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

I watch a shedload of South Korean and Japanese horror films so yeah.

Train to Busan (of course)
Don't click
Pulse
Sadako v kayako
alive

Lucia y el sexo
Volver
Dolor y Gloria
Lykke-Per
Mustang

I lived in Spain for years although I am.from Scotland. You are correct about UK tv but netflix isnt bad for showing foreign language films.

365 dni
Mis
Katyn
Ogniem i Mieczem
Jak rozpetalem druga wojne swiatowa

Yes, I struggled to remember many that aren’t French though. Or anime :o

Will be adding a lot of these to my watch list. I particularly like animation so any foreign animated film recommendations would be great! I have seen a few French films but that’s it (le roi et l’oiseau is one of my/DS’ favourites)

God I'm thick. From 5 different countries? No, off the top of my head I can't.

I'd add Spanish, Italian, and Swedish to your list, OP. Almoldovar, Bertolucci, and Bergman are all well known as directors here too.
Channel 4 regularly run seasons of foreign films and have done for decades.

Really????

Goodbye, Lenin! - Germany
La Jetée - France
Amelie - France
City of God - Brazil
Man with a Movie Camera - Ukrain
Most things by Studio Ghibli - Japan
Most things by Tartan Asia Extreme - Japan
Train to Busan - Korea
Ghayal - India
Rare Exports- Iceland
Blue is the Warmest Colour - France

A lot of these I own.

That cultured enough for you OP?

Not a film but I’ve just started a Canadian First Nation series called Trickster. It’s quite good so far.

My husband is a king fu film fanatic, so I’ve seen hundreds of them. Plus we like Korean and Japanese horrors
Fist of legend
Hero
The orphanage
Ringu (way scarier than the remake)
I am not an easy man (French)

Jean de Florette (France)
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Spain)
Il Gattopardo (Italy)
Amores Perros (Mexico)
Jab We Met (India)

I'm interested in silent and art cinema so pretty much anything by Fritz Lang (Germany) and Sergei Eisenstein (Russia), and two films PPs have mentioned above, Ringu (Japan) and the Cabinet of Dr Caligari (Germany) are also on my list. Also:

Red Desert (Italy)
Last Year at Marienbad (Italy/France)
Waiting for the Moon (France, Germany, UK, US)
Borderline (Switzerland)
Chung King Express (Hong Kong)
The Broken Circle Breakdown (Belgium)
Eight Women (France)
Blow Up (UK/Italy)

Funny, I was just thinking the other day that Netflix offer quite a lot of subtitled films. I love a bit of French horror.

Dil Dhadakne Do - India
Broken Embraces (Los Abrazos Rotos) - Spain
Parasite - Korean
Le Mepris - France
Malena - Italy

Shame it has to be from 5 different countries as I"ve watched loads of French films so id have done well! You are right id struggle a bit. I used to go to a cinema in Croydon (David Lean cinema) that showed loads of foreign films, so I saw quite a lot but ive forgotten a lot of the names. One was Icelandic- Reykjavik (5?) I remember a Danish one...

Das Leben Des Anders - Germany
Barbara - Germany
Cinema Paradiso - Italy
Bicycle Thieves - Italy
Le Diner des Connes - France
Les Enfants du Paradis - France
Parasite - Korea
Tampopo - Japan
Babette's Feast - France
My Life As a Dog - Sweden

And dozens of others. Brits watch loads of European stuff. We live on a TV diet of subtitled Scandi-noir for a start.

Les choristes
Intouchables
Alice
Barbecue
8 Femmes
All excellent films by the way...

Oh ive seen Malena too and Life is Beautiful

Channel 4 has an entire strand devoted to non-English TV series called Walter Presents @subjecttoavailability

The simple reasons why less foreign films are shown in the UK is that a huge percentage of films are made in English and many people, whatever language they speak, feel that watching a film in its original language is a better experience than dubbed or subtitled films. If you don't live in a nation that has a huge film industry in the national language, broadcasters have to buy in films and dub/subtitle them.

Here are your 5:

Linha de Passe (Brazil)
Osama (Afghanistan)
Paradise Now (Palestine)
Irreversible (France)
Kika (Spain)

FWIW I saw 3 of those in the cinema and they were widely advertised on posters on the tube/bus shelters etc.

You only have to observe the number of little Amelies born in the UK since the film came out to see that plenty of Brits do watch foreign films.

Oops, missed the bit about 5 different countries!

@CoconutGrove we had Malena and I watched it but I gave it away. It’s too brutal. An amazing film but not one I could sit through again. Same goes for Come and See. Horrific.

Yes, it was brutal and I don't think I'd watch it again. It was set in Sicily wasnt it? I've forgotten the name of the beautiful actress in it. I used to do a dvd rental scheme so probably saw it when I did that

Films

Bangkok Dangerous - Thailand
Das Boot - Germany
Pan's Labyrinth - Spain
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon - China
Goodbye Lenin! - Germany

TV series:

Borgen - Denmark
Wallander - Sweden
Kaamelott - France
Moominvalley - Finland
Inspector Montalbano - Italy

I reckon more than half the films I watch are foreign. I’ve just ‘attended’ a big film international festival online, and saw films in Farsi, Icelandic, French, Arabic and Russian. The last film I watched on tv was Icelandic — Of Horses and Men. The last film festival I went to in the flesh was French. The last series I really got into on Netflix we’re Money Hespist/Casa de Papel (Spanish) and Fauda (Israeli, in Arabic and Hebrew).

I am oretty sure I can guess your native country😂

Thailand - Ong Bak/Chocolate/Born to Fight
Japan - anime/horror
Hong Kong - far too many kung fu films and some very odd horror. Hopping vampires anyone?
China - mostly kung fu
Korea - martial arts/horror
Sweden - Let the Right One In
Indonesia - The Raid
France - La Haine, Martyrs, District 13

Spain - El Dia De La Bestia, Rec, The Platform
Brazil - City of God
Russia - Nightwatch, Hardcore Henry
Serbia - The utterly charming A Serbian Film (N.B. there is a huge level of sarcasm in that comment)
Germany - Das Boot
Italy - horror (as long as you can overlook the awful plots)
South Africa - District 9, Chappie (ok that's sort of American but it's SA set with Die Antwoord as the lead actors so I'm counting it)

Slightly biased towards films where the cast are either fighting or going splat granted but there is so much out there and it's a hell of a lot easier to find stuff than it was 20 years ago.