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Ny's Movie Guide: Foreign Films Worth Watching - a list by nymorg77
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Hollywood churns out a lot of films but so do a lot of other foreign film industries. It can be a daunting task searching for quality films unless you're committed to keeping up with every movie that's released. So here's a list of some foreign film goodies to expand your movie viewing experience.
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I watch a ton of movies
Zardoz
First to recommend
2 people recommended this item
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OK, I finally saw this cult classic probably 10 years ago and it was by far one of the trippiest movies I've ever seen. And it stars Sean Connery running around in a loincloth, ponytail and cheesy 70's porn 'stache! It was so bugged out I can't even begin to recall the story line, so here it is from a reviewer on Amazon:
"A bewigged Sean Connery is Zed, a savage "exterminator" commanded by the mysterious god Zardoz to eliminate Brutals, survivors of an unspecified worldwide catastrophe. Zed stows away inside Zardoz's enormous idol (a flying stone head) and is taken to the pastoral land of the Eternals, a matriarchal, quasi-medieval society that has achieved psychic abilities as well as immortality. Zed finds as much hope as disgust with the Eternals; their advancements have also robbed them of physical passion, turning their existence into a living death. Zed becomes the Eternals' unlikely messiah, but in order to save them--and himself--he must confront the truth behind Zardoz and his own identity inside the Tabernacle, the Eternals' omnipresent master computer." -Paul Gaita
Updated Aug 22, 2008
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Notes on a Scandal
First to recommend
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Delusional people scare me. And they come in all shapes and forms, Including Judi Dench, a drab school teacher who is in love with a new teacher at the school (Cate Blanchette). When things don't go Dench's way she blackmail's the object of her affection by threatening to expose her horrifying secret.
Updated Jul 26, 2008
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28 Weeks Later
6 people recommended this item
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As always, I am eye rolling skeptical when it comes to sequels. BUT, it turned out, I really liked this one. Its a different movie than the first, but it delivers. It had more of a conventional action/ horror feel than the first one. Different movie. Scary but not frightening. Choked full of action. High octane good time. (via Amazon)
Updated Aug 24, 2008
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Good Bye, Lenin!
4 people recommended this item
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The Berlin wall has just come down and a young man living in East Germany can't tell his mother who suffers from a delicate medical condition. While the world is drastically changing around them he must conceal it as best he can.
Updated Jun 20, 2008
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Kolya
First to recommend
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A touching story of a 55 year old bachelor and his reluctant friendship with an abandoned 5 year old boy. Set in the Czech Republic. This movie is super sweet and will melt your heart.
Updated Jul 26, 2008
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A Bittersweet Life
First to recommend
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Action packed film about a hit man looking for revenge. Great fight scenes.
Updated Jul 20, 2008
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Anatomie de l'Enfer (Anatomy of Hell) (Uncut)
First to recommend
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This is as explicit as it gets without being branded down right pornography. French film about gender relations starring porn star extraordinaire Rocco Siffredi. Extremely provocative and insightful. Not only is the flesh excessive in this film, but so is the dialogue.
Updated Jun 20, 2008
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Memories of Murder
First to recommend
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Really good murder mystery set in a rural South Korean village.
Updated Nov 4, 2008
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Audition
4 people recommended this item
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'Audition' is an awesomely grim movie, but you wouldn't know it at first. This film surprises you. It sort of plods along at first - characters developing, story very slowly unfolding... Then at some point, when you are wondering what all of the hubbub was about, all Hell breaks loose! Man, some of the most creatively twisted things take place from then on out. I'm being completely unstated here. The word "twisted" doesn't even touch the carnage that transpires. Yet so utterly creative.
As far as post-break up movies go, the previous recommendation was absolutely dead on - perfect. I mean, when I thought of taking out my ex, I only thought of predictable blunt force trauma.
Updated Nov 25, 2008
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The Devil's Backbone (Special Edition)
First to recommend
4 people recommended this item
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This is a chilling and suspenseful drama/ horror from Guillermo Del Toro (Hell Boy/ Pan's Labyrinth) about a boy in a haunted orphanage during the Spanish Civil War.
Updated Jul 20, 2008
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