Strangest (or other-wise best) Foreign Films

The Bib-iest of Nickels

07-01-14

Foreign Films.

Fans of them aren't as much fans of a genre of movie as they are moviegoers that understand creative-minds can be found all across the seven seas.

What I like to do every month is, I like to pick out a certain area of film, and I like to explore it as in-depth as I possibly can.

Last month, I did Science-Fiction month, which is why I made the thread asking for all of you to tell me some of the "Strangest Sci-Fi" movies that you could think.

While I could have made a thread asking about your favorite Science-Fiction films, I felt like that was ... a little overdone.

This month, I am asking for you to share with me some of the strangest foreign films. However, I am also asking you to say some of your favorite foreign films in-general.

Information about them is certainly appreciated because I will be using this as a way to discover new flicks. (I hope others will find use in it as well.)

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I Saw the Devil

Choi Min-sik plays the role of a vicious and vindictive serial-killer. He's brutal, and oftentimes even rapes his victims before murder. However, his latest victim is the pregnant fiance of a secret agent played by Lee Byund-hun. I Saw the Devil is about a man's pursuit to extract revenge against the person that killed his soon-to-be wife.

cricket

Registered User

07-01-14

I've really just recently started watching a lot of foreign films. The strangest I've seen is The Holy Mountain. My favorite is I Saw the Devil. Other foreign films I love are La Femme Nikita, The Marriage of Maria Braun, The Tin Drum, Dersu Uzala, Cries and Whispers, Das Boot, Inside, Man Bites Dog, A Serbian Film and Strosek. I may be forgetting something and I'm only counting non English speaking movies.

HitchFan97

You get to me

07-02-14

The Face of Another is pretty weird, but in a good way.

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Guaporense

Animation nerd

07-02-14

You would notice that most of the picks for strange science fiction films also classify as "foreign" films (I prefer the term non-English since many forums here are not from the US/UK/Canada).

Among non-science fiction non-English films I would say that Bela Tarr's films are among the most "strange" in being non-conventional in every way and magnificently succeeding in that regard (as opposed to most "art" films).

Chardee MacDennis

I am not Paul Avery

07-02-14

Takashi Miike is a pretty good place to start.

McConnaughay

The Bib-iest of Nickels

07-02-14

Originally Posted by Guaporense

I actually thought about that, but then I decided that the work it'd take to make a new little logo with "Non-English Films" outweighed not offending others.

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The Skin I Live In

This one will likely be appreciated by some. The Skin I Live In is about a scientist that is basically obsessed with the idea of revenge. Antonio Banderez does the role of Robert Ledgard, a success surgeon that cultivates artificial skin that is resistant to burns as well as insect bites. However, it is soon revealed that he experimented illegally on humans. And that, my friends, is the tip of the iceberg. This film deals with sexual identity, and is just very bizarre and unique.

It isn't the best film. There are a lot of needless moments here or there, a couple moments that feel more like a soap-opera than I'd like, but the ideas are too odd to dismiss.

lynchian