Favourite European Films

**Northern_Sun** · 02-07-2012, 07:33 AM

Originally Posted by Pellonpekko

For "Jäniksen Vuosi" (Year of the hare), it´ll be nearly impossible to find english subtitles though

The dvd contains only finnish and swedish subtitles. Canadians made somekind of a remake of the movie with Christopher Lambert (lol, Highlander), but i doubt it´s anywhere near the original

Will not watch a remake. I can probably get the grasp of what it's about without subtitles. Maybe...

**purple** · 02-07-2012, 07:33 AM

The Lives of Others (2006). This movie is the greatest movie of the 00s, but was robbed at the dumb Oscars

Also, Brigada, best Russian mafia Tv film.

Another Russian movie.

Human trafficking. Russian-Swedish.

Serbian.

Romanian.

From BG ''Orchestra Without a Name'' (1982)

I recommend them all

**Northern_Sun** · 02-07-2012, 07:51 AM

Originally Posted by tu_veneno

The Lives of Others (2006). This movie is the greatest movie of the 00s, but was robbed at the dumb Oscars

Also, Brigada, best Russian mafia Tv film.

Another Russian movie.

Human trafficking. Russian-Swedish.

Serbian.

Romanian.

From BG ''Orchestra Without a Name'' (1982)

I recommend them all

I have not seen these. Great I will have something to watch!

**purple** · 02-07-2012, 07:56 AM

Keep in mind that if you're American these movies can be little difficult to understand, since most of them are not even English or French or Italian but Eastern European and deal with harsh situations. Most of them are about the collapse of the communist regime

But watch them and tell what you think

**Northern_Sun** · 02-07-2012, 08:01 AM

Originally Posted by tu_veneno

Keep in mind that if you're American these movies can be little difficult to understand, since most of them are not even English or French or Italian but Eastern European and deal with harsh situations. Most of them are about the collapse of the communist regime

But watch them and tell what you think

Thanks! I will watch them. Don't worry they will not be too foreign for me as I am a duel citizen of EU-USA(I won't say what country as I don't look like I'm from there)!

**rhiannon** · 02-07-2012, 09:23 AM

Originally Posted by tu_veneno

Romanian.

I recommend them all

Another excellent selection...although parts of it were very disturbing to watch

I would love to see more foreign films....but one of the problems for me as a person who speaks English only is that a fair amount of a scene's original meaning tends to get lost when you are stuck reading a bunch of subtitles on the bottom of the screen. Sometimes you cannot even tell who has said what. I HATE that!!

This happens to me a lot with foreign films, and is one of the reasons I tend not to watch that many of them....much to my own chagrin

(I do know some German leftover from college years...but having not had a chance to use it much....the whole use it or lose it phenomena has, unfortunately, held fast)

**~~Hevneren~~** · 02-07-2012, 09:57 AM

Max Manus
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Kongen av Bastøy
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Elling
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Das Experiment
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Die Welle
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Lola rennt
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Pan's Labyrinth
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