lovefilm recommendations *Highbrow only*

[LadyMetroland]

Am completely broadminded but just can't stomach Hollywood boy-meets-girl drivel ... I would, however, consider Roadtrip (for example) to be a good Hollywood film so I am not dismissing the genre entirely. But my cup of tea leans slightly more towards arty independent type films and/or foreign language things

Please help me build up my list!

I guess Dude, Where's my Car? is out then
I really enjoyed Dans Paris. And definately MicMacs if that's out yet

How about going for some classic movies too - Bringing up baby, 12 angry men, His girl Friday - quite like interspersing the Hollywood movies with movies like that.

Pedro Almodovar movies are a good bet - part funny, part sad - Volver, Women on the edge of a nervous breakdown, All about my mother - one of my favourite directors. All in spanish so ticks the spanish language box.

Another US director I like was Hal Hartley - his movies arent mainstream, bit quirky and offbeat - worth checking out.

Jean De Florette & Manon Des Sources

Buffalo 66, boy meets girl, but its my favourite.

Intacto
The Consequences of Love
Rita, Sue and Bob Too
Japanese Story
The Dark Hour

Juno
Duplicity
Brick

i like gong li and tried to follow her films, with lovefilm though i found i was on the waiting list for so long for anything slightly out of the ordinary that i just gave up!

don't be afraid of the dark is a weird 70s scary flick if you like that sort of thing

Goodbye Lenin - German comedy about the Berin Wall. No, really.

(subtitled = highbrow, right?)

Brick is excellent.

It's not highbrow - but Reykjavik 101 is brilliant.

Goodbye Lenin - I second that, Trilly!

La Haine
Un Homme Tres Discret
Ma Vie En Rose
Le Diner de Cons (seen it 3 times - outstanding!)
Ridicule
Anything by Pedro Almodovar
Office Space - not in the slightest bit highbrow, but leftfield and fun
Clerks 1 + 2 - ditto
Read My Lips (can't recall French title but it stars Vincent 'usually irresistible but wearing dodgy tache' Cassel)
L'Appartement
The Deer Hunter
What's that one with Philip Seymour Hoffman in which he plays that writer...? Didn't he win an Oscar for it?
The Bridges of Madison County
Anything directed by Clint Eastwood

The Lives of Others. Bloody brilliant.

The Lives of Others is on my lovefilm list right now

You will LOVE it. Has one of the best portrayals I've EVER seen from the guy who's the main spy-person. Also it's worth watching the extra stuff about the real lives of the actors...fascinating. Really fascinating.

Agree with Hal Hartley, definitely.
Noi Albinoi (for Iceland fans).
Anything Caro and Jeunet.

Try Deadwood (TV series) and Six Feet Under if you missed it.

Waltz With Bashir (if you don't mind the bleakness and love Max Richter soundtracks).

The Three Colours series and La Double Vie de Veronique.

Oh, and anything by Jim Jarmusch.

John Sayles?- I love Limbo and Passion Fish. Agree with Speedy about The Lives of Others- brilliant. The Philip Seymour Hoffman film is Capote (I assume)- I like lots of his others as well. Foreign language- my favorite Japanese director is Koreeda- try After Life and Maborosi: both quite sad, but really excellent. If you want something lighter (I am a bit of a Japanese film fan)- Shall We Dance (not the Richard Gere version, or even the Fred Astaire- although that's fun as well- but the third one on the LoveFilm list!)

Heimat, I loved it.

Any movie by Aki Kaurismaki

And of course anything by Luchino Visconti

Very old now, but I loved Sally Potter's Orlando. Tilda Swinton being gorgeous and androgenous and mysterious.

Excellent, I'm looking for inspiration for my lovefilm list too

I love Michael Hanneke and Kieslowski. And Jacques Audiard: Read My Lips is one of my all time favourite films.

The Baader-Meinhof Complex.
Gomorrah.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
The Painted Veil.

The best fl film I've watched recently was Ang Lee's Lust/Caution

i have lust caution waiting to be seen. i loved gran tourismo and was expecting not to like it for some reason

Guillermo Del Toro - Pan's Labyrinth, The Devil's backbone and The Orphanage.

I'm reading highbrow = Not Hollywood sausage factory, yes?

If by highbrow you mean arty farty sighing frenchman then I can't help, though Les Enfants Du Paradis is classic.
I'm sure this is littered with mistakes as I can't get my new glasses until tomorrow so feel free to write me off as the common muck that I am.