What are the best European movies in your opinion?
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I would add La Belle et la Bête (1946) to my previous list.
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But I thought you had already watched all the greatest films?
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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
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
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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
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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
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
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
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.
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@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.
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“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
@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
“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
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