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comebackshane's "100 favourite foreign films"

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So, I finally decided to keep tabs on some of the international gems I’ve had the pleasure to discover. Here’s a ranked list of the best of ’em based on little more than my personal enjoyment of said films.

Some are on because they were entertaining (some of the newer ones), some should clearly be higher based on artistic value, but were often just not up my alley (this means you, Ozu), but the ones at the top are predominantly the ones that found balance between the two.

Enjoy!

  1. 1.
    Ran (Masterworks Edition)

  2. 2.
    Open City
    by Roberto Rossellini

  3. 3.
    M (The Criterion Collection)
    by Fritz Lang

  4. 4.
    The Passion of Joan of Arc (The Criterion Collection)
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer

  5. 5.
    City of God
    by Fernando Meirelles

  6. 6.
    Rashomon (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa

  7. 7.
    The Battle of Algiers (The Criterion Collection)
    by Gillo Pontecorvo

  8. 8.
    Breathless
    by Jean-Luc Godard

  9. 9.
    The Decalogue (Special Edition Complete Set)
    by Krzysztof Kieslowski

  10. 10.
    La Strada (The Criterion Collection)
    by Federico Fellini

  11. 11.
    Talk to Her (Hable con Ella)
    by Pedro Almodóvar

  12. 12.

  13. 13.
    Y Tu Mama Tambien
    by Alfonso Cuarón

  14. 14.
    Eyes Without a Face (The Criterion Collection)
    by Georges Franju

  15. 15.
    Aparajito

  16. 17.
    Jules and Jim
    by François Truffaut

  17. 18.
    Seven Samurai (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa

  18. 19.
    Battleship Potemkin (The Special Edition)
    by Sergei Eisenstein

  19. 20.
    Children of Paradise (The Criterion Collection)
    by Marcel Carné

  20. 21.
    Wings of Desire (Special Edition)
    by Wim Wenders

  21. 22.
    Grand Illusion (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean Renoir

  22. 23.
    Woman in the Dunes
    by Hiroshi Teshigahara

  23. 24.

  24. 25.
    Amores Perros
    by Alejandro González Iñárritu

  25. 26.
    A Man Escaped
    by Robert Bresson

  26. 27.
    My Life to Live
    by Jean-Luc Godard

  27. 29.
    Rififi (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jules Dassin

  28. 30.
    Raise the Red Lantern (MGM World Films)
    by Yimou Zhang

  29. 31.
    The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
    by Julian Schnabel

  30. 32.
    Stalker
    by Andrey Tarkovskiy

  31. 33.
    The Young Girls Of Rochefort
    by Jacques Demy

  32. 34.
    The Cranes are Flying (The Criterion Collection)
    by Mikhail Kalatozov

  33. 35.
    The Host (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Bong Joon-ho

  34. 36.
    Let The Right One In
    by Tomas Alfredson

  35. 37.
    Aguirre, the Wrath of God
    by Werner Herzog

  36. 38.
    The 400 Blows (The Criterion Collection)
    by François Truffaut

  37. 39.
    Blue
    by Krzysztof Kieslowski

  38. 40.
    All About My Mother

  39. 41.
    The Bicycle Thief
    by Vittorio De Sica

  40. 42.
    Diabolique (The Criterion Collection)
    by Henri-Georges Clouzot

  41. 43.
    The Triplets of Belleville
    by Sylvain Chomet

  42. 44.
    Good Bye, Lenin! (Special Edition)
    by Wolfgang Becker

  43. 45.
    Le Trou (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jacques Becker

  44. 46.
    Burmese Harp - Criterion Collection
    by Kon Ichikawa

  45. 47.
    I Am Cuba
    by Mikhail Kalatozov

  46. 48.
    Amarcord (The Criterion Collection)
    by Federico Fellini

  47. 49.
    Ivan the Terrible - Parts I & II - Criterion Collection
    by Sergei M. Eisenstein

  48. 50.
    Chungking Express (The Criterion Collection)
    by Wong Kar-Wai

  49. 51.
    The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
    by Jacques Demy

  50. 52.
    Ali Zaoua

  51. 54.
    Grave of the Fireflies (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Isao Takahata

  52. 55.
    Cries & Whispers (The Criterion Collection)
    by Ingmar Bergman

  53. 56.
    Belle de Jour

  54. 58.
    Throne of Blood (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa

  55. 59.
    The Wages of Fear (The Criterion Collection)
    by Henri-Georges Clouzot

  56. 60.
    Paradise Now
    by Hany Abu-Assad

  57. 61.
    Wild Strawberries (The Criterion Collection)
    by Ingmar Bergman

  58. 62.
    Pather Panchali
    by Satyajit Ray

  59. 63.
    Bob le Flambeur (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean-Pierre Melville

  60. 64.
    Das Boot - The Director's Cut
    by Wolfgang Petersen

  61. 65.
    No Man's Land
    by Danis Tanovic

  62. 66.
    L'Avventura (The Criterion Collection)
    by Michelangelo Antonioni

  63. 67.
    Tokyo Story (The Criterion Collection)
    by Yasujirô Ozu

  64. 68.
    Pan's Labyrinth
    by Guillermo Del Toro

  65. 70.
    The Last Laugh
    by F.W. Murnau

  66. 71.

  67. 72.
    C.R.A.Z.Y.

  68. 73.
    Mario Bava's RABID DOGS
    by Mario Bava

  69. 74.
    8 1/2 (The Criterion Collection)
    by Federico Fellini

  70. 75.
    High and Low (The Criterion Collection)
    by Akira Kurosawa

  71. 76.
    Close-Up
    by Abbas Kiarostami

  72. 77.
    The Conformist (Extended Edition)
    by Bernardo Bertolucci

  73. 78.
    Downfall [DVD]
    by Oliver Hirschbiegel

  74. 79.
    La Dolce Vita (2-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Federico Fellini

  75. 80.
    Ugetsu (The Criterion Collection)
    by Kenji Mizoguchi

  76. 81.
    Maria Full of Grace
    by Joshua Marston

  77. 82.
    Zero for Conduct (1933)
    by Jean Vigo

  78. 83.
    Run Lola Run
    by Tom Tykwer

  79. 84.
    Gomorrah (The Criterion Collection)
    by Matteo Garrone

  80. 86.
    The Blue Angel
    by Josef von Sternberg

  81. 87.
    Elevator to the Gallows (The Criterion Collection)
    by Louis Malle

  82. 88.
    Eat Drink Man Woman
    by Ang Lee

  83. 89.
    Umberto D. (The Criterion Collection)
    by Vittorio De Sica

  84. 90.
    Tsotsi
    by Gavin Hood

  85. 91.
    Alphaville (The Criterion Collection)
    by Jean-Luc Godard

  86. 92.
    The Lives of Others
    by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

  87. 93.
    Amelie

  88. 94.
    Children Of Heaven
    by Majid Majidi

  89. 95.
    The Vanishing (The Criterion Collection)
    by George Sluizer

  90. 96.
    Hard Boiled (The Criterion Collection)
    by John Woo

  91. 97.
    The Sea Inside
    by Alejandro Amenabar

  92. 98.
    Life is Beautiful
    by Roberto Benigni

  93. 99.
    Le Million (The Criterion Collection)
    by René Clair

  94. 100.
    Taste of Cherry (The Criterion Collection)
    by Abbas Kiarostami

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