Foreign Language Films

Ahoi Crossfire,

To you guys these might not be so foreign but since we've such a cosmopolitan mix on here...

Anyone any recommendations for decent movies in their native tongue? Recently discovered the foreign film section of Cex 'n Amazon & it's become apparent you can buy a good foreign language movie for £3 as opposed to £10 for some shitty yank production! And I'm working shocking shifts at the minute so getting through movies at a pace.

Recent purchases include;

Sin Nombre
Ma Mere
Che
Elite Squad
La Haine
Battle of Wits
Red Cliff
District 13
Max Manus

Not really fussed on the genre - not a massive fan of horrors but near ought else! Generally French 'n Brazilian productions are worth a viewing. So any suggestions...?
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Yes I buy films lol!
Mar Adentro is a brilliant movie and very beautiful in its poetic imagery.
Also known as The Sea Inside? Hmm a battle for euthanasia looks interesting - glad we've started on a light note :p

Added to the Amazon wishlist - my monthly bonus comes in vouchers so it's tax free so we've plenty cash to waste!
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Yep... The first time I watched it was at a friend's. We played charades, had a couple of drinks and then watched a movie on euthansia. Needless to say the general mood dropped a little. :)
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See my list of recent buys!
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ah, my bad. It's a great film though, and stays quite true to China's history. Hope you enjoy it!

Also, if you like Chinese films, Hero is great as well (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_(2002_film)). Quite deep and once again delving a bit into the history of the country.
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Yeah I really enjoyed Red Cliff - those style of movies are really hit and miss with the quality. It's too easy for the movie makers to rely heavily on visual & forget to develop a storyline. I loved the cunning of Red Cliff (but obv the fighting itself was pretty darn good)
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the storyline was quite amazing, yes. And Zhu Ge Liang is legendary :D
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Loft ( pretty good belgian movie )
I Served The King of England ( czech movie )
Cheers added I Served The King of England to the wish list.
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Was thinking a bit about this while I was studying ( everything besides studying seems so interesting now )

Le Fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain
Das Leben der Anderen ( highly recommended )
Die Welle ( highly recommended )
Der Untergang ( although you probably have seen this one already )
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Die Welle again seems interesting, we're back on the psychology theme - start with Das Experiment for context. That's also two recommendations for Das Leben der Anderen so I can't really say no.

Just await the cheque to arrive then we've £120 to waste :p

Also I need better adjectives than interesting :v
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+1 for Le Fabuleux destin d'Amelie Poulain , i loved it
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Elite squad is good :)
District 9 aswell, dunno if district 13 is from the same producer.
Yeah District 9 is amazing but that's very much full price American blockbuster - District 13 is an equally well produced French film based around Parkour. Well I say based around, it's basically over an hour of Parkour self-flagellating but pretty insane to watch all the same.
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oh, thx! downloading ;p
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they played nellie the elephant in some pub here, it made me cry a little
Happy tears?!?!
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yes of course!
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I love you lolkino. One day, you and me, we'll sing this song @ karaoke!
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that would be a dream coming true!

now help me who to vote for in NL cause they are all shit
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Guizi lai le

Ip man

oldboy

taekukgi

not in my native tongue though. ;P

native tongue is probablyyy

- Cloaca
- Soldaat van Oranje
- Flodder 1
- De Lift
- Amsterdamned
- Zwartboek
I'll let it slide...

Ip Man looks interesting, think I've come across Oldboy before but discarded it. I found Taekukgi painfully slow!

Flodder 1 gives me pictures of a cat :p
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:P check youtube!
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QuoteIp Man looks interesting


It is not that good, just watched both parts, definitely worse than scored on imdb. Quite average piece of HK cinema.
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that tongue thing? :D It made me smile pretty hard :D
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La Haine is a must-have :P
Just for the skanking in the opening scene! Cool as fuck!
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4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1032846/
Eu cand vreau sa fluier, fluier http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1590024/
Got it recorded on the freeview box just need to get round to watching it, Film4 did a foreign season recently - In The Loop (sorry Brit production!) to stick on tonight.

Though that reminds me Y Tu Mama Tambien is prolly one of my top 3 films.
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The reviews for Eu cand vreau sa fluier, fluier look interesting but I can't seem to find anywhere to buy it?
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hmm,its kinda new,was released in april or smth,think u still have to wait a little
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forgot the name, but was french i believe with some girl living some creepy fairy tale, somewhere in the top imdb at the mystery section

el labrinto or summmmmthin
pans labyrnth ? :d
spanish!?!?
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ahh yeah that one!
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saw y tu mama tambien the other day that was so-so
i like "the edukators" which is "die fetten jahre sind vorbei" in german:!
A Bittersweet Life
Nobody Knows
Memories of Murder
Un prophete
Name of the Rose
3-Iron
Blue Spring
Infernal Affairs (if you liked hollywoods remake departed)

Also check out more Korean cinema, it's in golden age now!
Will probably invest in the top 3 starting with Nobody Knows, cheers.
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I hope you buy them all to redeem my acts of piracy!
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Hey Neillie, there's this website called TorrentBytes that is open to registrations. I think you might like it! http://www.torrentbytes.net

Oh, good Chinese action film with Jackie Chan. Dunno why the rating is 6.8

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386005/
Heh it's not that I'm inept at piracy just that I've nowhere comfortable to watch a movie on the pc - this thing hasn't been upgraded in near ten years!

Also man _must_ collect something - DVDs happen to be my thing. Over 300 'n counting!

Still gonna register anyway just incase - cheers =))

Edit: bwah thwarted =( Sorry, user limit reached. Please try again later.
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Keep checking, registrations open all the time.
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der untergang
das experiment
das leben der anderen
das boot
city of god
perfume, the story of a murderer
loft
Man who hate women http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1132620/ : didn't watch this one yet tho but heard its quite good
the constant gardener
Heard of Das Experiment (or its Yank contemporary) but never quite got round to watching - will buy. Das Leben Der Anderen seems to have decent reviews.
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Das experiment is more like a documentary but certainly worth to watch. I remember being quite sick watching that =p Dunno if there is a US version of it but if I were you I would watch the german one.
Das leben der anderen is a very good one too, a must-watch movie. It's close of being in my top 10/15.
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Do we think it's also known as The Lives of Others as there's a £12 price difference!
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yea it's the same one
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Lilja 4-ever
Hmm the last thing remotely Swedish based that I took hold of was the best selling 'The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo' - little did I expect sadistic anal rape!
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Fucking amal or smth, also good, about a lesbian/bisexual girl.
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Seksmisja
Dzien Swira
Poland has movies?:O

There was a Newsnight report on North Korea & a man being interviewed said "yes yes we many have American movies, even our enemy America we have movies, great movies such as The Sound of Music" and I lol'd and thought of you!
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If you want, I can name you a few polish ET fragmovies, they're movies as well :D!
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Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain
La vita è bella
so you are watching the movies in original language? must be pro at languages :D
or maybe he uses subtitles
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mmh, maybe that. just like i did today. brainlags sometimes, sorry...
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Dom zly
How did cottbuss do this season?
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Average as expected due to major changes after the relegation. Could u stop ur great spree? :D
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we sucked donkeyballs since January. New coach now though, so let's see what he'll bring us.
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Will Goor play another season?
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Hopefully, he was fuckin amazing in the first half of the season. But then he got a serious injury and he's expected to come back in July or something. But when you're 35-37 and you get an 8 month injury at the leg, who knows how you'll perform when u come back.
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just got to love "der Eisbär" :'C
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