foreign films?
Same for me. The movie fascinated me, the use of color was amazing.
Have you seen the The Baader-Meinhof Complex? I saw it recently and thought it was pretty good, a little bit more serious than The Educators.
Yup. I liked it.
Another film is Nochnoi Dozor (Night watch)
Russian sci-fi or something like it.
Yo man! Next time, I kick your ass! That'll be that!
Infernal Affairs is a great trilogy but part one is, by far, the best cop movie ever. and has some of the best acting from any movie and any actor.
Infernal Affairs is a good movie, but "by far, the best cop movie ever"? And, "some of the best acting from any movie and any actor"? Not hardly.
The first claim may be true, how many good cop movies are there anyway? I don't think it's a genre that's let to much greatness. I didn't care for The French Connection or Serpico.
It's not easy having a good time.
Even smiling makes my face ache.
Narc is my vote for best cop movie ever.
You guys haven't seen the classics.
Best cop movie: Police Acedemy
I beg to differ.
or Kindergarden Cop
... side note of serious:
Battle Royal - Japanese flick about 5th or 6th grade students being forced to fight to the death on a small island, armed with anything from pots and pans to machine guns. they have to kill each other off until only one remains before time runs out. or else they will all have their heads exploded via collars similar to those in Scanners and The Running Man
Necromantics - gross out gorefest written and directed by special fx students in early 80s Germany. begins with a guy who steals a corpse, has a threeway with his girlfriend and the corpse using a steel pipe with a condom for a 2nd dick. girls ends up leaving boy and taking the corpse with her. i won't spoil the rest because that right there is enough to entice you to find it 
Sin Nombre. I mentioned it in another thread, but I will put my recommendation for it in here since it is a foreign film.
Battle Royale is an amazing film!
What I have shown you is reality. What you remember... that is the illusion.
I really like foreign films, particularly German in origin and I do like Guillermo del Toro's films too.
Lola Rennt (Run Lola Run)
Das Experiment
Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others)
Have yet to see Die Welle (The Wave) which sounds quite similar to Das Experiment (also based on real events, set in a makeshift prison where guards and inmates are ordinary people and what happens when they assume their given roles).
Has anybody seen Otesánek (Little Otik)? It's a surreal Czech film that I saw years ago, very odd indeed and have only met a couple of people who've even heard of it.
Saw The Host (don't know it's original title) last year, Korean film, interesting mix of comedy and horror.
I'm sure there's more but that's all I can think of right now...
Has anybody seen Otesánek (Little Otik)? It's a surreal Czech film that I saw years ago, very odd indeed and have only met a couple of people who've even heard of it.
I haven't seen Little Otik, how is it? I've seen Faust and I've got another one by Svankmajer called Lunacy, they're both pretty good.
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Little Otik is very weird. It's about a couple who can't conceive, the husband brings home a log one day because it looks like a baby and the woman treats it as such. Don't want to give too much away though! It's pretty sinister, and increasingly shocking, made an impact to say that I still remember it quite vividly now.
Yeah, Lunacy is quite sinister. It's mostly in live-action but there are these little stop motion sections when various organs run around having wacky adventures.
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Sounds interesting, Little Otik has some similarly weird animation. Have been reading about it a bit this afternoon, apparently it's considered a comedy, it freaked me out though. I would like to see it again, see if I had the same reaction - I came to watch it knowing nothing about it, it was on tv late at night and thought I'd give it a go.
Tonight on BBC4 there's the first half of a 400 minute Italian film, called The Best Of Youth. It sounds pretty good, it follows an Italian family from the sixties through to the present day.
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15 (Singapore)
Beautiful Boxer (Thailand)
Cold Prey (Norway)
Cube (Canada)
Cyclo (Vietnam)
Double Vision (Taiwan)
Elite Squad (Brazil)
Gomorrah (Italy)
Ichi the Killer (Japan)
Lady Vengeance (South Korea)
Let the Right One In (Sweden)
Mad Detective (Hong Kong)
Maria Full of Grace (Colombia/America)
Martyrs (France)
Matando Cabos (Mexico)
Mongol (Kazakhstan)
Night Watch (Russia)
No Man's Land (Bosnia-Herzegovina/Slovenia/Italy/Belgium/ UK and France)
Once Were Warriors (New Zealand)
Secuestro Express (Venezuela)
Shanghai Triad (China)
Snatch (Britain)
The Counterfeiters (Germany)
The Motorcycle Diaries (Argentina)
Timecrimes (Spain)
Tsotsi (South Africa)
That's all I can think of now.
some of my favourites that have yet to be mentioned:
La Jetee
Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (Monsieur Hulot's Holiday.. or any Jacques Tati film. Mon Oncle is also fantastic)
Happy Together
Chungking Express
La Reine Margot
L'Appartement
The Holy Mountain
Le Locataire
Mort d'un Pourri
Viridiana
La Dolce Vita
8 1/2
La Strada
I could go on..
I didn't know some of them were shown abroad. Interesting choice.
recently....
Man Bites Dog
La Vie en Rose
Salo,or The 120 Days of Sodom
Gomorrah
and Ben X...............all were very, very good! recommend!
'Infernal Affairs' is amazing, much more interesting than the messy American remake The Departed.
'Jean de Florette/ Manon des Sources' will make you want to visit France.
'Tale of Two Sisters' is a nasty little Korean horror.
'In the Mood for Love' Yes I love Asian films and Wong Kar Wai is a very interesting director.
'Pather Panchali' classic indian film which I adore.
'Cyrano De Bergerac' from the wonderful French play
'Oldboy' Another great Korean film, about to be (badly I bet) remade.
'Hero' - still one of my favourite films for sheer cinematic beauty.
'Delicatessen' or pretty much anything by Jeunet & Caro
'La Haine' - I love Vincent Cassel - off to see the 2nd part to Mesrine tomorrow.
'Downfall' German film re last days of Hitler.
Infernal Affairs is a great trilogy but part one is, by far, the best cop movie ever. and has some of the best acting from any movie and any actor.
House Of Flying Daggers is much better than Hero. It lacks the overuse of wirework and is just as stylized, with the same director, some of the same actors, and possibly the same cinematographer. It also has a great love story blended perfectly with martial arts and insane cinematography and use of colors.
In The Mood For Love is amazing and you can rarely go wrong with Wong Kar Wai. Watch its sequal, 2046, back to back and it's almost as fun as watching Chinatown and The Two Jakes
Brotherhood Of The Wolf is a kickass French film that blends a love story, period piece, thriller, horror, martial arts action, and a bit of a Tim Burton feel to it as well.
Ginger Snaps is Canada's best werewolf flick. Followed up by a strong sequal and a weak third, which was more of a remake of the first.