What’s your country’s best movie in RECENT history?

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1. I hear only good things about ‘De Slag om de Schelde’ (the battle for the Schelde) and many say it might be the best (in recent history). But i still have to watch it…

   It’s about a WW2 battle that took place in a area with the same name.

   One i did watch however was the movie Michiel de Ruyter. Which is a move about the Dutch-Anglo war and Michiel de Ruyter was the name of the admiral. But this one is already a bit older though.

2. [The Counterfeiters (2007)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0813547) won an Oscar for best foreign film.

3. Like based on awards and profit made? No clue.

   Subjectively? “Das Leben der Anderen” (The Lives of Others), 2006.

4. A lot of French people would probably say Intouchables, starring Omar Sy and François Cluzet (2011)
   It’s smart, funny, and although I’m sure it’s problematic and cliché in some ways it really tried to represent both disability and racism in a realistic way.
   It’s the most profitable non-Anglophone movie of all time.

5. i think maybe it can be “the great beauty” by sorrentino

6. Probably ‘The Father’ for the UK which won 2 Oscars, I really liked His House as well. In the last 5 years I’d have to say Dunkirk, I think it’s an absolute masterpiece and one of Nolan’s best movies if not his best.

7. I have no clue, what so ever. So many movies have been filmed here but the only ones we have made are some really old ones (starting from the 60’s to the early 90’s, then it starts to get more modern and forgetable). I don’t even know what the highest grossing one is.

8. The new remake of “The unknown Solider” is really good I’ve heard. The new special effects really bring the movie to the 21st century.

   Compartment no. 6 is the latest of the good films and probably the best one. It won the Grand Prix award in Cannes and is really hyped at least here in Finland.

9. “The wind that shakes the barley” probably. Or maybe “In Bruges”

10. “Le chant du loup” is pretty a solid submarine movie from 2019.

    I liked “Polisse” too which is about police department dealing with crimes against minors, it is a very tough movie emotionally but very interesting.

    I also liked “Le Grand Bain” which is kind of a “The Full Monthy” style half sad / half comedy movie about a group of depressed men with mediocre lives starting a synchronized swimming team to try and win an international competition, it definitely has some surreal feel to it that I like.

11. Four Lions and I, Daniel blake are both fantastic films released in the last decade ore so.

12. *The Favourite* (though it’s a British-Irish-American co-production), *Under the Skin*, *God’s Own Country*, *Ethel and Ernest*.

13. I don’t really watch Hungarian movies but [Loop](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4118932/) is pretty good if you like time travel.

14. A contemporary German director I really like is Christian Petzold. I think he’s had a lot of critical but not much commercial success, which is odd because his films are very accessible. Films like Phoenix, Yella and Jerichow are very much worth seeing.