Recommend some Non-American Films and Expand Ted Striker's Horizons

[Monk]

Speaking of Germany, Ted, given your affection for German pop culture you might want to see Goodbye Lenin. The premise is pretty original - an East German woman strongly devoted to the socialist party and state falls into a coma and wakes up after the collapse of the state. Being told by doctors that the slightest emotional stress could have dire consequences for his dear mother, our young hero has to pretend for her sake that East Germany is still up and running.

I have to say it's far from being as good as my first suggestions - it's probably even mediocre, actually - but it's light material that you might want to see anyway, especially if you're aiming to expand your horizon with regards to what's popular elsewhere (the Germans apparently loved this movie, but then it's their story after all).

Besides, chances are you haven't been spoon-fed with as many East meets West clichés as us Europeans.

[Zkribbler]

Shall We Dance? (Japan) Currently being remade by Hollywood with Richard Gere, who undoubtedly will butcher it. See the original!

[Provost Harrison]

Hey Monkspider, did you know that Clockwork Orange was filmed in Thamesmead, which is about 4 or 5 miles from here (the awful concrete jungle )

[Mercator]

Kopps - A really funny Swedish comedy. The police department in a small Swedish town is about to be shut down since there isn't any crime. To save their jobs, they decide to create a little crime themselves.

And now for a bunch of Japanese movies... I'll let IMDb do the talking:
The Twilight Samurai
Spirited Away
Unagi

Hana-bi
Kikujiro no natsu
Dolls
Zatôichi

These last 4 are by Takeshi Kitano... They're the only ones I've seen by him, but they're all among my all-time favourite movies.

[Buck Birdseed]

Haven't seen Kopps, but Josef Fares's previous film Jalla Jalla was good fun. It was probably one of the warmest, most sympathetic comedies I've ever seen, a total feel-good flick despite being rather shoddily made.

[Verto]

Lola Rennt!

[molly bloom]

Fanny and Alexander

Beau Travail

Kwaidan

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Les Diaboliques

Roma, Citta Aperta

The Vanishing (European version, natch)

Utu

Salaam, Bombay

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Mephisto

Fear Eats the Soul

City of Lost Children

Death in a French Garden

Went the Day Well?

A World Apart

Cronos

Pixote

Jesus of Montreal

[Fake Boris]

Have you seen Dogville?

[Kaak]

y tu mama tambien

is a great mexican film

[monkspider]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
Hey Monkspider, did you know that Clockwork Orange was filmed in Thamesmead, which is about 4 or 5 miles from here (the awful concrete jungle )

Wow, no kidding? That's very cool. Next time you're there, give a shout-out to my fellow droogs.

[Pekka]

y tu mama tambien is pretty good..
La Haine (french)
umh.. there are LOT of films out here that are good . I can't even start listing.

Also Marc Dorcell has interesting films.

[Gangerolf]

France: Taxi, Taxi 2 & Taxi 3.

(You kind of have to like cars to enjoy them)

[Shi Huangdi]

What's with this interest in foreign stuff, Ted? The only types of film they like in Eurocom Land is gay porn and films of beheadings.

[our_man]

Ireland

Intermission (starring Colin Farrell as a Dublin scumbag)
I Went Down
The Commitments
The Snapper

[Ted Striker]

Thanks for the info everybody.

Some of them are unavaliable, including Oldboy, but I'll track them all down!