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Poll: Best American Remake of a Non-English Movie

A poll by urbanemovies
An American remake of a great foreign language film into an English version makes a lot of sense. Sharing a great story with as wide an audience as possible is always a good idea. These remakes are often done with the full resources of Hollywood with bigger stars and larger budgets. Despite this, these adaptations face the same issues that most sequels and remakes have when compared to the original.

Which of these select American remakes* is by comparison the most worthy of the foreign non-English language original? * IMDb rated 6.0+ (as of July 2017)

Take the companion poll: Worst American Remake Non-English Movie

Discuss the topic here.

Results of 2,745 votes:

  1. 1.

    The Departed (2006)

     
    Infernal Affairs (2002) from Hong Kong in Catonese
  2. 2.

    12 Monkeys (1995)

     
    La Jettée (1962) from France in French
  3. 3.

    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

     
    Män som Hatar Kvinnor (2009) from Sweden in Swedish
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