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Anyone a fan of foreign films? Im not a big movie person myself, but have always found foreign films interesting, and usually better than Hollywood crap.

Which do you like and which do you think best be avoided.

One I really like and can probably go in either the foreign film or Hollywood categories is Run Lola Run.

The good thing about foreign films at your local DVD store is that the ones that end up with sub-titles over here are usually pretty good or they wouldbn't bother to export them. So they are worth checking out. Some of my favourite ones of the top of my head (and some are well known):

- Amelie
- The one about the German students who were executed by the Nazis in WW2
- Croaching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
- Hero
- House of the Flying Daggers
- Run Lola Run
- Das Boot

I have seen some other really good ones but can't remember the titles.

mes films étrangers de favori:

Leolo.
The Quebecois answer to Bad Boy Bubby.

Delicatessen
La Cité des Enfants Perdus (the city of lost children)
Amelie
all quirky, all French, all directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. All brilliant.

Allegro Non Troppo
the Italian answer to Fantasia. The pieces set to Ravel's "Bolero" and Sibelius' "Valse Triste" are particularly good.

Volere Volare
the Italian answer to Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Le diner de cons (The dinner game; literal translation is "dinner of dickheads")
Fine French farce.

Le Placard (The Closet)
More fine French farce, this one with Gerard Depardieu

Subway
Any film made in the '80s, set almost entirely on the Paris Metro and starring Christophe (sic) Lambert has to be cool!

Tetsuo: Iron Man
Japanese bloke kills a "metal fetishist" and ends up turning into metal. The sex scene is a must-see. weird.

El Topo (The Mole)
The Mexican answer to Eraserhead. weirder than weird.

The three colours trilogy: Blue, White and Red
Krzysztof Kieslowski's masterpieces

A Short Film About Love
More Kieslowski brilliance

Zatoichi
The legendary Japanese blind swordsman.

Sex Mission
Polish answer to Woody Allen's "Sleeper"

Big fan of Pan's Labyrinth

La Belle Noiseuse and Manon des sources both have Emmanuelle Beart nude. La Belle Noiseuse especially so. If you don't know who she is, she's the french girl who plays John Voigt's wife in the first mission impossible movie. Can't remember anything else about these movies though......

Where do you start?

Some of the best movies in the world are coming out of Iran and Iraq at the moment.

Here's some of my favourites...

The Seven Samurai (1954)
Breathless (1960) - not to be mistaken with the dreary Richard Gere remake
La Dolce Vita (1960)
8 1/2 (1963)
The Conformist (1970)
Leningrad Cowboys Go America (1989)
Breaking the Waves (1996)
Not One Less (1999)
Central Station (1998)
A Time for Drunken Horses (2000)
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
The Son's Room (2001)
Atarnajuat: The Fast Runner (2001)
City of God (2002)

Avoid the first two parts of Lars Von Trier's 'American trilogy.'

AT ALL COSTS!

I thought Downfall was really good, about the downfall of Adolf Hitler. The movie is all in German (with sub-titles).

I picked up a fake DVD copy of the Chinese movie The Promise when I was in China which I really enjoyed, rcommended if you like Hero, House Of Flying Daggers, Curse Of The Golden Slipper, etc. For some reason it has yet to be released in Australia.

Germans ones are pretty good Quality and dubbing leave a lot to be desired though