Best European films since 1970?

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Sunflower
A Brief Vacation
The Working Class Goes To Heaven
Last Tango In Paris
A Special Day
The Fifth Seal
Serie Noire
The Ear
Le Chat
Whity
Horse
Turkish Delight
The Ascent
Death in Venice
Mr Klein
Alice in the Cities
Camera Buff
The Castle of Purity
Le cercle rouge
Love in the Afternoon
Adoption
The Emigrants
Ali: Fear Eats The Soul
I Only Want You To Want Me
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Scenes From a Marriage
Slap the Monster on Page One
The Merchant of Four Seasons
Two Men In Town
Hothead
Mother Kuesters Goes to Heaven
The Punishment

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I came up with this (excluding British):

1 Uzak 2002 Turkiye Nuri Bilge Ceylan
2 Le Cousin Jules (doc) 1973 France Dominique Benicheti
3 Landscape in the Mist 1988 Greece Theodoros Angelopoulos
4 Mirror 1975 Soviet Union Andrei Tarkovsky
5 The Passenger 1975 Spain Michelangelo Antonioni
6 A Short Film About Killing 1988 Poland krzysztof kieślowski
7 Fire of Love (doc) 2022 France Sara Dosa
8 Voices Through Time (doc) 1996 Italy Franco Piavoli
9 At First Sight 1983 France Diane Kurys
10 The Day of the Jackal 1973 France Fred Zinnemann
11 The Commitments 1991 Ireland Alan Parker
12 L'Argent 1983 France Robert Bresson
13 Once Upon a Time in Anatolia 2011 Turkiye Nuri Bilge Ceylan
14 The Travelling Players 1975 Greece Theodoros Angelopoulos
15 Au Revoir Les Enfants 1987 France Louis Malle
16 Spoorloos The Vanishing 1988 France George Sluizer
17 The Double Life of Veronique 1991 France krzysztof kieślowski
18 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974 Germany Rainer Fassbender
19 Let the Right One in 2008 Sweden Tomas Alfredson
20 Cinema Paradiso 1988 Italy Giuseppe Tornatore
21 Il Postino 1994 Italy Michael Radford
22 Leviathan 2014 Russia Andrey Zvyagintsev
23 Come and See 1985 Soviet Union Elem Klimov
24 The Others 2001 Spain Alejandro Amenábar
25 The Match Factory Girl 1990 Finland Aki Kaurismäki
26 The Lives of Others 2006 Germany


If you include British:
1 Uzak 2002 Turkiye Nuri Bilge Ceylan
2 Le Cousin Jules (doc) 1973 France Dominique Benicheti
3 Landscape in the Mist 1988 Greece Theodoros Angelopoulos
4 Mirror 1975 Soviet Union Andrei Tarkovsky
5 Barry Lyndon 1975 UK Stanley Kubrick
6 The Passenger 1975 Spain Michelangelo Antonioni
7 Walkabout 1971 UK Nicholas Roeg
8 Don't Look Now 1973 UK Nicholas Roeg
9 Trainspotting 1996 UK Danny Boyle
10 A Short Film About Killing 1988 Poland krzysztof kieślowski
11 Fire of Love (doc) 2022 France Sara Dosa
12 Voices Through Time (doc) 1996 Italy Franco Piavoli
13 At First Sight 1983 France Diane Kurys
14 Withnail & I 1987 UK Bruce Robinson
15 The Day of the Jackal 1973 France Fred Zinnemann
16 The Commitments 1991 Ireland Alan Parker
17 The Remains of the Day 1993 UK James Ivory
18 L'Argent 1983 France Robert Bresson
19 Once Upon a Time in Anatolia 2011 Turkiye Nuri Bilge Ceylan
20 The Travelling Players 1975 Greece Theodoros Angelopoulos
21 Au Revoir Les Enfants 1987 France Louis Malle
22 Virunga (doc) 2015 UK Orlando von Einsiedel
23 Spoorloos The Vanishing 1988 France George Sluizer
24 The Double Life of Veronique 1991 France krzysztof kieślowski
25 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul 1974 Germany Rainer Fassbender

A few I remembered...


La Terrazza
Shadows in Paradise

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I don't know most of yours so will check em out when I get a chance.

Sleuth '72
Life of Brian
1917
All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet
Watership Down

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Quickly collected from my Letterboxd, so for the most part, it only contains films I've watched in the last 7 years.

5/5:
Let the Right One In

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4.5/5:
Brimstone
The City of Lost Children
In a Glass Cage
Léon: The Professional
The Reflecting Skin

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4/5 (Italian):
The Beyond
City of the Living Dead
Deep Red
Don't Torture a Duckling
The House with Laughing Windows
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
Suspiria

4/5 (Spanish):
Cut-Throats Nine
Marshland
The Spirit of the Beehive
Who Can Kill a Child?

4/5 (Scandinavia + Finland):
Antichrist
Elina: As If I Wasn't There
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Innocents
Talvisota

4/5 (UK):
The Children
The Descent
Dog Soldiers
Doomsday
Harry Brown
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

4/5 (The Rest of Europe):
The Dark
Dark Waters
The Painted Bird
A Prophet

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Top 10 European films made since 1970 (Great Britain):
1.Hamlet (1996)
2.The Killing Fields
3.Children of Men
4.The Remains of the Day
5.Brazil
6.Atonement
7.A Clockwork Orange
8.My Left Foot
9.Monty Python’s Life of Brian
10.Hope and Glory

Top 10 European films made since 1970 (Continental Europe):
1.Once Upon a Time in America
2.Downfall
3.Das Boot
4.Once Upon a Time in the West
5.The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
6.All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
7.Europa Europa
8.Run Lola Run
9.Aguirre, the Wrath of God
10.Jacob the Liar (1974)

Saw Cinema Paradiso at thee flicks tonight.


A few weird moments, but a lovely film.

As great as these are, they're made in the 60s.

Originally Posted by pahaK

As great as these are, they're made in the 60s.

Oops, I’ll replace those two with Cries & Whispers and Mio in the Land of Faraway.

Way too many to mention. There'd be about 300 that I’d recommend so instead will have to do a top 10 off the top of my head.

1. Come and See (if you count Belarus as European)
2. Three Colours Blue
3. Werckmeister Harmoneis
4. Jean Dielman
5. The Conformist
6. Wings of Desire
7. The Spirit of the Beehive
8. The Lives of Others
9. L’Argent
10. Ratcatcher