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(CNN) -- What's the best source of information for anyone planning a move overseas -- the Internet, the bookstore or those carefully worded government travel warnings?

Duh! It's the movies, of course.

Why would anyone do any research when everything they need to know about their new lives has been laid bare on the silver screen?

When cinema gets it right, it does a pretty good job of taking a hatchet to the expat dream of lounging around in exotic bars dressed in linen suits and Panama hats.

Just as often, however, Hollywood's overseas adventures run into so much trouble it's a wonder it isn't now languishing in the bowels of a dank foreign prison hoping that someone at the embassy might be able to put in a few calls.

To help navigate the celluloid jungle, here's our purely subjective list of the best and worst expat movies.

Best

5. 'The Wages of Fear' (1953)

This brutal piece of black and white French cinema reeks of unwashed vests, but its depiction of nasty expat truck drivers worthlessly risking their grubby lives in the South American jungle is as explosive as the deadly nitroglycerine cargoes they're paid to deliver.

Everyone is detestable, everyone dies and not even the dogs care.

That's how expat life should be.

Enlightening expat dialog

Dick: "When I was a kid, I used to see men go off on these kinds of jobs ... and not come back."

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4. 'Straw Dogs' (1971)

"Wild Bunch" director Sam Peckinpah takes a double-barrel shotgun to all those smug, honey-hued films about rural expat life in this tale about repressed American mathematician David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman) relocating to his wife's Cornish village.

There are no hilarious misunderstandings with local plumbers, just thugs on tricycles.

It'll take more than flowers to apologize for this.

There's no sun-kissed romance, just a marriage disintegrating into domestic violence.

And there are no life-affirming friendships, just a cat getting throttled.

The film's brutality is a bit hard to stomach. The apparent need for a 2011 remake starring Kate Bosworth was also somewhat hard to stomach.

Enlightening expat dialog

Henry Niles: "I don't know my way home."

David Sumner: "That's OK. I don't either."

3. 'The Third Man' (1949)

Expats don't come colder than Orson Welles' elusive Harry Lime, whose classic cuckoo clock speech justifying his racketeering in bombed-to-bits Vienna sounds suspiciously like the kind of cruel logic deployed by corporate stooges when plundering developing world countries in return for a fat salary. ("Free of income tax, old man.")

If only real life saw these amoral exploiters hounded down, like Lime, in a subterranean sewer.

If only real life was soundtracked by zithers.

Enlightening expat dialog

Harry Lime: "Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't. Why should we?"

2. 'The Year of Living Dangerously' (1982)

With its eclectic if somewhat dated soundtrack and expansive mysticism of Linda Hunt's diminutive paparazzo, "Dangerously" emerges as an anti-expat classic, contrasting the seedy and sequestered lives of foreign hacks and diplomats in Sukarno-era Indonesia against the poverty and chaos of a country on the brink.

All that plus a pre-rant Mel Gibson.

Enlightening expat dialog

Billy Kwan: "Jillian is like a wavering flame that needs care to burn high. Without such care she could lapse into the promiscuity and bitterness of the failed romantic."

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1. 'Casablanca' (1942)

The closing scenes may not have the tear-jerking impact they once did, but if there's a film in existence responsible for dampening as much Kleenex as "Casablanca," it's probably porn.

This film portrays expat life as it should be: outwitting mendacious cops and ruthless Nazis in the smoky haze of a North African piano bar while risking everything in the name of unrequitable love. Not playing golf for pity's sake.

Of all the gin joints in... you know the rest.

Who hasn't imagined themselves plunged into Casablanca's wartime plot of double-dealing and heartbreak?

Perhaps as Humphrey Bogart, at his craggy best as jaded saloon owner Rick; Ingrid Bergman's impossibly lovely Isla Lund; or even Claude Rains' complicated French police chief Captain Renault.

Sure the dialog has been quoted to death, and if Sam or anyone else plays "As Time Goes By" again, they're going to get the piano lid slammed on their fingers, but every fresh screening of Casablanca is still like the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Oh dear. We said it.

Enlightening expat dialog

Ilsa (on the verge of tears): "I didn't count the days."

