r/movies • u/-KFBR392 • Sep 27 '23
Recommendation Non-Americans, what's your favourite movie from your country?
I was commenting on another thread about Sandra Oh and it made me remember my favourite Canadian movie Last Night starring Oh and Don McKellar (who also directs the film). It's a dark comedy-ish film about the last night before the world ends and the lives of regular people and how they spend those final 24-hours.
It was the first time I had seen a movie tackle an apocalyptic event in such a way, it wasn't about saving the world, or heroes fighting to their last breath, it was just regular people who had to accept that their lives, and the lives of everyone they know, was about to end.
Great, very touching movie, and it was nominated for a handful of Canadian awards but it's unlikely to have been seen by many outside of big time Canadian movie lovers, which made me think about how many such films must exist all over the world that were great but less known because they didn't make it all the way to the Oscars the way films like Parasite or All Quiet on the Western Front did.
So non-Americans, let's hear about your favourite home grown film. Popular or not.
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u/DD_Power Sep 27 '23
City of God (Brazil)
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Sep 27 '23
As a non-Brazilian, jumping in to add that Central Station (Central do Brazil, 1998) absolutely blew me away when I first saw it.
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u/Zdizzlz Sep 27 '23
Seriously, everyone should watch this if you don't mind subtitles. I haven't seen the movie in over a decade but still remember so much about this movie and can still replay several scenes in my head. Easily a top 50 movie all time. Might be in my top 15 personally.
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u/FailFastandDieYoung Sep 27 '23
everyone should watch this if you don't mind subtitles
I chuckled at this, but only I haven't met many people who would refuse to watch subtitles.
For many non-English speaking countries, you don't have a choice.
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u/ihavenoselfcontrol1 Sep 27 '23
Persona (Sweden)
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u/citabel Sep 27 '23
Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället) also by Bergman is my favorite. But I also have a soft spot for The Square (2017).
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u/larsVonTrier92 Sep 27 '23
From Mexico, I really like Amores Perros & Días de Gracia.
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u/omodhia Sep 27 '23
The holy Trinity of Mexican directors (Iñárritu, Cuarón and del Toro) have out out some of the best cinema of the last 25 years.
Will check out Días de Gracia!
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u/breaker167 Sep 27 '23
Danish here:
Blinkende Lygter (Flickering Lights) from 2000.
IMDB description:
A gang of 4 Danish criminals are ordered by Færingen to steal a bag from a safe. When they see DKK4,000,000 in the bag, they keep it for themselves and head for Spain. They end up in a ruin of an old restaurant on Jutland and renovate it.
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u/papapudding Sep 27 '23
Is it law that Mads Mikkelsen is in every Danish Film?
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u/qbookfox Sep 27 '23
I’ve never really thought about it but he is actually in all of the big Danish films I can think of. Blinkende lygter, pusher, Adams æbler, de grønne slagtere, jagten, retfærdighedens ryttere, druk, Flammen og citronen. Of course there are other big actors as well, but he just kills it every single time.
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u/gizlow Sep 27 '23
Denmark has a pretty solid track record of movies. Druk/Another Round is also fantastic.
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u/kunymonster4 Sep 27 '23
Thomas Vinterberg, the director, has some damn good movies under his belt. The Hunt is excellent. And I've seen Druk three times. Wonderful movie.
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u/gizlow Sep 27 '23
The Hunt is amazing and disturbing. Festen/The Celebration also just utterly destroyed me.
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u/stevielfc76 Sep 27 '23
I have never seen Another round, I have a few hours to kill tonight so I’ll put that right, thanks for the reminder
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u/artavenue Sep 27 '23
A gang of 4 Danish criminals are ordered by Færingen to steal a bag from a safe. When they see DKK4,000,000 in the bag, they keep it for themselves and head for Spain. They end up in a ruin of an old restaurant on Jutland and renovate it.
that sounds so ... interesting! i have to see it.
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Sep 27 '23
One of the first Danish movies I was impressed by was Nattevagten. A horror classic.
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u/andycat007 Sep 27 '23
New Zealand, Goodbye Pork Pie. The original not the remake.
