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113 years of Cinema - 113 foreign movies


Hi from Turkey,
I prepared a list,there're 113 foreign movies from 1895 to 2008..I did not pick any American movie..I hope you'll like it.

113-) Grave of Fireflies {Isao Takahata,1988}
112-) Fitzcarraldo {Werner Herzog,1982}
111-) Taste of Cherry {Abbas Kiarostami,1997}
110-) LArgent {Robert Bresson,1983}
109-) Before the Rain {Milco Mancevski,1994}
108-) Los Lunes al Sol {Fernando León de Aranoa,2002}
107-) Mephisto (Istvan Szabo,1981}
106-) The Piano {Jane Champion,1993}
105-) Wings of Desire {Win Wenders,1987}
104-) Berlin Alexanderplatz {Rainer Werner Fassbinder,1980}
103-) Man of Marble {Andrzej Wajda,1977}
102-) The Spirit of Beehive {Victor Erice,1973}
101-) Black God, White Devil {Glauber Rocha,1964}
100-) Bin-jip {Kim Ki-Duk,2004}
99-) The Gospel According to st. Matthew {Pier Paolo Pasolini,1964}
98-) The Sacrifice {Andrei Tarkovsky,1986}
97-) Paris, Texas {Wim Wenders,1984}
96-) Death in Venice {Luchino Visconti,1971}
95-) Cries and Whispers {Ingmar Bergman,1972}
94-) La Notte {Michelangelo Antonioni,1961}
93-) Eternity and a Day {Theo Angelopoulos,1998}
92-) Cinema Paradi.o {Giuseppe Tornatore,1988}
91-) Pierrot le fou {Jean-Luc Godard,1965}
90-) All About My Mother {Pedro Almodovar,1999}
89-) Pather Panchali {Satyajit Ray,1959}
88-) Ivan the Terrible I-II {Sergei Eisenstein,1944-1946}
87-} Last Year at Marienbad {Alain Resnais,1961}
86-) Germany, Year Zero {Roberto Rosselini,1947}
85-) Man with a Movie Camera {Dziga Vertov,1929}
84-) Tree of Wooden Clogs {Ermanno Olmi,1978}
83-) Pickpocket {Robert Bresson,1959}
82-) Ordet {Carl Theodore Dreyer,1955}
81-) Three Colours: Blue {Krszystof Kieslowski,1993}
80-) The Colour of Pomegranate {Sergei Parajanov,1969}
79-) Fanny and Alexander {Ingmar Bergman,1982}
78-) Rocco and His Brothers {Luchino Visconti,1960}
77-) Satantango {Bela Tarr,1994}
76-) Les Diaboliques {Henri-Georges Clouzot,1955}
75-) Underground {Emir Kusturica,1995}
74-) The Battle of Algiers {Gillo Pontecervo,1965}
73-) Ran {Akira Kurosawa,1980}
72-) Ulysses Gaze {Theo Angelopoulos,1995}
71-) LAtalante {Jean Vigo,1934}
70-) Day for Night {François Truffaut,1973}
69-) Voyage in Italy {Robert Rosselini,1953}
68-) Stalker {Andrei Tarkovsky,1979}
67-) Talk to Her {Pedro Almodovar,2002}
66-) Ikiru {Akira Kurosawa,1952}
65-) In the Mood for Love {Wong Kar-Wai,2000}
64-) Novecento(1900) {Bernardo Bertolucci,1976}
63-) Rome, Open City {Roberto Rosselini,1945}
62-) Un Chien andalou {Luis Bunuel,1928}
61-) Diary of a Country Priest {Robert Bresson,1950}
60-) Blow Up{Michelangelo Antonioni,1966}
59-) Time of the Gypsies {Emir Kusturica,1989}
58-) Passion of Joan of Arc {Carl Dreyer,1927}
57-) The Conformist {Bernardo Bertolucci,1969}
56-) Ugetsu monogatari {Kenji Mizoguchi,1953}
55-) Chungking Express {Wong Kar-Wai,1994}
54-) Dekalog {Krszystof Kieslowski,1988}
53-) Funny Games {Michael Haneke,1997}
52-) Amarcord {Federico Fellini,1973}
51-) The Wages of Fear {Henri-Georges 1952}
50-) Aguirre: The Wrath of God {Werner Herzog,1972}
49-) Umberto D. {Vittori De Sica,1952}
48-) The Mirror {Andrei Tarkovsky,1974}
47-) The Wind Will Carry Us {Abbas Kiarostami,1999}
46-) City of God { Fernando Meirelles,2002}
45-) Jules and Jim {François Truffaut,1961}
44-) Hero {Yimou Zhang,2002}
43-) Le Samourai {Jean-Pierre Melville,1967}
42-) La Strada {Federico Fellini,1954}
41-) The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie {Luis Bunuel,1972}
40-) Three Colours: Red {Krszystof Kieslowski,1994}
39-) M {Fritz Lang,1931}
38-) The Exterminating Angel {Luis Bunuel,1962}
37-) Au hasard Balthazar {Robert Bresson,1966}
36-) Wild Strawberries {Ingmar Bergman-1957}
35-) Come and See {Elem Klimov,1985}
34-) La Grande illusion {Jean Renoir,1937}
33-) Barry Lyndon {Stanley Kubrick,1975]
32-) Vivre sa vie {Jean Luc Godard,1963}
31-) Gertrud {Carl Dreyer,1964}
30-) Los Olvidodos {Luis Bunuel,1950}
29-) Eyes Without a Face {Georges Franju,1959}
28-) The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser {Werner Herzog,1974}
27-) LAge dor {Luis Bunuel,1930]
26-) Zero for Conduct {Jean Vigo,1934}
25-) Z {Costa Gavras,1969}
24-) The 400 Blows {François Truffaut,1959}
23-) The Leopard {Luchino Visconti,1963}
22-) Rashomon {Akira Kurosawa,1950}
21-) The Seventh Seal {Ingmar Bergman,1957}
20-) La Dolce Vita {Federico Fellini,1960}
19-) LAvventura {Michelangelo Antonioni,1960}
18-) Hiroshima mon Amour {Alain Resnais,1959}
17-) Andrei Rublev {Andrei Tarkovsky,1966}
16-) Persona {Ingmar Bergman,1966}
15-) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari {Robert Wiene,1929}
14-) Breathless {Jean Luc Godard,1959}
13-) Metropolis {Fritz Lang,1926}
12-) Seven Samurai {Akira Kurosawa,1954}
11-) Battleship Potemkin {Sergei Eisen.tein,1925}
10-) Dersu Uzala [Akira Kurosawa,1975}
9-) Muhsin Bey {Yavuz Turgul,1987} (a movie from my country)
8-) Tokyo Story {Yasujiro Ozu,1953}
7-) 8½ {Federico Fellini,1963}
6-) Ashes and Diamonds {Andrzej Wajda,1958}
5-) Week-End {Jean Luc Godard,1967}
4-) Faust {F.W.Murnau,1926}
3-) The Rules of the Game {Jean Renoir,1937}
2-) Les Enfans du paradis {Marcel Carne,1945}
1-) Bicycle Thieves {Vittorio De Sica,1948}