Rick: "Well, I did. Every one of 'em. Mostly I remember the last one. The wild finish. A guy standing on a station platform in the rain with a comical look in his face because his insides have been kicked out."

Worst expat movies

5. 'The Beach' (2000)

With its gorgeous Thai scenery and rumbling undercurrents of violence, jealousy and death, "The Beach" aims to deliver a serious message about the illusory nature of paradise, but doesn't.

It's hard to say which is less credible, a bunch of backpacking muppets building a community on a hidden beach without an Internet cafe or Leonardo DiCaprio (as Richard) joining them and failing to get the French girl.

Excruciating expat dialog

Richard: "I just feel like everyone tries to do something different, but you always wind up doing the same damn thing."

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4. 'Under the Tuscan Sun' (2003)

Unlucky-in-love American writer Diane Lane (as Frances) happens upon the only villa in Tuscany that isn't being rented out by middle class vacationers from London and buys it on a whim.

In restoring the villa, she restores her own ... blah, blah, blah, whatever.

So what's the message here?

Don't worry if your marriage collapses, just buy a house in Italy, spend a bundle renovating it, then someone else will come along.

There's a life lesson we can all relate to.

Excruciating expat dialog

Frances: "I'll hire the muscular descendants of Roman gods to do the heavy lifting."

3. 'Eat Pray Love' (2010)

Unlucky-in-love American writer Julia Roberts ... no, stick with us, this one's slightly different.

Granted, Roberts as Liz Gilbert goes to Italy, but there's no villa, just the start of a year swanning around the world with no apparent worries about cash.

Home run, or run home?

In Italy, Roberts' character learns to eat Italian food (without gaining weight).

She then moves to India to explore spirituality before traveling to Bali for love.

Not love with some vacationing sleazeball.

Love with Javier Bardem.

Like that happens in real life.

Excruciating expat dialog

Liz: "It won't last forever. Nothing does." (Except this film -- 140 minutes long!)

2. 'Mr. Baseball' (1992)

Who needs jokes in your script when you've got foreigners?

Simply send grumpy aging baseball star Jack Elliott (Tom Selleck) to Japan, where hilarity ensues as he grapples with their crazy cultural traditions -- and toilets!

What should be a feelgood film about a fading star's last dash for glory winds up being a feel-queasy trot through every Japanese cliche known to Hollywood.

Unsurprisingly, Universal Studios' new Japanese owners were unhappy at the time.

The film does have some good performances, but not from Selleck, who was upstaged by his mustache, and not for the last time.

Excruciating expat dialog

Jack: "Different language, same attitude! Let's go!"

1. 'Farewell to the King' (1989)

Expats, eh? Always acting so damn entitled.

But if you think they're annoying where you live, spare a thought for the tribe in Borneo, which winds up with Learoyd (Nick Nolte) in the midst of World War II.

Not content to loudly drink his own body weight in alcohol every Friday like normal, decent expats, Nolte becomes their king -- a role that involves going topless and sporting Dog the Bounty Hunter's blond bouffant.

Nolte cranks the ham dial up to 11 in this poor man's "Apocalypse Now," taking on Japanese invaders to protect his tribe which, despite being peopled with fearless headhunters, would apparently have been lost without a middle aged white guy there to save the day.

Excruciating expat dialogue

Learoyd: "I have a special relationship with the spirits. I died once. I had to. I had to give up everything, even the will to live."

