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[–] 57 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I mean it's gotta be Parasite (the Korean Movie)

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I would enter "memories of murder". It goes toe to toe with Rear Window as one of the best suspense movies ever made, and MOM would go on my top 50 in any language any genre.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    I was just going to say Memories of Murder. It's my favorite Bong Joon Ho film, and possibly my favorite Korean language film (that I've seen).

    It's so fucking good. The fight scenes have to be some of the most realistic looking I've seen. At times it looks like they're really throwing each other around. There's one scene where the main cop guy comes flying in from off screen and full on drop kicks a dude, and he commits completely. Made me lol the first time I saw it, I had to rewind and watch it again.

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  • [–] 49 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Spirited Away or Run Lola Run

    Spirited Away is so good in Japanese and does lose something being dubbed. Run Lola Run is so good in German, I don't know if there is a dub because there is no reason to seek it, the dialogue was perfect for subtitling and the story is based on slightly different loops in time so you pick up what is happening each loop through. Very cool.

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  • [–] 47 points 10 months ago

    Godzilla minus one

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  • [–] 45 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    There are so many, but I think my first choice would probably have to be Seven Samurai. It is such an amazing piece of cinema. One of the most influential pieces that has inspired almost all of the film we still see today.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Great choice. In a similar vein - Rififi.

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    Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, hands down. Possibly the best movie ever made. Every shot is just beautiful.

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  • [–] 32 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Not actually my favorite as that's too difficult, but Kung Fu Hustle is great

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    I love it because it's one of the few dark fantasy movies natively made in Spanish. The dead fascists are a bonus.

    One of my favorite details that is easy to miss if you aren't a native speaker is that Pan speaks in medieval Spanish. It honestly almost sounds like French

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (4 children)

    I can't find anything to really support the note about the faun speaking an early version of Spanish; do you have a link I could read/watch?

    I've found people noting that Doug Jones is dubbed by the Spanish voice actor into Castilian (rather than any Central or South American dialect) and that his language is formal and somewhat archaic.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Quick correction, Castilian and Spanish are he same thing. It's not an old dialect or an old language. Spain has lots of languages, and the renaming of Castilian to Spanish was a "recent" (last 100 years) attempt from a dictator to delegitimize all of the other languages (also prohibiting them from being taught in schools or being used officially).

    Also I strongly dislike the use of dialects here, although there are many different accents the language remains the same. If we start to call Mexican or Argentinians Spanish into dialects we might as well call Texan or Californian English as dialects as well, since they're equally different.

    Also, also, Mexico (the largest Spanish speaking country by population is in North America), not sure why you only mentioned South and Central.

    That being said, yes, the Faun speaks very formally. It's not necessarily archaic, but the sort of language one might expect in a court room. But yeah, that used to be the colloquial Spanish a while back.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago*

    Thanks. I really wrote "Castilian" to mean that sources on the web suggest his dialogue is at least somewhat modern Spanish Spanish (so to speak) -- but I'm ignorant of the differences between Spanish spoken in the Americas, including North America as you rightly point out, and the Iberian peninsula. I didn't mean to suggest that Castilian was archaic.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    Looked into it a bit more. It seems it's not exactly medieval Spanish but just old and really formal Spanish, akin to Shakespearean. Nevertheless, not something you'd hear nowadays. Everyone else just speaks with a Spaniard accent, there's no Latin American dialects in the movie.

    I remember looking up the script a little while ago. Here's an excerpt

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    You will see a luxurious banquet. Don't eat or drink any of it while you're there

    (Fwiw, I'm from Latin America so Spaniard accents all just sound weirdly posh to me, like that video of a British kid complaining about the ice cream man)

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  • [–] 29 points 10 months ago

    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

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  • [–] 23 points 10 months ago

    Battle Royale.
    Pretty sure it was the first foreign language film I've watched.

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    I will never understand the love for this movie.

    There is no end to the cheap “plot twists” a filmmaker can get away with if the audience is willing to accept “lol everyone was hypnotized” as an explanation for glaring holes in the narrative.

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    I've really enjoyed Parasite, I didn't scroll to read everyone's answers but didn't see that one mentioned

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Pan's Labyrinth

    Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

    I admit that the list of foreign made films I am familiar is quite small.

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    City of Lost Children is my pick. It has such amazing worldbuilding. Drops you in cold with no apologies and trusts you to just go on the ride.

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    7 Samauri, I am not fluent in Japanese but was conversational. That movie illustrates the Japanese and their system of honor, which can be very odd and flexible.

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Let the right one in.

    There was also a French film very similar to Chappie that was decent.

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    Les untouchables. Way better than the American remake.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    American remake

    (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

    Why would anyone remake a perfect film?

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Why wouldn't you want to inject Kevin Hart and Jared Leto into the perfect film? Sounds like audiences would really go for that combo!

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Probably Your Name for me. Beautiful movie, score, story, art.

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago
    • Let the Right One In
    • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    • Amelie
    • Ong Bak
    • Banlieue-13/District B13
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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    The Triplets of Belleville

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    Oh man, tough...

    • Cinema Paradiso
    • Amelie
    • The Spanish Apartment

    All come to mind first.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Cinema Paradiso is a masterpiece.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    Until you watch the extended version

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    All of the Ghibli movies are great, though they're some of the only foreign films I will watch dubbed, because the voice casts they get are insane. The English dub of Totoro with the Fanning sisters while they were still children is just fantastic.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago

    Seven Samurai!

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago

    So many, it's hard to pick. But a few off the top of my head

    *The lives of others (Germany, 2006)

    *Akira (Japan, 1988)

    *Red Beard (Japan, 1965)

    *The Seventh Seal (Sweden, 1957)

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    [–] 10 points 10 months ago

    Life is Beautiful is one of my favorites that should really only be watched with subtitles. It's a really sad movie, but sticks with you in a good way.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Wings of Desire. (Der Himmel über Berlin)

    German, Wim Wenders, 1987. Solveig Dommartin was so beautiful in that.

    Was remade into a movie called City of Angels with Nick Cage that didn't even come close to being as good.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago

    LA Dolce Vita or The Queen Margot (1994).

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