F F F (Fabulous Foreign Films)

Yojimbo

Untouchable was terrific , best film I have seen in ages ......number 7 in my world cinema database

Cinema Paradiso
Black Cat White Cat
Burnt By the Sun
City Of God
Life Is Beautiful
Wings Of Desire
Untouchable
Downfall
Amores Perror
Army Of Shadows

Ta, I'll check some of those out

I watched some of that City Of God last night & recorded the rest. Looked pretty good to me.

Of Gods And Men: Under threat by fundamentalist terrorists, a group of Trappist monks stationed with an impoverished Algerian community must decide whether to leave or stay.

And obviously Jean De Florette & Manon Des Sources.

Cinema Paradiso
Black Cat White Cat
Burnt By the Sun
City Of God
Life Is Beautiful
Wings Of Desire
Untouchable
Downfall
Amores Perror
Army Of Shadows
Dersu Uzala
Jean De Florette

Very hard to beat Das Boot (The Directors Cut).

True Grit - 2010

The OP is bang on,great film.

Tell No One.

Chit Chat will love it.

God, you must watch foreign films. The ones that make it into English language world consciousness are almost all excellent.

I cry, and unashamedly so, at the 'clips scene' in Cinema Paridiso, can't help myself.

Wings of Desire is a brilliant call. Anyone who's seen it won't be surprised by Bruno Ganz's performance in Downfall. If he were an English speaker, he'd be compared to Olivier. The angel and the devil. Best male actor of my lifetime.

Seksmisja

Incendies. French Canadian film, brilliant.

The Ascent - Ukraine / Russia - best film ever made, bar none.

Come and See - second best war film ever made, made by the husband of the director of "The Ascent"!

Eclipse - Antonioni - Italian film ; beautiful - brilliant ending.

If you want decent French Canadian, I give you

The Decline of the American Empire
and
The Barbarian Invasions

The first is better, although the latter is more lauded.

Yes, "Das Boot" is definitely up there.

"The Page Turner" is one of my favourites. Just up my street being into classical music!

And a film I saw quite recently that was brilliant is "The Stoning of Soraya M." It's quite graphic but very powerful.

It surprises me how many people say they couldn't watch a film that's subtitled. How some people miss out!

"the pusher" danish film thats proves if your lucks out its out

Apocalypto

La charme discrete de la bourgoisie.  I saw it again recently and it was just as daft and funny and inventive as I remember it from nearly 40 years ago.  Pour yourself a decent glass of red and just sit back and enjoy.

Le Diner De Cons

Hilarious French farce

The Battle of Algiers - superb!

Saw that again recently judorick.  A hoot.  The English language theatre title was See You Next Tuesday.  Arf.

it's much better if you can understand the original French but still... if you can't

It's very funny and very easy to follow.

thing is when he is impersonating the Belgian film director on the telephone he puts on a cracking fake Belgian accent, it's like someone doing Geordie or scouse...n that's the stuff you miss when reading subtitles

it remains one of all time favourite films and anytime I want to feel good I stick it on

The Lives of Others

Oldboy

Pan's Labyrinth

really like Oldboy

Them films from aboard
All the same ( loads of deep convo mixed in with baby sitter getting it squirrel out)
everyone ends up on some cold beach !!

Timecrimes, Spanish time travel film from 2007

Infernal Affairs

Hong Kong gangster movie, so good it was re-nade by Scorcese and called 'The Departed;

the original definitely better

Point Blank, French film about a male nurse that saves a guy from being murdered in hospital, which is the start of his problems.

Das Boot, incredible  film about a German U-boat

Oslo, August 31st
The Hunt
Das Letze Schweigen

The Lives Of Others is an incredible film, best I've seen in the last 5 years.

The Baader Meinhof Complex.

Priceless, with the beautiful Audrey Tautou.

The Secret In Their Eyes.

Le Trou.

Forgot about The Baader Meinhoff Complex - I've seen it four times. Great film.

