The Spanish films, Spirit of the Beehive and Cria.

France: L'Auberge Espagnole; He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not; Amelie

Italy: Bread and Tulips!!

No one has mentioned:

Ma Vie en Rose (france)
Amor es Perros (mexico)
The Crime of Father Amaro (mexico)
La Mala Educacion (spain)-I love all Almodovar movies
Atame / Tie me up Tie me Down (spain)
The Chorus (france)
Nine Queens (argentina?)
Maria Full of Grace (columbia/mexico)
Carandiru (brazil)
Dirty Pretty Things (england w/audrey tautou)
He Loves me he Loves me Not (france)

I just had netflix sent me my whole rental history the other day. Perfect timing! Great thread I love foreign movies.

Most of my favorite films come from Iran:
The Wind Will Carry Us
Taste of Cherry
Leila
Crimson Gold

Other favorites:
Maria Full of Grace (Columbia)
Salaam Bombay (India)
Diva (France)

I'm currently waiting for "Respiro" (Italian, filmed on the island of Lampedusa) to arrive in the mail and am hoping it becomes another favorite! I'm also excited to start trying some of the movies named in this thread; many of them sound very good.

"King of Masks" Chinese
"The Diva" French (can't find it anymore :'(
"Cosi" Australian

Two Irish films that are really good Omagh and The Boxer. They are wonderful and sad.
AA, I also injoyed The Unberable Lightness and Europa, Europa.
Yipper, it's time for my to rent Mediterrano again. I love that film.

viaggio, if you mean, 'Diva," by Jean-Jaques Beineix, you can buy it for $29.95 or you can choose to rent it.

www.facets.org

They have a huge inventory.

The Battle of Algiers -- an important political film as relevant today as it was 40 years ago.

Sorry about my mistakes. Next time I'll proof read my message.

I can't resist.....

few more:

<b>No Man's Land</b> - a brillaint, modern, anti-war movie. I'm not totally against war, when necessary, but this movie does show the ridiculousness of it, at least in most cases... The movie is about the very recent Serbian/Bosnian conflict.

and now for the lighter fare....

<b>Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels</b>

and the follow up

<b>Snatch</b>,

both directed by Madonna's husband Guy Ritchie.

Extremely funny/violent and just pure entertainment.


and I agree with many above, any Almodovar movie is fine with me.

<b>Das Boot</b> - classic!!!

any movie with Juliette Binoche is ok with me. Some favorites are:

as already mentioned above - Three colors - <b> Red, White and Blue</b>, all 3 directed by Kieslowski, a genious Polish director, and <b>Damage</b>, a British movie. Another beautiful but very sad love story.

I'm sure I'll remember few more before this thread goes away.....

A few Favorites:
Jules and Jim,
Celine and JKulie go Boating,
400 Blows,
Cocteau's, Beaty and the Beast and The Eternal return,
La Balance,
Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud,
A very curious Girl,
La Strada,
Nights of cabria,
Juliet of the Spirits
The Postman,
Rashamon,
The Throne of Blood
oh just too many!!

&quot;Downfall&quot; (&quot;Der Untergang&quot;, 2004 - the last days of the Fuhrerbunker, with Bruno Ganz as a disturbingly believable Hitler.

Ingmar Bergman's &quot;The Seventh Seal&quot; and &quot;The Virgin Spring&quot; made a big impression on me as a callow youth - likewise Luchino Visconti's &quot;Rocco and His Brothers&quot; (&quot;Rocco e i suoi fratelli&quot.

And does anyone remember Sergei Bondarchuk's mammoth 8-1/2-hour &quot;War and Peace&quot; of 1968? de Mille would have been green with envy.

Visconti's, &quot;The Conformist&quot;
&quot;The Garden of the Fitzi-Visconti&quot; (sp?)

AAFrequentFlyer, I love Guy Ritchie movies!!

Finally watched <u>Bleu</u> week before last, <u>Blanc</u> last week (hubby didn't like the ending because it had no resolution but I loved it - the best movies don't have resolution, such as Gone with the Wind) and either tomorrow night or Saturday night I'm watching <u>Rouge</u>!

I thought one of the funniest was Tais Toi with Gerad Depardieu and Jean what's his name. A real hoot, and teenagers would love it also. Ma soeur and moi was also very good, it was on at this years french film festival in Sydney. Funny but sad, about two sisters (obviously) who are so different.

&quot;The Garden of the Finzi-Continis&quot; (for Cigalechanta)

&quot;Cinema Paradiso&quot;..watch it AFTER you watch &quot;Christ Stopped at Eboli&quot;

Absolutely any and everything by Almodovar, especially &quot;Talk to Her&quot;

&quot;A Month by the Lake&quot;

&quot;Motorcycle Diaries&quot; - based on young Che Guevara travels when he and his friend Albert bought an Old Norton motorcycle to see Americas. Quite a long film but very touching. Actually more a documentary

I agree about &quot;Motorcycle Diaries&quot;..really wonderful film whether you agree with anyone's &quot;political&quot; philosophy or activities or not.

Another 150_ answers, from 2002-2005, wth a focus on Italian films. There re other threads like this as well.

Best wishes,

Rex

I suppose it all comes down to what you call “foreign”. Technically my favourite foreign film is Goodfellas. But if we mean foreign language (ie non English)…..

La belle du jour (this film made a LASTING impression on a young boy at an English boarding school)

Battleship Potemkin (it really is as good as it’s reputation suggests)

Triumph of the Will (despite it’s horrible subject matter)

The Seventh Seal (pretentious? Moi?)

Napoleon (the 1912 one with three screens)

La Cage aux Folles (can anyone else think of funny foreign films?)

Seven Samurai (although I prefer the westernised version)

Battle Royale

M (aka Metropolis) – still visually striking

Nosferatu – still scary

Betty Blue.

La Femme Nikita

La Dolce Vita – Sigh.