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Movieline's 100 Greatest Foreign Films Movieline magazine also put together a 100 Greatest Foreign Films list which is much more Euro-centric than the ForeignFilms.com list and with a lot fewer recent films. It's not numbered and it's ordered by release date. Here's the source list at Movieline's website. The List IMDb # Title Year Director Country IMDb Doktor Mabuse, the Gambler 1922 Fritz Lang Germany IMDb Nosferatu 1922 F. W. Murnau Germany IMDb La Roue 1923 Abel Gance France IMDb Strike 1924 Sergei Eisenstein USSR IMDb Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang Germany IMDb Napoleon 1927 Abel Gance France IMDb Un Chien Andalou 1929 Luis Buñuel France IMDb The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 Carl Theodor Dreyer France IMDb Pandora's Box 1929 G. W. Pabst Germany IMDb L' âge d'or 1930 Luis Buñuel France IMDb The Blue Angel 1930 Josef Von Sternberg Germany IMDb Earth 1930 Alexander Dovzhenko USSR IMDb La chienne 1931 Jean Renoir France IMDb M 1931 Fritz Lang Germany IMDb Le million 1931 Rene Clair France IMDb Freedom for Us 1931 Rene Clair France IMDb Vampyr 1931 Carl Theodor Dreyer Germany IMDb Boudu Saved from Drowning 1932 Jean Renoir France IMDb Zero for Conduct 1933 Jean Vigo France IMDb L' Atalante 1934 Jean Vigo France IMDb Daybreak 1939 Marcel Carné France IMDb Rules of the Game 1939 Jean Renoir France IMDb Children of Paradise 1945 Marcel Carné France IMDb Beauty and the Beast 1946 Jean Cocteau France IMDb The Bicycle Thief 1948 Vittorio De Sica Italy IMDb Diary of a Country Priest 1950 Robert Bresson France IMDb Forbidden Games 1952 René Clément France IMDb Rashomon 1951 Akira Kurosawa Japan IMDb The Golden Coach 1952 Jean Renoir France IMDb Europa '51 1952 Roberto Rossellini Italy IMDb Ikiru 1952 Akira Kurosawa Japan IMDb The Earrings of Madame de... 1953 Max Ophüls France IMDb Tokyo Story 1953 Yasujiro Ozu Japan IMDb Ugetsu 1953 Kenji Mizoguchi Japan Les diaboliques 1954 Henri-Georges Clouzot France IMDb Sansho Dayu 1954 Kenji Mizoguchi Japan IMDb Senso 1954 Luchino Visconti Italy IMDb Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa Japan IMDb Lola Montes 1955 Max Ophüls France IMDb Night and Fog 1955 Alain Resnais France IMDb Smiles of a Summer Night 1955 Ingmar Bergman Italy IMDb The Burmese Harp 1956 Kon Ichikawa Japan IMDb Throne of Blood 1957 Akira Kurosawa Japan IMDb Ashes and Diamonds 1958 Andrzej Wajda Poland IMDb The World of Apu 1959 Satyajit Ray India IMDb The Four Hundred Blows 1959 François Truffaut France IMDb Floating Weeds 1959 Yasujiro Ozu Japan IMDb L' Avventura 1960 Michelangelo Antonioni Italy IMDb Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard France IMDb La dolce vita 1960 Federico Fellini Italy IMDb Rocco and His Brothers 1960 Luchino Visconti Italy IMDb Les Yeux Sans Visage (Occhi Senza Volto) 1960 Georges Franju France IMDb Last Year at Marienbad 1961 Alain Resnais France IMDb Lola 1961 Jacques Demy France IMDb La notte 1961 Michelangelo Antonioni Italy IMDb Through a Glass, Darkly 1961 Ingmar Bergman Sweden IMDb Viridiana 1961 Luis Buñuel Mexico IMDb L' eclisse 1962 Michelangelo Antonioni Italy IMDb Jules et Jim 1962 François Truffaut France IMDb 8½ 1963 Federico Fellini Italy IMDb Contempt 1963 Jean-Luc Godard France IMDb Red Desert 1964 Michelangelo Antonioni Italy IMDb The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 Jacques Demy France IMDb Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors 1964 Sergei Paradjanov USSR IMDb The Gospel According to St. Matthew 1964 Pier Paolo Pasolini Italy IMDb Gertrud 1964 Carl Theodor Dreyer Sweden IMDb Pierrot le Fou 1965 Jean-Luc Godard France IMDb Repulsion 1965 Roman Polanski United Kingdom IMDb Masculin Feminin 1966 Jean-Luc Godard France IMDb Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman Sweden IMDb Belle de Jour 1967 Luis Buñuel France IMDb The Red and the White 1967 Miklos Jancso Hungary IMDb Play Time 1967 Jacques Tati France IMDb Week End 1967 Jean-Luc Godard France IMDb Shame 1968 Ingmar Bergman Sweden IMDb The Butcher 1970 Claude Chabrol France IMDb The Conformist 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci Italy IMDb The Spider's Strategem 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci Italy IMDb Tristana 1970 Luis Buñuel Spain IMDb Two English Girls 1971 Francois Truffaut France IMDb Murmur of the Heart 1971 Louis Malle France IMDb Aguirre, the Wrath of God 1972 Werner Herzog West Germany IMDb The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant 1972 Rainer Werner Fassbinder West Germany IMDb The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie 1972 Luis Buñuel France IMDb Solaris 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky USSR IMDb The Spirit of the Beehive 1973 Victor Erice Spain IMDb Celine and Julie Go Boating 1974 Jacques Rivette France IMDb Cria! 1976 Carlos Saura Spain IMDb Novecento 1976 Bernardo Bertolucci Italy IMDb The American Friend 1977 Wim Wenders West Germany IMDb Fanny and Alexander 1982 Ingmar Bergman Sweden IMDb The Night of the Shooting Stars 1982 Paolo & Vittorio Taviani Italy IMDb Ran 1985 Akira Kurosawa Japan IMDb Shoah 1985 Claude Lanzmann France IMDb Wings of Desire 1987 Wim Wenders West Germany IMDb The Decalogue 1988 Krzysztof Kieslowski Poland IMDb Landscape in the Mist 1988 Theo Angelopoulos Greece IMDb The Double Life of Veronique 1991 Krzysztof Kieslowski France IMDb Raise the Red Lantern 1991 Zhang Yimou China IMDb Lamerica 1994 Gianni Amelio Italy IMDb The Kingdom 1994 Lars Von Trier Denmark IMDb

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