What are the best European movies in your opinion?
 

As the title says. The reason I ask is because I think the majority of people mostly watch american movies, and perhaps some people are not aware that there is a major film industry outside the americas. Anyway.....

My favorites are

Taken 3 (France)
Lockout (France)
The Canal(Ireland)
Crimson Rivers 2 (France)
Skjult (Norway)

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The Skin I Live In (2011)
For A Few Dollars More (1965)
Cell 211 (2009)
The Battle of Algiers (1966)

There's a lot more of course but those are my most favorites.

Duh!.. to name a few.

Jagten
Sauna
De grønne slagtere
Elsker dig for evigt
Adams æbler
Jadesoturi
Ondskan
Miekkailija
Armomurhaaja
Festen
Opstandelsen
Kerron sinulle kaiken
Harjunpää & pahan pappi
Afdeling Q - Series

This is a film I enjoy as well... I like Kristopher Joner's acting..

I will list more of his films I have seen

Bølgen
Kongen av Bastøy (it even has Stellan Skarsgård <3)
Ond tro
Naboer
Villmark

Also a film I forgot the first time around - Himlen Falder

If you love history - Birkebeinerne
Beautiful song from film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kP251aEs1s

Horror film from Switzerland
Sennentuntschi

Horror film from The Netherlands
Zwart water

Finnish film about witch trials in Aaland
Tulen morsian

Film about early Sami people and the social stigma attached to them (Finland)
Sameblod

2 films from Iceland
Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre
Hrútar

A bit of an extreme film from Denmark
Flænset

Actually pretty much any film with ... to name several!

Mads Mikkelsen
Lars Mikkelsen
Thomas Bo Larsen
Ulrich Thomsen
Nikolaj Lie Kaas
Jakob Oftebro
Tommi Eronen
Ville Virtanen
Peter Franzén
Tommi Korpela
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

For me it's very difficult to take him seriously because to me he's always Turo, a character from a Finnish sketch show back in the 80's.

If you want to check most of those sketches are on Youtube (just search "aki ja turo"). Sadly no English subs on them so prepare to miss all the fun.

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A Wonderful Night in Split was a surprisingly great movie

Is that really true? Do people watch movies based on what country they are produced in? Or do you mean that they go to the cinema to watch mainly blockbusters - which are mostly made in Hollywood?

I think that's what is good about this forum - the majority of posters here are a bit different to your average joe public moviegoer in that they are open to watching anything that looks good, not just the films that are marketed the most. It's amazing the amount of people who won't watch a film because "it's not in colour" or "it has subtitles" or "it hasn't got anyone I recognise in it"........... I mean what the actual f***?

Anyway, the answers are:

The Lives of Others
Christiane F.
Rififi
Bicycle Thieves
Come and See
Amour
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Wings of Desire
A Prophet
Force Majeure
La Haine
The Broken Circle Breakdown
Ali: Fear eats the Soul
Let the Right One in
Head On
Lilyah-4-eva
Spoorloos
Au Revoir Les Enfants
Angst
Irreversible
Dogtooth
Frantz
Victoria
Ordet
Persona
Eyes Without a Face
Le Havre
Oslo, August 31st

and seeing as the UK is in Europe (for at least the next 3 months phnar), I'll have:

Ratcatcher
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Vertigo
Lawrence of Arabia
Nil by Mouth
Dead man's shoes
Naked
Sexy Beast
Shallow Grave
Kes
Kajaki
Tyrannosaur
Red Road
The Third Man
Don't Look Now

And hundreds more

Actually yes. I enjoy the Scandinavian/Nordic cinema a lot. Even if the film has a specific actor, I will, especially if it got Mads in it. That's why I will watch it. I have places to go to get recommendations.

I have seen :

The Lives of Others
Christiane F.
Wings of Desire
Lilyah-4-eva
Au Revoir Les Enfants
Irreversible
Persona
Eyes Without a Face
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

I watch pretty much cinema from everywhere around the world

La Belle et La Bete is a favorite. (Both 1946 and 2014)

A rare find is Bernie - 1996 (from France)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqZ2LYN3Y2A

A beautiful film from Hungary is (not so fond of this trailer for it)
Ópium: Egy elmebeteg nö naplója
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TSy...has_verified=1

One of my close friends is from Argentina so Spanish films are not unusual for us to watch..

