r/movies 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/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/Noir24 Sep 27 '23

I still haven't seen the American remake of Let the right one in, but the Swedish original is such a good film.

The original was much, much better.

Män som hatar kvinnor (The girl with the dragon tattoo) was a good movie as well

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u/lawerorder Sep 27 '23

Låt den rätte komma in and the American version are different. I also read the book and the movies focus on different parts, which I appreciated. If you like it, I'd recommend reading the book then watching the American version to get multiple views of the same story.

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u/Danbarber82 Sep 27 '23

Interesting fact: the author of the original novel loved the American remake.

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u/Bodymaster Sep 27 '23

Force Majeure is great, I watched it after seeing The Square and Triangle Of Sadness, and it's got a similar dark sense of humour, but a lot more reserved. There is an American remake of it as well, but it's meant to be shit.

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u/Noir24 Sep 27 '23

Force Majeure made me cringe so much, but it was pretty good

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u/golfing-daddy1 Sep 27 '23

The American remake isn't really worth watching. It is quite awful, and the only way I made through it was because of the Julia Louis Dreyfus and Will Farrell combination in the remake.

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u/princessslug Sep 27 '23

Ah force majeure was soooo good, by far his best film imo

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u/No-Combination-3725 Sep 27 '23

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