The Guardian's 40 Best Foreign Films

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As voted by readers of the Guardian.

  1. 1.
    Cinema Paradiso (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition)
    by Giuseppe Tornatore

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  2. 2.
    Amelie
    by Jean-Pierre Jeunet

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  3. 3.
    Seven Samurai - Criterion Collection
    by Akira Kurosawa

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  4. 4.
    City of God
    by Fernando Meirelles

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  5. 5.
    The Battle of Algiers - Criterion Collection
    by Gillo Pontecorvo

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  6. 6.
    Breathless

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  7. 8.
    Bicycle Thieves (Criterion Collection)
    by Vittorio De Sica

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  8. 9.
    Pan's Labyrinth (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Guillermo del Toro

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  9. 10.
    In the Mood for Love - Criterion Collection
    by Kar Wai Wong

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  10. 11.
    Tokyo Story - Criterion Collection
    by Yasujiro Ozu

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  11. 12.
    Children of Paradise - Criterion Collection
    by Marcel Carné

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  12. 13.
    The Seventh Seal - Criterion Collection
    by Ingmar Bergman

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  13. 14.
    Jules and Jim - Criterion Collection
    by François Truffaut

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  14. 15.
    La Haine (Criterion Collection)

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  15. 16.
    Il Postino
    by Michael Radford

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  16. 17.
    Oldboy
    by Chan-wook Park

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  17. 18.
    Delicatessen

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  18. 19.
    La Dolce Vita (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Federico Fellini

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  20. 21.
    Aguirre, the Wrath of God
    by Werner Herzog

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  21. 22.
    Wings of Desire

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  22. 24.
    Andrei Rublev - Criterion Collection
    by Andrei Tarkovsky

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  23. 25.
    Battleship Potemkin
    by Grigori Aleksandrov

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  24. 26.
    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

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  25. 27.
    Pather Panchali
    by Satyajit Ray

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  26. 28.
    Ran - Criterion Collection
    by Akira Kurosawa

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  27. 29.
    Blue (Three Colors Trilogy)
    by Krzysztof Kieslowski

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  28. 30.
    Central Station
    by Walter Salles

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  29. 31.
    Come and See
    by Elem Klimov

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  30. 32.
    Spirited Away
    by Hayao Miyazaki

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  31. 33.
    Red (Three Colors Trilogy)
    by Krzysztof Kieslowski

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  32. 34.
    Wild Strawberries - Criterion Collection
    by Ingmar Bergman

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  33. 35.
    All About My Mother

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  34. 36.
    Cache (Hidden)
    by Michael Haneke

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  35. 37.
    Cyrano de Bergerac
    by Jean-Paul Rappeneau

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  36. 38.
    Downfall
    by Oliver Hirschbiegel

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  37. 39.
    The Rules of the Game - Criterion Collection
    by Jean Renoir

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  38. 40.
    Life Is Beautiful

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Created by Lindsay on May 11, 2007.
 

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