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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
  4. 4.
    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    by Ang Lee
  5. 5.
    8 1/2 (The Criterion Collection)
    by Federico Fellini
  6. 6.
    The Passion of Joan of Arc (The Criterion Collection)
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer
  7. 7.
    Tokyo Story (The Criterion Collection)
    by Yasujirô Ozu
  9. 9.
    Talk to Her (Hable con Ella)

  11. 11.
    Cinema Paradiso
    by Giuseppe Tornatore
  12. 12.
    Metropolis (Restored Authorized Edition)
    by Fritz Lang
  13. 13.
    Bicycle Thieves (The Criterion Collection)
    by Vittorio De Sica
  14. 14.
    Spirited Away
    by Hayao Miyazaki
  15. 15.
    Pather Panchali
    by Satyajit Ray
  16. 16.
    City of God
    by Fernando Meirelles
  17. 17.
    Aguirre, the Wrath of God
    by Werner Herzog
  18. 18.
    Amelie

  19. 19.
    Battleship Potemkin
    by Sergei M. Eisenstein
  21. 21.
    The Battle of Algiers (The Criterion Collection)
    by Gillo Pontecorvo
  22. 22.
    Grand Illusion (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean Renoir
  23. 23.
    M (The Criterion Collection)
    by Fritz Lang
  24. 24.
    Andrei Rublev (The Criterion Collection)
    by Andrey Tarkovskiy
  25. 25.
    Jean De Florette / Manon of the Spring - 2 DVD Set
    by Claude Berri
  27. 27.
    À bout de souffle (Breathless)
    by Jean-Luc Godard
  28. 28.
    Oldboy
    by Chan-wook Park
  29. 29.
    Ugetsu (The Criterion Collection)
    by Kenji Mizoguchi
  30. 30.
    Nosferatu
    by F.W. Murnau
  31. 31.
    Chungking Express
    by Kar Wai Wong
  32. 32.
    Raise the Red Lantern
    by Zhang Yimou
  33. 33.
    Wings of Desire (Special Edition)
    by Wim Wenders
  34. 34.
    Persona
    by Ingmar Bergman
  35. 35.
  37. 37.
    L' Atalante
    by Jean Vigo
  38. 38.
    Y Tu Mama Tambien
    by Alfonso Cuarón
  39. 39.
    L'Avventura (The Criterion Collection)
    by Michelangelo Antonioni
  40. 40.
    The 400 Blows (The Criterion Collection)
    by François Truffaut
  43. 43.
    La Dolce Vita [Region 2]
    by Federico Fellini
  44. 44.
    Volver
    by Pedro Almodóvar
  45. 45.
    Celine and Julie Go Boating
    by Jacques Rivette
  46. 46.
    The Decalogue (Special Edition Complete Set)
    by Krzysztof Kieslowski
  47. 47.
    Cyrano de Bergerac

  48. 48.
    Come and See

  49. 49.
    Yeelen

  50. 50.
    Close-Up
    by Abbas Kiarostami
  51. 51.
    The Mirror
    by Andrey Tarkovskiy
  52. 52.
    The Marriage of Maria Braun
    by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  53. 53.
    Hana-bi
    by Takeshi Kitano
  54. 54.
    Belle de Jour

  55. 55.
    Ivan the Terrible - Pt. 1
    by Sergei M. Eisenstein
  56. 56.
    Central Station

  57. 57.
    The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums
    by Kenji Mizoguchi
  58. 58.
    Jules Et Jim (Original French Version with English Subtitles)
    by François Truffaut
  59. 59.
    Downfall [DVD]
    by Oliver Hirschbiegel
  60. 60.
    My Neighbor Totoro
    by Hayao Miyazaki
  61. 61.
    Wild Strawberries (The Criterion Collection)
    by Ingmar Bergman
  62. 62.
    A Man Escaped
    by Robert Bresson
  63. 63.
    Ran (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa
  64. 64.
    Amores Perros
    by Alejandro González Iñárritu
  65. 65.
    The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Special Collector's Edition)
    by Robert Wiene
  66. 66.
    The Silences of the Palace
    by Moufida Tlatli
  67. 67.
    The Return
    by Andrei Zvyagintsev
  68. 68.
    The Twilight Samurai

