About foreign movies........

[Ponce]

I just saw a film from India with subtittles that was fabulous.......now Ballywood is the number one movie capital of the world and not Hollywood.

The movie?...."Sarkar".....free in "hulu.com"

China is also getting up there with their special affects........remember amigos that the world doesn't revolves around the US........learn about others.

[Korbin Dallas]

One thing I always enjoy about foreign flicks is that they don't always have a happy ending, like US films. Although sometimes it can be depressing, but it's a nice change from predictability.

[TheNocturnalEgyptian]

Someone else that makes a lot of good foreign flicks is Thailand. Some of their stuff can be hokey, but a lot of their humor translates well.

I really liked the movie "chocolate" released in the US as "FURY". It is about an autistic girlt hat can learn kung fu by watching it. She ends up taking on the whole Thai Mafia at the end...she learned from Tony Jaa, famous from the movies Ong Bak

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi1110508313/

[Apparition]

Many foreign films haven't been infected with the cliched and unsurprising directing that has become complacent in most Hollywood films.

That's the main reason for why I usually never watch their films.

A good foreign film that I'd recommend is Ne le dis ÃÂ* personne (Tell No One) directed by Guillaume Canet. It's based on Harlan Coben's novel of the same title except that it has a different ending and Coben even claimed was better than the novel itself.

[EE_]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1rQo8yr5Ag

[Ponce]

I just finished with "Ichi" the blind sword man.........he was the hero to many but in real life he was a drunk and drug user, many times they had to stop the film for a couple of days till he was sober once again......but still, one of my favorites ones.....about 16 films in the series.

The same as "The Seven Samurais" and "This Earth Of Mine" (American)

[Gaillo]

I would guess that EASILY 2/3 of the films I bother to watch any more are foreign... I'm so disgusted with Hollywood, Disney, and the associated BS that I just don't have much interest any more in their product.

I would say that, other than the great works of Ridley Scott, Michael Mann, and just a TINY handfull of other U.S. directors, my top-50 films of all time (according to me! ;D) have been predominantly foreign in origin... with most of the true GREATS being either French, Chinese, Indian (bollywood), Italian, Japanese, or German in origin.

[Occamsrazor]

Italian movies are the best IMHO, French cinema is also fantastic.

[InsurgentWolf]

German movies are really well done, but really depressing. Happy endings are rare, I'd say.

Some Japanese action movies are really good because of the realism. I remember watching some Japanese gangster flick on TV and I noticed something was really strange with the movie (in a good way) and it seemed somehow strangely realistic. Then I realized it was because there was no soundtrack in the background and because it wasn't a typical bullets-flying-in-all-directions movie.

Japanese movies in general are kinda strange and sometimes depressive though. You need to be in the right mood to watch them.

[wildcard]

An excellent German film : Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others) it can be seen online for free.

[Hatha Sunahara]

I've been watching Bollywood films for neary a decade now. I particularly like the films where the music is done by AR Rahman. Ones like Dil Se, Bombay, KanduKondein2, Indian, Roja, Mudhalvan, Meenaxi, Khadalar Dinam, and Guru. One particularly good one was Murder with music by Anu Malik. Every 10 or fifteen minutes, the drama is punctuated by music and dance numbers, usually involving scores of dancers. The music of the films are the popular music of India.

India has dozens of local languages, like Hindi and Tamil and Malayalam, Mahrati and Bengali. So, to get along, they all speak their local language plus English, at least the educated ones do. English is their second language so they speak a lot of English in their films. Many of their leading actresses are winners of some beauty contest like Miss Universe, or Miss World. These include people like Aishwarya Rai, Sushmita Sen, and Bipasha Basu. They have good 'playback singers' who dub the singing voices in the movies. People like Hariharan, Udit Narayan, Lata Mangheshkar, Kavita Khrishnamurti, Alka Yagnik, even AR Rahman does his own singing.

They do a lot of remakes of American films. There is a remake of Body Heat called Jism. Sarkar is their version of The Godfather. I really love their movies. After Bollywood the next best foreign films come from Britain, or they used to. Films like the Monty Python movies. Or by British directors like Terry Gilliam.

I also enjoy good Hollywood movies.

Hatha