[allezz]

Preferably Asian, not dubbed, any genre except for horror and perhaps less known mainstream films as I've seen quite a few of the big name popular titles.

My personal favorites over the years have been:
Bin-jip (2004) (3-Iron)
Lilja 4-ever (2002)
Kiraware Matsuko no isshô (2006) (Memories of Matsuko)
Oldboy (2003)
Janghwa, Hongryeon (2003) (A Tale of Two Sisters)
Taegukgi hwinalrimyeo (2004) (Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War)
Samaria (2004)
Linda Linda Linda (2005)
Tennen kokekkô (2007) (A Gentle Breeze in the Village)
Ploy (2007)

 

[cn11]

Fearless, with Jet Li.

 

[allezz]

Seen it, very good movie though, I consider that to be Jet Li's only good movie lol. That and Ip Man (2008) are probably my favorite martial arts movies.

 

[blessingx]

A member recently asked me to come up with a greatest films list. This isn't absolute as it was curtailed a bit for him, but a foreign language sub-set is:

1952 IKIRU by KUROSAWA (Japan)
1953 TOKYO STORY by OZU (Japan)
1959 HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR by RESNAIS (France/Japan)
1962 L'ECLISSE by ANTONIONI (Italy)
1964 UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG by DEMY (France)
1964 WOMAN IN THE DUNES by TESHIGAHARA (Japan)
1973 SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE by ERICE (Spain)
1987 WINGS OF DESIRE by WENDERS (Germany)
2000 IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE and 2004 2046 by KAR-WAI (China-HK)
2005 THREE TIMES by HSIAO-HSIEN (Taiwan)
2007 DIVING BELL AND BUTTERFLY by SCHNABEL (American director and co-financed, but in French)

If you include foreign which isn't foreign language, add the British/American 1949 THE 3RD MAN by REED and if a German directed first "Hollywood" silent film counts add 1927 SUNRISE by MURNAU.

Check out this beautiful Scorsese commentary on L'eclisse...

+ YouTube Video​

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[krmathis]

Most movies are foreign, but here are a couple
* The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
* Slumdog Millionaire

 

[hifidk]

Seems like you like alot of Korean movies.
Here are some of my favorites:

Gongdong gyeongbi guyeok JSA (2000)
Chingoo (2001)
Dalkomhan insaeng (2005)
Tajja (2006)
Gwoemul (2006)

I really liked Old Boy too...

EDIT: Oh.. I just noticed that you were not looking for mainstream movies... above movies ARE mainstream films but if you haven't watched any of it, I highly recommend. Also, Gwoemul is kind of horror I guess...

 

[iriverdude]

Machine Girl
City of God
Nikita
Pans Labryinth
Old Boy
Omg Bak
Tom Yuung Sung.

 

[mark2410]

yeah when you say foreign do you really mean non english speaking?

if so crouching tiger, run lola run and battle royal

 

[Audio-Omega]

Mongol

 

[ClieOS]

Okuribito (2008, Japan. aka 'Depatures') - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Oscar 2009.

By far the best movie I have seen this year. Still haven't seen Slumdog Millionaire though.

 

[zotjen]

Kurosawa's Ran, just in case you haven't seen it yet.

 

[blessingx]

Quote:

Originally Posted by zotjen /img/forum/go_quote.gif Kurosawa's Ran, just in case you haven't seen it yet.

And just went out of print on Criterion DVD (and Blu-Ray development stopped) over licensing issues. Pick up while you can.

Many have lamented the fall of American independent filmmaking over the last couple decades (becoming mostly simply edgier commercial genre flicks). Thankfully foreign cinema has kept cinema afloat. Werner Herzog (a bunch of his films are free to stream at the moment - and certainly well worth your time) once yelled at me (when I asked him about recommending other filmmakers) to not watch American films for ten years and focus solely on Iran and China for awhile.

The Middle East and Asia generally certainly are fertile beds right now.

 

[Samgotit]

Quote:

Originally Posted by blessingx /img/forum/go_quote.gif Werner Herzog (a bunch of his films are free to stream at the moment - and certainly well worth your time) once yelled at me (when I asked him about recommending other filmmakers) to not watch American films for ten years and focus solely on Iran and China for awhile. The Middle East and Asia generally certainly are fertile beds right now.

There's not a more satisfying experience than watching Fizcarldo followed by its documentary, Burden of Dreams . Both the film and its making are epic (in the truest sense of the word) films.

 

[Ttvetjanu]

Survive Style 5+, Battle Royale, Run lola run and City of God are great for starters.

 

[tk3]

Anything directed by Hiroyuki Tanaka/SABU with Shinichi Tsutsumi in the lead.