[csvset]

100. Landscape in the Mist (Theo Angelopoulos, 1988)
99. Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda, 1958)
98. In the Heat of the Sun (Jiang Wen, 1994)
97. Taste of Cherry (Abbas Kiarostami, 1997)
96. Shoah (Claude Lanzmann, 1985)
95. Floating Clouds (Mikio Naruse, 1955)
94. Where Is the Friend's Home? (Abbas Kiarostami, 1987)
93. Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou, 1991)
92. Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman, 1973)
91. Rififi (Jules Dassin, 1955)
90. Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais, 1959)
89. Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)

88. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1939)

87. The Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini, 1957)

86. La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962)

85. Umberto D (Vittorio de Sica, 1952)

84. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (Luis Buñuel, 1972)

83. La Strada (Federico Fellini, 1954)

82. Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001)

81. Celine and Julie go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974)

80. The Young and the Damned (Luis Buñuel, 1950)

79. Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985)

78. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2000)

77. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)

76. Y Tu Mamá También (Alfonso Cuarón, 2001)

75. Belle de Jour (Luis Buñuel, 1967)

74. Pierrot Le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)

73. Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)

72. Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 1952)

71. Happy Together (Wong Kar-wai, 1997)

70. L’Eclisse (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962)

69. Amour (Michael Haneke, 2012)

68. Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)

67. The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel, 1962)

66. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1973)

65. Ordet (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955)

64. Three Colours: Blue (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1993)

63. Spring in a Small Town (Fei Mu, 1948)

62. Touki Bouki (Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1973)

61. Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)

60. Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)

59. Come and See (Elem Klimov, 1985)

58. The Earrings of Madame de… (Max Ophüls, 1953)

57. Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)

56. Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai, 1994)

55. Jules and Jim (François Truffaut, 1962)

54. Eat Drink Man Woman (Ang Lee, 1994)

53. Late Spring (Yasujirô Ozu, 1949)

52. Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)

51. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964)

50. L’Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)

49. Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)

48. Viridiana (Luis Buñuel, 1961)

47. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 2007)

46. Children of Paradise (Marcel Carné, 1945)

45. L’Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)

44. Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda, 1962)

43. Beau Travail (Claire Denis, 1999)

42. City of God (Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund, 2002)

41. To Live (Zhang Yimou, 1994)

40. Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966)

39. Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami, 1990)

38. A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang, 1991)

37. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)

36. La Grande Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937)

35. The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963)

34. Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders, 1987)

33. Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)

32. All About My Mother (Pedro Almodóvar, 1999)

31. The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006)

30. The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)

29. Oldboy (Park Chan-wook, 2003)

28. Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman, 1982)

27. The Spirit of the Beehive (Victor Erice, 1973)

26. Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988)

25. Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)

24. Battleship Potemkin (Sergei M Eisenstein, 1925

) 23. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928)

22. Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006)

21. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)

20. The Mirror (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1974)

19. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)

18. A City of Sadness (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1989)

17. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972)

16. Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)

15. Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955)

14. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels (Chantal Akerman, 1975)

13. M (Fritz Lang, 1931)

12. Farewell My Concubine (Chen Kaige, 1993)

11. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)

10. La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, 1960)

9. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)

8. The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959)

7. 8 1/2 (Federico Fellini, 1963)

6. Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)

5. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)

4. Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)

3. Tokyo Story (Yasujirô Ozu, 1953)

2. Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio de Sica, 1948)

1. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)

[pepsionice]

My favorite all-time comedy is a 1964 French movie....Fantomas, with Louis de Funes.

[Hazwaste]

I really enjoyed Das Boot.

[mikefive]

What the...? No Das Boot or Stalingrad? Need to go “California” on them, and find more votes :-)

[Deaf Smith]

Did not see:

Man Facing Southeast.

[redfreedom]

I’ve found foreign made films have less political, politically correct, sexual and perversion content. Most have none. It’s just refreshing to watch movies that are actually intended to be entertaining or have an honest educational or historical value.

[LRoggy]

The original La Cage Aux Folles didn’t make the cut??? All About My Mother was terrific, it really made you think. Depardieu’s La Chevre was very clever. It was remade as The Goat with Glover and Short and it followed the original faithfully. It was funnier in French with the subtitles.

[JohnEBoy]

If you are feeling happy, joyful, upbeat and all is right with the world … well then go watch “The Bicycle Thief”. Then all of that euphoria will be replaced with deep depression.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

The sweet Bean, The concert, Ythis isn’t what I expected, Sarajevo, Kita Kita. And, I am just getting started.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Errementari

[Vaquero]

Don’t believe I’ve seen any of these. I have see foreign films. I remember seeing the subtitles.

My bucket list contains seeing 7 Samurai. Some day.

[null and void]

I found 51. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964) practically unwatchable.

ALL of the dialog was sung, good in theory, in practice, not so much.

[Born to Conserve]

So, not including all the best movies, what are the best movies?
Typical.

[Svartalfiar]

So, I’m kinda curious. Since the BBC defines foreign films as non-American, did any English movies make it on to the list?

[a fool in paradise]

any list that puts “Battleship Potemkin” and “Pan’s Labyrinth” in the top 25 doesn’t carry much credibility.

[a fool in paradise]

And only one film by Werner Herzog and it isn’t Fitzcaraldo?

And the Italian neo-realism (low budget) of Bicycle Theives isn’t enough to land it as the 2nd greatest film.

[marktwain]

Nothing from Hayao Miyazaki?

All his anime/animated movies are highly regarded. They were originally in Japanese.

[exDemMom]

I have only seen #20 on that list, The Mirror. It was released in Europe when I was an exchange student in France, and there was a lot of hype about it. It was considered edgy, because of the fact that it was a Soviet movie and artists in the USSR were so heavily controlled and censored. The movie was boring, dragging along with a lot of visuals and little dialog, as I recall. I don’t even remember what it was nominally about.

Another foreign film I saw while in France was The Misunderstood, an Italian film. It was sad, so very sad, about a little boy who just did not fit in and was brutally mocked. Actually, I’m surprised that one was not on the list.

I do not consider French films that I saw in France as foreign. Most of them were pretty forgettable, anyway.

[reed13k]

I agree with the Seven Samurai listing, but there is no way that these should 78 belongs on the list - it certainly isn’t better than 79.

79. Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985)

78. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2000)

Besides I don’t see Tampopo on the list (nutty Japanese comedy with weird side scenes - funny, but weird).

And as several noted - no Das Boot

[j.argese]

"Mon Oncle"

"Danton"

Danton's Execution

"Kuroneko" (Black Cat)

Kuroneko

Please enjoy while wearing a jacket with patches on elbows and smoking a pipe, swirling a brandy in the snifter.

[Anti-Bubba182]

1. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)

THE BEST!!