/r/ForeignMovies

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/r/ForeignMovies is the place to recommend, review, or discuss international films that have not been shot in English. (Check our sidebar for other subreddits that are dedicated to specific countries or regions.)

Post any reviews, questions, or discussions regarding “foreign-language films” in this subreddit.

Films that have been shot in English do generally not belong here (Please take a look at the separate entry regarding justifiable exceptions to that rule).

You can post about two-/three-parters or short mini-series as well, if you feel they belong here, but for longer series and shows you have to head over to /r/ForeignTvShows.

 

related subreddits (discussions in these subreddits are generally in English, unless stated otherwise):

African Films

Asian Films
more Asian Films
and yet more Asian Films
Films from the Philippines
Japanese Films
more Japanese Films
Korean Films
more Korean Films

Indian Films
Bollywood
Regional Indian Cinema
Malayalam Films
Telugu Films
Tamil Films
more Tamil Films
Kannada Films [mixed language subreddit]

French Films
more French Films
German Films [German language subreddit]
Films from Portugal [Portuguese language subreddit]

Brazilian films [Portuguese language subreddit]

 

French New Wave
Ingmar Bergman
Luis Bunuel
Federico Fellini
Werner Herzog
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Akira Kurosawa
Takeshi Kitano
Andrei Tarkovsky
and more Andrei Tarkovsky

 

Further film-related subreddits are linked in the WIKI.

 

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La sustancia / The Substance: una experiencia cinematográfica radical

#LaSustancia #TheSubstance @thesubstance @mubi @mubilat @coraliefargeat

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2024/11/09
20:26 UTC

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Weak guards, soldiers.. females or males..

Hello im Mila, fem, 44yrs, belgium. Im Into ballet. I love weak guards and soldiers movies. Weak female soldiers in outfits skirt, pantyhose, leggings.. or boots heels etc... I realy also look for movies with weak male guards!! But in tights like medieval old movies, soldiers in tights or spandex... Can someone help with videos, movies i can buy or watch online.. its dream for me. It may be stuipid movie too or kind of amateur, ... Thanks, Mila.

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2024/11/09
05:25 UTC

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Japanese horror movies on your language

Hi everyone, some of you will remember me, some of you won't, im posting again here because there are major updates on my channel, BIG UPDATES, in case you dont remember me here it is again: I'm worldbreaker, a J.horror collector my goal is to make japanese horror movies more known in the west, for this I have in my possession more than 1600 movies of the japanese horror genre, among these are more than 50 movies by the master of found footage, koji shiraishi, also the 100 volumes of honto ni atta norori no video, also all volumes of yami douga, among others, ALL TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH AND SPANISH, if you want to know more visit my subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/WorldbreakerJHorror/

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2024/11/08
01:50 UTC

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Anais in Love (2021) | Review & Analysis | "I found her to be a fascinating, Rohmer-esque character study, though my focus remained on Anaïs herself, as her romantic pursuits felt secondary to her compelling personality"

Anaïs is a free-spirited young woman with commitment issues living in France. Her flawed understanding of love quickly reveals itself in her musings that being in love would automatically mean happiness. Her search for intimacy exposes an eccentric, scatterbrained person lacking essential social skills, yet possessing a certain aloofness that often sends her relationships and responsibilities spiraling out of control. I found her to be a fascinating, Rohmer-esque character study, though my focus remained on Anaïs herself, as her romantic pursuits felt secondary to her compelling personality.

A superbly unapologetic look at a genuinely unorthodox character who appears morally bereft or untroubled by principles, at times exhibiting traits of an antisocial personality, so finely woven into a love story that I was left unsure at times if it was by design. Finding herself in love for the first time with a woman who is knowingly the wife of her lover and twice her age, and only arriving there through lies and manipulation behind her lover’s back in order to cross paths with his wife, whom, until recently, Anaïs referred to as a “slut” before ever meeting her.

Continue reading at: https://cinemawavesblog.com/film-reviews/anais-in-love-review/

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2024/11/06
01:06 UTC

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In Search of Films That Breathe Romance and Capture the Art of Intimate Moments

Looking for films that drift like whispers through sunlit afternoons, where every word is rich with unspoken meaning, and every glance is a quiet promise. Stories that linger on the edge of love and longing, capturing beauty in small gestures—a hand reaching, a soft, knowing smile, moments wrapped in poetic stillness. In the spirit of Eric Rohmer, I’m seeking recommendations that celebrate the elegance of gentle romance and conversations that feel like secret treasures. Films that remind you how breathtaking the ordinary can be, if you just pause to see it.

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2024/11/04
07:51 UTC

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I am looking for the name of an African film.

