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

[ajbera]

The Vanishing (original Dutch version, American version is shit). http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096163/

Man Bites Dog. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103905/

The Devil's Backbone. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256009/

Tampopo. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092048/

Uzumaki (really weird). http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244870/

[Nostromo]

I hope you haven't caught Stephen Soderbergh's remake of Tarkovsky's Solaris, because it's crap and will probably spoil the original for you. The original is the Soviet answer to 2001 and in my opinion a much greater film, well worth getting hold of if you like atmosphere.

Its not a remake of Tarkovsky's movie (unfortunately, I haven't seen it yet ), its a new adaptation of Lem's book. Maybe it's crap compared to Tarkovsky's movie, but if you're not comparing it, its decent. The photography, in particular, is very nice.

[Nostromo]

Originally posted by Pekka
y tu mama tambien is pretty good..

Ted won't like the ending...

[Monk]

Originally posted by 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.

Oh, come on, man.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by 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.

I can't see that being an American movie.

[Monk]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
Thanks for the info everybody.

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

Do keep us informed when you eventually explore some of those movies.

Ted Striker

[Nostromo]

I saw Ichi the Killer last night. If you're into gore, it's for you!

[Atahualpa]

If you like City of God you should also look into other spanish movies. I think the spanish cinema has some real great stuff.

In fact I am just comming from the newest Almodóvar which is called La mala educacion. It's pretty good!!
The rest of the Almodovar films I can recommend as well. Habla con ella (Talk to her) or Todo sobre mi madre (All about my mother).
Then there is Y tu mama tambien which is pretty good as well. It's a mexican road movie.
Another one is Lucía y el sexo. Real good one. I hope you don't get the censored version, because in some scenes you see a dick and censoring it would be stupid.

For some german war movie classics there is:
Das Boot
Cross of Iron (Steiner - das eiserne Kreuz)

An awesome french movie:
Amelie

Good austrian movie (though you probably don't understand the joke):
Poppitz

A very very heavy belgian movie. Takes really strong nerves to sit through, but is somewhat of a must see.
Man bites dog

Excellent italian one:
La vita è bella (Life is beautiful) by Roberto Benigni

A recent good german one, during the times when the berlin wall fell:
Herr Lehmann

[Q Classic]

[ http://koreanfilm.org ]

has lots of good ones.
my sassy girl (korea)
romantic comedy.

friend (chingu) (korea)
follows some friends over time. about gangsters.

memories of murder (korea)
amazing drama. set in the 80s, follows cops trying to find a serial murder/rapist. it's ****in' amazing.

untold scandal (korea)
dangerous liasons, shifted into 19th century korea.

my beautiful girl, mari (korea)
distinctive korean animation, blends cg and hand drawn well.

volcano high (korea)
kung-fu hogwarts. recently dubbed and on mtv

peppermint candy (korea)
see it.

joint security area (korea)
about the dmz, some nkoreans and skoreans being friends... through the dmz, and how it all goes wrong.

one fine spring day (korea)
how a relationship falls apart.

tampopo (japan)
the quest for the perfect ramen stand, among other things.

afterlife (japan)
it's about a waiting room, before you go on to eternity taking just one memory with you.

lola rennt (germany)

[Ted Striker]

Thanks again.

I just copied and pasted all of your guys' suggestions, and I would estimate that about 70% of the movies were available.

[Ted Striker]

This is what my queue looks like! I have about 4 more pages!

This should be enough movies to last for a year!


WORD UP!

[Q Classic]

yeah, from what i know of netflix, they have a lousy korean movie section.

[Nostromo]

Originally posted by Oncle Boris
Have you seen Dogville?

Tu devrais peut-être jeter un coup d'oeil à tes messages privés.

[Ted Striker]

Yeah, they have a section for each type of foreign film (Italian, French, Indian, etc.) but there was no separate section for Korean, there is just an "other asian" section.

[Kuciwalker]

I've seen Run Lola Run. It was... interesting