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
| # |
Title |
Year |
Director |
Country |
IMDb |
| 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 |
IMDb |
| 5 |
The Seventh Seal |
1956 |
Ingmar Bergman |
Sweden |
IMDb |
| 6 |
The Bicycle Thief |
1948 |
Vittorio De Sica |
Italy |
IMDb |
| 7 |
Cries and Whispers |
1972 |
Ingmar Bergman |
Sweden |
IMDb |
| 8 |
M |
1931 |
Fritz Lang |
Germany |
IMDb |
| 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 |
IMDb |
| 12 |
Persona |
1966 |
Ingmar Bergman |
Sweden |
IMDb |
| 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 |
IMDb |
| 17 |
Raise the Red Lantern |
1991 |
Zhang Yimou |
China |
IMDb |
| 18 |
Andrei Rublev |
1966 |
Andrei Tarkovsky |
USSR |
IMDb |
| 19 |
Yojimbo |
1961 |
Akira Kurosawa |
Japan |
IMDb |
| 20 |
Throne of Blood |
1957 |
Akira Kurosawa |
Japan |
IMDb |
| 21 |
Grand Illusion |
1937 |
Jean Renoir |
France |
IMDb |
| 22 |
La strada |
1954 |
Federico Fellini |
Italy |
IMDb |
| 23 |
The Exterminating Angel |
1962 |
Luis Buñuel |
Mexico |
IMDb |
| 24 |
The Mirror |
1975 |
Andrei Tarkovsky |
USSR |
IMDb |
| 25 |
Children of Paradise |
1945 |
Marcel Carne |
France |
IMDb |
| 26 |
Aguirre, the Wrath of God |
1972 |
Werner Herzog |
West Germany |
IMDb |
| 27 |
Los olvidados |
1950 |
Luis Buñuel |
Mexico |
IMDb |
| 28 |
Umberto D |
1952 |
Vittorio De Sica |
Italy |
IMDb |
| 29 |
In the Mood for Love |
2000 |
Wong Kar Wai |
Hong Kong |
IMDb |
| 30 |
Metropolis |
1927 |
Fritz Lang |
Germany |
IMDb |
| 31 |
Fanny and Alexander |
1982 |
Ingmar Bergman |
Sweden |
IMDb |
| 32 |
Beauty and the Beast |
1946 |
Jean Cocteau |
France |
IMDb |
| 33 |
Nights of Cabiria |
1957 |
Federico Fellini |
Italy |
IMDb |
| 34 |
Rules of the Game |
1939 |
Jean Renoir |
France |
IMDb |
| 35 |
Spirited Away |
2001 |
Hayao Miyazaki |
Japan |
IMDb |
| 36 |
Nostalgia |
1983 |
Andrei Tarkovsky |
USSR |
IMDb |
| 37 |
The Silence |
1963 |
Ingmar Bergman |
Sweden |
IMDb |
| 38 |
Tokyo Story |
1953 |
Yasujiro Ozu |
Japan |
IMDb |
| 39 |
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie |
1972 |
Luis Buñuel |
Spain |
IMDb |
| 40 |
Solaris |
1972 |
Andrei Tarkovsky |
USSR |
IMDb |
| 41 |
Winter Light |
1963 |
Ingmar Bergman |
Sweden |
IMDb |
| 42 |
Viridiana |
1961 |
Luis Buñuel |
Mexico |
IMDb |
| 43 |
Breathless |
1959 |
Jean-Luc Godard |
France |
IMDb |
| 44 |
My Life to Live |
1962 |
Jean-Luc Godard |
France |
IMDb |
| 45 |
Nosferatu |
1922 |
F. W. Murnau |
Germany |
IMDb |
| 46 |
Pather Panchali |
1955 |
Satyajit Ray |
India |
IMDb |
| 47 |
Open City |
1945 |
Roberto Rossellini |
Italy |
IMDb |
| 48 |
That Obscure Object of Desire |
1977 |
Luis Buñuel |
Spain |
IMDb |
| 49 |
Through a Glass Darkly |
1961 |
Ingmar Bergman |
Sweden |
IMDb |
| 50 |
L' âge d'or |
1930 |
Luis Buñuel |
France |
IMDb |
| 51 |
Un Chien Andalou |
1928 |
Luis Buñuel |
France |
IMDb |
| 52 |
Ugetsu |
1953 |
Kenji Mizoguchi |
Japan |
IMDb |
| 53 |
The Wages of Fear |
1953 |
Henri-Georges Clouzot |
France |
IMDb |
| 54 |
Cinema Paradiso |
1988 |
Giuseppe Tornatore |
Italy |
IMDb |
| 55 |
All About My Mother |
1999 |
Pedro Almodóvar |
