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Music Lists Greatest Foreign Movies

Title - (Year, Country, Director) (Actors)

1. La Dolce Vita - (1954, Italy, Frederico Fellini) (Marcello

Mastroianni)
2. The Seven Samurai - (1954, Japan, Akira Kurosawa)
(Toshiro Mifune)
3. 8 1/2 - (1963, Italy, Frederico Fellini) (Marcello
Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale)
4. Wild Strawberries - (1957, Sweden, Ingmar Bergman)
(Victor Sjostrom, Ingrid Thulin)
5. Grand Illusion - (1937, France, Jean Renoir) (Jean
Gabin, Pierre Fresnay)
6. The Rules of the Game - (1939, France, Jean Renoir)
(Paulette Dubost, Nora Gregor)
7. La Strada - (1954, Italy, Frederico Fellini) (Anthony
Quinn)
8. Rashomon - (1950, Japan, Akira Kurosawa) (Toshiro
Mifune)
9. Diabolique - (1955, France, Henri-Georges Clouzot)
(Simone Signoret, Paul Meurisse)
10. The Seventh Seal - (1956, Sweden, Ingmar Bergman)
(Max von Sydow, Bibi Andersson)
11. M - (1931, Germany, Fritz Lang) (Peter Lorre, Ellen
Widmann)
12. The Wages of Fear - (1953, France, Henri-Georges
Clouzot) (Yves Montand, Véra Clouzot)
13. Solaris - (1972, Russia, Andrei Tarkovsky) (Natalya
Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis)
14. The Bicycle Thief - (1948, Italy, Vittorio De Sica)
(Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola)
15. Fellini Satyricon - (1969, Italy, Frederico Fellini) (Martin
Porter)
16. The Virgin Spring - (1959, Sweden, Ingmar Bergman)
(Max Von Sydow)
17. Jean De Florette - (1986, France, Marcel Pagnol)
(Gerard Depardieu, Yves Montand)
18. Beauty And The Beast - (1946, France, Jean Cocteau)
(Jean Marais, Josette Day)
19. Battleship Potemkin - (1925, Russia, Sergei Eisenstein)
(Aleksandr Antonov)
20. The Passion of Joan of Arc - (1928, France, Carl
Theodor Dreyer) (Maria Falconetti)
21. The Last Metro - (1981, France, Francois Truffaut)
(Catherine Deneuve)
22. Day For Night - (1973, France, Francois Truffaut)
(Jacqueline Bisset)
23. City of God - (2002, Brazil, Fernando Meirelles)
(Alexandre Rodrigues)

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24. The Conformist - (1970, Italy, Bernardo Bertolucci)
(Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli)
25. Persona - (1966, Sweden, Ingmar Bergman) (Liv
Ullmann, Bibi Andersson)
26. Belle De Jour - (1967, France, Luis Bunuel) (Catherine
Deneuve)
27. Cries and Whispers - (1972, Sweden, Ingmar
Bergman) (Liv Ullmann)
28. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - (2000, Taiwan, Ang
Lee) (Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang)
29. Manon Of The Spring - (1986, France, Marcel Pagnol)
(Emmanuelle Beart, Yves Montand)
30. Bread And Chocolate - (1974, Italy, Franco Brusati)
(Nino Manfredi)
31. The Secret in Their Eyes - (2009, Argentina, Juan José
Campanella)
32. Mon Oncle - (1958, France, Jacques Tati) (Jacques
Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola)
33. The Garden Of Finzi-Continis - (1971, Italy, Vittorio De
Sica) (Dominique Sanda)
34. Frantic - (1958, France, Louis Malle) (Jeanne Moreau)
35. A Good Marriage - (1982, France, Eric Rohmer)
(Beatrice Romand, Andre Dussollier)
36. Swept Away - (1975, Italy, Lina Wertmüller) (Giancarlo
Giannini)
37. Scenes From A Marriage - (1974, Sweden, Ingmar
Bergman) (Liv Ullmann)
38. Sundays And Cybele - (1962, France) (Hardy Kruger,
Patricia Gozzi)
39. Yojimbo - (1961, Japan, Akira Kurosawa) (Toshiro
Mifune)
40. Fanny And Alexander - (1983, Sweden, Ingmar
Bergman) (Ewa Froling, Erland Josephson)
41. Z - (1969, Greece, Costa-Gavras) (Yves Montand,
Irene Papas)
42. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse - (1933, Germany, Fritz
Lang) (Rudolf Klein-Rogge)
43. The City Of Lost Children - (1995, France) (Ron
Perlman, Daniel Emilfork)
44. Amarcord - (1973, Italy, Frederico Fellini) (Puppela
Maggio)
45. Pan's Labyrinth - (2006, Mexico, Guillermo del Toro)
(Ivana Baquero, Sergi López)
46. Nosferatu - (1922, Germany, F.W. Murnau) (Max
Schreck)
47. Cousin, Cousine - (1976, France, Jean Charles
Tacchella)
48. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie - (1971,
France, Luis Buñuel)
49. The 400 Blows - (1959, France, Francois Truffaut)
(Jean-Pierre Leaud)
50. Il Postino (The Postman) - (1995, Italy) (Philippe Noiret)

