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I watched a pretty good one last week called This Is England. Have any of my English brothers seen it?

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(10-12-2011 03:08 PM)Pilgrim37 Wrote:  

Un prophete....Great Film

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I'm still trying to finish WITHOUT THE KING, about how the royal family of Swaziland lives the high life while their subjects are mired in poverty. Give a whole new meaning to the phrase "Uneasy sits the head that wears the crown".

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Yeah I can't believe I forgot about A Prophet, it's a really great film, kind of like a French Arab version of Scarface... very legit.

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(09-23-2011 08:28 AM)Aliblahba Wrote:  El Salvador- "Salvador". Stars James Woods and Jim Belushi. Based loosely on a true story.

I swear I saw that movie over 20 years ago. Its good enough to watch twice,IIRC. Am gonna go look for it-thanks! The Belushi whackiness versus Woods earnestness amidst the endless death and trauma of the civil war made a powerful film. The director was skilled enough not to get lost in subplots and show watchers the real deal-the normalisation of the abnormal;the cheapness of life.

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(09-24-2011 11:52 AM)houston Wrote:  Uhh what the fuuuuuck. I signed up for Netflix on my ps3 but it doesn't have any of these movies!!

Have you tried searching for the English translation of the titles?

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I caught Irreversible the other day. Its a French movie that has a 10 minute rape scene and a story that plays backwards like Memento. Good movie that would freak most people out.

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I actually prefer foreign films to domestic, specifically because they treat real life with brutal honesty. Sexuality is dealt with realistically, and sometimes explicitly, as is violence. I get a lot of my stuff from http://www.tlaraw.com. I try to find used copies of foreign films on Amazon, as well a deepdiscount.com. In reading you guys' posts about foreign films from various countries, I see so many familiar titles that I already own, or already have on my list to get. On cable Sundance, IFC and many of the other movie channels will run good foreign films.

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Timoteo - why dont you drop some titles that we might be interested in? sounds like you know your shit

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Das Leben der Anderen (The lives of others)

My only quips with the film were with Wiesler's characterization later in the movie. Overall I think that Ulrich Mühe's performance (and experience in living the GDR, along with his wife actually spying on him) gave his performance a lot of weight.

Plus Martina Gedeck was looking good at the time of filming this movie.

La Jetée

This film isn't realistic, but it is one of my favorite foreign films (you can watch the whole thing on youtube).

I'd post up some links but I have to wait until I make a few more posts.

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There's a film out of Britain that I think is cool. It's called "Cass," about an orphaned Jamaican boy that is raised by an elderly white couple in a white neighborhood in London, and he grows to be one of the most feared and respected cats in the UK. It's biographical, based on the book by Cass Pennant. Brit gangster shit is some of the best made, so I recommend it. I saw it on cable.

For fiction, I recommend a film called "Daniel & Ana" from Mexico. It's a story about a brother and sister that are kidnapped and forced to fuck on camera, which will then be distributed on the internet (apparently this is a major racket in Mexico and other parts of the world). It deals with the incident and how each of them deal with the aftermath psychologically.

A really HOT flick is "9 Songs," about a love affair between a Brit and visiting American chick in London, against a backdrop of rock concerts (thus the title). It has unsimulated sex - the real deal.

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(10-12-2011 12:14 AM)houston Wrote:  I watched a pretty good one last week called This Is England. Have any of my English brothers seen it?

This runs pretty regularly on cable, but I haven't managed to catch it yet. I generally love films out of Britain, so I'll catch it eventually.

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"The Krays" is another gangster flick out of England, based on the twin brother gangsters in the 60s London underworld. It's based on true events.

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(11-15-2011 06:15 PM)Timoteo Wrote:  For fiction, I recommend a film called "Daniel & Ana" from Mexico. It's a story about a brother and sister that are kidnapped and forced to fuck on camera, which will then be distributed on the internet (apparently this is a major racket in Mexico and other parts of the world). It deals with the incident and how each of them deal with the aftermath psychologically.

i think that one is from Chile. what a fucked up movie. it had me like at the end

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Has anyone here seen "Mesrine: Killer Instinct" Parts I and II? I like Vincent Cassel's work, so I'm curious if anyone has seen these flicks...

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(11-15-2011 06:46 PM)houston Wrote:  

(11-15-2011 06:15 PM)Timoteo Wrote:  For fiction, I recommend a film called "Daniel & Ana" from Mexico. It's a story about a brother and sister that are kidnapped and forced to fuck on camera, which will then be distributed on the internet (apparently this is a major racket in Mexico and other parts of the world). It deals with the incident and how each of them deal with the aftermath psychologically.

i think that one is from Chile. what a fucked up movie. it had me like at the end

Nope, it's mexican. Try "El crimen del padre amaro", movie against catholicism and conservadurism.

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Black Lightning - Russian movie that was filmed in Moscow. It's about a flying car that a college kid gets a hold of but actually has pretty good special effects. I just watched it to hear some Russian and to try and get a better picture of Moscow in my head. Recommended if you're interested in Russia at all.

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Rise of the Foot Soldier - English gangster movie. great movie!! i was glued to the screen to the whole time.



The Football Factory - another British movie. this one is about the fights between fans. pretty cool.

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(11-22-2011 02:31 AM)houston Wrote:  Rise of the Foot Soldier - English gangster movie. great movie!! i was glued to the screen to the whole time.



The Football Factory - another British movie. this one is about the fights between fans. pretty cool.

I've seen "Rise of the Footsoldier." Very gritty. I liked it. I just watched a file out of Britain called "Four Lions." It's actually a comedy about a terrorist cell in London. It's about 4 bumbling, incompetent terrorists attempting to pull of bombings. It's hilarious.

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Bus 174 -Documentary around a guy that held a bus hostage in rio. goes into stuff about life in the slums and the lead up to this. Not really a movie..but still good

BThe Baader Meinhof Complex

Quote:It retells the story of the early years of the West German far-left extremist group the Rote Armee Fraktion (Red Army Faction, or RAF)

German film about a group and some hot chicks trying to get their point across

Waltz with Bashir
not "realistic" for the fact that its animated. but Its about a israeli soldiers experience in the lebanon war


City of Men
Anyone that like Cidade de Deus...this is like a movie serious based around it

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Enter the Void - I guess this one is considered a foreign film. It was directed by a French guy, filmed in Tokyo but is in English. The same director as "Irreversible" so its pretty crazy and trippy.

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(11-25-2011 11:25 PM)houston Wrote:  Enter the Void - I guess this one is considered a foreign film. It was directed by a French guy, filmed in Tokyo but is in English. The same director as "Irreversible" so its pretty crazy and trippy.

Damn man you watch a lot of foreign movies. Do you ever bring that up with the lizards to play the "man of taste" card or go on the hunt for filmie chicks? There so many artsy girls into film up here in NY I wish I had time to watch those movies so I'd be part of their niche, considering the guys got little to no game, or might even set you up with their chick-friends.

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The Crossing is a good movie. It's a South Korean movie about North Korea.

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ill edit this to better format when im on the computer.

check out. children underground.
its about the struggles of young homeless children in bucharest.


Im big on war porn. so I would recommend the generation kill series from hbo
its not "foreign" film but its bought the best series youll find on what it was like to be on the ground during the 2003 iraq invasion