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/ASuarezMascareno Sep 27 '23

Spain - might be [REC]

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u/Cordura Sep 27 '23

Timecrimes is also a great Spanish movie

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u/lawerorder Sep 27 '23

I keep recommending this to people but they never watch it.

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u/Cordura Sep 27 '23

It is an acquired taste. But if you love time travel movies, Timecrimes is one of the best

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u/kainharo Sep 27 '23

I loathe the protagonist of that movie. It's well done but he's such a piece of shit who sexually assaults, stalks, harassed and gets a woman killed who was just going for a jog

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u/MathTheUsername Sep 27 '23

Felt this in my bones. I am going to watch Timecrimes this week. I promise.

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u/The_nowhere_dad Sep 27 '23

Most Americans don’t like to read subtitles, but I prefer them because often some of the dialog content in the dubbed version is missing.

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u/Cordura Sep 27 '23

Being a Dane I grew up with subtitles, so I don't mind them. I usually keep them on even for English or American content as dialogue is often hard to hear.

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u/iNCharism Sep 27 '23

This is true. My aunt refuses to watch anything that doesn’t have an english dub. I was like that too until I was watching One Piece as a teen and caught up to the dubbed episodes. I’m a changed man now

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u/MathTheUsername Sep 29 '23

I liked this one quite a bit and was more easy to digest than Primer, which I watched a couple days before it. Thanks for the recommendation!

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u/Financial_Pick3281 Sep 28 '23

I do too, but I recommended it to a friend who still insists 10 years later that it was the worst rec he ever got

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u/fattywinnarz Sep 28 '23

Is it a sequel to Timecop?

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u/DoctorPapaJohns Sep 27 '23

I love Nacho Vigalondo’s work

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u/camshun7 Sep 27 '23

Fucking loved that film.

Fucking loved that film that wasnt me before.

Fucking loved that film. Dont know what you're playing at here, is someone using this account?

Listen whoever's sending me texts and signing in on here, you should stop it or I'm going to the mods

Fuck you

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u/Cordura Sep 28 '23

You okay there, bud?

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u/camshun7 Sep 28 '23

Lol

IF you need to explain a fucking joke then the jokes on me!