Life is Beautiful is one of my favorites that should really only be watched with subtitles. It’s a really sad movie, but sticks with you in a good way.
Train to Busan
Das Boot might be my favourite movie full stop.
I really liked “Battle Royal” i feel like the hunger games may have been written taking HEAVY influence from this film.
Babette’s Feast
The Raid: Redemption.
Rififi
Parasite
Seven Samurai
Manon Of The Spring
Babette’s Feast
There are so many foreign language films I love. Several have already been mentioned here, but I’ll add a few that haven’t been:
- Rashomon - Kurosawa, 1950
- Umberto D. - de Sica, 1952
- Amarcord - Fellini, 1973
- Many films by the Dardenne brothers, in particular: The Promise (1996) and The Son (2002).
- Many films by Kore-eda - perhaps his most well-known one being Shoplifters (2018).
Le Chant du loup. A very decent submarine action movie.
Chungking Express
A Serbian Film
君の名は。 (your name.)
Also my favorite overall movie.
It is available in English but I prefer to watch it in Japanese. Without subs.
I assume that works only because you’ve seen it enough times you remember the intent of what is being said, even if you don’t understand it to listen to?
Heavy Trip
I Am Not an Easy Man (French). It’s outdated now, but when I watched it as a teenager/ young woman it opened my eyes to a lot that I took for granted. I still think of it all the time when I’m brushing my teeth.
Merci!
And the version of “You’re the One that I Want” plays in my head all the time! So good!
