I like 'day one" alien invasion movies.

I like seeing the detection of the aliens, to the first contact, discovery that they're hostile, and a big government-driven military human response.

I've watched all the English language ones.

Are there foreign movies like Independence Day, Battleship, and Battle Los Angeles?

It would be fun to see a non american military take them on for once.

Okay guys, I am trying to find the name of a really good movie I watched 2 years ago on amazon prime but it DISAPEAREDDDD...

- It was in Russian or possibly Karelian

- it was about this soldier whose comrade dies and he must go visit the family of the diseased comrade.

- he ends up falling in love with his dead friends sister

Here is where the plot gets blurry

- at some point he and the girl move in together on this land where they try to start a farm???

- their house almost or does burn down because the husband makes enemies???

- the main guy gets sick and almost dies but the lady takes care of him?????

If you know anything, pls share!! I have been trying to find this movie again for a LONG time. :)

Hello Everyone! I’m looking for a foreign film I read about in the last couple of months, but I can’t remember the name.

I believe it was done by a director who has had a long career in film, and the movie was very meta and reflected that. I seem to recall the movie is about a director who lost contact with someone who worked on his movies, so the film is a mystery and love letter to cinema.

I swear I saw it recommended by a NPR or NYTimes reviewer, but I can’t find anything similar online. Thanks for your help!

UPDATE: I found the film going back through NPR review archives! It’s Close Your Eyes by Victor Erice

Just before the weekend, the Academy announced the nominations for the upcoming Oscars ceremony.

The following five are the nominees for Best International Feature Film:

Emilia Pérez (France) in Spanish – directed by Jacques Audiard
Flow (Latvia) – directed by Gints Zilbalodis
The Girl with the Needle (Denmark) in Danish – directed by Magnus von Horn
I'm Still Here (Brazil) in Portuguese – directed by Walter Salles
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Germany) in Persian – directed by Mohammad Rasoulof

Please note that The Seed of the Sacred Fig has been submitted by Germany because its director took refuge in the country since the regime in Teheran is persecuting him and his crew.

In addition to this nomination, Emilia Pérez and I'm Still Here have also been nominated for Best Picture and Best Actress; while the dialogue-free animated film Flow has also been nominated for Best Animated Feature Film.

Emilia Pérez has also been nominated a further 10 times:

Best Film Editing
Best Cinematography
Best Director
Best Supporting Actress
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Sound
Best Make-Up & Hairstyle
Best Original Score
and twice for Best Original Song

All of the nominees for Best Documentary Feature Film are also international films by the definition of this sub-reddit; as are almost all of the nominees in the Best Animated Short Film and Best Live Action Short Film categories.
In the category Best Documentary Short Film there is one international nominee, Japan's Instruments of a Beating Heart:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/97th_Academy_Awards#Nominees

Hi! I would like to know your recommendation of films that take place during summer holidays.

I already thought of many french and american films, and I would like to see how this theme is treated in other parts of the world.

Thank u 🙏

A cautionary and beguiling vision of a placid future of clinical order where humanity’s voyage is confronted with its limitations. Inspired by Henry James’ novella The Beast and the Jungle, director Bertrand Bonello loosely reworks the pages of James’ story, deriving something far more reflective of our modern age.

Centered on an ill-fated and star-crossed love that transpires through the ellipsis of time, the film spans over a century revolving around three specific time periods (1910, 2014 and 2044), each carrying its own commentary unique to that era, exploring the undulating and repetitious echoes of humanity that transcend time and space.

The film is rooted in its futuristic setting of 2044, steeped in banal minimalist landscapes eerily unoccupied where nature and urban sprawls are slowly becoming entangled, Bonello summons an enigmatic dystopian future where AI holds dominion over human progress. Emotions are seen as a hindrance within the workforce due to their unpredictability, leading people to go through a process that purges their DNA of its historical fingerprint by reliving their past lives to remove their emotional residue and become better suited for their digital ecosystem.

Continue reading at: https://cinemawavesblog.com/film-reviews/the-beast-2023-review-and-analysis-explaied/

The movie was very recently added to Imprint Asia, an independent distributor of film in Australia and New Zealand. "In 2020, Via Vision launched the world-renowned boutique label, Imprint Films. Specialising in long requested and previously unreleased classic cinema, the label has since branched out into Imprint Television and Imprint Asia, and is now home to a growing library of highly collectable premium releases." About | Via Vision

About Zhou Yu's Train :
"Twice a week, Zhou Yu, a beautiful artisan, takes the train to faraway Chongyang, where she indulges in a torrid affair with Chen Ching, her poet-lover. United by their passion, he finds in Zhou the ultimate muse, while she believes Chen to be her ideal soul mate. But accompanying Zhou on her long, lonely train rides are two individuals who threaten to derail her romantic idyll: Zhang Qiang, a young doctor hopelessly obsessed with her, and Xiu, a mysterious young woman who bares a striking resemblance to Zhou and seems to be following her every move. A passionate tale of one woman's search for perfect love, Zhou Yu's Train is a sensual evocation of distance and time, reality and imagination, where the only thing that's truly real is what's in one's heart."

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I have seen it and have the ability to stream it on filmdo but I really prefer physical media.

