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Suggestion: More Multilingual Movies (Taking Suggestions)

Using more than one language in a single film can accomplish many things, including illustrating how interconnected we all are, no matter where on the globe we may be or to what culture or cultures we may belong. Each of the following films uses two or more languages. Whether by creating authenticity, enhancing atmosphere, or showing how  interdependent the world is, which movie uses the changing languages to best effect?

List: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls525942213/

Poll: TBD

Note: I'm definitely open to suggestions, as there is still room for seven more films. I'd especially love suggestions of older movies: Most of this list are films released after 2000, and only one movie is from before 1990. This is the third poll I've done like this so to see the other lists, just follow the links in the intro of this poll. (There are some older movies in those first two polls.) Thank you much! 

Note:  In this poll, combined with the two other polls linked to in this poll's intro, the movies included use 70 languages. 

In alphabetical order, they are: Afrikaans, American Sign Language, Arabic, Aramaic, Awadhi, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Berber languages, Blackfoot, Bosnian, Cantonese, Catalan, Cree, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Filipino, Finnish, Flemish, French, German, Greek (ancient), Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Japanese Sign Language, Kazakh, Korean, Latin, Mandarin, Mixtec, Maori, Nepali, Norwegian, Osage, Pawnee, Persian, Russian, Sioux, Sotho, Spanglish, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, Xhosa, and Zulu

Also:  Somali, Scottish Gaelic, Haryanvi, Polish, Tamil, Serbian, Bhojpuri, Rajasthani, Southern Sotho, Malayalam, Mende, "Irish" (gaelic?/ gangs of ny & in america), Sicilian, Czech, Bulgarian, Romanian, Icelandic, Portuguese, Tagalog.

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17 days ago

Note to self: another poll idea after this one: multilingual in top 250?

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I'd especially love suggestions of older movies

Perhaps Sorcerer (1977)

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@Peter_pbn  Added; thank you!  I've been on a bit of a Friedkin kick recently but I've never seen Sorcerer. 'Hoping to find it somewhere without paying a rental fee on top of a subscription.

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16 days ago

Do you have a minimum number of votes?

FYC:

Mexican Oscar nominee Roma: Spanish and Mixtec mainly, it also has English, Japanese, French, Norwegian and German.

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@Pencho15​  Thankyou! I added it, of course. 

As of now, I have no minimum vote requirements and may not add one. If I do, it'd be really low, like maybe 1,000 or so. I like polls that can also serve as resources so I'd like to include some that not a whole lot of people have seen but are very good films, so I may add a minimum Metascore and/or IMDb score but right now, there's nothing. I do want to have several that aren't English-centered so 'Roma' helps with that. Thanks again. 

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@rubyfruit76​ 

FYC:

And looking for new languages to add to your record.

Army of the Darkness seems to be the most popular film where bable is spoken, and also has English, Spanish, German, Polish and French.

If you don't want a film from the USA, then Infiesto which is available in Netflix is a Spanish film and spoken in both Spanish and Bable.

Habitación en Roma has English, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Basque and Arabic.

Tomiris is spoken in Kazakh, Russian, Arabic and Persian.

Not with new languages but looking at older movies you could add:

The Three Caballeros with English, Spanish and Portuguese.

Soleil Rouge with English, Spanish and Japanese.

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@Pencho15  Wow, Pencho, thank you! I don't have much time at the moment so I'll have to come back to these, which I look forward to. So far, I added 'Tomiris' and 'Soleil Rouge.' 

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16 days ago

FYC:

Mestari Cheng - Finnish, Mandarin, English

Mandariinid - Estonian, Russian, Georgian

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15 days ago

For You Consideration,