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

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Mafioso, italian film from 1962 by Alberto Lattuada. One of Sordi's truley great perfrmances. about a guy who brings is blonde blue eyed wife and kids to his hometown in Sicily after being in the north for years (and for the non italians on this board, the north and south of italy may as well be 2 different countries)and comes into contact with all of the things sicilian men have to deal with. prolly the best black comedy ever made...(its more black than comedy though...)

Honorable mention - salvatore giuliano, sick film, really makes you feel like yuve experienced the events yourself. Even though i was born there, i was raised in the states, but My father grew up about 50 miles from where the film takes place in agrigento, sicily and he says that he could not have done a better job capturing the era on film.
 
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Not quite heroic like "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" or epic and influential as "Seven Samurai" or raw and jolting as "The Professional" or as magical as "Pan's Labyrinth" ....I like all of these films a lot but one foreign language film I watched recently and forgot how good it is on so many levels is...

Le Notti di Cabiria (1959)- a great Fellini film, any actress working today would love to have the presense of Giulietta Masina as a waifish prostitute who wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finding only heartbreak...she's beautiful and mesmerizing...and the story is stark and makes you think like only the best films can...
 
Adams Apples: About a neo-nazi sentenced to community service at a church.

Flickering Lights: Four criminals start a restaurant in the middle of the woods.

The Green Butchers: Two butchers start a butchershop and use some strange ingredients.

All three films are from Danish filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen and are filled with absurd strange humor and curious characters. (for example Sweaty Svend from The Green Butchers, who even sweats in a cooling cell, if I remember correctly:D)
All three films feature acting performances by the same group of actors including Mads Mikkelsen (Casino Royale)



Pan's Labyrinth
The Brotherhood Of The Wolf
Zwartboek


Are also very good foreign language films
 
Seven Samurai - Just truly epic in every sense of the word.

Battle Royale - Fantastic movie, let down by sub-par sequel.

L'Interieur/Inside - Fantastically gripping French Thriller/Horror.

Save the Green Planet - impossible to describe, just a mental black comedy.

Neighbour No.13 - Haven't watched it in a long time, but it's a very good thriller with some nutty twists.

Versus - Balls to the wall high octane insanity.

The Host - a crazy family based drama with a sodding great tadpole.

Switchblade Romance/Haute Tension - Nasty.

I'll gladly watch anything with Tadanobu Asano in it, he's pretty much Johnny Depp from the far east plus Beat Takeshi's films are always worthwhile.

Ohh I forgot Kitamura's Versus....his recent Midnight Meat Train isn't a foreign movie, but it's bloody good!
 
Here's my Top Ten (in no particular order):

[●REC] (2007 - Jaume Balagueró & Paco Plaza) / Spain
Novecento (1976 - Bernardo Bertolucci) / Italy
Abre los ojos (1997 - Alejandro Amenábar) / Spain - France - Italy
37°2 le matin a.k.a. Betty Blue (1986 - Jean-Jacques Beineix) / France
Amores perros (2000 - Alejandro González Iñárritu) / Mexico
Cet obscur object du désir (1977 - Luis Buñuel) / France - Spain
Z (1969 - Costa Gavras) / Algeria - France
À l'intérieur (2007 - Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury) / France
Central do Brasil (1998 - Walter Salles) / Brazil - France
Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (1988 - Pedro Almodóvar) / Spain - France
 
The Whale Rider
Ong Bak
Run Lola Run
Pan's Labyrinth


AND BEST OF ALL....

A very harsh, dark, and scary movie...

CITY OF GOD!!!

WATCH IT! Very intense film!
 
i've seen all the ones that was mention already, but i wouldn't watch it 3 times in a row, which is my definition of favorite. My all time favorite foreign film and would watch 3 times in a row would be Kikujiro by Kitano.
 
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Top for me are Pan's, Brotherhood of the wolf, and Crouching Tiger.

Coincidentally the only three I own,,,,
 
Both of these are in Portuguese

City of God



Elite Squad




both are amazinG!!

Good to see someone else loved City of God, although it's perhaps a tad bit too violent with no happy scene in sight! Elite Squad looks interesting! Done by the same writers of CoG... never knew.
 
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