The MoFo Top 100 Foreign Language Film Countdown

Okay, here we go:

Movie Forums: Top 100 Foreign Films

Lemme know if you guys spot any parsing errors.

Three Colours: Blue hasn't been auto-marked off for me (it is on the 90s list).

A lack of Letter Never Sent and Autumn Sonata

When are we projecting the new poll to be up? Just curious

Hopefully today, that and the list-adding stuff were kind of simultaneous.

Should be now.

Not clear why these things keep getting duped. That's always the cause of this, though.

It works good for me. Thanks for putting it up

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Whichever horse's name is the cutest.

Absolutely disappointed to have missed out on this.

What would you have picked for your 25?

For a moment I thought the Comedy countdown had been replaced with the Foreign Language v2.

Could be a mash-up of the two, the Foreign Language Comedy Countdown.

#100 The Death of Mr Lazarescu
#99 F#cking Amal

Me too...

I caught it just when #100 and #99 were revealed...

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Thanks for asking.


1. The Motorcycle Diaries
2. Lootera (2013)
3. Memories of Murder
4. Pather Panchali
5. Rashomon
6. Princess Mononoke
7. The Lives of Others
8. Seven Samurai
9. La Isla Minima
10. Grave of the Fireflies
11. Gangs of Wasseypur (The whole 5 hour+ thing, which has being broken into two movies.)
12. Cinema Paradiso
13. Jagten The Hunt
14. Oldboy
15. Mother (2009)
16 Aamis
17. Incendies
18. The Secret In their Eyes
19. 13 Tzameti
20. Nikudan aka The Human Bullet
21. City of God
22. Spirited Away
23. Amelie
24. Kaksparsh
25. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days


I have probably forgotten couple of movies.

1 The Naked Island 1960 Japan Kaneto Shindô
2 Roma 2018 Mexico Alfonso Cuarón
3 Salt for Svanetia 1930 Georgia Mikhael Kalatazov
4 Day of Wrath 1943 Denmark Carl Theodor Dreyer
5 Uzak 2002 Turkiye Nuri Bilge Ceylan
6 Vive L'Amour 1994 Taiwan Tsai Ming-liang
7 Alphaville 1965 France Jean-Luc Godard
8 High and Low 1963 Japan Akira Kurosawa
9 Pather Panchali 1955 India Satyijat Ray
10 Embrace of the Serpent 2016 Colombia Ciro Guerra
11 La Notte 1961 Italy Michaelangelo Antonioni
12 The Adventures of Prince Achmed 1926 Germany Lotte Reiniger
13 Closely Watched Trains 1966 Czech Jirí Menzel
14 The Music Room 1958 India Satyajit Ray
15 The Runner 1984 Iran Amir Naderi
16 Le Bonheur 1965 France Agnès Varda
17 The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 France Carl Theodor Dreyer
18 Panique 1946 France Julien Duvivier
19 Onibaba 1964 Japan Kaneto Shindô
20 At First Sight 1983 France Diane Kurys
21 Lola 1961 France Jacques Demy
22 Days of Being Wild 1990 Hong Kong Wong Kar-Wai
23 La Point Courte 1955 France Agnès Varda
24 Last Year at Marienbad 1961 France Alain Resnais
25 Taipei Story 1985 Taiwan Edward Yang
26 The Colour of Pomegranates 1969 USSR/Armenia Sergey Paradzhanov
27 Le Mepris 1963 France Jean Luc Godard
28 A Touch of Zen 1971 Taiwan King Hu
29 Bay of Angels 1963 France Jacques Demy
30 Rebels of the Neon God 1992 Taiwan Tsai Ming-liang
31 Taste of Cherry 1997 Iran Abbas Kiarostami
32 Homecoming 1984 Hong Kong Yim Ho
33 Pierrot Le Fou 1965 France Jean Luc Godard
34 Fear Eats the Soul 1974 Germany Rainer Fassbender
35 Port of Shadows 1938 France Marcel Carné
36 Cleo from 5 to 7 1962 France Agnès Varda
37 Stolen Kisses 1968 France François Truffaut
38 L'Argent 1983 France Robert Bresson
39 Kuruneko/Black Cat 1968 Japan Kaneto Shindô
40 The Blue Angel 1930 Germany Josef von Sternberg
41 Rome, Open City 1945 Italy Roberto Rossellini
42 Stromboli (italian version) 1950 Italy Roberto Rossellini
43 Devi 1960 India Satyajit Ray
44 Soy Cuba 1964 USSR Mikhail Kalatozov
45 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 1964 France Jacques Demy
46 Il Postino 1996 Italy Michael Radford
47 Pandora's Box 1929 Germany G.W. Pabst
48 The Cranes are Flying 1957 USSR Mikhail Kalatozov
49 Dragon Inn 1967 Taiwan King Hu
50 Spoorloos The Vanishing 1988 France George Sluizer
51 Cinema Paradiso 1988 Italy Giuseppe Tornatore
52 City of God 2002 Brazil Fernando Meirelles
53 Let the Right One in 2008 Sweden Tomas Alfredson

The following made the official list and my list:
96. Last Year at Marienbad
94. The Vanishing
93. Rome, Open City
84. Vampyr
83. Roma
71. Contempt
47. Pather Panchali
41. High and Low
40. Let the Right One In
36. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
34. In the Mood For Love
28. The Cranes are Flying
20. Cinema Paradiso
17. The Passion of Joan of Arc
14. City of God
11. M
6. Bicycle Thieves

Plenty in the official list that I don't particularly like, but theses ones to me are like wtf?:
97. Nights of Cabiria
21. Oldboy
15. Aguirre: The Wrath of God
14. City of God (good though it is)
10. Pan's Labyrinth (ok though it is)
9. 8 1/2 (pretty to look at though it is)
7. Stalker
4. The Seventh Seal
3. Parasite
2. Persona (ok though it is)

A thread from before I started posting here regularly, but I wanted to say I strongly approve of this list. Especially that Persona made it to #2. That's a movie I rate a bit higher, every time I see it.

This list is diabolical.