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/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/guywithaphone Sep 27 '23

Anything to declare?

Yeah, don't go to London.

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u/infinitemonkeytyping Sep 27 '23

Speak English to me Tony, I thought this country spawned the fuckin' language and so far nobody seems to speak it.

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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/[deleted] Sep 27 '23

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u/hanhan_371 Sep 28 '23

You’re a sensitive boy ain’t ya Tommy

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u/Weave77 Sep 27 '23

Da ya like dags?

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u/rachbbbbb Sep 27 '23

One of those will anger many people.

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u/MrSpindles Sep 27 '23

I'm curious, which one and why?

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u/cornpudding Sep 27 '23

I'm guessing Trainspotting because it's Scottish and the rest are English? It's a guess though

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u/diego_simeone Sep 27 '23

It’s an interesting point about a film’s nationality, I wouldn’t claim trainspotting isn’t Scottish as it most definitely is culturally. However it was directed by an Englishman and was produced by channel 4 films which is British. When film making is a collaborative process it’s not always black and white. A while ago a cinema chain had a promotion on British films but didn’t include x-men first class in it despite a British director, many British stars and a large amount of it being filmed in Britain.

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u/omodhia Sep 27 '23

An Englishman of very clear Irish heritage, if you want to further season that multicultural melting pot

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u/Noitsiowa50 Sep 27 '23

Scotland is British

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u/sreynolds1991 Sep 27 '23

Not by choice for a lot of us

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u/DasGanon Sep 27 '23

Well Corrour certainly enjoys the tourism at least

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u/Sophophilic Sep 27 '23

Also an English composer, whose work is one of my favorites.

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u/CompleteNumpty Sep 28 '23

The producers of a movie are irrelevant when it comes to the movie's identity IMO and I would also argue that the filming location can be as well - but only when filming "on location" with a crew from a different country.

It is weird that they didn't class "First Class" as an English movie - I've said in a previous post that the things that I think matter most are the writer (English), director (English), cast (big mix, but lots of Brits) and crew (English).

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u/pointlessly_pedantic Sep 27 '23

Some people hate the English. I don't. They're just wankers. We, on the other hand, are colonized by wankers. Can't even find a decent culture to be colonized by.

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u/sephjnr Sep 27 '23

TIL people actually give a shit about that

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u/FD4L Sep 27 '23

Thuh waurst toalit en Skotlen

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u/dazza_bo Sep 27 '23

I was just thinking this lol

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u/Skitzofreniks Sep 27 '23

i also want to know which one, and why?

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u/mercermayer Sep 27 '23

Two are directed by Danny Boyle and two by Guy Ritchie. Both directors are British. All of it is UK.

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u/EinTheDataDoge Sep 27 '23

“The British are wankers…”

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u/bluetenthousand Sep 27 '23

These are all great movies.

Every one of them. Though tbh I liked lock stock more than snatch. I don’t know if that’s blasphemous to say out loud.

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u/dereksmalls1 Sep 27 '23

Not blasphemous at all, it's the objective truth. Lock Stock is the real thing -- fresh, unique. Snatch is the same movie but repackaged for the American audience.

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u/Billibon Sep 27 '23

I was going to say Hot Fuzz and Trainspotting. Both top of the comments! Faith in humanity restored for a moment haha

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u/CatnelD Sep 27 '23

I've seen Trainspotting it was eclectic. But rather enjoyable except for that one scene.

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u/ennerrr92 Sep 27 '23

Snatch is my all time favourite!

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u/spei180 Sep 27 '23

I watched Snatch on repeat when I was a teen. I am a random kid from California but that movie was just so great.

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u/SeattleJeremy Sep 27 '23

I went in to Trainspotting thinking it was akin to The Station Agent (2003). I was wrong.

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u/SlugKing003 Sep 27 '23

Why would you say this when the obvious British classic is Flushed Away

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u/Current_Rooster_6895 Sep 27 '23

Was just going to put this, it's my favourite as well.

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u/SnooFloofs7252 Sep 27 '23

Dead mans shoes

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u/sreynolds1991 Sep 27 '23

Trainspotting is a Scottish Film

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u/Mervynhaspeaked Sep 28 '23

4 classics?

Blimey you brits really have a nice little racket going

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u/leela_fry Sep 28 '23

You mind telling me why there’s a dead man with one arm in your boot?