Foreign Language Movie Exchange...Recommendations Thread

Rbrayer:
Japan:
Kurosawa: Ikiru, Yojimbo, Rashoman, The Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood
Ozu: Tokyo Story, Late Spring, The Only Son, An Autumn Afternoon
Mizoguchi: Sansho the Bailiff, Ugetsu, The Life of Oharu
Kobayashi: Samurai Rebellion, Harakiri
Imamura: The Ballad of Narayama, Vengeance is Mine
Takita: Departures
Miyazaki: Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Castle in the Sky
Kon: Paprika, Perfect Blue, Millenium Actress

France:
Melville: La Samourai, Army of Shadows, Bob le flambeur
Renoir: La Grand Illusion, The Rules of the Game, French Cancan
Truffat: The 400 Blows, Jules and Jim, Day for Night
Godard: Breathless, Vivre Sa Vie
Cocteau: Beauty and the Beast, Orpheus
Carné: Children of Paradise
Bresson: Pickpocket, Diary of a Country Priest, A Man Escaped, Au Hasard Balthazar
Tati: Playtime
Resnais: Last Year at Marienbad

Scandinavia:
Berman: Persona, Cries and Whispers, Fannie and Alexander, The Seventh Seal, Smile of a Summer Night, Wild Strawberries, Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light
Dreyer: The Passion of Joan of Arc, Ordet

Italy:
Fellini: 8 1/2, La Dolce Vita, La Strada, I Vitelloni, Amarcord
Visconti: Rocco and his Brothers, Senso
Pontecorvo: The Battle of Algiers

Spain:
Buñuel: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoise, The Exterminating Angel, Viridiana
Erice: The Spirit of the Beehive

Germany:
Wenders: Wings of Desire, Paris, Texas (does this count? co-production between France and West Germany, but shot in US with US actors?)
Herzog: Aguirre: The Wrath of God, The Enigma of Kasper Hauser, Heart of Glass, Nosferatu the Vampyr, Strosezk
Fassbinder: Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, The Marriage of Maria Braun
Lang: Metropolis, M

Russia/USSR:
Eisenstein: Battleship Potemkin, Ivan the Terrible Parts 1 and 2
Vertov: Man With a Movie Camera
Tarkovsky: Stalker, Solaris

India:
Ray: The Apu Trilogy, The Music Room


Tyler1:
Latin America:
Memories of Underdevelopment (Alea, 1968)
Black God, White Devil (Rocha, 1964)
Invasión (Santiago, 1969)
Jackal of Nahueltoro (Littín, 1969)
In the Mouth of the Wolf (Lombardi, 1988)
Extraordinary Stories (Llinás, 2008)
Memories of Prison (Santos, 1984)
The Dependent (Favio, 1969)
Araya (Benacerraf, 1959)
Embrace of the Serpent (Guerra, 2015)

India:
The Cloud-Capped Star (Ghatak, 1960)
Charulata (Ray, 1964)
North Chennai (Vetrimaaran, 2018)
The Visual (Joseph, 2013)
In Search of Famine (Sen, 1981)
The Walls (Gopalakrishnan, 1990)
The Churning (Benegal, 1976)
Ee.Ma.Yau (Pellissery, 2018)
The Ritual (Kasaravalli, 1977)
Mind of Clay (Kaul, 1985)

I made a custom list of 100 foreign language movies I like (in date order).

You count that as 100 recommendations, or recommend me something you think I'd like/should definitely watch based on my choices.

Wow, that's a pretty darn good list. I'm not that well watched in FL films myself, I hoping to get some recommendations for moi

I do have one for you that I seen recently and was blown away by it's humanity and subject matter, The Naked Island (1960) Have you seen that?

I have not seen it, so will add it to my watchlist

If you liked Le Samourai I would recommend Army of Shadows and Le Cercle Rouge from the same director if you haven't seen those.

Very preliminary list:

War and Peace (Bondarchuk)
Z
Jesus of Montreal
Pan's Labyrinth
Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
Downfall
Tell No One
Seven Samurai
Parasite
Allegro non troppo
Entr'acte
The Return of Martin Guerre
Letters from Iwo Jima
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
The Shop on Main Street
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
My Father's Glory
My Mother's Castle
Buffet Froid

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I have The American Friend on my list, although I honestly can't remember how much of it is in which language so for eligibility purposes I'd have to relook at it. But if it is eligible, it's worth watching as a kind of neo-noir slow burn crime thriller. It features the character Tom Ripley (as seen in The Talented Mr Ripley, Purple Noon and others), but it's not a sequel so you don't need to have seen them. Bruno Ganz and Dennis Hopper are both really good in it.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that a tv show?

Yes, but believe it or not, it was released to theatres in some countries.Besides, I recommend it.

