Your favorite non-English movies

Soul Plane

Gegen die Wand

El secreto de sus ojos

Another vote for Raise the Red Lantern

Coming Home (Gui lai)

Perfetti sconosciuti (Perfect Strangers)

Kaybedenler Kulübü) (Losers' Club)

12 (Russian film)

Gordos

Grupo 7

Canibal

Crna mačka, beli mačor (Black Cat, White Cat)

La Jeté (though to be fair that was actually a silent film); Das Boot; Diabolique. Least favorite: Last Year at Marienbad.

Forgot Cronos!

Europa, Europa

Au Revoir Les Enfants

Y Tu Mama Tambien

Blue, White and Red, the “three colors” French trilogy.

Pan’s Labyrinth.

R9 The films were in French but the director is Kieślowski from Poland.

Farewell My Concubine

Diva

Les Enfants du Paradise

Least favorite, absolutely hated: The White Balloon

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

The 400 Blows

R9 OK. It’s still non-English, yes?

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Camila, Woman on the Verge..., Cinema Paradiso, Wedding Banquet, Amores Perros, The Lives of Others, Incendies, A Royal Affair, City of God

I know it is a bit "twee," as the British would say, and the French where I live get annoyed that it is their most well-known relatively recent movie among Americans, but I adore Amelie. I could watch it over and over, and love the score.

The part where she walks with the blind man and describes everything to him always chokes me up. "Mary!" I know. ;)

Malena with Monica Bellucci

Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959) directed by Alain Resnais and starring Emmanuelle Riva

Steam:The Turkish Bath 1997

Cachorro/Bear Cub 2004

Ridicule: Probably the best onscreen depiction of the dysfunctional dissipation at the Court of Versailles, which led directly to the French Revolution.

Vivre sa Vie: My favorite of the French New Wave films. Anna Karina is gorgeous and tragic as the naive prostitute Nana.

a number of movies with Gaspard Ulliel.

Les Parapluies de Cherbourg and Indochine

Smiles of a Summer Night

Jules and Jim

The Exterminating Angel

Diva

Ran and The Seven Samurai

The Fourth Man

The Lives of Others

If the Raise the Red Lantern fans have not seen Ju Dou. I highly recommend it.

Cinema Paradiso, 400 Blows, Au revoir les enfants, Tie me Up Tie Me Down

Les Demoselles de Rochefort (Young Girls of Rochefort)

Smiles of a Summer Night

Le Million (wonderful early musical comedy, more a comedy with music)

Umbrellas of CHerbourg

La Strada

400 Blows

Stolen Kisses (probably the funniest sequel to the "400 Blows" Antoine Doinel character)

Shoot the Piano Player

Jules et Jim

Young Girls of Rochefort

Walk On Water

The Skin I Live In

Maria Full of Grace

KM.0

Central Station

That Man from Rio ("Indiana Jones" was partially stolen from this) - great fun film with Jean-Paul Belmondo and Francoise Dorleac

I remember enjoying a lot of Lina Wertmuller films from Italy years ago, especially with Giancarlo Giannini

The Last Metro

Small Change - Truffaut film with tales of children - rather enchanting

Donkey Skin - Jacques Demy's fairy tale somehow involving the avoidance of incest - w/Catherine Deneuve

Lola - Jacques Demy's sort of prequel to Umbrellas of Cherbourg -- not a musical, in b&w, but feels like a musical - with Anouk Aimee

Day for Night (originally "La nuit American")

Black Orpheus

Nights of Cabiria ("Sweet Charity" is based on this)

The Seventh Seal

Tokyo Story - rated one of the best films ever - it's quite moving indeed

Letting it hang out.

Plenty of Gerard Depardieu movies where he let it all hang out too (when he was cute)

Babette's Feast--I think it was in Danish if I'm not mistaken with English subtitles. That movie is what movies SHOULD be.

Loved most of the mentioned above....

Almodóvar: "Law of Desire" and "All About My Mother" and "Talk To Her." Truffaut: "Femme d'à côté" Fassbinder "Maria Braun"

and so many....

R31 - is that a scene from ‘The 400 Blows’?

Diva

Scent of Green Papaya

Hero

Chungking Express

El Amor Brujo

Y Tu Mama Tambien

Fanny and Alexander

Almost every country produces exceptional films. It's terrible that they get so little coverage in the states unless they are shown at Cannes or nominated for the Oscars.

