Foreign Films Recommendations Thread
Action, comedy, horror, thriller, or especially anything like pic related.
>>70948814
I Saw the Devil is the worst movie I've ever seen.
I liked Cinema Paradiso
>>70948814
Little Otik is a classic.
>>70948880
How much do you brush your teeth anon, because you have shit taste
>>70948814
Jean Luc Godard - Week-End
Luis Buñuel - Simon of the Desert
Michelangelo Antonioni - The Big Poop
>>70948814
>Action
Infernal Affairs
>comedy
Le Roman Du Tricheur
>horror
Les Diaboliques
>thriller
Memories of a Murder
>>70948880
It was pretty bad honestly. Way too long for such a simple storyline. The scenes with the cannibals added absolutely nothing and was total filler. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance is still the top Korean thriller to this day.
>>70949032
Fuck off hipster retard, its a great movie
I saw the Devil is horrible. Revenge porn which goes for far too long.
>>70948981
>Les Diaboliques
>>70949093
No need for petty insults anon. The movie became total shit because it hinges on the protagonist being in control the entire time. The one or two times the antagonist had control feel incredibly forced as a result.
>>70948814
I really wanted to like this movie, but it's way too fucking long given the simplistic plot
oh boy the entry level tasteless plebs are going to start posting trashy korean flicks!!
oldboy, i saw the devil, chaser, memories of murder, the list could go on! i'm such a cinephile!!
Memories of Murder, City of God, New World, Gommorah, the man from nowhere
Memories of Murder and City of God are two of the best movies I've ever seen foreign or otherwise.
>>70949335
I agree really. All of those movies are fairly mediocre and unmemorable, besides maybe Oldboy but that movie's just as good as Se7en if that.
>>70949335
>le entry level meme
this is why tv is so shit, fuck off back to r/cinephile or something you pretentious cunt
>>70949273
You only "dislike" it brcause its popular and not obscure enough for your hipster ass
>>70949339
>Those two fuckbois in Gomorrah
I have never felt so bad for such pathetic characters
J.S.A - women will never understand this movie
>>70949390
I really don't. I love Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, which is probably the most popular Korean thriller of all time besides Oldboy. I Saw the Devil is a bland revenge movie, hampered by its obscene running time and fairly boring characters. It was good to see that actor playing against type as the killer, but nothing else.
>>70949368
korean cinema is basically Hollywood 2. it's all /b/ tier dog shit. it gives plebs the ability to say they've seen foreign films and allows them to keep the same type of enjoyment they get from blockbusters
>>70949372
>this is why tv is so shit
/tv/ is shit because you fucking /v/ plebs refuse to leave your garbage imdb comfort zone
>>70949424
>you will never cruise around with you besty on a vespa, doing stupid shit
ITT: my foreign film interests are better than yours
Let's just fucking recommend some foreign movies.
Instructions Not Included, Le concert, No Te Rindas, Como Agua Para Chocolate
Borgman
>>70949506
Nigger, do you realize how retarded "recommend me "foreign" films of any genre" is for a thread anyways? You've narrowed down what you want recommended to most movies ever made.
>>70949506
Poetry
Crossroads of Youth
Tale of Cinema / Night and Day
Timeless Bottomless Bad Movie
Address Unknown
Peppermint Candy
3-Iron
Strokes of Fire
Oasis
Secret Sunshine
Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?
Breathless (Yang Ik-Joon)
Take Care of My Cat
Bedevilled
These Korean flicks might be a bit advanced for your videogame mindset though
>>70949472
I've watched 'artistic' movies by fags like tarkovsky and theyre just boring and awful. It's not that I don't have the attention span for it, I read long non-YA books all the time. Artsy movies are usually just awful, and even if they weren't the shit in my post would still be good. pretending to like film as an art is so low effort and pathetic. Ok, you sat down in front of a screen for 7 hours and watched polish people be miserable, youre such a fucking intellectual. New /tv/ is cancer with all the capeshit, but you wannabe film buffs are so much worse. You unironicly think that watching pretentious nonsense makes you better than other people. Literally rape yourself in the throat.
>>70949566
>"Recommend good horror movies"
>People recommend horror movies
>"Recommend me good 80s action flicks"
>People recommend 80s movies
I'm sorry, anon, how about "Recommend foreign films that start two male leads in a grudge match that escalates and is punctuated by grisly violence"
Better?
>>70949581
>I've watched 'artistic' movies by fags like tarkovsky and theyre just boring and awful.
I'm not going to pretend I've loved every ponderous arthouse film I've seen (Winter Sleep, most Haneke films, and Satantango were terrible to me) but I will not dismiss the entire canon because of this.
>I read long non-YA books all the time.
You sound like a simpleton.
>>70949573
>videogame mindset
There's that hipster mentality again. Why don't you try harder to be cool in front of everyone.
