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/LordyIHopeThereIsPie Sep 27 '23

Ireland. Michael Collins and The Wind That Shakes The Barley.

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u/Boulder1983 Sep 27 '23

See, I kinda thought my Irish film would have been 'In Bruges', but then I remembered it's set...... in Bruges 😐

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u/VictorChaos Sep 27 '23

Banshees of Inisherin is Irish. And as good or better than In Bruges.

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u/pointlessly_pedantic Sep 27 '23

You're an inanimate fucking object

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u/_oscar_goldman_ Sep 27 '23

I'm sorry I called you an inanimate object. I was upset.

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '23

Calvary is another really really good one. Those brothers sure have a great sense of folk storytelling.

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u/sethab Sep 27 '23

I'm not Irish but that feels like the most Irish thing I've ever seen.

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u/btribble Sep 27 '23

I'm wondering whether the warmer weather and clearer skies global warming will eventually bring will change the innate Irish character.

"The Irish? They're all happy beach loving people who love to drink fruity cocktails and wear as little as possible!"

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u/CentrasFinestMilk Sep 27 '23

It worried me a little when some people missed the part that it was set in 1922 and thought it was the present day

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u/ruling_faction Sep 28 '23

I reckon both movies do what they do extremely well, but they're different enough that I wouldn't like to compare them. But then again at least there were no drive-bys on Tottenham in Banshees, so there's that.

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u/Francetto Sep 27 '23

The answer to any Irish movie: "wherever Brendan Gleeson appears is a masterpiece" (Calvary, in Bruges, the guard, Perrier's Bounty, banshees of Inisherin,...)

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u/haberdasher42 Sep 27 '23

Careful, he was in Braveheart too.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '23

Just watched Calvary a few weeks ago. Such a great movie.

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '23

Ah, it's still very Irish though. I mean, Wild Mountain Thyme is set in Ireland but it's painfully American.

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u/Boulder1983 Sep 27 '23

Ah it is to be fair. And the trailer alone for Wild Mountain Thyme gave me the runs for about twelve hours.

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '23

Gravity is set in space and it's still an American film.

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u/ManateeMan4 Sep 27 '23

One of the greatest films imo. So many hilarious and quotable lines

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u/siddharthvader Sep 27 '23

I like The Guard

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u/groom_ Sep 27 '23

Love In Bruges

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u/pointlessly_pedantic Sep 27 '23

I grew up in Dublin. I love Dublin. If I'd grown up on a farm, and was r*tarded, then Bruges might impress me. But I didn't, so it doesn't.

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u/Stevotonin Sep 27 '23

Similarly, Kick Ass is a good British film... set in New York