I'm going to bed now - but i want - no - I demand your favourite( lets say 5) foreign movies. Try not to answer with the obvious - i want some serious steers.please.
2007-06-08 15:02:22 · 11 answers · asked by Kalgoorlie 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Zentropa, starring Barbara Sukowa
The Bitter Tears Of Petra Von Kant, by Werner Fassbinder
Swept Away(By A Different Destiny)---The original Lena Wertmuller, not the awful Madonna film
Farinelli, a wonderful film about the famous 18th century castrato
Rosa Luxemburg, a wonderful biography of the famous revolutionary, and the only other film I know that Barbara Sukowa did.
M, starring Peter Lorre
Sorry, I couldn't narrow it down to just 5---had to throw in M!
2007-06-08 15:15:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Letters from Iwo Jima which was American produced is an excellent foreign language film about World War II. This project had Clint Eastwood attached to it, since it was the reverse angle of the movie Flags of Our Fathers. My second pick would have to be the Italian made Life is Beautiful. This touching comedy/drama set in an Nazi concentration camp won an Oscar for Roberto Begnini (Bee-ne-ne). The Seven Samurai is a top notch movie that has left its mark in the history of film. It was a movie that provided information for the popular western, The Magnificent Seven. A lesser known German film made in 2004 is The Summer Storm. It follows the adventures of multiple groups of teens who have gathered to train for a rowing competition. A French film released in 1959 is a great film on technique and style. It is called The 400 Blows starring Antoine Doinel and directed by Francois Truffaut. I know some of these are not mainstream popular films, but they each contain an element that is important in the history of film production and techniques. This is a great question.
2007-06-08 19:01:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In no particular order, here we go:
1900 (1976), aka Novecento, France/W. Ger./Italy, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
This is Bernardo Bertolucci's War and Peace. Robert De Niro, Gerard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda and Donald Sutherland amid Italy's political vomitings from the beginning of the century to the ill-fated rise of communism, all shot like a Flemish painting and laid out like a Parmesan wedding banquet.
Ran (1985), France/Japan, directed by Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa should have retired after this awesome transcription of King Lear (mixed with a little Macbeth), which, thank God, jettisons the texts and just tells a helluva story. The battle scenes will unhinge your jaw.
The Seven Samurai (1954), aka Shichinin No Samurai or The Magnificent Seven, Japan, directed by Akira Kurosawa
A Japanese village of the 16th century is threatened by bandits. The villagers hire seven samurai. It starts to rain. Akira Kurosawa filmed it, and battle, swordplay, action and spectacle have never been the same again.
8 1/2 (1963), aka Eight and a Half, Federico Fellini's 8 1/2, or Otto e Mezzo, France/Italy, directed by Federico Fellini
The narrative of Fellini's prescient, all-over-the-map phantasmagoria deals with the perils of giving carte blanche to a successful director. Mandatory viewing for everyone, not to mention any director blindsided by fame. Three "inspired by" remakes--Tommy Tune's Broadway musical Nine, Bob Fosse's movie musical All That Jazz and Woody Allen's Stardust Memories--were all fine but, shall we say, not quite in Fellini's league.
Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (1925) - Old silent film that every film buff should see at least once.
2007-06-08 15:38:44 · answer #3 · answered by Menehune 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Visitors starring Jean Reno - original French title Les Visiteurs.
The Closet - also French
Flesh and blood - not sure if this was a foreign language film but it's good anyway.
Akira Kurosawa films like Seven Samurai, Hidden Fortress, Ran, and Yojimbo.
2007-06-09 05:35:04 · answer #4 · answered by cernunnicnos 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like Water For Chocolate
The Mariachi
Tie Me Up Tie Me Down
I only have 3 sorry
2007-06-08 17:19:24 · answer #5 · answered by nocturnalangel_71 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like Water for Chocolate, Amelie, City of Lost Children, Delicatessen, The Audition, are just a few.
2016-05-20 06:43:46 · answer #6 · answered by rene 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Motorcycle Diaries and City of God are my two favorite foreign films I've seen recently, unfortunately i don't think they are pretty popular and maybe "obvious", but if you haven't seen them, I'd recommend them both!
2007-06-08 15:10:50 · answer #7 · answered by Mike 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Red
Blue
White trilogy by Krzysztof Kieslowski
and the city of lost children really good movie!!!!
2007-06-08 15:19:46 · answer #8 · answered by reinfield666 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oldboy
Crouching tiger hidden dragon
38 parallel
2007-06-08 15:11:55 · answer #9 · answered by erkur 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I"m sorry,the only one i can think of is "Get your tongue out of my mouth,I"m kissing you good-bye".Good night
2007-06-08 15:37:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