I’m looking for the name of an African movie in which a Muslim mother, living alone after the death of her husband, falls in love with a shopkeeper next door. She invites her children over for Eid to introduce them to her new boyfriend. At first, the kids are unhappy about it as they are dealing with their issues. However, one by one, they begin to accept that their mother needs love and companionship, especially since she lives alone.

I watched this movie during my flight from Europe, and I've been trying to find its title everywhere. It resonates with my family dynamics. Can you help me identify it?

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2024/11/02
17:18 UTC

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2024 Anime Films to Watch Out For

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2024/11/01
21:38 UTC

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Last crossover - How Kazuhiko Hasegawa's Taiyō o Nusunda Otoko (1976) influenced anime classic Cowboy Bebop's spin-off feature film

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2024/10/31
20:48 UTC

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Hellish Love (1972) "Hellish Love" is genuinely haunting: bathed in the lullabies of breezes, chanting, & erotic longing. It's the rare Nikkatsu Gothic to not feature incest. That's a different hell! Not today, Satan." - Also see Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees (1975)

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2024/10/31
12:11 UTC

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Non English Foreign Horror Movies to Watch This Halloween (2024 Edition)

If you’re in the mood for something different this Halloween, these non-English horror movies might be exactly what you need!

They offer all kinds of spine-chilling stories that feel fresh and thrilling. Each one has its own creepy twist and a style that Hollywood can’t quite match.

So grab some popcorn and settle in—these scares aren’t for the faint-hearted!

🎥 List of Popular Non-English Language Horror Movies

Check Full List Here: https://simkl.com/5743957/list/8369/popular-horror-movies-non-english-language

Non English Horror Movies

#NameDateGenres
1Train to Busan2016-07-19Action, Horror, Thriller
2[REC]2007-11-22Horror, Mystery
3Godzilla Minus One2023-11-02Action, Horror, Science Fiction
4I Saw the Devil2010-08-11Horror, Thriller
5Suspiria1977-01-31Horror
6The Wailing2016-05-11Horror, Mystery
7Troll Hunter2010-10-28Fantasy, Horror
8[REC]²2009-09-14Horror, Thriller
9Ring1998-01-30Horror, Thriller
10High Tension2003-06-17Horror, Mystery, Thriller
11Brotherhood of the Wolf2001-01-30Action, Adventure, History, Horror
12Dead Snow2009-01-08Comedy, Horror
13Diabolique1955-01-28Horror, Mystery, Thriller
14Cannibal Holocaust1980-02-06Horror
15Ichi the Killer2001-12-21Action, Crime, Horror
16Un Chien Andalou1929-06-04Fantasy, Horror
17Revenge2017-09-22Action, Horror, Thriller
18Shutter2004-09-08Horror, Mystery, Thriller
19#Alive2020-06-23Action, Horror, Thriller
20Ju-on: The Grudge2002-10-17Horror
21Veronica2017-08-24Family, Horror
22Sleep Tight2011-09-22Horror, Thriller
23Possession1981-05-26Horror
24Inside2007-06-12Horror
25Oxygen2021-05-11Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
26When Evil Lurks2023-09-21Horror, Thriller
27Deep Red1975-03-06Horror, Mystery, Thriller
28Thesis1996-04-10Horror, Thriller
29Marrowbone2017-10-26Horror, Mystery, Thriller
30Godzilla1954-11-02Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller

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Other Related Horror Lists

If you are looking for Horror movies in different categories, I made sure to create a detailed collection list based on your taste and genres you like! (still building this, let me know if I missed any)

Country / Region Based Horror Films -

Genre Based Films -

Year Based Films -

If you’ve seen any of these movies, we’d love to hear what you thought.

Which one freaked you out the most? Drop a comment below and let’s share our Halloween scares!

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2024/10/31
11:28 UTC

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My favo(u)rite cake (2024) at Berlinale

At long last, a film that tells THE TRUTH and does not bend down to the phony portrayal of Iranians living their daily lives in Tehran due to the totalitarian regime's harsh rules and compulsory censorship. At long last we see HUMANS with their daily preoccupations and their genuine lifestyles (and not the lies international festivals have been fed over the past 45 years in the name of "intellectualism" and "cultural differences". No, Iranian women DO NOT wear headscarves in the privacy of their homes, much less in bed! Yes, Iranian women are FORCED to wear a headscarf to leave their homes, but they continue to defy authoritarianism by playing THEIR WAY.

To any cinema lover, anyone interested in international relations, sociology, anthropology, Iran, or just human nature, do not miss MY FAVO(U)RITE CAKE (2024), Berlin International Film Festival this year. Now on YouTube. 

P.S: Please keep the filmmakers in your thoughts, as the regime has accused them of conspiracy against the regime, interrogating them for hours. So, if you have the luxury of living in democracy, cherish it as if it were the last bite you had left to survive.