Babette's Feast.

Diva

Zazie Dans Le Metro

A Nous La Liberte

Kamikaze Girls

Like Water for Chocolate

Beau Travail

Eat Drink Man Woman

Irreversible

High Tension

Battle Royale

Come Undone, with its luscious full frontal twink nudity and buttfucking.

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands

Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Beauty and the Beast - Jean Cocteau version

Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster

Jeanne Dielman (?)... very long movie, without dialog, featuring a woman's daily, repetitious menial tasks... then does something heinous. Somehow, it was fascinating.

Aida - version with Sophia Loren and Lois Maxell (Miss Moneypenny from the James Bond films as Amneris) - they're dubbed, but what visuals!

Lois Maxwell, that is

In the Mood for Love, Happy Together, All About My Mother, Volver, Au Revoir Les enfants

Oh yes, how could I forget Seven Samurai and The Lives of Others (which had one of the best endings I've ever seen)

Skits oof Franik.

"Men" - German comedy about two guys who trade lives

Woman In The Dunes... about a man and woman living in a sand pit, held hostage by the villagers.

Glorb

Amarcord - another Fellini

Mediterraneo - won Best Foreign Film Oscar

La Cage Aux Folles. Although the American version, The Birdcage, with Robin Williams and Gene Hackman was good, I think the original French version had the edge.

Another vote for Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Sleep Tight (Mientras Duermes)

Trainspotting

Holy Motors

Y Tu Mama Tambien

Rififi

Amelie !!!

Santa Sangre

The Devil’s Backbone

Children of Paradise

The Lives of Others

Blue

The Lovers of Pont Neuf

Metropolis

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Berlin Alexanderplatz

The Scent of the Green Papaya

Happy Together

2046

Chungking Express

Seven Samurai is wonderful. The Conformist is also great. Diabolique as well. I get why people wouldn't like Last Year at Marienbad, but I thought it was fascinating and it was interesting to see where Kubrick seemed to pick up certain visual cues for "The Shining." It also has a moment of unexpected horror it that I found absolutely terrifying. "Weekend" is also fascinating if not light viewing.

Far less highbrow, but I love the 1970s thrillers from Italian directors. Always beautiful cinematography, beautiful fashions, beautiful architecture and beautiful people being murdered in astonishingly ludicrous ways. And by the time you manage to say "But he couldn't - she couldn't.. " they've done it again. "Woman in a Lizard's Skin" is particularly effective.

If I can suggest an animated film, "Spirited Away" is charming.

A Nous La Liberte

More love for Chungking Express, In the Mood for Love and Babette's Feast.

The French version of Beauty and the Beast. Was Wings of Desire primarily non-English. It's been so long since I've seen it, I can't remember. I think the sequel was mostly in English and that's why I'm getting it mixed up?

Amarcord

The Bicycle Thief

Let the Right One In

Seven Samurai

Tokyo Story

Day for Night

Yojimbo

Gojira

REC

"Jean de Florette" and "Manon of the Spring" - 1986

These two French films starring Yves Montand should be seen one after the other.

Manon is the sequel.

To Forget Venice - two gay couples, one male, one lesbian, try to come to terms with an older relative's terminal illness - Italian but starring Swedish actor Erland Josephson who worked with Ingmar Bergman a lot. Nominated for academy award. I love that thing though it rambles a bit, but that's what a lot of cinema verite films do. I love the palpable grim ambience - the "realness."

Una Noche (2012). I love my tear-jerkers!

Diva

Amelie

Touchez Pas au Grisbi

La Dolce Vita

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

The Seven Samurai

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

City of God

Pather Panchali

Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam

Billu

For pure kooky trash, Visconti's The Damned.

Oops, forget R68, I just remembered The Damned was in English. Part of its odd creepiness was that it was in stilted English.

Lust, Caution

Relatos Salvajes (Wild Tales)

Les Chansons d'amour

Amelie

La Vita e Bella

Ivan the Terrible Parts I and II Yojimbo Babette's Feast Jean de Florette

(Apologies for lack of spacing)

Alphaville, La Dolce Vita, Presque Rien, Nikita, Der Himmel Über Berlin

There are many more.

Well I guess Rules of the Game is on everybody's list but it was so obvious it wasn't worth mentioning.

