Recommend some Foreign Faves

I highly recommend Schultze Gets the Blues. It's sweet, charming, a little sad, and really funny in places. I don't hear people talk about this one much, but it's really worth a watch.

Also, if you haven't seen My Life as a Dog, that's a must see too. What I said about the above movie applies to this one too.

I don't think I've seen any outside of the already mentioned - but I would really appreciate some recomendations based on my taste.

Movies I Love
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Battle Royale
Oldboy
Sonatine
Takeshis
Fireworks (Hana Bi)
Kikujiro
City of God
Seven Samurai
Yojimbo
Sanjuro
Water Lilies


Movies I like
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Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman (takeshi)
Pan's Labyrinth
Delicatessen
Glory to the Filmmaker


Movies I didn't like
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Sympathy for Mr. Vengance (gona give it another try though)
Sympathy for Lady Vengance (not this one though)
Ran
Princess Mononoke
Metropolis
The Seventh Seal
Kung Fu Hustle
Chungking Express
Blue Spring


Movies I hate !
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Ichi the Killer
Rashomon
Ghost in the Shell
Joint Security Area
Battle Royale 2
Yakuza Papers


Movies in my blockbuster queue
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Police Story 3 : Supercop
La Femme Nikita
The Killer
Amelie
Run Lola Run
Trainspotting
Tokyo Drifter

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Spanish: Volve

A Brief Vacation, though I forget where that one came from.

A Tale of Two Sisters (korean, horror)
Cache (french, suspense)
Oldboy (korean, thriller)
Be With Me (singaporean, drama)

Hôtel du Nord (1938)
réalisateur: Marcel Carné

In '56 Piaf sang exactly what
nearly happened à l'Hôtel du Nord.


On les a trouvés se tenant par la main
We found them [lying], holding hands,

Les yeux refermés vers d'autres matins
their eyes closed, seeing other mornings

Remplis de soleil; on les a couchés
filled with sunlight; they took them to rest

Unis et tranquilles dans un lit creusé
quietly, together, into their last bed

Au coeur de la ville et je me rappelle
at the heart of the city, and I remember

Avoir refermé dans le petit jour
closing their door as the day was dawning

La chambre d'hôtel des amants d'un jour
a hotel room for the star-crossed lovers' end




freely translated

Oldboy, it's a masterpiece.

I'm surprised the original post didn't mention Akira Kurosawa as a great Japanese director.

I haven't seen The Counterfeiters yet but I've heard it's good.

Most of the ones I could think of at short notice have already been mentioned - Delicatessen and Man Bites Dog are particular favourites. Has anyone mentioned the Spanish movie Intacto? Above average thriller, with one fantastic scene in particular that's one of my favourite moments in cinema.

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Life Is Beautiful.

Black Cat, White Cat (Crna mačka, Beli mačor -1998)

by Emir Kusturica - country: Yugoslavia, now Serbia

See Golgot's Reviews, page 3
http://www.movieforums.com/community...%22#post308593



Want to know how the languages sound like: E R's Luka Kovač.

U Carmen, a South African musical adaptation of the opera, Carmen

Entreatos (João Moreira Salles, 2004)

It's a documentary about Presidential Candidate Lula.

Evil.
Ambulance
It's been some time. I'm not sure if they are German or Swedish.
Life is Beautiful (Italian).
The Return of Martin Guerre (French)
The Japanese Dimajin trilogy.
Mortadelo y Filemon (Spanish).
3 Fantastic Supermen (Italian. Original. The follow ups were rubbish.)
M. Hulot's Holiday (French. Watched it again the other night. Brilliant).
Taxi 1-4 (French. Not the so-so American version)
Danger: Diabolik (Italian)
The Clown (German)

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Noriko's Dinner Table
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
I'm a Cyborg but that's OK
Audition
Tekkon Kinkreet
Mind Game
Strange Circus

Those are just the one's in my top 10 lol

Let the Right One In is my new favorite .
Das Boot
Old Boy
La Doce Vita
Jonny Stecchino
Slumdog Millionaire just came out it isn't bad either.