Suggest some good foreign language movies and tv series.

chiron said:
Btw, anyone seen Babel yet? And Volver sucks fyi.
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Babel is a good movie in itself, but I'm a bit disappointed in Inarritu for making it so commercialised. Also the multiple storylines in Babel seem more contrived. The Japanese angle I feel was completely disparate. His much less commercial and lower budget Ameros Perros was much more coherent.

However, all things said, Inarritu is an excellent film-maker. You can see his style clearly in his films. Now I have only to see 21 Grams to complete his trilogy :)
 
Here's a list of some movies I like (not in any specific order): -

Code: 
Brazil
Malena
The Cell
Brotherhood of the Wolf (France)
Lolita (Jeremy Irons)
Leon: the Professional
American Psycho (Christian Bale)
Dark City
Intimacy
Se7en
The Dreamers
High Art
Swimming Pool
Irreversible
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Open Your Eyes (Spanish) - Vanilla Sky was an Amreekan copy of this
The English Patient - Great movie
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Bizarre
The Butterfly Effect
The Thirteenth Floor
Wings of Desire (German) - City of Angels was an English remake
The Pianist
eXistenZ
Judgement at Nuremberg
Naked Lunch
Run Lola Run
Spider - Ralph Fiennes delivers great performance again
Scarface
Carlito's Way
AntZ
Shrek series
The Godfather 1&2 - 3 isn't half as good
Schindler's List
LOTR
The Matrix
Red/White/Blue trilogy
12 Monkeys
Altered States - Strange experiments, bizarre
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Immortel
Taxi Driver
Goodfellas
The Day of the Jackal (The Jackal starring Bruce Willis was a poor copy of this)
Sin City
Heat
Donnie Brasco
Insomnia
The Island
War of the Worlds - crap
The Deer Hunter
Ronin
Face/Off
Desperado
Minority Report
Seven Years in Tibet - Very good
Interview with the Vampire - Tom Cruise delivers an unusually great performance
Quills
Jude
Catch Me if You Can
----The Hannibal Lecter series ----
Manhunter (The first of the series, and without Hopkins)
Silence of the Lambs
Red Dragon
Hannibal
----The Hannibal Lecter series ----
Star Wars
Munich - Very good
Donnie Darko - bizarre
Equilibrium
Memento - Irreversible stole some ideas from this movie
Pi
The Machinist - Christian Bale is excellent here. You've got to see this one.
The Shawshank Redemption - Classic!
Das Boot (The Boat) - German
Der Untergang (The Downfall) - German, Hitler!!
Stalingrad
American Beauty
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Finding Neverland
Requiem for a Dream - Say no to drugs.
Tristan + Isolde - Sophia Myles is lovely!
Final Fantasy : The Spirits Within
Ice Age 1&2
Serenity
What Dreams May Come
Chinatown
City of God
Shadow of the Vampire
The Tenant
Mulholland Drive
Stalker
The Usual Suspects
Videodrome
Event Horizon
Mission to Mars
Solaris (George Clooney) - Remake of Russian "Solyaris"
The Quiet Earth - Excellent
Batman Begins
Thin Red Line
Saving Private Ryan
Platoon
Reservoir Dogs
Jarhead
X-Men series
Kill Bill - stupid action
Die Hard series
Finding Nemo
A Bug's Life
Monsters, Inc
Lord of War
House of Wax
Alien series
Braveheart
The Patriot
Three Kings - very good (anti)war movie
Full Metal Jacket
Black Hawk Down
Enemy at the Gates
Terminator series
Ocean's Eleven/Twelve
Fight Club - not that Indian crap!
Troy
Kingdom of Heaven
Batman - Mask of the Phantasm
Corpse Bride
The Lion King
Corto Maltese series (French)

This list doesn't even contain half the movies I've watched over a few years and liked them. But, I'm too tired to type all the names now.
 
tracerbullet said:
Yeah, but I guess that was the effect the director wanted. I love the way that each of the four parts the movie was divided into ran without any cuts.

Chaos, I'm guessing since our tastes are so similar, you seen Cidade de Deus (City of God) as well! That movie was one of its kind. Revolutionary, I'd call it. Anyone here who's interested in foreign cinema simply cannot NOT watch City of God. It's directed by Fernando Meirelles - same guy who made The Constant Gardener, which I, for some strange reason, haven't watched yet.
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If you haven't seen Constant Gardener till now, do ur self a favor today and rent the DVD :p.
 
Day of the jackal was one amazing movie.

x86 said:
anyone got some good war movies? specially european ones.

like russian or german war movies?
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Der Untergang is a good movie-- shows the last days of hitler.

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BTW, just finished watching Bus 174 and premonition.Bus 174 was decent.
 
a great german war movie is 'das boot', all about life and death aboard a U-boat

feels very much like watching a movie made out of 'HMS ulysses' by mclean
 
digital_brain said:
:eek: .. you didnt like APU trilogy .. i am shocked :no: .. the only emotional portion is there which is required ..tell me where it was overdone .. the scene where Durga died almost made me cry ... and Ray didnt JUST got exposure .. it was his first movies and he earned it .. only thing about the movie that can be criticized is its slow pace .. but according to Ray , it was deliberate to capture the slow-laid back attitude of the people... what did you expected anyway :mad: :mad: dont criticize something which you dont understand .. :)
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I don't mind slow pacing. I liked Stranger than Paradise and that was REALLY slow. I guess it is upto each person's taste but don't tell me that I don't understand it when I did have the patience to watch the whole thing(over a week though :tongue: ).
 
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