Nuttie firm
human  centipede

The Lives of Others,third that very good.

if you like martial arts I highly recommend

IpMan

and

IpMan 2

das boot, downfall, baader meinhof complex, delicatessen


and One Deadly Summer (isabelle adjani )

The Vanishing (original Dutch version)

Another shout for

The Secret In their Eyes..........  Argentinian (won Oscar for best foreign film a few years ago)


Two other (well-known) and excellent French films:-

A Very Long Engagement -   beautiful love / clever mystery / action war story entangled effortlessly
The Chorus - Superb music, and like most French films the ending nicely hidden (as opposed to Hollywood efforts where you know it before you start!)


(Slight deviation, I was in Boston many years having a few pints in a bar - got chatting to barman and a few regulars, we started discussing films (movies to them of course)...Road to Perdition had been released. I enjoyed it, thought it was really good...all of them thought it "could have been great, but the ending "sucked". Must have happy ending otherwise its "unpopular").

3 films I never tire of watching the beauty of:

'Spirit Of The Beehive' (Esp)
'Wild Strawberries' (Swe)
'Au Hasard Balthazar' (Fr)

Must be in double figures of watching each one.
Remastered and in HD has been wonderful too

The Gambler - french film circa 1957

Will add several of these to My LocateTV site. Great site which lets you know by email when any chosen film is on.

It tells me 'Four Lions' is on today. A spookily prescient 2010 film about terrorists bombing a marathon event.
Don't know if it's any good?

... and a quick check says 'Untouchable' the Op's film is on next Wednesday

Can I nominate the brilliant Trilogie, directed by Lucas Belvaux.

It's actually three films:

On the Run (a thriller)
An Amazing Couple (a rom com)
After Life (a melodrama)

You can watch them in any order, but all three films feature the same characters and events. You won't fully understand any of them until you've watched them all, but they're all pretty good in their own right. Set in Grenoble.

Also Breathless (A Bout de Souffle), is a French New Wave classic. Well worth watching. Unlike the awful American rehash.

a few more .....

Spring , Summer , Autumn , Winter and Spring
Underground
Fitzcarraldo
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Run Lola Run
The Vanishing
Apocalypto
City Of Life And Death
Amelie
Pan's Labyrinth
Ring
Brotherhood 
Departures
Manon Des Sources
No Mans' Land
I'm A Cyborg , But That's OK
Kagemusha
The Colour Of Paradise
Nine Queens
Switchblade Romance
Kikujuro
Kolya
My Life As A Dog
Divided We Fall
The Man With No Past
Zatoichi
In A Better World
La Reine Margot
Assembly
Audition
The Officers' Ward

A Cat In Paris (2010) In Paris, a cat who lives a secret life as a cat burglar's aide must come to the rescue of Zoe, the little girl he lives with, after she falls into a gangster's clutches. Brilliant film.

Poppydog. 02 Oct 13 09:11 
Will add several of these to My LocateTV site. Great site which lets you know by email when any chosen film is on.

It tells me 'Four Lions' is on today. A spookily prescient 2010 film about terrorists bombing a marathon event.
Don't know if it's any good?
Poppydog. 02 Oct 13 09:13 
... and a quick check says 'Untouchable' the Op's film is on next Wednesday

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Very good. Thx.

Will record Untouchable

Zwartboek" (Black Book)

have seen quite a lot of these mentioned - Le Spoorloos and Festen are good additions - will definitely get onto watching some of the above

La Haine. Vincent Cassell has come a long way since then, but it's a great film.

Loved Run Lola Run, which got a mention above. Very original.

Infernal affairs is also absolutely brilliant. There are 3 of them I think, but the first is the best.

City on Fire - Tarantino totally mugged this off with Reservoir Dogs. Definitely worth a watch.

All the Studio Ghibli movies are great - generally dubbed versions are available so maybe not foreign language per se. Spirited Away and Laputa the best two IMO.

