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mizoguchi's "200+ Essential "Foreign" films"

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I use the term "foreign" to mean not in English, as this is an English-language site, and the term is generally quite quickly understood, though of course really it’s absurd and not one i’m keen on. For instance in the UK, Welsh language films have been described as in a foreign language though Welsh is the native language of Britain

  1. 1.
    Sansho the Bailiff
    by Kenji Mizoguchi

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    Seven Samurai - Criterion Collection
    by Akira Kurosawa

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    The Rules of the Game - Criterion Collection
    by Jean Renoir

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    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

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    8 1/2 - Criterion Collection

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    The Passion of Joan of Arc - Criterion Collection
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer

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    Tokyo Story - Criterion Collection
    by Yasujiro Ozu

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    Children of Paradise - Criterion Collection
    by Marcel Carné

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    Talk to Her (Hable con Ella)

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    The Seventh Seal - Criterion Collection
    by Ingmar Bergman

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    Cinema Paradiso
    by Giuseppe Tornatore

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    Metropolis (Restored Authorized Edition)
    by Fritz Lang

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    Bicycle Thieves (Criterion Collection)
    by Vittorio De Sica

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  14. 14.
    Spirited Away
    by Hayao Miyazaki

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    Pather Panchali
    by Satyajit Ray

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    City of God
    by Fernando Meirelles

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    Aguirre, the Wrath of God
    by Werner Herzog

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    Amelie
    by Jean-Pierre Jeunet

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    Battleship Potemkin
    by Grigori Aleksandrov

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  20. 20.
    Three Colors Trilogy (Blue / White / Red)
    by Florence Pernel

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    The Battle of Algiers - Criterion Collection
    by Gillo Pontecorvo

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    Grand Illusion - Criterion Collection
    by Jean Renoir

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    M - Criterion Collection
    by Fritz Lang

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    Andrei Rublev - Criterion Collection
    by Andrei Tarkovsky

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  25. 27.
    À bout de souffle (Breathless)
    by Jean-Luc Godard

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  26. 28.
    Oldboy
    by Chan-wook Park

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  27. 29.
    Ugetsu - Criterion Collection
    by Kenji Mizoguchi

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  28. 30.
    Nosferatu - Special Edition
    by F.W. Murnau

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  29. 31.
    Chungking Express
    by Kar Wai Wong

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  30. 32.
    Raise the Red Lantern
    by Yimou Zhang

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  31. 33.
    Wings of Desire

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    Persona
    by Ingmar Bergman

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  33. 35.
    Rashomon - Criterion Collection

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    L' Atalante
    by Jean Vigo

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  36. 38.
    Y Tu Mama Tambien
    by Alfonso Cuarón

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    L'Avventura - Criterion Collection
    by Michelangelo Antonioni

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    In the Mood for Love - Criterion Collection
    by Kar Wai Wong

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  40. 42.
    Throne of Blood - Criterion Collection
    by Akira Kurosawa

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  41. 43.
    La Dolce vita
    by Federico Fellini

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  42. 44.
    Volver
    by Pedro Almodóvar

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  43. 45.
    Celine and Julie Go Boating
    by Jacques Rivette

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  44. 47.
    Cyrano de Bergerac
    by Jean-Paul Rappeneau

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  45. 48.
    Come and See
    by Elem Klimov

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  46. 49.
    Yeelen
    by Souleymane Cissé

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  47. 50.
    Close-Up

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  48. 51.
    The Mirror
    by Andrei Tarkovsky

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  49. 52.
    The Marriage of Maria Braun
    by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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  50. 53.
    Hana-bi
    by Beat Takeshi Kitano

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  51. 54.
    Belle de Jour

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  52. 55.
    Ivan the Terrible - Pt. 1
    by Sergei M. Eisenstein

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  53. 56.
    Central Station
    by Walter Salles

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  54. 57.
    The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums
    by Kenji Mizoguchi

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  55. 58.
    Jules Et Jim (Original French Version with English Subtitles)
    by François Truffaut

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  56. 59.
    Downfall
    by Oliver Hirschbiegel

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  57. 60.
    My Neighbor Totoro
    by Hayao Miyazaki

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  58. 61.
    Wild Strawberries - Criterion Collection
    by Ingmar Bergman

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  59. 62.
    A Man Escaped
    by Robert Bresson

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  60. 63.
    Ran - Criterion Collection
    by Akira Kurosawa

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  61. 64.
    Amores Perros
    by Alejandro González Iñárritu

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  62. 65.
    The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
    by Robert Wiene

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  63. 66.
    The Silences of the Palace
    by Moufida Tlatli

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  64. 67.
    The Return
    by Andrei Zvyagintsev

