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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

I've run out of box sets to watch so I've started watching Gomorrah which is Italian with English subtitles. It's about the mafia and so far it's really good and after ten minutes or so you forget its foreign. Some of the best films I've seen have been subtitled, Pans Labrynth and Apocolypto spring to mind.

Am I missing any other films or shows that might have been overlooked due to being foreign or would you be put by it?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A prophet in french a masterpiece !

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

May I suggest the original version of The Bridge in Swedish and Danish. 3 series all excellent

Also Brazillian film City of God

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A lot of korean horror is good, all subtitled.

I prefer the subtitles on the film i'm watching as i find it easier to concentrate and follow the story. So i put them on with english speaking stuff also.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Night on Earth is a great film by Jim James which is partly in English but also has other languages too. Also recommend Amelie which is an amazing French film.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Loved the City of God

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By *olgateMan
over a year ago

on the road to nowhere in particular

"May I suggest the original version of The Bridge in Swedish and Danish. 3 series all excellent

Also Brazillian film City of God "
the Swedish Girl with a dragon tattoo series with naoomi Rapace

Borgen

The killing 1 2 and 3 (all excellent)

Walkender (original Swedish version)

Headhunter

The hunters

Best foreign language film Cinema Paradiso

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Thanks, I'll look I to them. There's a great film about a tower block run by gangsters, I think it's Venezuelan but I can't remember what it's called, one of the best fighting films I've ever seen.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Two recent Italian films about mafia:

Suburra

The mafia kills only in summer

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Thanks, I'll look I to them. There's a great film about a tower block run by gangsters, I think it's Venezuelan but I can't remember what it's called, one of the best fighting films I've ever seen."

The raid I think it is, brilliant.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Thanks, I'll look I to them. There's a great film about a tower block run by gangsters, I think it's Venezuelan but I can't remember what it's called, one of the best fighting films I've ever seen."

There's a Korean (I think, certainly South East Asian) film called The Raid which is about a group of police officers raiding a tower block.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

high rise? it's belgium though.

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum

Lives of Others

Hero

Spirited Away

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Thanks, I'll look I to them. There's a great film about a tower block run by gangsters, I think it's Venezuelan but I can't remember what it's called, one of the best fighting films I've ever seen.

There's a Korean (I think, certainly South East Asian) film called The Raid which is about a group of police officers raiding a tower block. "

Yeah that's it, I thought it was Venezuelan but I could be wrong.

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By *emptd2Man
over a year ago

Burgess Hill

Oldboy

Martyr

Sick Nurses

The vengeance trilogy

Inside (French gore)

Just to name a few.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Being a bit deaf - 'what?'- I often watch English films/TV with subtitles so a foreign film with them isn't any different to me. However I can't answer the OP as I'm not really a habitual TV/film viewer for the reasons above. Meh.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"A lot of korean horror is good, all subtitled.

I prefer the subtitles on the film i'm watching as i find it easier to concentrate and follow the story. So i put them on with english speaking stuff also."

I saw the Devil

loved it

Along Yellow Sea, The murderer, Old boy, and The Chaser... not horror though

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Thanks, I'll look I to them. There's a great film about a tower block run by gangsters, I think it's Venezuelan but I can't remember what it's called, one of the best fighting films I've ever seen.

There's a Korean (I think, certainly South East Asian) film called The Raid which is about a group of police officers raiding a tower block.

Yeah that's it, I thought it was Venezuelan but I could be wrong. "

Indonesian according to google

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By *ilacWoman
over a year ago

Cheshire

"May I suggest the original version of The Bridge in Swedish and Danish. 3 series all excellent

Also Brazillian film City of God the Swedish Girl with a dragon tattoo series with naoomi Rapace

Borgen

The killing 1 2 and 3 (all excellent)

Walkender (original Swedish version)

Headhunter

The hunters

Best foreign language film Cinema Paradiso"

Love Headhunter, Forbrydelsen, enjoyed what I've seen of Borgen. Love The Bridge. And the Swedish Dragon Tattoos.