Tras el cristal
El Lobo - what woman wouldn't like staring at Eduardo Noreiga for a while.
And any Spanish Guillermo del Toro film.

just remembered Klass (Estonia) and Gåten Ragnarok (Norway)

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I think what I personally like most about European movies is that they have a tendency to be more down-to-earth and "pessimistic" than hollywood. A little bit more realistic in that sense. The horror movies are very scary too, mostly because they aren't exactly horror, they're more like dark dramas imo. Now I am of course excluding the movies which has an americanized style such as the EuropaCorp films. But that's just my opinion on it

One of the best European films is

Marketa Lazarová from Czechoslovakia. Its a piece of art.

Portret v sumerkakh is an interesting film. As is Szamanka.

Nekromantik and Nekromantik 2, Cannibal and Lore are to name a few German films.

I have seen a few thousand foreign films. It is hard to go through all of them. :D

That's a pretty broad question, ignoring UK/Irish releases my top 25 would be something like...

The Wages of Fear
A Man Escaped
Breathless
L'Avventura
Last Year At Marienbad
Ivan's Childhood
8 1/2
Andrei Rublev
Persona
The Battles of Algiers
Marketa Lazarova
Le Samurai
The Comformist
Aguirre: Wrath of God
Stalker
Boy Meets Girl
Kaos
Betty Blue
The Double Life of Veronique
Three Colours: Blue
Werckmeister Harmonies
Dogtooth
Blue is the Warmest Colour
Ida
Two Days, One Night

I doubt whether these two have been mentioned.

1) La Isla Minima. Also known as the Marshlands.This is everything that True Detective's first season thinks it is. Smart, dark and with a great ending.


2)Das letzte Schweigen (2010). Also known as The Silence. Quite an underrated serial killer movie.

Some of my favourites are:

Children of Men
Amélie
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Downfall as others have mentioned
Fanny and Alexander

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Euro trip (2004)

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Some of these films I don't consider Foreign films.

I see a Foreign film as a film made in a non-English speaking country,directed by a non-English director, with a non-English dialog with less than 10% of English spoken (which is usually broken English) and actors born in that country. If this were not the case, there would be many films with American actors considered to be Foreign films with an English dialog and a few subtitled from other languages.

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Cinema Paradiso Tornatore
Camille claudell
Pans labyrinth
Wings of Desire Wenders
Jean de Florette
Manon of the Spring

Bread and Tulips
The Ship Sailed on Fellini
8 1/2 Fellini
La Strada Fellini

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I know this thread is old but I want to refresh it because I think that if I made a new thread it would be equivalent to spamming.
I have watched some new European movies which I found interesting and which I can recommend

The Lobster (Greece, Ireland, UK)
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (various)
Anna (France)
The House that Jack Built (various)

Some of my favourite films from europe are,

Angel-A
Downfall
Leaving
Intacto
Autumn Sonata (or any Ingmar Bergman film for that matter)
Troll Hunter
Pans Labyrinth
Dead Snow
The lives of others
The Rec films
Delicatessen
Headhunters
Rendel
Bright days ahead
Blue is the warmest colour
Amour

LOL. I hope we are all aware that this exists.

it's news to me

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Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Nosferatu

Anyone heard of "Taxidermia"? It's from Hungary and some crazy a$$ bat$hit but a fun watch.

Dancer in the Dark

The soundtrack was composed by Amon Tobin, who also scored for the
videogame Splinter Cell Conviction. Fun fact

It was a really great exchange, I've never heard of most of these movies, thank you all very much.

H-8, The World's End, Vozvrachenye and Jan Švankmajer's Faust are my top recommendations

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That is opening a can of worms. Would saying "way to many to list" be a valid answer?!!!

Some of my favourites.

La Isla Minima
In Bruges
The lives of Others
Jagten the Hunt
Amelie
Run Lola Run
Cinema Paradiso
Spoorloss
Goodbye Lenin
Lock, Stock and two smoking barrels
Sea Inside
Death at the Funeral
Diving bell and the Butterfly
Pan's Labyrinth
13 Tzamati

Love this guy’s handle & avatar.

