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Live Poll: IMDb Poll Board: Users' Top 10 Foreign FIlms

IMDb Poll Board Users' Top 10 Foreign Films
 

A list of IMDB Poll Board members' top ten favorite foreign (non-American) films.

❒ IMDb List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls093393116/
❒ IMDb Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/U48iAdaixnk/



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5 years ago

Oh Boy, this is going to be tough. I've watched many foreign films, but I don't remember their names or the name of the actors/characters in it.

Almost all the foreign films I've watched was on television. And they were dubbed in English. The only actor comes to my mind when I think about foreign movies is Jackie Chan. LOL

Imma need sometime to think about it. I'll post my top 10 list later.

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No worries. Take your time. :)
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I still have to see Roma and Pan's Labyrinth. :(
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5 years ago

An interesting question: from my perspective as I'm from Ukraine US movies are technically foreign, so it might help to add "(Non-English)" to the title of the suggestion. Just five cents. :)

My Top 10, so far, despite still being very subjective I tried my best not just to pile up favorite movies, but concentrate on certain level of cinematic perfection:
1. Le samouraï (1967)
2. Angst (1983)
3. Evge (2019)
4. Les quatre cents coups (1959)
5. Beau travail (1999)
6. C'est arrivé près de chez vous (1992)
8. Kin-dza-dza! (1986)
9. Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (2001)
10. Paris, je t'aime (2006) 

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Hey there,

It's not on the title, but it's in the description. I did think about it before; that's why I added "non-American" and not "non-English" because England movies are also in English.

-> I didn't add it to the title because I'd like to keep it clean and simple and as short as possible.

Thanks for your concern tho. I'll be adding your top 10 list soon. I'm eating rn.
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Oh, you Nikolay!
You forgot to add number 7
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BONAFIDE BOSS, oops!

Let it be Nikita (1990) then. :) 

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5 years ago

I know my first two would be Three Colors: Red and Salaam Bombay! but I'll have to look through the 52 page-list of films that I've seen to jog my memory for the rest. Once I have the time to look, it won't take long. I really like this idea. 

Oh, I'm assuming you mean just feature films? (No shorts, for example; what about documentaries?) 'The Red Balloon' would be on my list, too, if it weren't a short. 

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The idea was feature films, but I don't have any objection regarding documentaries or short.

Edit: But Yeah, I think it'd be nice to have only feature films. Thank you.
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No problem. That makes sense. 

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5 years ago

1-Seven Samurais(1954)
2_Harakiri(1962)
3_Throne of Blood(1957)
4_The Seventh Seal(1957(
5_Playtime(1967)
6_Spirited Away(2001)
7_Chungking Express(1994)
8_In the Mood For Love(2000)
9_Mononoke Princess(1997)
10_Memories of Murder(2003)

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1_Los Olvidados(1950)
2_City of God(2002)
3_Rashomon(1950
4_Solaris(1972
5_The Seventh Seal(1957
6_Ivan Childhood(1962
7_Three Colors: Blue(1993)
8_Russian Ark(2002)
9_Pan's Labyrinth(2006)
10_Amores Perros(2000)

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Bonafide, I made an edition at the last moment, instead of Grave of the Fireflies, i chose Russian Ark.

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5 years ago

Not including British or English-speaking movies:

UNDERGROUND (1995)
C'EST ARRIVE PRES DE CHEZ VOUS (1992)
ARMY OF SHADOWS (1969)
BATTLE OF ALGIERS (1966)
FORBIDDEN GAMES (1952)
DAS BOOT (1981)
BICYCLE THIEVES (1948)
DER UNTERGANG (2004)
WAGES OF FEAR (1953)
RASHOMON (1950)

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5 years ago

Also not including English-language titles:

1. Fallen Angels (1995)
2. Late Spring (1949)
3. Bleeder (1999)
4. Kaspar Hauser (1974)
5. My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
6. Nikita (1990)
7. Le Cercle Rouge (1970)
8. In the Aisles (2018)
9. The Two of Us (1967)
10. The Color of Paradise (1999)

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I'll add your top 10 list soon, just got myself busy with something else.
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5 years ago

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The word foreign here means films that are not in the English language.

