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Gimme Your Favorite Subtitled Movie Or Foreign Flick
Posted by Jeunelle • 12/26/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: films, foreign films, movie, movies, subtitle, subtitles
"GOYA", Court Painter, Fell In Love with Cayatana, "The Duchess Of Alba"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=00W-Ojh5Zjw&feature=related
One of the best foreign films I've ever seen.
Amazing soundtrack from Roque Banos.
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Depends on what is your mother tongue to what is foreign to you, I speak a few languages.
Best movie ever I have seen was french and it is Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain. Also known just as "Amelie"
Also zwartboek, a Dutch film then remade in English "Black Book", Dutch version is a lot better!-
@Shy...I saw Amelie and loved it. Great film
Glad you listed a few others I haven't seen but I'll look to rent them. Thanks
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ohh I know loads and loads! need more ideas?
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@Shy...always... make it juicy
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I vote for Amelie, too!
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well my absolute favorite movie is Akira Kurosawa's Ran (1985). It is a adaptation of Shakespeare King Lear set in feudal Japan. The most beautiful movie I have ever seen. I like quite a few other foreign and subtitled flicks though.
Some of my other favorites are: M (1931), La Stradaa (1954), The 400 Blows (1959), Fitzcarraldo (1982)-
@rickbman...Oh my God. I love RAN also Seven Samurai
"The Banquet" was another set on Shakespeare's Hamlet
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbQMF-xF8JU&feature=related
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awesome, another Kurosawa lover.
Seven Samurai is also one of my favorites. I got to see Ran in the theater about a year ago and it was so beautiful.
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@rickbman...Agreed. Films here in the states just don't do it for me.
It just doesn't seem to appeal to my senses or speak to my soul.
The shoot em up & kill em all technique here in the states has failed me. -
Well while I do like movies from everywhere, here in the states included, I will say that most of my favorites fall outside of the Hollywood mainstream. Hollywood does manage to get it right occasionally though.
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@rickbman...agreed there are some great films in the states here such as "Citizen Kane" and a bunch of other great ones, though they always seem to have to meet some planned agenda.
Then again what today doesn't have some planned agenda?
"Throne of Blood" ...saw it and loved it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT3AiGXTTAM&feature=related
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Seven Samurai
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNqQXC8Tv8U
The Emperor and the Assassin....brilliant movie and another of my favorites.
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The original black & white (French) version of Diabolique. Scary stuff!-
DeadRooster...never saw this one but I will rent it. Looks good.
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There is one scene in that movie that I guarantee will make your hair stand-up.
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@DeadRooster..I can't wait to see it.
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The Samurai X movies.-
@voodooKobra...Samurai X....trust and betrayal
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiY4hH6Bfb4
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Hero
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du0drHLIr68&feature=related
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAmerZ71Wo8&feature=related
Loved the part where they are both in the middle of battle yet they have time to hear the blind man play.
Beautiful how the water drops off the blade of the sword, to the amazing fight scenes.
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The Empress and the Warriors
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybg2n4TzVnY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_H2mCqMuo4
The Empress finished him off....death in the throat. OUCH -
Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon
another great one filled with deception.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_AazdcJdTM&feature=related
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"Apocalypto" or "Kung Fu Hustle" but I am really not a big fan of reading during a movie; it should be one or the other, not both.-
Kung Fu Hustle was hilarious
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvgqOJkGt2A&feature=related
www.youtube.com/watch?v=td3g5Yy-lVM&feature=related
Apocalypto I liked.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=20jzO7U6kWg&feature=related
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Kung Fu Hustle is a great movie!
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A little to much pepper pepper???
I am glad Mel Gibson used real life Indians as actors for a change.
What an improvement.
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I loved Kung Fu Hustle!
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Como Agua para Chocolate
Like Water for Chocolate-
@rileycentral....great movie.
Como Agua para Chocolate
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_u2gbvxS1A
Like Water for Chocolate
www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6MXhemCOIY&NR=1
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Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OxQ-2gR1DU
House of the Flying Dagggers
awesome fight scene showdown in this movie, two men fighting the love of one woman
and in the end none will have her but one will hold her heart.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq6ZULHV89Q&feature=related
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The Mystery of Rampo had some weird erotic scenes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=215e8T_I5SQ
Also Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr-8A23KQgI
Scent of Green Papaya "Bad Ass Little Boy" was kinda funny
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Onl1wU3cyuI&feature=related
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The 400 Blows...I wrote kind of a review of it here: yogaforcynics.blogspot.com/2008/08/kind-of-movie-review-1-400-blows-1959.ht...-
[wrong thread -- oops]
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@drjay1966..this is one I haven't seen...thank you I will rent it.
Also I am reading over your blog..thanks for the link.
