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My faves by my definition of foreign films as being subtitled

Run Lola Run
Pan's Labyrinth
Maria Full of Grace
House of Flying Daggers
The Motorcycle Diaries

My faves that were originally foreign, but changed to American
March of the Penguins
Milo and Otis
Kung Pow

Foreign films I want to see
House of Sand
Amelie-I rented this once but couldn't get into it, but I want to try again.
Apocalypto-Maybe depending on how graphic it is
Curse of the Golden Flower
Letters From Iwo Jima
Kung Fu Hustle

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I remember seeing the Afghanistan one in class too. It was called The Children of Heaven.

The Spirit of the Beehive
The Brothers Quay Collection
the fall of the house of usher
nosferatu(both)
Caligari
The golem
faust
metropolis
vampyr
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
the man who laughs
frankenstein(original)
dracula(original)
most Studio Ghibli movies
Most Werner Herzog movies
All the Jan Svankmajer movies
Most Andrey Iskanov movies
the city of lost children
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
amelie
Pan's Labyrinth

I don't see enough foreign films .

The Queen was excellent but I see plenty of British films. It's the foreign language films I don't see enough of. I really liked "Letters from Iwo Jima." "Downfall" was very good as well. I was kinda worried about that one (it portrays the last days of Hitler in the bunker), but they handled it in an appropriate manner.

Triplets of Belleville....that was a hella weird one, but I kinda liked it too.

District B13 or Banlieue 13 as is the title in French.

Huozhe (Chinese), or "To live" as the English title is. It was banned in China due to its depiction of the Communist Revolution.

Spirited Away.

Then this one French movie I can't remember the title of. Gerard Depardieu stars in it (surprise surprise), and it takes place in WWII. It pretty much revolves around escaping the Nazi invasion of France.

The only Afghan movie I know of is Osama, about the girl who wanted to get a job, but she couldn't because the Taliban didn't allow females to work.

Tim

RAN - Akira Kurosawa (JP)
WINGS OF DESIRE - Wim Wenders (DE)
FANNY AND ALEXANDER - Ingemar Bergman (S)


Also:
TRAINSPOTTING (UK)
LOCK, STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS (UK)
DAS BOOT (DE)
KONTROLL (HU)

Mr. Accident and Garage Days (Australia)

Dude, you rock. These are my two favorite directors. I've only seen two of Svankmajer's films, however (Alice and Faust), and a bunch of his shorts. Which of his full lengths would you consider his best after those?

Akira Kurosawa is great, too, I love how his towns are always rainy!

you should look at "Mostly Martha" also.

Dude, I remember loving that movie when I was little. Quality entertainment with just animals, a camera, and a narrator, without cheesy fart jokes or anything like that. Nobody makes movies like that anymore!

Oh my god!

that movie freaked me out a lot!
I saw it when I was like 10, alone, and almost falling asleep, so I saw only parts
of it, it was very late and I watched it in TV. I later watched more of it, never
fully understanding it. (I speak spanish, but the movie has very heavy accent
of spanish from Spain, but here in america the accent is very different, that's
why I never fully understood what they said)

Spirited Away - Japan
-The animation was great, and so was the music. They also didn't slack off on the redubbing, like a lot of animated productions .

Metropolis - Germany
-This had some pretty nice art direction. It might be the only feature-length silent film I've ever seen.

The Titfield Thunderbolt - U.K.
-This movie was funny, and my appreciation for trains helped me to enjoy it.

Akira - Japan
-Not my favorite movie, but it had an excellent visual style.

I assume you are talking aout non-English speaking movies.

Ikiru
Three Colors: Red
Shall We Dance
Eat, Drink Man Woman
Just Visiting(French Version)
Ju-On(And all the sequels)

I just got into the genre, so i've only seen a few, but i really like what i've seen. I've seen:

Life is Beautiful
The Red Violin (even though there are some english in there)
Eat Drink, Man Woman
Rosenstrasse
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Nowhere in Africa
Das Boot
Yesterday
Run Lola Run
Kapo

no danish movies ? whatsupwitdat ?