Just about to start Gomorrah.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Stalingrad ! awsome

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum

Also Age of Uprising but its a bit weird.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The devil's back bone. And troll Hunter.

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By *ay BrowerMan
over a year ago

Oldham

Rare Exports is a good film

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By *ilacWoman
over a year ago

Cheshire

"A lot of korean horror is good, all subtitled.

I prefer the subtitles on the film i'm watching as i find it easier to concentrate and follow the story. So i put them on with english speaking stuff also.

I saw the Devil

loved it

Along Yellow Sea, The murderer, Old boy, and The Chaser... not horror though

I love South Korean horror too. Watched I Saw The Devil last week. Love The Host.

The Raid ( Indonesian) was good and I love Tokyo Gore Police (Japanese)

Love love The Art of Killing (Indonesian documentary)

Love a subtitle I do.

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By *GHertsCouple
over a year ago

North Herts

Another vote for the original Swedish/Danish version of The Bridge here, all three series have been truly excellent, intense, gripping and keep you guessing right to the end.

Another that I've not seen (despite it sitting on my DVD shelf for years!!) that xame highly recommended by someone who knows their stuff is a French film called Mesrine about the life and times of a French gangster.

Mr G

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"May I suggest the original version of The Bridge in Swedish and Danish. 3 series all excellent

Also Brazillian film City of God the Swedish Girl with a dragon tattoo series with naoomi Rapace

Borgen

The killing 1 2 and 3 (all excellent)

Walkender (original Swedish version)

Headhunter

The hunters

Best foreign language film Cinema Paradiso

Love Headhunter, Forbrydelsen, enjoyed what I've seen of Borgen. Love The Bridge. And the Swedish Dragon Tattoos.

Just about to start Gomorrah. "

Gomorrah is good, I'm up to episode 5 I think, get catching up and I'll bring some popcorn and watch number 6 with you

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By *ilacWoman
over a year ago

Cheshire

"A lot of korean horror is good, all subtitled.

I prefer the subtitles on the film i'm watching as i find it easier to concentrate and follow the story. So i put them on with english speaking stuff also.

I saw the Devil

loved it

Along Yellow Sea, The murderer, Old boy, and The Chaser... not horror though

I love South Korean horror too. Watched I Saw The Devil last week. Love The Host.

The Raid ( Indonesian) was good and I love Tokyo Gore Police (Japanese)

Love love The Art of Killing (Indonesian documentary)

Love a subtitle I do. "

The ACT of Killing

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Gomorrah I thought was an excellent series, was gutted when it finished

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By *oveslickingpussy999Man
over a year ago

ealing

Everyones already said all of the good ones but theres two french films that are good 22 bullets and the intouchables are good films to watch

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By *oncupiscentTonyMan
over a year ago

Kent

Those 'Swedish dragon tattoo' films are the Millennium trilogy, Walter Presents via All4 has a lot of foreign language content of varying quality, the Jacques Mesrine biop mentioned earlier is not too bad either

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Another vote for the original Swedish/Danish version of The Bridge here, all three series have been truly excellent, intense, gripping and keep you guessing right to the end.

Mr G"

Cassel is great in it !

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I love almodova films

awsome

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"A lot of korean horror is good, all subtitled.

I prefer the subtitles on the film i'm watching as i find it easier to concentrate and follow the story. So i put them on with english speaking stuff also.

I saw the Devil

loved it

Along Yellow Sea, The murderer, Old boy, and The Chaser... not horror though

I love South Korean horror too. Watched I Saw The Devil last week. Love The Host.

The Raid ( Indonesian) was good and I love Tokyo Gore Police (Japanese)

Love love The Art of Killing (Indonesian documentary)

Love a subtitle I do.

The ACT of Killing "

Love the dark ending and life realism of asian cinema.

