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BBC: The 100 Greatest Foreign-Language Films

This is the BBC's list of the greatest foreign-language films, published on 30 October 2018 based on a global critics' poll.

This list was made to respond to the dominance of English-language movies on their previous polls. It's a pretty good list actually, although pretty traditional. There are some surprising exclusions and some surprising placements, but it still adheres pretty closely to what you'd expect. That's not necessarily bad, though, and I personally got a lot of great recommendations from here back when I was starting to get into foreign-language films. By now I have seen 84 of the 100 movies.

There are four silent films on the list, which are somewhat debatable as "foreign-language", especially Man with a Movie…

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  • Seven Samurai

    1

  • Bicycle Thieves

    2

  • Tokyo Story

    3

  • Rashomon

    4

  • The Rules of the Game

    5

  • Persona

    6

  • 8½

    7

  • The 400 Blows

    8

  • In the Mood for Love

    9

  • La Dolce Vita

    10

  • Breathless

    11

  • Farewell My Concubine

    12

  • M

    13

  • Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

    14

  • Pather Panchali

    15

  • Metropolis

    16

  • Aguirre, the Wrath of God

    17

  • A City of Sadness

    18

  • The Battle of Algiers

    19

  • Mirror

    20

  • A Separation

    21

  • Pan's Labyrinth

    22

  • The ion of Joan of Arc

    23

  • Battleship Potemkin

    24

  • Yi Yi

    25

  • Cinema Paradiso

    26

  • The Spirit of the Beehive

    27

  • Fanny and Alexander

    28

  • Oldboy

    29

  • The Seventh Seal

    30

  • The Lives of Others

    31

  • All About My Mother

    32

  • PlayTime

    33

  • Wings of Desire

    34

  • The Leopard

    35

  • Grand Illusion

    36

  • Spirited Away

    37

  • A Brighter Summer Day

    38

  • Close-Up

    39

  • Andrei Rublev

    40

  • To Live

    41

  • City of God

    42

  • Beau Travail

    43

  • Cléo from 5 to 7

    44

  • L'Avventura

    45

  • Children of Paradise

    46

  • 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

    47

  • Viridiana

    48

  • Stalker

    49

  • L'Atalante

    50

  • The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

    51

  • Au Hasard Balthazar

    52

  • Late Spring

    53

  • Eat Drink Man Woman

    54

  • Jules and Jim

    55

  • Chungking Express

    56

  • Solaris

    57

  • The Earrings of Madame de...

    58

  • Come and See

    59

  • Contempt

    60

  • Sansho the Bailiff

    61

  • Touki Bouki

    62

  • Spring in a Small Town

    63

  • Three Colours: Blue

    64

  • Ordet

    65

  • Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

    66

  • The Exterminating Angel

    67

  • Ugetsu

    68

  • Amour

    69

  • L'Eclisse

    70

  • Happy Together

    71

  • Ikiru

    72

  • Man with a Movie Camera

    73

  • Pierrot le Fou

    74

  • Belle de Jour

    75

  • Y Tu Mamá También

    76

  • The Conformist

    77

  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

    78

  • Ran

    79

  • The Young and the Damned

    80

  • Céline and Julie Go Boating

    81

  • Amélie

    82

  • La Strada

    83

  • The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

    84

  • Umberto D.

    85

  • La Jetée

    86

  • Nights of Cabiria

    87

  • The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum

    88

  • Wild Strawberries

    89

  • Hiroshima Mon Amour

    90

  • Rififi

    91

  • Scenes from a Marriage

    92

  • Raise the Red Lantern

    93

  • Where Is the Friend's House?

    94

  • Floating Clouds

    95

  • Shoah

    96

  • Taste of Cherry

    97

  • In the Heat of the Sun

    98

  • Ashes and Diamonds

    99

  • Landscape in the Mist

    100