Sensational list, but I refuse to open up my Netflix queue. That way lies madness. Some I've never seen (not particularly fond of New Wave French films), some are on the "must see again" list, and some are on the "must own" list.

I would add City of Lost Children, and Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, and.... The Vanishing (the original, of course.)

Probably a bunch more if I took the time to think about it.

This is a sensational list. I've seen a good third of these, but now have a good number to seek out from here.

Thanks for the great post!

Thanks for posting this ... lots of good stuff to keep me entertained on the upcoming long winter evenings!

I love that they included so many Kurosawa films (I'm a huge fan) but they missed The Bad Sleep Well (his take on Hamlet) and Rhapsody in August (a quiet film that painfully captures the effects of the atomic bombs on families in Japan).

Thank you for posting this list. It will guide my choices over the next year.

I would add to the top of list...

"The Lives of Others."

It's in German, subtitled. It portrays the corruption and oppression of life in East Germany before the wall came down. All I can say, without giving away its spectacular ending, is that I have never been so deeply moved by a simple story, told with such sure-handed artistry.

Some of my favorite foreign films:

Children of Heaven (Iranian)

Kitchen Windows (Swedish)

Babette's Feast (Danish)

Divided We Fall (Czech)

Zatouichi (remake with Takeshi - Japanese)

Kikujiro -Japanese

Giraoli(Sunflower with Sofia Lorren-Italian)

Plein Sleil (with Alan Delon- French)

Tanpopo -Japanese