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The 400 Blows is really wonderful... one of my favorite flicks as well.
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I'm hopeless at choosing favorites, but two I liked best this year were "Egg" and "Tricks". Here's a dreadfully dull blog post that explains: markstoneman.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/filmfest-dc/.
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@markstoneman...awesome thanks for the link, checking it out.
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I really liked the film "Malena" and "Beautiful Life"... both I believe are Italian?-
ceo08....Malena I saw....brilliant
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BfJIVw80rU
Beautiful Life I haven't seen as yet.
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Pan's Labyrinth (en espanol) was really really good. Incredibly artistic, and a good story to boot.-
@skwguitar...Pan's labyrinth I haven't seen but everyone who saw it liked it or so I heard.
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Pan's Labrynth: incredible movie!
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Black Orpheus is another favorite of mine...the little girl was so cute
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best hands down
Roshomon-
Oh my Gawd...you love Roshomon too. Yes one of my favorites
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1X6pF-R9W6g&feature=related
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Run Lola Run was another good flick
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta1Sn6MtC9w-
Run, Lola Run--the way I saw it, it was great....
What's that one like if you're not really wasted? -
I love all of Tykwer... Winterschlaefer, Der Krieger und die Kaiserin
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I liked those French Jeunelle movies: Jeunelle, Jeunelle 2, Goodbye Jeunelle, Jeunelle in Rio....
...or was that Emmanuelle?-
Shhhhhh don't exploit me here, especially if there's no money in it for me.
I liked tu mama tambien
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Y Tu Mama Tambien!
That's one of my favorite movies ever--I think Alfonso Cuaron just set out to see if it was possible to make a teen-sex movie that was beautiful, intelligent, and heartbreaking...and he succeeded.... -
I guess he did succeed...glad to hear you like it too.
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AND Gael Garcia Bernal is in it... so of course it is good:)
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Anyone seen it yet? This is so funny it's gonna kill you...
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@GFG...No I haven't seen this one either.
Maybe I can rent it this week since I'll be renting a few for the weekend.
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Some of the movies mentioned here, Amelie, Run Lola Run, Pan's Labyrinth and Y tu Mama Tambien are on my list. In addition, I love Luis Buñuel movies, That Obscure Object of Desire and The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and Exterminating Angel are three movies I love. Delicatessen is also great by the same director as Amelie.-
@cumba...very nice...Exterminating angel I haven't seen so I'll add this one to the watchlist . Thanks
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There was a Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode inspired by the Exterminating Angel...though I'm guessing that very few viewers picked up on that....
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Lots of movies were actually copied from the east and made into american films.
Could it be that the west just isn't original enough sometimes?
Yojimbo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ypptcSd9mE
Gohatto - sword fight scene
I enjoyed this one a lot, especially when the tree was cut down.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nRby-wfO6Y&feature=related
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Abrejo los ojos...great film
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeLZgDf2Ce0&feature=related
Raise the red lantern
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vivaoPZhIH8
The color of paradise
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VViiJNVAnoA
Children of Heaven
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I think Drjay would like this
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ypptcSd9mE-
@GFG...I'll let you know what I think of this movie when I rent it tomorrow.
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I love The Passion of The Christ.
I'm not a religious person but I love the brutality of the film, it makes the whole Jesus thing seem much more believable. It's originally in the form of Arabic used by the people who would have been around during Jesus' time apparently, but it has English subtitles.-
@sisterofmercy....this movie had me in tears through the whole film.
The brutality was right on and it sure had me balling.
Imagine going through all that for people that don't even appreciate what you're trying to do for them. The burden of Christ. I prefer it to any other Christ film too.
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Ran - it is Shakespeare with samurai.-
@bradhart...Yeah we loved Ran one of the greats for sure.
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Ran has just dropped to my number two slot. I watched Let the Right One In last night and it was everything a vampire story should be.
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@bradhart - Let the Right One In was beautiful... I loved it.
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I did not know that this was a vampire story. must go see.
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@freeatlast - definitely get out and see Let the Right One In. It is a wonderful film and more people need to get out and see it.
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"Let the Right One In", I haven't seen it yet but hey now is a good a time as any to rent it.
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has anyone else read the novel Let The Right One In? I just finished and well I am sure it reads better in sweedish that the translation, but the story is still really good with a lot you don't get in the movie.
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hmmm havent been much of a movie goer, so off the top of my head
Spanish
Talk to her Habla con ella
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNdzcTZUW54
French
The Chorists
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEpIcCfVtOk
The Big Blue
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I loved Paprika amazing film
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every Jean-Pierre Melville film I've seen, I've loved.
Diva by Jean-Jacque Beineix
Amelie
Anything by Almodovar
The Double Life of Véronique ("La double vie de Véronique") by Krzysztof Kieślowski (Polish and French.) -
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I LOVE Diva!