I don't know about best, but my favorite European films are as follows:

1) Stalker (1979, Soviet Union)
2) Persona (1966, Sweden)
3) The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (1966, Italy)
4) Man With a Movie Camera (1929, Soviet Union)
5) Come and See (1985, Soviet Union)
6) Andrei Rublev (1966, Soviet Union)
7) The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, United Kingdom)
8) A Clockwork Orange (1971, United Kingdom)
9) Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965, Soviet Union)
10) Le Samourai (1967, France)
11) Holy Motors (2012, France)
12) M (1931, Germany)

My list is pretty Soviet-centric I must admit :)

Amelie - it's a really fun French film ;)

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I'm in America, but I think the ratio is better in Europe. Also keep in mind they wouldn't be showing bad foreign movies on TCM (as well as other outlets)... I consider Russia or the USSR a part of Asia, but culturally (movies), I guess I'll add them here.. But I won't include movies from the UK. I'll also omit movies by European directors whose entire movie is in English (My Dinner With Andre, for example)..



La Strada
The Battle of Algiers
Umberto D
Shadows in Paradise
Bicycle Thieves
La Grande Illusion
Shoeshine
The Seventh Seal
Wild Strawberries
M
The Cranes Are Flying
The Earth Trembles
Sunflower
Stroszek
The Sign of the Leo
Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana
Lulu the Tool
Ariel
Beautiful
Dry Summer
Ordet
A Special Day
Persona
La Terrazza
Il Sorpasso
The 400 Blows
Le Trou
The Roof
Pickpocket
Le Chat
Never on Sunday
Autumn Sonata
La Vie de Boheme
La Horse
A Brief Vacation
Sult
Whity
His Days are Numbered
Two Women
Rocco and His Brothers
Accatone
Nights of Cabiria
A Man Escaped
Eyes Without a Face
Serie Noire
Knife in the Water
Le Jour Se Leve
Le Notti Bianche
Carriage to Vienna
The Ear
The Hunt
Fists in the Pocket
The Organizer
A Bad Son
Scenes From a Marriage
The Worthless
The Bridge
Turkish Delight
Mamma Roma
The Rules of the Game
The Fire Within
Shame
Alice in the Cities
Beau-pere
Mr Klein
Kranes Konditori
Los Olvidados
Yesterday Girl
Le Cercle Rouge
Ole Dole Doff
The Match Factory Girl
The Fifth Seal
Fate of a Man
L'Argent
Kapo
Miracle in Milan
Two Half-Times in Hell
The Round-Up
I Only want You to Love Me
Sundays and Cybele
La Notte
Big Deal on Madonna Street
Adoption
Purple Noon
Slap the Monster on Page One
Paisan
Il Generale Della Rovere
The Shop on Main Street
Death in Venice
La Dolce Vita
Day of Wrath
Romeo, Julie a tma
Wings of Desire
Drifting Clouds
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
Il Grido
The Leopard
The Forest For the Trees
Mr Kinky
A Generation
My Way Home
Amelie
Veronika Voss
Diary of a Country Priest
Chloe in the Afternoon
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
A Gentle Creature
Umut
The Merchant of Four Seasons
The Castle of Purity
The Emigrants
Belle de Jour
Ballad of a Soldier
L'Eclisse
Mother Kuesters Goes to Heaven
Le Havre
Le Petit Soldat
Crime and Punishment
Contempt
The Cousins
The Punishment
The Edukators
Summer with Monika
Hothead
The Other Side of Hope
It Happened in Broad Daylight
My Night at Maud's
This Man Must Die
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Two Men in Town
Mille milliards de dollars
The Ascent
Germany Year Zero
Le Beau Serge
Interrogation
The Promise
The Vanishing
Cinema Paradiso
The Piano Teacher





Place de la Republique
Chronicle of a Summer

Le Joli Mai
Black Box BRD

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Tarkovsky's 3rd to 6th movies (made in Russia/former USSR)
2001 A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange (both made in the UK, which is in Europe)
Bicycle Thieves, 8 1/2, Once Upon a Time in America, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly (made in Italy, although the last two were in English and used American actors)
Fanny and Alexander (made im Sweden)

Lots of big budget Hollywood movies tend to be made by multinational crews with lots of Europeans plus lots of shooting done in Europe. So it becomes a bit complicated to classify movies as American or European (Kubrick's films after he moved to the UK for example)

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Pans Labyrinth
A Brief Vacation
Metropolis
The Immigrants
Bader-Meinhof
Z

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A Man Escaped
The Lives of Others
Amélie
The Battle of Algiers
Irreversible

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thanks

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Europe is a big place, so here's an attempt to cross it full...

