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Tuesday, September 3rd, 2024 10:03 AM

Live Poll: More Multilingual Movies

Using more than one language in a single film can accomplish many things, including illustrating how interconnected we all are, no matter where on the globe we may be or to what culture or cultures we may belong. Each of the following films uses two or more languages. Whether by creating authenticity, enhancing atmosphere, or showing how  interdependent the world is, which movie uses the changing languages to best effect?

List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls525942213/

Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/UghRqDZEdfg/?ref_=po_fp

Note:  In this poll, combined with the two other polls linked to in this poll's intro, the included movies use 73 languages. 

In alphabetical order, they are: Afrikaans, American Sign Language, Arabic, Aramaic, Awadhi, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Berber languages, Blackfoot, Bosnian, Cantonese, Catalan, Cree, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, Flemish, French, French Sign Language, Georgian, German, Greek (ancient), Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Japanese Sign Language, Kazakh, Korean, Latin, Mandarin, Mixtec, Maori, Nepali, Norwegian, Osage, Pawnee, Persian, Russian, Sioux, Sotho, Spanglish, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, Xhosa, and Zulu

Also:  Somali, Scottish Gaelic, Haryanvi, Polish, Tamil, Serbian, Bhojpuri, Rajasthani, Southern Sotho, Malayalam, Mende, "Irish" (gaelic?/ gangs of ny & in america), Sicilian, Czech, Bulgarian, Romanian, Icelandic, Portuguese, Tagalog.

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3 months ago

Note to self: another poll idea after this one: multilingual in top 250?

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3 months ago

I'd especially love suggestions of older movies

Perhaps Sorcerer (1977)

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@Peter_pbn  Added; thank you!  I've been on a bit of a Friedkin kick recently but I've never seen Sorcerer. 'Hoping to find it somewhere without paying a rental fee on top of a subscription.

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3 months ago

Do you have a minimum number of votes?

FYC:

Mexican Oscar nominee Roma: Spanish and Mixtec mainly, it also has English, Japanese, French, Norwegian and German.

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@Pencho15​  Thankyou! I added it, of course. 

As of now, I have no minimum vote requirements and may not add one. If I do, it'd be really low, like maybe 1,000 or so. I like polls that can also serve as resources so I'd like to include some that not a whole lot of people have seen but are very good films, so I may add a minimum Metascore and/or IMDb score but right now, there's nothing. I do want to have several that aren't English-centered so 'Roma' helps with that. Thanks again. 

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@rubyfruit76​ 

FYC:

And looking for new languages to add to your record.

Army of the Darkness seems to be the most popular film where bable is spoken, and also has English, Spanish, German, Polish and French.

If you don't want a film from the USA, then Infiesto which is available in Netflix is a Spanish film and spoken in both Spanish and Bable.

Habitación en Roma has English, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Basque and Arabic.

Tomiris is spoken in Kazakh, Russian, Arabic and Persian.

Not with new languages but looking at older movies you could add:

The Three Caballeros with English, Spanish and Portuguese.

Soleil Rouge with English, Spanish and Japanese.

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@Pencho15  Wow, Pencho, thank you! I don't have much time at the moment so I'll have to come back to these, which I look forward to. So far, I added 'Tomiris' and 'Soleil Rouge.' 

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@Pencho15​ I'm at 36 but I'll be removing two so I'll add another of yours. Thanks again, Pencho!

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3 months ago

FYC:

Mestari Cheng - Finnish, Mandarin, English

Mandariinid - Estonian, Russian, Georgian

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@rubyfruit76​ 

If there is only room for one of these, I'd go with Mandariinid. It has more votes, an Oscar nomination and two languages which haven't been used yet. 

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@Jessica​ Thanks, so much, Jess! I added both. And an extra thank you for 'Mandariinid' because I added that to my watchlist (and two of its languages aren't in any other of the movies on these lists of mine). I look forward to seeing it. : )

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For You Consideration,

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@riverotter​ I love that movie and John Sayles is absolutely one of my favorite directors. Thanks so much for the suggestion; I added it. 

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Live Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/UghRqDZEdfg/

Congratulations Sara

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@Pencho15 Thanks so much! It was nice to see this go live. : )