>>70949372
I'm not joking. there's zero sense in telling some idiotic plebeian like you to watch genuine cinema. it's like telling someone who knows nothing about literature to read Ulysses. they're just going to be lost and hate it. and you're already calling them shit without knowing anything about them? you're a pleb through and through
>>70949631
>you sound like a simpleton
>says the """""""film buff""""""
i honestly hope you've wasted your time on a degree related to film.
>>70949662
oh man you're the kind of person to like Ulysses too aren't you. By like I mean stumble through(if you even bother to finish it) and then start talking about how genius and moving it was, just so you look like you have some taste. Ulysses is trash no matter how much you know about literature. Joyce peaked with dubliners, Portrait was on the edge of masturbatory trash. Ulyyses and the Meme were fucking abysmal and deep down you know it.
>>70949721
What's got you so defensive, honestly? Oh wow you've read a few books that high school students probably were assigned. I told you my reasons for not liking ISTD and you shit yourself.
>>70949599
"Foreign" isn't a genre.
>>70949662
Tell us how the wheel of time series is good shit too man
>>70949806
>pinetrash
Pynchon is the epitome of inauthenticity in literature. He is a very cunning imitator of authentic art, so that, superficially, Pynchon's penny dreadfuls look like great works of art. And the unthinking will consider themselves ''connoisseurs'' for liking this inauthentic trash disguised as great art, and will happily pat themselves on their backs.
>>70949872
"80s action" isn't a genre either. But it's a grouping of things that is easy to understand and easy to evaluate. Or do you need directions, cool guy?
>>70949845
tired of people who think these threads are the place to show off how obscure the movies they watch and label everything else as entry level/pleb trash. Every time theres any reccomendation thread on /tv/, which is like 1 in a 1000 capeshit and shitpost threads, someone like you, some criterion cretin who probably thinks that hes somehow edifying everyone by shitting on the movies they like or recommending them arthouse cancer, comes in and shits on it. isn't there a /film/ or something now? tv is not the place to try to be intellectual, maybe there's a subreddit that would fit what you're trying to do, you should go there.
can we all agree that pic related is the number one enemy of cinema and anyone who buys their product (product, not art) deserves to be laughed at?
>>70949893
>inauthentic
your bandanna is showing
>>70950039
Ironically, you posted that picture while calling me a "criterion cretin". You're a walking meme, kid. At least I have pretty normalized tastes, and can recognize a trash B-film (I Saw the Devil) and a good B-film (Blackhat), as well as a trash arthouse film (Winter's Sleep) and a good arthouse film (Fallen Angels)
>>70950132
I wish more people enjoyed Blackhat :(
>>70950097
Why? They have some selections.
>stop liking "art" that I don't like
I'm choking on the cloud of pretentiousness in here. On a fucking weebo shitposting site on a Friday night. Nobody in here should be acting pretentious about ANYTHING.
But it's still entertaining to watch what I assume is a fat sweaty mess samefagging like a champ.
>>70950097
Yes
>>70950222
It is saturday morning here you uncultured fucking videogame player
>>70950132
>implying I like zizek
>>70950308
Ooooh, you're one of the inbreds. Now I understand the "videogame" putdowns. Why don't you mention how we should "go eat cheeseburgers" or "try not to shoot yourself with all your gun violence" or something.
>>70950216
they encourage and enable redditors and video game players to shit on the art of cinema
>>70950356
What if you live in canada?
>>70950381
"Try not to get mauled by a moose" or "don't choke on your shitty maple 'syrup', faggot" would probably do in that case. Or "you uncultured hockey player".
>>70950097
No way.
They know their market(s), they sell to them.
Occasionally it means you get a really nice home video release of a film you actually like.
Let's be honest, if you work/study in any kind of humanities/creative field then Criterion is a really good canon to go through, for no other reason than to understand what the fuck people are on about. Sort of like how in every subject, whether Accounting, Physics, or Literature you have to do that "theory" or "history of..." subject to understand the movements/fashions of the discipline up until and including the present day.
>>70950452
yeah, Tiny Furniture and Wes Anderson are real essential to the 'canon'
>>70948814
Versus, its a zombie action comedy
its not the best movie, but its entertaining as fuck
the director did one short before it, and had hard enough time getting this one made, so he viewed it as both his first and his last movie, and threw all the shit he wanted to into it. when it became a cult hit, he got the cast and crew back together to refilm shit that had to be cut and upgrade some of the shittier effects from the first version
he was the director of Midnight Meat Train, and versus is literally on his youtube channel for free so more people can watch it
>>70950503
But they are!
How many TV commercials I see nowadays that are blatant rip offs of Wes An. If you're in that industry you need to know the provenance.
>>70950670
Wes anderson didn't invent symmetry and bold colors
>>70950714
That's why you need to go through the provenance from Wes, to Goddard, to MGM musicals, all the way up to Méliès.
