AIBU to think you can't name 5 foreign films

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I have moved to the UK from another country and I have noticed that on TV they only show American and English films/shows. In my country (ex ussr) foreign films/ TV series are quite popular and often shown at prime time but seems its not the case in the UK with few exceptions like bbc4. Am I wrong? Do people watch Indian, Brazilian,
Corean films? Please vote.
AIBU- I (and most of my friends/family) can name 5 foreign films produced in 5 different countries. If so, which films are these?
YANBU - I can't name 5 foreign films.

I'll start:
Fantomas -France
Seeta and Geeta - India
Wild rose - Mexico
The taming of the scoundrel- Italy
Mole cartoon - Czech

loving this thread for all the suggestions

Although nowadays I can barely make it through any film, subtitled or not, without falling asleep.

Here for the suggestions. I barely watch any films but in the past few years have seen both Parasite and Balloon, and a few others mentioned above. Foreign language TV is loads better in the UK now, thankfully.

Little white lies
The 100 year old man who climbed out a window
The lunchbox
Amelie
Untouchable

I meant The Maid (2009)

My French and German DVD collection is about 70 films. Plus plenty of foreign language ones I've watched on Netflix or other streaming platforms.

It has made me chuckle that in your not-so-subtly sanctimonious post you have misspelled Korean...

Amelie
La vie en rose
The lives of others
Papillon
La Choriste

Op, one thing you take note of is that you simply cannot ask any questions such as this without some Brits reading it differently, Or reading it thinking that it is a very similar statement to 'I bet you can't name five different types of weather.' (hail, thunder, typhoon, rain, that light rain that soaks you through) (why don't we have as many different words for rain as the inuit reportedly do for snow incidentally?)

I got ringu and Amelie, and nothing else

Taxi 1
Taxi 2
Taxi 3
Taxi 4
Taxi 5

Does that count?

Wow.. Taxi. Another blast from the past.

Turns out I know more than a few movies too, I had just forgotten I did until seeing them on here.

@subjecttoavailability

Thanks everyone for your submissions, so looks like films from Germany, France and Japan are quite widely known.

Foreign horror is very popular among people who are interested in unusual or less mainstream in this country. Places like hmv have whole sections dedicated to it.

There are remakes that lots have seen that but less know started out as (normally superior foreign films)
Grudge films,
ring trilogy,
Rec (English version quarantine) to name just a couple
Dark water
The eye
Shutter

Korea
Japan
Thailand
A few very good french
Spanish
Various European countries
Some African countries
Australia (although you have discounted that)
And many others.

All have produced amazing films!

Yeah, easily.

I’ll pick a random 5:

1. The Grandmaster (Hong Kong Chinese)
2. Snowpiercer (Czech/South Korean - same director as Parasite, Bong Joon-Jo, mostly English language though). If that doesn’t ‘count’, I’ll go for Parasite.
3. Roma (Mexican)
4. Run Lola Run (German)
5. Spirited Away (Japanese) I think I’ve seen most of the Studio Ghibli movies - 20 or so.

I absolutely loved the Austrian film Sissi
Oh yes! I saw that on TV with German boyfriend. There's a lot of dross on German TV, but that was a good one.

YABU, and generalising.

Lagaan, Monsoon, Il Postino, La Vie En Rose, Parasite.

Dogtooth
House of fools
Katyn
Baise Moi
Goodbye Lenin
Blue is the warmest colour
The lives of others
The secret in their eyes
City of God
Rec
The maid
Train to Busan

Dogtooth is one of my favourite films ever, and Goodbye Lenin.

Would be so cool if this thread could turn into a recommendations thread, like if you liked The 100 Year Old Man Who Fell Out of a Window you’ll like A Man Called Ove or if you liked Amelie you’ll like Delicatessen

I would love some recs

I mean, I could name loads but I speak a few languages so I think it’s normal. If you look at Netflix, there are loads of foreign films/series on there which are regularly mentioned/recommended on another forum I’m on.

Watched an incredible french modern musical yesterday with Catherine deneuve: Les Bien Aimés

Very ignorant post OP. It could because we dont just have several channels: we actually have hundreds, so channels become specialised

People reading and interested should check out Mubi: its Netflix for arthouse and foreign film

Delicatessen
Jean de Florette
Manon des Sources
My Life as a Dog
Il Postino
Le Rayon Vert
La Haine
Belleville Rendezvous
Amélie
Audition

OK so partly YANBU as I know no films from Bollywood or Korea... mainly Europe.

The vengeance trilogy- korea, jamon jamon - spain, life is beautiful - italy, all about lily chou chou, seven samurai, plus all the studio ghibli like spirited away - japan, Stephen chow comedies shaolinnsoccer, God of cookery, wong kar wei films.such as in the mood for love, happy together, chungking express - hong kong, raise the red lantern - china. Betty blue, hairdressers husband, amelie, diner des cons - France. Run lola run - Germany. I mean there's so many.

Oldboy...forgot about that one
...and I saw a brilliant Swedish film called Border recently.

Is Oldboy the one with the hammer scene?

@orangenasturtium No, not those! I’ll look them up later, too exhausted now to do it, with everything else that’s going on for me right now.