In addiction to altemon's fun thread, I felt like creating this one too. That basically it, if you live in a lesser known country, or feel some movie from your country is way underrated, talk about and share it here!
So, lemme get started, brazilian movies I find brilliant:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTivdzpDqP0 Blindness, Fernando Meirelles' movie on José Saramago's nobel winner novel
Ensaio sobre a Cegueira. Strong critics on society, in several ways simmilar to Clockwork Orange. Read the book, saw the movie, cried a river, thought buckets.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioUE_5wpg_E City of God, also a Fernando Meirelles' adaptation of a brilliant book (Paulo Lins'
Cidade de Deus) about the violence in poor brazilian communities. Read the book, saw the movie, laughed a mile, thought buckets. "E quem falô que a boca é tua rapá?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syWH07PEZCE&feature=PlayList&p=CD190898610A4328&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=57 Os Sete Gatinhos (eng: The Seven Kitties), Neville d'Almeida's adaptation of a Nélson Rodrigues novel about a father who makes his own daughters work as prostitutes. Very insightful, also very intelligent humour.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ako8metwlAY Central do Brasil (
Central Station), a road movie by Walter Salles about a woman searching for redemption trying to find a young boy's family. Made me cry like a baby from beginning to end.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKI6uwZbxM Carandiru, Hector Babenko's film based on the novel by Drauzio Varella (a famous brazilian doctor) about the penitentiary named Carandiru, where 111 inmates died in a massacre, 102 of them where killed by the police.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90kBGBW4Ozw O Auto da Compadecida (aka
The Dog's Will), film directed by Guel Arraes based on a play by writer Adriano Suassuna. It mixes elements from cordel literature, religious tradition and popular culture. Critic and loads of fun, reaaally.
So, what about you?