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What Are Your Favorite Foreign Language Films?
Self ^ | 12/19/09 | Randita

Posted on 12/19/2009 2:01:18 PM PST by randita

I really enjoyed the responses from last week's "What Are Your Favorite Movies Made Before 1950?" thread (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2406295/posts).

So here's another movie topic - favorite foreign language films of any era. (Hey, we need a pleasant distraction from the debacle going on in DC!)

If you know the date or even decade of the film and the language, please include it.

Thank you and enjoy!


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Chit/Chat; Music/Entertainment; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: foreignlanguage; movies
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To: Reily

Very anti-chekist.


101 posted on 12/19/2009 2:55:00 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: randita

Pan’s Labyrinth

This movie stays with you for a long time.


102 posted on 12/19/2009 2:57:36 PM PST by Tramonto (Live Free or Die)
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To: Marie2

Der Himmel über Berlin (1987) Wings of Desire.


103 posted on 12/19/2009 2:58:39 PM PST by Stentor
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To: randita; Honeybunch
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. French.

It's about this poor dude who is rendered quadraplegic by a stroke, but manages in his state to communicate and to write a book by blinking his eye at the young speech pathologist, who happened to be smokin' hot. (I mean totally smokin' hot, and speaking french, too...)

I thought I wouldn't like it but I went to see it with my wife and it was really quite good. It was a tragedy, obviously, but without any of the cheesy Hollywood affectations one might expect.

Four thumbs up.

104 posted on 12/19/2009 3:01:18 PM PST by OKSooner ("He's quite mad, you know." - Sean Connery to Honor Blackman in "Goldfinger".)
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To: randita
Any movie with Chow Yun-fat.

"Jules et Jim" (1962)

"Les Parapluies de Cherbourg" (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - 1964)

"I soliti ignoti" (Big Deal on Madonna Street - 1958)

"Umberto D." (1952)

"Aleksandr Nevskiy" (1938)

"La passion de Jeanne d'Arc" (1928)

"Roma, città aperta" (Rome, Open City - 1945)

"Nosferatu" (1922)

"The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (1920)

"Vampyr" (1932)

105 posted on 12/19/2009 3:01:29 PM PST by LibFreeOrDie (Obama promised a gold mine, but will give us the shaft.)
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To: randita

I agree on Ran, Das Boot, and Stalingrad. I would also add Bergman’s Magic Flute. I would add that my vote should only count for half - since I have seen so few compared to some of the afficiandos on this string.
However, my all time favorite foreign or English movie is Sergei Bondarchuk’s Waterloo. The original was 3 hours long. Alas the best available DVD is but 128 minutes. I am not sure it quite qualifies as a foreign film since all the lead actors are great British and American actors - Plummer, Steiger, Welles - not to be missed by any film buff.


106 posted on 12/19/2009 3:01:59 PM PST by bjc (Check the data!!)
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To: randita

Queen Margot...I love seeing my ancestors butchered.

/sarc

das Boot always pops up....the Red White and Blue series

Kurosawa...anything.


107 posted on 12/19/2009 3:02:15 PM PST by wardaddy (Say Merry Christmas or I'll kill you....I am weary of the onslaught on Christ in America)
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To: ctdonath2
La Femme Nikita (French)

Worth it just for the opening minutes.

108 posted on 12/19/2009 3:03:33 PM PST by Stentor
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To: randita

Diva - French. Don’t flame me.


109 posted on 12/19/2009 3:03:58 PM PST by Hoosier-Daddy ("It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
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To: LibFreeOrDie
I'm sure that Chow Yun Fat is a good actor, but I've always said that if I meet him I'm going to tell him that that dude he played in Crouching Tiger was a chump. An absolute total chump.

That older Chinese Kung Fu chick was nuts about him, but he couldn't take his eye off that little chick who stole the Kung Fu book because he had some sort of complex about perfect Kung Fu or some such stuff.

Total chump. :)

110 posted on 12/19/2009 3:05:12 PM PST by OKSooner ("He's quite mad, you know." - Sean Connery to Honor Blackman in "Goldfinger".)
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To: LussaO

Goodbye Lenin is a great movie about the fall of the Berlin wall and the cultural changes that came quickly to the East Berliners. Funny as hell as well.


111 posted on 12/19/2009 3:05:22 PM PST by festusbanjo (The New Carter Administration, 2009 Edition, now available in black!)
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To: CompGeek

I agree that Akira Kurosawa’s Ran is a great film. So is “Throne of Blood”, Kurosawa’s version of Macbeth. (Lady Macbeth in this one will send a real chill up your spine.) Kurosawa’s “Rashomon” is one of the greatest films ever made, and “Ikiru” (”To Live”) will break your heart.


112 posted on 12/19/2009 3:08:38 PM PST by Califelephant
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To: randita

MAny of the previous posted, here’s what I didn’t see...

Tropa de Elite (2007) - Brazil (there are like 10 bootleg”sequels”, not those, I mean the original version)

City of God - Brazil

Elephants_Dream_720-h264-st-aac.mov - free to distribute European CGI animation short.

Manda Bala

The WarLords (2007) - China
Also Known As:
Ci ma (Hong Kong: Cantonese title) (working title)
The Warlords (International: English title)
Tou ming zhuang (China: Mandarin title)
Warlords (USA) (new title)


Mongol (2007) Mongolia/Russian


113 posted on 12/19/2009 3:12:09 PM PST by JerseyHighlander
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To: randita

Downfall


114 posted on 12/19/2009 3:14:45 PM PST by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: OKSooner
Chow Yun-Fat in a few non-chump roles. :)


115 posted on 12/19/2009 3:16:19 PM PST by LibFreeOrDie (Obama promised a gold mine, but will give us the shaft.)
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To: Eepsy

...I can’t possibly be the only Monsieur Hulot fan on this thread...

You are not alone, my friend!


116 posted on 12/19/2009 3:18:09 PM PST by Califelephant
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To: randita

The Return of Martin Guerre (French)


117 posted on 12/19/2009 3:20:01 PM PST by Hawthorn
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To: Tijeras_Slim

LOf’nL!


118 posted on 12/19/2009 3:21:06 PM PST by MonicaG (Thank you to our military & veterans, with love & gratitude. XOXOXO)
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To: randita
A Very Long Engagement— French
Ambush— Finnish
Run Lola Run— German
119 posted on 12/19/2009 3:27:01 PM PST by Shqipo (Palin/Thompson 2012)
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To: randita

“Repentence” 1988 Georgia

Although the entire film may not be the greatest, it has one of the most moving scenes in all history - a shipment of logs arrive from the labor camp, and the villagers descend on them, hoping to read messages from their loved ones carved in them.


120 posted on 12/19/2009 3:28:30 PM PST by LussaO
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