r/ForeignMovies

Please help my Film club decide. We have a dead heat on our internal poll under the theme of foreign film with subtitles.

So if you could vote below we will go with the wider communities vote!

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Hi all, your help would be greatfully received.

I'm looking for a film that I didn't get to watch on a plane about 15 years ago.

The name of the film would be from memory (or at least the English title) Extraterrestrial or Extra Terrestrial. From memory it was a Russian film or Eastern European or Soviet.

Again from memory the brief synopsis was a guy meeting an alien visitor on his way home from work. Artwork kind of looked like a guy in his 50s wearinng a grey/blue jumper.

It is a long shot that anyone will know this one, but given the name of the film I been running up against a brick wall over the years..

Thank you in advance

Hi everyone, I've started to really enjoy European movies - even ones where they don't speak English.

I am not sure how to find new ones to watch.

Do you have any recommendations or a list of must watch?

Thank you very much!

Any suggestions?

The movie is out now!

Jerusalem, 1967. The Six-Day War. Zvika, a platoon commander in the Paratroopers, enters a secluded Jerusalem home belonging to an elderly couple. As the clock ticks down and the house is designated to become an urgent military command post, a hidden presence inside changes everything... forcing Zvika to choose between rigid duty and quiet humanity.

I need to expand my knowledge about contemporary films, i think i watched very few. Is just that the newest films don’t appeal to me, but i think that there has to be lot of recent films that are very good and important. I’d say that the most recent films that are my favorites are Burning (2018) and Monster (2023), but i want to know even more recent ones and from all around the world that talk about different themes that are relevant today.
So it would be great if you could give me some recommendations (mainly aiming artistic and author films), thank you.

WARRIORS OF THE WASTELAND is a post-apocalyptic Serbian action movie inspired by Mad Max franchise, Western and Samurai movies.

“In a distant future following a nuclear catastrophe, the West Balkans have become a lawless wasteland where the most valuable currency is the bullet. A mysterious blind fiddler wanders the ruins, singing the legend of the "Grain People"—a peaceful community of wheat-growers who refuse to submit to a distant city's tyranny. When a young warrior’s family is slaughtered by a deranged warlord, he embarks on a bloody quest for vengeance. Armed only with a blade, drifter John traverses the dangerous wastelands, searching for his sister and the man who kidnapped her."

IMDB 7.1

Letterboxd 3.3

Available at Wellgousa, Amazon Prime Video, JustWatch, Apple TV

Die Odyssey von Christopher Nolan ist ein Kunstwerk, welches kaum ein anderer Film nachzuahmen im Stande ist. Sieht man es an und nimmt es wirklich in sich auf, so durchläuft man mehrere Phasen der inneren Neugestaltung. Zunächst erhält man das Gefühl, das jeder andere Film im Vergleich sinnlos und eng gedacht ist. Es wird stets nur ein winziger unbedeutender Teil der menschlichen Natur, des menschlichen Lebens abgebildet, während die Odyssey als umfassendes Werk der höchsten Kunst erscheint, ähnlich in seiner ganzheitlich tragenden Natur dem Faust. Im gleichen Atemzug überträgt man diese Einstellung auf das eigene, vergängliche Leben, auf einer so unendlich andauernden Welt, sodass man sich selbst als klein und unbedeutend, als Staubkorn im Meer wahrnimmt. Dieses Gefühl verstärkt der Gedanke, Odysseus wandelte einst auf dieser Erde und ist nun seit vielen Jahrhunderten gar Jahrtausenden bereits verstorben. Seine Asche brachte Pflanzen hervor und seine innersten Einzelteile tragen zu neuem Leben auch heute bei, in einem endlosen Kreislauf, von dem wir ein unbedeutender Teil sind. Während man diese Gedanken fasst und die eigene Geringfügigkeit wahrnimmt, durchdringt einen ein neuer Wille kein Staubkorn zu sein, sondern ein Fels in der Brandung der Geschichte, gleich Odysseus und auf der Suche nach einem neuen Sinn, begibt man sich auf eine eigene Odyssee.

As an American… Are British films just foreign enough that they take us away (giving our stressed minds a much needed vacation) without needing subtitles?

I'm looking for a movie (might be German) I watched around 2010. It opens with a narrator explaining how heartbreak changes with age. A little girl cries over a boy, and the narrator says that when you're little, a doll can comfort a broken heart. Then the story jumps to when she's about eight years old. A boy is playing marbles, and the narrator says something like: "At the age of eight, boys' lives are ruled by marbles” and then „A doll can't comfort you anymore." Then it jumps to the protagonist as a goth/emo teenager/young adult with black hair and heavy eye makeup with a group of alternative friends. I remember her saying about herself and her friends that they’re ugly and seemed very insecure/depressed. The movie had a very bleak, adult, psychological tone. I’ve been looking for it foe years and still no results… any ideas? :’)

Michel Gondry released an alternate 70-minute edit of \*The Science of Sleep\* (Version B / The B-Side) on the French 2-disc DVD release. It reorganizes scenes, includes alternate takes, and frames Stephane and Stephanie's dynamic differently compared to the theatrical cut. Since it only ever officially came out with French audio, non-French speakers haven't really been able to follow it. I put together an English subtitle (.srt) file using Subtitle Edit for the Version B cut on Archive.org so people can finally watch it with subs. I've dropped the Archive.org link in the comments section below!