favourite foreign films?

pinkhandgrenade

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trainsopping, but it isn't really foreign.

SUSPIRIA. I LOVE Dario Argento.

Amelie, and pretty much anything with Audrey Tatou.

Aiki or Aikido--can't remember.

and there are a few italian, french, and tagalog filsm i can't remember the titles of!
 

Bonbonroz

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La Vita è bella (Italy)
Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress (China)
Forrest Gump (US)
Out of Rosenheim [Bagdad Café here in France] (Germany)
Der Himmel über Berlin (France&Germany)
The Pianist (France,UK,Germany&Poland)
Pane e tulipani (Italy)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (UK)
The King and I (US, old movie with Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner)
Spirited Away (Japan, okej this is not a movie but anyway)
The Nightmare before Christmas (US, same as previous)

And so many more!!!
 

Love Always Ivy

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im in an italian cinema class and i swear every movie we watch has me so emotional!

i love ...
cinema paradisco and Life is Beautiful and Facing windows
.....so far
 

pinkhandgrenade

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Love Always Ivy
im in an italian cinema class and i swear every movie we watch has me so emotional!

i love ...
cinema paradisco and Life is Beautiful and Facing windows
.....so far


okay, maybe you can help me. this thread got me thinkiing about an italian film i vaguely remember seeing a few years ago.

it takes place in the summertime, it's ab9out a girl and her aunt, or somehting along those lines. the girl goes on a trip with a group of people, and i want to say her name is cinnamon. or maybe the word cinnamon is in the title. and it's one of those coming of age stories or something.

and bonbonroz, pane e tulipani is fantastic
 

Bonbonroz

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Quote:
Originally Posted by pinkhandgrenade
okay, maybe you can help me. this thread got me thinkiing about an italian film i vaguely remember seeing a few years ago.

it takes place in the summertime, it's ab9out a girl and her aunt, or somehting along those lines. the girl goes on a trip with a group of people, and i want to say her name is cinnamon. or maybe the word cinnamon is in the title. and it's one of those coming of age stories or something.

and bonbonroz, pane e tulipani is fantastic


This film is "Ginger and Cinnamon" by Daniele Luchetti (2003), I didn't watch it but seems good!
 

captodometer

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trainsopping, but it isn't really foreign.

Why not? I was actually kind of wondering about everyone's definition of "foreign film" as I was reading this thread.

To me, as an expat American, a foreign film has most of the following qualities:

foreign cast/director
possibly not in English
non-Hollywood studio
likely small production budget
filmed mostly/completely outside the US
released first somewhere other than the US

So most British films are foreign to me. But this is an international board, so films that I would consider as domestic are technically foreign to a lot of other people and vice versa, LOL. But I noticed that no one is picking the formulaic, mass market Hollywood releases. It's definitely an arthouse/indie list so far. And most faves seem to be in a language other than English.
 

pinkhandgrenade

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idk why trainspotting dosn't strike me as foreign. maybe because it's in english. haha.

as for the italian film aboout the cinnamon girl, it's called ginger and cinnamon. cute movie. or at least, i remember it to be cute. i think i was busy making out with some guy in my italian class when we were watching it. during class. oh college. or some guy who wasn't in my class but was there with me. either way. totally wasn't paying attention.

and there's a french film i like. monsieur ibrahim et something something something. long title.
 

Bonbonroz

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It's called "Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran", and yes it is with Omar Sharif. Very good film!
 

eulchen

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Monsieur Ibrahim is lovely, i agree

In China they eat dogs / Old men in new cars (Denmark)
The Green Butchers (Denmark)
most of the Olsen Gang movies (Denmark)
The Host (South Korea)
Life is beautiful (Italy)
Taxi (France)
Saving Grace (UK)
Trainspotting (UK)
Dogville (US? director Lars von Trier is danish, but i dont know where the movie was filmed)
Snatch (UK)
Chocolat (France)
Monthy Python´s Life of Bryan (UK)
Letters from Iwo Jima (Japan/US)

Fifth Element (US. is foreign for me.
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Pulp Fiction (dito)
Kill Bill (dito)

lots and lots and lots more I love, but I cant remember them all. *is movie junkie*
German movies I like:
Lola rennt (Run, Lola, Run)
Der Eisbär. (not Knut but Til Schweiger)
Good Bye, Lenin!


Still have to see Amelie, Perfume and Pans Labyrinth.

and i saw king of california last week, which i think is pretty good as well.
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noturavgurl

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i am a HUGE HUGE HUGEEEE fan of kim ki duk. his movies are works of art!
samaritan girl is probably my favorite..it has that song clair de lune..like the mac e/s from the moonbathe collection, which YOU KNOW, i had to have. =)
 

Dark_Phoenix

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Most American movies I like action or horror. Resident Evil series, Matrix series, Kill Bill, Grindhouse, and some others. Jennifer was really cool to watch, and extremely creepy.

I'm Bahraini so I think US films are foreign... Bollywood films are foreign too but I like way too many of them to list, lol. Cinemas show both Hollywood and Bollywood films in Bahrain. I haven't seen many Norwegian films... so far only Kill Buljo and Fritt Vilt.

Lady Snowblood is my favorite Japanese film. Infection, Curse of the Golden Flower (Chinese), Parasite Eve, and One Missed Call are really awesome too.
 

j_absinthe

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Quote:
Originally Posted by lovesittxx
Ichi the Killer
Pan's Labrinyth
Irreversible
Cannibal Holocaust (okay, not my favorite, but I liked it)


We have extremely similiar tastes
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I'd like to add onto that:

Salo (120 Days in Sodom)
Irreversible
Delicatessan
Born Into Brothels
Blind Beast
 

jenee.sum

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At the Threshold of an Era (entire series, Chinese) -- this shit made me cry, and is the most expensive Chinese tv series ever made
File of Justice (entire series, Chinese) -- awweeeesommeeeeee
Investigation Files (entire series, Chinese) -- my family and I use to stay up till like 4 in the morning watching this shit on tape LOL
Endless Love...aka. The Fairytale of Autumn or Autumn in my Heart (S.Korean) -- oh man this shit made me BALLLLL like a bitch!!!! hate Korean dramas for their sappy sad heart breaking shit that makes everyone cry!! but ohhh so goooood!

I think that's it. Gotta love the oldies.
 
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