Top 10 Films Not in Your Own Language

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Mine are as follows:

Münchhausen (1943)
Le Bossu (1997)
The Horseman on the Roof (1995)
Troll Hunter (2010)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Jean de Florette (1986)
Manon des Sources (1986)
36 Quai des Orfèvres (2004)
Three Colours: Red (1994)



1. Funny Games
2. The Hunt

These other ones are out of order as they're just too good to rank.

Festen
Kiki’s Delivery Service
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Persepolis
Caché
Mommy
[REC]
La Haine
Amelie



01. Chungking Express
02. The Gospel According To Matthew
03. 8 1/2
04. In A Year of 13 Moons
05. Au Hasard Balthazar
06. Vivre Sa Vie
07. Love Exposure
08. A Day in the Country
09. High and Low
10. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum

Or something, i dunno there's too many.



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La Strada
The Battle of Algiers
La Grande Illusion
The Seventh Seal
Seven Samurai
Wild Strawberries
Umberto D
Rashomon
Bicycle Thieves
A Taste of Cherry



Tough call, something like this

Seven Samurai
Pather Panchali
Broken Circle Breakdown
City of God
Contempt
Onibaba
Children of Paradise
The Secret in Their Eyes
The Battle of Algiers
Harakiri



Let the night air cool you off
Uuuuhhhhh

Ikiru
Solaris
The Cranes Are Flying
Ordet
Mommy
Hiroshima Mon Amour
The Human Condition Trilogy
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
The Umbrelllas of Cherbourg
Come and See


Those are the first ten to come to mind. Like Camo said, there is too many.



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Does the Dollars trilogy count, or no, since it was dubbed in English?



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It's hard to pick when it comes to foreign films but I came up with a top 5:

The Skin I Live In
The Battle of Algiers
Cell 211
Oldboy
City of God



1. Tokyo Godfathers
2. Paprika
3. Ernest & Celestine
4. A Town Called Panic
5. Waltz With Bashir
6. The Broken Circle Breakdown
7. Persona
8. Wild Strawberries
9. Perfect Blue
10. A Separation



1) Motorcycle Diaries
2) Pather Panchali (I don't speak Bengali).
3) The bicycle thieves
4) Memories of Murder
5) Amelie
6) La isla minima
7) Oldboy
8) Central Station
9) Jagten the hunt
10) Cinema Paradiso



This is difficult

1. Incendies
2. The Lives of Others
3. Life is Beautiful
4. Come and See
5. The Secret in their Eyes
6. Embrace of the Serpent
7. Ikiru
8. Three Colours: Red
9. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
10. The Broken Circle Breakdown



movies can be okay...
1. Tokyo Godfathers
2. Paprika
3. Ernest & Celestine
4. A Town Called Panic
5. Waltz With Bashir
6. The Broken Circle Breakdown
7. Persona
8. Wild Strawberries
9. Perfect Blue
10. A Separation
No love for Millennium Actress by Satoshi Kon? I thought it was his best showing.
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Yep I'd agree, my favourite Kon film.


To cheat and make it 25 listed by date...

The Seven Samurai - 1954
Breathless - 1960
Though A Glass Darkly - 1961
Yojimbo - 1961
Contempt - 1963
Persona - 1966
Andrei Rublev - 1966
Solaris - 1972
Aguirre: The Wrath of God - 1972
Stalker -1979
Boy Meets Girl - 1984
Ran - 1985
Betty Blue - 1986
Akira - 1988
The Dekalog(bit of a cheat, otherwise A Short Film About Killing) - 1988
The Double Life of Veronique - 1991
Princess Mononoke -1997
In The Mood For Love - 2000
Uzak - 2002
Millennium Actress - 2002
Cache/Hidden - 2005
13 Assasins - 2010
Blue Is the Warmest Colour - 2013
Ida - 2013
Two Days, One Night - 2014



Does the Dollars trilogy count, or no, since it was dubbed in English?
I had that quandary with Ulysses (1954) so I just left it out, but I'm pleased to have mentioned it anyway .