A massive change of the eternel american hero who never dies and saves the world.

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By *oncupiscentTonyMan
over a year ago

Kent

"Another vote for the original Swedish/Danish version of The Bridge here, all three series have been truly excellent, intense, gripping and keep you guessing right to the end.

Mr G

Cassel is great in it !

"mey-reen, it's pronounced mey-reen"

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By *igeiaWoman
over a year ago

Bristol

Loads of my favourites already mentioned but if we're talking recent I can't wait until the next series of Engrenages (Spiral) starts. It's bloody brilliant.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I've run out of box sets to watch so I've started watching Gomorrah which is Italian with English subtitles. It's about the mafia and so far it's really good and after ten minutes or so you forget its foreign. Some of the best films I've seen have been subtitled, Pans Labrynth and Apocolypto spring to mind.

Am I missing any other films or shows that might have been overlooked due to being foreign or would you be put by it? "

Got a list of essential World Cinema for you mate if you like..take your filter off and i'll send you a list.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Deutscheland 83. Fantastic

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Day for night and last tango in paris. Both good films in fact last tango in paris was banned at one time.

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By *oncupiscentTonyMan
over a year ago

Kent

If anyone can remember the name of it...

Swedish, with Serb mafia, older godfather type gets blown up with C4 bought by his 2nd in command,schism in the firm with a power struggle between him and the daughter, at the meeting to divi things up the daughter stabs him with a pin holding her hair in a bun, turns out it the 2nd in command was framed for his bosses murder, daughter gets wasted

Any ideas?

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By *oncupiscentTonyMan
over a year ago

Kent

"Deutscheland 83. Fantastic "

You must be fucking joking!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"A lot of korean horror is good, all subtitled.

I prefer the subtitles on the film i'm watching as i find it easier to concentrate and follow the story. So i put them on with english speaking stuff also.

I saw the Devil

loved it

Along Yellow Sea, The murderer, Old boy, and The Chaser... not horror though

I love South Korean horror too. Watched I Saw The Devil last week. Love The Host.

The Raid ( Indonesian) was good and I love Tokyo Gore Police (Japanese)

Love love The Art of Killing (Indonesian documentary)

Love a subtitle I do.

The ACT of Killing

Love the dark ending and life realism of asian cinema.

A massive change of the eternel american hero who never dies and saves the world. "

ew, old boy was pretty messed up. original idea though and did have some tension.

gonna have to look up the devil though, it sounds good. or is this the film in the elevator?

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By *ranimallxl5Man
over a year ago

Winchester

Victoria is German and only half subtitled. All done in one two your long single shot

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"If anyone can remember the name of it...

Any ideas?"
snabba cash ?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Two recommendations from me:

1. Narcos - mix of English and subtitled Spanish, about Pablo Escobar. Brilliant. Netflix series.

2. Brotherhood - Korean subtitles. About the Korean war, an absolutely brilliant film, very much a must see.

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By *ortland51Man
over a year ago

Glasgow

Gomorrah was a stunning series. I was like a grittier Sopranos, with no unnecessary Hollywood glitz.

And as someone mentioned above, Meserine Part 1 & 2 could well be the best foreign crime films I've seen. Vincent Cassel was absolutely captivating and delivered a complete masterclass playing the lead.

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By *tretchygirl and tintinWoman
over a year ago

Dartford

Bbc Iplayer has a french series called the disappeared. It's fucking brilliant. I think if you're quick you'll still be able to see the first episode, was shown on bbc4 if that helps.

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By *olgateMan
over a year ago

on the road to nowhere in particular

German film about heroin users

Christiane F

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"A lot of korean horror is good, all subtitled.

I prefer the subtitles on the film i'm watching as i find it easier to concentrate and follow the story. So i put them on with english speaking stuff also.

