The most recent The Count of Monte-Cristo from France is an absolute work of art:
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Victoria, German film from 2015 Excellent heist thriller.
I'm cheating a bit but the French movies Asterix: Mission Cleopatre and La Grande Vadrouille (1966) are both criminally underappreciated in the English speaking world.
El Hoyo (En: The Platform)
It's also in English but i watched it in Spanish.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
A journalist who had a stroke and got locked in syndrome wrote a memoir about his life before and after. He had to dictate it by blinking his left eye. This is the film adaptation of the memoir.
Under Sandet (danish)
A film about a group of 14 y/o war prisoners that have to clean up the mines on the beach, and about the officer that guards them.
Departures (2008)
Den Brysomme Mannen (2006)
君の名は。 (your name.)
Also my favorite overall movie.
It is available in English but I prefer to watch it in Japanese. Without subs.
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Mars Express. Very good French anime.
Im Westen Nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front).
There are some historical inaccuracies, sure, but it is an amazing movie showing the horrors of trench warfare and the careless nature of the commanding officers in the First World War. It leaves you with a sense of dread, something war movies should do more often imo.
Cure, it's a Japanese psychological horror/thriller film. Honorable mentions also include Pulse (also Japanese) and Incubus (in Esperanto).
Upvote for a great question that garnered some great foreign film recommendations!
Riki-Oh, hands down the most unintentionally hilarious movie ever made.
Probably Libertarias.
There are so many foreign language films I love. Several have already been mentioned here, but I'll add a few that haven't been:
- Rashomon - Kurosawa, 1950
- Umberto D. - de Sica, 1952
- Amarcord - Fellini, 1973
- Many films by the Dardenne brothers, in particular: The Promise (1996) and The Son (2002).
- Many films by Kore-eda - perhaps his most well-known one being Shoplifters (2018).
Shall We Dance?
The Raid: Redemption.
Some great titles here! I'm adding C'est arrivé près de chez vous, inexplicably retitled Man Bites Dog for the anglophone market.
Edit: just had to add a few more... Сталкер (Stalker), Titane and Mandibules.
Tag - 2015
It's a gory as hell japanese horror flick that I had to watch after seeing a gif of the bus scene (tw: death/blood)
I’m a fan of Angel-A by Luc Besson.
Idk if it fully counts cause I watched the dubbed version but Your Name is amazing.
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Redline by studio madhouse, it's eye porn if you love animation.
Not a movie, an episode of What If - Kahhori Reshaped the World? Disney worked with the Mohawk Nation. I don't understand a word of it but it is musical.
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A Very Long Engagement (MMM) (french)