Ok Life Is beautiful was very god and same with Amelie. I think you don't like them because they are "alternative movies" and they made it. I also think that people like that terrible film Clockwork Orange because it's "alternative." I admit that I do get quite upset when a total meet head gets upset when they try to brag about watching a "foreign film." But I have learned to accept that, if its good then its good regardless of who wrote it or directed it, or acted in it.