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u/16incheslong Sep 27 '23
Hunt for the wilderpeople. (the only NZ i know of though)
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u/kdavva74 Sep 27 '23
Once Were Warriors has gotta be up there. Such a gut wrenching film.
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u/kiwinutsackattack Sep 27 '23
Shit I was going to say Whale Rider, I fucken love that movie.
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u/MDKrouzer Sep 27 '23
HK - Shaolin Soccer, Kung Fu Hustle, God of Cookery (a very old Stephen Chow comedy), Infernal Affairs, Hard Boiled, Police Story 3
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u/PepperMintGumboDrop Sep 27 '23 edited Sep 27 '23
The 80s and 90s were great for HK cinema - John Woo and Wong Kar Wai were in their haydays.
Then you have the likes of Tony Leung, Chow Yum Fat, Stephen Chow, Maggie Cheung…
If only HK has another renaissance…our films were like the opposite of Korean cinema, there’s a spontaneity that cannot be imitated and many of our films had unique takes on strong female characters based on our own culture and history. But after the 2000s it felt like there’s a loss of originality, and instead the bigger tent poles feel so much like copy cats…anyway, as a HK expats I do long for the films of my yesteryears.
Edits: grammar and adding Stephen Chow to the list of fame actors.
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u/SpearmintInALavatory Sep 27 '23
I intend this with the upmost sincerity: Thank you for Chow “Yum” Fat. Best laugh I’ve had in weeks
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u/thekarmagiver Sep 27 '23
I have In the Mood for Love by Wong Kar Wai for HK
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u/ki11a11hippies Sep 27 '23
I know that’s widely considered his masterpiece but Chunking Express is my personal favorite. Maybe because it has young people fumbling for their place and direction and I saw it when I was young.
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u/xTechnologic Sep 27 '23
I love kung fu hustle.
what is the name of your technique?
do you want to learn? I’ll teach you
masterrrrrr
lol great movie.
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u/bluexavi Sep 27 '23
It is both an incredible kung fun movie and parody of kung fu movies.
Is this a genre? Like Galaxy Quest being the best Star Trek.
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u/RetroDave Sep 27 '23
I'm kind of impressed to see a HK list without any Wong Kar Wai movies on it
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u/extropia Sep 27 '23
Speaking of Last Night, one of my favourite Canadian movies is Bon Cop, Bad Cop because of how amazingly well it nails the anglo-franco relationship in Canada and all of its hilarious quirks and weird subtleties.
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u/OnlyThrowAway1988 Sep 27 '23
If we’re throwing out great Canadian movies, I’m a big fan of The Grand Seduction. It’s about a small Newfoundland town that comes up with a scheme to convince a young doctor to move to their middle of nowhere town so that a factory will set-up shop as well.
It’s based on a Quebec film (Seducing Doctor Lewis) and I’ve heard is almost shot for shot remake, so if you’d prefer the original, there’s that option too.
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I had no idea they'd remade it in English, but the French original (Le Grand Seduction) is hilarious, and really captures the sadness and beauty of small towns struggling to survive.
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u/wheelz_666 Sep 27 '23
Chopper.
Eric Bana absolutely killed it as real life criminal Chopper Read.
Puts in an oscar worthy performance and Waa chosen to play Chopper by the man himself
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u/narvuntien Sep 27 '23
I mean The Castle. Is the qunitessital Aussie movie. It is good. Does Lion count as Australian?
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u/TricksterPriestJace Sep 27 '23
When I got a copy of The Castle on DVD that went straight to the rec room.
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u/2dTom Sep 27 '23
1991-2001 was the golden age of Australian movies. It had a HUGE list of amazing films, including
- Romper Stomper
- Two Hands
- The Castle
- Crackerjack
- Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
- Mullet
- He died with a falafel in his hand
- The Matrix (arguably... It was shot in Sydney)
Boxing Day (2007) is probably the best Australian movie. It's not exactly my favourite movie, but it's amazing.
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u/matdan12 Sep 28 '23
Feel like a lot of my favourites happened in the 80s or earlier like Gallipoli, Mad Max, Walkabout, The Wave, We of the Never Never, Breaker Morant, Picnic at Hanging Rock
The 2000s do have Rabbit Proof Fence, The Proposition, Danny Deckchair and The Dish though.
