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The Guardian's 40 Best Foreign Films

As voted by readers of the Guardian.

(found at: http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,2076596,00.html)
1. Cinema Paradiso (Two-Disc Deluxe Edition)
by Giuseppe Tornatore
  
2. Amelie
by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
  
3. Seven Samurai - Criterion Collection
by Akira Kurosawa
  
4. City of God
by Fernando Meirelles
  
5. The Battle of Algiers - Criterion Collection
by Gillo Pontecorvo
  
6. Breathless  
7. Jean De Florette / Manon of the Spring - 2 DVD Set [Import , in French with English Subtitles]
by Claude Berri
  
8. Bicycle Thieves (Criterion Collection)
by Vittorio De Sica
  
9. Pan's Labyrinth (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Guillermo del Toro
  
10. In the Mood for Love - Criterion Collection
by Kar Wai Wong
  
11. Tokyo Story - Criterion Collection
by Yasujiro Ozu
  
12. Children of Paradise - Criterion Collection
by Marcel Carné
  
13. The Seventh Seal - Criterion Collection
by Ingmar Bergman
  
14. Jules and Jim - Criterion Collection
by François Truffaut
  
15. La Haine (Criterion Collection)  
16. Il Postino
by Michael Radford
  
17. Oldboy
by Chan-wook Park
  
18. Delicatessen  
19. La Dolce Vita (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
by Federico Fellini
  
20. The 400 Blows - Criterion Collection  
21. Aguirre, the Wrath of God
by Werner Herzog
  
22. Wings of Desire  
23. Fanny and Alexander (Special Edition Five-Disc Set) - Criterion Collection  
24. Andrei Rublev - Criterion Collection
by Andrei Tarkovsky
  
25. Battleship Potemkin
by Grigori Aleksandrov
  
26. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon  
27. Pather Panchali
by Satyajit Ray
  
28. Ran - Criterion Collection
by Akira Kurosawa
  
29. Blue (Three Colors Trilogy)
by Krzysztof Kieslowski
  
30. Central Station
by Walter Salles
  
31. Come and See
by Elem Klimov
  
32. Spirited Away
by Hayao Miyazaki
  
33. Red (Three Colors Trilogy)
by Krzysztof Kieslowski
  
34. Wild Strawberries - Criterion Collection
by Ingmar Bergman
  
35. All About My Mother  
36. Cache (Hidden)
by Michael Haneke
  
37. Cyrano de Bergerac
by Jean-Paul Rappeneau
  
38. Downfall
by Oliver Hirschbiegel
  
39. The Rules of the Game - Criterion Collection
by Jean Renoir
  
40. Life Is Beautiful  
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Created by Lindsay on May 11, 2007.