Any good foreign movies you've seen lately?

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I liked the diving bell and the butterfly - a french film

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I read the novel by Jean Dominique Bauby a few months back,expecting a lot, and was sorely disappointed. This, to my knowledge, always happens when a work of art depends too much on extraneous factors for it's appeal; factors other than the art itself. For example, this novel's whole premise was that it was written by the author, an ex-advertising creative guy, after he suffered a terrible paralytic stroke. While this is it's main usp, the novel itself, as a standalone, is very ordinary. And in my experience, it's always a downhill journey from the novel to it's film, so i'm not exactly queueing up to see the movie.

@ligerpt:

Tropa de elite seems to have become the next most talked and raved about film from brazil, after the city of god. That's one film that's on my to-see list, thanks for reminding me.

Oldboy, i highly recommended...and in case you're new to korean films, it's not a bad place to start at all. You'll see how far they've left hollywood behind. If you can get your hands on the manga of the same name by Garon Tsuchiya & Nobuaki Minegishi, try to before you see the film. You'll be fascinated at how much inspiration the filmmaker has drawn from the atmosphere of the comic.

Cheers! :D

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Originally Posted by ahcorac72

One great portuguese movie :lol:

Corrupção (2007)
(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1050331/)

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Benfica fan??? ;)

Korea movie : 200 Pounds Beauty

funny stuff.

The.9th.Company(2005)
Ping.Pong.(2002)

10.000 BC
Miss Diamond (Germany)
there are good movies

Jar City (Iceland movie) good thriller set in the back drop of murder investigation

Arn tempelriddaren...downloaded it, didn;t watch it yet, but my expectations are very high...:)

Pan's Labyrinth

Belle de Jour- Catherine Deneuve at her iciest, old-world sophisticate best.

Elvira Madigan- I was in high school when this film came out and taking a date to see it was a surefire way to get laid.
I saw it a lot.

Metropolis- The epitome of German Expressionist filmmaking...it's the direct progenitor of Dark City (and many others). The intense lighting schemes are the stylistic basis of American film noir.

M- My second Fritz Lang nominee- go ahead, shoot me already- in which Peter Lorre plays Hannibal Lector's godfather.
OK, not really...but he is very creepy.

Insomnia