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

  10. 14.
    Jules and Jim (The Criterion Collection)
    by François Truffaut

  11. 15.
    La Haine (The Criterion Collection)
    by Mathieu Kassovitz

  12. 16.
    Il Postino
    by Michael Radford

  13. 17.
    Oldboy
    by Chan-wook Park

  14. 18.
    Delicatessen
    by Diane Bertrand

  15. 20.
    The 400 Blows (The Criterion Collection)
    by François Truffaut

  16. 21.
    Aguirre, the Wrath of God
    by Werner Herzog

  17. 22.
    Wings of Desire (Special Edition)
    by Wim Wenders

  18. 24.
    Andrei Rublev (The Criterion Collection)
    by Andrey Tarkovskiy

  19. 25.
    Battleship Potemkin
    by Sergei M. Eisenstein

  20. 26.
    Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    by Ang Lee

  21. 27.
    Pather Panchali
    by Satyajit Ray

  22. 28.
    Ran (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa

  23. 29.
    Blue
    by Krzysztof Kieslowski

  24. 30.
    Central Station

  25. 31.
    Come and See

  26. 32.
    Spirited Away
    by Hayao Miyazaki

  27. 33.
    Red

  28. 34.
    Wild Strawberries (The Criterion Collection)
    by Ingmar Bergman

  29. 35.
    All About My Mother

  30. 36.
    Cache (Hidden)
    by Michael Haneke

  31. 37.
    Cyrano de Bergerac

  32. 38.
    Downfall [DVD]
    by Oliver Hirschbiegel

  33. 40.
    Life is Beautiful
    by Roberto Benigni

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Created by Lindsay on May 11, 2007.
 

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