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51. Delicatessen - (1991, France) (Marie-Laure Daugnac)
52. Andrei Rublev - (1966, U.S.S.R. Andrei Tarkovsky)
(Anatoli Solonitsyn)
53. YI YI - (2000, Taiwan, Edward Yang) (Nien-Jen Wu,
Elaine Jin)
54. The Silence - (1963, Sweden, Ingmar Bergman) (Ingrid
Thulin)
55. Ran - (1985, Japan, Akira Kurosawa) (Tatsuya
Nakadai)
56. The Passenger - (1963, Poland, Andrzej Munk)
(Aleksandra Slaska, Anne Ciepielewska)
57. Kapo - (1960, Italy, Gillo Pontecorvo) (Susan
Strasberg)
58. Through a Glass Darkly - (1960, Sweden, Ingmar
Bergman)
59. War and Peace - (1968, USSR, Sergei Bondarchuk)
60. Aguirre, Wrath of God - (1972, Germany, Werner
Herzog)
61. The Decameron - (1971, Italy, Pier Paolo Pasolini)
(Franco Citti)
62. That Obscure Object of Desire - (1977, Spain, Luis
Buñuel)
63. Cinema Paradiso - (1989, Italy, Giuseppe Tornatore)
64. L' Avventura - (1960, Italy, Michelangelo Antonioni)
(Monica Vitti, Gabriele Ferzetti)
65. Fellini's Roma - (1972, Italy, Frederico Fellini) (Peter
Gonzales)
66. The Double Life of Veronique - (1991, France,
Krzysztof Kieslowski) (Irene Jacob)
67. Rififi - (1956, France, Jules Dassin) (Jean Sevais, Carl
Mohner)
68. Nights of Cabiria - (1957, Italy, Federico Fellini)
(Giulietta Masina)
69. Pandora's Box - (1929, Germany, Georg Wilhelm
Pabst) (Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner)
70. Cyrano De Bergerac - (1990, France, Jean-Paul
Rappeneau) (Gerard Depardieu)
71. A Separation - (2011, Iran, Asghar Farhadi) ( Peyman
Moaadi, Leila Hatami)
72. Parasite - (2019, Korea, Bong Joon Ho) (Kang-ho
Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Jo)
73. Babette's Feast - (1987, Denmark, Gabriel Axel)
(Stéphane Audran, Birgitte Federspiel)
74. Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears - (1980, USSR,
Vladimir Menshov)
75. Roma, Città Aperta - (1945, Italy, Roberto Rossellini)
(Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi)
76. Das Boot - (1982, Germany, Wolfgang Peterson)
(Jurgen Procnow)
77. Roma - (2018, Mexico, Alfonso Cuarón) (Yalitza
Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Diego Cortina Autrey)
78. Life Is Beautiful - (1998, Italy, Roberto Benigni)

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(Roberto Benigni)
79. Tokyo Story - (1953, Japan, Yasujiro Ozu) (Chishu Ryu,
Chieko Higashiyama)
80. Mediterraneo - (1991, Italy, Gabriele Salvatores)
(Claudio Bigagli)
81. Seven Beauties - (1976, Italy, Lina Wertmüller)
82. Amores Perros - (2000, Mexico, Alejandro Gonzalez
Inarritu) (Gael Garcia Bernal)
83. Playtime - (1967, France, Jacques Tati) (Jacques Tati,
Barbara Dennek)
84. Black Orpheus - (1959, Brazil/France/Italy -
Portuguese)
85. The Tin Drum - (1979, Germany, Volker Schlöndorff)
86. Au Revoir les Enfants - (1987, France, Louis Malle)
(Gaspard Manesse)
87. Color of Pomegranates - (1968, Soviet Union/Armenia,
Sergei Parajanov) (Sofiko Chiaureli)
88. À bout de souffle (Breathless) - (1959, France, Jean-
Luc Godard) (Jean Seberg)
89. Pelle the Conqueror - (1988, Denmark, Bille August)
(Pelle Hvenegaard, Max von Sydow)
90. The Gospel According To St. Matthew - (1964, Italy,
Pier Paolo Pasolini)
91. Oldboy - (2003, S. Korea, Chan-wook Park) (Min-sik
Choi, Ji-tae Yu)
92. The Firemen's Ball - (1968, Czechoslovakia, Milos
Forman)
93. All About My Mother - (1999, Spain, Pedro Almodóvar)
94. The Flowers of St. Francis - (1950, Italy, Roberto
Rossellini) (Aldo Fabrizi, Peparuolo)
95. The Salesman - (2016, Iran, Asghar Farhadi) (Taraneh
Alidoosti, Shahab Hosseini)
96. The White Ribbon (Das Weisse Band) - (2009,
Germany, Michael Haneke)
97. Fälscher, Die (The Counterfeiters) - (2007, Germany,
Stefan Ruzowitzky) (Karl Markovics)
98. The Scent of Green Papaya - (1993, Vietnam, France,
Hung Tran)
99. Amour - (2012, Austria, Michael Haneke) (Jean-Louis
Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva)
100. The Exterminating Angel - (1962, Mexico, Luis
Bunuel) (Silvia Pinal)

