Your Favourite Indie/Foreign Films?

[splashmountainfreak]

I much prefer foreign or indie films to the crap that Hollywood usually churns out. They're usually more thought provoking, insightful, and artsy (although too artsy can be bad). What are your favourite non-Hollywood movies?

I love:
-The Squid and the Whale
-American Dreamz
-Shake Hands with the Devil (a Canadian documentry about the journey of General Roméo Dallaire in Rwanda during the genocide)
-Little Miss Sunshine (Yes, a little cliché, but I still love it)
-Amélie (again, cliché, but whatever)
-C.R.A.Z.Y

[jsdmn2]

The Station Agent

Not sure if it's indie or not, but it was the first indie-type movie that came to mind.....

[PEZZ Lightyear]

La Femme Nikita rocks!

Anything by Akira Kurosawa - but especially The Seven Samurai

Old German flicks have a special place in my heart, like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari or the old Fritz Lang silent masterpieces.

Newer foreign - Wings of Desire is a few years old now but so excellent.
Pedro Almodovar is an excellent Spanish director and his early films are very racy and hilarious.

And I really like Pan's Labyrinth.

[BigPigletFan]

I'm not a big film person, I leave that to one of my roommates. So with that I'll just say: Run Lola Run.

[TiaDalmaFan]

In no particular order:


Rize (2005)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<br /...mbed></object>Ikiru (1952)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<obje...mbed></object>Ran (1985)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<obje...mbed></object>Smoke Signals (1998)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<obje...mbed></object>The Harder They Come (1972)
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Bastards of the Party (2006)
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Bamboozled (2000)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<obje...mbed></object>El Mariachi (1992)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<obje...mbed></object>Salvador (1986)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<obje...mbed></object>Cidade de Deus (City of God) (2002)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<obje...mbed></object>This is Nollywood (2006)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<obje...mbed></object>Plus I routinely enjoy the works of John Sayles. My favorites of his are his back-to-back masterpieces Lone Star and Men With Guns.

[elly]

without a doubt my all time fave is Wim Winders' Until The End Of The World, which also has what i consider one of the greatest movie soundtracks ever made.

i'm also a huge fan of El Mariachi, its just so brilliantly done

[Tom Chaney]

Remembering them all and composing a list would take a long time. Both Victoria and I devour indie films. Many are dreadful. Some are gems. A few gems that quickly come to mind:

Hear My Song
Waking Ned Devine
Calendar Girls
Big Night
Billy Elliott
Kinky Boots
Everything Is Illuminated

[DarthDucky]

La Vita E Bella (Life is Beautiful)
The gods must be crazy

[CelestialImperium]

Most of my favorites are from Asia :

Anything by Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Howl's Moving Castle, etc)
Akira
Battle Royale
Oldboy
Hero
Fearless
Azumi
Zatoichi
House of Flying Daggers
Kung Fu Hustle
Ichi the Killer
Shaolin Soccer
The Host

[sailerm]

My all time favourite is Terry Gilliam's "Brazil"
Other films that fall into the "indie type"
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Glen Gary Glen Ross
Clerks
Strickly Ballroom
Empire Strikes Back

[FrumiousBoojum]

I have a long list.... no particular order:

Mayonaka No Yaji-san Kita-san
Shinobi: Heart Under Blade
Casshern
Kal Ho Naa Ho
Lagaan
Das Kabinet des Doktor Caligari
Nosferatu
M
Perhaps Love
Man With the Movie Camera
Der Golem
Le Morte et la Passion de Jean D'arc
Brazil
A Night to Remember
Happiness of the Katakuris
Ja Zuster, Nee Zuster
Smoke Signals
Cannibal: The Musical
The Notorious Betty Page
The Seventh Seal
Kung Fu Mah Jong
Kung Fu Hustle
The Myth (after a long string of american flops, this movie renewed my faith in Jackie Chan)
Ringu
Ju-On
Summer Time Machine Blues
Shadow of the Vampire
Memento
Donnie Darko
Oppuretta Tanuki Hime
El Labertino del Fauno
Rice Rhapsody
Dogma
Häxen
Tom Yum Goong
City of Lost Children
Life of Brian
Photographing Fairies
Ab-Normal Beauty
Audition
Metropolis
A Tale of Two Sisters
Cello
Lady Vengence
Shaun of the Dead
Hot Fuzz
Night of the Living Dead
Old Boy
Ghost World

Maybe that list is big enough for now...

[sir clinksalot]

Pulp Fiction (HELLO, it was an indie)
Shaun of the Dead
Delta of Venus
Brazil
Resevoir Dogs
Mallrats

I'm sure there are others, but I'm too lazy to think right now.

[knittingknerd]

I have a huge love for Kevin Smith movies (they're indie right?). So my top indie films are all by him.
1.)Dogma-I love it! I can watch it soooo many times.
2.)Clerks 2-Great movie. I love Randall!
3.) Chasing Amy
4.)Full Monty- first rated R movie I saw (and I was 16! The scandal!)
5.) My Big Fat Greek Wedding-so sweet!
6.) Imagine me and you
I have more... just not thinking right now.

My roommate made me see "Old Boy." Now that movie for days haunted me. Just... I couldn't get those images out of my head. But having said that when I tell my brother or my brothers friends I've seen it, I get cool cred. So in some sick way I like the fact that I saw that movie.

[kirbilicious]

My favorite foreign film and one of my absolute favorite movies is Les Choristes. The music in it is absolutely incredible. My other two favorites are Amelie and Y Tu Mama Tambien.

[DarthDucky]

Wait my bad, my favorite Foreign film is Monty Python and the Holy Grail