The Raid: Redemption.
Le Chant du loup. A very decent submarine action movie.
Chungking Express
Rififi
Parasite
Seven Samurai
Manon Of The Spring
Babette’s Feast
There are so many foreign language films I love. Several have already been mentioned here, but I’ll add a few that haven’t been:
- Rashomon - Kurosawa, 1950
- Umberto D. - de Sica, 1952
- Amarcord - Fellini, 1973
- Many films by the Dardenne brothers, in particular: The Promise (1996) and The Son (2002).
- Many films by Kore-eda - perhaps his most well-known one being Shoplifters (2018).
A Serbian Film
君の名は。 (your name.)
Also my favorite overall movie.
It is available in English but I prefer to watch it in Japanese. Without subs.
I assume that works only because you’ve seen it enough times you remember the intent of what is being said, even if you don’t understand it to listen to?
I Am Not an Easy Man (French). It’s outdated now, but when I watched it as a teenager/ young woman it opened my eyes to a lot that I took for granted. I still think of it all the time when I’m brushing my teeth.
Merci!
And the version of “You’re the One that I Want” plays in my head all the time! So good!
Heavy Trip
Howl’s Moving Castle Martyrs Paadmavaat
Oh I totally forgot about animated films
“Happy Times”. A chinese film about a grifter and a young blind girl.
Im Westen Nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front).
There are some historical inaccuracies, sure, but it is an amazing movie showing the horrors of trench warfare and the careless nature of the commanding officers in the First World War. It leaves you with a sense of dread, something war movies should do more often imo.
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