101. The Juniper Tree - (1993, Iceland, Nietzchka Keene)

(Björk, Bryndis Petra Bragadóttir)
102. Spirited Away - (2001, Japan, Hayao Miyazaki)
(Animation)
103. Turkish Delight - (1973, Netherlands, Paul Verhoeven)
(Rutger Hauer, Monique van de Ven)
104. Hiroshima, Mon Amour - (1959, France, Alain
Resnais) (Emmanuelle Riva)

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105. Fitzcarraldo - (1982, Germany, Werner Herzog) (Klaus
Kinski, Claudia Cardinale)
106. Farinelli - (1994, France) (Stefano Dionisi, Enrico Lo
Verso)
107. Run Lola Run - (1998, Germany, Tom Tykwer)
(Franka Potente)
108. Amelie - (2001, France, Jean-Pierre Jeunet) (Audrey
Tautou)
109. Stalker - (1979, Russia, Andrei Tarkovsky) (Aleksandr
Kajdanovsky)
110. A Prophet (Un Prophète) - (2009, France, Jacques
Audiard)
111. Leviathan - (2014, Russia, Andrey Zvyagintsev)
(Aleksey Serebryakov, Elena Lyadova)
112. Canterbury Tales - (1971, Italy, Pier Paolo Pasolini)
(Josephine Chaplin)
113. King Of Hearts - (1967, France) (Alan Bates,
Geneviève Bujold)
114. Madame Rosa - (1977, France, Moshé Mizrahi)
115. Raise the Red Lantern - (1991, China, Yimou Zhang)
116. Ikiru - (1952, Japan, Akira Kurosawa) (Takashi
Shimura)
117. Salo: The 120 Days Of Sodom - (1977, Italy, Pier
Paolo Pasolini)
118. My Life As A Dog - (1987, Sweden, Lasse Hallstrom)
(Anton Glanzelius)
119. Jules and Jim - (1961, France, Francois Truffaut)
(Oskar Werner)
120. Underground - (1995, Yugoslavia, Emir Kusturica)
121. Son of Saul - (2015, Hungary, László Nemes) (Géza
Röhrig)
122. Johnny Stecchino - (1993, Italy, Roberto Benigni)
(Roberto Benigni)
123. High and Low - (1963, Japan, Akira Kurosawa)
(Toshiro Mifune)
124. Ida - (2013, Poland, Pawel Pawlikowski) (Agata
Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska)
125. La Cage Aux Folles - (1980, France, Edouard
Molinaro) (Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault)
126. Ajami - (2009, Israel, Scandar Copti, Yaron Shani)
127. The Monster - (1996, Italy, Roberto Benigni) (Roberto
Benigni)
128. Gentlemen of Fortune - (1973, Russia, Aleksandr
Seryj) (Evgeni Leonov, Georgiy Vitsin)
129. Let the Right One In - (2008, Sweden, Tomas
Alfredson) (Kåre Hedebran, Lina Leandersson)
130. The Good The Bad The Weird - (2008, S. Korea, Ji-
woon Kim) (Byung-hun Lee)
131. Tell No One - (2006, France, Guillaume Canet)
(François Cluzet, Marie-Josée Croze)
132. After the Wedding (aka Efter brylluppet) - (2006,
Denmark, Susanne Bier) (Mads Mikkelsen, Sidse Babett

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 Knudsen, Rolf Lassgård)
133. Shoplifters - (2018, Japan, Hirokazu Koreeda) (Lily
Franky, Sakura Andô, Kirin Kiki)
134. The Burial of Kojo - (2018, Ghana, Sam Blitz
Bazawule) (Joseph Otsiman, Ama K. Abebrese)
135. Rafiki - (2018, Kenya, Wanuri Kahiu) (Samantha
Mugatsia, Neville Misati, Nice Githinji)

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