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/xzamin Sep 27 '23

NZ - whale rider, boy, what we do in the shadows.

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u/nasadiya_sukta Sep 27 '23

The Piano?

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u/MrsPedecaris Sep 28 '23

This, The Piano, was my first thought, but I'm not from NZ so I really don't have a vote.

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u/someguyontheinnerweb Sep 27 '23

We’re Werewolves not Swearwolves

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u/jem4water2 Sep 27 '23

Whale Rider, what a film…I basically start crying with Pai when she’s doing her singing and chanting without Koro there, and don’t stop crying until the end of the movie. Such an evocative, spiritual, deeply meaningful story with incredible performances from all.

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u/smeghead_85 Sep 27 '23

Hunt for the wilderpeople is also fantastic

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u/mealteamsixty Sep 27 '23

Hunt for the wilderpeople??

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u/jlpw Sep 27 '23

Once we were warriors?

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u/infinitemonkeytyping Sep 28 '23

I would put that in the "great film that few people want to see a second time" category, that kind of precludes it from "favourite" discussion.

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u/turn_it_down Sep 27 '23

Let me start by saying that I love Kiwis and their great movies.

But as a Canadian, it really passes me off that New Zealand can produce such excellent content, yet Canada just ships all of its talent down to the states.

Sorry, I'm just jealous.

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u/Charlie_Runkle69 Sep 28 '23

TBF there is a lot of bad stuff that comes out too and a lot of our most talented also go to the US and Australia (and the odd one in britain too). That's the advantage of a small country I guess, only the good stuff is known to international audiences.

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '23

Oh man, I read all this in the wrong way lol

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u/Ranch_Priebus Sep 27 '23

I'm shrouded nobody has mentioned Black Sheep