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Funny Games?
So not all of these are supposed to be GOOD foreign movies, right?

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One day that film will be appreciated for being the masterpiece it is...

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This was a carefully constructed if predictable list: HOWEVER if you really and truly believe that no British, Canadian, Australian etc. film-makers deserve to be on here then you have a truly strange taste in film.

The inclusions of Campion (spelled here "Champion") and Kubrick were therefore absurd. Campion better than Lean, Hitchcock, Reed, etc.? Why is the American Kubrick on here and how is Barry Lyndon better than Paths of Glory, Dr Strangelove, or 2001?

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How is Paths of Glory, Dr Strangelove, or 2001 better than Barry Lyndon?

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I'm glad you asked. They all have focused storytelling, profound meanings attached, and iconic sequences. Barry Lyndon is still a great film, but certainly not Kubrick's best. It's the film Kubrick made instead of making Napoleon. When that project, which would have been made by 1973, fell apart, he made Barry Lyndon instead in 1975 -- although as the boxes and boxes he had on the Napoleon film attest, without nearly as much enthusiasm for it.

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I don't like Kubrick that much, his movies are cold and do nothing to me. No emotional involvement = no love. I really don't care if someone consider them masterpieces, it changes nothing.

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Although, if I would make such a list, it would look quite different,I think this is a nice list. And I don't think OP claims these are the best films of all time. Simply 113 good non-American films. Kubrick probably shouldn't be there, but with all the coproduction that's going on, how would one determine the nationality of a film? I'm slightly amazed though that there isn't a single British film in the list. Have they been considered "american" as well? Maybe it should have been a list of 113 non-english spoken films? Maybe you can replace Kubrick and Campion by Valery en tyden divu (Jaromil Jires) and Mikres Aphrodites (Nikos Kondouros).

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The four feathers- (1939)British should be in there

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Wonderful list !! Thank you. Have seen about 85% percent of these but will check out many of the other ones I am not familiar with. Glad to see "Barry Lyndon" on this list; one of my favorites, yet so many dislike it.



You've done some bad things, sweetie.

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A poster took the time to create a personal list of favorite foreign films and others come to do nothing but criticize his choices.

How about a simple "thank you" for taking the time and effort to create the list and if you don't like it, why not do the same and create your own list(s). Or are you afraid others will bash your list the same way you did the OP?? LOL




You've done some bad things, sweetie.

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Of course, my list would have been radically different than yours (that's a hypothetic list; I cannot and do not want to narrow down my favourites and rank them), some of these films I can't stand (Hero comes to mind. Novecento too.), while others I'm baffled by where they're placed (Zero for Conduct over L'atalante? Hiroshima over Marienbad?), but that's the beauty of being human and having opinions.

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