What's your favourite foreign language (non English) speaking movies?

[DinoLast]

List as many as you want.
If you're from a non english speaking country please list ones from your homeland.
If you dislike them all please give reasons.

Here are some of mine

Il postino
Amelie
Cinema Paradiso
The Bicycle thief
House of the flying daggers

I saw Let the right one in last month and thought it was brilliant.

 

[Nuka Cola Kidd]

I watch foreign film all week, and have for the past 2 years. While in school (film studies major) the few i have liked i dont remember the names cause there is that few of them.

 

[EVILFACE]

Does the "Man With No Name" trilogy count?

 

[DinoLast]

Does the "Man With No Name" trilogy count?

Yeah, I let you have that one. But only if you watch it with Eastwood dubbed in Italian. Lol

 

[Wetanut]

Yojimbo
Jeanne (sp...could be Jean) de Florette
Pan's Labyrinth
Bicycle Thief
Manon of the Spring
Sanjiro
Indochine
Cinema Paradiso
Au Revoir Mes Enfant
Das Boot
Queen Margot
Seventh Seal (anything by Ingmar Bergman)

 

[plasmid303]

Wouldn't it be more meaningful if people described why they liked the movie they posted instead of listing a huge column of titles?

Oldboy - an incredible revenge tale with an ending that left me speechless. (korean)

Fritz Lang's Metropolis - possibly the first full length sci fi film. (german)

Abre Los Ojos - trippy romantic sci fi movie. Was remade in English starring Tom Cruise. (spanish)

Audition - creepy Japanese romantic horror film. Made me afraid of Japanese women for a while. Directed by Takashi Miike!

The Host - Awesome (and recent ) Korean kaiju/giant monster movie. Great sfx.

Those are just a few I can think of at the moment.

 

[YoNoSe]

The Devil's Backbone

 

[Wor-Gar]

Road Warrior.

 

[turtlepower73]

my life as a dog.

 

[preeny101]

Seven Samurai

 

[turtlepower73]

being a jerk.
boyz in the hood
menace to society...
ah ^^^^ that's right this is english...my bad...

 

[Rock83]

-Oldboy
-Azumi
-REC
-Battle Royale

that i can think of right now...

 

[iron.jedi83]

the orphanage...pretty crazy story

 

[tylerdurden]

- hero, fist of legend, fearless (3 of jet li's best movies)

- ip man (biography of bruce lee's mentor, starring donnie yen)

- connected (hong kong remake of cellular that's way better than the hollywood original starring paul walker and kim basinger)

- grave of the fireflies (my favourite miyazaki animation)

- letters from iwo jima (clint eastwood's underrated war drama)

- cinema paradiso (always reminds me why i love movies and cinema so much)

 

[screamingmetal]

The Zatoichi Film series (including the 2003 remake)!
I probably like Zatoichi and the Chess Expert the most, although I have yet to watch them all.
I should also mention Ninja Scroll, the first Ghost in the Shell movie, and Akira are faves as well.

 

[Batty]

The Seven Samurai - It's simply a masterpiece that influenced almost everything else.

8 1/2 - One of the first movies I remember seeing that wasn't a straight narrative. Creativity at its best.

The Seventh Seal - A beautiful film about belief and God.

Aguirre, The Wrath of God - I love all the films Herzog and Kinski did together. I think this is their most powerful.

 

[karamazov80]

Yeah, like others here, I'm partial to anything Bergman or Kurosawa. I'm also a fan of "Hell in the Pacific," which is both English and Japanese language (best to watch without subtitles). A real tour-de-force by both Mifune and the great Lee Marvin.

 

[Malice]

Yojimbo
Jeanne (sp...could be Jean) de Florette
Pan's Labyrinth
Bicycle Thief
Manon of the Spring
Sanjiro
Indochine
Cinema Paradiso
Au Revoir Mes Enfant
Das Boot
Queen Margot
Seventh Seal (anything by Ingmar Bergman)

Wouldn't it be more meaningful if people described why they liked the movie they posted instead of listing a huge column of titles?

Oldboy - an incredible revenge tale with an ending that left me speechless. (korean)

Fritz Lang's Metropolis - possibly the first full length sci fi film. (german)

Abre Los Ojos - trippy romantic sci fi movie. Was remade in English starring Tom Cruise. (spanish)

Audition - creepy Japanese romantic horror film. Made me afraid of Japanese women for a while. Directed by Takashi Miike!

The Host - Awesome (and recent ) Korean kaiju/giant monster movie. Great sfx.

Those are just a few I can think of at the moment.

The Devil's Backbone

-Oldboy
-Azumi
-REC
-Battle Royale

that i can think of right now...

the orphanage...pretty crazy story

The Zatoichi Film series (including the 2003 remake)!
I probably like Zatoichi and the Chess Expert the most, although I have yet to watch them all.
I should also mention Ninja Scroll, the first Ghost in the Shell movie, and Akira are faves as well.

these are awsome films

 

[Darth Caedus]

Some of the ones you have mentioned are some of my faves, but I'll throw some in that you guys haven't mentioned.

Let The Right One In- AWESOME MOVIE. If you haven't seen it, DO IT

District B13- The movie has some of the best fights/stunts I have ever seen.

Nosferatu- Well, this is just a classic to me.

 

[Batty]

Yeah, like others here, I'm partial to anything Bergman or Kurosawa. I'm also a fan of "Hell in the Pacific," which is both English and Japanese language (best to watch without subtitles). A real tour-de-force by both Mifune and the great Lee Marvin.

I totally agree. Great performances by both actors.