Favourite European film?

[Comte Arnau]

The question is simple, the answer may be not: What is your favourite European (from Europe) film?

Note: Films made in Hollywood by a European director do not count. ;)

[Nurzat]

Reconstituirea (Romania, 1969, directed by Lucian Pintilie)

[Neanderthal]

Swedish/Danish 1922 film Häxan or Witchcraft Through The Ages in English. Pretty illustrative silent film.

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[Eldritch]

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The Wicker Man (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070917/) (1973)

[Cato]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/60/Excalibur_movie_poster.jpg

[Nurzat]

Monty Python's Life of Brian, anyone? :D

[Laudanum]

Got a couple of European movies I really like.

http://www.impawards.com/2003/posters/irreversible.jpg
Irreversible
Really violent and powerful French movie. The acting, sounds and the style it's made in are stunning.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-Ypzbx0DMq4/S0UF8RpQEsI/AAAAAAAAADc/_Y59BUcnALI/s400/DerUntergang_cover.jpg
Der Untergang
Amazing movie. Great acting.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Xkl_G9zbtTY/S4v30wh4n-I/AAAAAAAAC4U/sY0t2jml0Lk/s400/Good+Bye+Lenin.jpg
Goodbye Lenin
Beautiful German movie with a fantastic soundtrack.

http://www.cinebel.be/portal/resources/movie/1000526/ba16572.jpg
Das Leben der Anderen
Another great German movie.

http://img.movieberry.com/static/photos/63078/5_midi.jpg
Festen
Danish movie. Great atmospheric movie and some of the best acting I have ever seen in my life.

[Pallantides]

http://img.filmfront.no/pictures/release/large/1078165276_ni_liv.jpg
http://img.filmfront.no/pictures/release/large/20060724153206gjest_baardsen.jpg
http://img.filmfront.no/pictures/release/large/1130345229_FruIngertilostrat.jpg
http://bt.eutorrents.com/imagehost/images/cover1ywy.jpg
http://bilder.vgb.no/9732/4col/img_44630ebcb2d11.jpg
http://www.nattogdag.no/uploads/movie/jernanger.jpg
http://cdon.no/media-dynamic/images/product/movie/blu-ray/image0/trolljegeren_blu-ray-13439371-frntl.jpg
http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs995.snc4/76833_156311911077126_154947311213586_252418_83768 34_n.jpg
http://www.gave-tips.no/files/images/kautokeino.jpg
http://www.scope.dk/images/film/003563/00000700_adams-aebler_ukendt_360.jpg(Danish)
http://www.podnapisi.net/static/ovitki/7673480e9558b15d85d72c1b6116dd2b.jpg(Swedish)
http://s4.discshop.se/img/front_large/31694/ronja_rovardotter.jpg(Swedish, one of my favorites when I was child)

[Treffie]

This

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3qBU5oPdXm4/SyQqC1uLFrI/AAAAAAAADSM/XkiJU2qrCvc/s400/Noialbinoi.jpg

...and this

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/66/Hedd_wyn_film_poster.jpg

[Eldritch]

This

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_3qBU5oPdXm4/SyQqC1uLFrI/AAAAAAAADSM/XkiJU2qrCvc/s400/Noialbinoi.jpg


Excellent. :thumbs up

[Duckelf]

Anything from Tarkovsky.

[Mordid]

http://chicagofree.info/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/free-screening-katyn.jpg


Katyń (Polish pronunciation: [ˈkatɨɲ]) is a 2007 Polish film about the 1940 Katyn massacre, directed by Academy Honorary Award winner Andrzej Wajda. It is based on the book Post Mortem: The Story of Katyn by Andrzej Mularczyk. It was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film for the 80th Academy Awards.[

The Katyn massacre, also known as the zbrodnia katyńska ('Katyń crime'), was a mass execution of Polish POW officers and citizens ordered by the Soviet authorities in 1940. The most widely accepted estimate of the number of dead is about 22,000. The victims were murdered in the Katyn forest, Kalinin (Tver) and Kharkiv prisons, and elsewhere. About 8,000 were officers taken prisoner during the Soviet 1939 invasion of Poland, the rest being Poles arrested for allegedly being "intelligence agents, gendarmes, spies, saboteurs, landowners, factory owners, lawyers, priests, and officials."

During the German occupation of Poland, the Germans used the massacre for propaganda purposes against the Soviets. However, after the war, when Poland fell under Soviet influence, the truth about the event was suppressed by the Soviet authorities, who maintained an official line throughout the Eastern Bloc that the massacre was committed by the Germans. With the fall of communism in Poland in 1989, the first non-communist Polish government immediately acknowledged that the crime was committed by the Soviets. In 1990, Mikhail Gorbachev acknowledged Soviet responsibility for the Katyn massacre for the first time.[2] In 1991, Boris Yeltsin made public the documents which had authorised the massacre.[2]

There are now some cemeteries of Polish officers in the vicinity of the massacres, but many facts of the event remain undisclosed to this day and many graves of the Polish POWs east of the Bug River are either still unmarked or in a state of disrepair.

[Lucretius]

http://aronne.ilcannocchiale.it/mediamanager/sys.user/25974/esorciccio.jpeg

[Turkophagos]

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Pasolini's first film is a painfully realistic study of a pimp in Rome. Vittorio Accattone has never worked a day in his life, and has apparently made a good living prostituting his female companion, Maddalena. But her arrest begins his decline; hungry, he begs from churches and even visits his estranged wife and son. When Stella, a lovely and unbelievably innocent peasant worker, enters his life, Accattone tries to find a way, honest or not, to bring back good fortune...

[Eins Zwei Polizei]

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[Laudanum]

http://chicagofree.info/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/free-screening-katyn.jpg

Haven't seen this one yet. Looks good. I think I might see if I can get it somewhere with subtitles.:)

[Mordid]

Haven't seen this one yet. Looks good. I think I might see if I can get it somewhere with subtitles.:)

It has subtitle on it. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM1zyQ_zffM

[Laudanum]

It has subtitle on it. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM1zyQ_zffM

Ayeee thanks a lot me matey.:D

[Humanophage]

Frankly, I'd usually rather watch a colourful documentary series like Lords of the Mafia. When I do watch films, I can't help but look for some additional benefits, such as improving my English, hence I'm more familiar with British cinema than with the rest. I can't help but feel that my film erudition is lacking.

My top-10:
1. Heart of a Dog (Russia)
2. The Remains of the Day (UK)
3. Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (Germany)
4. Das Experiment (Germany)
5. Gandhi (UK)
6. Vanity Fair (UK, 1998)
7. Brazil (UK)
8. Brief Encounter (UK)
9. The Wicker Man (UK)
10. Black Cat, White Cat (Serbia)

[Treffie]

Both of these are similar in genre - one's shot in Scotland, the other in Wales.

http://amedidamedia.com/orkney/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/trainspotting.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/414P2D2KMEL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

I do have a soft spot for Scottish film though

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/6/6a/20080217013146!Local_Hero_Poster.jpg

http://www.rampantscotland.com/graphics/gregory_girl1.jpg

[MagnaLaurentia]

Le grand restaurant!!! with Louis de Funès

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[Comte Arnau]

I've seen a lot of European film, I can't decide or name just two or three now, with such a long history behind and so many different countries. I might try and make a short list. Although when I think about it, it's mostly cinema from six or seven European countries I've seen (UK, France, Italy, Germany, Sweden and Russia), that is, not counting Iberia and occasional films from here and there.


As for recent ones, I concur with those who mentioned Melancholia. Many didn't seem to like it, I did.


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As for recent ones from Catalonia, I liked Eva.


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