I know a few of the films you've listed are also available in another language (s). But this list is about non-English cinema only.

Films like The Dollars Trilogy and 'Once Upon a Time in the West' are dubbed in Italian.

Maybe I should re-write the description.

Sorry, I hope you understand.
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I didn't even know there was an Italian version of that film.

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New list:
1. Bicycle Thieves (1948)
2. Festen (1998)
3. Metropolis (1927)
4. Ikiru (1952)
5. Come and See (1985)
6. Central Station (1998)
7. Seven Samurai (1954)
8. City of God (2002)
9. Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
10. Jagten (2012)

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5 years ago

I generally do like foriegn films, but I actually haven't seen that many.
I only have three, so maybe I can be the weird option.  :)
1. I Am Dragon 
2. Ragnarok (not to be confused with Thor: Ragnarok)
3. La belle et la bete (2014)

If I think of anything else I will let you know.  :)

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Sure, take your time.
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Ooh, ooh, I got another!
Godzilla 2000

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Okay, also:
Prinzessin Maleen (TV Movie 2015)
Die Gansemagd (TV Movie 2009)
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (2002)

That's 7 but I will try to think of 3 more.  :)

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Is Das Boot an American film, or foreign?

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Das Boot = The Boat, a German movie about a World War 2 submarine (U-Boot = undersea boat)

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I meant the movie about the soldiers during WW2, I believe, who decided to have one day of peace on Christmas.

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Do you mean the French movie Joyeux Noël? That's WW1, though.



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You won the race.

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lol cinephile
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I'm sick of this error. And it seems to me that it mostly happens to me. 
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BONAFIDE BOSS, I'm not sure why duplicates happen from time to time, but they do and that's okay. If it makes it better I'm regularly deleting them as one of my Champion "duties". :) 

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Please make Joyeux Noel my 8th choice.

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@Awesome,

Your Picks so far:

1. I Am Dragon (2015)
2. Ragnarok (2003) - (Make sure this is the correct one)
3. La belle et la bete (2014)
4. Godzilla 2000 (1999)
5. Prinzessin Maleen (2015) [ TV Movie ]
6. Die Gansemagd (2009) [ TV Movie ]
7. Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (2002)
8. Joyeux Noel (2005)
9. -/-
10. -/-
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Ragnarok is the correct link, but you have it listed as 2003; it is 2013.

Hmm... there are two I can add but the titles are German so it may take me a while to find them on IMDb... thanks for reminding me!

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I have my other picks, but I cannot currently find them on IMDb (because the site won't load right now), but I will link them as soon as I can!

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5 years ago

I will go with these for now.


1.) Cinema Paradiso 
2.) Pan's Labyrinth 
3.) Ikiru 
4.) Diabolique
5.) Amélie
6.) Spirited Away
7.) Battle Royale 
8.) Parasite
9.) Seven Samurai
10.) The Raid 2

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5 years ago

Update: Title Update

Old Title: IMDb Poll Board: Top 10 Foreign Films

New Title: IMDb Poll Board: Top 10 International Films


It'd be nice if an admin can edit this conversation's title and replace the word "Foreign" with "International".

Thank you.

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5 years ago

I had to leave out at least 15 non english language films that I have rated with 9 or 10.

Mine are:


Le trou
Le salaire de la peur
El laberinto del fauno
La grande illusion
El sur
Das Leben der Anderen
Ida
Una familia de tantas
Roma
Den goda viljan

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Make sure the titles I've listed are correct. Thank you.
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They all seem fine, thanks.

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5 years ago

Still pondering this Herculean task of a list.

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Good luck! <3
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