I saw the Devil

loved it

Along Yellow Sea, The murderer, Old boy, and The Chaser... not horror though

I love South Korean horror too. Watched I Saw The Devil last week. Love The Host.

The Raid ( Indonesian) was good and I love Tokyo Gore Police (Japanese)

Love love The Art of Killing (Indonesian documentary)

Love a subtitle I do.

The ACT of Killing

Love the dark ending and life realism of asian cinema.

A massive change of the eternel american hero who never dies and saves the world.

ew, old boy was pretty messed up. original idea though and did have some tension.

gonna have to look up the devil though, it sounds good. or is this the film in the elevator?"

Nah, I saw the Devil is more fucked up than that, absolutely loved it !!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Battle Royale and it's sequel are Brilliant films.

The Raid and Raid 2 are some of the best martial arts films I've ever seen, the last 20 odd minutes of Raid 2 from the garage entrance onwards are just amazing !!!!!

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By *olgateMan
over a year ago

on the road to nowhere in particular

Shallow Grave and trainspotting

Shallow grave, in particular for the suspense

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Battle Royale and it's sequel are Brilliant films.

The Raid and Raid 2 are some of the best martial arts films I've ever seen, the last 20 odd minutes of Raid 2 from the garage entrance onwards are just amazing !!!!!"

Totally agree, waiting patiently for the third !

And to be fair, it has been made by a welsh man

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By *oncupiscentTonyMan
over a year ago

Kent

"If anyone can remember the name of it...

Any ideas?snabba cash ?"

Wasn't that, thinking about it a bit more there was a bank raid that went wrong, lots of double crossing and a shootout back at the hideout, then a cash handover in a quarry. It wasn't told in flashbacks so you couldn't be sure who trusted who, then there was a seen on a Mexican beach with the guy who's been shot dead in the quarry, the absence of chronalogicality left me bloody confused!

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By *oncupiscentTonyMan
over a year ago

Kent

"Bbc Iplayer has a french series called the disappeared. It's fucking brilliant. I think if you're quick you'll still be able to see the first episode, was shown on bbc4 if that helps."

Thought that was a bit of a poor forbrydelson knock off, plus it was obvious it was her ****** and not the creepy ***** . BBC4 seems to have a few misses lately compared to it's (admittedly high) previous standards, Witness is another one

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Downfall is German with English subtitles. Amazing film about the last few days in Hitlers Bunker. One of my all time favourite films in any language

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Jordskott

The tunnel

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Carlos the Jackal

Rust and Bone

A bittersweet life

Mesrine

The Orphanage

Amelie

Headhunters

Amores Perres

Run lola run

And many more

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By *ilacWoman
over a year ago

Cheshire

Just remembered Baise Moi and Irréversible.

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By *GHertsCouple
over a year ago

North Herts

"Downfall is German with English subtitles. Amazing film about the last few days in Hitlers Bunker. One of my all time favourite films in any language"

Is indeed an excellent film - to add another from that angle, the original full length Das Boot is incredible.

Mr G

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By *oncupiscentTonyMan
over a year ago

Kent

No subtitles required for Battleship Potemkin

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Carlos the Jackal

Rust and Bone

A bittersweet life

Mesrine

The Orphanage

Amelie

Headhunters

Amores Perres

Run lola run

And many more

Oh I forgot about run lola run

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Gomorrah I thought was an excellent series, was gutted when it finished

I've yet to watch this...

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Gomorrah I thought was an excellent series, was gutted when it finished

I've yet to watch this... "

Give it a go it's good x

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Thanks for your suggestions guys, they'll keep me busy for a few years by the looks of it. By the looks of the response I reckon a foreign film cinema would do quite well

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By *awty MaxWoman
over a year ago

Edinburgh

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By *awty MaxWoman
over a year ago

Edinburgh

Mulan, rise of a warrior (Mandarin)

Mesrine (French)

La Haine (French)

Watched them hundreds of times

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

For me to be able to watch anything at home on the tv they need to be subtitled or I get bored and distracted with other stuff, don't think mr's a fan and people I watch movies with hate me for it but I find it better with subtitles. Think it started in french class at the academy we watched amelie and it had subtitled and I just loooved it!

