Favorite Foreign Language Movie

[LynneSin]

I just got back from Borders (my favorite Independent Bookstore closes early on Saturdays) and I spent a few hours browsing the future books I'll buy but only came home with 2 movies. Both of them are some of my favorite foreign languge movies: Il Postino (the Postman) and Life is Beautiful.

I adore foreign languge movies and have several in my collection. Other favorites are Europa, Europa and Amelie.

So what are your favorite foreign language movies?

[Supply Side Jesus]

1. Seven Samurai, Kurosawa's Dreams

generally Kurosawa rules.

[La_Serpiente]

2. My favourite ones

are "Y Tu Mama Tambien"

"Sexo y Lucia"

"Abren los ojos"

just to name a few.

[jobycom]

3. Danton, Une Pure Formalitie (sp?), A Grave of Fireflies. Unless you allow

If you allow heavy Irish accents as foreign, The Secret of Roan Innish is great.

Also, love Spirited Away, and The Return of Martin Guierre. (again, sp?)

[Nay]

4. A Brief Vacation. Good Italian movie.

It's got a good liberal theme to it, too.

[dolo amber]

5. Amelie

I literally skipped with joy from the theatre after seeing it. Life is Beautiful made me WEEP like a crazy person and I do NOT cry at movies, like ever. City of God is also wonderful, and I'm sure there are many more my semi alcohol-soaked mind can't come up with at the mo'. ;)

[Capn Sunshine]

14. Life is Beautiful got me pretty misty too

and I am a macho dude, bad for the image. :)

"Il Postino" was just lush.

[FDRrocks]

6. Run, Lola, Run

[supernova]

7. A few

The Nasty Girl - German

Spirited Away - anime

Danton

The Cabinet of Dr Caligari - silent German expressionist

Metropolis - German silent film

Ridicule - recent French

Can you tell I like German films? LOL! I'm enjoying anime, just don't know that much about it yet. I do like French films also, though titles are escaping me right now.

edit: Some more --

The Red, White, and Blue series from a few years ago.

Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker (chinese)
Wide Sargasso Sea
Nosferatu - first vampire film. German, 1922 (IIRC)

Eat, Drink, Man, Woman (Taiwan)

[Ellen Forradalom]

8. The Two Lives of Veronica

by Kieslowski. I speak French and studied a little Polish so I was able to follow most of the movie :-)

[JanMichael]

16. ACK! I missed your post!

Krzysztof Kieslowski is my favorite director, period. He was a realist with romantic weaknesses.

Why did you study Polish? BTW I spent a few years in Krakow, it was a great experience.

[kodi]

9. Ran

.

[mitchum]

10. "Aguirre, The Wrath of God"

[JanMichael]

11. Europa, Europa! That and "Blue, White & Red Trilogy".

http://www.filmref.com/directors/dirpages/kieslowski.html

Krzysztof Kieslowski is my FAVORITE (although dead) director!

[JanMichael]

15. "Red" is an amazing film.

A retired judge that eavesdrops on his neighbor's phone calls and a heartbroken model that befriends him. Guess what? NO SEX!

Plus the end has the trilogy main characters all surviving a ferry accident.

All around good movies but "Red" is my favorite. Actually Irene Jacob is just fabulous...

[Kathy in Cambridge]

12. "Wings of Desire", "Au Revoir Les Enfants"

"All About My Mother", "La Strada"

German/French/English
French
Spanish
Italian

[qwertyMike]

13. Waking Ned Devine :)

Oirish

[stopbush]

17. Amelie, Manon of the Spring, Sex & Lucia, Jean de Floret

and just about anything with Catherine Deneuve - Belle de jour, Mayerling (I know- in English), East-West, even Place Vendome was different and enjoyable.

I like the Frenchies, but recently I've been getting into some of the Spanish films like Talk to Her and Sex and Lucia (a slow burn, but a good payoff). There's so little coming out of Hollywood these days to match the originality of the foreign flicks.

[kskiska]

18. La Ceremonie

With a Friend Like Harry (French)
He Loves Me, Loves Me Not (French)
An Affair of Love (French)
The Hairdresser's Husband (French)
Time Out (French)
Robert et Robert (French)
Bread and Chocolate (Italian)
Umberto D (Italian)
The Legend of Rita (German)
Shall We Dance (Japanese)
Beijing Bicycle (Chinese)