 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $0.52 A stunning film, beautiful in every way. A star-making performance by Zhang Ziyi , who should have won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar. Visual poetry. This was the film that got me started on foreign cinema.
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 | Brotherhood of the Wolf
Buy used from: $0.47 An absolutely amazing French film, combining elements of horror, costume drama, martial arts! You've never seen anything like this! Exhilarating, sexy, scary! Mark Dacascos is great. Emilie Dequenne is so beautiful, and such a talented young actress (see her work in Oui, Mais... (Yes, But...) too!)
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 | Sky High
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $6.74 Life, death, purgatory...Ryuhei Kitamura's best!
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 | Yes, but...
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $15.99 The lovely Emilie Dequenne (Brotherhood of the Wolf, Rosetta) stars in this gem of a film about therapy.
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 | Amelie
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $8.99 French cinema hit a double homerun in 2001--Brotherhood of the Wolf and Amelie in the same year. A whimsical, charming, imaginative film, Amelie will have you smiling for days after.
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 | Run Lola Run
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $4.12 A kinetic, heart-stopping, mile-a-minute German film by Tom Tykwer, featuring Franka Potente (who later would star in the first two Jason Bourne films as Matt Damon's love interest).
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 | The Princess and the Warrior
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $8.94 Another Tom Tykwer film starring Franka Potente. This could not be more different than Run Lola Run. Where Lola was fast-paced action, this film is a much-slower, longer drama. But it is powerful and intriguing--an excellent film in its own right.
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 | Devdas (2 Disc Set)
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $14.39 A beautiful, joyful musical from India, featuring Aishwarya Rai, considered by many to be the "Most Beautiful Woman in the World."
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 | The Infernal Affairs Trilogy (Infernal Affairs 1 / Infernal Affairs 2 / Infernal Affairs 3) (Special Collector's Edition Box Set)
Buy new: $37.49 / Used from: $26.96 The first film was remade by Martin Scorsese as "The Departed." "The Departed" won an Oscar for Best Picture, but the original film is every bit its equal.
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 | Battle Royale: Director's Cut (Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $6.82 A great Japanese film about high schoolers being placed on a island and forced to kill one another. I think this would make a great television series. Are you listening Quentin Tarantino (he is reportedly a huge fan of this film).
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 | The Warrior
Buy new: $11.49 / Used from: $3.87 Korean epic, starring Zhang Ziyi. Excellent.
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 | The Promise
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $2.70 Kind of like the Legend of Zu in that it is mostly eye-candy. But what beautiful eye candy nonetheless...
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 | Zu Warriors
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $3.75 Not the best film, but great eye candy.
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 | The Great Yokai War
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $16.99 Imaginative, fun, fantasy.
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 | The Banquet (Special Edition) DVD
Buy used from: $14.94 Hamlet remade by the Chinese. Stars Zhang Ziyi
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 | Fly Me To Polaris
Great love story will make you cry!
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