Favorite foreign language films.

[Darkwave]

What are your favorite foreign language films.
Just watched a few this past week and i really enjoyed them.

"Malena" with Monica Bellucci
Lina Wertmüller's "Swept Away" (1975) "not for everyone"
"Grave of the Fireflies" Japanese anime film from 1988

[Bitter Almonds]

[i]Malizia[/i] dir. by Salvatore Samperi
[i]La Dolce Vita[/i] dir. by Federico Fellini
[i]The Nights Of Cabiria[/i] dir. by Federico Fellini
[i]Solaris[/i] dir. by Andrei Tarkovsky
[i]The 400 Blows[/i] dir. by Francois Truffaut
[i]Oneamis No Tsubasa<

[design_femme]

"La Femme Nikita"
"Solaris" (Tarkovsky's version)

[Jimbo]

The Inner Circle (1991)
This one slips in under the wire as "technically" Italian.

Favorite line: [b]"I've done nothing wrong. I've had no contact with foreigners!"[/b]

[Quite Life]

Here is 3

1. Motorcycle Dieries
2. Hero
3. The Duel

[cubby]

Matador by Pedro Almodovar

[savethewave]

I like:

Seven Samurai
Tetsuo-The Iron Man
Ringu
Akira
Princess Mononoke
Diva
Seventh Seal
Pelle the Conqueror
Run Lola Run
Mephisto
The Bicycle Thief
Open City
Amarcord
Seven Beauties
Swept Away (original)
Ridicule
Amelie
On Guard/Le

[buffalochipz]

Day For Night--I LOVE this film. A funny, touching movie about making a movie
The Vanishing
Amelie
My Life As A Dog
Life Is Beautiful--Quite possibly my favorite film of all time

[Justj0hn]

Don't really have any faves but the ones I've very much enjoyed in the past and still stand out to this day are [i]La Femme Nikita[/i], [i]Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown[/i], [i]Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down![/i] and most recently [i]Battle Royale[/i]

[Panorama]

Camille Claudel
A Taxing Woman

[dcs84]

Babette's Feast, and My Life as a Dog. Some foreign films are atrociously overrated especially the Dogma drivel, and Three Colours Red.

[egg-roger]

[quote][i]Originally posted by savethewave</

I'm building a 12-foot wall video projector using the screen from an LCD monitor and an over

[buffalochipz]

[quote][i]Originally posted by kimiiii[/i]

This movie is fabulous in spoken English or with subtitles. It is soooo powerful. I saw it u

[nowhere girl]

I love Pedro Almodovar's "Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down", "High Heels", "Matador", and "Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown."
I also liked "Like Water for Chocolate", "The Double Life of Veronique", and "Dim Sum". In the early 90s, a local theater hosted

[edisonoside]

Amelie
Beauty and the Beast(black n white )
Betty Blue
City of lost children
Christian F
Delicatesen
Faust
The Hidden Fortress
Indochine
Institute Benjamenta
La femme Nikita
Leon
Wo hu cang long
Whale rider