Train to Busan
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Life is Beautiful is one of my favorites that should really only be watched with subtitles. It's a really sad movie, but sticks with you in a good way.
I really liked "Battle Royal" i feel like the hunger games may have been written taking HEAVY influence from this film.
Seven Samurai, and The Hidden Fortress.
Kung Fu Hustle
Excellent film, and shaolin soccer is brilliant too from the same guy. Steven chow.
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Pan’s Labyrinth for me
I love it because it's one of the few dark fantasy movies natively made in Spanish. The dead fascists are a bonus.
One of my favorite details that is easy to miss if you aren't a native speaker is that Pan speaks in medieval Spanish. It honestly almost sounds like French
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Spirited Away or Run Lola Run
Spirited Away is so good in Japanese and does lose something being dubbed. Run Lola Run is so good in German, I don't know if there is a dub because there is no reason to seek it, the dialogue was perfect for subtitling and the story is based on slightly different loops in time so you pick up what is happening each loop through. Very cool.
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Godzilla minus one
There are so many, but I think my first choice would probably have to be Seven Samurai. It is such an amazing piece of cinema. One of the most influential pieces that has inspired almost all of the film we still see today.
Came here to write this, so many movie tropes have their roots in that movie and Kurosawas genius directing. Also the sounds and emotions in the original Japanese language are so brilliantly conveyed, it loses so much in dubbing.
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My Neighbor Totoro
All of the Ghibli movies are great, though they're some of the only foreign films I will watch dubbed, because the voice casts they get are insane. The English dub of Totoro with the Fanning sisters while they were still children is just fantastic.
The sketchy site I used only had the Japanese version unfortunately.
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The platform, aka El Hoyo
It is about a futuristic prison, where food is distributed to inmates in a vertical prison. They have elected to be there, on promise of reward on release. They are fed on a vertical table, the descends, level by level.
IMO, it is really about humanity and the choice between self service and a greater good.
It is a great movie. The sequel... Eh.
Rififi
Parasite
Seven Samurai
Manon Of The Spring
Babette's Feast
Shaolin Soccer
Shaolin Soccer is great, but I think Kung-Fu Hustle edges it out for me.
Not actually my favorite as that's too difficult, but Kung Fu Hustle is great
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Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, hands down. Possibly the best movie ever made. Every shot is just beautiful.
Pan's Labyrinth
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
I admit that the list of foreign made films I am familiar is quite small.
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I've really enjoyed Parasite, I didn't scroll to read everyone's answers but didn't see that one mentioned
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
7 Samauri, I am not fluent in Japanese but was conversational. That movie illustrates the Japanese and their system of honor, which can be very odd and flexible.
Ong Bak 2. That movie is one of the best martial arts films I’ve seen.
Tampopo is up there for sure...
Memories of Murder is probably my favorite Korean language film.
Tokyo Story is amazing. Ozu doesn't get as much credit as Kurosawa, but pop over to his rotten tomatoes page and look at how many films he made, and what the ratings of them are.
I don't think I've ever seen a filmography that stacked. Dude made like 50 films, and the lowest rating is like 80-something
Old Boy.
Yojimbo which apparently was the basis for Last Man Standing.
Also A Fistful of Dollars. It's kind of crazy how many people just ripped off Kurosawa films
Battle Royale.
Pretty sure it was the first foreign language film I've watched.
City of Lost Children is my pick. It has such amazing worldbuilding. Drops you in cold with no apologies and trusts you to just go on the ride.
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The Raid: Redemption.
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