin soccer is brilliant too from the same guy. Steven chow.
Came here to mention this one, and here it is! I love Shaolin Soccer.
Right on. At least half of Stephen Chow's catalog came to mind when I read this question.
A Serbian Film
Yojimbo which apparently was the basis for Last Man Standing.
"Happy Times". A chinese film about a grifter and a young blind girl.
I didn't see a call out for Perfect Blue.
Im Westen Nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front).
There are some historical inaccuracies, sure, but it is an amazing movie showing the horrors of trench warfare and the careless nature of the commanding officers in the First World War. It leaves you with a sense of dread, something war movies should do more often imo.
Ong Bak 2. That movie is one of the best martial arts films I’ve seen.
Pan's Labyrinth
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
I admit that the list of foreign made films I am familiar is quite small.
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