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  65. 68.
    The Twilight Samurai
    by Yôji Yamada

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  66. 69.
    The Conformist (Extended Edition)
    by Bernardo Bertolucci

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  67. 70.
    The Earrings of Madame de...
    by Max Ophuls

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  68. 71.
    Cache (Hidden)
    by Michael Haneke

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  69. 72.
    Grave of the Fireflies
    by Isao Takahata

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  70. 73.
    Stalker: A Film by Andrei Tarkovsky
    by Andrei Tarkovsky

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  71. 74.
    Summer
    by Eric Rohmer

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  72. 75.
    Ordet - Criterion Collection
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer

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  73. 76.
    Pierrot Le Fou
    by Jean-Luc Godard

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  74. 77.
    Hong Gao Liang (Red Sorghum)
    by Zhang Yimou

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  75. 78.
    Luis Bunuel's L'Age d'Or

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  76. 79.
    Battle Royale
    by Kinji Fukasaku

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    Spring in a Small Town
    by Fei Mu

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  78. 82.
    The Color of Pomegranates
    by Sergei Parajanov

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    Rosetta
    by Jean-Pierre Dardenne

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  80. 85.
    Spirit of the Beehive - Criterion Collection
    by Víctor Erice

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  81. 86.
    The Gospel According to St. Matthew
    by Pier Paolo Pasolini

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    Late Spring - Criterion Collection
    by Yasujiro Ozu

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  84. 89.
    Playtime - Criterion Collection

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  85. 90.
    To Live

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  86. 91.
    Au Hasard Balthazar (Criterion Collection)
    by Robert Bresson

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  87. 92.
    All About My Mother

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  88. 93.
    Earth
    by Aleksandr Dovzhenko

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  89. 94.
    Life Is Beautiful

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    Moolade

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  91. 96.
    Roma, Città Aperta (Open City) in Original Italian
    by Roberto Rossellini

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  92. 97.
    Hiroshima Mon Amour - Criterion Collection
    by Alain Resnais

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  93. 98.
    A City of Sadness (1989)
    by Hou Hsiao-Hsien

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  94. 99.
    Werckmeister Harmonies
    by Béla Tarr

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  95. 101.
    La Strada - Criterion Collection
    by Federico Fellini

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  96. 103.
    Audition (Unrated) (Ws Dir Sub)
    by Takashi Miike

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  97. 104.
    The Motorcycle Diaries (Widescreen Edition)
    by Walter Salles

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  98. 105.
    Un Chien Andalou

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  99. 106.
    The Life of Oharu
    by Kenji Mizoguchi

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  100. 107.
    Underground

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  101. 108.
    The Double Life of Veronique - Criterion Collection
    by Krzysztof Kieslowski

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  102. 109.
    Black God, White Devil
    by Glauber Rocha

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  103. 111.
    Charulata
    by Satyajit Ray

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  104. 112.
    Cyclo
    by Anh Hung Tran

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  105. 113.
    Zatoichi
    by Takeshi Kitano

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  106. 114.
    The Wages of Fear - Criterion Collection
    by Henri-Georges Clouzot

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  107. 115.
    Landscape in the Mist
    by Theodoros Angelopoulos

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  108. 116.
    Farewell My Concubine
    by Kaige Chen

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  109. 117.
    Pakeezah (1971)
    by Kamal Amrohi

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  110. 118.
    Alexander Nevsky
    by Sergei M. Eisenstein

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  111. 119.
    Los Olvidados

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  112. 120.
    Last Year at Marienbad
    by Alain Resnais

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  113. 122.
    Festen
    by Thomas Vinterberg

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  114. 123.
    My Night at Maud's - Criterion Collection
    by Eric Rohmer

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  115. 124.
    Gabbeh
    by Mohsen Makhmalbaf

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  116. 125.
    Cries & Whispers - Criterion Collection
    by Ingmar Bergman

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  117. 126.
    The Night of the Shooting Stars
    by Paolo Taviani

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  118. 128.
    House of Flying Daggers
    by Yimou Zhang

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  119. 129.
    Yi Yi - Criterion Collection
    by Edward Yang

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  120. 130.
    Napoléon (France - 1927)
    by Abel Gance

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  121. 131.
    Ikiru - Criterion Collection
    by Akira Kurosawa

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  122. 132.
    Delicatessen

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  123. 133.
    Memories of Murder
    by Joon-ho Bong

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  124. 134.
    The Man Without a Past
    by Aki Kaurismäki

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  126. 136.
    Casque d'Or - Criterion Collection
    by Jacques Becker

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  127. 137.
    Il Postino
    by Michael Radford

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  128. 138.
    Like Water for Chocolate
    by Alfonso Arau

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  129. 139.
    The Tree of Wooden Clogs
    by Ermanno Olmi

