ForeignFilms.com Top 100 Foreign Films
I've found a couple of good lists of foreign language films that don't concentrate on a particular nationality. The ForeignFilms.com website has a Top 100 Foreign Films list that covers a wide timespan all the way up to 2001. It also covers a lot of countries, including Taiwan, Brazil, Mexico, India and Yugoslavia.
For a very different take on the greatest foreign language films, here's another from Movieline.
The List
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| 1 | Seven Samurai | 1954 | Akira Kurosawa |  Japan |
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| 2 | 8½ | 1963 | Federico Fellini |  Italy |
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| 3 | Rashomon | 1951 | Akira Kurosawa | Japan |
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| 4 | Wild Strawberries | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman |  Sweden |
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| 5 | The Seventh Seal | 1956 | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
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| 6 | The Bicycle Thief | 1948 | Vittorio De Sica | Italy |
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| 7 | Cries and Whispers | 1972 | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
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| 8 | M | 1931 | Fritz Lang |  Germany |
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| 9 | Ran | 1985 | Akira Kurosawa | Japan |
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| 10 | Amelie | 2001 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet |  France |
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| 11 | Ikiru | 1952 | Akira Kurosawa | Japan |
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| 12 | Persona | 1966 | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
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| 13 | City of God | 2002 | Fernando Meirelles & Kátia Lund |  Brazil |
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| 14 | The 400 Blows | 1959 | Francois Truffaut | France |
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| 15 | La dolce vita | 1960 | Federico Fellini | Italy |
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| 16 | Stalker | 1979 | Andrei Tarkovsky |  USSR |
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| 17 | Raise the Red Lantern | 1991 | Zhang Yimou |  China |
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| 18 | Andrei Rublev | 1966 | Andrei Tarkovsky | USSR |
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| 19 | Yojimbo | 1961 | Akira Kurosawa | Japan |
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| 20 | Throne of Blood | 1957 | Akira Kurosawa | Japan |
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| 21 | Grand Illusion | 1937 | Jean Renoir | France |
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| 22 | La strada | 1954 | Federico Fellini | Italy |
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| 23 | The Exterminating Angel | 1962 | Luis Buñuel |  Mexico |
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| 24 | The Mirror | 1975 | Andrei Tarkovsky | USSR |
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| 25 | Children of Paradise | 1945 | Marcel Carne | France |
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| 26 | Aguirre, the Wrath of God | 1972 | Werner Herzog | West Germany |
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| 27 | Los olvidados | 1950 | Luis Buñuel | Mexico |
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| 28 | Umberto D | 1952 | Vittorio De Sica | Italy |
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| 29 | In the Mood for Love | 2000 | Wong Kar Wai |  Hong Kong |
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| 30 | Metropolis | 1927 | Fritz Lang | Germany |
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| 31 | Fanny and Alexander | 1982 | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
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| 32 | Beauty and the Beast | 1946 | Jean Cocteau | France |
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| 33 | Nights of Cabiria | 1957 | Federico Fellini | Italy |
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| 34 | Rules of the Game | 1939 | Jean Renoir | France |
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| 35 | Spirited Away | 2001 | Hayao Miyazaki | Japan |
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| 36 | Nostalgia | 1983 | Andrei Tarkovsky | USSR |
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| 37 | The Silence | 1963 | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
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| 38 | Tokyo Story | 1953 | Yasujiro Ozu | Japan |
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| 39 | The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | 1972 | Luis Buñuel |  Spain |
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| 40 | Solaris | 1972 | Andrei Tarkovsky | USSR |
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| 41 | Winter Light | 1963 | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
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| 42 | Viridiana | 1961 | Luis Buñuel | Mexico |
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| 43 | Breathless | 1959 | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
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| 44 | My Life to Live | 1962 | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
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| 45 | Nosferatu | 1922 | F. W. Murnau | Germany |
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| 46 | Pather Panchali | 1955 | Satyajit Ray |  India |
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| 47 | Open City | 1945 | Roberto Rossellini | Italy |
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| 48 | That Obscure Object of Desire | 1977 | Luis Buñuel | Spain |
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| 49 | Through a Glass Darkly | 1961 | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
