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

  2. 2.
    Amelie

  3. 4.
    City of God
    by Fernando Meirelles

  4. 5.
    The Battle of Algiers (The Criterion Collection)
    by Gillo Pontecorvo

  5. 6.
    Breathless
    by Jean-Luc Godard

  6. 7.
    Jean De Florette / Manon of the Spring - 2 DVD Set
    by Claude Berri

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

  8. 9.
    Pan's Labyrinth (New Line Two-Disc Platinum Series)
    by Guillermo Del Toro

  9. 10.
    In the Mood for Love (The Criterion Collection)
    by Kar Wai Wong

  10. 11.
    Tokyo Story (The Criterion Collection)
    by Yasujirô Ozu

  11. 12.
    Children of Paradise (The Criterion Collection)
    by Marcel Carné

  12. 14.
    Jules and Jim (The Criterion Collection)
    by François Truffaut

  13. 15.
    La Haine (The Criterion Collection)
    by Mathieu Kassovitz

  14. 16.
    Il Postino
    by Michael Radford

  15. 17.
    Oldboy
    by Chan-wook Park

  16. 18.
    Delicatessen
    by Diane Bertrand

  17. 19.
    La Dolce Vita (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Federico Fellini

  18. 20.
    The 400 Blows (The Criterion Collection)
    by François Truffaut

  19. 21.
    Aguirre, the Wrath of God
    by Werner Herzog

  20. 22.
    Wings of Desire (Special Edition)
    by Wim Wenders

  21. 24.
    Andrei Rublev (The Criterion Collection)
    by Andrey Tarkovskiy

  22. 25.
    Battleship Potemkin
    by Sergei M. Eisenstein

  23. 26.
    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    by Ang Lee

  24. 27.
    Pather Panchali
    by Satyajit Ray

  25. 28.
    Ran (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa

  26. 29.
    Blue
    by Krzysztof Kieslowski

  27. 30.
    Central Station
    by Walter Salles

  28. 31.
    Come and See
    by Elem Klimov

  29. 32.
    Spirited Away
    by Hayao Miyazaki

  30. 33.
    Red

  31. 34.
    Wild Strawberries (The Criterion Collection)
    by Ingmar Bergman

  32. 35.
    All About My Mother

  33. 36.
    Cache (Hidden)
    by Michael Haneke

  34. 37.
    Cyrano de Bergerac
    by Jean-Paul Rappeneau

  35. 38.
    Downfall [DVD]
    by Oliver Hirschbiegel

  36. 40.
    Life is Beautiful
    by Roberto Benigni

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Created by Lindsay on May 11, 2007.
 

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