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

Mediterraneo,
any Studio Ghibli,
Cinema Paradiso,
Jules et Jim,
Y tu mama tambien,
The motor cycle diaries,
The lover,
The scent of Green Payaya
are some of my favs, all in their original language

Walter presents looks really interesting. Thank you all who recommended it!

@LuckyAmy1986

All the studio ghibli ones

Come to think of it, my now-eight year old loves Studio Ghibli films, and doesn't seem at all taxed by following subtitles. (And I don't think there's an eight year old alive who is pretending to watch subtitled films for the cultural capital bonus points.)

And lots of the TV series people have been obsessed with for years in the UK have been subtitled, foreign ones -- The Killing, Borgen, Inspector Montalbano, Engrenages/Spiral, The Bridge etc. There's a huge Scandi noir thing.

@JoeCalFuckingZaghe

Just felt the OP was very 'you people are so uncultured' Agreed.

I couldn’t say I’ve seen any tbh. But then I have after reading PPs and I’ve watched a lot of anime (subbed because I’m the epitome of uncultured filth). I don’t really watch a lot of non-foreign movies either tbh. Last cinema release I went to was Passengers (and it wasn’t great).

I don’t think one aspect of culture like tv and movies say much about a person. I don’t watch foreign movies / tv but I do listen to a lot of foreign music (gypsy folk, polyphonic Turkish etc) which probably isn’t everyone’s thing.

No, I wouldn't imply the number of films watched, foreign or not, is a sign of culture or intelligence. I appreciate my thread title may read this way, I was just trying to keep it short.

Parasite
Slumdog millionaire
The Power of One
Nosferatu
Avoir et Etre

I'm surprised that some people have not heard of Walther Presents I thought it was quite widely publicised.

I’m sure a few of these have already been mentioned but...
Let the Right One In (Sweden)
Volver (Spain)
Blue is the Warmest Colour (France)
City of God (Brazil)
Tsotsi (South Africa)

Wild Tales
Pan’s Labyrinth
La Haine
Biutiful
Amores Perros

I am a big arthouse cinema visitor

Das Leben Der Anderen
Das Weisse Band
The Law Of Desire
Women In The Edge Of A Nervous Breakdown
Das Boot

Attraction Fatale
Charlie et la Chocolatiere
Express Polaire
Son de la Musique
Le Magicien d'Oz

Sorry, very bad joke. My husband could probably name a few genuinely french Films. It's a good question!

Le Boucher
Cafe de Flore
I am love
Netflix series Dix Pour Cent
Nosferatu

So, erm, yeah, I can.

How foreign is foreign?
What about Lion? RabitProof Fence?

Assuming OP means non-English language, my first 5 remembered:

Parasite (Korean: 기생충; RR: Gisaengchung)
Intouchables
Mitt liv som hund
La Cage Aux Folles
Como Agua Para Chocolate

but I admit I had to look up their original language titles...

Also could have put down
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon,
the Great Wall (joint Chinese-US production)
quite a few Bruce Lee movies
Cinema Paradiso
some Gerard Depardieu films
A few Spanish flicks... (Pedro Almodóvar )

... some Nigerian romcom on the airplane last long haul flight. Can't find the title, though.

Foreign films

The Big Blue (has anyone else seen that?)
Jean de Florette
Manon Des Source
10 Jours en or
Bad Seeds

And just watched some great Netflix and Channel 4 dramas including

Resistance, Occupied (Norwegian), Deutschland 83

Love me a foreign film

The Piano Teacher - France
Central Station - Brazil
Everlasting Moments - Sweden
The Headless Woman - Argentina
The Double Life of Veronique - Poland or France

There was a time when I watched lots of foreign films, it was something of a passion. My time is more limited these days.

Manon des Sources
Jean de Florette
La Gloire de mon Pere
Le Chateau de ma mere

Can you tell I’m a Marcel Pagnol fan?

La Vie en Rose
Emilie
Cyrano de Bergerac
Parasite
Cinema Paradiso
Betty Blue

Plus TV crime dramas:
The Killing
The Bridge
Trapped
Spiral
Inspector Montalbano

We watch loads

The Fencer - another brilliant film. Finnish/German/Estonian.

Lola Rennt (Run Lola Run)

Goodbye Lenin

Nightwatch (Danish film, not the execrable US remake of it)

There was another German one about the GDR and Stasi but I can't remember the name

And now I am struggling but to be fair I don't really watch films other than James Bond, I don't have the attention span.

I do like the foreign language series on C4 by Walter Presents though, especially things like Deutschland 83 and 86 and then I have the DVDs of Babylon Berlin and Weissensee. And most of the Scandi noir series are shown in the original with subtitles.

Ah someone has mentioned the one I couldn't remember - The Lives of Others.

Das Boot is another one but the series not the film.

@AlwaysLatte

Attraction Fatale Charlie et la Chocolatiere Express Polaire Son de la Musique Le Magicien d'Oz

Not a bad joke at all😂 Made me giggle

Das Boot
Heimat

I even saw The Sting (L'Arnaque) in France when on a French exchange when I was 15. I couldn't make head nor tail of it

I watch a lot of foreign films & tv shows own a good 50+ on DVD. I find foreign horrors away from the Hollywood special effects have a quirky and scarier edge to them. Tend to get the more unique stories away from the usual murder p0rn or cliched Catholicism and demons.

I’ve been enjoying Netflix and their offerings lately too and this might be why terrestrial TV doesn’t show as many as streaming services (licence agreements as such) so I don’t think it’s ever a black and white answer why they aren’t on that often

My DC has a big thing for Asian cinema. Badly dubbed karate films are joyous to watch, they have their own little niche, but there’s also a decent offering of historical films too (not sure how accurate they are Chinese history isn’t my strength by I presume they relatively accurate with some artistic liberties thrown in)

Red Cliff did very well when that was released in the west iirc.

One thing I really cannot stand, and this is purely preference, is poor dubbing. I have to listen in it’s original language and read the subs. The disconnect between mouth shapes and words I’m hearing is far far too distracting so this might be why others don’t watch them?

As a side note for a long time I didn’t watch them because an ex found them ‘tedious’ so was forced to endure countless cookie cutter action/thriller/horror. It’s not an uncommon opinion in my circles 😩

Loved Good Bye Lenin.

Y tu mama tambien
Lives of others
Goodbye Lenin
Lola rennt
Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum
Crouching tiger hidden Dragon
Hero
Parasite
Howl's moving castle