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By *elvet RopeMan
over a year ago

by the big field

Looks like someone beat me to the suggestion ifs of Run Lola Run and The orphanage.......so I'll just add the epic Das Boot, Taxi (1&2- luc bessons French version,not the crappy American remake though), Das experiment, Night Watch (and the sequel, Day Watch), Motorcycle Diaries, City of God, Marius/Fanny/Caesar trilogy. There's a few more, I just can't remember the titles atm

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Belgian TV show Cordon was really good, they are about to show the U.S. Remake of it which looks awful.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Mulan, rise of a warrior (Mandarin)

Mesrine (French)

La Haine (French)

Watched them hundreds of times

La Haine un instant classic !

jusqu'ici tout va bien !

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By *edRidingWolfCouple
over a year ago

Lydney

For another series try Maison Close ... French

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By *elvet RopeMan
over a year ago

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La Haine (French)"

That was one I was trying to think of- could remember the motorbike helmet scene but not the bloody name!

I've popped my head in the DVD cupboard as well and spotted another to suggest- well it's kind of two really.

Flags of our fathers/Letters from Iwo Jima. The same story told from the perspective of American troops (Flags- directed by Speilberg and not subtitled) and the Japanese army (letters- directed by Eastwood with subtitles). Both really good, although Eastwood is the better director in my opinion- and I'd suggest watching his film first as I think Flags will make more sense knowing the opposite side of the story? (I shall be taking this along for entertainment on one of my 12 hr shifts next week ??)

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By *funtimes.Man
over a year ago

Preston

das boot

run lola run

city of god

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By *ENDAROOSCouple
over a year ago

South West London / Surrey

Matrioshki

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

La Haine (French)

That was one I was trying to think of- could remember the motorbike helmet scene but not the bloody name!

I've popped my head in the DVD cupboard as well and spotted another to suggest- well it's kind of two really.

You are definately right, Letters from Iwo Jima is vastly superior to Flags of our Fathers..but just for the record, Clint Eastwood solo directed both pictures. Spielberg was the producer on one or both of the films.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There was an excellent film on Film 4 this weekend which I had meant to see at the cinema "Of Gods and Men".

It will probably be on again soon and I highly recommend looking out for it.

Agree with many of those mentioned but also love Il Postino, The Bader-Meinhoff Complex, Nasty Girl, most things by Almodovar, My Brother is an Only Child, The Return (Russian movie not the series) and so many more....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

....And ANYTHING by Lars von Trier, especially The Idiots

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Downfall is German with English subtitles. Amazing film about the last few days in Hitlers Bunker. One of my all time favourite films in any language"

Great film Downfall

For series Deutschland 83 is brilliant Cold War action.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Carlos the Jackal

Rust and Bone

A bittersweet life

Mesrine

The Orphanage

Amelie

Headhunters

Amores Perres

Run lola run

And many more

Forgot to add....

La Vie En Rose

A very long engagement

Battle Royale

Oldboy

Brotherhood

Lots of the Korean horrors and thrillers are great too...look for dvds releases on the Tartan Asia Extreme label

Oh and how could I forget films by Pedro Almodovar.

Broken Embraces

The Skin I live in

Talk to her

Volver

All about my mother

just stay away from the one he made about a flight crew...it's a disaster.

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By *ilacWoman
over a year ago

Cheshire

"....And ANYTHING by Lars von Trier, especially The Idiots

Like Lars Von Trier

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Am I missing any other films or shows that might have been overlooked due to being foreign or would you be put by it? "

Kar-Wai Wong 'In the Mood for Love'

La fille sur le pont.

Cafe de Flore

Goodbye Lenin

Delicattessen

MicMacs

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