What is the best foreign film you have watched?

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Submitted by SteveTheEagle on January 6, 2026

What is the best film in a foreign language or made by a foreign studio that you have seen?

31 Comments

Level 54

Jan 6, 2026

I haven’t seen many, but La Haine, City of God, and Parasite are all perfect movies

Level 27

Jan 6, 2026

parasite is reeeeally good

Level 53

Jan 6, 2026

Kung Fu Hustle is a classic.

Come and See is fantastic but brutal, but it’s a tough watch. Don’t watch it if you’re not in the right headspace.

Unicorn Wars is also up there. Think apocalypse now meets care bears.

So, uh, one of those three.

Level 83

Jan 6, 2026

Kung Fu Hustle is one of my all-time favourites! watch it every couple years and I’m always happy after watching it.

Level 83

Jan 6, 2026

For South Korean movies, I went into Burning with no knowledge of the plot and really, really enjoyed it. I also liked the Wailing quite a bit. Obviously Parasite is pretty great, too.

For Japanese, anything by Miyazaki is great. Seven Samurai, Ikiru, Rashoman, Ran… anything by Akira Kurosawa is also amazing.

Level 54

Jan 6, 2026

I really need to get into korusawas filmography

Level 27

Jan 6, 2026

i think Train to Busan is honestly kind of an underrated zombie film. i know it has good ratings but i think particularly in the US, people think the best zombie movies are like WWZ or 28 Days Later. Train to Busan is miles better than both of those movies

Level 83

Jan 6, 2026

WWZ is awful. 28 Days Later is very good, but Train to Busan is pretty great.

Level 27

Jan 6, 2026

WWZ becomes especially bad once you read the book—which is fantastic—because then you get mad that the movie has literally no similarities to the book at all

Level 83

Jan 8, 2026

Battle of Yonkers!

Level 27

Jan 8, 2026

yonkers is so peak. i really like the story of the chinese guys in the submarine. also the lady whose family fled to canada and barely survived the winters

Level 78

Jan 6, 2026

I’m Indian. Most of the movies I’ve seen are in English.. so.. there are clearly too many to list here..

Level 33

Jan 6, 2026

Definitely Revenge of the Sith, Return of the King, Endgame or Thor Ragnarok

Or maybe you were speaking about non-English movies ?

Goebbels and the Fuhrer (a German movie about you-know who's minister of propaganda)

Level 61

Jan 6, 2026

Bluey

Level 65

Jan 7, 2026

valid

Level 27

Jan 6, 2026

The Platform was really cool

Level 81

Jan 6, 2026

Das Boot

A German film and also a TV series iirc, about a U-boat during WW2

Level 78

Jan 6, 2026

Babette’s Feast

Level 47

Jan 6, 2026

I'm just going to choose one per country.

Belarus: Come and See (1985)

France: The Girl on the Bridge (1999)

Germany: Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997)

Iran: Taste of Cherry (1997)

Italy: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

Japan: Brother (2000)

Russia: Brother 2 (2000)

South Korea: Parasite (2019)

Turkey: King of the Doormen (1976)

Level 63

Jan 6, 2026

Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources (French)

Spoorloos (The Vanishing) - French/Dutch

Festen (The Celebration) - Danish

Level 92

Jan 6, 2026

The Farewell (2019), Minari and Past Lives (2023) are all great but they're not made in foreign countries as far as I can tell. They were all made by Americans.

Also, do British or Australian movies count lol?

Level 63

Jan 6, 2026

nothings foreign if we are all humans!

Level 61

Jan 7, 2026

It is foreign if we have political and country divides! Foreign has nothing to do with species.

Level 63

Jan 8, 2026

bro didnt undersant the vibe/msg

Level 61

Jan 8, 2026