
Foreign language movies.
Best foreign language films I have watched.
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1.
Pan's Labyrinth
(2006)
In the fascist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world. (118 mins.)
Director: Guillermo del Toro
2.
Oldboy
(2003)
After being kidnapped and imprisoned for 15 years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must find his captor in 5 days. (120 mins.)
Director: Chan-wook Park
3.
Lady Vengeance
(2005)
After thirteen and half years in prison for kidnapping and murdering the boy Park Won-mo, Geum-ja Lee is released and tries to fix her life... (112 mins.)
Director: Chan-wook Park
4.
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
(2002)
A recently laid off factory worker kidnaps his former boss' daughter, hoping to use the ransom money to pay for his sister's kidney transplant. (129 mins.)
Director: Chan-wook Park
5.
Thirst
(2009)
Through a failed medical experiment, a priest is stricken with vampirism and is forced to abandon his ascetic ways. (133 mins.)
Director: Chan-wook Park
6.
Mother
(2009)
A mother desperately searches for the killer that framed her son for a girl's horrific murder. (128 mins.)
Director: Joon-ho Bong
7.
Amélie
(2001)
Amelie, an innocent and naive girl in Paris, with her own sense of justice, decides to help those around her and along the way, discovers love. (122 mins.)
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
8.
Malèna
(2000)
A woman provokes sensual awakenings in a group of adolescent boys. (109 mins.)
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
9.
Cinema Paradiso
(1988)
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist. (155 mins.)
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
10.
The Motorcycle Diaries
(2004)
The dramatization of a motorcycle road trip Che Guevara went on in his youth that showed him his life's calling. (126 mins.)
Director: Walter Salles
11.
Children of Heaven
(1997)
When Ali loses his sister's shoes, the two decide to share his to avoid getting in trouble. (89 mins.)
Director: Majid Majidi
12.
City of God
(2002)
Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro take different paths: one becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer. (130 mins.)
Director: Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund
13.
Downfall
(2004)
Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII. (156 mins.)
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
14.
Memoirs of a Geisha
(2005)
Nitta Sayuri reveals how she transcended her fishing-village roots and became one of Japan's most celebrated geisha. (145 mins.)
Director: Rob Marshall
15.
Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan
(2007)
The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world including Russia in 1206. (126 mins.)
Director: Sergey Bodrov
16.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
(2009)
A journalist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing -- or dead -- for forty years by a young female hacker. (152 mins.)
Director: Niels Arden Oplev
17.
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
(2009)
Lisbeth is recovering in a hospital and awaiting trial for three murders when she is released. Mikael must prove her innocence, but Lisbeth must be willing to share the details of her sordid experiences with the court. (147 mins.)
Director: Daniel Alfredson
18.
Letters from Iwo Jima
(2006)
The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it. (141 mins.)
Director: Clint Eastwood
19.
Seven Samurai
(1954)
A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves. (207 mins.)
Director: Akira Kurosawa
20.
Let the Right One In
(2008)
Oskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl who turns out to be a vampire. (115 mins.)
Director: Tomas Alfredson
21.
Y Tu Mamá También
(2001)
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other. (106 mins.)
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
22.
Rashomon
(1950)
A heinous crime and its aftermath are recalled from differing points of view. (88 mins.)
Director: Akira Kurosawa
23.
Eat Drink Man Woman
(1994)
A senior chef lives with his three grown daughters; the middle one finds her future plans affected by unexpected events and the life changes of the other household members. (124 mins.)
Director: Ang Lee
24.
My Sassy Girl
(2001)
Based on a series of true stories posted by Ho-sik Kim on the Internet describing his relationship with his girlfriend... (123 mins.)
Director: Jae-young Kwak
25.
The Chaser
(2008)
Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts... (125 mins.)
Director: Hong-jin Na
26.
The Classic
(2003)
Shy Ji-hae's friend is having problems expressing her feelings to the boy she loves, so she asks Ji-hae to write e-mails to him in her name... (127 mins.)
Director: Jae-young Kwak
27.
M
(1931)
When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt. (117 mins.)
Director: Fritz Lang
28.
The Edge of Heaven
(2007)
A Turkish man travels to Istanbul to find the daughter of his father's former girlfriend. (116 mins.)
Director: Fatih Akin
29.
Ichi the Killer
(2001)
As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of. (129 mins.)
Director: Takashi Miike
30.
Children of Heaven
(1997)
When Ali loses his sister's shoes, the two decide to share his to avoid getting in trouble. (89 mins.)
Director: Majid Majidi
31.
Run Lola Run
(1998)
A young woman in Germany has twenty minutes to find and bring 100,000 Deutschmarks to her boyfriend before he robs a supermarket. (81 mins.)
Director: Tom Tykwer
32.
The Experiment
(2001)
The movie is based on the infamous "Stanford Prison Experiment" conducted in 1971. A makeshift prison is set up in a research lab... (120 mins.)
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
33.
The Good, the Bad, the Weird
(2008)
The story of two outlaws and a bounty hunter in 1940s Manchuria and their rivalry to possess a treasure map while being pursued by the Japanese army and Chinese bandits. (136 mins.)
Director: Kim Jee-Woon
34.
Life Is Beautiful
(1997)
A Jewish man has a wonderful romance with the help of his humour, but must use that same quality to protect his son in a Nazi death camp. (116 mins.)
Director: Roberto Benigni, Rod Dean
35.
Memories of Murder
(2003)
In 1986, in the province of Gyunggi, in South Korea, a second young and beautiful woman is found dead... (130 mins.)
Director: Joon-ho Bong






















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