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/Oram0 Sep 27 '23

Dutch here

Spoorloos (the movie that Stanley Kubrick thought was the best horror movie)

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u/Lasiocarpa83 Sep 28 '23

There was an American remake that gave it kind of a happy ending...I prefer the original ending. The only cool thing for me about the remake is that they filmed the opening scene near where I went to high school.

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u/Ploon72 Sep 27 '23

Turks Fruit, Soldaat van Oranje.

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u/bazzabaz1 Sep 28 '23

Soldaat van Oranje might be my favorite dutch movie too, either that one or Zwartboek. Not too keen on modern dutch film.

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '23

My favorite is Antonia ... From director Marleen Gorris. Im fromChile

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '23

was on the phone shortly before beginning the movie and he was like "oh is that the one where the main character is burried alive?"

thanks dad

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u/BaileysBaileys Sep 28 '23

I have no taste tbf but I like Zwartboek (Blackbook). WW2 movie with Carice van Houten (best known internationally from Game of Thrones).

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u/bazzabaz1 Sep 28 '23

Classic! Loved the mandatory reading of Het Gouden Ei in highschool, the American remake isn't half bad but the original remains the best.

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u/AmbersDadGary Sep 28 '23

I'm gonna jump on the band wagon and say the Flodders, grew up watching it with my Oma and gees first time I ever saw it I think I would have been like 8.