It was made in some African country. It’s about two friends who lived in a very poor neighborhood and had a dream of building a car together. Year after year they were buying the parts, until one day a quarry opens in the region and they start working there. This also changes them, one of them becomes a supervisor and the other doesn’t handle the situation well. In the end, the friend who didn’t become a supervisor ends up killing himself by crashing the car.

looking for websites that have french movies with comprehensible english subtitles .... i'm struggling to find any so does anyone know a website i can use?

Could anyone suggest an outstanding thriller they’ve seen? I’m open to both recent and classic films. I’m looking for a captivating movie that combines drama and suspense, leaving me pondering long after it ends. I would be truly thankful!

Can anyone suggest a fantastic French thriller they’ve recently seen? I’m looking for something that keeps you on the edge of your seat. Thank you in advance!

i can’t use billibilli and the youtube video was taken down

The thing that struck me most about “Stroszek” was the inability of Germans to dress themselves. They pick out cowboy hats, greasy leather jackets, rhinestone vests, ferret fur coats, even clogging shoes, and then walk around outside like this is all normal. I believe this is one of Herzog’s signature traits; emphasizing the more bizarre side of Germanness the Teutonic spirit run wild. Even though Herzog is preoccupied by the unbearable weight of capitalist modernity, I couldn’t help but grin at those goofy krauts and their wardrobe.

No matter how bad things get, Herzog will slide in some truly bizarre humor, even if it’s more “clever” than funny. We don’t know why Bruno Stroszek (Bruno Schleinstein) was sent to prison. We can infer that it’s the result of some drunken petty crime. We immediately feel concern for him because prison, while it is an institution designed to crush all light and spirit and hope, might have been an alright place for Bruno. He’s that warped. He cannot make it on the outside. He isn’t necessarily “mentally ill” or a “degenerate,” he simply lacks some fundamental understanding of power structures. Over of the course of the film, he will be beaten for it, sexually humiliated for it, extorted for it, and eventually forced into suicide over it.

Despite being a pariah in almost every way, Bruno has genuine friends. There’s the elderly gentleman (Clemens Scheitz) who brings bird cages, shares piano melodies, and engages in late-night conversations about anything and everything. There’s Eva (Eva Mattes), a prostitute down on her luck, who is genial and strong willed, but the wills of her oppressors are stronger.

Continue reading at: https://cinemawavesblog.com/film-reviews/stroszek-review-and-ending-explained/

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I'm really interested in watching this film but I worry it's much more disturbing than I've seen in the trailer. Letterboxd reviews and online info about it say it's quite a heavy watch, but I can't find anything regarding any more detailed description of how graphic it is. I know the film is based on a true story involving mass in*ant*cide, but I'm unsure how subtly/unsubtly the film treats the subject. If someone has seen it please provide more info to the breadth of the violence depicted, spoilers appreciated.

If anyone who's seen it would like to fill out the Does The Dog Die page on it I'm sure it would be helpful for others as well

Jacques Audiard's Emilia Pérez was the big winner of the night on the "film" side of the Globes. It won "Best non-English language film" and "Best film - musical or comedy". It also won the award for "Best original song", and Zoe Saldaña won "Best supporting actress" for her performance in the film.

The other big news of the night was Brazil's Fernanda Torres beating several Hollywood heavy-weights to the "Best actress - drama" award for her performance in the Brazillian polit-drama I'm Still Here.

The French-Belgian-Latvian co-production Flow was selected as "Best animated film"; but as the film is entirely free of dialogue, the fact that it is "foreign" is neither here not there.

All three films mentioned - Flow, I'm Still Here, and Emilia Pérez - are still in the running for an Oscar nomination, i. e. they are on the 15-title short-list which will be whittled down to the final five nominees on January 17th.

EDIT: Due to the fires in California, the Academy has given members a few extra days to vote. Therefore, the announcement of the nominees has been postponed until the 23rd. This will also affect the announcements for "Best International Feature Film".

On the "television" side of the Globes, the Japanese show Shogun was the big winner, receiving the award for "Best TV series - drama" as well as three acting awards for Tadanobu Asano, Anna Sawai, and Hiroyuki Sanada.

So, I had a question. I like foreign films but don't get to see many of them. Here in the US, I know with like spy films and action films (Mission impossible, James Bond type films) it seems to always be a russian bad guy for some reason. Like a russian sleeper cell or a russian spy posing as a hotel clerk or something. I was curious, in Russian films is it always like a navy seal or something causing problems? I've only thought about it from one direction, but what are the foreign bad guy stereotypes and where do they come from? Like in Finnish films is the spy from the US? Russia? Norway? Curiosity has gotten the better of me.

Just finished watching O Ehthros Mou (My Enemy) and I’m confused about the ending. Did the father actually kill the guy who raped his daughter, or was it just a random gang member from the crew that broke into their house?

Here’s why I’m confused: the crazy ex-military dude gives him photos of a blonde guy and tells him that’s the one who went into his daughter’s room during the robbery. The father even talks to his wife about it, saying he knows who did it. But at the end of the movie, he ends up killing some black-haired dude instead – and he believes he’s killed the rapist. Did I miss something, or was there a mix-up? Who did he actually kill?

Also, what’s your take on the burglar's wife’s reaction at the end? Do you think she “forgives” him for killing her husband, realizing the kind of man she was really married to? Or do you think she protects him from the police just to send the gang after him later? What’s more likely?

Let me know what you think – I’m so confused!