Favourite Films list from each country

[kingmob]

USA:

Spoiler!

The Wild Bunch (1969) by Penkipah.





Cry-baby (1991) by John Waters.






Stand By Me (1986).





Twin Peaks and Fire Walk with me, the movie edits not the series, by David Lynch (1991):

[Smeagol]

I'm not going to make a list because there are many, but some of my favorites are the old epics from the silent era. Especially Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen (Germany) and DW Griffith's Birth of a Nation and Intolerance (USA).

[Creoda]

I'm not going to make a list because there are many, but some of my favorites are the old epics from the silent era. Especially Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen (Germany) and DW Griffith's Birth of a Nation and Intolerance (USA).

That's precisely why you make a long list and don't narrow it down to a handful!

[coolfrenchguy]

They're alright, found them a bit boring in parts, but that's because I'm not much into fantasy. Another NZ film that I haven't watched fully but seems decent is Sleeping Dogs, which was Sam Neill's breakout movie (and director Roger Donaldson, whose films I like a lot).

Thanks for the suggestions, I'm not a sci-fi aficionado so I'd never heard of them.

from Roger Donaldson i have seen the recruit, the november man, cadillac man,species,the bank job

[CosmoLady]

the children of men is really fucking boring and inception is really brainwanking

i see you are south african , neil blomkamp is south africain with a double SA-canadian passport, did you watch his short sci fi movies?
starting with his early work pre-district 9/Chappie ideas with Oats Studios

have you seen ZULU a franco-south african movie made by Jérôme Salle

Thank you for the recommendations, I have not seen any of the short films, I will watch them!
(I don't know many indie films or short films, I'm not very cultured in this department)

I liked District 9 and Chappie as entertainment,
I'm not crazy about Blomkamp's films for some reason, they do not move me, I know this is subjective.

I love the first 2 minutes of Elysium, the opening is perfect,
but the film quickly became an insufferable lecture and I stopped watching after 10 minutes anyway.

I've never seen Zulu (2013), it looks too heavy for me, I'm not sure if I would enjoy it.
I've seen some post-apartheid South African films and I did not enjoy them, so I am not crazy about South African cinema.

My favourite South African film is Dirkie (1969) about the boy stranded in the desert.
The whole film is available on youtube.

Supposedly there were many enjoyable South African films made during apartheid,
but these were mostly mercenary films, the most popular genre.
I don't know them, my father enjoyed them. There were some crime films and spy films as well.
Many films are made or filmed in South Africa even if the actors are foreign;
so maybe I have seen more "South African" films than I think.

I selected my favourite science fiction films mostly for the ideas/concepts and atmosphere.

The only entertaining sci-fi films from my list were Lawnmower Man and Total Recall,
and also Terminator and Predator. 1980s Arnold was special.

Gattaca also had great ideas/concepts, but that film was too boring for me, I did see the whole thing though.

Tenet was even more brainwanking than Inception!
These are the only 2 films that I had to see twice to fully understand.
Probably this is part of the reason why they were successful;
so many people had to visit the cinemas at least twice to understand them.

The beginning of Elysium shows the present/near-future of South Africa very well, and the distant future of the US,
only without the space station and with more multiculturalism! The film seems terrible though so I will not bother

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

I might swap Night of the Living Dead with the Man Who Wasn't There



I am correct about Night of the Living Dead being the most important influence on future horror films but that doesn't mean it's the greatest 10 films ever.

Yes, I'll switch the two. The Man Who Wasn't There touches too deeply into the human condition for it to be ignored.

I watched this film with my parents in Spain in the theater. My father and I had a deep discussion about the film on our way home. My mother had slept through most of the film and when she was awake I saw her lean into the light to check her watch.

Some people are born able to see and other people are born blind. It's a question of personality type. People who are open-minded versus those who are closed-minded. Both can be either positive or negative depending on the situation but when it comes to art the closed-minded never understands what they're looking at.

Five really good films for a proper childhood and teen years.

Suburbia

Those who aren't Americans or Canadians won't relate to this film. It's very North American. It's based on a play, which is also excellent.

