I think the English title of the original is Let The Right One In. Thanks for all the suggestions!

How about Sholay, Indian movie that you can call "Curry Western". It is also considered to be one of the best Indian films, and it is actually good (I have seen it).

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Wikipedia article Spoiler-alert in Plot-part.

It is loosely styled after Kurosawa's Seven Samurai and takes conventions from Leone's Spaghetti Westerns.

Fellini: 8 1/2; Le notti di Cabiria; La dolce vita
Antonioni: La notte; L' eclisse; Il deserto rosso
Éric Rohmer: Ma nuit chez Maude
Krzysztof Kieślowski: Trois couleurs
Francis Veber: Le dîner de cons
Ettore Scola: C'eravamo tanto amati
Fred Coe: A Thousand Clowns
Jacques Becker : Le trou

The Gods Must Be Crazy (Botswana/South Africa, 1980)

If you watch this movie now, you'll refuse to go to work on Monday

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Daap hyut cam mui (Port Of Call), scathing depiction of modern society.

Some Belgian movies that I really like:

Toto le héros - From his childhood on a boy is convinced that he was switched at birth and at the end of his life he wants revenge for his sad life.

Le tout nouveau testament - God lives in Brussels and he's quite an asshole who beats his wife and his kids and likes to torment mankind. His daughter runs away, tells everybody their death date, assembles twelve disciples and tries to make things better.

[url=]De helaasheid der dingen[/url] - A boy grows up in a social underclass family surrounded by alcoholism, gambling and people who don't even try to make something out of their lifes. Can he change his fate to something better?

And of course everything from the Dardenne brothers, especially and [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfvWdTPIFIM]Le gamin au vélo.

And of course Ex Drummer which is quite extreme though and might not be for everyone.

Embrace the Serpent is one of the best reviewed films of the past couple years. You might want to check it out.

Love those two. Oldboy is actually part of a trilogy, the other two being Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, and Lady Vengeance. Well worth a watch, imho.


It is far far better. The Departed is actually based on the whole trilogy (Infernal Affairs 2 / prequel, and Infernal Affairs 3), and attempted, in usual Hollywood style, to tell the whole story in a 2.5hrs, which it couldn't, imho.


To add to the many great suggestions, including some of my all time favourites, from the top of my head:

- Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
- Samaritan Girl
- The Bow

- In Order of Disappearance
- A Long Way Down
- 360
- Zulu
- The Magic of Belle Isle

A wild Kim Ki-Duk fan appears!
Bravo, bravo!

Why no Bin Jip / 3-Iron though? ;)

Once again, thanks for all the additional suggestions!

Oh, Bin Jip is among my favorites.
But I say that, for me, his masterpiece is probably Seom. Personal fav! :)

Then you gotta watch Ag-o, from 1996. Easy to find these days.
For a debut I'll say that's an amazing piece of work.

Tampopo (Japan 1985)

The movie was marketed as a "Ramen Western" which is exactly what it is. I first saw it 12 years ago and it made me laugh so hard it still hurts. Food porn mixed with action comedy, a unique movie in many ways.

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Thanks, will add it to my "to watch" list.