What Foreign Language films do you recommend?

**Enemy Within 77** · January 28, 2012

QUOTE (PolarizeMe @ Jan 27 2012, 10:50 PM)

QUOTE (Enemy Within 77 @ Jan 24 2012, 01:25 AM)

Ingmar Bergman is one of my favorite directors. For newbies I'd recommend Persona, Wild Strawberries, Cries and Whispers, The Virgin Spring and of course The Seventh Seal. If you like any of those then check out his other films as well- Fanny & Alexander, Scenes From a Marriage, Hour of the Wolf, The Magician etc. His films are brilliant and deep. If you're looking for something fast paced and has action packed he may not be for you. If you're interested in foreign films there no better director to start with.

Great director. I never understood those who "didn't get" him because I think he's one of the pioneers international cinema. Next to Alfred Hitchcock, he's one of my favorite directors, especially his 50s-early 60s films, his style of filmmaking appealed to me; mysterious yet eye appealing, almost surreal in a way. I still regard The Seventh Seal as not only one of my favorite movies of all time, but also one of the most beautifully shot films I've seen.

Huge fan of Hitchcock too. My two favorite directors.

**Test4VitalSigns** · January 28, 2012

Slumdog Millionaire

**goose** · January 28, 2012

QUOTE (GeddyRulz @ Jan 27 2012, 12:42 PM)

QUOTE (rushgoober @ Jan 27 2012, 12:33 AM)

QUOTE (goose @ Jan 26 2012, 09:28 PM)

Wings of Desire

This is one of my top five movies of all time. Most is in German, but some is in French and some even in English. Much of it is black and white, but some of it is in color. It's the original movie that City of Angels was based on, about angels on the earth, but this is SOOOOO much better than the bastardized version with Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan.

Warning - the movie is long, slow and ponderous, but it's also incredibly deep and moving. It's more of an experience than a movie IMHO...

Agree. Great movie. That was directed by Wim Wenders, right?

I knew to stay away from the Nic Cage & Meg Ryan re-make.

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Fritz Lang
M (1931) A psychotic child murderer stalks a city.

Is that the one where the killer listens to "Peter and the Wolf" before attacking little boys?

The infamous whistling...

Great film!

And Metropolis.

**Presto-a RUSH fan!** · January 30, 2012

Well, I've obviously got alot of Foreign language films to catch up on, but I just finished the Swedish "Millennium Trilogy",

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

The Girl Who Played With Fire

The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest

and all I have to say is...WOW.

Three amazing movies! I can't recommend them highly enough. I hope the American versions do this series justice. I may get the novels and read them because they are obviously alot more detailed.

I was looking into this to see if there was a part 4 and I found the following sad info. Obviously because the author died so young (50 yrs old) and because we lost out on some more epic books and movies. Sounds like he was actually a real life "Mikael Blomkvist". This is copied and pasted from Wikipedia:

Unfinished material

Larsson wrote about three-quarters of a fourth novel before his sudden death in November 2004. His partner, Eva Gabrielsson, is in possession of the notebook computer with the manuscript but does not own the rights to Larsson's work. This is because Larsson, in an attempt to protect Gabrielsson from the people he was investigating in real life (Swedish Neo-Nazis and racists), never married and wrote his will without any witness (thus making it invalid according to Swedish law). Thus, at his death, it is his family that ended with the succession.[13] Outlines or manuscripts for one or two more books may exist.[9]

**GeddyRulz** · January 30, 2012

**Presto-a RUSH fan!** · January 30, 2012

**GeddyRulz** · January 31, 2012

QUOTE (Presto-a RUSH fan! @ Jan 30 2012, 05:27 PM)

Anyway, to anyone who hasn't seen the Swedish versions of these 3 movies, if you like great movies, then just rent them. You won't be disappointed.

What is going to bother me is that American audiences will just skip the Swedish versions or not know about them and think that they came from America. That said, I have a feeling the American versions with Daniel Craig and that actress they have playing Lisbeth, will be very good too.

Take it from someone who loved the Swedish films and feared that Hollywood was going to wreck the franchise: the American movie was very very good, perhaps even better than the Swedish version. I can't decide which is better, but I'm siding with the American version since it's more fresh in my mind.

**Presto-a RUSH fan!** · January 31, 2012

QUOTE (GeddyRulz @ Jan 31 2012, 02:11 PM)

QUOTE (Presto-a RUSH fan! @ Jan 30 2012, 05:27 PM)

Anyway, to anyone who hasn't seen the Swedish versions of these 3 movies, if you like great movies, then just rent them. You won't be disappointed.

What is going to bother me is that American audiences will just skip the Swedish versions or not know about them and think that they came from America. That said, I have a feeling the American versions with Daniel Craig and that actress they have playing Lisbeth, will be very good too.

Take it from someone who loved the Swedish films and feared that Hollywood was going to wreck the franchise: the American movie was very very good, perhaps even better than the Swedish version. I can't decide which is better, but I'm siding with the American version since it's more fresh in my mind.

Wow...that's good to hear. I figured that with how good the Swedish ones were they would take it very serious. And Daniel Craig i think fits the role better, as far as the girl, I don't know.

Does it take place in America or just an english speaking country?

**furie** · February 1, 2012

Downfall

**Presto-a RUSH fan!** · February 2, 2012

QUOTE (goose @ Jan 27 2012, 12:28 AM)

Funny Games

The Vanishing

Wings of Desire

Knife in the Water

Here are some examples of my memory being great and sucking at the same time.

I am scanning thru Foreign films on Netflix with my bluray and I see "Funny Games". I REMEMBER someone recommending it to me in this thread.

So I start watching it and I am like, "I swear I have seen this movie!" But I know I couldn't have because I'd remember seeing a Austrian film like this. So I keep watching.

At this point I am REMEMBERING scenes almost exactly as they are happening. But I am like, I know I haven't seen this.

So then I REMEMBER that I saw an American film just like this one. And as the movie continues I am like, wtf is the name of that movie that is basically shot for shot the same as this?

I think "The Strangers". No, that had Liv Tyler, totally different. So I am just going back and forth in my mind as I know every single thing that is happening and going to happen and I am just trying to remember, what the American version was called. What was the f-ing name????

So finally after finishing the movie, I look up Funny Games on Wikipedia, and guess what, there was an American version called....Funny Games! Anyway, I click on the American version link, and it literally says, a shot for shot remake of the Austrian film. (I remembered that!)

So what I am saying is, I have a good memory, kinda?

Oh, and the movie, well it was a pretty good psychological horror film and very dark. But having seen both versions now, I suggest to future watchers of any movie called "Funny Games" to make sure they haven't seen the other one....called Funny Games!

The next movie I can't wait to see is The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo that just came out in US theaters. Dang, that sounds so familiar to me?

Edited because my english sucks almost as bad as my memory!

Edited February 2, 2012 by Presto-a RUSH fan!

**GeddyRulz** · February 2, 2012

Edited February 2, 2012 by GeddyRulz

**Presto-a RUSH fan!** · February 4, 2012

**goose** · February 4, 2012

QUOTE (Presto-a RUSH fan! @ Feb 2 2012, 05:57 AM)