I am not particularly a fan of foreign films, nor am I an elitist that hates anything but non-Hollywood indie films (although I generally enjoy indie films!). But after re-watching Let the Right One In for the Nth time, I found that Netflix was suggesting lots of movies that sounded very interesting and turned out to be foreign films. Some I had seen before, but were worth re-watching. Some were just OK. Here is a list of some of the ones I have enjoyed. (NOTE: n my humble, yet accurate, opinon, subtitles are to be preferred over overdubs).
Let the Right One In (2008)
Oscar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl who turns out to be a vampire.
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
In the fascist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
Part one of the trilogy. A journalist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing for forty years by a young female hacker.
Amélie (2001)
Amelie, an innocent and naive girl in Paris, with her own sense of justice, decides to help those around her and along the way, discovers love. (Warning: total chick flick.
Trollhunter (2010)
Film students tracking an alleged bear poacher discover he is actually an undercover troll hunter.
Arn (2007)
Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a forbidden love.
North Face (2008)
Based on a true story about a competition to climb the most dangerous rock face in the Alps. Set in 1936, as Nazi propaganda urges the nation’s Alpinists to conquer the unclimbed north face of the Swiss massif – the Eiger.
Downfall (2004)
Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator’s final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.
The Seventh Seal (1957)
A classic film concerning a Knight seeking answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.
Das Boot (1981)
Nominated for six Oscars, this edge-of-your-seat dramatic triumph follows the trials of a German U-boat crew during World War II.
