What's Your Favorite Non-Anglophone Films?

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What are your favorite films in which English is not the main language?

Here are mine:
The Seventh Seal (Swedish) 1957
Ikiru (Japanese) 1952
Wild Strawberries (Swedish) 1957
Trollhunter (Norwegian) 2010
Border (Swedish) 2018
Rashomon (Japanese) 1950
The Hunt (Danish) 2012
Metropolis (German) 1927
The Brand New Testament (French-Belgian-Luxembourgish) 2015
Vampyr (French-German) 1932
13 Assassins (Japanese) 2010
Parasite (South Korean) 2019
 
Celine and Julie Go Boating (Rivette, 1974) -- French
Andrei Rublev (Tarkovsky, 197something) -- Russian
The Rules of the Game (Renoir, 1939) -- French
Out 1 (Rivette, 1971) -- French
Last Year at Marienbad (Resnais, 1961 or so) -- French
Playtime (Tati, 1967) -- French
Betty Blue (Beineix, 1986, I think?) -- French

I could keep going, but I think they'd all be French. I do love Bergman and Kurosawa and Antonioni and Fellini, but I guess not as much as my favorite French films.
 
Oh... I'm glad someone had Trollhunter on their list. I love that film.
Taxi [1998 - French] Silly but I love its energy
When the Cat's Away [1996 - French] Whimsical like only the French seem to be able to do
Tomboy [2011 - French] Just stunning...
Ran [1985 - Japanese] Grand scale and intimate all at once.
and
Rare Exports [2010 - Finnish (though it be spoken in Sami)] The best ever Xmas movie!
 
OK, my favorite non-Anglophone, non-Francophone movies:
Andrei Rublev (see above)
Spirit of the Beehive (Erice, 1973) -- Spanish. A huge influence on Pan's Labyrinth, and about a thousand times better than it.
Fellini Casanova (1976) -- Italian. If I have to pick one Fellini, this is the one I'd pick.
Persona (Bergman, 1966) -- Swedish.
Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954) -- Japanese.
 
Access to genre foreign movies is not easy, but there are a lot of really great movies which provide a refreshing change to Hollywood. My favourites include:

Luc Besson's Taxi. (French)
Chrysalis (French)
Cargo (Swiss)
Aniara (not sure, but I think this is a Swedish movie)
Timecrimes (Spanish)
The Last Days (Spanish) My favourite movie of the last few years. Just brilliant and totally recommended.
Train to Busan (Korean) very much looking forward to seeing the sequel to this.
The Villainess (Korean and ultra violent.)

I have a few that I still need to watch. (Delicatessen and City of the Lost Children spring immediately to mind.)

I would love to see a Sci-Fi Bollywood movie. Any recommendations?

I definitely prefer subtitled movies to dubbed movies.
 
The Three Colours Trilogy
Last Year in Marienbad
Mirror and Nostalgia
La Dolce Vita

There are many more of course but that is todays.
 
Cinema Paradiso
City Of Lost Children
The Lives Of Others
Downfall
The Baader Meinhof Complex
Caeser Must Die
 
Some great films mentioned above! I haven't heard of most of the French films mentioned, so I'll check some out. Most of the French films I've mentioned are comedy.

Japanese:
Infernal Affairs
Spirited Away
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Departures
One Cut of the Dead
Wolf Children

Korean
3-Iron
Parasite
The Handmaiden
The Good the Bad the Weird
Battle Ground 625

French:
Les Visiteurs
A Cat in Paris
Incendies (also Arabic)
The First Day of the Rest of Your Life
The City of Lost Children
A Man Escaped
The Closet

Swedish:
Show Me Love

Thai:
Chocolate

Cantonese/Mandarin:
Kung Fu Hustle
Shaolin Soccer
From Beijing with Love

German:
Victoria (though a lot is in English)
Balloon

Danish:
The Guilty

Norwegian:
Kon-Tiki

Spanish:
Blancanieves
Tell No One
Timecrimes

Italian:
Life Is Beautiful

Swedish:
Everlasting Moments

Turkish:
Mustang

Persian:
A Separation
Persepolis

Georgian:
Tangerines (also Russian)

Hindi:
The Lunchbox
3 Idiots

Urdu and others:
The Kite Runner

Lao:
The Rocket

Sorry there. Sometimes I can't help getting carried away when it comes to lists. I like making lists of things I like, though I've never made a list about lists. Maybe I should make a list of my favourite lists.
 
How could I have forgotten Show Me Love?!?! I nearly got thrown out of an HMV asking if they had a copy and using its original title.
 
Tampopo
Seven Samurai
Cinema Paradiso
La Dolce Vita
Jules et Jim
Au Bout de Souffle
Mon Oncle
Manon les Sources
Delicatessen
Amelie
Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown ( most Almodovar tbh)
Separado
Shaolin Soccer & Kung Fu Hustle
Pather Panchali
 
AlexH said:
Some great films mentioned above! I haven't heard of most of the French films mentioned, so I'll check some out. Most of the French films I've mentioned are comedy.

Japanese:
Infernal Affairs
Spirited Away
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Departures
One Cut of the Dead
Wolf Children

Korean
3-Iron
Parasite
The Handmaiden
The Good the Bad the Weird
Battle Ground 625

French:
Les Visiteurs
A Cat in Paris
Incendies (also Arabic)
The First Day of the Rest of Your Life
The City of Lost Children
A Man Escaped
The Closet

Swedish:
Show Me Love

Thai:
Chocolate

Cantonese/Mandarin:
Kung Fu Hustle
Shaolin Soccer
From Beijing with Love

German:
Victoria (though a lot is in English)
Balloon

Danish:
The Guilty

Norwegian:
Kon-Tiki

Spanish:
Blancanieves
Tell No One
Timecrimes

Italian:
Life Is Beautiful

Swedish:
Everlasting Moments

Turkish:
Mustang

Persian:
A Separation
Persepolis

Georgian:
Tangerines (also Russian)

Hindi:
The Lunchbox
3 Idiots

Urdu and others:
The Kite Runner

Lao:
The Rocket

Sorry there. Sometimes I can't help getting carried away when it comes to lists. I like making lists of things I like, though I've never made a list about lists. Maybe I should make a list of my favourite lists.
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I think Persepolis is originally in French.
 
Not that it's got a lot of non-Anglophonics in but how could I have forgotten Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot, known to us Anglophones Monsieur Hulot's Holiday.
 
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