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mizoguchi's "An Introduction to "Foreign Films""

Largely setting aside personal taste, here’s a list of films i think will together make a good starting point for newcomers to world cinema- hopefully a decent and accessible mix of styles and periods

1. Seven Samurai - Criterion Collection - 3-Disc Remastered Edition
by Akira Kurosawa
 
2. The White Balloon (Badkonake sefid [Non-US Format, PAL Region 2])
by Jafar Panahi
 
3. Cinema Paradiso
by Giuseppe Tornatore
 
4. Pather Panchali
by Satyajit Ray
 
5. City of God
by Fernando Meirelles
 
6. Grand Illusion - Criterion Collection
by Jean Renoir
 
7. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon  
8. The 400 Blows - Criterion Collection  
9. Pan's Labyrinth
by Guillermo del Toro
 
10. Tokyo Story - Criterion Collection
by Yasujiro Ozu
 
11. Y Tu Mama Tambien
by Alfonso Cuarón
 
12. The Seventh Seal - Criterion Collection
by Ingmar Bergman
 
13.
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Hong Gao Liang (Red Sorghum)
by Zhang Yimou
 
14.
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Metropolis (1927)
by Fritz Lang
 
15. Amelie
by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
 
16. My Neighbor Totoro
by Hayao Miyazaki
 
17. Aguirre, the Wrath of God
by Werner Herzog
 
18. Chungking Express
by Kar Wai Wong
 
19. A Man Escaped
by Robert Bresson
 
20. Los Silencios del Palacio (Samt el Qusur) [NTSC/REGION 0 DVD. Import-Latin America]
by Moufida Tlatli
 
21. Bicycle Thieves (Criterion Collection)
by Vittorio De Sica
 
22. Oldboy
by Chan-wook Park
 
23. Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du paradis) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.4 Import - Australia ]
by Marcel Carné
 
24. Spirit of the Beehive - Criterion Collection
by Víctor Erice
 
25. Sansho the Bailiff - Criterion Collection  
26. All About My Mother - Todo Sobre Mi Madre - Original Spanish
by Pedro Almodóvar
 
27.
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L'Atalante (1934)
by Jean Vigo
 
28. Jean De Florette / Manon of the Spring
by Claude Berri
 
29. Battle Royale Directors Cut
by Kinji Fukasaku
 
30. Belle de Jour  
31. Run Lola Run
by Tom Tykwer
 
32. La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast) ORIGINAL FRENCH [Criterion Collection]
by Jean Cocteau
 
34. The Lives of Others  
36.
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Persepolis [2007]
by Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi
 
37. 8 1/2 - Criterion Collection  
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Created by mizoguchi on Jul 16, 2008.