Friday 27 April 2012

Famous non English movie, foreign language movies

Let the Right One In
Swedish/Spanish
vampire movie

Oscar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl who turns out to be a vampire.
One of those few movies which makes you feel for the vampires, you would end up pitying or caring for them and their survival.
Amélie
French/Russian
amelie movie

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.
A different but interesting movie shows how simple movie making is if you could make up a simple but a interesting story.

Audition
Japanese
audition japanese movie

A widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all.
Violent to some extent during gruesome revenge events which is indeed for a minor part of the movie. 
 In July
German and others
in July movie

Daniel is a young teacher in-spe, who in contrast to everyone else plans to stay in Hamburg for the summer. Juli, a girl at the flea-market, wants to get known to Daniel and manages to sell him a Mayan ring with a sun on it, foretelling him that he will meet a girl with a sun. One day later Daniel is already on his way across Europe. It seems the prophecy came true somehow.
A great time pass and a road movie with fun, love, adventure, murder, border etc.

Confessions
Japanese
confessions movie

A psychological thriller of a grieving mother turned cold-blooded avenger with a twisty master plan to pay back those who were responsible for her daughter's death.
A movie about avenge those who were responsible for her daughter's death given that the offenders are juvenile under the law and her planned acts toward staging the perfect revenge.
 City of God
Portuguese
city of god movie

Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro take different paths: one becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer.
A Biography kind of movie with interesting turn of events believable violence, love and drug dealing, if you are into biographies this movie is one not to be missed

13 Assassins
Japanese
assassins movie

A group of 13 assassins come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord.

A non stop action filled movie for those who wanna get bored of the extent sword fight used throughout the movie, after a slow paced start explaining what is to follow and why, not a very gripping movie in terms of story-line.
 Children of Heaven
Persian
children of heaven

Zohre's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zohre until they come up with an idea: they will share one pair of shoes, Ali's. School awaits. Will the plan succeed?
A rather famous movie, from well known majid majidi similar to his other movies dealing with poverty and emotions.

THE RAID : REDEMPTION

Indonesian
the raid
 In the Jakarta slums, a derelict apartment building has become a no-go area - even the police are unwilling to enter. It has become a safe-house for the most dangerous killers and gangsters. A SWAT team infiltrate the building, under the cover of darkness, to remove its owner - a notorious drug lord named Tama.
A full stretch action movie which keeps you gripping and has a very decent storyline unlike other SWAT movie the action sequences doesn't get you bored like most do,

The cast for The Raid were roped in from other decent movie Merantau which i loved throughout except for the climax which was unnecessarily tragic.
MERANTAU
Indonesian
merantau movie

A good one for those who may want to see some fast action unlike kung-fu, movie deals with lives of innocent teens, and theirs livelihood while there are human trafficking rackets targeted at them.
Disappointment in the end when you get so close to save someone and end up not achieving it even if you save hundreds of others caught in the same situation still you end up disappointed to see someone what you saw throughout.
action, Silat Harimau, tragedy

KIDNAPPED
Spanish
kidnapped
Three hooded Eastern-European criminals burst into a home in a Madrid gated community, holding the family hostage in its own home, and forcing the father to empty his credit cards.
A hostage plan gone totally wrong, which isn't unusual. You hope for nothing to go wrong for the family which eventually ends up happening leaving us with lot of anger and disappointment.
moving in, hostage, rape, murder, atm, good man among villains.


The Secret In their Eyes
Spanish/English
spanish movie
How far would you go to take revenge on someone who hurt you, even after the law fails to provide justice, and you be patient till the end to make him suffer till his last thought in his mind.
A retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior - both of which still haunt him decades later
suspense, thriller, revenge, twisted-climax, against the law.
 
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