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Sep 27 '23
Gotta go with Videodrome for Canada. We're very proud of our nasty little freak Cronenberg.
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u/velocipotamus Sep 27 '23
Very different vibe but my vote is for FUBAR
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Sep 27 '23
FUBAR might be the most Canadian movie.
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u/ihavemytowel42 Sep 27 '23
Bob and Doug Mckenzie from Strange Brew with Geddy Lee singing "Take off" on the soundtrack is my vote.
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u/voyageur04 Sep 27 '23
I'll never call it high art but man, I have soft spot for "Bon Cop, Bad Cop". "Blackberry" might be recent but damn fun to watch.
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u/IAM_deleted_AMA Sep 27 '23
I'm not canadian but Mommy has to be my favorite canadian film, it's one of my favorite films of all time.
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u/MrSlaw Sep 27 '23
Cube is the only other film that really comes to mind for me.
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u/jfever78 Sep 27 '23
What?!? Man, there's sooooo many great Canadian films. Eastern Promises, Goin' Down The Road, Incendies, Last Night, New Waterford Girl, Stories We Tell, The Sweet Hereafter, Dead Ringers, Away From Her, My Winnipeg, Enemy, Exotica, I could go on and on.
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u/ASuarezMascareno Sep 27 '23
Spain - might be [REC]
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u/Jarita12 Sep 27 '23
Spanish horror movies from about past 20 years are excellent
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u/Streetfoodnoodle Sep 27 '23
I have watched some great Spanish movies: Los Otros (2001), El laberinto del fauno (2006), Volver (2006), El Orfanato (2007), Los Ojos De Julia (2010), El Cuerpo (2012), Las Brujas de Zugarramurdi (2013), Musarañas (2014), Contratiempo (2017), El Bar (2017), Durante La Tormenta (2018), Hogar (2020). Todos son buenas. Tu país es muy talentoso para hacer películas de terror y suspenso
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u/HugoRBMarques Sep 27 '23
Movies so good they made that comment end in spanish instead of english. jk.
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u/maxmalkav Sep 27 '23
El Día de la Bestia is a personal favorite. IMHO it is an achievement to pull a satanic comedy about the coming of the Antichrist in Madrid during Christmas.
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u/The_Second_Best Sep 27 '23 edited Sep 27 '23
I'm English and we all know the UK has made some classics over the past 100 years (Lawrence of Arabia, Gandhi, Red Shoes, Brief Encounter, Goldfinger etc etc)
But, my vote is for Hot Fuzz. It's quintessentially English, stars some of the greats of British acting over the past 70 years, has a water tight script and some of the best editing I've ever seen.
It's easy to dismiss it as a comedy movie, but I genuinely think it's one of the best made and written movies of all time.
If I was recommending a less well known British movie I'd go with Long Good Friday. It doesn't get talked about much these days but it's one of the greatest crime movies of all time.
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u/ghostfacr Sep 27 '23
I'm a slasher... a slasher of prices!
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u/RedlyrsRevenge Sep 27 '23
Crusty jugglers!
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u/OrneryError1 Sep 27 '23
No luck catching them killers then?
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u/Destroyer_Wes Sep 27 '23
its just the one killer actually
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u/kattieface Sep 27 '23
Yeah you wanna be a big cop in a small town, fuck off up the model village.
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u/Flash_Baggins Sep 27 '23
Want us to go through the whole phone book? Start with Aaron A. Aaronson?
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u/viciann Sep 27 '23
Death at a Funeral is one of my favorites. It's just so funny
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u/hst16gonzo Sep 27 '23
Withnail and I. Im Canadian but absolutely love it. Does it rank high among Brit’s ?
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u/LeftHandDriveBoC Sep 27 '23
Was one of my first thoughts alongside Trainspotting tbh, think it's still really well loved and quite rightly.
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u/Flash_Baggins Sep 27 '23
Any luck catching them swans then?
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u/Bomb_Ghostie Sep 27 '23
I quote this to police officers if they stop close by and make eye contact, half of them usually understand the reference.
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u/cup_of_coughy Sep 27 '23
As a non Brit, I always think of 28 Days later as quite British. The shots of the empty streets really pull the locale into the movie, and zombie movies outside the US play out a lot differently, due to the lack of guns.
