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What are some of your favorite foreign films?

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I have only seen a few foreign films, but I love them so much more than typical hollywood movies. Any recommendations? Preferably that I can get at a Hollywood Video?! Thanks!

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Run Lola Run

Intacto

Amelie

Princess Mononoke

District B-13

Cinema Paradisio

Hard Boiled

Pan's Labyrinth
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About the only foreign films I like are Das Boot, Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of the Baskervilles and The Visitors (the remade version done in Hollywood is ok too but the original French version is funnier).
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Scaphandre et le papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)-2008.

Portrait Chinois (also know as shadowplay)-1996.

Both great french movies :)
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Get a Netflix account then you'll have access to movies Hollywood Video (going out of business in some states) has never even heard of.

It depends on what you like.

Romance, action, horror ???

Here are good films in different genres..

Romance.

Red (French) and it's sequels White and Blue.

La Dolce Vita (Italian)

Ecstasy (German) CLASSIC

Like Water For Chocolate (Mexico)

Suspense

The Third Man (England)

Run Lola Run (German)

Elevator to the Gallows (France)

Irreversable (France)-warning intense rape scene and violent revenge scene amongst a love story

Drama

The Seventh Seal (Sweden)

Antonia's Line (Norway)

The Seven Samurai (Japan)

M (Germany) - CLASSIC

SciFi & Fantasy & Horror

City of Lost Children (France)

Night Watch (Russia)

Day Watch (Russia)

Alphaville (French)

Comedy

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (England)

Snatch (England)

Amelie (French)

My Life As A Dog (Sweden)

Very Strange Films

Anatomy of h**l (France)..just watch all the way through this movie is bizarre..lots of nudity..nothing gross..well except what she puts in her water.

Boise Moi (France) If Thelma and Louise went totally insane

Brazil (England)
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I've rented all of these at a library, or video store.

Tokyo Story (Ozu)

Breathless (Godard)

Wild Strawberries (Bergman)

8 1/2 (Fellini)

400 Blows (Truffaut)

The Cranes are Flying (Kalatzov)

Au Hasard Balthazar (Bresson)

Chungking Express (Wong)

The Ascent (Sheptiko)

Yi Yi (Yang)

Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky)

Cria cuervos... (Saura)

M (Lang)

Knife in the Water (Polanski)

Lola (Fassbinder)

Grand Illusion (Renoir)

Ugetsu (Mizoguchi)

L'Avventura (Antonioni)

Stromboli (Rossellini)

Taste of Cherry (Kiarostami)

The Double Life of Veronique (Kieslowski)

WR: Mysteries of the Organism (Makavejev)

The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo)

Shadows in Paradise (Kaurismaki)

Loves of a Blonde (Forman)

I'd recommend a library over a major hollywood store, it's free and they have a wider selection.
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amelie

water is gud bt really depressing
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Okay, here are two foreign films that I like that I bet no one else has seen.

Primo Amore from Italy

Little Otik (Otesanek) from Czech Republic.

I have seen them both on the Sundance Channel. You should check them out, if you can find them.
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Battle Royale

Ringu

Ju-On

Das Expiriment

Run Lola Run

Iron Ladies

Suicide Club

Bloody Reunion

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Run Lola Run

Amelie

The Bicycle Thief

City of God

Oldboy

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7 Zwerge (the seven dwarves- possibly the funniest german film i have ever seen)
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