There is another film called Suburbia from the 80s with Flea of Red Hot Chili Peppers that sucks. I couldn't even finish watching that movie.



Clerks

The Jersey film of Jersey films

All other films by Kevin Smith suck but he's a really nice dude in person.



Stand By Me

The most bro film of all bro films



Explorers

A great film for pre-teens



The Brave Little Toaster



It's great for kids. It teaches the importance of friendship and loyalty. It's a bro film for children.

Much better than Toy Story and the Shrek shit (that I admit I have never seen but had glimpses). I suspect the reason there is so much faggotry is because kids grew up on fag cartoons and movies and now they are lame, faggy adults. I also suspect those shitty films stimulated high function autism: it's like a switch. They had that sickness in them and would have been fine if their parents signed them up for baseball or martial arts but had them watch those fag cartoon movies and now they can't get laid because they sing music from Shrek to the annoyance of everyone.

[BakersfieldChimp]

I'll toss in two more films

Down by Law starring musician Tom Waits and that Italian guy who won an Oscar for "Life is Beautiful" or whatever it's called.



Fresh

Tom Waits around the time of "Rain Dogs" add in your Sam Fuller and Abel Ferrara from anther post and seems we have a lot of overlap in films.



Thread Duty... I'm starting in Germany, and I'm going through the filmmakers and giving their best film and my favorite.


Robert Wiene-- Best the "Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" favorite "Cabinet of Dr Caligari"

F. W. Murnau- Best "The Last Laugh" favorite "Nosferatu"
I swap those two often, "The Last Laugh" is that good.

Pabst- Best "Pandora's Box" favorite "Pandora's Box"

Josef von Sternberg Best "The Blue Angel" favorite "The Blue Angel"

Fritz Lang- Best "Metropolis" Favorite "M".
I'm a sick pup

Leni Riefenstahl-Best "Triumph of the Will" Favorite-NONE
She holds an important place in film History by turning documentaries into propaganda pieces.

There is a few-year gap.

Werner Herzog. Best "Fitzcaraldo" favorite "Stroszek"

Wim Wenders Best "Wings of Desire" Favorite "Paris, Texas"
Wenders came to America to make "Paris, Texas" and a few others. legit?

Wolfgang Peterson Best "Das Boot" Favorite "Das Boot"

Syberberg Best "Our Hitler" favorite "Parsifal"

Margarethe von Trotta Best "Rosa Luxenberg" Favorite "Sheer Madness"

Scholendorf Best "The Tin Drum" Favorite "Diplomacy"

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Best "Marriage of Maria Braun" Favorite "The Merchant of the Four Seasons".
Fassbinder did the 15-hour miniseries "Berlin Alexanderplatz" which would easily top the lists if I counted it,

Wild card-insano- guilty pleasure director of really bad films violent films but he did one that is rather captivating.


Ulli Lommel
"Every Minute Is Goodbye"
It also stars Karen Black
What's not to love?

[CosmoLady]

the children of men is really fucking boring and inception is really brainwanking

i see you are south african , neil blomkamp is south africain with a double SA-canadian passport, did you watch his short sci fi movies?

A decent South African film was Stander (2003),
the true story of a detective who became a bank robber in the 1970s and 1980s



Great fanmade trailer of the same film (2003), but there was no Johnny Depp or Ridley Scott in the film, that is fantasy



Heat is probably my favourite film for its quality, depth, aesthetics, and entertainment value

[Colonel Frank Grimes]

Tom Waits around the time of "Rain Dogs" add in your Sam Fuller and Abel Ferrara from anther post and seems we have a lot of overlap in films.

I really like Sam Fuller's war films. He experienced combat in WW2 and so I think it gave him an advantage over directors who made war films that didn't (all of them except for Stone).





I can't watch modern war films. Saving Private Ryan was gay.

[Anglo-Celtic]

Scholendorf Best "The Tin Drum"

Depeche Mode did a song about her. I'm convinced that she's a time-traveler. I saw "The Tin Drum" when I was in high school. It was as creepy and freaky as "Eraserhead", especially the scenes with the girl and the protagonist with stunted growth.