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Hollywood tends to be very represented in fandom, but what about other countries' films? How about a rec thread for movies from around the world, that people here might not have heard of?
Let's show some love to the non-Hollywood-blockbuster!

(feel free to include links or subs!)

Can we do foreign television too?

Sure, why not :)

One of my favorite movies is Saxon. It stars Sean Harris (the dude in my icon) and it is a British indie film. It's about a guy who gets out of prison and finds out he owes a few thousand grand to a fish monger, who proceeds to cut out one eye and will be all too willing to cut out the other if he doesn't get his money. Fortunately, he's got an old friend whose husband went missing. She's willing to pay off his debt if he finds her husband, who he thinks is somewhere in the rundown public housing hell hole he grew up in.

It's awesome. Sean Harris spends the last third of the flick shirtless.

Here's a link: http://www.saxonthefilm.com/

Edited 2014-11-29 22:34 (UTC)

Wer früher stirbt, ist länger tot (Who dies earlier, is dead longer). Bavarian black comedy about a boy who thinks he killed his mother (she died during child birth) and will go to hell for that. So he tries to avoid that fate using 3 strategies: apologize, get a replacement mother/wife for his father and/or become immortal.

Paulette. French comedy about a retiree in Paris. Her pension isn't enough to cover the cost of living and she's deeply in debt so she turns to drug dealing. In the course of the movie she also learns to be less racist.

Paulette sounds good.

Le pacte des loupes/ The brotherhood of the wolf. A french movie that does have an english dub about a parisian policeman investigating brutal animal attacks in the countryside. It has some amazing fight and action scenes, has a great feeling of mystery and suspense and is decently scary. The score is also excellent, the music is beautiful and creepy and ups the atmosphere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotherhood_of_the_Wolf

I was gonna mention this one. Love it.

Thirded. I own the DVD. It's great.

Is this the one roughly based on the Beast of Gevaudan?

"Footnote". An Israeli film about a father and son who are both professors of Talmud at the Hebrew University. But while the son is charismatic, well-loved, and lauded, the father is bitter over being overlooked for so many years. Then it seems like the father will finally be rewarded - but there's a twist.
It's a combination of comedy and tragedy, and my god I cried. I did not expect this film to hit as hard as it did.

University of Laughs. Japanese movie about a playwright and his relationship with a government censor during World War II, based off a popular play. Very funny and well acted, and has a touching odd-friendship.

This might be too obvious, but how about Paprika? It's about a device that can look into and modify dreams, which is stolen and used to trap people in nightmares. It's like Philip K. Dick on even more drugs, which is pretty impressive considering how many drugs he was on already. Also, it was indirectly responsible for this: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hRTjtpkLGoA

I would recommend Oorlogswinter (according to wikipedia the translation is winter in wartime) It is about a boy who finds an English pilot in occupied Holland in the second world war an tries to take care of him.

City of Lost Children (French) - I suspect a lot of people have heard of this, for reasons of Ron Perlman, but it's the kind of weird creepy fantasy that people who read Roald Dahl as a kid ought to love, so there's that.

The Crimson Rivers (French) - I have no idea where I came across this one, but it's a French thriller starring Jean Reno about a series of murders in the French Alps that exposes a much darker underlying secret in the area. It has a touch of Dan Brown style conspiracy to it, but it's also a bit John Connolly in style and execution too.

Fantômas (French) - the 1913/1914 silent serials, if you enjoy early silent crime films about a proto-Joker style anarchist and the poor bastard of a cop who has to hunt him down. It was one of my first experiences of silent movies, after Metropolis, and I've always loved it.

