Movies

As you might already know by this point, I am an avid film watcher. While I initially started with the Hollywood movies, running out of options I slowly shifted my attention to foregin language ones. This habit started from my undergraduate days at IIT Bombay. While it started as a means to merely do some time pass, with time I began to appreciate movies as a means of communication that filmmakers use to convey a spectrum of messages and make the audience think and introspect themselves even after one leaves the cinema theatre. In particular, I like the movies that explore themes that are very central to human behaviour the most. The following is a list of some of the best movies across multiple languages that I have watched till date which might be of use for any potential movie lover like me. Please let me know if you are interested in watching any of these (probably not gonna happen :P) which I gathered with some effort.

• Farsi

  • Shahr-e ziba (Beautiful City) (An underrated masterpiece from Farhadi. Probably at the same level as his critically acclaimed ‘‘A Separation (2012)’’.)

  • The Circle(This movie is a masterclass and banned in Iran)

  • A Separation

  • The Past

  • About Elly

  • The Salesman

  • Chaharshanbe-soori

  • The Children of Heaven

  • The Song of Sparrows

  • The Color of Paradise

• French

  • Incendies (My absolute favorite)

  • Amelie

  • Au revoir, les enfants

  • Blue Is the Warmest Color

  • Rust and Bone

  • Two Days One Night

  • Dheepan

  • A Prophet

• Korean

  • Memories of Murder (My best Korean movie till date. It was made way back in 2003 by now critically acclaimed Parasite movie's director Bong Joon Ho)

  • Burning

  • Oldboy

  • The Handmaiden

  • Parasite

• German and Austrian

  • Das Boot (My absolute favorite)

  • Downfall

  • The Lives of Others

  • Revanche

  • The Edge of Heaven

  • Good Bye Lenin!

  • Distant Lights

  • In Darkness

• Italian

  • Cinema Paradiso (It's hard not to cry after the movie)

  • The Best of Youth (My best Italian film so far)

  • Gomorrah

  • Perfect Strangers

  • The Consequences of Love

  • Malena

  • Human Capital

  • Il Postino

• Spanish

  • Amores Perros (Master class!)

  • The Motorcycle Diaries (My second best Spanish movie. It's about Che Guevara and his trip across South America that transformed him.)

  • Babel

  • Wild Tales

  • Even the Rain

  • The Secret In Their Eyes

  • Y tu mama tambein

  • The Crime of Padre Amaro

  • Roma

  • Everybody Knows

• Chinese

  • The Last Emperor

  • In the Mood for Love

  • Suzhou River

• Romanian

  • The Way I spent the End of the World

  • Graduation

  • 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

• Russian

  • Leviathan

  • The Return

  • Nelyubov(Loveless)

• Turkish

  • The Wild Pear Tree

  • Mustang

  • Autumn

• Telugu

  • Maya Bazaar (This movie was ground-breaking on so many levels. Read more about this film here)

  • C/o Kancharapalem

  • Gamyam

  • Rangasthalam 1985

  • Sagara Sangamam

  • Rudra Veena

  • Vedam

• Tamil

  • 96 (One of the best movies watched ever!)

  • Super Deluxe

  • Kaakkaa Muttai

  • Thalapathi

• Hindi

  • Masaan

  • Water

  • Lagaan

  • Gangs of Wasseypur

  • Queen

  • Kahaani