所有的時間最好和最壞的外籍電影
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電影愛刻畫外籍人士的生活 - 但並不總是正確。
在“卡薩布蘭卡”亨弗萊·鮑嘉扮演一個高貴的酒吧老闆增韌在二戰
在“告別之王”尼克·諾爾蒂扮演一個沒穿上衣的男子羽毛在他的頭髮
（CNN） -什麼是最好的信息來源的人計劃海外一招-在網上，書店或者那些字斟句酌政府旅遊警告？
咄！這是電影，當然。
為什麼會有人做任何研究時，他們需要了解他們的新生活一切都已經被戳穿銀幕上？
當電影得到它的權利，它的服用一把斧頭，以一襲亞麻西裝和巴拿馬帽子異國情調的酒吧閒逛的外籍夢想一個不錯的工作。
正如經常，然而，好萊塢的海外冒險碰到這麼大的麻煩這是一個奇蹟是不是現在關押在一個潮濕的外國監獄希望有人在大使館也許可以把打了幾個電話腸子。
為了幫助瀏覽賽璐珞叢林，這裡是我們純粹是主觀的最好和最壞的外籍電影列表。
最好的
5，“恐懼的工資”（1953年）
這種殘酷的一件黑白法國電影惡臭洗過背心，但討厭的外籍貨車司機得一錢不值冒著骯髒的生活在南美叢林中的描述是爆炸性因為他們支付給提供致命的硝化甘油貨物。
每個人都是可恨的，每個人都死了，連狗照顧。
這就是生活應該怎麼外籍人士可以。
啟發外籍對話
迪克：“當我還是一個孩子的時候，我見慣了男人對這些類型的工作去了......不回來了。”
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4，“稻草狗”（1971）
“十三太保”的導演山姆派金帕採用雙管獵槍，以對農村外籍生活在這個故事大約壓抑的美國數學家大衛·薩姆納（達斯汀·霍夫曼）搬遷到妻子的康沃爾村所有那些躊躇滿志，蜂蜜色調的電影。
有沒有搞笑的誤會與當地的水管工，三輪車只是打手。
它\'會採取更比鮮花致歉。
這需要多花致歉。
有沒有太陽親吻的浪漫，只是結婚崩解成家庭暴力。
而且沒有肯定生命的友誼，只是一隻貓越來越節流。
這部電影的暴行是一個有點難以肚子。對於2011年的重拍主演凱特·波茨沃斯表觀需求也有點難胃。
啟發外籍對話
亨利·奈爾斯：“我不知道回家的路。”
大衛·薩姆納：“那好吧，我也不會。”
3，“第三人”（1949年）
外國人不來比奧森威爾斯“難以捉摸哈利石灰，其經典的布穀鳥鐘演講他的辯護敲詐勒索更冷被炸到比特維也納聽起來很像掠奪發展中國家的國家，以換取一個部署時由企業走狗的那種殘酷的邏輯發工資。（“自由的所得稅，老頭子。”）
如果只有現實生活中看到了這些不道德的剝削者追逐下來，像石灰，在地下下水道。
如果只有現實生活中soundtracked由古箏。
啟發外籍對話
哈利石灰：“沒有人認為在人類方面政府不要我們為什麼要。？”
2'的生活危險的一年“（1982）
憑藉其不拘一格的，如果有些過時的配樂和琳達·亨特的身材矮小的狗仔隊膨脹的神秘主義，“危險地”的出現作為一種抗外籍經典，對比對的貧困和混亂的外國黑客和外交官在蘇加諾時代的印尼破舊和隔離生活國家的邊緣。
所有這一切再加上預咆哮梅爾吉布森。
啟發外籍對話
比利群：“吉利安就像是一個搖擺不定的火焰，需要小心燒高如果沒有這樣的照顧她陷入的失敗浪漫的濫交和辛酸。”
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1，“卡薩布蘭卡”（1942年）
收盤場景可能沒有催人淚下的影響，他們曾經做過，但如果有中負責抑制盡可能多的面巾紙作為生存的電影“卡薩布蘭卡”，它可能是色情。
這部電影描繪的外籍生活，因為它應該是：智取虛假警察和無情的納粹在北非鋼琴酒吧的煙熏陰霾，而在unrequitable愛的名義冒著一切。不打高爾夫球憐憫的緣故。
所有杜松子酒關節英寸的..你都知道了。
所有杜松子酒關節英寸的..你都知道了。
