I was gonna add to the top 100 list by dolcevita- but I think most if not all my films have been listed already...

so heres my list of my top 10 foreign films....

1. city of god
2. crouching tiger hidden dragon
3. goodbye lenin
4. whale rider
5. japanese story
6. hero
7. cowboy beebop the movie
8. house of flying daggers
9. east is east (ok- not foreign to me- but to other people, does this count)
10.la haine

I've seen 7 of 'em. Haven't seen Goodbye Lenin, which I've heard excellent things about. Who would have guessed it was a German Movie?

Haven't seen Japanese Story either, but I'm a gib fan of the actress before she broke into American film with Sixth Sense. It killed her career, I haven't really heard of her since. But she was fabulous in Muriel's Wedding. Also, my formal introduction to Abba.

You've seen Cowboy beebop? Are you a big anime fan? Did you check out Steamboy this year? You might like it.

Only one I've never heard of is La Haine???? What is it about?

yeah goodbye Lenin is really good! (and yeah when I first heard the title I didn't think it was gonna be german.lol)

toni collete was sooo good in muriel's wedding wasn't she!! lol about Abba!!

I'm not the biggest anime fan but I do watch some- my brother is an obsessive anime fan so reccommends stuff to me.... not sure why i like bebop so much, but I do.... my fav bit is ein the corgi walking around with a pumpkin on his head!!! lol funny!!

I'll have to check out steamboy.

La Haine is about these three french guys living in the suberbs of paris? - during riots of the mid 90s. it's basically them vs the police and it ends up a pretty sad story... great ending!....beautifully shot as well in black and white.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113247/

worth a watch!

I liked "City of God" and "Goodbye Lenin" a lot. "Lenin" did also turn me on to a huge Daniel Brühl fan (Watching "Ladies in lavender" in a few hours! :wink: )

...Although I consider "Couchin tigger" one of the most overrated movies of all time and that has put me off asian martial arts cinema for a while - hence I haven´t seen "Hero" or "Flying daggers". I know it´s prejudgemental of me and will try to watch them a t some point, just not in a rush right now...

And "Le haine" was directed by Mathieu Kassovitz, the guy who also directed "Gothika" (gulp) and was Amelie´s love interest in "Amelie" - also an actor, talented guy all round. He was also in "Crinsom rivers" (actor/director) ... I liked "La haine", B/W, pretty rough film, and very well done.

I had been told that "Japanese story" was very pretentious so I didn´t see it... Maybe I should re-consider. I liked Toni Collette a lot, and BTW, I don´t think her career is dead, Dolce. She was in "The hours", "Velvet goldmine", "Changing lanes" and did superb in "About a boy". In short, little Muriel seems to be doing good :razz:

thats a shame really coz hero and flying daggers are pretty good. but if you didn't like crouching tiger chances are you won't like the others as much.

I do think crouching tiger is possibly overrated- I like it coz of the way its shot and the tragic love stories- same with hero really (I am total sap really!!)


I really liked her in 'about a boy' actually!! she did good.