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

Most people have Netflix and they now have an impressive range of kdramas and East Asian film. If anyone is interested in East Asian TV I fully recommend Viki. We watch it all the time as I love Chinese and Korean dramas.

PPs have mentioned dark and the bridge which were amazing. The first season of the rain (Danish I believe) was also good.

If you have the channel 4 on demand app you should look at the film section. They always have subtitled films. If you ever see "a taxi driver" (Korean) on there I fully recommend watching it. It is one of my favourite films.

Lots of people don't like subtitled films or TV series. I don't think there is anything wrong with that. It does required more focus.

I barely even watch films (it took DH and I three years after moving here to realise we'd moved an hour from the nearest cinema), and I still found this easy.

Parasite, Spirited Away, Manon des Source, Das Boot, Battle Royale.

But I also dispute your categories anyway, because I find there is a huge cultural difference between American and British films, let alone Kiwi, Australian etc. That's before you get to the production values etc (just look at the high aesthetic standard for actors/actresses in America whereas in Britain they favour more natural looks)

The storytelling is different too.

La Haine - France

• France

Three colours trilogy - France Women on the edge of a nervous breakdown - Spain Volver - Spain Buena Vista Social Club - Cuba

I could list more but will admit they are pretty much all French or Spanish, or Spanish language. Because they are the languages I studied and so I seek out those films to keep my hand in as it were.

DH would probably be able to name 5 German ones because that’s his thing.

We do use Walter Presents on Channel 4 to recommend various world drama series though.

@TheFuckingDogs

Is the mole cartoon Critter-Czech?! La Haine (French) The bicycle Thieves (Italian) Engrenage (French and a tv series) City of God (Brazilian) And you’re right! I can’t name another 🤦‍♀️ Was going to cheat but won’t! Is Baise Moi a French film? If so then also that!

I meant this cartoon m.imdb.com/title/tt0841927/

I can't, cant name one actually. But I have trouble with speech and have to have sound, subtitles and lipread, I can't watch anything where the cast aren't speaking english, even if its dubbed with english speech, it sucks because I've seen loads of great films I'd have liked to watch but I wouldn't understand what was happening.

Lives of others
Black cat white cat
Caramel
After the wedding
Departures
Berlin syndrome
I am love
Of gods and men
Heartbreaker
Das boot
A Sunday in the country

Can't remember any others off the top of my head but belong to an international film club so see a lot of non - mainstream films

Pan's Labyrinth
The Lives of Others
Come and See
13
Goodbye Lenin
Nightwatch
Dekalog
Kabhi khushi kabhie gham
Babette's Feast
Downfall
Pelle the Conquerer
The Wings of Desire
Burnt by the Sun
The Barber of Siberia
Prisoner of the Mountains
Cinema Paradiso
Manon des Sources

I used to watch a lot of films not in English.

Do you include tv?
Five different languages? Some posters are listing five in one other language.

Oh, I didn't read the OP properly. Five different countries
Trois couleurs bleue, rouge et blanc (France)
Parasite (South Korea)
SuperLopez (Spain)
Raise the red lantern (China)
El hombre de al lado (Argentina)

Too many to list. Fortunately we have a channel mostly dedicated to foreign content where I live. Some of my favorite films are Korean, & I recently watched a brilliant Italian film The Girl In The Fog.

Easy

Three colours red
Three colours blue
Three colours white
Amelie
Pan’s labyrinth

That’s the first five off the top of my head.

Most people have Netflix

A lot of people do. 40% of UK households have Netflix.

So five films from five different countries -

The Girl In The Fog - Italy
The Assassin - China
Castaway On The Moon - SK
Ragnorak - Sweden
The Secret In Their Eyes (The original far superior version) - Argentina

The 12th Man (Norwegian)
Das Boot (German)
Three Colours Blue(France)
y tu mama Tambien (Spain)
City of God (Brazil)

Would recommend (from the top of my head)
功夫 Kung Fu Hustle by Stephen Chow (Shaolin Soccer also worthy of a watch)
八佰 Bābǎi by Guan Hu
Captain Abu Raed by Amin Matalqa
臥虎藏龍 Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon by Ang Lee
捉妖记 Monster Hunt by Raman Hui
And every Studio Ghibli 株式会社スタジオジブリ, movie

I can name loads of foreign movies, but I'm also not British so I'm not sure it counts.

Kolya - czeck republic
Antonia's line - Deutch
Les amants du pont neuf - France
Il Postino - Italy
City of God - Brazil

However, there are many people in this country who love foreign movies and foreign TV shows, you just have to search on Facebook to find groups dedicated to Nordic Noir, for example.

Channel 4 online has Walter Presents with dozens of foreign TV shows. Brilliant.

I don't really get the point of what you're asking. And it's more about demographic than just nationality; some British people (my mother springs to mind) probably wouldn't think to watch a non-English-language film, whereas everyone in my household regularly does and thinks nothing of it.

But anyway

The Lives of Others
Like Father Like Son
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Goodbye Lenin
Girlhood
Train to Busan
Honeyland
Downfall
Cinema Paradiso
I Wish
… I could go on

OP I'm sorry to have to tell you, but it's ignorant of you to say that Welsh films don't count, even if they're made in English, but especially if they're not.

I could name tonnes of French and Spanish films I've seen over the years, but for the purposes of your thread:

Monsieur Hire - French
All About My Mother - Spanish
Thelma - Norway
Through A Glass Darkly - Sweden
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring - South Korea

I'm rubbish at learning languages but I do love a good subtitle

Missed that 5 different countries need to be listed. In that case:
Pan's Labyrinth - Spain
The Lives of Others - Germany
13 - Georgia
Nightwatch - Russia
Dekalog - Poland
Kabhi khushi kabhie gham - India
Babette's Feast - Denmark
Cinema Paradiso - Italy
Manon des Sources - France

A lot of people do. 40% of UK households have Netflix

And at least another 20% are using their log ins!

Parasite was one of the biggest cinema hits in the UK before the pandemic. (Korean)

Kahaani (Hindi)
Contracorriente (Spanish - Peru)
Jean de Florette (French)
Goodbye Lenin (German)
Solomon a Gaenor (Welsh)
Our Little Sister (Japanese)

I could name loads more, especially in the languages I've studied. I had an Almodovar phase when I was doing Spanish, and I watched a lot of Daniel Brühl films, too. Not just for practising the language.

BBC2 and BBC4 quite often have foreign language films at unsociable hours of the night.

"Foreign films" can be a niche for many but lots of famous our critically acclaimed in the west films are foreign.

Most of the ones I know have been mentioned here as expected, because they are more household than you anticipate.

Part of it though is simply budget surely - the UK and USA have pretty big media making industries .

I can name another 5 favourite ones easily (where I know/remember the original title I will use that)

De Grønne Slagterer (Danish)
Sunset (Hungarian)
In the Mood for Love (Chinese/Hong Kongese?) Watched that quite a few years ago)
Blind Date (French)
Catch the Wind (French)
The Night Eats the World (French)

There are loads more but it’s hard to remember without using brain power I haven’t got right now...

Oh and Babette’s Feast, of course!

Ones I've actually seen...

La Haine (French)
Angel-A (French)
I Saw the Devil (Korean)
Les Triplettes de Belleville (French)
Oldboy (Korean)

...okay so I like Korean thriller films and depressing French films, apparently. But you're right, I don't think many are shown here.