The Top Twenty-Five Foreign Films of All-Time
Note: This list doesn’t contain US foreign productions such as: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, City of God, Letters from Iwo Jima, etc… This list is pure foreign.
So here we are…
#25. Reconstituirea [reconstruction] (dir. LUCIAN PINTILIE)
#24. L’homme Qui Ment [the man who lies] (dir. ALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET)
#23. Panelkapcsolat [the prefab people] (dir. BELA TARR)
#22. En Passion [the passion of anna] (dir. INGMAR BERGMAN)
#21. I, Compagni [the organizer] (dir. MARIO MONICELLI)
#20. Rashomon [in the woods] (dir. AKIRA KUROSAWA)
#19. Le Cercle Rouge [the red circle] (dir. JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE)
#18. Au Revoir les Enfants [goodbye, children] (dir. LOUIS MALLE)
#17. Le Samourai [the godson] (dir. JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE)
#16. La Haine [hate] (dir. MATHIEU KASSOVITZ)
#15. Ugetsu Monogatari [ugetsu] (dir. KENJI MIZOGUCHI)
#14. Klass [the class] (dir. ILMAR RAAG)
#13. 4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile [4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days] (dir. CRISTIAN MUNGIU)
#12. Batoru rowaiaru [battle royale] (dir. KINJI FUKASAKU)
#11. Le Fils [the son] (dir. JEAN-PIERRE & LUC DARDENNE)
#10. Marfa si Banii [stuff and dough] (dir. CRISTI PULU)
#9. Mephisto (dir. ISTVAN SZABO)
#8. M – Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder [M] (dir. FRITZ LANG)
#7. Ničija zemlja [no man's land] (dir. DENIS TANOVIC)
#6. Nobi [fires on the plain] (dir. KON ICHIKAWA)
#5. Un condamne a mort s’est echappe [a man escaped] (dir. ROBERT BRESSON)
#4. Le feu follet [the fire within] (dir. LOUIS MALLE)
#3. Trans-Europ Express [dir. ALAIN-ROBBE GRILLET)
#2. Jeux d'enfants [love me if you dare] (dir. YANN SAMUELL)
and the number one foreign feature of all time is…
LE DOULOS [THE FINGER MAN] (dir. JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE)
just missing the cut:
Hirtia va fi albastra [the paper will be blue] (dir. RADU MUNTEAN)
Sanshô dayû [sansho the bailiff] (dir. KENJI MIZOGUCHI)
Tokyo Monogatari [tokyo story] (dir. YASHIJO OZU)
Voici le temps des assassins… [deadlier than the male] (dir. JULIEN DUVIVIER)
Wandâfuru raifu [after life] (dir. HIROKAZU KOREEDA)