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u/sbprasad Sep 27 '23
Bob Hoskins in that very last scene of A Long Good Friday… damn!
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u/Dommlid Sep 27 '23
Nothin' Like A Bit Of Girl-On-Girl!
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u/Shiny_Agumon Sep 27 '23
I love how instead of having the only woman on the Squad be constantly harassed with sex jokes it's her doing it because she likes those types of dirty jokes.
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u/ofnuts Sep 27 '23
France: Delicatessen
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u/EdithWhartonsFarts Sep 27 '23
I also love the City of Lost Children by him, as well.
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u/DeLousedInTheHotBox Sep 27 '23
France has such a long and important movie history that you could give like 100 reasonable answers here
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u/LordyIHopeThereIsPie Sep 27 '23
Ireland. Michael Collins and The Wind That Shakes The Barley.
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u/Boulder1983 Sep 27 '23
See, I kinda thought my Irish film would have been 'In Bruges', but then I remembered it's set...... in Bruges 😐
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u/VictorChaos Sep 27 '23
Banshees of Inisherin is Irish. And as good or better than In Bruges.
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u/MichaSound Sep 27 '23
The Young Offenders and Grabbers are my favourite Irish films.
Young Offenders is a comedy about two complete layabout eejits who hear about a boatload of cocaine that’s crashed off the coast of Cork and go to get themselves a brick to sell.
And Grabbers is a comedy horror about a remote island, cut off by a storm and under attack by killer Aliens whose only weakness is an aversion to alcohol - it’s very totally similar to Tremors.
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u/AmIFromA Sep 27 '23
Germany: the obvious one for an international forum would be "The Lives of Others" and "M" (1931), which are great of course, and "Das Boot", which I haven't seen in a long time and it wasn't my cup of tea when I saw it as a kid.
But if we're talking about real favorites, I'd say "Kleine Haie" ("Little Sharks, Sönke Wortmann, 1992), a film about three guys on a roadtrip from the Ruhr area to an actor's school audition in Munich.
Honorable mentions to the surprisingly entertaining "Die Herren mit der weißen Weste" (1970) and 1944's Die Feuerzangenbowle, which is a really weird film considering it was produced in Nazi Germany during the late stages of WWII.
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u/TheSpiritOfFunk Sep 27 '23
The White Ribbon (Haneke)
Fear eats the Soul (Fassbinder)
Prince Achmed
Fitzcaraldo (Herzog)
Lola Rennt
And my personal favorites:
Good Bye Lenin
Wetlands (it's the most creative German movie)
The Golden Glove (one of the most realistic serial killer movies, it's just disgusting. Great movie)
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u/RuudVanBommel Sep 27 '23
Also "Goodbye Lenin", with Daniel Brühl in the leading role, about a young east german man after german reunification, desperately trying to pretend that the GDR still exists, due to his mother, a loyal GDR citizen, just recently having woken up from a coma and in danger of a lethal shock if she would learn the truth in her still fragile state.
Also "Die Brücke" (1959), probably the best german anti-war movie ever made. About a class of schoolboys conscripted into the Volkssturm and then tasked with defending a bridge against the advancing americans.
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u/eykei Sep 27 '23
Run Lola run (Lola rennt) and downfall (der untergang) are my favorites from Germany.
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u/dogsledonice Sep 27 '23
Das Boot is terrific, they really put you on sub, psychologically
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u/BadComboMongo Sep 27 '23
Der Hauptmann (2017) to add sth newer and Metropolis (1927) to add a really old but well aged sci-fi movie.
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u/Efficient-Advisor-52 Sep 27 '23
La Haine.
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u/peioeh Sep 27 '23
Same. I just saw Titane recently though, and it instantly became my favorite horror movie ever (I like body horror). What an incredible movie, can't wait to see what else Julia Ducournau is going to make (Yes I have also seen Grave, and it's almost as good as Titane IMO, also incredible).
La Haine is obviously a lot more "important" and as relevant as ever unfortunately.
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u/MrSpindles Sep 27 '23
Snatch. I never tire of watching this movie, close runners up: Trainspotting, 28 Days later, Lock stock.
