AIBU to think you can't name 5 foreign films

[subjecttoavailability]

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

5 different countries you say....

Un et Une - France
Once were Warriors - New Zealand
Rabbit Proof Fence - Australia
Sophie Scholl - Germany
Occupied - Norway (TV series)

Stalingrad
Volver
Betty Blue
Solaris (The original version..)
Parasite
Are we there yet?

YANBU OP!

Obviously you have attracted the interest of people who are interested in watching films from other cultures, but our mainstream TV/cinema don't show much variety.

Loads of people say that they can't be doing with subtitles.

I do watch foreign films but have a memory like a sieve, so naming them would be a struggle.

I hope you have found people here are more interested in other cultures than is obvious immediately.

@Ginfordinner

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

Heimat was brilliant.

Happy Together (Hong Kong)
Chungking Express (HK)
Hana-Bi (Japan)
Tous les matins du monde (France)
Russian Ark

Le Haine (French)
Black Orpheus (Brazilian)
Cinema Paradiso (Italian)
Io Non Ho Paura (Italian)
Elle (French)
Parasite (Korean)
The Handmaiden (Korean)

Plus various anime films and TV series, all from Japan.

There have been a number of blockbuster "foreign" films in recent years.

I love foreign cinema and I'm possibly the least cultured person on Mumsnet. Some of my favourites are Inside, Frontier(s), Rare Exports, Train to Busan, Here Comes The Devil, Silent House, Baskin, and The Incident. Dark is absolutely fantastic too. Also anything by Guillermo Del Toro, which is just about as mainstream as you can get.

Everything by Almoldovar
Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources
La Rue Casas Negres (Martinique French Creole)
Jamon Jamon
Moolaade (Senagalese)
The Lunchbox (Indian / Hindi)
Woman At War (Icelandic)
Babette's Feast (Danish)

Just a few of my favourite films over the years.

@testing987654321

YANBU OP!

Obviously you have attracted the interest of people who are interested in watching films from other cultures, but our mainstream TV/cinema don't show much variety.

Loads of people say that they can't be doing with subtitles.

I do watch foreign films but have a memory like a sieve, so naming them would be a struggle.

I hope you have found people here are more interested in other cultures than is obvious immediately.

I think this is what interested OP. I am from similar country (based on her movie selection) and it wasn't an interest or a hobby to watch foreign movies. They were just there on a tv. Just a normal thing, nothing really about being cultured or not cultured. It's different to some non mainstreem ones. Now these are an interest. In here you kind of had to seek them out before the streaming services. It's similar to theatre. I don't know anyone there who wouldn't go to theatre ever. We regularly went with schools at least. It is much cheaper than in here though! (Unlike most food...). So I was surprised to hear that some people here never went to theatre and I was called posh MC when I said it was normal for us🙄 Yeah lol. The 1 bed flat I grew up in was hight of poshness. On the other hand you have and stuff as normal which would be unusual for us in another country.

It's an interesting cultural difference.

Surely this just depends on whether you like films or not....

Does anyone know any foreign films that are filmed on location in the UK - but with subtitles?

I think that would be interesting to see how a different culture sees the UK.

Jean de Florence
Manon des Sources
Betty Blue
Cine Paradiso
Il Postino

I've watched a few films/tv shows, generally with subtitles.

Das Boot
King of Blaze (China TV series)
Babette's Feast
SPL: Sha Po Lang (aka Kill Zone)
Sha Po Lang 2
Flash Point (Another Donnie Yen film, I like martial arts films).

I've also bookmarked a couple of tv series to watch, again with subtitles, can't remember the names without looking.

Movies just a few and none in recent years.
However I could name loads of tv shows/soap operas(particularly South American ones ).

That's all from my childhood though.

@pompey38

Eastern Europe all watch low budget cack that is why, plenty of soap operas and the Latin America telenovela’s , and not because your government gives you plenty of choice? they just don’t have the money to buy the newest trendiest films until after 5 years after release

Well, its true to some extent,but I was thinking this low budget stuff can also give some insights about other countries, what people find funny, what are their inspirations, what houses they live in.. I think this sort of internal perspective can be closer to the truth than Hollywood billion dollar budget hit.

@AccidentallyOnPurpose

Movies just a few and none in recent years. However I could name loads of tv shows/soap operas(particularly South American ones ).

That's all from my childhood though.

Like... Esmeralda and let's say Muñeca Brava (Wild Angel in English I would think)? 😁 Ah the memories😂

SchrodingerImmigrant - do you recognise all entries from my list

• Like... Esmeralda and let's say Muñeca Brava (Wild Angel in English I would think)? 😁 Ah the memories😂*

Oh God yes!! Mili was my idol! 😂😂

Marimar?
Maria la del Bario?

@subjecttoavailability

SchrodingerImmigrant - do you recognise all entries from my list

Except the Indian one. Does that mean you are further east than I thought or was it just something my family missed?😁 You made me want to watch Fantomas now. How did he not give us nightmares😂

@tboo

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

That's what I am after I have heard Nigeria (Nollywood) is the 2nd largest film producer in the world after Bollywood but I haven't seen any Nigerian movies

@AccidentallyOnPurpose

* Like... Esmeralda and let's say Muñeca Brava (Wild Angel in English I would think)? 😁 Ah the memories😂*

Oh God yes!! Mili was my idol! 😂😂

Marimar?
Maria la del Bario?

😂 Also Manuela. Uggly Betty later was South American too, wasn't it.

They were so interestingly odd. And Esmeralda was quite brutal. She was born blind, then got eye surgery later in life and then... Jose Armando goes blind! But just temporarily. Ah. Jose Armando...

How do I still remember these things🤦

@SchrodingersImmigrant well I still remember some of Natalia Oreira's songs.

And in all fairness Jose Armando was the name for half the male characters.

Do La Piovra(the octopus) and La perla negra(the black pearl) ring a bell? We had an italian period too. Very inappropriate considering I was still in single digits.

I speak 3 languages well and am learning a 4th... In terms of foreign language films I love

Erbsen auf halb neun
Lola rennt
Nirgendwo in afrika
Das Experiment
Das Leben der Anderen

Tillsammans (probably favourite film of all time)

Hiroshima mom amour
Le bonheur est dans le pre
Intouchables
Le placard
La famille Belier
Se souvenir des belles choses
Rien a declarer

In the mood for love

Diarios con motocileta
El Crimen del padre Amaro

I agree that there are fewer foreign films if you only have ordinary analogue tv but nowadays you can stream anything... Growing up cyrano de Bergerac used to be on once a year and very late at night! 🤣

@AccidentallyOnPurpose not to me. I usually watched these when with my grandma (except Wild angel and Esmeralda) so she might have known them.
Looks like we are similar age😂

8 1/2 Fellini, Italy
Alexander Nevsky, Eisenstein, Russia(but silent!)
Amarcord,Fellini ,Italy
Cries and Whispers, Bergman,Sweden
Tristana,Bergman, Sweden
La Cage aux Folles, Fanco-Italian
The garden of the Finzi Contini's Vittoria de Sica,Italy
and as lots have said his :Bicycle Thieves ,a wonderful film in black and white.
This thread took me back ! Thanks for that.