Austria - Angst (1983)
Bosnia and Herzegovina - Back to Bosnia (2005, documentary)
Croatia - The Mystery of Green Hill (2017)
Czechia - Protektor (2009)
Denmark - A Hijacking (2012)
Finland - Kyrsyä: Tufltand (2017)
France - Le jour se lève (1939)
Germany - Phoenix (2014)
Greece - Dogtooth (2009)
Iceland - Undying Love (2011, short film)
Ireland - Once (2007)
Italy - The 10th Victim (1965)
Latvia - Deviate (2020, animated short film)
Netherlands - Spoorloos (1988)
Norway - The Wave (2015)
Poland - Ida (2013)
Romania - Why Me? (2015)
Spain - The Platform (2019)
Sweden - Aniara (2018)
Switzerland - Sennentuntschi (2010)
Turkey - Mustang (2015)
United Kingdom - In the Loop (2009)


Links to reviews where applicable.

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In the Loop is hilarious, but that’s the best British movie you could come up with? Is there a timespan involved here?

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Best European movies excluding France, UK and Italy, and that's a thread!
Best European movies though is a big topic!

The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 France
Pandora's Box 1929 Germany
Blackmail 1929 UK
The Blue Angel 1930 Germany
M 1931Germany
Port of Shadows 1938 France
Rebecca 1940 UK
Day of Wrath 1943 Denmark
Rome, Open City 1945 Italy
Brief Encounter 1945 UK
Panique 1946 France
Bicycle Thieves 1948 Italy
The Third Man 1949 UK
La Notte*1951 Italy
La Strada 1954 Italy
Journey to Italy 1954 Italy
A Man Escaped 1956 France
Bob the Gambler 1956 France
The Cranes are Flying 1957 USSR
Bridge On The River Kwai*1957 UK
Last Year at Marienbad*1961 France
Lola 1961 France
Lawrence of Arabia 1962 UK
Le Mepris 1963 France
The Leopard 1963 Italy
Bay of Angels 1963 France
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 France
Soy Cuba 1964 USSR
For a Few Dollars More 1965 Italy
Repulsion 1965 UK
Pierrot Le Fou 1965 France
Closely Watched Trains 1966 Czech
Blow-up 1966 UK/Italy
2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 UK
Oliver 1968 UK
KES 1969 UK
The Color of Pomegranates 1969 Armenia/USSR
Walkabout 1971 UK/Australia
The Day of the Jackal 1973 France/UK
Fear Eats the Soul 1974 Germany
Barry Lyndon 1975 UK
The Passenger 1975 Italy/Spain
Entre Nous 1983 France
Withnail & I 1987 UK
Spoorloos The Vanishing 1988 France/Netherlands
Cinema Paradiso 1988 Italy
The Commitments 1991 Ireland
The Remains of the day*1993 UK
Il Postino 1996 Italy
Voices Through Time 1996 Italy
Sexy Beast 2000 UK
The Others 2001 Spain
Distant/Uzak 2002 Turkiye
The Lives of Others 2006 Germany
Let the Right One in 2008 Sweden
Fish Tank 2009 UK
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia*2011 Turkiye
Leviathan 2014 Russia
Aftersun 2022 UK

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A Man Escaped - nice

Re: What are the best European movies in your opinion?
 

Sleuth '72
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Life of Brian
Suspicion
1917
All Quiet on the Western Front 2022
Hot Fuzz
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet
Watership Down '78

Yeah I'm not a fan of most non-British-European cinema.

Thank you for thinking of me!

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Just a few favorites


M 1930's


Bergman

A Winter's Light
Seventh Seal
Through a Glass Darkly


Fellini

La Strada
8 1/2
Nights of Cabria


Claude Berri

Jean de Forette
Manon of the Spring


Camille Claudel Isabella Adjani


Cyrano de Bergerac Depardieu


Wim Wenders

Wings of Desire
Paris Texas (set in US with English speaking actors, but directed by Wenders and starring, among others, Natasha Kinski, and ? Clement)


Tornature
Cinema Paradiso
Malena


Dreyer

Ordet


Pan's Labyrinth

Not necessarily, but it's one that I would recommend.