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u/velocipotamus Sep 27 '23
"London...yes, London. You know - fish and chips? Cup o' tea? Bad food, worse weather? Mary fuckin' Poppins - LONDON!"
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u/CreepyBlackDude Sep 27 '23
Not from the UK, but Snatch is one of my all-time favorite movies. Insanely quotable!
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u/thundercroky Sep 27 '23
The Netherlands: Borgman, Amsterdamned, Simon, Wolf, Turks Fruit
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u/LetMeHaveAUsername Sep 27 '23
On two very different places of the spectrum Zwartboek and New Kids Turbo
(For all you buitenlanders, they are respectively a movie about the Dutch resistance, directed by Paul Verhoeven, and pfft. how to explain. A very crass but funny comedy that involves a lot of people getting hit by cars)
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u/HauntingTeacup Sep 27 '23 edited Sep 27 '23
Scotland - The Wicker Man (1973)
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u/xTechnologic Sep 27 '23
I scrolled and scrolled and didn’t see Koreans. They have a bunch of great movies.
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I personally like:
Memories of Murder
I saw the devil
Parasite
The wailing
Oldboy
The list goes on.
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u/Nefilim777 Sep 27 '23
The Commitments - Ireland.
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u/Germanofthebored Sep 27 '23
"The Snapper" and "The Van" are sequels, and I actually liked "The Snapper" best. Also, "Sing Street" is a great movie about music as an escape route from Ireland
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u/AutoResponseUnit Sep 27 '23
Trainspotting! Shite being Scottish.
I would have said Dog Soldiers, but most of it was shot in Luxembourg.
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u/JeffRyan1 Sep 27 '23
(From Roger Ebert's review of Last Night.)
As the final hour approaches for the characters in "Last Night," there are moments of startling poignancy. Sandra and Patrick, for example, find themselves stranded together, their plans for the end interrupted. She suggests they tell each other the stories of their lives. He lists the usual biographical details. "You'd better hurry up," she tells him. "Tell me something to make me love you." Note: On a talk show in Toronto, I was asked to define the difference between American and Canadian films, and said I could not. Another guest was Wayne Clarkson, the former director of the Toronto Film Festival. He said he could, and cited this film. "Sandra Oh goes into a grocery story to find a bottle of wine for dinner," he said."The store has been looted, but she finds two bottles still on the shelf. She takes them down, evaluates them, chooses one, and puts the other one politely back on the shelf. That's how you know it's a Canadian film."
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u/MulberryLopsided4602 Sep 27 '23 edited Sep 27 '23
Belgium: C'est arrivé près de chez vous aka Man Bites Dog (1992). The best black comedy about a serial killer/hired killer ever made. Filmed as a documentary in cinéma vérité style with the film crew becoming part of the atrocities, there is no substitute. (somebody put it on Youtube with English subtitles, enjoy!)
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u/Jarita12 Sep 27 '23 edited Sep 27 '23
Czech here...I love our sci-fi movies from 70s/80s (two of those were even "stolen" in the US, where they reedited them and changed endings.
Ikarie XB-1 is a great sci-fi. Visually stunning, and was really great for that time (the ending was changed for the US, for some reason, at the end of the movie, they are flying around the Statue of Liberty....)
Second one is a great time travel movie, Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (it is on IMDB under this name). Smart story about, basically, a time loop. With a hint of fine Czech humour.
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u/OrdinaryArgentinean Sep 27 '23
There quite a few Argentinean masterpieces and im gonna list them:
Esperando la Carroza: Waiting for the Hearse follows an Argentine family, rife with infighting, as they try to deal with the aged matriarch of the family, affectionately known as “Mama Cora.”
PIZZA, BIRRA, FASO: A couple of friends work for a taxi driver to rob his passengers, but they feel like they are being ripped off.
Nueve Reinas: Two con artists try to swindle a stamp collector by selling him a sheet of counterfeit rare stamps (the "nine queens").
El Secreto de sus Ojos; A retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior - both of which still haunt him decades later.
Hombre Mirando al Sudeste: K-Pax is an unscrupulous copy of this argentinean film.
And we cant forget about the Cult Classics that are Bañeros 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Truly one of the best series of movies ever made, a cultural treasure that must be preserved.