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| 50 | L' âge d'or | 1930 | Luis Buñuel | France |
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| 51 | Un Chien Andalou | 1928 | Luis Buñuel | France |
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| 52 | Ugetsu | 1953 | Kenji Mizoguchi | Japan |
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| 53 | The Wages of Fear | 1953 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | France |
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| 54 | Cinema Paradiso | 1988 | Giuseppe Tornatore | Italy |
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| 55 | All About My Mother | 1999 | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
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| 56 | Sansho the Bailiff | 1954 | Kenji Mizoguchi | Japan |
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| 57 | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | 1919 | Robert Wiene | Germany |
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| 58 | Amarcord | 1973 | Federico Fellini | Italy |
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| 59 | Show Me Love | 1998 | Lukas Moodysson | Sweden |
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| 60 | L' avventura | 1960 | Michelangelo Antonioni | Italy |
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| 61 | Battleship Potemkin | 1925 | Sergei Eisenstein | USSR |
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| 62 | Smiles of a Summer Night | 1955 | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
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| 63 | La notte | 1961 | Michelangelo Antonioni | Italy |
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| 64 | Talk to Her | 2001 | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
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| 65 | Das Boot | 1981 | Wolfgang Petersen | West Germany |
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| 66 | The Hidden Fortress | 1958 | Akira Kurosawa | Japan |
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| 67 | The Leopard | 1963 | Luchino Visconti | Italy |
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| 68 | Children of Heaven | 1997 | Majid Majidi |  Iran |
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| 69 | Chungking Express | 1994 | Wong Kar Wai | Hong Kong |
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| 70 | Princess Mononoke | 1997 | Hayao Miyazaki | Japan |
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| 71 | To Live | 1994 | Zhang Yimou | China |
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| 72 | Au revoir, les enfants | 1987 | Louis Malle | France |
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| 73 | Ivan's Childhood | 1962 | Andrei Tarkovsky | USSR |
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| 74 | Contempt | 1963 | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
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| 75 | Amores Perros | 2000 | Alejandro González Iñárritu | Mexico |
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| 76 | Central Station | 1998 | Walter Salles | Brazil |
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| 77 | Underground | 1995 | Emir Kusturica |  Yugoslavia |
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| 78 | Fitzcarraldo | 1982 | Werner Herzog | West Germany |
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| 79 | Hero | 2002 | Zhang Yimou | China |
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| 80 | Run Lola Run | 1998 | Tom Tykwer | Germany |
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| 81 | Shoot the Piano Player | 1960 | Francois Truffaut | France |
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| 82 | Sanjuro | 1962 | Akira Kurosawa | Japan |
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| 83 | Belle de Jour | 1967 | Luis Buñuel | France |
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| 84 | Alexander Nevsky | 1938 | Sergei Eisenstein | USSR |
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| 85 | Pierrot le fou | 1965 | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
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| 86 | The Killer | 1989 | John Woo | Hong Kong |
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| 87 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | 2000 | Ang Lee | China |
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| 88 | Hiroshima, mon amour | 1959 | Alain Resnais | France |
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| 89 | Jean de Florette | 1986 | Claude Berri | France |
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| 90 | Jules and Jim | 1961 | Francois Truffaut | France |
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| 91 | Lovers of the Arctic Circle | 1998 | Julio Medem | Spain |
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| 92 | High and Low | 1963 | Akira Kurosawa | Japan |
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| 93 | Les diaboliques | 1955 | Henri-Georges Clouzot | France |
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| 94 | Kagemusha | 1980 | Akira Kurosawa | Japan |
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| 95 | The Virgin Spring | 1959 | Ingmar Bergman | Sweden |
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| 96 | Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | 1988 | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
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| 97 | Life is Beautiful | 1998 | Roberto Benigni | Italy |
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| 98 | Manon of the Spring | 1986 | Claude Berri | France |
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| 99 | The Wild Reeds | 1994 | Andre Techine | France |
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| 100 | No Man's Land | 2001 | Danis Tanovic |  Bosnia and Herzegovina |
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