Best foreign film of all-time

Is Canada foreign?

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I'm from Italy, i'll exclude Italian & American movies. (one movie per director)
(i haven't seen anything by Fassbinder or Tarkovskij, so don't blame me if they're not included yet)

"Santa Sangre" (1989) - Mexico (A. Jodorowsky)
"Breaking The Waves" (1996) - Denmark (L. Von Trier)
"Sjecas Li Se, Dolly Bell" (1981) - Bosnia Herzegovina (E. Kusturica)
"Sonatine" (1993) - Japan (T.Kitano)
"Que he hecho yo para merecer esto !!?" (1984) - Spain (P. Almodovar)
"Trois Coleurs: Bleu, Blanc et Rouge" (1993) - France, but Polish director (K. Kieslowski)
"Repulsion" (1965) - Poland (R. Polanski) ("Rosemary's Baby" is probably his masterpiece, but in fact it's an english movie, is it considered foreign?)
"Tetsuo" (1988) - Japan (S. Tsukamoto)
"Aiqing Wansui" (1994) - China (T. Ming-Liang)
"Goutte D'Eau Sur Pierres Brulantes"
"Funny Games" (1997) - France/Austria (M. Haneke)
"The Discreet Charm Of Bourgeoisie" - France, but Spanish director (L. Bunuel)
"Duo Luo Tian Shi" (1997) - Hong Kong (W. Kar-Wai)
"Crash" (1996) - Canada (D. Cronenberg)

That's it!

yes, "foreign" means "not from France" like everybody knows,


especially those ethnocentrists putting every kinda movies under the same ridiculous general label if they're not made-in-US
to be fair, then as stupid counterreaction you've got people who said to me "Jarmush doesn't make American movies - after all, his movies are intelligent"

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Videodrome isn't, Jésus de Montréal is.

It's the language that makes it foreign, not the country.

so a movie in Native American languages would be a foreign movie? even if there's nothing more American than the Sioux, Apaches, Cherokees and Iroquois etc.??

Yes

What about British films.

Usually they speak English in Britain, so not foreign. I suppose some British/Indian films might be. I don't know about multilingual films like Monsoon Wedding

So let me get this straight...

Braveheart is Irish/American, Trainspotting is intelligible, and Twin Town is ****e.

Did i get that right?

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these classifications suck.
is Texan still English?

silly people...everyone knows foreign films are films that are not in croatian.....

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If you think the movies being considered foreign is weird, try growing up as one…

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i'll try next time...

I didn't get time to scane the whole thread but I hope The Seven Samurai was on here that Yojimbo and Das Boot

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I was briefly stationed in San Antonio and Wichita Falls.

I don't find Texans hard to understand y'all.

However, when I lived in Maine, one of the girls I was having breakfast with and a waitress, had a conversation, and I couldn't understand anything they were saying.


Could someone across the big pond tell me what language they are speaking in Ratcatcher ?

Well, i notice it was filmed in Glasgow, so the answer to your question is:

'The forbidden language which normal men were not meant to know the what of'

Also known as Glasweigan.

I knew a guy from Glasgow who i ended up calling 'What?' - coz that's what i had to say after everything he said. And i'd been trained in his dialect too - there used to be a Glasweigan TV program called Rab C Nesbitt which was subtitled for other areas of the country for a while. Seriously.

Interesting looking film btw.

Thanks for the reply Golgot.

Definitely check the movie out.

Speaking of unintelligible English, I forgot about being a long-haul truckdriver.

A typical conversation on the CB radio would sound like this.

"Murmmmuruhdurrr *@#&%$! whatcha got Eastbound? come on back."

These are 'a few' of my favourites..

The Harder They Come (Jamaica)
Countryman (Jamaica)
Third World Cop (Jamaica)
City Of God (Brasil)
Cinema Paradiso (Italy)
Il Postino (Italy)
2046 (Hong Kong)
Amelie (French)
El Crimen Del Padre Amaro (Mexico)
Amores Perros (Mexico)
Open Your Eyes (Spain)
Run, Lola, Run (Germany)
The Bicycle Thief (Italy)
Life Is Beautiful (Italy)
Mediteraneo (Italy)
The Sea Inside (Spain)
Central Station (Brasil)
The Motorcycle Diaries (Latin America)
Show Me Love (Sweden)
Talk To Her (Spain)
Wild Strawberrys (Sweden)
Y tu mamá también (Mexico)
Enter The Dragon (Hong Kong)
Treed Murray (Canada)
C.R.A.Z.Y (Canada)
Water (India)
In The Mood For Love (Hong Kong)
Seven Samurai (Japan)

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My Life As a Dog - classic film. I loved it.

My favorite "foreign" movie (though not foreign to me) is this one (the only German movie I have seen that isn't complete crap but one of my overall favorites):
- 23 - Nichts ist so wie es scheint (1998) (Germany) (influenced my life like no other movie)
and though I haven't seen that many foreign movies here are some more that I liked:
- Seul contre tous also: I stand alone (1998) (France) (daring, unique, perfect)
- Dare mo shiranai also: Nobody knows (2004) (Japan) (underrecognized masterpiece)
- Ying xiong also: Hero (2002) (China)
- Nattevagten also: Nightwatch (1994) (Denmark) (one of the best Horror movies)
- Olsen-Banden also: The Olsen Gang (1968) and the rest of the series (Denmark) (among the best comedy/crime movies, my absolute favorites when I was a child, which doesn't mean they're children's movies)

Ok, that's it, maybe there are some more I'm forgetting now but these are probably the most important.