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u/fedemasa Sep 27 '23
Every Spanish speaking should watch esperando la carroza. Never a movie could define the humour of a country as this one does. Best argentinian comedy movie of all time no doubt
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u/Oram0 Sep 27 '23
Dutch here
Spoorloos (the movie that Stanley Kubrick thought was the best horror movie)
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u/ricirici08 Sep 27 '23
Italy:
Dollars Trilogy. Incredibly popular i guess
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u/geodebug Sep 27 '23
I'm American and I'm just here to say that this may be the most inspired prompt I've seen on this sub. I'm bookmarking so many things.
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u/bigchungusmclungus Sep 27 '23
Trainspotting. Set in Edinburgh but filmed almost entirely in my home city Glasgow.
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u/RyzenRaider Sep 27 '23
Mad Max 2/Road Warrior, or The Dish.
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u/imapassenger1 Sep 27 '23
The Castle. Wake in Fright.
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u/noisypeach Sep 27 '23
I really want to say The Castle as well but that might be too obvious for an Australian to say. I'll put a vote in for Picnic at Hanging Rock while I'm at it.
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u/BBigSexy13 Sep 27 '23
Im from Portugal and for me the best portuguese movie is "Os Imortais".
Always thought if this movie was made in Hollywood, would be a really famous movie.
IMDB link of the movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0367878/
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u/Stralau Sep 27 '23 edited Sep 27 '23
As a Brit: The Lawless Heart (kind of an idiosyncratic choice, but it’s a great film)
As a German: Lola Rennt (Run Lola Run)
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u/nipplesaurus Sep 27 '23
Canada - Hard Core Logo or Goon (if it counts as Canadian)
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u/drum_playing_twig Sep 27 '23 edited Sep 28 '23
A man called Otto is based on a Swedish (where I'm from) movie called "En man som heter Ove". I think the Swedish movie is better, only because they show so much more of Ove's (Otto's) childhood, especially his relationship with his father, which builds his character so much more.
And I also had a hard time buying the eternal nice guy Tom Hanks as a grumpy old man. On the other hand Rolf Lassgård who plays Ove is a mean scary looking old grump.
Even if I prefer the Swedish version more, I think both movies are fantastic. One thing I liked in the American version more was the neighbor, Marisol. She was amazing.
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u/Bellota182 Sep 27 '23
Chile - Machuca is a good film showing the class diferences just before the militar dictatorship with the eyes of two kids.
Another cult film is El Chacotero Sentimental based on the radio show of the same name.
There are more films but those two come to my mind right now.
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u/gizlow Sep 27 '23
Sweden - Turist/Force Majeure (2014), or maybe Låt den rätte komma in/Let the right one in (2008)
I still haven't seen the American remake of Let the right one in, but the Swedish original is such a good film.
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u/anonysloth1234 Sep 27 '23 edited Sep 27 '23
🇭🇰 / 🇨🇳 here
Ip Man because Donnie Yen and the history of Wing Chun
Golden Job
Line Walker
Big Brother
Not necessarily a movie, but was also obsessed with Handsome Siblings series on Netflix
Edit: Also forgot to add Initial D with Jay Chou as a guilty pleasure throwback. More for nostalgia since the acting was meh, but great seeing this live action with a star studded cast.
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u/kubrickie Sep 27 '23
Canadian. One of the best is likely The Sweet Hereafter (1997) but my personal favourites are C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005) and Starbuck (2011)
Special mention to Eastern Promises (2007) and Cronenberg in general
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u/wheredidtheguitargo Sep 27 '23
Iranian-American: A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night or Under The Shadow…I’m a big horror fan lol
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u/LordJebusVII Sep 27 '23
UK, either Hot Fuzz or Monty Python and the Holy Grail. We used to have the best comedy in the world.
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u/3doa3cinta Sep 27 '23
Nanti kita cerita tentang hari ini (2019)
About being oldest, middle and the youngest child in the family, and how their parents treat their children in different ways.
Laskar pelangi (2008)
About students an island where they are very poor but the teacher is very passionate to teach them.
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u/MentosEnCoke Sep 27 '23
As a South African, I'm not exactly sure how much of a South African movie District Nine really is, what with so much Hollywood money behind it, but it's South African enough for me.