  69. 69.
    The Conformist (Extended Edition)
    by Bernardo Bertolucci
  70. 70.
    The Earrings of Madame de...
    by Max Ophuls
  71. 71.
    Cache (Hidden)
    by Michael Haneke
  72. 72.
    Grave of the Fireflies
    by Isao Takahata
  73. 73.
    Stalker: A Film by Andrei Tarkovsky
    by Andrey Tarkovskiy
  74. 74.
    The Green Ray [1986] [DVD]
    by Eric Rohmer
  75. 75.
    Ordet - Criterion Collection
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer
  76. 76.
    Pierrot Le Fou
    by Jean-Luc Godard
  77. 77.
    Hong Gao Liang (Red Sorghum)
    by Zhang Yimou
  78. 78.
    Luis Bunuel's L'Age d'Or
    by Luis Buñuel
  79. 79.
    Battle Royale

  80. 80.
    Spring in a Small Town
    by Fei Mu
  82. 82.
    The Color of Pomegranates
    by Ron Holloway
  83. 83.
    Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
    by Ki-duk Kim
  84. 84.
    Rosetta [Region 2 Import - Non USA Format]
    by Jean-Pierre Dardenne
  85. 85.
    Spirit of the Beehive (The Criterion Collection)
    by Víctor Erice
  86. 86.
  87. 87.
  88. 88.
    Late Spring (The Criterion Collection)
    by Wim Wenders
  89. 89.
    Playtime (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jacques Tati
  90. 90.
    To Live
    by Yimou Zhang
  91. 91.
    Au Hasard Balthazar (The Criterion Collection)
    by Robert Bresson
  92. 92.
    All About My Mother

  93. 93.
    Earth
    by Aleksandr Dovzhenko
  94. 94.
    Life is Beautiful
    by Roberto Benigni
  95. 95.
    ?
    Moolade

  97. 97.
    Hiroshima Mon Amour (The Criterion Collection)
    by Alain Resnais
  98. 98.
    A City of Sadness (1989)
    by Hou Hsiao-Hsien
  99. 99.
    Werckmeister Harmonies

  101. 101.
    La Strada (The Criterion Collection)
    by Federico Fellini
  103. 103.
    Audition
    by Takashi Miike
  104. 104.
    The Motorcycle Diaries (Widescreen Edition)
    by Walter Salles
  105. 105.
    Un Chien Andalou
    by Luis Buñuel
  106. 106.
    The Life of Oharu
    by Kenji Mizoguchi
  107. 107.
    Underground
    by Emir Kusturica
  109. 109.
    Deus E O Diabo Na Terra Do Sol (Black God, White Devil)
    by Glauber Rocha
  111. 111.
    Charulata
    by Satyajit Ray
  112. 112.
    Cyclo
    by Anh Hung Tran
  113. 113.
    Zatoichi
    by Takeshi Kitano
  115. 115.
    Landscape in the Mist
    by Theodoros Angelopoulos
  116. 116.
    Farewell My Concubine
    by Kaige Chen
  117. 117.
    Pakeezah (1971)
    by Kamal Amrohi
  118. 118.
    Alexander Nevsky
    by Dmitri Vasilyev
  119. 119.
  120. 120.
    Last Year at Marienbad
    by Alain Resnais
  122. 122.
    Festen
    by Thomas Vinterberg
  123. 123.
    My Night at Maud's - Criterion Collection
    by Eric Rohmer
  124. 124.
    Gabbeh
    by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
  126. 126.
    The Night of the Shooting Stars
    by Paolo Taviani
  127. 127.
    M. Hulot's Holiday (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jacques Tati
  128. 128.
    House of Flying Daggers