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According to my list:

1 Salt for Svanetia 1930 Georgia Mikhael Kalatazov
2 Day of Wrath 1943 Denmark Carl Theodor Dreyer
3 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 UK Stanley Kubrick
4 Uzak 2002 Turkiye Nuri Bilge Ceylan
5 Alphaville 1965 France Jean-Luc Godard
6 Journey to Italy 1954 Italy Roberto Rossellini
7 The Lodger 1927 UK Alfred Hitchcock
8 For a Few Dollars More 1965 Italy Sergio Leone
9 The Third Man 1949 UK Carol Reed
10 Barry Lyndon 1975 UK Stanley Kubrick
11 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 UK David Lean
12 The Commitments 1991 Ireland Alan Parker
13 The Passenger 1975 Italy/Spain Michelangelo Antonioni
14 Don't Look Now 1973 UK Nicholas Roeg
15 Blackmail 1929 UK Alfred Hitchcock
16 The Day of the Jackal 1973 France/UK Fred Zinnemann
17 Blow-up 1966 UK/Italy Michelangelo Antonioni
18 La Notte 1961 Italy Michaelangelo Antonioni
19 The Adventures of Prince Achmed 1926 Germany Lotte Reiniger
20 Bob the Gambler 1956 France Jean-Pierre Melville
21 Closely Watched Trains 1966 Czech Jirí Menzel
22 The Music Room 1958 India Satyajit Ray
23 Le Bonheur 1965 France Agnès Varda
24 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 France Carl Theodor Dreyer
25 Panique 1946 France Julien Duvivier
26 At First Sight 1983 France Diane Kurys
27 Lola 1961 France Jacques Demy
28 KES 1969 UK Ken Loach
29 La Point Courte 1955 France Agnès Varda
30 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 France Alain Resnais
31 Bridge On The River Kwai 1957 UK David Lean
32 Once Upon a Time in Anatolia 2011 Turkiye Nuri Bilge Ceylan
33 The Colour of Pomegranates 1969 USSR/Armenia Sergey Paradzhanov
34 Le Mepris 1963 France Jean Luc Godard
35 The Remains of the Day 1993 UK James Ivory
36 The Others 2001 Spain Alejandro Amenábar
37 Bay of Angels 1963 France Jacques Demy
38 Vampyr 1932 Germany Carl Theodor Dreyer
39 Brief Encounter 1945 UK David Lean
40 Bicycle Thieves 1948 Italy Vittorio De Sica
41 M 1931 Germany Fritz Lang
42 Pierrot Le Fou 1965 France Jean Luc Godard
43 Fear Eats the Soul 1974 Germany Rainer Fassbender
44 Port of Shadows 1938 France Marcel Carné
45 Cleo from 5 to 7 1962 France Agnès Varda
46 Withnail & I 1987 UK Bruce Robinson
47 Stolen Kisses 1968 France François Truffaut
48 L'Argent 1983 France Robert Bresson
49 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 France Jacques Demy
50 Soy Cuba 1964 USSR Mikhail Kalatozov

Add:
La Belle et La Bete (1946) France Jean Cocteau

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I need to find a movie I haven't seen from one of these lists

My favorite British movie is probably "The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Runner". Did you like that one?

I sure did.

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British cinema is on par with Hollywood therefore it feels strange to think of it as "European" which, I suspect, in this context means "foreign".
Most of the continental-European made films lack international appeal, and that's why there's no competitive film industry to speak of - except for France, perhaps.
But they are/were very good at creating a lot of fuss.
Back in the day, films like Spetters (Netherlands) and Christiane F. (Germany) were topics of discussion. And that was nothing compared to the far more controversial stuff from Italy.

Misfortunates (2009) and Bullhead (2011) are two films from Belgium that I like.
Darlings! (1984) is one of the most entertaining Dutch films ever made, and it was successful enough to warrant a sequel.
Force Majeure (2014) and The Square (2017) by Ruben Ostlund are brilliant, I wonder if that kind of cringe-humour is a quintessential Scandinavian thing.

Huh?

I don't know what makes you think they lack international appeal. I mean, maybe they won't be huge blockbusters like Marvel movies, but they do get to play in a lot of places. Here in the US, I will watch practically anything that gets released to theaters, and if it doesn't get released to theaters then I will stream it when it is available.

Movies like Green Border have done very well here (for international cinema).

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Hollywood can't think with a brain of their own so they steal European cinema ideas and make crappy American versions.

Even done it with South American film ideas as well.

There's a difference between international appeal and internationally released.
I'm sure you do, but you're not the average moviegoer.
To be honest, I posted my previous message from a 20th century zeitgeist point of view.
European cinema has become much more accessible (literally and figuratively) especially the slick, direct-to-streaming content.

