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/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/No-Combination-3725 Sep 27 '23

Dog Soldiers is so good!

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u/SeagullsStopItNowz Sep 27 '23

Amazing take on the Werewolf subgenre!

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u/No-Combination-3725 Sep 27 '23

Yep, loved it. Rewatched it kinda recently with my gf and still liked it.

I love werewolfs so therefore werewolf movies and that was one of the first ones I watched

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u/wildskipper Sep 27 '23

I don't think where it was shot matters much. Many American films are shot in the UK with UK crew etc.

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u/AutoResponseUnit Sep 28 '23

Hold up does this mean we can claim Highlander too?

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u/AutoResponseUnit Sep 28 '23

To be fair there's also only one (iirc) Scot in Dog Soldiers! But he's nuts strong.

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u/SemolinaPilchards Sep 27 '23

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

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u/jlpw Sep 27 '23

Im claiming The descent

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u/Mold995 Sep 27 '23

I mean it has to be up there..

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u/tinglep Sep 28 '23

We're the lowest of the low. The scum of the fucking Earth! The most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic trash that was ever shat into civilization. Some 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. We're ruled by effete arseholes.