Nosferatu (German) - both the silent 1922 film and the colour 1979 remake, because they're both eerie and fascinating in different ways

Picnic at Hanging Rock (Australian) - for a very weird horror movie set in 1900's era Victoria in which more or less nothing identifiably happens but the whole atmosphere is creepy as hell

The Dish (Australian) - again, Aussie, but a complete change of pace, this one's about the use of an Australian radio telescope by NASA for the 1969 Apollo 11 mission. For the scene with the 'American national anthem' alone, I would recommend this movie to anyone. Stars Sam Neill as the NASA scientist

The World's Fastest Indian (New Zealand) - in the same vein-ish as the Dish, this one's an biographical film about a record-setting New Zealand speed bike racer named Burt Munro in the 50s, and his quest to race his motorcycle at the Bonneville Speed Week in America. Stars Anthony Hopkins as Munro, and it's my dad's favourite feel-good movie (you can blame him for my having seen both this and the Dish).

Seconding The Dish. It's such an adorable movie, and that brick radio telescope is just gorgeous!

I've been meaning to get around to seeing Picnic at Hanging Rock and City of Lost Children for ages now (heard about tbe latter at a museum exhibit on syeampunk and it looked cool). I need to see if the library has either film.

I watched this many years ago and was very puzzled by it, but I enjoyed it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Spectacles

Chak De India. Bollywood movie about a disgraced famous field hockey player who comes back to coach a women's field hockey team, a job that no one else will take.

Adele Blan-Sec

I love this one! It's more of a kids' movie than I was expecting, but it's still great.

Bit of a kids movie, true, but it was so damned charming.

Hell yeah!

Attack the Gas Station - Korean crime comedy
Attack the Block - British alien
Khadak - beligian/dutch/german postapoc
Thale - Norwegian horror
A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr. & Mrs. Oki’s Fabulous Trip - japanese horror comedy
Let the Right One In - Swedish romantic horror
Cargo - Australian short zombie movie
Rabbit Proof Fence - Australian drama
Whale Rider - New zealand/german drama
Priscilla queen of the desert - australian comedy-drama
Blancanieves - 2012 spanish silent blackwhite fantasy drama of snow white
Tital Wave (2009) - South korean disaster film (it is very sad :( )
Mr Nobody (2009) - german last human on earth film
Pumzi (2009) - Kenyan postapoc
District 9 - I don't think it's African made, but it's located in the area and employed locals?
Tsotsi - South African drama (it will make you cry, quite sweet)
Survival Zone - oldish african postapoc
Lost City Raiders - scifi tv show made by german/austrian and american

Britflick love! (Links are yt trailers btw since I never feel wiki does them justice)

Love, Honour & Obey (http://youtu.be/8b6nS92pyfU), 2000: South London gangsters. Coke. Guns. Jude Law and the Primrose Hill set.
(It's similar to Snatch and Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, which I'd also recommend but tbh everyone's seen 'em.)

Cockneys vs Zombies (http://youtu.be/YQkYWWJGl6w), 2013: Possibly the best-worst zombie comedy ever. A gang of somewhat useless East End bank robbers set out to rescue Grandad (and his mates) from zombies.

The Cottage (http://youtu.be/1jTxHwJZeu8), 2008: Dark comedy horror. Two ineffective blokes kidnap a crimeboss' daughter and retreat to a cottage in the country to await her ransom delivery. But strangers aren't welcome 'round these parts...

Severance (http://youtu.be/TVwBVm7yVE4), 2006: Another dark comedy horror. A group of colleagues who all slightly loathe each other are sent on a company retreat/team-building weekend to Hungary. Shoulda stayed on the coach.

And of course, Trainspotting and Shallow Grave are always worth a rewatch. (And Night Watch too, though not a Britflick, shhh)

Korean cinema: Man From Nowhere, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, The Host

Banlieue 13 (District 13) is a very entertaining French action film with some of the greatest parkour scenes ever. Got a terrible remake recently (Brick Mansions, last movie to have Paul Walker in it, I think.).

2009 Lost Memories is a South Korean/Japanese sci-fi action film. It's based on an alternate history in which SK is still under imperial Japanese rule. It also involves time-travel.

The Good, The Bad, The Weird. Well. The movie it's based on is pretty obvious from the title. It's a... South Korean western flick taking place in Manchuria and it's just pretty damn hilarious. You need to like movies like this, though.

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