I would probably agree with that - between CC and MUBI, I probably have access to way more international cinema now than I ever did before.

I really enjoyed Jean de Florette (1986) and its sequel Manon des Sources (1986), great acting, story and music too.

La Femme Nikita (1990) was as good as anything Hollywood had to offer and so much better than its US remake, the same with Let the Right One In (2008).

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I would add La Belle et la Bête (1946) to my previous list.
Thank you @MovieGal

But I thought you had already watched all the greatest films?

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That one had slipped through the net.

Those to make my top 50:

Day of Wrath 1943 Denmark Carl Theodor Dreyer

La Jetee 1962 France Chris Marker
Alphaville 1965 France Jean-Luc Godard
Le Bonheur 1965 France Agnès Varda
Le Cousin Jules 1973 France Dominique Benicheti

Vampyr 1932 Germany Carl Theodor Dreyer

Landscape in the Mist 1988 Greece Theodoros Angelopoulos

Journey to Italy 1954 Italy Roberto Rossellini

A Short Film About Killing 1988 Poland krzysztof kieślowski

Strike 1925 Soviet Union Sergei Eisenstein
Man With a Movie Camera 1929 Soviet Union Dziga Vertov
Salt for Svanetia 1930 Soviet Union Mikhael Kalatazov

Uzak 2002 Turkiye Nuri Bilge Ceylan

The Great White Silence 1924 UK Herbery Ponting
The Lodger 1927 UK Alfred Hitchcock
Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 UK Robert Hamer
Lawrence of Arabia 1962 UK David Lean
2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 UK Stanley Kubrick
Kes 1969 UK Ken Loach
Don't Look Now 1973 UK Nicholas Roeg
The Remains of the Day 1993 UK James Ivory

Others to make my top 100:

Closely Watched Trains 1966 Czech Jirí Menzel

Panique 1946 France Julien Duvivier
Bob the Gambler 1956 France Jean-Pierre Melville
Elevator to the Gallows 1958 France Louis Malle
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 France Jacques Demy
Pierrot Le Fou 1965 France Jean Luc Godard
Stolen Kisses 1968 France François Truffaut
The Day of the Jackal 1973 France Fred Zinnemann
At First Sight 1983 France Diane Kurys
Fire of Love (doc) 2022 France Sara Dosa (INELIGIBLE FOR TOP 50)

The Commitments 1991 Ireland Alan Parker

Bicycle Thieves 1948 Italy Vittorio De Sica
La Notte 1961 Italy Michelangelo Antonioni
For a Few Dollars More 1965 Italy Sergio Leone
The Passenger 1975 Italy Michelangelo Antonioni

Mirror 1975 Soviet Union Andrei Tarkovsky
The Color of Pomegranates 1969 Soviet Union/Armenia Sergey Paradzhanov

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia 2011 Turkiye Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Blackmail 1929 UK Alfred Hitchcock
The Third Man 1949 UK Carol Reed
Blow-up 1966 UK Michelangelo Antonioni
Barry Lyndon 1975 UK Stanley Kubrick
Virunga (doc) 2014 UK Orlando von Einsiedel (INELIGIBLE FOR TOP 50)

Others to make my top 200:

The Match Factory Girl 1990 Finland Aki Kaurismäki

J'Accuse 1919 France Abel Gance
Napoleon** 1927 France Abel Gance
The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 France Carl Theodor Dreyer
Port of Shadows 1938 France Marcel Carné
La Belle et La Bete 1946 France Jean Cocteau
La Pointe Courte 1955 France Agnès Varda
The 400 Blows 1959 France François Truffaut
Last Year at Marienbad 1961 France Alain Resnais
Lola 1961 France Jacques Demy
Cleo from 5 to 7 1962 France Agnès Varda
Bay of Angels 1963 France Jacques Demy
Le Mepris 1963 France Jean Luc Godard
L'Argent 1983 France Robert Bresson
Au Revoir Les Enfants 1987 France Louis Malle
Spoorloos The Vanishing 1988 France George Sluizer
The Double Life of Veronique 1991 France krzysztof kieślowski

The Adventures of Prince Achmed 1926 Germany Lotte Reiniger
The Blue Angel 1930 Germany Josef von Sternberg
M 1931 Germany Fritz Lang
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974 Germany Rainer Fassbender

