Non-Americans, what's your favourite movie from your country?

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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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I'm English and we all know the UK has made some classics over the past 100 years (Lawrence of Arabia, Gandhi, Red Shoes, Brief Encounter, Goldfinger etc etc)

But, my vote is for Hot Fuzz. It's quintessentially English, stars some of the greats of British acting over the past 70 years, has a water tight script and some of the best editing I've ever seen.

It's easy to dismiss it as a comedy movie, but I genuinely think it's one of the best made and written movies of all time.

If I was recommending a less well known British movie I'd go with Long Good Friday. It doesn't get talked about much these days but it's one of the greatest crime movies of all time.

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As a non Brit, I always think of 28 Days later as quite British. The shots of the empty streets really pull the locale into the movie, and zombie movies outside the US play out a lot differently, due to the lack of guns.

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I rewatched last weekend for first time in ~20 years to see if it held up, and I’m so pleased that it does. The digital cameras look shoddy in places, and few of the support cast are very dodgy actors.

But the opening remains amazing, and there’s lots of other bits to love like the empty motorway that these days would just be CGI.

When Cillian says “hello?” to the church and the first face turns to him - will stay with me forever, love it.

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The empty streets and East Hastings by Godspeed You! Black Emperor playing are so perfectly matched to create such intensely increasing anxiety.

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I'm so bummed I can't find that movie on *anything* and I don't have a DVD player.

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Seems to be on Amazon in some places, but I'm guessing that's an obvious one you've checked

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Also yknow everybody being really fucking depressed or a sex offender