Alright

(Whole thing's on YouTube btw if anyone in the thread wants to watch it)

here's a list of movies i could plausibly see citizen rules liking but really i think anybody should watch them:

good manners (marco dutra & juliana rojas, 2018)
border (ali abbasi, 2018)
workers (jose luis valle, 2013)
beyond the hills (cristian mungiu, 2012)
about elly (asghar farhadi, 2009)
devils on the doorstep (wen jiang, 2000)
the wind will carry us (abbas kiarostami, 1999)
rebels of the neon god (tsai ming-liang, 1992)
close-up (abbas kiarostami, 1990)
wings of desire (wim wenders, 1987)
where is the friend's home (abbas kiarostami, 1987) [and the rest of the koker trilogy]
mauvais sang (leos carax, 1986)
the sacrifice (andrei tarkovsky, 1986)
fanny & alexander (ingmar bergman, 1982)
scenes from a marriage (ingmar bergman, 1973)
la rupture (claude chabrol, 1970)
a man and a woman (claude lelouch, 1966)
pierrot le fou (jean-luc godard, 1965)
i am cuba (mikhaïl kalatozov, 1964)
woman in the dunes (hiroshi teshigahara, 1964)
a woman is a woman (jean-luc godard, 1961)
battement de coeur (henri décoin, 1940)
i was born, but (yasujiro ozu, 1932)
faust (f.w. murnau, 1926)
the last laugh (f.w. murnau, 1924)

i tried to mostly avoid the really obvious ones and bolded a few that i feel deserve special attention because they're so unfairly slept on

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I'm trying to think why this wouldn't be four separate movies for voting purposes. I don't see it being any different than The Lord of the Rings in that regard.

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Same as Berlin Alexanderplatz above.

I'm quite sure LotR-trilogy has also been shown in theaters as a single event. I don't think that matters when considering if it's one movie, a trilogy, a quadrilogy, or television series. War and Peace was released as four films just like LotR was released as three.

Back in the all-time countdown thread, I was (at least partially) in favor of considering LotR as a single entry. Most people disagreed (and I could see the logic in their reasons). My position remains the same; I'd happily count War and Peace as a single entry, but I'd like to get some sort of logical explanation of why it's different than LotR. BA, on the other hand, seems quite clearly a television series to me.

I guess this needs to be discussed in the preliminary thread.

Yup ask Thursday. I image she'll use some reference material for when the films were released as to if they were movies or TV. Anyway interesting questions.

Jean de Florette
Manon of the Spring
Wings of Desire
The Return of Martin Guerre
Camille Claudel - Adjani
Cinema Paradiso
Malena
Pan's Labyrinth
Winter's Light
Through a Glass Darkly
The Seventh Seal
Buffet Froid
Scenes from a Marriage
Lastrada
Ordet
M

Metropolis
Breathless
La Dolce Vita
Persona
Life is Beautiful
Das Boot
8 1/2
Nights of Cabria
The Ship Sails on
Mr Hulot's Holiday
Cyrano Debergerac Depardieu


Tese are just some of my favorites of the few foreign movies I've seen. Looking forward to the thread.

OK, I have a recommendation for you that I thought of when picking something for the Personal Rec hall of fame... but it's not on any of the lists so I couldn't choose it!

Ossessione (1943) which is based on the book The Postman Always Rings Twice, noirish so should be up your street if you haven't seen it already.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035160/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

So many, not even sure where to start. I'll go by country/director to make it easiest - this is incomplete, and with one exception, does not include english language foreign films - I'll get to those. These are essential foreign language films (I'm sure I've forgotten some). I'm happy to recommend specifics if you tell me your sensibility.

Japan:

Kurosawa: Ikiru, Yojimbo, Rashoman, The Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood
Ozu: Tokyo Story, Late Spring, The Only Son, An Autumn Afternoon
Mizoguchi: Sansho the Bailiff, Ugetsu, The Life of Oharu
Kobayashi: Samurai Rebellion, Harakiri
Imamura: The Ballad of Narayama, Vengeance is Mine
Takita: Departures
Miyazaki: Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Castle in the Sky
Kon: Paprika, Perfect Blue, Millenium Actress

France:
Melville: La Samourai, Army of Shadows, Bob le flambeur
Renoir: La Grand Illusion, The Rules of the Game, French Cancan
Truffat: The 400 Blows, Jules and Jim, Day for Night
Godard: Breathless, Vivre Sa Vie
Cocteau: Beauty and the Beast, Orpheus
Carné: Children of Paradise
Bresson: Pickpocket, Diary of a Country Priest, A Man Escaped, Au Hasard Balthazar
Tati: Playtime
Resnais: Last Year at Marienbad

Scandanavia:
Bergman: Persona, Cries and Whispers, Fannie and Alexander, The Seventh Seal, Smile of a Summer Night, Wild Strawberries, Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light
Dreyer: The Passion of Joan of Arc, Ordet

Italy:
Fellini: 8 1/2, La Dolce Vita, La Strada, I Vitelloni, Amarcord
Visconti: Rocco and his Brothers, Senso
Pontecorvo: The Battle of Algiers

Spain:
Buñuel: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoise, The Exterminating Angel, Viridiana
Erice: The Spirit of the Beehive

Germany:
Wenders: Wings of Desire, Paris, Texas (does this count? co-production between France and West Germany, but shot in US with US actors?)
Herzog: Aguirre: The Wrath of God, The Enigma of Kasper Hauser, Heart of Glass, Nosferatu the Vampyr, Strosezk
Fassbinder: Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, The Marriage of Maria Braun
Lang: Metropolis, M

Russia/USSR:
Eisenstein: Battleship Potemkin, Ivan the Terrible Parts 1 and 2
Vertov: Man With a Movie Camera
Tarkovsky: Stalker, Solaris

India:
Ray: The Apu Trilogy, The Music Room

Thanks, I didn't know there was another noir based on The Postman Always Rings Twice. I haven't seen it, but it sounds pretty good.

Wow! thanks...I'll add those to the first post.

So, which version of Andrei Rublev I should watch?