Foreign Film

I love learning about other countries and various cultural perspectives through film, and will often check out certain foreign movies just because I've never seen anything from that country before. My favorite international movie industries so far have been Germany, Japan, South Korea, England, and France, but I'm generally open to anything!

Of course I am also quite fond of English-speaking offerings from our friends in Canada, England, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, so I'm including those here even though they're not in a foreign language (generally my qualification for a "foreign" film). And I've included a few dubbed films that were foreign productions (ie spaghetti westerns). I'm organizing it by country, since I love the feeling of adding new places to my list! One day I hope to have seen a movie from every nation with a film industry. We'll see how that pans out.

A u s t r a l i a

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Australia
Danny Deckchair
Mad Dog Morgan
Mad Max
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Mary and Max
Sweetie
The Cars That Ate Paris
The Navigator: A Mediaeval Odyssey
The Proposition
The Square

B e l g i u m

A Town Called Panic
Ben X
JCVD

C a n a d a

Cube
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
Father's Day
Incendies
Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy
Manborg
Monster Brawl
Pontypool
Rabid
Scanners
Suck
The Saddest Music in the World
The Wrong Guy
Tucker & Dale vs Evil
Videodrome

C h i n a

Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
A Woman, A Gun, and A Noodle Shop

C z e c h  R e p u b l i c

Alice
Daisies
Faust (1994)
Lunacy

D e n m a r k

Terribly Happy

E n g l a n d

28 Days Later
28 Weeks Later
A Fish Called Wanda
About a Boy
An Education
An Ideal Husband
Brazil
Bridget Jones's Diary
Bright Star
Dirty Pretty Things
Down Terrace
Fish Tank
Four Lions
Happy-Go-Lucky
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
Hot Fuzz
Imagine Me & You
In the Loop
Kinky Boots
Love Actually
Made in Dagenham
Me Without You
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Never Let Me Go
Orlando
Red Riding: 1974
Red Riding: 1980
Red Riding: 1983
Shaun of the Dead
Submarine
The Boat That Rocked
The Horse's Mouth
The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus
The King's Speech
The Trip
The Young Victoria
Things to Come
Time Bandits
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story

F i n l a n d

Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale

F r a n c e

35 Shots of Rum
Alphaville
Amelie
Angel-A
Blue Beard
Breathless
Coco Before Chanel
District B13
District B13: Ultimatum
Fantastic Planet
Fear(s) of the Dark
Micmacs
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
OSS 117: Lost in Rio
Romance
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec
The Illusionist
The Nest
The Triplets of Belleville
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

G e r m a n y

Barefoot
In July
Metropolis
Nothing But Ghosts
Rabbit Without Ears
Soul Kitchen
The Adventures of Prince Achmed
The Baader-Meinhof Complex
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
The Lives of Others
The Testament of Dr Mabuse
The White Ribbon

H o n g  K o n g

2046
Chungking Express
Days of Being Wild
Drunken Master
In the Mood for Love
Ip Man
Ip Man 2
Police Story
Police Story 2
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky

H u n g a r y

Werckmeister Harmonies

I n d i a

Taal

I n d o n e s i a

Lady Terminator

I r e l a n d

A Film With Me In It
The Guard
The Secret of Kells
Zonad

I s r a e l

Meduzot
Waltz With Bashir

I t a l y

8 1/2
Barbarella
I Am Love
La Dolce Vita
Orgasmo (aka Paranoia)
Suspiria
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

J a p a n

13 Assassins
Akira
Battle Royale
Cowboy Bebop: The Movie
Double Suicide
Evangelion 1.0
Fist of the North Star
Gekijouban Trigun: Badlands Rumble
Ghost in the Shell
Godzilla
Godzilla 2000
HOUSE
Howl's Moving Castle
Kamikaze Girls
Letters from Iwo Jima
Linda Linda Linda
Memories
Millennium Actress
Mothra
Ponyo
Rashomon
Redline
Seven Samurai
Spirited Away
Sukiyaki Western Django
Summer Wars
Sword of the Stranger
Tekkonkinkreet
Tetsuo, The Iron Man
The Life of Oharu
Three Resurrected Drunkards
Tokyo!
Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl
Whisper of the Heart
Yojimbo
Youth of the Beast
Zebraman

J o r d a n

Captain Abu Raed

M e x i c o

Duck Season
Sleep Dealer

N e w  Z e a l a n d

The Piano
The Quiet Earth

N o r w a y

TrollHunter

R u s s i a

12
1612
Brother
Brother 2
Day Watch
Ivan Vasilievich: Back to the Future
Let's Make Love
Little Vera
Night Watch
Peculiarities of the National Hunt
Solyaris
Stalker
Tycoon
Vanished Empire
With Love, Lily

S c o t l a n d

A Lonely Place to Die

S l o v a k i a

The Shop on Main Street

S o u t h  K o r e a

3-Iron
A Tale of Two Sisters
Barking Dogs Never Bite
I Saw the Devil
Il Mare
I'm a Cyborg, But That's Ok
Joint Security Area
Lady Vengeance
Memories of Murder
Mother
Oldboy
Sympathy for Mr Vengeance
The Good, The Bad, The Weird
The Host
The Man From Nowhere
Thirst

S p a i n

All About My Mother
Broken Embraces
The Devil's Backbone
El Calentito
Open Your Eyes
The Skin I Live In
Timecrimes
Viridiana

S w e d e n

Let The Right One In
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl Who Played With Fire

S w i t z e r l a n d

Pepperminta

T h a i l a n d

BKO: Bangkok Knockout
Born to Fight
Chocolate
Citizen Dog
Ong-bak
Tears of the Black Tiger
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

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