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Foreign movies you think Hollywood would have ripped off by now.

Vitania
03-08-2004, 12:10
There is an ad on Australian television station SBS for cable channel World Movies which shows a bunch of titles of foreign movies that have been made by Hollywood. Didn't realise what a bunch of ripoff merchants Hollywood are. Has anyone seen a foreign film they thought would have been made into an English version?

I saw a Japanese movie a couple years ago on TV called "Hypnosis". It was about a policeman who investigates three suicides that occured on the same day and believes that they are somehow linked. Initially boring at first, the story became much more gripping as it went along.
Vitania
05-08-2004, 10:45
No suggestions?
Sheilanagig
05-08-2004, 13:39
I'm surprised that Hollywood hasn't ripped off Taxi, the Luc Besson one. Oh wait. They're in production of an American version as we speak. Damn.

Well, there's always a Cuban movie called El Elefante y la Bicicleta which is really amazing, and hollywood has yet to rip it off. Probably, like me, they can't find a copy for love or money. ;)