8 1/2

Grand Illusion

Festen (Denmark)

The Maid (Chile)

Le Prenom (France)

The Family Friend (Italy)

Elena (Russia)

Ida (Poland)

The Secret in their Eyes (Argentina)

Confessions (Japan)

Boomerang Family (South Korea)

The Garden of the Fitzicontinis

literally thousands, OP. Impossible to choose one or just a few.

Has no one mentioned Central Station? My all time favorite.

But since we're here: i just watched Lucrecia Martel's "La mujer sin cabeza" (The Headless Woman). I loved it. One of those movies that keeps fucking with you for days. It was produced by Pedro Almodovar, but it's not (a huge not) an "almodovarian" movie in any shape or form. Highly recommended for DL cinephiles.

Stray Dog, High and Low

A Very Long Engagement

(Jodie Foster notwithstanding)

Another for the Rochefort Girls and Diabolique, the best mystery ever made.

Wings of Desire

Indochine

The Dresser

King of Hearts

Tatie Danielle

The Dinner Game

Yossi & Jagger and the sequel, Yossi

My Beautiful Laundrette

God's Own Country

R85 at least a few of those are in English....?

I can make a list, but more than any other, Ma Vie en Rose.

The uglier types on DL would complain and roll out some anti trans rhetoric. But I don't think it's about being trans per se. It's rooted in feeling like you're in your own world as a child, which I think many people can identify with.

Sorry, R86. I read "foreign" rather than "non-English."

Sorry in advance for my less than refined taste, but,

Train to Busan (South Korea) Zombies on a Train! I was lucky enough to see this in a theater and I'd love to see a 'making of' documentary.

Blue, L'Élégance du hérisson, el secreto de sus ojos, the Millenum series (the girl with the dragon tattoo), Amelie.

Wedding banquet

The French movie BPM.

Fanny and Alexander -- the best!

Jean De Florette, Manon des Sources. Cinema Paradiso. Seven Samuri, Ran, Rashoman. Babette’s Feast (I remember when Ebert and Siskel reviewed this movie on their PBS show - they searched for the words to describe its wonder.) The Seventh Seal. Metropolis. Aaaaaaand - my all time favorite - Laila, 1929 silent movie. Robert Osborne introduced it on TCM. I never knew about racial divides in of all places - Scandinavia!

Purple Noon

Black Book

Osseionne. Obsession (Italian)

Train to Busan

My Life As A Dog

Fox and His Friends

Breathe

Fuck me all nite long

Oro Plata Mata

That's it? I thought this thread would go to 500 easy.

R102, DL has been taken over by Philistines.

Rocco and His Brothers, Visconti

Nights of Cabiria

Amarcord

La Dolce Vita

My Life As a Dog

My Vie En Rose (the one with the gay boy and the amazing grandma not the piaf one.)

Blow-Up

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgesoise

Belle De Jour

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Y Tu Mama Tambien

All About Mother

Volver

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Eat, Drink, Man, Woman

8 1/2

most of you seem stuck in 1970

R106 On another interesting note, what are your favorite non-english movies?

A Man Called Ove is not all-time great but it sure snuck up on me and should be required for all bitter queens on DL

Like Water for Chocolate was a delightful piece of oddity.

Diabolique, Diabolique, Diabolique. No better mystery has ever been made. Hitchcock tried so hard to get it.

Violette. Isabelle Huppert plays a little tart who poisons her parents.

Cría Cuervos

El espíritu de la Colmena

El Sur

I have to echo Diabolique! I was maybe 11 or 12 at the time and had just started learning French in middle school. Our French neighbor, who had been helping with my homework , saw that it was playing at our local library. This was small town Connecticut in the mid 80's. I was ENTHRALLED. At the edge of my stupid plastic seat. I picked up bits and pieces, and I was already a burgeoning black and white movie lover, but WOW. That movie just amazed me. I had never even grasped the concept of watching foreign films before that, my family never did. I was my first exposure to something different. A door was opened.

Entre Nous (1983)

Lucky Lukas.

“Relatos Salvajes (Wild Tales)“

Amazing collection of stories.

Life is Beautiful And Osama

Children of Paradiso

Cinema Paradiso

Any Fellini

Any Kurosawa

Any Bergman

Anyone who thinks Iranians are Islamic terrorists should see the films of Asgard Farhani.