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

[BadMoon]

City of God is one of the best foreign films I have seen as well......really left me speechless.

Yeah it is amazing to see what those kids really go through. Most news stations don't really report on that area but it is insane how bad it is. There was an article in Maxim about it years ago. They actually beg people to become cops because no one wants too because they are that affraid. I would rather walk the streets of Iran or Iraq than that place.

 

[Jen]

Yeah it is amazing to see what those kids really go through. Most news stations don't really report on that area but it is insane how bad it is. There was an article in Maxim about it years ago. They actually beg people to become cops because no one wants too because they are that affraid. I would rather walk the streets of Iran or Iraq than that place.

It is really heartbreaking.....seeing kids having to grow up the way they are is just unimaginable. Just isn't right.

 

[BadMoon]

It is really heartbreaking.....seeing kids having to grow up the way they are is just unimaginable. Just isn't right.

You are right. It is really sad. And to think that that is all they know.

 

[plasmid303]

Since we're on the subject, I have to go on a tangent and say Slumdog Millionaire, the recent Oscar sweeper, is overrated. Usually I really hate using that word, but I couldn't think of anything else here.

Oddly, I consider myself a fan of Danny Boyle's work.

 

[Riko]

forgot maybe my favorite:

Malèna

with the always stunning looking Monica Bellucci
strange nobody has mentioned it here...

 

[Polylord]

Let the right one in
Etre et avoir
Zwartboek
The Orphanage
Daywatch

 

[Cap'n Cook]

Akira
Spirirted Away
City Of God

 

[Ben]

Battle Royale

 

[Reinhardt]

Awesome thread!!

I echo everyone's comments on Kurosawa, and have added a few more that I did see posted yet.

Yojimbo
Pan's Labyrinth
Seven Samurai
Throne of Blood
Jodhaa Akbar - the most amazing Hindi movie I have ever seen
36 Chamber of Shaolin - best martial arts film
Brotherhood of the Wolf - Fantastic french film
Rashomon
Das Boot

 

[DinoLast]

I am interested to know if the people on here who have picked movies that have dubbed option watch it that way?
I can't watch dubbed movies. They usually take something away from the movie.
Here are a few more favourites
Kung Fu Hustle
Akira (not dubbed)
Spirited Away (not dubbed)
I don't find subtitles distracting especially once I'm really into the movie

 

[Reinhardt]

I hate watching movies dubbed.

Oh, need to add a few more:

City of Lost Children
Delicatessen
Nightwatch - on top of it being a great movie, their use of subtitling was very original and awesome.

 

[-Super Hans-]

pans labyrinth, curse of the golden flower and the original godzilla

 

[Malice]

ringu
yu-an
evil dead trap
the genea pig box set
the devils backbone
susperia

 

[Wetanut]

I am interested to know if the people on here who have picked movies that have dubbed option watch it that way?
I can't watch dubbed movies. They usually take something away from the movie.
Here are a few more favourites
Kung Fu Hustle
Akira (not dubbed)
Spirited Away (not dubbed)
I don't find subtitles distracting especially once I'm really into the movie

Not a fan of dubbing, prefer subtitles.

 

[JonnyReedie]

2046
Tony Takitani
Oldboy

 

[IronFingaz]

Seven Samurai
Cinema Paradiso
Oldboy
Pan's Labyrinth
Spirited Away
La Haine
City Of God
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
La Vita è bella
Hero
The Orphanage
House Of Flying Daggers
Letters From Iwo Jima
The 36th Chamber Of Shaolin (Although i like the dubbed version more)
Howl's Moving Castle
My Neighbor Totoro
Apocalypto
Kung Fu Hustle

I'm sure there's more, i just have to see them first

 

[plasmid303]

Alphaville - Jean Luc Goddard

Solaris (Russian version)

Ghost in the Shell

Metropolis (anime)

I usually watch foreign movies twice; once in the original language, and then dubbed.

 

[man_vs_machine]

Hero, City of lost Children, and Apocalyto

 

[Balsquat]

-Oldboy
-Azumi
-REC
-Battle Royale

that i can think of right now...

Definitely Battle Royale!

 

[phoenixram1977]

Downfall, Pans Labryrinth and Mongol