Someone 'Tell me' which thought provoking gem of a film to watch next!

[Quaddy]

its probably gonna be your favorite film, or one you have recently watched and thought it was brilliant....

i feel a good film fest coming on in the next few days, trouble is i have virtually exhaused my supply

i have watched nearly all of the films i have, am after a film that is gonna wow me, i know its personal taste, doesnt matter, go for it, tell me what film to watch next. - if its one i have seen - thats my problem, not yours.

one that isnt run of the mill, one that will make you have that half and hour after watching it where you vow to change your life somewhat! and never do!

i am a bit partial to 'that' unknown foreign cinema film or alike, but not exclusively

T.I.A

 

[stewtheking]

I just watched "The Crying Game" for the first time today. That's worth a go. Or my other recent favourite film is "Closer".

 

[ken36]

I'm stumped. Let me know when you find one.

 

[dj_mocok]

Grave of the fireflies (animation)

 

[concrete_d]

I've got a couple:

Suicide Club
Noriko's Dinner Table
The Red Shoes
Vivre sa vie
Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo

I take no responsibility if you want to beat me up after watching any of these (especially the first two)... I liked them, but you may not.

 

[joe]

Donnie Darko
Batoru rowaiaru / Battle Royale
Chasing Amy

 

[Quaddy]

Quote:

Originally Posted by ken36 /img/forum/go_quote.gif I'm stumped. Let me know when you find one.

lol - sry, yeah not much of an ask was it

i am watching this thread avidly and thanks to all with their posts and efforts, i am reading every one - those which i havent seen are being C&P'ed into notepad and will be a list i will work my way through.

what fun, i, again, love film at the moment, "game on.....game off....game on"

cheers!

 

[ckhirnigs113]

Abre Los Ojos

This is called Open Your Eyes in English, and it's the film Vanilla Sky was based on. By the way, if you haven't seen Vanilla Sky, I recommend it.

More suggestions:
Das Leben Der Anderen (english: The Lives of Others)
City of God
Once

 

[shadesbass]

Stranger Than Fiction

 

[DanG]

I own "Vivre sa vie" (or My Life to Live, the USA title) by Godard and actually really dislike it. I personally would recommend Band of Outsiders, Breathless, or Contempt over My Life to Live (these are ones that I know -- he made many other films).

Truffaut movies I've really liked:
The 400 Blows
Shoot the Piano Player
Jules and Jim

Russian movies:
Prisoner of the Mountains
Solaris (the original Tarkovsky film)
Stalker (also Tarkovsky)

Some other ones...
Stranger Than Paradise (my favorite movie)
Waterland (saw this recently, a really good movie)

Hmm... I suppose there are thousands of movies to recommend without any more specific information about what you've seen, what you like, what you don't like... so I'll leave it there for now...

 

[Lord Chaos]

"Never Cry Wolf" by Carroll Ballard. It's beautiful, it's subtle, it's strong. Be sure to watch the background.

 

[Agent Kang]

oldboy

""Oldboy" begins as a revenge fantasy and evolves into something much more complex and redemptive. It's a thrilling picture, and in places a funny one, yet it can't be classified as an action picture or a comedy -- it's too infused with tragic poetry to be so conveniently buttonholed. "Oldboy" is a viscerally charged picture, and an exceedingly beautiful one, but its beauty springs directly from its anguish. It's like a flower watered with blood."

Salon.com



twilight samurai

"A ravishing story of love and honour among Japan's feudal warrior caste with no need for sword-slashing action sequences or half-pint westerners."

BBC



Memories of Murder

"An almost perversely conceived hybrid -- noirish thriller, social satire and virtual Korean Keystone Komedy with a dash of political attitude."

Newsday

 

[Mrvile]

The only movie that ever made me just sit there for half an hour afterwards and think was "Requiem for a Dream" but I'm sure you've seen that already. Another kind of cool movie that most people don't understand at first is "The Science of Sleep." I don't really know that many foreign films so I can't really help you there, but I've heard "Oldboy" is very good and rather disturbing.

 

[412]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Agent Kang /img/forum/go_quote.gif oldboy

Ah, beat me to it! From the same director:
Sympathy for Lady Vengence

From Russian The Return

Good topic, keep it going!!! My Netflix queue is getting short.

 

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