誰也不會想到自己陷入卡薩布蘭卡戰時的兩面派和心碎的情節？
也許作為亨弗萊·鮑嘉，在他崎嶇的最好的，因為疲憊的交誼廳所有者瑞克; 英格麗·褒曼的不可能可愛島隆德; 甚至克勞德·雷恩斯“複雜的法國警察局長雷諾上尉。
確保對話框被引用到死，如果山姆或其他人扮演“一起走過的日子”了，他們會得到琴蓋關上自己的手指，但卡薩布蘭卡的每一個新鮮的篩查仍然像開始時一段美好友誼。
噢親愛的。我們說了出來。
啟發外籍對話
伊爾莎（上眼泛淚光）：“我沒算日子。”
里克：“好了，我做了'時間每個人主要是我記得的最後一個野生完成一個傢伙站在站台上在雨中，在他的臉上滑稽的表情，因為他的內心已經被踢出。。 “
外籍最差電影
5，“海灘”（2000年）
憑藉其華麗的泰國風光和隆隆的暴力，嫉妒和死亡的暗流，“海灘”旨在提供關於天堂的虛幻性質嚴重的消息，但沒有。
這是很難說這是不太可信的，一堆背包提線木偶的構建社區中隱藏的沙灘上沒有一個網吧或萊昂納多·迪卡普里奧（理查德）加入他們並沒有得到法國姑娘。
痛苦的外籍人士對話
理查德說：“我只是覺得每個人都試圖做不同的事情，但你總是清盤做同樣的該死的東西。”
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4，“在托斯卡納的太陽”（2003年）
不走運 - 在愛美國作家黛安蓮恩（如弗朗西斯）發生在一個沒有被租出去了來自倫敦的中產階級度假者和​​買它一時興起在托斯卡納的唯一別墅。
在恢復的別墅，她恢復了她自己的......等等，等等，等等，等等。
那麼，有什麼消息嗎？
如果你的婚姻崩潰不用擔心，隨便買一個房子在意大利度過一個捆綁改造它，那麼別人就會到來。
還有，我們都可以涉及到生活的一課。
痛苦的外籍人士對話
弗朗西斯：“我會聘請的羅馬神做繁重的肌肉後裔。”
3，“吃祈禱愛”（2010）
不走運 - 在愛美國作家朱莉婭·羅伯茨......不，堅持與我們聯繫，這其中的略有不同。
當然，羅伯茨作為利茲吉爾伯特去意大利，但沒有別墅，每年在世界各地swanning，沒有對現金明顯的憂慮僅僅是開始。
家潤多，還是跑回家？
家潤多，還是跑回家？
在意大利，羅伯茨的性格學會吃意大利菜（無體重增加）。
她然後移動到印度旅行到巴厘島的愛情面前，探索精神。
不愛與一些度假sleazeball。
愛與哈維爾·巴登。
這樣的情況在現實生活中。
痛苦的外籍人士對話
莉茲：“這不會永遠持續下去沒有任何東西。” （除這部影片 - 140分鐘之久！）
2，'先生 棒球“（1992）
誰需要的笑話在你的腳本，當你有外國人？
只需發送脾氣暴躁的老棒球明星傑克·艾略特（湯姆·塞立克），以日本，隨之而來的歡鬧，他埋頭苦幹他們瘋狂的文化傳統 - 和廁所！
什麼應該是大約一個衰落明星的最後衝刺榮耀纏是通過每個日本人俗套知道好萊塢的感覺，想吐小跑一個感覺良好的電影。
不出所料，環球影城“日本新業主不滿的時候。
這部電影確實有一些不錯的表現，而不是從塞萊克，誰是他的鬍子風頭，而不是最後一次。
痛苦的外籍人士對話
傑克：“不同的語言，同樣的態度讓我們走！”
1，“永別了，國王（1989）
外國人，不是嗎？總是表現得那麼該死的資格。
但如果你認為他們是討厭你住的地方，騰出一個念頭在婆羅洲，蜿蜒了Learoyd（尼克·諾爾蒂）在第二次世界大戰之中的部落。
沒有內容大聲喝自己的體重在酒精每週五象正常，體面的外國人，諾爾特成為他們的國王 - 這涉及到要赤裸上身和運動狗的賞金獵人的金發蓬鬆的作用。
諾爾特曲柄火腿撥號至11日在這個可憐的男人的“現代啟示錄”，採取對日本侵略者以保護他的部落的，儘管被人居住與無畏的獵頭公司，就顯然已經丟失，並且沒有一個中年白人有保存一天。
痛苦的外籍人士對話
Learoyd：“我與烈酒一種特殊的關係，我死過一次，我不得不我不得不放棄一切，甚至活下去的意志。”