Thank you everyone for these wonderful suggestions! This is one of my fave horrors, French cinema really pushed the genre into new territory in the 2000's.
Inside (2007) (À l'intérieur)
Christmas film! Pregnant woman alone is tormented by a strange woman on Christmas eve, who wants something. However bad you imagine it can get, it gets slightly worse. Uncompromising.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0856288/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
Inside (2007) (À l'intérieur)
Christmas film! Pregnant woman alone is tormented by a strange woman on Christmas eve, who wants something. However bad you imagine it can get, it gets slightly worse. Uncompromising.
The Major (2013) (Russian)
Sergey Sobolev, police officer, is driving to the hospital where his wife is about to give birth. High from happiness, he's driving too fast and when he sees a boy on a passage walk, it's too late. Now the major has only two options: go to prison or conceal his crime and stay free. Tense thriller.
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Major-Blu-ray/149349/#Review
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2594950/
Sergey Sobolev, police officer, is driving to the hospital where his wife is about to give birth. High from happiness, he's driving too fast and when he sees a boy on a passage walk, it's too late. Now the major has only two options: go to prison or conceal his crime and stay free. Tense thriller.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2594950/
The Yellow Sea (2010) (Korean)
The story of a cab driver in Yanji City, a region between North Korea, China and Russia. His wife goes to Korea to earn money, but he doesn't hear from her since in 6 months. He plays mah-jong to make some extra cash, but this only makes his life worse; but then he meets a hitman who proposes to turn his life around by repaying his debt and reuniting with his wife, just for one hit.
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Yellow-Sea-Blu-ray/26697/#Review
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1230385/
The story of a cab driver in Yanji City, a region between North Korea, China and Russia. His wife goes to Korea to earn money, but he doesn't hear from her since in 6 months. He plays mah-jong to make some extra cash, but this only makes his life worse; but then he meets a hitman who proposes to turn his life around by repaying his debt and reuniting with his wife, just for one hit.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1230385/
A Hard Day (2014) (Korean)
After trying to cover up a car accident that left a man dead, a crooked homicide detective is stalked by a mysterious man claiming to have witnessed the event.
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/A-Hard-Day-Blu-ray/139484/#Review
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3697626/
After trying to cover up a car accident that left a man dead, a crooked homicide detective is stalked by a mysterious man claiming to have witnessed the event.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3697626/
Close-Up (1990) (Iran)
This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.
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http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Close-Up-Blu-ray/10506/#Review
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100234/
This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves.
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Close-Up-Blu-ray/10506/#Review
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100234/
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That is awesome! I really envy you watching it for the first time, please let me know how you like it.
It was good. One criticism of the true crime genre as a whole though is I feel like documentaries oftentimes convey better the circumstances and emotions of the people involved.
Like with the Zodiac killings, the movie was enjoyable, but I found straightforward documentaries about the killings to be more chilling.
Thanks for the update, that's interesting. I've noticed that some people feel really passionate about this film, while others are somewhat indifferent - must be divisive, like music.
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I wouldn't say indifferent, per se. I did think it was a good film. It's more that true-crime films don't generally move me that much.
I just find that with true crime, the cold hard facts tend to be more compelling than portayals / re-enactments. It's an issue I have with the genre rather than any specific film.
A Snake of June (2002) (Japan)
A married phone counsellor finds herself the blackmail victim of a mysterious caller who takes her through an odyssey of sexual exploration. When her husband becomes the stalker's target as well, things take a bizarre turn.
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/A-Snake-of-June-Blu-ray/122969/#Review
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0330904/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
A married phone counsellor finds herself the blackmail victim of a mysterious caller who takes her through an odyssey of sexual exploration. When her husband becomes the stalker's target as well, things take a bizarre turn.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0330904/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Le Dîner de Cons (The Dinner Game - 1998)
Every Wednesday night, wealthy Paris publisher Pierre Brochant and his friends try to outdo one another by bringing the most flagrantly idiotic person they can find to join them for dinner. Pierre thinks he's got a thoroughbred nincompoop on his hands in accountant Francois Pignon. What Pierre hasn't counted on is Pignon's ability to generate compound problems. Wonderful comedy.
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Le-diner-de-cons-Blu-ray/5234/#Review
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119038/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Every Wednesday night, wealthy Paris publisher Pierre Brochant and his friends try to outdo one another by bringing the most flagrantly idiotic person they can find to join them for dinner. Pierre thinks he's got a thoroughbred nincompoop on his hands in accountant Francois Pignon. What Pierre hasn't counted on is Pignon's ability to generate compound problems. Wonderful comedy.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119038/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) (Turkey)
A murder has been committed and a man has confessed; all that remains is for him to lead police to the body so they can wrap the case. In the dead of night, two cars and a Jeep carrying the murderer, the police chief and the prosecutor set out to find the burial spot. From the great Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Once-Upon-a-Time-in-Anatolia-Blu-ray/39600/#Review
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1827487/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
A murder has been committed and a man has confessed; all that remains is for him to lead police to the body so they can wrap the case. In the dead of night, two cars and a Jeep carrying the murderer, the police chief and the prosecutor set out to find the burial spot. From the great Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1827487/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
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Ever watched a Bittersweet Life? Same actor from I saw the Devil.
Watching it right now. Only 10 minutes in, but good so far
I put it on page one, fab film!Ever watched a Bittersweet Life? Same actor from I saw the Devil.
Watching it right now. Only 10 minutes in, but good so far
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I put it on page one, fab film!
Doh, missed that recommendation somehow, lol.
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On the more romantic side of the spectrum, Jacques Demy's Umbrellas of Cherbourg is an amazing combination of music and image.
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The Tall Blonde Man With One Black Shoe.In French. Screamingly funny.
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BBC 2 showed Populaire (2012) on Saturday night. A pretty good film set in 1959 with Deborah Francois in a speed typing contest. Available on BBC iPlayer for a week, and I see someone has uploaded the whole thing to YouTube.
Wetlands (2013) (German)
This German comedy made me squirm like no horror film, but seems right to post in this particular forum. After an intimate shaving accident, Helen ends up in the hospital where it doesn’t take long before she makes waves.
http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Wetlands-Blu-ray/112322/#Review
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2524674/
This German comedy made me squirm like no horror film, but seems right to post in this particular forum. After an intimate shaving accident, Helen ends up in the hospital where it doesn’t take long before she makes waves.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2524674/