Spain |
IMDb |
| 56 |
Sansho the Bailiff |
1954 |
Kenji Mizoguchi |
Japan |
IMDb |
| 57 |
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari |
1919 |
Robert Wiene |
Germany |
IMDb |
| 58 |
Amarcord |
1973 |
Federico Fellini |
Italy |
IMDb |
| 59 |
Show Me Love |
1998 |
Lukas Moodysson |
Sweden |
IMDb |
| 60 |
L' avventura |
1960 |
Michelangelo Antonioni |
Italy |
IMDb |
| 61 |
Battleship Potemkin |
1925 |
Sergei Eisenstein |
USSR |
IMDb |
| 62 |
Smiles of a Summer Night |
1955 |
Ingmar Bergman |
Sweden |
IMDb |
| 63 |
La notte |
1961 |
Michelangelo Antonioni |
Italy |
IMDb |
| 64 |
Talk to Her |
2001 |
Pedro Almodóvar |
Spain |
IMDb |
| 65 |
Das Boot |
1981 |
Wolfgang Petersen |
West Germany |
IMDb |
| 66 |
The Hidden Fortress |
1958 |
Akira Kurosawa |
Japan |
IMDb |
| 67 |
The Leopard |
1963 |
Luchino Visconti |
Italy |
IMDb |
| 68 |
Children of Heaven |
1997 |
Majid Majidi |
Iran |
IMDb |
| 69 |
Chungking Express |
1994 |
Wong Kar Wai |
Hong Kong |
IMDb |
| 70 |
Princess Mononoke |
1997 |
Hayao Miyazaki |
Japan |
IMDb |
| 71 |
To Live |
1994 |
Zhang Yimou |
China |
IMDb |
| 72 |
Au revoir, les enfants |
1987 |
Louis Malle |
France |
IMDb |
| 73 |
Ivan's Childhood |
1962 |
Andrei Tarkovsky |
USSR |
IMDb |
| 74 |
Contempt |
1963 |
Jean-Luc Godard |
France |
IMDb |
| 75 |
Amores Perros |
2000 |
Alejandro González Iñárritu |
Mexico |
IMDb |
| 76 |
Central Station |
1998 |
Walter Salles |
Brazil |
IMDb |
| 77 |
Underground |
1995 |
Emir Kusturica |
Yugoslavia |
IMDb |
| 78 |
Fitzcarraldo |
1982 |
Werner Herzog |
West Germany |
IMDb |
| 79 |
Hero |
2002 |
Zhang Yimou |
China |
IMDb |
| 80 |
Run Lola Run |
1998 |
Tom Tykwer |
Germany |
IMDb |
| 81 |
Shoot the Piano Player |
1960 |
Francois Truffaut |
France |
IMDb |
| 82 |
Sanjuro |
1962 |
Akira Kurosawa |
Japan |
IMDb |
| 83 |
Belle de Jour |
1967 |
Luis Buñuel |
France |
IMDb |
| 84 |
Alexander Nevsky |
1938 |
Sergei Eisenstein |
USSR |
IMDb |
| 85 |
Pierrot le fou |
1965 |
Jean-Luc Godard |
France |
IMDb |
| 86 |
The Killer |
1989 |
John Woo |
Hong Kong |
IMDb |
| 87 |
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon |
2000 |
Ang Lee |
China |
IMDb |
| 88 |
Hiroshima, mon amour |
1959 |
Alain Resnais |
France |
IMDb |
| 89 |
Jean de Florette |
1986 |
Claude Berri |
France |
IMDb |
| 90 |
Jules and Jim |
1961 |
Francois Truffaut |
France |
IMDb |
| 91 |
Lovers of the Arctic Circle |
1998 |
Julio Medem |
Spain |
IMDb |
| 92 |
High and Low |
1963 |
Akira Kurosawa |
Japan |
IMDb |
| 93 |
Les diaboliques |
1955 |
Henri-Georges Clouzot |
France |
IMDb |
| 94 |
Kagemusha |
1980 |
Akira Kurosawa |
Japan |
IMDb |
| 95 |
The Virgin Spring |
1959 |
Ingmar Bergman |
Sweden |
IMDb |
| 96 |
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown |
1988 |
Pedro Almodóvar |
Spain |
IMDb |
| 97 |
Life is Beautiful |
1998 |
Roberto Benigni |
Italy |
IMDb |
| 98 |
Manon of the Spring |
1986 |
Claude Berri |
France |
IMDb |
| 99 |
The Wild Reeds |
1994 |
Andre Techine |
France |
IMDb |
| 100 |
No Man's Land |
2001 |
Danis Tanovic |
Bosnia and Herzegovina |
IMDb |
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