Your Favorite Foreign Movies: (adventure, comedy, Netflix, family)

[Mooseketeer]

Too many to mention but a few favourites :
"Cyranon de Bergerac"
"The Lives of Others"
"Intouchable"
"Downfall"
"Das Boot"
"He loves me, he loves me not " ( NOT a sitcom despite the name)
"Jean de Florette" and "Manon des Sources"
"Goodbye Lenin"
"Welcome to the Sticks"
"The Heartbeat Monitor"
"No Man's Land"
"A Separation"
"The Orchestra"
""My Best Friend"
"Afternoons with Marguerite"
"Conversations with my Gardener"
"The Kid with the Bike"
"Le Havre"
"The Death of Mr Lazarescu"
"Nine Queens"
"The Motorcycle Diaries"
"A Prophet"
"Tell no One"
"Everything for Her"
"Paris je t'Aimes"
"L'Affaire Farewell"
"The Seventh Seal"
"The Butcher"
"Battleship Potemkin"
"The Seven Samurai"
"Monsieur Lazahr"
"City of God"
"Life is Beautiful"
"Kolya"

[MystMoonstruck]

I'll do another go-round:
Rififi
Topkapi
Kwaidan
Rashomon
Small Change
The Tin Drum
Day for Night
The Iron Rose
The 400 Blows
Seven Samurai
Nosferatu (1922)
Metropolis (1927)
The Bridge (1959)
Children of Paradise
The Wild Child (1970)
Brotherhood of the Wolf
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Journey to the Beginning of Time
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears

One of the creepiest films I've seen is "Blind Beast". I can't say it's one I'd hurry to watch again, but his studio is a remarrkable set, very surrealistic. I admit that I was cowardly enough to mute the sound at certain points. Maybe this wouldn't be as harrowing to others, especially those who watch "Saw", "Hostel" and other such films. To me... *shudderrrrr*

[EnricoV]

Deepa Metha's trilogy: Water, Fire, and Earth. Water was the best
Girl With the Dragon Tattoo triology
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Like Water for Chocolate
Rabbit Proof Fence
Antonia's Line
Tsotsi
Dear Frankie
Mongol
Shall We Dance

[calnbs]

Wow!!! Lots of great lists. Lots of movies for me to watch! Keep it coming everyone!!

[skins_fan82]

Hey OP, I've seen every Korean movie in your list, and you seem to have good taste. Korean thrillers/action movies are my favorite genre right now.

If you liked Old Boy, you will LOVE "I Saw the Devil." It stars the good guy from Old Boy, and he plays a psycho murder bad guy.

[sskink]

Wings of Desire still tops my list. Something about it just really appeals to me. And not just Peter Falk.

[EugeneOnegin]

The Lives of Others (probably in my all-time top 10, really affected me emotionally which doesn't happen very often)
I Saw the Devil
Old Boy
The Secret in Their Eyes
City of God
Timecrimes
Intacto
Mongol
The Devil's Backbone
Sin Nombre
[REC]
Hero

[MystMoonstruck]

I hope I'm not being too greedy, taking up another post, but I thought of more:
The Princess and the Warrior
The Uninvited Guest (2004)
At the End of the Spectra
Reincarnation aka Rinne
Premonition aka Yogen
Shiver aka Eskalofrio
Voices (2007)
The Wig
Intacto
Oculto
Cello

[Cape Cod Todd]

There are lots of great foreign films out there and in some cases they are so good that Hollywood couldn't produce them.
I agree with many listed here. What I like about foreign films such as "Amelie" is they portray the life of a average people who see life and the world around them a little different. You don't need to be shooting at alien invaders or go over the top with crazy visual effects to have a good movie.
I recently watched a movie called "Troll Hunter" that really surprised me. I don't remember the country of origin but it was good.
Asian movies are their own nitch. Korea seems to do horror very well and China has such a rich history they can go back into their own time and pull stories full of heroes and stunning scenery at will. Check out "Hero" which is amazing.

[skins_fan82]

Trollhunter was Sweedish. Cool movie