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  130. 140.
    Eternity and a Day
    by Theodoros Angelopoulos

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  131. 141.
    Claire's Knee
    by Eric Rohmer

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  132. 142.
    Senso
    by Luchino Visconti

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  133. 143.
    Tale of Tales (1979)
    by Yuriy Norshteyn

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  134. 144.
    In the Realm of the Senses
    by Nagisa Oshima

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  135. 145.
    Contempt - Criterion Collection

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  136. 146.
    Amarcord (Criterion Collection)
    by Federico Fellini

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  137. 147.
    The Love
    by Károly Makk

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  138. 148.
    Carl Theodor Dreyer - Day of Wrath
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer

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  139. 149.
    Le Samourai - Criterion Collection
    by Jean-Pierre Melville

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  140. 150.
    The White Balloon
    by Jafar Panahi

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  141. 151.
    The Wayward Cloud
    by Ming-liang Tsai

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  142. 152.
    Run Lola Run
    by Tom Tykwer

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  143. 153.
    Ringu
    by Hideo Nakata

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  144. 154.
    Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
    by Pedro Almodóvar

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  145. 155.
    Les Vampires
    by Louis Feuillade

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  146. 156.
    Early Summer - Criterion Collection
    by Yasujiro Ozu

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  147. 157.
    Meghe Dhaka Tara (The Cloud-Capped Star)
    by Ritwik Ghatak

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  148. 158.
    Abraham's Valley
    by Manoel de Oliveira

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  149. 159.
    Nights of Cabiria - Criterion Collection
    by Federico Fellini

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  150. 160.
    Day for Night

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    Lola Montes
    by Max Ophüls

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  152. 162.
    Triumph of the Will
    by Leni Riefenstahl

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  153. 163.
    Tierra
    by Julio Medem

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  154. 164.
    Pepe Le Moko - Criterion Collection
    by Julien Duvivier

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  155. 165.
    Man With the Movie Camera
    by Dziga Vertov

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  156. 166.
    Irreversible

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  157. 167.
    Satantango
    by Béla Tarr

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  158. 168.
    Forbidden Games - Criterion Collection
    by René Clément

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  159. 169.
    Hero
    by Yimou Zhang

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  160. 170.
    Show Me Love
    by Lukas Moodysson

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  161. 171.
    Diary of a Country Priest - Criterion Collection
    by Robert Bresson

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  162. 172.
    Strike
    by Sergei M. Eisenstein

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    Pyaasa (1957)
    by Guru Dutt

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  164. 174.
    The Hidden Fortress - Criterion Collection
    by Akira Kurosawa

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  165. 175.
    Babette's Feast
    by Gabriel Axel

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  166. 177.
    The Piano Teacher (Unrated Edition)
    by Michael Haneke

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    Maborosi
    by Hirokazu Koreeda

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  168. 179.
    L' enfant
    by Jean-Pierre Dardenne

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  169. 180.
    The Vanishing - Criterion Collection
    by George Sluizer

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  170. 181.
    Daybreak
    by Marcel Carné

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  171. 182.
    Pelle the Conqueror
    by Bille August

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  172. 183.
    Burnt by the Sun

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    The Sorrow and the Pity

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  174. 185.
    Human Condition I - No Greater Love
    by Masaki Kobayashi

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  175. 186.
    The Tin Drum
    by Volker Schlöndorff

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  176. 187.
    Viridiana - Criterion Collection
    by Luis Buñuel

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  177. 188.
    The Red and The White
    by Miklós Jancsó

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  178. 189.
    Taste of Cherry - Criterion Collection
    by Abbas Kiarostami

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  179. 190.
    The Killer
    by Chung Lam

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  180. 191.
    Sans soleil
    by Chris Marker

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  181. 192.
    Mother and Son
    by Aleksandr Sokurov

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  182. 193.
    La Notte
    by Michelangelo Antonioni

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  183. 194.
    Ashes and Diamonds (Popiol i Diament)
    by Andrzej Wajda

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    Ballad of a Soldier - Criterion Collection
    by Grigori Chukhrai

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  185. 196.
    The Official Story
    by Luis Puenzo

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    Umberto D. - Criterion Collection
    by Vittorio De Sica

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    The Sacrifice
    by Andrei Tarkovsky

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    Blissfully Yours
    by Apichatpong Weerasethakul

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    The Lives of Others

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    Marketa Lazarova
    by Frantisek Vlaci

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  192. 203.
    Floating Clouds (Ukigumo) (1955)
    by Mikio Naruse

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  193. 204.
    4 Months 3 Weeks 2 Days

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  194. 205.
    Ornamental Hairpin (1941)
    by Hiroshi Shimizu

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