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Best Foreign Language Movies

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  1. chelsea - over 100 years of history

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    Not exactly a massive foreign movie buff, but have seen my fair share.

    Notables off the top of my head -

    Old Boy
    Three Colours Red
    Das Boot
    City of God
    Cinema Paridiso
    The Raid
    Kung Fu Hustle
    Amalie
    Battle Royale
     
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    Pan's Labyrinth

    The film below is a really good film that many seem to have missed.

    Amores Perros

     
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  3. chelsea - over 100 years of history

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    Yeah seen them both and both good.
     
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    The Motorcycle Diaries is also good.

     
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    Amores Perros is worth a watch.
     
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    Pans Labyrinth,
    The Raid
    Girl with a dragon Tattoo (+the other 2)
    Battle Royale
    Ip Man
    Baise-Moi
    Night Watch
    The Orphanage
    The Devils Backbone
    Let the Right One In
    City of God
     
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    The lives of others- Cold War German genius.
     
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    Trainspotting
     
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    Sonnateen - Takeshi Nakano is the man <ok>
     
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    Theyre making a sequel
     
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    120 days of sodom, it's not a family film by any means but if your a die hard movie watcher it's a must.
     
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    City of God.
     
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    One of my favourites. <ok>
     
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    Crimson Rivers 1 & 2
     
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    I even struggle with the subtitles.
     
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    La gloire de mon pere, le chateau de ma mere.
    Manon des sources.
    Jean des florettes.
    Three French films I really enjoyed.
    Also Three colours blue and white.
     
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    A Prophet (Un prophete)
    Mesrine
    Rust and Bone:
    are 3 I've seen recently and are well worth seeing plus imo you can't go wrong with most of Pedro Almodóvar
     
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    <laugh>.

    Spot on sonny.
     
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  19. ManDingo 20"/20"

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    <ok>

    Outrage (Japanese)
    9th Company (Russian)
    Animal Kingdom (Australian)
    Che part 1 (South American)
    Tropa De Elite I & II (Brazilian)
    Red Cliff I & II (Chinese)
    Sin Nombre (Mexican)
    The Man from Nowhere (South Korean)
     
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    You're thinking of Sonatine and its Takeshi Kitano.

    See Outrage I & II.

    Both of them are good films by him. I'd probably rate the first one better than Sonatine.
     
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