Topic Best foreign film of all-time

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Posted at December 31, 1969, 6:00 pm:


I tried to exercise restraint, but some of my many (maybe endless) runners-up...in chronological order:

Nosferatu (1922 - F.W. Mernau)
The Last Laugh (1924 - Mernau)
Sunrise (1927 - Mernau)
Metropolis (1927 - Fritz Lang)
Boudu, Saved from Drowning (1932 - Jean Renoir)
Grand Illusion (1937 - Renoir)
The Rules of the Game (1939 - Renoir)
Rome, Open City (1946 - Roberto Rossellini)
Stray Dog (1949 - Akira Kurosawa)
Rashomon (1950 - A. Kurosawa)
Ikiru (1952 - A. Kurosawa)
The Seven Samurai (1954 - A. Kurosawa)
Diabolique (1955 - Henri-Georges Clouzot)
Throne of Blood (1957 - A. Kurosawa)
The 400 Blows (1959 - Francois Truffaut)
Black Orpheus (1959 - Marcel Camus)
Breathless (1960 - Jean-Luc Godard)
La Dolce Vita (1960 - Federico Fellini)
Purple Noon (1960 - Rene Clement)
Yojimbo (1961 - A. Kurosawa)
Jules & Jim (1961 - Truffaut)
Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962 - Agnes Varde)
Knife in the Water (1962 - Roman Polanski)
High & Low (1963 - A. Kurosawa)
Contempt (1963 - Godard)
8 1/2 (1963 - Fellini)
Red Desert (1964 - Antonioni)
The Umbrellas of Cherborg (1964 - Jacques Demy)
Woman of the Dunes (1964 - Hiroshi Teshigahra)
Alphaville (1965 - Godard)
King of Hearts (1966 - Philippe de Broca)
Persona (1966 - Ingmar Bergman)
The Firemen's Ball (1967 - Milos Forman)
Z (1969 - Costa-Gavras)
Even Dwarfs Started Small (1971 - Werner Herzog)
The Bride Wore Black (1967 - Truffaut)
Andrei Rublyuov (1969 - Tarkovsky)
The Conformist (1971 - Bertolucci)
Aguirre: Wrath of God (1972 - Herzog)
Solaris (1972 - Tarkovsky)
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972 - Luis Bunuel)
Cries & Whispers (1972 - Ingmar Bergman)
Day For Night (1973 - Truffaut)
Dersu Uzala (1974 - A. Kurosawa)
Autumn Sonata (1978 - Ingmar Bergman)
The Tin Drum (1979 - Volker Schlondorff)
Coup de Torchon (1981 - Bernard Tavernier)
Das Boot (1981 - Wolfgang Petersen)
Fitzcarraldo (1982 - Herzog)
The Return of Martin Guerre (1982 - Daniel Vigne)
Confidentially Yours (1983 - Truffaut)
The Last Battle (1983 - Luc Besson)
RAN (1985 - A. Kurosawa)
Jean de Florette (1986 - Claude Berri)
Manon of the Spring (1987 - Berri)
Wings of Desire (1987 - Wim Wenders)
Akira (1988 - Katsuhiro Otomo)
Camille Claudel (1988 - Bruno Nuytten)
Baxter (1988 - Jerome Boivin)
Cinema Paridiso (1988 - Giuseppe Tornatore)
Jesus of Montreal (1989 - Denys Arcand)
la femme Nikita (1990 - Besson)
Delicatessen (1991 - Caro & Jeunet)
Three Colours Trilogy (1993-1994 - Kieslowski)
Faust (1994 - Jan Svankmajer)
Nightwatch (1994 - Ole Bornedal)
Insomnia (1997 - Skjoldbjaerg)
Taxi (1998 - Gerard Pires)
My Best Fiend (1999 - Herzog)
Run Lola Run (1999 - Tom Tykwer)
The Princess & the Warrior (2001 - Tykwer)


OK, OK, I'll stop. That must be closer to seventy-five titles than fifty. And no, this isn't EVERY foreign-language Film I've ever seen, and there are plenty I don't care for.


Even after that list, I'm sure there are some biggies I've forgotten. Anyway, that's definitely enough for now.






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