Foreign Films

[B_i_N]

I know a lot of people in England hate the idea of watching movies with subtitles, but there really are some excellent movies out there. One of my favourites is Japan's Akira Kurosawa's classic SEVEN SAMURAI. The Americans then made their version based on the same story, The Magnificant Seven.

http://www.culturevulture.net/movies/sevensamxyz.jpeg

[Serium]

The 2 "BATTLE ROYALE" films were very decent!

[Jantje simoen]

I went through a stage of watching French films!!!!! (i know what your all thinking) and found the production more natural and spontaneous rather than some of the predictable scripted Hollywood productions.

[B_i_N]

Any movies in particular. One of my favourites is an old 50s French movie about a heist by four ex-cons, which was banned in some countries because criminals were actually copying the crime.

http://www.criterionco.com/content/images/full_boxshot/115_box_348x490.jpg

[Garlic Breath]

I like to watch the great Alain Delon....Girl On A Motorbike that kind of thing...lots of BIG black Citroen saloons in thiose French Noir films.
http://www.nerv.org.uk/small/cars/citroen.jpg

Failing that I dont mind a bit of Carl Ordinenz Colour Climax genre of classic porno.tup: ...Aunt Peg:p :p :p :p

[king billy]

The asian film market produces the best foreign films at the moment.....for those who are put off by subtitled films, don't be, you stop concentrating on the subtitles 20 mins into the film and don't even know they're there....

OLDBOY is an excellent example - it has the mother of all twists at the end too - excellent stuff!!....tup:

http://www.asia.cinedie.com/images/oldboy_poster-pt.jpg

The greatest foreign film, in recent years at least has to be CITY OF GOD, filmed in a Brazilian slum about slum life - all the actors are normal folk who live in the slum too....brilliant!!

http://www.orgs.bucknell.edu/hilltop/new%20stuff/city%20of%20god.jpg

[NormanCorner]

You're bang right about subtitles......better than watching poor dubbed fillums.


Das Boot was good and most of the Japanese horrors.

[Serium]

Ichi the Killer is another decent one...

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y208/anemic_royalty11/Ichi-The-Killer-Divx-frontal-DVD.jpg

[baldbantam]

Anybody heard of 'Audition'?

It's probably the best foreign horror film of the last few years. The director, Takashi Miike, made a cameo appearance in Hostel because it impressed Eli Roth so much.

[Garlic Breath]

Eli roth??:confused: ...I thought he was in Van Halen:confused: ...now he directs films...whatta guytup:

[Rick]

I've seen plenty of Swedish films, wasn't too interested in the subtitles though.:D

[tony d]

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I watched this as a kid and thoght it was top drawer...I had forgotten all about this until i read this thread..Now i have found it i will buy it and see if it is as good as i remember it to be... The great Sonny Chiba is in it so it cannot be that bad ehjawdrop: tup:

THE PLOT
G.I. Samurai A squadron of Japanese soldiers find themselves transported through time to Japan’s feudal period . . . 400 years in the past, where rival samurai clans are battling to make their leader the supreme Shogun. The squad leader, Lt. Iba (Sonny Chiba), sees this as the perfect opportunity to realize his dream of becoming the ruler of Japan. To achieve this, he teams his troops up with those of Kagatori, a samurai who also aspires to become Shogun using their hi-tech modern weaponry to rule Japan.

[B_i_N]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/00/Der_Untergang.jpg

Or Downfall in English. This really is a terrific German movie of Hitler's last days. You almost feel that you are there with him and his buddies, inside the bunker in the final days of the Nazi regime.

[Wicker Man]

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Taxi - A french film about a taxi driver - its top draw

[DutchBantam]

Anything by Luc Besson is great. Although Taxi 3 is by far the weakest of that particular trilogy.

Anything by Dick Maas is worth a look (Flodder 1,2,3, De Lift, Amsterdamned, even Down was watchable in an ott sort of way).

Anything by that chap who did Amelie is worth a peek. He's done some truly great films.

That's all I got for now.