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I'm a big fan or world cinema and the last really good film I watched was a Japanese samurai film called "Seppuku" absolutely brilliant film, as good if not better than Kurosawa's samurai epics.-
Seppuku
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikf51phH26Q&feature=related
Samurai Seppuku
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcO4MMzdYE8
Kobayashi - Seppuku
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk-xztZ7rEU
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It's the Kobayashi one, masterpiece.
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AKIRA -
Though i watch movies very rare still i have a short list of mine favorite
Amelie
Frida
Life is beautiful
Gone with the wind
The hours
Moulin rouge-
prachijoshi....very nice choices
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
House of Flying Daggers
Kung Fu Hustle-
arwentaylor...Yes I saw all 3, great choices
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El Laberinto del Fauno-
filosofia.....This one I haven't seen yet but thanks for the reminder.
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Can't beat the Italian films of the 1960s. Gina Lollobridgada and early Sophia Loren. Great stuff. The sub-titles were sufferable.
Even the Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns were artfully done--with near-perfect lip-syncing.-
Jackpayne....Gina Lollobridgada and early Sophia Loren is a classic.
Loved those movies and she is a great actress.
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'La Femme Nikita' Directed by Luc Besson, Starring Anne Parillaud.-
exit2013...Yes saw it and loved it.
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Easy peasy! It's Howl's Moving Castle! You can read about it here...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howl\'s_Moving_Castle_(film)-
boytrotters...I haven't seen this one but thanks for the link, I'll be renting it on DVD soon.
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"city of god"
and no doubt...
"spirited away"-
SnackosaurusRex...I saw City of the Gods...great film
Spirited Away I haven't seen, thanks for the link.
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My all-time favorites are real classics:
The Seven Samurai
Black Orpheus
Casablanca - oh wait, that's in English isn't it?:)
Seriously, I watched Black Orpheus again not long ago, on the new disc put out by the Criterion Collection, and I was just blown away. The movie seemed so timeless, it was hard to believe it came out in 1950. And the skies over Rio de Janeiro were so blue - that's what life was like before pollution.-
jan4insight....YES I saw all of those...great films, nice choices.
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My fav is Roberto Benigni in "Life Is Beautiful"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y9aKqawdUQ
Watching him win the Oscar for his performance was wonderful too.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cTR6fk8frs-
@Sylvia....this is one I'll rent because I haven't seen it as yet but everyone keeps telling me how good it was. They must be right.
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Come on up to Toronto I'll make us a big bowl of popcorn and I'll watch it with you..... make sure you pick Siralmo, we cleaned the coffee table for him
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Sylvia....heck no my Grandmother will want to come with me and I sure ain't putting up with her snoring in the back seat again. Once was enough torture for me.
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4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. That movie will knock you on your butt, I highly recommend seeing it.
My film review blog: whattowatchbeforeyoupay.blogspot.com/-
@Austinpandb....thank you for the recommendation, I will rent it later.
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I haven't read this whole thread so this might be mentioned, but have you heard of "Old Boy"?-
Arnous81....if this is a movie, no I haven't seen this one yet either.
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Yeah It's a Korean movie.Very twisted.
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The Devil's backbone, it is the creepist friggin movie ever but addictive. I think there is an english version, but the spanish one is bad a$$-
EndlesslySheSaid....Sounds creepy but hey I look to rent it, thanks for the recommendation.
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oh I found and English trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHm_Me0CDC0
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But... All movies come subtitled in Finland... Except the Finnish movies of course.
But let's reverse that. My favourite Finnish movie is the Unknown Soldier. I doubt it would be much of interest to a non-Finn though. -
Shalom Bombay
the best link I could find quickly about it is nebrot.tripod.com/bombay.html -
Scent of a Woman (Al Pacino, Chris O' Donnel)
Silence of the Lambs (Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster)-
edgecrosser....are those movies subtitled foreign films????
I only see them coming up as american films.
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try this..sex is zero,chaser,holiday,7 days-korea,children of heaven-iran.brotherhood of the wolf-france.infernal affair,PTL,IPman-hong kong.oldboys-japan.nang nak,ongbak,tom yam goong-thailand.. -
The 400 Blows
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The Red Violin
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Being a horror freak - I would have to mention the likes of: Nightwatch, the grudge, haute tension - all good foreign films -
The Closet
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I always find I have to watch the originals before the idea gets snapped up and made into an english version. Sometimes the feel gets lost in translation.
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I also love Chinese swordplay films...Seven Swords and Hero are excellent.
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"After the Wedding"'by Suzanne Bier. Best "foreign" film I've seen in years.
From the past: Ikiru-Kurosawa
La Strada-Fellini
Wild Strawberries-Bergman
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