Top International Movies

If you stop to think about your favorite movies, you might find there are more international movies in that list than you first realized. Even if the movies don’t include subtitles, they can still be international films. While movie tastes and trends might change, it seems the top international movies haven’t changed much in the past few years. Maybe it’s time to add some new movies to your viewing history, including the top international movies.

International Movies You Should Watch

According to the statistics available in September of 2010, the top international movies included:

• The City of Lost Children
• Amelie
• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
• Suspiria
• Zombie
• Dawn of the Dead
• Dead Alive
• The Devil's Backbone
• Vidocq
• The Dinner Game
• The Closet
• L'Auberge Espagnole (The Spanish Apartment)
• The Experiment
• Dancer in the Dark
• The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions Barbares)
• Jesus de Montreal
• Alice
• Faust
• Musa: The Warrior
• Underground
• Seven Samurai
• Monty Python's the Meaning of Life
• Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels

Chances are good that you’ve seen at least a few of these movies, if not more. After all, who hasn’t seen at least a clip or two of Monty Python? When you look at this list, you might begin to see that there are some themes to the movies, including that there are two zombie movies. Apparently, international movie viewers like to see horror movies still.

Why Try New Movies?

While you may have already seem some movies on this international movie list, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t branch out from time to time. You need to expand your movie watching experience so you’re not stuck watching the same old genres and actors. When you watch new movies, you will:

• Be able to see real actors in action – Watching the teens of today is not good acting. You want to watch people like Kenneth Branagh and others who actually take acting seriously.
• TV shows are not movies – When you watch TV shows, you will find the plots are simple and repetitious. You need to see movies in order to watch plots become thicker and more developed.
• You need to get out – When you just watch the same old crap, day after day, your brain gets stuck in a mode where it stops thinking about things and figuring out ideas. You need to make sure that you are challenging your brain with more than just cartoons.

International movies will give you an idea too of what other countries are concerned about. As is the case with many American movies, the movies focus on how rich people can become, but international movies ask more important questions. And these movies also tend to offer solutions instead of just great car crash scenes. Movies should be about inspiring a person, not just making them laugh with dumb jokes. Though those can be fun too.