Your Top Ten(ish) Foreign Films

Wings of Desire
Impromptu
Steppenwolf
The Seventh Seal
Diva
Delicatessen
Seven Beauties
My Life as a Dog
Downfall
After LIfe

Tampopo
Good Men, Good Women (dir. Hou Hsiao-Hsien)
To Live (dir. Zhang Yimou)
Fallen Angels (dir. Wong Kar-Wai)
Earth (dir. Deepa Mehta)
Delicatessen
City of God
Hana-Bi (Fireworks)
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter...Spring
Closely Watched Trains
Dekalog (OK it is TV, not film, but more cinematic than 99% of films out there)
The Little World of Don Camillo
Erotikon (best silent movie ever)

Amelie
Once Were Warriors
Godzilla
Wings of Desire
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Seven Samuri
The Proposition
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Man Who Fell to Earth
Cronos
The Professional

La Belle et la Bête
Wild Strawberries
La Strada
Cléo de 5 à 7
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Early Summer (Ozu)
Sisters of Gion (Mizoguchi)
The Life of Oharu (Mizoguchi)
Black Narcissus
The Music Room (Satayajit Ray)

My fav 30 in no particular order whatsoever:

La Dolce Vita
8 1/2
Amarcord
La Belle Noiseuse
Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise)
Belly of an Architect
Prospero's Books
The Pillow book
Monty Python's The Holy Grail
Monty Python's The Life of Brian
Wings of Desire
Faraway, So Close
Les Temps Retrouve (Time Regained)
La Reine Margot (Queen Margot)
Danton
Pride and Prejudice (1995 BBC/A&E version)
Divorzo Italiano
Film d'amore e d'anarchia (Love and Anarchy)
Beyond the Clouds
Miss Julie
The English Patient
Russian Ark
Eros
Nostalgia
Excalibur
Farinelli
Va Savoir
Cyrano de Bergerac
Ridicule
The Madness of King George

In no especial order....
Tuvalu
City of Lost Children/Delicatessen (tie)
Black Cat White Cat/Underground (tie)
In the Time of the Gypsies
Tokyo Godfathers
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Repentance
Salaam Bombay
Bye Bye Brazil
Black Orpheus
Blissfully Yours
Sex and Fury
Drunken Master
The Harder They Come (OK, it's technically in English, but it's subtitled)
Yi Yi

Oldboy
In the mood for love
Rashomon
Raise the red Lantern
Audition
3 iron
City of lost children
City of god
Head on
The princess and the warrior

1. Cinema Paradiso, Director's Cut
2. IL Postino
3. The Hairdressers Husband
4. Malena
5. The Wings of the Dove
6. In My Country
7. Life Is Beautiful
8. The Piano Teacher
9. Bread & Tulips
10. Like Water for Chocolate
11. Lila Says

In no particular order:

Tin Drum
Audition
Ran
Big Deal on Madonna Street
City of Lost Children
Central Station
Nasty Girl
Lenningrad Cowboys Go America
Whisky
Lady Vegeance
Oldboy

Amelie
Waking Ned Devine
The Scent of Green Papaya
Run Lola Run
Bread and Tulips
A Very Long Engagement
Secret of Roan Inish
Sliding Doors
The Road Home
After Life

Ten(ish) More:

Happy Together
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Moartea Domnului Lazarescu)
The Dreamlife of Angels (La Vie Rêvée Des Anges)
El Bola
Amores Perros
Paradise Now (2005)
Time Out (L'Emploi du Temps)
The World (2004)
Underground (1995)

Thank you all for posting your lists. I've used these lists as reference. For me, here are the first 10 that comes to mind but not neccessarily the best 10:

1) Water (Canada)
2) All Pedro Almodovar movies (Spain)
3) Motorcycle Diaries (Mexico)
4) A Very Long Engagement (France)
5) Cinema Paradiso (Italy)
6) Central Station (Brazil)
7) Sex and Lucia (Spain)
8) Segunda Piel (Spain)
9) Lovers of the Arctic Circle (Spain)
10) Russian Ark

This is tough...

Antonia's Line
Bebette's Feast
All About My Mother
Underground
Black Cat White Cat
La finestra di fronte (I forget the English title, but I think it may be "Facing Windows")
Raise the Red Lantern
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
Amelie
Water (Deepa Mehta)
Kitchen Stories
Walk on Water
Happestance
Central Station
Before the Rain
Bread and Tulips

Oops! I went way over. I'm sure I'll think of more, too.

