Favourite European Film?

Once (2007) was a pretty good movie.

 

The Wolf’s Call from France (2019) is best recent one I’ve watched.

 

What you have is very rare.

 

Au revoir les enfants By Louis Malle

 

...and mouldy

 

Abre los Ojos by Alejandro Amenábar featuring Eduardo Noriega, Fele Martínez and Penélope Cruz.

 

Made again called
Vanilla Sky.

 

Abre los Ojos is the original and it TROUNCES Vanilla Sky, which is a dreadful film IMHO, and don't think I'm defending Abre los Ojos because I'm Spanish. Abre los Ojos is the ONLY SPANISH movie I've seen at a cinema, I'm not into Spanish cinema.

 

Yes! I did correct my post.

 

I like - “Blackthorn”Sin destino.. Mainly the scenery.

 

I don't know that one. If you came intomy flat you'd doubt I'm Spanish: all my BD's and UHD BD's are US/UK editions, not a single music album by an Spanish artist, books in English...

 

The White Ribbon ( I like to watch that back to back with Amelie for a well rounded European cinematic evening)

 

A Very Long Engagement(2004).
Very effective for fans of Audrey Tautou.

 

A few years ago I saw RAID on MHZ. It is a TV series and a film. RAID is a hitman and both the series and film are amazing mixtures of absurd humor, strange criminal activity, truck drivers, etc.. Low on budget. High on creativity. I think it may be available from Amazon as a DVD.

 

The Red Balloon
Double Life of Veronique
Last Year at Marienbad
Une Femme est une femme
Alphaville
Les amants du Pont-Neuf
Un cœur en hiver
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Fangelse
Summer Interlude
Seventh Seal
Winter Light
Wild Strawberries
Persona
Through a Glass Darkly
The Emigrants
A Swedish Love Story
Three Colors Trilogy
La Haine
Un cœur en hiver
Conte d'été
Claire's Knee
Hairdresser's Husband
Ordet
Andrei Rublev
Stalker
Cranes Are Flying
Walking The Streets of Moscow

 

Post war Italian films are always interesting. The Bicycle Thief is one of many classics.

 

Number 33 on this list:

The 100 Greatest Films of All Time | Sight & Sound

 

I have just watched this one and it is a great thriller and one of the best time travel (sort of) movies I have ever seen:

Mirage (2018) - IMDb

 

Don't think anyone mentioned these absolute gems of Italian cinema so far:

Ettore Scola - Una Giornata Particolare (1977) with Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni. One of my all-time favourites.
Fratelli Taviani - Kaos (1984) after stories of Luigi Pirandello. Mesmerizing, hallucinating.

And one from Belarus:

Elem Klimov - Idi i Smotri (1985). By far the most intense and gruesome WWII film I've ever seen. a VERY realistic portrait of what was going on in Belarus during the war and an interesting story about Jewish armed resistance to the Nazis.

 

And two masterpieces by Carlos Saura: Cría cuervos (1975) and Elisa, vida mía (1977), both with Geraldine Chaplin. These are from before his more famous "flamenco-style" films.

 

yeah Idi i Smotri is a pretty good movie.... you might also enjoy Soviet/Russian movie The Ascent (1977), also about partisans during WWII. I think it was mentioned somewhere in foreign language movies thread

 

Haven't seen that one, so thanks for the tip!

 

Also "Ivan's Childhood," one of Tarkovsky's earliest films. Harrowing, nightmarish, but exceptionally beautiful. I would say everything Tarkovsky ever did is worth watching at least a few dozen times.

Klimov's Idi i Smotri ("Come and See") was so disturbing, I felt like I needed therapy after seeing it. Great film, though.

 

Too many to name but 400 Blows, Au Revoir Les Enfants and Cinema Paradiso are up there. Oh, I forgot: Jules and Jim.

 

"Alice in the Cities" (1974) is a great European film, directed by Wim Wenders. The cinematography by Robbie Meuller is astonishing-- some of the most stunning photography in the history of film. Mesmerizing, minimalist soundtrack by CAN. And 9-year-old Yella Rottlander gives one of the great performances by any actor of any age.

"Wings of Desire" is another great Wenders film.