The Travelling Players 1975 Greece Theodoros Angelopoulos
The Suspended Step of the Stork 1991 Greece Theodoros Angelopoulos

Rome, Open City 1945 Italy Roberto Rossellini
Stromboli 1950 Italy Roberto Rossellini
Il Grido 1957 Italy Michelangelo Antonioni
L'Eclisse 1962 Italy Michelangelo Antonioni
The Leopard 1963 Italy Luciano Visconti
Il Postino 1994 Italy Michael Radford
Voices Through Time 1996 Italy Franco Piavoli

The First Echelon 1955 Soviet Union Mikhael Kalatazov
The Cranes are Flying 1957 Soviet Union Mikhail Kalatozov
Soy Cuba 1964 Soviet Union Mikhail Kalatozov

Persona 1966 Sweden Ingmar Bergman

Bridge On The River Kwai 1957 UK David Lean
Repulsion 1965 UK Roman Polanski
Walkabout 1971 UK Nicholas Roeg
Withnail & I 1987 UK Bruce Robinson
Trainspotting 1996 UK Danny Boyle
Diego Maradona (doc) 2019 UK Asif Kapadia

Others to make my top 270:

Toto the Hero 1991 Belgium Jaco Van Dormael

A Man Escaped 1956 France Robert Bresson
Le Petit Soldat 1963 France Jean-Luc Godard
A Man and a Woman 1966 France Claude Lelouch
Au Hasard Balthazar 1966 France Robert Bresson
Belle de Jour 1967 France Luis Buñuel
Beau Travail 1999 France Claire Denis

Pandora's Box 1929 Germany G.W. Pabst
Kings of the Road 1975 Germany Wim Wenders
The Lives of Others 2006 Germany

La Strada 1954 Italy Federico Fellini
Cinema Paradiso 1988 Italy Giuseppe Tornatore

Leviathan 2014 Russia Andrey Zvyagintsev
Come and See 1985 Soviet Union Elem Klimov

The Others 2001 Spain Alejandro Amenábar

The Phantom Carriage 1921 Sweden Victor Sjöström
Let the Right One in 2008 Sweden Tomas Alfredson

Rebecca 1940 UK Alfred Hitchcock
Brief Encounter 1945 UK David Lean
These Are The Damned 1962 UK Joseph Losey
Sexy Beast 2000 UK Jonathan Glazer
Man on Wire (doc) 2008 UK James Marsh
Local Hero 1983 UK Bill Forsyth

Top 10 British films:
1.Lawrence of Arabia
2.The Killing Fields
3.Peeping Tom
4.The Third Man
5.The Bridge on the River Kwai
6.Brazil
7.The Remains of the Day
8.Atonement
9.A Clockwork Orange
10.Gandhi

Top 10 non-British European films:
1.Metropolis
2.Downfall
3.Das Boot (Director’s Cut)
4.Once Upon a Time in the West
5.The Pianist
6.The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
7.The Artist
8.Nosferatu
9.Cries and Whispers
10.Europa, Europa

Mark

Not bad but:

Atonement over The Red Shoes, The Innoicents, Don't Look Now, The Black Narcissus, Ratcatcher, A Matter of Life and Death, any Ken Loach films, the Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, any Mike Leigh films, The 39 Steps, Saturday night Sunday Morning, The Wicker Man ?

I don't reckon so.

@ScarletLion
“Atonement over The Red Shoes, The Innoicents, Don't Look Now, The Black Narcissus, Ratcatcher, A Matter of Life and Death, any Ken Loach films, the Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, any Mike Leigh films, The 39 Steps, Saturday night Sunday Morning, The Wicker Man?”

With the exception of Mike Leigh’s Secrets & Lies, I’ve never seen any of the movies you just listed. S&L is a great movie, but I liked Atonement more (great novel, too), in large part because I’m a WW2 buff. With that being said, I should note that I made this list largely on the fly, so I’m probably missing a bunch of great British/Irish flicks.

Mark

Fair enough. Black Narcissus is essential viewing in my opinion. It could be my number 1. As is Don't Look Now.

@ScarletLion
“Fair enough. Black Narcissus is essential viewing in my opinion. It could be my number 1. As is Don't Look Now.”

Well, I may have to check these out sometime.
Funnily enough, when I first saw the title Don’t Look Now, I thought it was Don’t Look Up (which is a great movie btw).

Mark