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Foreign Films, American Counterparts

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1. The Departed (2006)

Taken from a Chinese film made in 2002:

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2789

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2. Vanilla Sky (2001)

Taken from a Spanish film made in 1997:

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3392

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8.1

3. 12 Monkeys (1995)

Taken from a French film made in 1962:

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995

6.8

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4. Brothers (2009)

Taken from a Danish film made in 2004:

2060

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5. City of Angels (1998)

Taken from a German film made in 1987:

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1694

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6. The Lake House (2006)

Taken from a Korean film made in 2000:

sleepless101's rating:

477

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7. Quarantine (2008)

Taken from a Spanish film made in 2007:

sleepless101's rating:

656

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8. Original Sin (2001)

Taken from a French film made in 1969:

sleepless101's rating:

465

6.7

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9. Wicker Park (2004)

Taken from a French film made in 1996:

sleepless101's rating:

1289

7.5

7.8

10. Scent of a Woman (1992)

Made from an Italian film in 1974:

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606

6.2

6.6

11. Unfaithful (2002)

Taken from a French film made in 1968:

sleepless101's rating:

886

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12. Funny Games (2007)

Taken from a German film made in 1997:

sleepless101's rating:

1898

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5.8

13. The Grudge (2004)

Taken from a Japanese film made in 2003:

sleepless101's rating:

3625

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7.1

14. The Ring (2002)

Taken from a Japanese film made in 1998:

sleepless101's rating:

369

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6.1

15. The Invisible (2007)

Taken from a Swedish film made in 2002:

sleepless101's rating:

611

5.9

6.2

16. No Reservations (2007)

Taken from a German film made in 2001:

785

6.5

6.7

17. The Birdcage (1996)

Remade from a French film made in 1978:

sleepless101's rating:

510

5.2

18. The Eye (2008)

Remade from a Chinese film made in 2002:

sleepless101's rating:

1891

6.5

7.2

19. True Lies (1994)

Taken from a French film made in 1991:

sleepless101's rating:

198

6.1

20. The Vanishing (1993)

Taken from a Dutch film made in 1988:

sleepless101's rating:

710

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5.5

21. Dark Water (2005)

Taken from a Japanese film made in 2002:

sleepless101's rating:

415

5.5

6.1

22. Weekend at Bernie's (1989)

Taken from and Indian film made in 1983:

sleepless101's rating:

573

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23. The Uninvited (2009)

Taken from a Korean film made in 2003:

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What, did you really think that only Americans were creative? Some of our most interesting films come from abroad. Here are a few that we haven't adopted, but remade in our image entirely.

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Comments

kath

Posted: 2 years, 12 months ago at May 23 15:59

I got to say, that most of these films are not as good as the orginals...
Great list :)

El Raulo

Posted: 2 years, 9 months ago at Aug 9 6:59

Also, the movie "Criminal" from 2004 is based in the argentinian movie "Nine queens" from 2000

Exclusive

Posted: 2 years, 9 months ago at Aug 9 7:20

Insomnia is taken from a Norwegian movie by the same name ;)

♥ CHANi

Posted: 2 years, 9 months ago at Aug 9 10:28

Another.. http://www.listal.com/movie/let-right-one is a remake of http://www.listal.com/movie/let-me-in

Zaishe

Posted: 1 year, 11 months ago at Jun 12 9:04

let the right one in is one of these movies too!
funny thing is then bollywood copies hollywood! lol

Film Ninja

Posted: 1 year, 11 months ago at Jun 12 13:35

I never knew about Weekend at Bernie's being a remake, that's hilarious. There are a hundred more you could list as well. (A Fistful of Dollars/Yojimbo)

Frank

Posted: 8 months, 1 week ago at Sep 15 23:43

You forgot Taxi, yet a vote for this list.

Hollywood has ruined some amazing films from outside this country, yet I did like The Departed, and True Lies was an OK movie.

I had no clue The Uninvited was a remake. I hated that movie, but am tempted to see the original now.

Abhi

Posted: 8 months, 1 week ago at Sep 16 0:04

The title should (more accurately) be "Foreign Films, Inferior American Counterparts".

bdidock

Posted: 8 months ago at Sep 16 6:23

Funny Games (2007) is realised by the same director: Michael Haneke.
you can add also Let Me In (2010), Dinner for Schmucks (2010)

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Posted: 8 months ago at Sep 22 10:41

The Eye is a Thai film not Chinese