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So which country would you say produces the best foreign flicks? France, Italy or Brazil. And which are asome of your favorites. I love brazilian movies personally i.e. city of god and central station. Also does Israel release any good movies?

I would say France Even if we do a lot of tiny useless movies, we have a good film industry.
Amelie, Winged Migration,...

Go France !!! http://atlasgeo.span.ch/flags/icones/France1.gif
j/k

This is one of the worst questions ever. Countries don't make movies! Directors, actors, and many others make a good movies. Not the freakin citizens. Dont classify movies in terms of countries.

Well without the ppls money and goverment aproval no movie is made in Portugal. No cash! lol
Saw 2 really good portuguese movies: "Os Imortais" (The imortals) and "Preto e branco" (Black and White) wondering how many others there are.
France has some cool movies like Amelie, Brazil has awesome movies cos they are very truthful (I have to see City of God!)

Well technically, you can. French movies are (mostly) quite different from american movies. It is the same with British, Italian, Brazilian, Indian, Japanese movies. Every country has its own culture and its movies are not like its neighbours' (cos you don't make a movie the same way in all countries) and every director is influenced by its culture (for example, the way Jean-Pierre Jeunet has made "Alien 4" is quite different for Ridley Scott's way, even though Jeunet had to work in the American industry) . Even though technics is the same and the fact that because of globalization films tend to be similar, you can of course talk in terms of countries.

Spain has also produced some good movies.

Not to mention that most movies dont have the cash America has to make movies!

Considering most movies are made in the USA, I have to say that "britain" make the best "foreign" movies. But France have made some real corkers to be honest

yeah i think Britain make some cool movies. i dont really cast them as foreign films cos apart from the accents there pretty much the same as over here. Lock Stock and Snatch were good, and so was The Full Monty. China make good films aswell. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon being the most obvious one.

Technically speaking no-one makes foreign movies, because what is foreign to you is natural to them. I know it is tiresomely pedantic to put it like that, but to put it another way... on a multi-national board (which is British in origin), the question should be which non-US country makes the best movies, not who makes the best foreign ones.

Or we could go by the Hollywood definition of Foreign, which basically means non-English speaking.

i would say america makes the best movies which are foreign to every other country

Have you seen the compilation of short/foreign films called watching you. They have one movie from australia and israel in there. I must confess I have never seen a movie from either of those countries (i know that is terrible to admit) but I don't know of any other movies from either of those countries. Does anyone have any recommendations?

INDIA HAHA.

I gotta go with China, Japan, Mexico, and Brazil have the best foreign films right now.

Australia : Peter Weir's (and Philip Noyce's) films (before they work for Hollywood, that goes without saying)

Being a horror fan, I'd have to say Italy, I've seen some great Italian horror films - Cannibal Holocaust and Susperia just to name a few.

Outside of horror films, I'll say France, they've made some damn fine movies as well, like Irreversible and Amelie. England is also worth mentioning for 28 days later, dog soldiers, and Trainspotting.

I think British films are also very good... (I'm a Monty Python fan, but also Trainspotting,...)

UK,China & Japan

My favorite would have to be Japanese movies, though I also like a lot of movies from Britain and France.

Nit pick

not really, kes
for me, hollywood is making foreign movies, for an american it's not

Yes I know. But its obvious by foreign movies ppl mean non-US.
And so far lots of ppl said French when they are not so thats a foreign movie

Afghanistan makes some killer sci-fi movies. I even hear Iraq is going to film a straight-to-Iraqi-cable movie of Saddam, with a sequel and a prequel to follow.

But a lot of people might not, Kes.

And 'non-US' is NOT the Hollywood definition of a foreign movie- that is non-English speaking ones.

So the question could, and should, have been better phrased and it is not a nitpick to remind people that this is a multi-national board and things should be said accordingly.

shoot, missed you again


ah well, france makes some good ones, we can't deny that

"For France's a jolly good fellow..." Erm, sorry...

not really, we are forced to say it
kidding

i like karate movies from japan n china n hongkong etc.