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2024/10/30
17:13 UTC

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A Bay of Blood (1971)

What are your thoughts on Italy's 1971 horror film, A Bay of Blood? Me personally 10/10

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2024/10/30
17:11 UTC

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What was the movie- i think it was from SE Asia, with the gold fish flopping in blue paint?

I have a memory of this visually intense scene in a movie I saw over 20 years ago and would like to rewatch the film. For some reason I think it was from Vietnam or Cambodia. A goldfish is out of its tank and it is flopping around in blue paint while something else visually intense (I dont remember what) is happening

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2024/10/30
14:48 UTC

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Why did Alain Delon and Sophia Loren never co-star as leads in a movie?

I am Portuguese American and it was because my immigrant grandparents would play movies all day long from old VHS that I'd get exposed to movie stars who were at the top AAA list across all of continental Europe (some even managing to penetrate Britain like Ingrid Bergman). Easily their favorites were Sophia Loren and Alain Delon (grandma's crush).

So Sophia Loren and Alain Delon I grew up with and even today there's always a movie of either being played at home. I practically seen every movie of both movie stars.

I really have to ask out of curiosity-how come they never co-starred as leads in a project? Esp since Alain had acted in some Italian projects and was just as much a sex symbol for women as Sophia Loren the bombshell of European cinema?

Hell my grandma and grandpa would even sometimes joke around they wish they were younger again so that they can make use photos they have of Alain and Sophia to turn themselves on in foreplay before they'd go have sex in bed (which they tell me they used to do before they'd go creating my various dad and numerous aunts and uncles of my family lol).

So I'm honestly surprise esp since I seen a Youtuber claim Alain Delon is not just France's star closest in stature and universal fame to Sophia Loren but even call him the closest thing we got to a male Sophia Loren esp regarding non-English speaking actors………..

Why was there never a movie made with Loren and Delon as the leads? I can easily see an action movie involving them under top billing as the romantic lovers in subplot!

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2024/10/30
07:23 UTC

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Help regarding Czech film Autumn Spring (Czech: Babí léto)

Hi everyone,

I had watched this amazingly beautiful 2001 Czech drama film Autumn Spring (Czech: Babí léto) on TV. I want to watch this movie again, but can't find it on YouTube. Can anyone help me in this regard please? Appreciate your help.

Thanks.

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2024/10/30
05:45 UTC

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A Silent Voice discussion you guys should check out!

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2024/10/28
20:10 UTC

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Looking for the name of Russian/Soviet drama movie

Hi.
Growing up in Soviet Union (Lithuania) I was watching many films, that now I don't remember the names of (or much of the plot). I used ChatGPT and some other ways, found some of them, but with others no success, so maybe someone will know more.

Here are two parts that I recall from one (or two) in particular that I got stuck with (I not sure if it is the same movie or two different ones). It's a drama, but rather calm one, about relations between people and institutions.

  1. In the beginning of the plot someone is disconnecting the cars of (freight) trains. Turns out it's been done by some delinquent teen boys, who are apparently very skilled and fast at doing it. The story then continues about figuring out what to do about those kids.
  2. A man concerned with a social issue is going to some bureaucratic offices where some clerks are supposed to be responsible for solving some issues, but they can't because they don't have some power and as they say "they are small people ("Мы люди маленькие"), to which the man responds "then it's time to become big" ("Так пора стать большими").

I think the release is somewhere between 1970-1990.

Does anyone recognize this?

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2024/10/28
13:03 UTC

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ISO eccentric company/services film recs? (Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, The Game)

Hi all, I'm looking for recommendatios of films where a company provides a service,device or artifact with a function that doesn't quite exist in real life, or that is not that normal. For example, Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind has Lacuna, Inc. The Game has Consumer Recreation Services (CRS) Black Mirror (a show not a film) has San Junipero, etc. Thank you for your recs, looking forward to watch them!

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2024/10/27
04:05 UTC

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Hell In A Bottle (1986) "Nikkatsu’s perverse Gothic, fusing “Blue Lagoon” with “Flowers in the Attic.” This film is beautiful, bizarre, and baffling." - "The house scenes remind me of Italian gothic films. The seclusion. The gaslighting, the sibling love affair, could make anyone go crazy."

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2024/10/26
13:05 UTC

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Awful Takes 19: Shaun Of The Dead

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2024/10/26
03:37 UTC

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How come traditionally Asian movie leads weren't tall in the specifically "martial arts" genre (not other genre featuring martial arts like historical epics)? How come starting in recent times they are selecting Western average heights as the norm? Why other genres have pretty tall Asian stars?