  129. 129.
    Yi Yi (The Criterion Collection)
    by Edward Yang
  130. 130.
    Napoléon (France - 1927)
    by Abel Gance
  131. 131.
    Ikiru (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa
  132. 132.
    Delicatessen
    by Diane Bertrand
  133. 133.
    Memories of Murder
    by Joon-ho Bong
  134. 134.
    The Man Without a Past
    by Aki Kaurismäki
  135. 135.
    Pandora's Box (The Criterion Collection)
    by Georg Wilhelm Pabst
  136. 136.
    Casque d'Or (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jacques Becker
  137. 137.
    Il Postino
    by Michael Radford
  138. 138.
    Like Water for Chocolate
    by Alfonso Arau
  139. 139.
    The Tree of Wooden Clogs
    by Ermanno Olmi
  140. 140.
    Eternity and a Day
    by Theo Angelopoulos
  141. 141.
    Claire's Knee
    by Eric Rohmer
  142. 142.
    Senso
    by Luchino Visconti
  143. 143.
    Tale of Tales (1979)
    by Yuriy Norshteyn
  144. 144.
    In the Realm of the Senses
    by Nagisa Ôshima
  145. 145.
  146. 146.
  147. 147.
    Love
    by Karoly Makk
  148. 148.
    Carl Theodor Dreyer - Day of Wrath
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer
  149. 149.
    Le Samourai (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean-Pierre Melville
  150. 150.
    The White Balloon
    by Jafar Panahi
  151. 151.
    The Wayward Cloud
    by Ming-liang Tsai
  152. 152.
    Run Lola Run

  153. 153.
    Ringu
    by Hideo Nakata
  155. 155.
    Les Vampires
    by Louis Feuillade
  156. 156.
    Early Summer (The Criterion Collection)
    by Yasujiro Ozu
  157. 157.
    Meghe Dhaka Tara (The Cloud-Capped Star)
    by Ritwik Ghatak
  158. 158.
    Abraham's Valley

  160. 160.
    Day for Night
    by François Truffaut
  161. 161.
    Lola Montes

  162. 162.
    Triumph of the Will (Special Edition)
    by Leni Riefenstahl
  163. 163.
    Tierra
    by Julio Medem
  164. 164.
  165. 165.
    Man with the Movie Camera
    by Dziga Vertov
  166. 166.
    Irreversible

  167. 167.
    Satantango
    by Bela Tarr
  169. 169.
    Hero
    by Yimou Zhang
  170. 170.
    Show Me Love
    by Lukas Moodysson
  171. 171.
    Diary of a Country Priest (The Criterion Collection)
    by Robert Bresson
  172. 172.
    Strike
    by Sergei M. Eisenstein
  173. 173.
    Pyaasa (1957)
    by Guru Dutt
  175. 175.
    Babette's Feast

  177. 177.
    The Piano Teacher (Unrated Edition)
    by Michael Haneke
  178. 178.
    Maborosi
    by Hirokazu Koreeda
  179. 179.
    L'enfant (The Child)
    by Jean-Pierre Dardenne
  180. 180.
    The Vanishing (The Criterion Collection)
    by George Sluizer
  181. 181.
    Daybreak
    by Marcel Carné
  182. 182.
    Pelle the Conqueror

  183. 183.
    Burnt by the Sun
    by Nikita Mikhalkov
  184. 184.
    The Sorrow and the Pity

  185. 185.
    Human Condition I - No Greater Love
    by Masaki Kobayashi
  186. 186.
    The Tin Drum
    by Volker Schlöndorff
  187. 187.
  188. 188.
    The Red and The White
    by Miklós Jancsó
  189. 189.
    Taste of Cherry (The Criterion Collection)
    by Abbas Kiarostami
  190. 190.
    The Killer

  191. 191.
    La Jetee and Sans soleil [Region 2]
    by Chris Marker
  192. 192.
    Mother and Son
    by Aleksandr Sokurov
  193. 193.
    La Notte
    by Michelangelo Antonioni
  194. 194.
  196. 196.
    The Official Story (La historia oficial)
    by Luis Puenzo
  197. 197.
    Umberto D. (The Criterion Collection)
    by Vittorio De Sica
  198. 198.
    The Sacrifice
    by Andrey Tarkovskiy
  199. 199.
    ?
    Blissfully Yours
    by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  200. 200.
  201. 201.
    The Lives of Others
    by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
  202. 202.
    Marketa Lazarova
    by Frantisek Vlaci
  203. 203.
    Floating Clouds (Ukigumo) (1955)
    by Mikio Naruse
  204. 204.
    4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
    by Cristian Mungiu
  205. 205.
    Ornamental Hairpin (1941)
    by Hiroshi Shimizu
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