What's the one set in Communist Germany where the mother goes into a coma and wakes up after the fall of the Berlin Wall? That's pretty good.

Was going to say La Haine and, long way or not, Cassell is yet to do anything better. That's no slight on him, he's just really, really good in that film.

Have heard that the aforementioned Black Book is brilliant, but haven't seen it.

What's the one set in Communist Germany where the mother goes into a coma and wakes up after the fall of the Berlin Wall? That's pretty good.

Good Bye Lenin

Seething. I've had Cinema Paradiso on the shelf for ages and ages, but kept watching rubbish instead and putting it off.

SPOILER ALERT - SPOILER ALERT - SPOILER ALERT - SPOILER ALERT - SPOILER ALERT - SPOILER ALERT - SPOILER ALERT -


I finally got around to sticking it on...Yes, it's a very good film, I can see that...He's quite cute as a little kid and the old bloke is very funny and you can see him breaking your heart...but...


...the little fecking kid...




...when he grows up...




...looks exactly like Cristiano Ronaldo. And I hate Cristiano Ronaldo. I managed to put up with another 15 minutes, but as soon as he got the girl I just had to turn it off. It was just like watching Cristiano Ronaldo with his greasy hands all over some bint.


It really is a shame, because it could have been an excellent film.

I was angstroms away from starting a new thread about this, but I reflected that "Massive Problem with Cinema Paradiso" was a bit specialised.

Trouble is, there are a lot of of Chit Chatters who aren't going to look at this thread but think Cristiano Ronaldo's a c*nt. Some of the poor bastards are going to invest all that emotion into it, just like me, only to find that the little pr*ck's spitting image is suddenly there in front of them with no warning at all after 70 minutes.

Aargh!

Amelie

The lives of Others
Tell no one
The Edukators
Nine Queens
Martyrs

Re Cinema Paradiso, he doesn't look like Ronaldo imo. They both seem to like acting though.

HM,

In the interests of honesty, and please understand that I say this with neither pride nor embarrassment, I was in a somewhat altered state yesterday. I’m prepared to concede the possibility that the 300 micrograms or whatever could have been in some way responsible for the conclusion I came to.

I’ll try watching it again at the weekend, but at time of writing, I’m still expecting him to look like Cristiano Ronaldo.

Doesn't look anything like him ....Specsavers time perhaps

Can't believe that Jean De Florette and Manon Des Source isn't on here.  It's an Epic

Manon des Sources has definitely been mentioned.

It's on sixtwosix's longlist above, which I have to say is a pretty good one.

I've seen about half of them, and those range from good at worst to excellent.

All are good examples of the genre.

A few that haven't been mentioned yet...
4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days
The 'pusher' trilogy
The skin I live in
Stalker

4 weeks was brilliant, morbid as anything, but great

I'd recommend 'No' a Chilean film about the fall of the Pinochet regime

FFFF (Fans of Fabulous Foreign Films) may wish to watch (probably record & watch)  Spring , Summer , Autumn , Winter and Spring on Film 4 at 00:30 on Tuesday morning.

A terrific Korean film imo

A Japanese film called Like Someone In Love. About a prostitute and an old man. Not quite what you'd expect and that's what makes it unusual and appealing.

There is a Hong Kong film with a similar name which has a good rep. Can't remember what it's called (2002ish).

la chorister is a magical film, French of course, has that special ingredient which other mopvies don't have.

sorry les choriste

another fab film is ponette, now if you watch this and youre not crying within 10 mins you have no heart, the little girl in this film displays acting I actually can't believe is true tis so good.

Oldboy - 2013 South Korean mystery thriller.

Chopper - Australian movie about this psychotic guy seeking revenge

Wolf Creek - another Aussie movie about backpackers stranded in the Outback with this murderous bushman.

sorry, that should read 2003 for Oldboy

try posting 'eclipse' into viooz and u know of course what you get. some vampire shyte!!!