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#1 Pilot

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Posted 28 August 2012 - 10:22 PM

Looking for recommendations on foreign films. Recently burned through the following for the past couple of nights:

Spirited Away
Amelie
The Man from Nowhere
A Prophet

Share some of your favourites and interesting films you've seen please. :)

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    #2 Sweeney

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    Posted 28 August 2012 - 10:27 PM

    El Laberinto Del Fauno
    House of Flying Daggers
    Water Lilies
    Jean de Florette, and sequel, Manon des Sources

    And everything by Ghibli Studios ever.

    #3 ShadowLink64

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    Posted 28 August 2012 - 10:30 PM

    Der Untergang (if you're interested in war films). It's about the occupation of Berlin and the last days of Hitler in the Fuhrerbunker.

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    Posted 28 August 2012 - 10:52 PM

    Pan's Labyrinth is awesome~
    Yojimbo
    13 Assassins
    Aeon Flux isn't foreign but I read the comics as a kid and the chick with hands for feet creeps me out


    If you liked Ghibli stuff but run out of films:
    Metropolis (
    Osamu Tezuka)
    Paprika (Satoshi Kon) - it's about as fucked up as Akira sometimes

    Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo)
    The Secret of Kells (not japanese but kind of the same feel as Miyazaki)


    And everything by Ghibli Studios ever.

    And definitely this

    Edited by Tokio, 28 August 2012 - 10:52 PM.


    #5 Equi

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    Posted 28 August 2012 - 11:01 PM

    Fearless
    Spirited Away + other Studio Ghibli stuff
    Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
    and a few things from Makoto Shinkai

    thats about as much as i can remember

    #6 Sweeney

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    Posted 28 August 2012 - 11:07 PM

    Oh, and for Chinese horror (no one does it better), watch everything that's ever been shittily westernised: the grudge, the ring, the eye. All superb.

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    Posted 29 August 2012 - 12:35 AM

    Oldboy, can I get an amen?

    Ip Man - chinese martial arts

    The Raid: Redemption - indonesian action

    #8 shaggy111

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    Posted 29 August 2012 - 01:05 AM

    The Protector and Ong Bak are amazing.

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    Posted 29 August 2012 - 01:53 AM

    Calvaire.

    #10 zandra

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    Posted 29 August 2012 - 02:16 AM

    Oh, and for Chinese horror (no one does it better), watch everything that's ever been shittily westernised: the grudge, the ring, the eye. All superb.


    you meant japanese.
    yeah they make great horror firms, do take a look at thai horror firms too! like shutter or japanese gore movies like battle royale.

    #11 Sweeney

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    Posted 29 August 2012 - 03:44 AM

    you meant japanese.
    yeah they make great horror firms, do take a look at thai horror firms too! like shutter or japanese gore movies like battle royale.


    The Eye is Chinese. But yeah, my bad :p

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    Posted 29 August 2012 - 04:24 AM

    Auch Zwerge Haben Klein Angefangen!!!

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    Posted 29 August 2012 - 04:37 AM

    I normally don't like French movies but during school they took us to the movies to watch les intouchables. Amazing movie, very touching.

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    Posted 29 August 2012 - 05:18 AM

    La vita e Bella - Italian
    Hello Ghost - Korea
    Battle Royale (Not that great, but good time waster) - Japanese
    Crimen Ferpecto - Spanish



    #15 Frizzle

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    Posted 29 August 2012 - 06:33 AM

    Der Untergang (if you're interested in war films). It's about the occupation of Berlin and the last days of Hitler in the Fuhrerbunker.


    Downfall in English. A brilliant film that I would recommend to anyone.

    Also, on the topic of war films, is Stalingrad. A brilliant and horrifyingly depressing film.

    #16 Pilot

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    Posted 29 August 2012 - 08:26 AM

    El Laberinto Del Fauno
    House of Flying Daggers
    Water Lilies
    Jean de Florette, and sequel, Manon des Sources

    And everything by Ghibli Studios ever.


    Gave them all a place on my watch list.

    Der Untergang (if you're interested in war films). It's about the occupation of Berlin and the last days of Hitler in the Fuhrerbunker.


    Sounds great

    Pan's Labyrinth is awesome~
    Yojimbo
    13 Assassins
    Aeon Flux isn't foreign but I read the comics as a kid and the chick with hands for feet creeps me out


    If you liked Ghibli stuff but run out of films:
    Metropolis (
    Osamu Tezuka)
    Paprika (Satoshi Kon) - it's about as fucked up as Akira sometimes

    Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo)
    The Secret of Kells (not japanese but kind of the same feel as Miyazaki)


    Metropolis and Paprika are the only ones I haven't checked out, so I'll get right on that. And I thought Aeon Flux was terrible :/

    and a few things from Makoto Shinkai


    Been there, done that. His films are beyond godlike! 5cm/sec is in my top 10.

    Oh, and for Chinese horror (no one does it better), watch everything that's ever been shittily westernised: the grudge, the ring, the eye. All superb.


    Most definitely. Ringu (or was it ringo?) scared the shit out of me when I first saw it.

    Oldboy, can I get an amen?

    Ip Man - chinese martial arts

    The Raid: Redemption - indonesian action


    How sad is it that I learnt of Oldboy through IMDB's top 250 listing? And TRR just might be my first indonesian flick.

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    Will check out the others as well.

    tldr version: Thanks guise, i'll be good to go for the next week or so. I hope these films are easy to 'acquire' <_<






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