I seen a lot of Korean dramas and its common to see people who are 6 footers like Kwon Sangwoo. Same with many Japanese and Chinese movies in stuff other than martial arts.

So it makes me wonder why martial arts movie traditionally chose Asians who are at best average height and small even in Asian standards (baring exceptions like Bruce Lee who was 5'7 and the 5'10 Sonny Chiba)? Two of the biggest stars pre-2000s Jet Li and Jackie Chan were around 5'4-5'5 for example.

Of course people would claim its because Asians are growing taller today..................

Except outside of the martial arts genre you had people like Toshiro Mifune (who was 5'9) and the 182 cm Chow Yun-Fat (who was born in the 50s before the huge growth spurt hit Asia) and people who fit modern average Western standards height possibly a bit taller. More significant when you take into account what we think as average in the West is just recent and stats I seen pre 1950s claim the average say German was around 5'6 and it was common to see Greek people below '5'4. So they were already selecting tall people for non-martial arts role. True some of these actors like Toshiro and Chow Fat primarily acted in genres with martial arts involved a la historical epics like the 7 Samurai and mostly shootout action movies with some disarms and unarmed attacks thrown in the middle of gun fights. But still you had people like Isao Kimura who primarily played in drama and romance roles who were tall not just by Asian standards but even by the standards of smaller and less important European nations such as Hungary and Romania before the Great Wall fell in the 90s.

Where as martial arts genre stuff typically selected people who were short by Western European standards such as Mako and Philip Ahn (Master Kan in Kung Fu).

Why is this? Why do they typically select taller people across the rest of Asian cinema but martial arts movies seem to be the domain of people who are not only short by modern Western standards but even average or slightly below average in pre 80s Asian standards? What is the reason?

Nowadays its very common for tall people esp younger roles to be chosen of tall stature such as the recent Donny Yen. I mean considering a lot of these old movies went out of there way to choose villains who were pretty tall even by Western standards ranging from 6'2-even 6'6 and taller, why was the leading roles often just average by Asian standards?

The West has a tradition of selecting tall people in martial arts flicks or at least action roles involving lots of Hand to hand combat even as far as the 70s as seen in Tom Laughlin and Alain Delon! So I don't get why the norm in old Asian flicks and Western stuff taking place in Wuxia and Kung Fu settings often chose middle height people to play martial arts roles?!

What is the phenomenon behind this? I mean its quite BS that many of these same Asian martial arts movies frequently find a big 6 feet 2 inches tall 300 pound Sumo wrestler or 6'6 giant muscular Triad thug as chapter boss fight, if not the ultimate big bad of the movie even before Bruce Lee introduced the genre during the 70s. Even Western martial arts flicks or action movies starring relatively short actors like Jet Li such as Rush Hour 3 routinely a big bad giant Asian guy to play thug opposing the smaller white or black and Asian duo! The Rush Hour 3 example is almost 8 feet tall for Christ's sake and my memory's hazy but I seen plenty of other examples in big action flicks. I mean another Jet Li movie War had no issue finding a few Japanese actors bordering the 6 feet range, if not 6 feet tall, to play the Yakuza thug including at least one taller and stronger than Jason Statham!

So why do they tend to choose short Asian leads for martial arts movies even in Asia despite the fact 5'9-5'10 has been the norm in historical, drama, and romance hell even comedy movies in East Asia as early as the 50s and earlier?

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2024/10/26
00:16 UTC

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ハードボイルド

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2024/10/25
17:51 UTC

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Name the foreign movie which is similar to this situation

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2024/10/25
01:03 UTC

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Art Of The Devil III (2008) Thailand's Napakpapha Nakprasitte does beautiful & completely insane like few others - A black magic horror trilogy to sink your teeth into this Halloween

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2024/10/24
18:05 UTC

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Satanico Pandemonium (1975) Excellent Mexican Nunsploitation horror cult with the beautiful Cecilia Pezet & a young Enrique Rocha as Satan

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2024/10/24
17:31 UTC

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Mare Fuori or The Sea Beyond

Hello, I have been watching this show for a week straight but the place I was watching it got blocked for copyright and I can not fine anywhere else to watch it. Does anyone have seasons 3-4 available with eng subtitles?

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2024/10/23
05:14 UTC

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Blind Woman's Curse (1970) Japanese cult director Teruo Ishii's masterpiece starring the iconic Meiko Kaji - "Chanbara action, yakuza schemes, and exploitation sleaze, seasoned with a dash of Edgar Allan Poe."

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2024/10/22
11:52 UTC

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Cats on Park Avenue (1989) "Big time recommendation if you love musicals, goofy dance numbers, upbeat songs & of course long take cat footage!" - A story about the lives of young aspiring dancers who strive to create their own musical about stray cats.

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2024/10/21
20:07 UTC

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