Or what is your favourite European movie/a movie of your country?

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  1. Layer Cake

    But actually a lot of Hollywood Blockbusters are just remakes of European films that were redone with American actors because Americans don’t watch foreign films.

  2. If I’m going to be highbrow I’d say M by Fritz Lang but my heart will always love Amelie.

  3. hundraettåringen som smet från notan och försvann is a masterpeice and very unique story

  4. My favourite movie from outside the US is the sience fantasy animation Nausicaä of the valley of the wind from Hayao Miyazaki. A movie nowadays considered as part of Studio Ghibli’s catalogue, the Studio and director that made Spirited away.

    My favourite European movie is M eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder. A classic by Fritz Lang, director of Metropolis.

    My favourite Luxembourgish movie is Heemwéi. It’s a Luxembourgish drama set during the end of the second world war following to national deserting from the Wehrmacht fleeing back home.

  5. Some of my favorites are Sergio Leone’s western’s, Suspiria, La Haine, Mies vailla menneisyyttä and Come and see

  7. Not sure about favorite but „jak rozpętałem drugą wojne światową” is a fantastic polish war comedy. Though I think most if it would get lost in translation

  8. Too many to name them all but I’ll try. I won’t consider the British ones as this would take too long.

    From Italy: the comedy trilogy I can quit whenever I want, they call me Jeeg Robot, Once upon a time in America, cinema paradiso

    From Germany: goodbye Lenin (easily in my top ten ever), the lives of others, the Bully parade ones (hilarious even though they are stupid), Who Am I, the wave

    From France: Amelie, intouchables

    From Japan: anything Studio Ghibli has ever made!

    From Spain: Rec, the invisible guest

    From Sweden: let the right one in, force majeure, a man called Ove

  9. Going to give a top five, sticking just to europe because otherwise this is an impossible question!

    Come and See

    Stalker

    Babette’s Feast

    The Seventh Seal

    Good Bye Lenin

    (From my own country – Wolfwalkers and Song of the Sea)

  11. [The cook, the thief, his wife and her lover](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097108/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0)by Peter Greenaway. A British movie. It’s not as much about the story as it is about the scenery, the music and the all around atmosphere. It’s disturbing and intriguing to say the least.

    If I have to pick a movie from my country I have to say [Hets](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036914/), by Alf Sjöberg (Script by Ingemar Bergman). It is really held up by a great performance by Stig Järrel as the sadistic teacher “Caligula”. I’m also very fond of the Swedish/Danish silent film fictionalized documentary [Häxan](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0013257/). It’s probably the first silent film I would ever recommend.

  12. Qu’est-ce qu’on a fait au Bon Dieu? / Serial (Bad) Weddings.

    Like many French comedies, the movie is a lighthearted take on a heavy topic, in this case racism.

    It takes a rather disrespectful stance on the discussion (but not the people involved) without taking sides or negating the topic.

  13. My favourites from Europe:

    UK – The Full Monty, Death at a Funeral , Persuasion (1995)

    France – La Source des Femmes, Un Long Dimanche de Fiançailles, Paris Je T’aime

    Germany – Goodbye Lenin, Lola Rennt

    Italy – Le Quattro Volte

    Sweden – Låt den Rätte Komma In, Kopps

    Mexico-France-Belgium – El Coronel no Tiene Quien le Escriba

    My favourite film set in Portugal (there aren’t many), is the France-Portugal production Lines of Wellington.

  15. Orfeu Negro, I suppose. I’m not super big into movies. It’s a Brazilian-French movie from the late 50s, basically just the classic Orpheus love story but in a favela in Rio de Janeiro. Thus the name, Black Orpheus. But being a Brazilian movie from that time, and it being set in Rio during the Carnaval, it has just killer music in it. By far my favourite thing about the film. It was composed by Tom Jobim and Luiz Bonfá, a lot of what later became bossa nova standards spawned from this movie. Manhã de Carnaval, Samba de Orfeu, A felicidade, straight bangers.

  17. Overall: La vita è bella – Italian comedy/drama about a Jewish father and son during World War 2

    That relates to my country: La Cage Dorée – French/Portuguese comedy about a stereotypical family of Portuguese immigrants in France

  19. Non-American: Anything Studio Ghibli: Especially Spirited Away, Whisper of the Heart, and Howl’s Moving Castle

    European: Too many to choose!

  20. Any move with bud spencer and terrence hill. Gems from the 70s. Even though, most of them play in America, the production was italian. the origins of the spaghetti western.

  21. Some of my favourites:

    The lovers of the arctic circle – Spain

    Elling – Norway

    Rocks in my pockets – Latvia

    Hot fuzz – UK

    Trainspotting – UK

    Secret of Kells – Ireland

    Cathedrals of culture : Oslo opera – Germany

  22. La Vita é Bella (Italy), Good Bye Lenin (Germany), Come and See (USSR), Son of Saul (Hungary) and The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Ireland) are all great movies.

    Dutch cinema is flawed to say the least, but I do remember quite liking Winter in Wartime (Oorlogswinter) a lot as a kid.

  23. That’s an easy question. My favourite movie is French, not American: Intouchables

  24. French comedies in general, but a movie that recently blew me away was ‘Portrait de la jeune fille en feu’ (2019). A masterpiece in every regard.

  25. **Der Untergang**. It’s unfortunate that some people only associate this film with the *Hitler reacts* memes… The memes are funny of course, but it’s a great film with fantastic acting.

    Another one I love is the French hitman film **Le Samouraï**. Very stylish.

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