CAPS ARE A MUST WATCH AND MY FAVES ARE NOT NECESSARILY IN THIS ORDER.

LOVERS OF THE ARCTIC CIRCLE,
HEAVEN,
24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE,
IT'S ALL GONE PETE TONG,
Day for Night,
BEFORE SUNRISE,
BEFORE SUNSET,
PONETTE,
FARINELLI,
CAMILLE CLAUDEL,
AMELIE,
Ridicule,
TRAINSPOTTING,
Run Lola Run,
SHADOWLANDS,
City of Lost Children,
BEFORE NIGHT FALLS,
All About My Mother,
HABLA CON ELLA,
Y Tu Mama Tambien,
Mala Educacion,
TWICE UPON A YESTERDAY,
MAR ADENTRO,
Good bye Lenin!,
Born into Brothels,
NOBODY KNOWS,
Motorcylce Diaries,
SLIDING DOORS,
CINEMA PARADISO,
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE,
Turtles can Fly,
Kolya,
Europa Europa,
White, Blue, Red,
MASCULIN FEMININ,
The 400 Blows,
JULES AND JIM,
Abre los Ojos,
LIVE FLESH,
AMADEUS,
Scenes of a Marriage,
QUEEN MARGOT,
THE PRINCESS AND THE WARRIOR,
Tipping the velvet,
Sex and Lucia,
A Short Film about Love
Decalogue 1
NOWHERE IN AFRICA
MARCH OF THE PENGUINS

Malena
Amelie
Broken Wings
Color of Paradise
Dil Chatahi
The Syrian Bride
Divorce, Italian Style
Sex and Lucia

above all:
*all about my mother
*talk to her
*live flesh
*volver
*tie me up, tie me down


*mostly martha
*lucia y el sexo
*city of god
*amelie
*dancer in the dark
*dogville
*the piano teacher
*breaking the waves
*run lola run

I loved many of these movies. I could cry from happiness to finally have found a place to discuss them, as nobody else in this hicktown will watch a movie with subtitles!

Soo many great movies. Just recently saw "In the Mood for Love" What a great film. Look forward to seeing more from that director. One I dont see on the list is "8-Iron" or "9-Iron", a Korean film where the two main characters have no dialog. The gist of the movie is the main characters break into houses, while the owners are on vacation, fixing the owners electronic equipment, doing there laundry.

So others I liked:

Amelie
Run Lola Run
5 Obstructions
The Celebration
The Gods Must Be Crazy (is this foreign?)
Out of Africa (not the one with Redford)- about a women who goes back to africa where she grew up

many other, but cant think of em

Amelie
The Pillow Book
Chungking Express
Kamikaze Girls
Singles
The City of Lost Children
Pan's Labyrinth
The Princess and the Warrior
Speaking Parts (Does Canadian count? I love Atom Egoyan)
Tokyo Tower

normal foreign

le fabuleux destin d amelie poulain (amelie)
lola rennt (run lola run)
wandafuru raifu (after life)
jesus de montreal
ma vie en rose (my life in pink)
trois couleurs rouge
bis ans ende der welt (until the end of the world)
nikita
mitt liv som hund (my life as a dog)

anime

hauru no ugoku shiro (howls moving castle)
neko no ongaeshi (the cat returns)
sen to chihiro no kamikakushi (spirited away)
mononoke hime (princess mononoke)
kyuketsuki miyu (vampire princess miyu)
tonari no totoro (my neighbor totoro)
kaze no tani no naushika (nausicaa of the valley of the wind)

english

mirromask
brazil

Hari Om
Fire/Earth/Water (Deepa Mehta's trilogy)
Pan's Labrynth
20 Centimeters
Innocence (director is Lucile Hadzihalilovic)

ones i haven't seen on anyones list yet...though i could have missed it, there were a lot!

-Bad Boy Bubby (New Zealand, Rolf de Herr (sp?))
- Baxter (France, i foget the director (-_-;))
- Funny Games (Austria, Michel Hanake), actually almost anything by Hanake is good...
- Even Dwarfs Started Small (Germany, Werner Hertzhog (sp?))
- Taste of Tea (Japan, Katuhito Ishii), i like most of his movies too
- Wild Zero (Japan, Sogo Ishii) rock n roll!