Foreign movies

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I went through my DVD and Blu-ray collection and gathered together every foreign-language film:

Chinese:
The Killer (1989) [Cantonese]
Hard Boiled (1992) [Cantonese]
Infernal Affairs (2002) [Cantonese]
Fearless (2006) [Mandarin]

French:
Rififi (1955)
Purple Noon (1960)
La Jetée (1962)
Sans Soleil (1983)
La Femme Nikita (1990)
Renaissance (2006)

German:
Nosferatu (1922)
Metropolis (1927)
The American Friend (1977)
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
Das Boot (1981)
Run Lola Run (1998)

Indonesian:
The Raid (2011)
The Raid 2 (2014)

Japanese:
Seven Samurai (1954)
Throne of Blood (1957)
The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
Yojimbo (1961)
Versus (2000)

There are also the 47 (!) Japanese giant monster movies that I counted, but I won't list those here. I've got everything catalogued on Blu-ray.com and you can view everything here if you like.

I should have more, considering my tastes... I especially want more Kurosawa... but I guess I have something in my brain occasionally telling me that I need to buy useless schlock like The Scorpion King and Hollow Man instead. My taste has always been a mixture of high-brow and low-brow, Apocalypse Now sitting next to Austin Powers and The Quiet American sitting next to Pumpkinhead.

If you're engrossed in a film, the length of it sails by. Recently demonstrated this with Interstellar.

I say this in regards to Seven Samurai. Its beauty and grandeur kept me watching, and was especially mesmerised with Toshiro Mifune's performance as the bandit, especially near the climax.

I feel a lot of people negate foreign cinema with the excuse "Well, I don't want to read a film, I want to watch it."

Watching enough foreign cinema makes reading the subtitles seamless. You learn to pick up on it and it doesn't require that much concentration, unless it's a film riddled with exposition.