Foreign film RECOMENDATIONS..

[IronmanTT]

Well ever since I got on the NETFLIX bang wagon I've been watching a lot of foreign films since their library of this genre is pretty vast. I was wondering if you guys can recommend any foreign films that I can check out next time I'm on it??? Action/Thrillers are what I'm most into but I'm open to all suggestions except chick flick types movies ...

Guess I need to start it off..

Ip Man- Honk Kong movie
Chocolate- Thai movie
Wednesday- India movie

[Echo419]

IP Man = BADASS!

[AgentOblivious]

The diving bell and the butterfly (its a thinker movie) and Dead Snow.

[bluemax_1]

- Red Cliff (Tony Leung, Takeshi Kaneshiro): Decent movie. Good cinematography. Good war scenes
- 1988 movie Painted Faces: a movie that retells Sammo Hung, Jackie Chan and Yuen Biao's experiences in the Peking Opera. They claim that the movie was 'toned down' because most people wouldn't be able to accept the brutality of the training and lives they actually endured.
- Warlords (Jet Li, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau): Good movie. One of Jet Li's more dramatic roles. Another good depiction of war
- Sha Po Lang/Killzone (Sammo Hung, Donne Yen): Decent storyline not fleshed out quite as well as it could have been. Some great fight scenes, especially between Donnie Yen and Wu Jing and Donnie Yen vs Sammo
- Flash Point (Donnie Yen, Collin Chou): Storyline is.. meh... Fight scenes are pretty good. As with SPL above, these films are set in modern times and actually include some MMA/grappling techniques in the fights
- Hero (Jet Li): If anyone hasn't seen this film yet, it's quite a treat from a cinematographic standpoint. Decent storyline although the fight scenes are a lot more stylized (eg. wires)
- Banlieue 13 & B13 Ultimatum: (David Belle, Cyril Raffaelli): Storylines are meh... standard action fare. The action is where the fun is. David Belle is one of the co-founders of Parkour (sometimes called freerunning). Cyril Raffaelli ('Kiss of the Dragon', and the 'hamster' in 'Live Free or Die Hard' is just cool, combining, the agility and acrobatics of freerunning with karate and wushu.


Max

[GTOX]

City of God

Ong Bak

Bang Rajan

The Killer (John Woo)

Hard Boiled (John Woo)

A Better Tomorrow

Ichi the Killer

Downfall

Tae Guk Gi

The Warlords (Jet Li)

Redcliff

Oldboy

District B13

Léon the Professional

[j2k4]

Knife in the Water - Roman Polanski's directorial debut (1962), and the only film he ever directed in his native country.

Generational angst + sexual tension in the Eastern Bloc.

The girl is kinda sexy.

It helps if you understand Polish.

[black98-3k]

[REC] - good Zombie movie

City of God - Great movie

Hero - Jet Li's best IMO

Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - pretty good flick

Let the Right One In - vampire movie that "Let Me In" is based on

[IronmanTT]

Interesting recommendation guys some I've seen already but several I have yet to enjoy I deff look into them... keep em coming!!!!

[Alex3000gt]

Stalingrad

[songsay ratana]

I like tragic films myself.
I watch alot of chinese movies.
Some of my favs are To Live, The Banquet (in America its called Legend of the black scorpion)