Germany during the silent era made the best movies in
the world. And many of these are still classics.

In recent decades, I say Italy, with the movie of Dario
Argento, and great films like "Seduction of Mimi" and
"Meditarraneneo".

Sorry for the out-dateness of my reply' movies, but I
haven't watched too many recent foreign movies.

most countries produce fantastic films, just got to explore.

I like films from all countries.

Britain e.g shaun of the dead, notting hill etc

Italian fims are some of the best imo, being a huge fan of giallo films, also Asian fims and British films, but in all honesty I could care less where a film is made as long as it's good.

But in all honesty, I gotta say that Hollywood comes out with a lot of garbage, and that's coming from an American.

I'd have to say... either Germany or Spain
France has some great movies too... and obviously Britan too...

Anyone seen "Der Untergang" very powerful film, loved it.

my pick would have to be either french,japanese or spanish movies
oyher than these britain has a couple good movies i guess

though britains movies aren't as good as the others i mentioned

The Netherlands,take Simon or de Tweeling for example.

Or Japan
Shichinin no Samurai and stuff like that love the Samurai Movies,Yojimbo,Sanjuro or Ikiru.(which is not a Samurai movie)Love Akira Kurosawa

Hong Kong and Japan

i would totally say india
bollywood is just marvellous
and b.t.w i used to live in the netherlands and the movies they make now just totally suck.. {i go there every weekend}

Hard to answer this but I do know. China has the best martial arts japan has best horror.

I MUST say Poland as I love most of our good old comedies. They're the best.

Also UK. Praise you, Monty Python!

I agree that Germany produced many of the best (IMO) silent films. Today I might say Spain just because it produced Almodovar. It seems like a lot of good movies come out of China as well. I don't think you can really say that any one country makes the "best" "foreign" films

Japan

korean, and japanese films are by far the best in my opinion, they are visually stunning, and push the evelope farther than anyothers, korean movies such as, oldboy, tae guk gi (brotherhood of war) H, revenge is mine. Japanese films such as battle royale, shiri, even anime ninja scroll. i guess when i see a movie i need to be rattled. i like to see stuff that would disturb regular people. there movies are taking things to a whole new level. if i am going to spend 1,2,or 3 hours wacthing a movie, it has to be something that leaves a lasting impression on me. and these movies i listed above are just a few that do exactly that. I live in america, and the movies they release here are marginal, you watch them once maybe twice and thats it you forget about them. these movies from korean and japan go beyond any american movies, by taking you past the "boundaires" of peoples comfort zones.

China, Hong kong, Japan, Britain and America produce the best i think.

Japan, China, and the U.K.

From a historical standpoint, Germany did metropolis, Calgari, Nosferatu...
...they, along with D.W. Griffith in teh U.S., are what ushered in the era of movies as more than science.

Nowadays, France makes the best. Man Bites Dog, Amelie, etc.

Italy for horror films, though.

Bollywood everythings a musical

4 people. 4 people have said Germany makes the best movies, and 3 of those were referencing the "silent era" movies. 3 words, Werner Herzog.


That's two words, moron!

Very true. That is only two words.

That's a hard question to answer...
I think Germany's made some awesome films... but I'm really into French comedies.
But then again Argentina has some great movies too and so does Chile. And South Korea's made some great horror flicks too.
It's a hard question to answer but I guess... France.

The Italian Film industry must rank somewhere at the top as the most inventive and courageous film makers of the first half of the 20th century and a special mention of the fist post war films are a must I believe.

French and Japan are good at producing movies. When Hollywood could not find a script, they give their attention to the Far East.

Originally posted by SandyMartinez17
So which country would you say produces the best foreign flicks? France, Italy or Brazil. And which are asome of your favorites. I love brazilian movies personally i.e. city of god and central station. Also does Israel release any good movies?


Hong Kong and any Spanish speaking country.

Japan

China

i would have to say Japan for their horror films... and Taiwan for their dramas.

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