Top 10 Films Not in Your Own Language

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My profile TOP 10 is already in other languages.



My main language is portuguese, so I can name every film in this theread, the only exception is City of God.



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I won't include Miyazaki because of the dubbings, so it would be something like these 10:

Sansho the Bailiff
The Virgin Spring
Tokyo Story
Late Spring
Fantastic Planet
There Was a Father
Day of Wrath
The Vanishing
The Goddess
House



Casablanca
Chinatown
Citizen Kane
Once Upon a Time in America
Goodfellas
The Master
An Autumn Afternoon
In the Mood for Love
Walkabout
The Devils
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Man Bites Dog
La Reine Margot
Seven Samurai
Das Boot
Three Colours: Blue
The Killer
Amelie
Jean Du Florette
Les Diabolique
What Have You Done To Solange? (This is a bit of a fix as it's not entirely 'foreign' language)
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City Of God
Carandiru
Come And See
The Bicycle Thief
13 Minutes
Land Of Mine
Cold Fish
Europa Europa
The Wave
Spirited Away



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In no particular order...
The Aura (Argentina)
Audition (Japan)
Phoenix (Germany)
The Elementary Particles (Germany)
About Elly (Iran)
Two Women (Italy)
Belle de Jour (France)
The Broken Circle Breakdown (Belgium)
Land of Mine (Denmark)
Fill the Void (Israel)



I'm french Canadian so ...
1- American History X
2- The Shining
3- V For Vendetta
4- Jaws
5- A Clockwork Orange
6- Sinister
7- Requiem For A Dream
8- The Raid 2
9- Zodiac
10- Halloween (1978)
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La Strada it.

Jean de Floretta fr.

Manon of Spring fr.
A Winters Light Sw
Camille Claudel fr
8 1/2 it.
Cyrano De Bergerac Dep fr.
Nights of Cabria It
Wings of Desire Gr.
Bread and Tulips It.



The Lives of Others
Incendies
Come and See
Life is Beautiful
The Secret in their Eyes
Embrace of the Serpent
Three Colours Red
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Ikiru
The Broken Circle Breakdown



28 days...6 hours...42 minutes...12 seconds
1. City of God
2. Seven Samurai
3. Amelie
4. Oldboy
5. Battle Royale
6.Ran
7. The Raid
8. Run Lola Run
9. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
10. Starbuck


Obviously I need to see more foreign films.
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My Life as a Dog (Sweden)
Blade of the Immortal (Japan)
Shaolin Soccer (Hong Kong)
Euthanizer (Finland)
Amsterdamned (Netherlands)
Kopps (Sweden)
Beautiful Boxer (Thailand)
Five Deadly Venoms (Hong Kong)
Wolf (Dutch)
Rendel (Finland)

Honorable Mention
Der Puma: Kampfer mit Herz (Germany)
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The Good, the Bad, the Weird
Human Condition III, I, II
Ran
13 Assassins
My Sassy Girl
Ikiru
Age of Shadows
Seven Samurai
Bittersweet Life
Return of Godzilla
My Way
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Strike (1925)
M (1931)
The Noose (1958)
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965)
Repulsion (1965)
The Face of Another (1966)
The Conformist (1970)
The Devil (1972)
Crows (1994)
Distant (2002)
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I am going to take this as "not in any language I speak". Seeing as many of us are not Americans, we could include Hollywood and that probably takes away the point of the thread.


So disregarding films in English or Greek:

1. Incendies (Canada)
2. City of God (Brazil)
3. Bicycle Thieves (Italy)
4.The Hunt (Denmark)
5. Seven Samurai (Japan)
6. Solaris (Russia)
7. Come and See (Russia)
8. Grave of the Fireflies (Japan)
9. The Lives of Others (Germany)
10. The Wave (Germany)

Honorable Mentions:
A Separation (Iran)
Life is Beautiful (Italy)
Downfall (Germany)
Das Boot (Germany)
Oldboy (Japan)
The Raid (Indonesia)
The Experiment (Germany)
Howl's Moving Castle (Japan)



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Le Samourai
Hard-Boiled (I'm Chinese but I can hardly understand Cantonese)
The Killer
The Raid
Oldboy
Howl's Moving Castle
Spirited Away
My Neighbor Totoro
Downfall
Battle Royale



City of God
Rashomon
Pan's Labyrinth
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
Das Boot
The Raid: Redemption
Oldboy
The Orphanage
Man Bites Dog
The Triplets of Bellville



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Amelie
Ran
Rashomon
Solaris
Memories of Murder
Pan's Labyrinth
City of God
Wings of Honneamise
Knife in the Water
Train to Busan
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