I dunno. I still think there are worse things to happen to 'cinema' than Criterion. It's a repository of film language, some of it shit, and a small slither of it masterful
Disgusting thread
>>70950132
The thing is you're coming as a pretentious piece of shit because you watch a myriad of weird films that the rest of the world gives two fucks about.
Nobody cares. Shut the fuck up. It doesn't make your intellectual level any higher than anyone else in this thread that has probably all seen anywhere from 700+ on up other fucking movies.
You searched for a 'movie', you sat down, you watched it, and because it contains the compartmentalized goblin-given category 'foreign film' that somehow puts you in a class higher than others?
ok
why dont you recommend some foreign films instead of trying to compete on who's the biggest hipster you fucking retards
>jagten
>der untergang
>villmark
>max manus
>skumringslandet
>arn
>flammen & citronen
>1944
>the girl who played with fire
>the girl who kicked the hornets nest
>pathfinder
>agent hamilton
>trollhunter
>klovn
>headhunters
>hamilton
>evil
>the democratic terrorist
>kopps
>leviathan
>elling (documentary about /tv/ users)
>the raid
>the raid 2
>the protector
>>70951173
I appreciate the gesture but you can't just give a litany of titles.
You gots'ta sell it!!
Why did you pick those films?
What do you think /tv/ anons would like about them?
Where should I start on the list?
pique our curiosity.
You guys all have horrible taste in film.
Godzilla
anything with John Wayne
darby o'gill and the little people
everything else is shit
>>70951296
honestly there arent that many good foreign films so i just wrote down all i could think of that hadnt already been mentioned
the best movies in the list imo are probably
>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338309/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
and
>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2106476/?ref_=nv_sr_3
elling, kopps, klovn and trollhunter are comedies, all scandinavian
the raid is probably the best action movie ive ever seen, asian ofcourse
headhunters, max manus, 1944, arn, hamilton and the democratic terrorist are surprisingly good action movies
>>70951407
>honestly there arent that many good foreign films
That should be the end of the thread, along with this post. You're welcome /tv
>>70951407
Thank you.
The Hunt actually looks interesting in a gut-wrenching "innocent man is pariah" kind of way
What a stupid fucking request. 'Recommend me films, but not from YOUR country'
Why
>>70951543
I seriously hope Hammertime steals this faggots wind and takes the championship this year.
>>70951454
wow
well, you kind of misunderstood what i meant. there arent THAT MANY good foreign films, but some of the best movies ive ever seen have been foreign
you see, in europe when people make movies it's usually for the sake of art, not for the sake of profit. hollywood probably makes 100 times as many movies as all of europe combined, but 90% of those movies are adam sandler tier flicks and steven seagal tier action movies
those few good european movies that i mentioned are gems that ought to be treasured because honestly they are far better than your american capeshit movies and adam sandler flicks
>>70951619
>but 90% of those movies are adam sandler tier flicks and steven seagal tier action movies
There's a few of those, but the 90s are for the most part over. A lot of your cliche shit movies are chic flicks, and there are some good love movies that appear from time to time.
Get your head out of your ass.
>>70948907
this
>>70951586
pfft. Hamilton is the Roland Emmerich of F1.
Wide appeal but just irritating in every way and deserving only a iota of his success.
Rosberg is the Winding Refn, underappreciated. Scandinavian cool.
Never really gotten a chance to break through.
Vettel is the Xavier Dolan. Good but has had way too much luck from way too young.
Watched this one recently, it was fucking sweet.
I'm in love with Sion Sono. I'd recommend his Love Exposure most of all, definitely give it a chance despite its length.
pic related is comfy as fuck and darkly funny
anything by bong joon-ho honestly
others that are really good
oasis
new world
welcome to dongmakgol
secret reunion
veteran
>foreign films
>almost every suggestion is a popular asian flick
Plebs.
>>70951832
Fuck I've been looking for this movie for the longest time, I watched it a couple years ago but I forgot what it was called. Thanks man.
>>70951916
what's your recommendation then tough guy?
>>70952049
Every single one of his films.
>>70952070
too old
>>70952049
Clearly it's this masterpiece. >>70948919
>>70951868
based bae doona is wifey material
i think you and me are the only people on /tv/ who've seen that desu
>>70952161
oh hey she's in Linda Linda Linda, I've been meaning to watch that one
>>70952753
do it, it's a feel good movie
>>70950097
You're being stupid. Criterion is all about quality of release. The amount of extras they include, plus the care they put into color correction and what not is absurd. They also will release films that have rarely seen release, and even remaster films that have only been released in terrible quality.
I will admit though, they've gone somewhat downhill because of whatever encoding error they have that they refuse to acknowledge. Mulholland Drive unfortunately suffered because of it.
Bergman has good ones.
