What's your favorite Foreign Language (nonEnglish) films?

HUNGARY
Egy Barani (Agnus Dei)

ISRAEL
Waltz with Bashir

IRAN
Children of Heaven

CANADA
Les invasions barbares (The Barbarian Invasions)

INDIA (Bengali)
Pather Panchalli
Ashani Sanktet (Distant Thunder)

I've posted on all this before, will have to see if I agree with what I said back then.

Probably a mix of italian, japanese, and french, in no particular order.

Adored Waltz with Bashir!!!

I can't point to favorites, since I stopped watching foreign films long ago,
but these stand out as films I really liked for various reasons:

GERMANY

The Edukators
The Blue Angel
Europa Europa

FRANCE

Les Enfants du Paradis
The Wages of Fear
Too Beautiful for You

ITALY

La Strada
Bicycle Thieves
Life is Beautiful

JAPAN

Ikiru
Seven Samurai

INDIA

Asoka
3 Idiots
My Name is Khan

LATIN AMERICA

Y Tu Mamá También
Clandestine Childhood
Son of the Bride

NORTH AFRICA

Bedwin Hacker

SWEDEN

The Seventh Seal
The Virgin Spring

EASTERN BLOC

The Decalogue (not a film, but I had to mention it)
Siberiade

I need to answer Tsar on this but I'll have to refresh my memory. The ones I'd say today might not be right.

For example, the fifth time I saw Bread and Chocolate, I wasn't as interested.

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/bread-and-chocolate-1998

Not to leave a gap, I'll add, Dodeskaden, Kurasawa.
http://www.criterion.com/films/1083-dodes-ka-den

I'll add that I mourn the Fox Venice where we could see, for a dollar fifty, two films a night, changing every day.
It says online, $2.00. That was later.

That place educated me.
http://www.virtualvenice.info/media/fvt.htm

hi abhishek from india here , can u suggest me any good comedy movie (foreign language ) which comedy movies according to u is must watch

can u tell me best comedy movies by countries

That's a tall order. A nearly impossible, Herculean task.

I'll give a shotgun (really random) set of films:
FRANCE:
Amélie (2001)
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953)
Playtime (1967)

GERMANY (by a Turkish director):
Soul Kitchen (2009)

ITALIAN:
Divorce Italian Style (1961)

INDIA:
The Lunchbox (2013)

SWEDEN:
My Life as a Dog (1985)

ARGENTINA:
Wild Tales (2014)

POLAND:
Three Colors: White (1994)

SOUTH KOREA:
The President's Last Bang (2005)


Etc.... I can offer more suggestions but that has to come later. I'm at work now.

Son of the Bride: All about mid-life crises. The script is what makes this movie so special.

Downfall (Der Untergang): A German film that talks about the final days in the life of Adolf Hitler.

Spirited Away: A story of a ten year old who stumbles upon an abandoned theme park. along with her parents.

Amores Perros: Three different stories which are yet interconnected, all by means of a car crash.

Amour: A very touching movie which tells the story of a retired piano teacher who gets paralyzed on the right side of her body as the result of a stroke.

L'Atalante

I saw it in the 1990 re-release.

Amazing.




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Atalante

It's in the public domain now.

A more recent film I liked was Bertolucci's Besieged, 1998.

I can't pick just one non US film; I've watched probably over a hundred and liked many of them.

Re Besieged, WIKI is a huge spoiler on that - beware, unless you want to read the ending first (noooooo!).

Kurasawa's "Seven Samurai" is not only my favorite foreign film, it's also one of my favorite adventure films in any language.

I also liked his Dodeskaden, not as popular, but I remember it getting to me.

I saw it. It's about how the poorest in Tokyo cope with their lives. Great movie.

Speaking of these makes me think of Ikiru, also by Kurosawa..

I don't recognize the title, but I may have seen it. What's it about?

I saw it a long time ago, so I'm not sharp on whatever plot, but I remember being quite affected by it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikiru

Wiki again tells the story to the end, again a spoiler, annoying to me. Maybe they don't understand the nature of movies.

I did see it, a long time ago. Another great one. Kurosawa was on of the best.