Is there an iconic foreign film that you believe is vastly overlooked? For Example, many foreign film buffs Solaris and Nostalgia are one's to be listed. After a film lover polled an online community, here are some of the top-voted answers for the greatest foreign films.
1. City of God (2002)
City of God is a crime drama film adapted from the 1997 novel of the same name. It portrays the rise and growth of organized crime in Cidade de Deus, Rio de Janeiro, between the 1960s and 1980s. Loosely based on actual events, the feature's action ends with the drug war between a notorious drug lord and a vigilante-turned-criminal.
2. Seven Samurai (1954)
This epic samurai drama flick was co-written, directed, and edited by famous painter and filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. Seven Samurai tells the story of a group of farmers from a small village who are regularly attacked by bandits. This forces the farmers and their fellow villagers to hire a samurai without a master, also known as a Rōnin.
3. Life is Beautiful (1997)
An Italian comedy drama centered around a Jewish Italian bookshop owner Guido Orefice, Life is Beautiful is a visual display of the lengths a father will go to in order to protect their children. Guido applies his imagination to protect his son against the dread of living in a Nazi internment camp.
4. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Guillermo del Toro directed, wrote, and co-produced this fantasy horror film that takes place during the summer of 1944 in Spain. The plot intermingles the real world in a time following the Spanish Civil War and the fantasy world that arises from an abandoned, overgrown labyrinth.
5. La Haine (1995)
La Haine is a French crime drama that documents a single day and night in the life of three friends who are also residents of a poor immigrant neighborhood in a Paris suburb.
6. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2009)
The original Swedish version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, which is also based on the 2005 novel of the same name by Stieg Larsson. Unlike the American remake, the Swedish version is a crime thriller film. But the plots are essentially similar; a rich guy hires a hacker to do a background check on an investigator who is looking into the death of said rich guy's sister.
7. Stalker (1979)
Another great piece of visual art by Andrei Tarkovsky. Tarkovsky's science fiction art film was loosely based on the novel Roadside Picnic, written by Boris Strugatsky, who co-wrote the screenplay for this show along with his brother Arkady Strugatsky. The picture follows the story of a figure known as the Stalker, who is leading an expedition with two others in search of a mythical room that grants one their innermost desires.
8. The Handmaiden (2016)
The South Korean psychological thriller directed by Park Chan-wook took inspiration from the 2002 novel Fingersmith by Sarah Waters. The movie's story focuses on a con man and his pickpocketing orphan sidekick as they attempt to scam a Japanese woman out of her inheritance.
9. Memories Of Murder (2003)
Bong Joon-ho directed and co-wrote the screenplay for this movie. Based on the 1996 play, Come to See Me, this movie follows two detectives leading the investigation into a group of sexual assaults and murders that take place in a South Korean city during the late 1980s.
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10. Let the Right One In (2008)
Let the Right One In is a Swedish romantic horror based on a novel of the same title, both written by John Ajvide Lindqvist. The film takes place in a suburb of Stockholm in the early 1980s. The story's mainline centers around a young boy being bullied, so he seeks friendship with another strange young boy.
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