I've made a list of the top ten foreign-language films, and 'Pan's Labyrinth' made the cut. Check out the full list to see where it landed:
http://thismovieguy.blogspot.com/2012/08/top-10-foreign-language-films .html
Do you think it deserves to make this list?
I think it does! And a good list as well, here's my own:
1. Amélie (2001)
2. Band of Outsiders (1964)
3. Central Station (1998)
4. Leon (1994)
5. Aguirre, The Wrath of God (1972)
6. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
7. Delicatessen (1991)
8. Underground (1995)
9. Los Olvidados (1950)
10. Seven Samurai (1954)
Foreign-language = non-English I'm guessing
http://www.imdb.com/list/ZN26QIXaX_k/
Behemothic
Foreign-language = non-English I'm guessing
nice, here's mine:
1. Oldboy
2. Secret In Their Eyes
3. Pan's Labyrinth
4. 8½
5. Love Exposure
6. Confessions
7. Memories Of Murder
8. Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring
9. Taegukgi
10. 3-Iron
If you don't like Korean cinema, than GTFO.
Didn't read your list, so not sure, but here's the best 10:
Le Samourai
Solaris
8 1/2
Metropolis
The Rules of the Game
La Dolce Vita
Kwaidan
The Conformist
Ikiru
Sansho the Bailiff
It was a lot harder to choose than any other list I'd ever made but I eventually got up to it. A huge list of honorable mentions that I eventually just tossed aside. Even then, I think at least two picks of mine would get raised eyebrows from anybody, but here are my favorites as of now.
The Seventh Seal (1957/Sweden/Dir. Ingmar Bergman)
Akira (1988/Japan/Dir. Katsuhiro Otomo)
Police Story (1985/Hong Kong/Dir. Jackie Chan)
Persona (1966/Sweden/Dir. Ingmar Bergman)
The Host (2006/South Korea/Dir. Bong Joon-ho)
La Haine (1995/France/Dir. Mathieu Kassovitz)
Kagemusha (1980/Japan/Dir. Akira Kurosawa and Ishiro Honda)
Yojimbo (1961/Japan/Dir. Akira Kurosawa)
Band of Outsiders (1964/France/Dir. Jean-Luc Godard)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966/Italy and Spain/Dir. Sergio Leone)
You ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?
Yeah, he told me you're gay.
*BANG!*
Since you specified foreign-language, not foreign, I'll ignore movies from Australia, like Breaker Morant, or England. Here's my list, in no particular order:
Fanny and Alexander
La Strada
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Das Boot
Rashomon
Ikiru
Seven Samurai
Yojimbo'
Ran
Pan's Labyrinth
Here are my favorites (I wouldn't say the best because I haven't seen all that many). In no particular order:
No Man's Land
Waltz With Bashir
Cinema Paradiso
Oldboy
Apocalytpo
Hero
Run Lola Run
Black Book
City of God
Pan's Labyrinth
Let the right one in
The Intouchables
city of God
The orphanage
Pans Labyrinth
Would be my top 5
CITY OF GOD
Kahanni
The Orphanage
Oldboy
I'm not a psychopath, I'm a highly functioning sociopath. Do your research.
In no particular order
The Lives of Others
The Secret In Their Eyes
The Seven Samurai
Das Boot
Jean de Florette/Manon des Sources
Hero
Pathfinder
Pan's Labyrinth
Ran
Monsieur Lazhar
Honourable Mentions:
A Short Film About Love
Cyrano
No Man's Land
Oldboy
The Happiness of the Katakuris
Rashomon
The Return of Martin Guerre
The Vanishing
Days of Glory
Mediterraneo