The World Cinema Recommendation Thread!

[pulpygirl]

Oh! That would be a biiig list, but i'll try to keep it small. I really like everything that Pedro Almodovar has made in the past - except Broken Embraces - and especially "La ley del deseo"... "Cronos" by Guillermo del Toro was really cool, "Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot", "Monsieur Hulot nel caos del traffico", "Lady Vengeance", "Daywatch" and many many others that i can't remember right now...

[Jeffbiscuits]

Like The Devil's Backbone too.

[alexdave67]

Oldboy
Life Is Beautiful
City Of God
Amelie

[stevin]

I love Eastern cinema, like from Korea, Vietnam, Japan, China etc. Consequently, some of my fave non-english language films are:

BATTLE ROYALE - visceral and relentless genius made by a 70 year ols man who hated adults. Just avoid the sequel made by his useless son

A TALE OF TWO SISTERS - remade into the slightly bland The Uninvited, this is a really scary adventure into a fractured mind

THE HOST - this Korean gem is what Godzilla could have been in the hands of a competent director

and to break from the far east, how about

THE ORPHANAGE - I mean, lets face it, kids are creepy, right?

and

DELICATESSEN - this black comedy about post-apocalyptic cannibalism has (thankfully, so far) escaped a Hollywood remake. It simply wouldn't work in any other language than French.

[STFUDonny]

Keeping it brief, Let The Right One In & Pan's Labyrinth

[frdmrngr]

A Tale of Two Sisters
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
A Prophet
Battle Royale
Audition
Pan's Labyrinth
Black Book

[Cop223]

I tend to watch a lot of Asian cinema. Here's my list:

In The Mood For Love
All About Lily Chou Chou
Bad Guy
Lady Vengeance
Hana-Bi
Yojimbo
Vital
Infernal Affairs 2
A Bittersweet Life
Bird People In China
Swallowtail Butterfly

City Of God
Alphaville

[sdaniels]

wow... looks like you've got them all covered! but for my own peace of mind...

Battle royale
The Orphonage
REC
Martyrs

and my personal favourite the TV series "joey" dubbed in norwegian! that was a strange trip away... how you doin?

[Lizhawkins]

I really enjoyed The Lives Of Others... Very classy.

[Porkchopexpress]

Not a lot of love for 'A Very Long Engagement', an understated (By Jeunet standards) masterpiece of romance and lost love, told via clockwork hands, vengeful hookers and farting dogs.

Well I'm embellishing those features importance to the story, but the haunting cinematography and gorgeous Badalamenti score is worth it alone.

Also a lost classic is 'Brotherhood of the Wolf' starring 90's B-Movie action hero Marc Damasacamamsmamcous or something, it's awesome werewolf fare, before the current over saturation of similarly themed films.