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My Top 10 Non Hollywood Films

1. The Passion of Joan of Arc - Carl Dreyer
2. Eight and Half - Federico Fellini
3. Stalker - Andrei Tarkovsky
4. La Strada - Federico Fellini
5. Eternity and a Day - Theo Angelopoulos
6. Days and Nights in the Forest - Satyajit Ray
7. Red Beard - Akira Kurosawa
8. Woman in the Dunes - Hiroshi Teshigahara
9. High and Low - Akira Kurosawa
10. Knife in the Water - Roman Polanski

If I include Docs, then "Night and Fog" should be there and "Knife in the Water" will go out...

This is actually my top 10 list anyway, Hollywood or no Hollywood...only someone has to leave space for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", not sure which one will go though...
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Foreign movies, allright;
First non-english-language:
1. Italian movies:
- 8 1/2 (Fellini)
- La dolce vita (Fellini)
- The bicycle thieves (De Sica)
- The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo)
- Life is beautiful (Benigni)
- Cinema Paradiso (Tornatore)
- Amarcord (Fellini)

2. Polish movies:
- Ashes and diamond
- Kanal (both Wajda)
- Knife In the water (Polanski)
- Mis (or Teddy bear) (Bareja)
- The Promised Land (Wajda, again)
- A Short Film about Killing (Kieslowski)

3. French movies:
- Three colours (Kieslowski, actually french-polish)
- Breathless
- Pierrot le fou (both Godard)
- Playtime (Tati)
- Last Year in Marienbad (Resnais)
- La Jetée (Marker)
- La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (Dreyer)
- Intouchables (Nakache/Toledano)

4. Japanese movies:
- Spirited away (Miyazaki)
- Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
- Rashomon (Kurosawa)
- Tokyo story (Ozu)
- Grave of the fireflies (Takahata)

And others: Wild Strawberries, The Seventh Seal, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo, City of god, M, Stalker.



Pan's labyrinth
very mad that it didn't win the Oscar for best foreign film that year. Then watched The Lives of Others, less mad. but still would have voted for Pan's labyrinth.



The Conformist (1970), Italy
The Face of Another (1966), Japan
Possession (1981), Poland
Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), France
Dogtooth (2009), Greece
Oslo, August 31st (2011), Norway
Thirst (2009), South Korea
Simon of the Desert (1965), Mexico/Spain
M (1931), Germany/Sweden
Distant (2002), Turkey
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Zatoichi (2003)
Persona (1966)
Stalker (1979)
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000)
Old Boy (2003)
Downfall (2004)
Martyrs (2008)
Sanjuro (1962)
Haute Tension (2003)
I Saw The Devil (2010)



All my favorites because none of my top 50 was produced domestically.
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