Some years ago I would rent international films at random at blockbuster. Some would would be really great, others kind of lackluster and then some (primarily Japanese) would be really fucking weird.

Recommend some good international movies that you've seen.

Duck Season (Temporada de patos)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_Season

last decent one i can recall offhand

edit: the description on wikipedia makes it sound horrid

http://www.collider.com/uploads/imageGallery/Sweet_Movie_Criterion/sweet_movie_criterion_dvd_directed_by_dusan_makave jev.jpg

http://www.moviesworthseeing.com/images/bxrt/berlinalexanderplatz.jpg

la dolce vita
through a glass darkly

http://www.impawards.com/2006/posters/sympathy_for_lady_vengeance_ver2.jpg

Goodbye, Lenin

This is a pretty cool poster too...

http://img5.allocine.fr/acmedia/medias/nmedia/18/35/92/63/18435872.jpg

http://dudehesthestallion.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/lives-of-others.gif

http://m.blog.hu/fi/filmkeltes/image/1774342580.jpg

http://www.boomerangshop.com/dvdcover/imageweb9/SexandFury197316059_f.jpg

http://www.b-movies.gr/UserFiles/Image/nyxtes%20premieras%202007%20special/school%20of%20the%20holy%20beast%20poster.jpg

This is a pretty cool poster too...

http://img5.allocine.fr/acmedia/medias/nmedia/18/35/92/63/18435872.jpg

part of the trilogy

oldboy
sympathy for mr vengeance
sympathy for lady vengeance

all good films - oldboy is fucking awesome

there's a lot of good korean cinmea out there actually - recent favourites

infernal affairs
a bittersweet life
the host

and just throw jsa into that mix

did anyone see an asian film (this is going to be vague) where a guy gets cut from cheek to cheek which made him appear to be grinning wildly during a fight scene?

ichi the killer or something i think ...

i gave it a miss
a lot of people told me it was rubbish

did anyone see an asian film (this is going to be vague) where a guy gets cut from cheek to cheek which made him appear to be grinning wildly during a fight scene?

Ichi The Killer

If you like that, you might also enjoy
Izo
Brother
Monday
Three... Extremes
Gozu
Audition
Full Metal Yakuza

And you should really check out Electric Dragon 80.000V

Goodbye, Lenin

Ew. No, watch Life Of Others or The Counterfeits instead.
Also, anything by Michael Hanke.

The Counterfeits
Also, anything by Michael Hanke.

My screener of the counterfeiters has arrived *rubs hands with glee*

Yeah Haneke is some really great uplifiting stuff, heh

I really like Cache aka Hidden - I think the remake of Funny Games will probably be quite good

seconded. also, "the seventh continent"

for fucked up asian, try fudoh - the next generation

practically anything by takeshi kitano is awesome in one way or the other

also, try almodovar, he does awesome stuff too

I watched Kairo recently. If you liked Pulse, the original is better.

Stellet Licht

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i saw two really awesome japanese movies a while back. one was about two female roommates battling for the same acting job...the whole movie is in their apartment and it ends with an awesome fight scene.

the other i don't remember so well. but one memorable scene involved some girl sticking pins into someone and whispering "here kitty kitty" or something like that.

dammit i wish i could remember the names of those fucking movies.

salo or the 120 days of sodom

ack, yes. it was audition.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/audition/

now what was that other one

salo or the 120 days of sodom

easily the most fucked up films ever made.

Battle Royale

easily the most fucked up films ever made.

films?

Gegen Die Wand
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gegen_die_Wand

La Haine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Haine

Das Leben Der Anderen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_leben_der_anderen

seriously:

http://www.oldmovies.net.au/userimages/user1367_1174222551.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aguirre,_the_Wrath_of_God

films?
heh.

I draw near to him, turn around, I exhibit my buttocks.

"Ah, wondrous ass!" he cries. "'Tis well, I am easy thus to be able to take with me to the grave the idea of a behind as pretty as that one!"

And he fondled it, opened it, nuzzled and kissed it just the way the healthiest man in the world might have done.

and!

http://www.terra.es/personal/fmf00008/cine/imagenes/perdita%20durango.jpg

love love looooooooove this one. also anything raúl ruiz. there isn't much info if you wiki.his films are a mission to find depending on resources but it's well worth the endeavor if you have half a brain.

did anyone see an asian film (this is going to be vague) where a guy gets cut from cheek to cheek which made him appear to be grinning wildly during a fight scene?

Sounds oddly like a rip-off of The Joker, if you know what I mean.