Best Foreign Language Films by Rank
2852
1127
1995
Pierre Grange
Andrée Damant, Kristin Scott Thomas, Benoît Régent
Drama / Comedy
France
French
2852
1127
2023
Kore-eda Hirokazu
Sakura Ando, Eita Nagayama, Soya Kurokawa, Hinata Hiiragi, Mitsuki Takahata
Drama / Thriller
Japan
Japanese
2852
1127
2001
Sandra Nettelbeck
Martina Gedeck, Maxime Foerste, Sergio Castellitto, August Zirner
Comedy / Romance / Drama
Italy / Germany / Austria / Switzerland
German
2852
1127
1994
Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
Örvar Jens Arnarson, Rúrik Haraldsson, Orri Helgason
Drama / Biography
Iceland / Germany / Denmark
Icelandic
2852
1127
1994
Doris Dörrie
Maria Schrader, Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss, Michael von Au, Elisabeth Trissenaar
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Germany
German
2852
1127
1995
Margarethe von Trotta
Corinna Harfouch, Meret Becker, August Zirner, Walerij J. Alexeiew, Anka Baier
Romance / Drama
Germany / France / Switzerland
German
2852
1127
1996
Mimmo Calopresti
Simona Caramelli, Valeria Milillo, Paolo De Vita, Orsetta De Rossi, Nello Mascia
Drama
France / Italy
Italian
2852
1127
1993
Åke Sandgren
Jesper Salén, Stellan Skarsgård, Basia Frydman, Niklas Olund
Drama / Comedy / Period Film
Denmark / Sweden
Swedish
2852
1127
1995
Goran Paskaljevic
Tom Conti, Miki Manojlovic, María Casares, Zorka Manojlovic
Comedy / Drama
France / UK / Germany / Greece / Fed Rep of Yugoslavia
Serbo-Croatian
2852
1127
1993
Joseph Vilsmaier
Dominique Horwitz, Thomas Kretschmann, Jochen Nickel, Sebastian Rudolph
Drama / War / Epic
Germany / Sweden
German
2852
1127
1996
Eric Rohmer
Melvil Poupaud, Amanda Langlet, Gwenaëlle Simon, Aurelia Nolin
Romance / Drama
France
French
2852
1127
1992
Daniel Bergman
Thommy Berggren, Henrik Linnros, Lena Endre, Jacob Leygraf, Anna Linnros
Adventure / Drama / Biography
Sweden / Denmark / Finland / Iceland / Norway
Swedish
2852
1127
1997
Claude Chabrol
Isabelle Huppert, Michel Serrault, François Cluzet
Comedy / Thriller / Crime
France / Switzerland
French
2852
1127
2006
Ki-duk Kim
Jung-woo Ha, Ji-Yeon Park, Ji-heon Kim, Sung-min Kim, Yeong-hwa Seo
Drama / Romance
Japan / South Korea
Korean
2852
1127
1993
Kwang-su Park
Hye-jin Shim, So-young Ahn, Young-yi Lee, Yong-man Kim, Hyung-in Choi
Drama / Fantasy
South Korea
Korean
2852
1127
1996
Cédric Klapisch
Jean-Pierre Bacri, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Catherine Frot, Agnès Jaoui
Comedy / Drama
France
French
2852
1127
1996
Cédric Klapisch
Garance Clavel, Zinedine Soualem, Renée Le Calm, Olivier Py
Comedy / Romance
France
French
2852
1127
2022
Goran Stolevski
Noomi Rapace, Alice Englert, Anamaria Marinca, Sara Klimoska, Carloto Cotta
Drama / Horror
UK / Serbia / Australia
Macedonian
2854
1128
1982
Jean-Luc Godard
Isabelle Huppert, Hanna Schygulla, Michel Piccoli
Drama
France / Switzerland
French
2855
1129
1983
David Perlov
Klaus Kinski, David Perlov, Mira Perlov, Neomi Perlov, Yael Perlov
Documentary
Israel
Hebrew
2855
1129
1985
Aleksey German
Andrei Boltnev, Andrey Mironov, Nina Ruslanova, Aleksey Zharkov, Aleksandr Filippen
Drama / Period Film / Crime / Detective
Soviet Union
Russian
2856
1130
1982
Philippe Garrel
Anne Wiazemsky, Henri de Maublanc, Xuan Lindenmeyer
Drama / Romance
France
French
2856
1130
1972
Noriaki Tsuchimoto
Documentary / History / Biography
Japan
Japanese
2857
1131
1958
Yasujirô Ozu
Shin Saburi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Ineko Arima, Yoshiko Kuga, Keiji Sada, Teiji Takahashi
Comedy / Drama
Japan
Japanese
2857
1131
1977
Chris Marker
Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Salvador Allende, Regis Debray, Yves Montand
Documentary / History
France
French
2857
1131
2002
Abderrahmane Sissako
Khatra Ould Abder Kader, Maata Ould Mohamed Abeid, Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamed
Drama / Music / Comedy
France / Mauritania
French
2858
1132
1937
Michal Waszynski
Avrom Morevski, Isaac Samberg, Moyshe Lipman, Lili Liliana, Leon Liebgold
Fantasy / Romance
Poland
Yiddish
2858
1132
1961
Yasujiro Ozu
Ganjiro Nakamura, Setsuko Hara, Yôko Tsukasa, Michiyo Aratama
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2858
1132
1923
Mauritz Stiller
Einar Hanson, Hugo Björne, Mary Johnson, Stina Berg, Pauline Brunius
Adventure / Drama / Romance
Sweden
Swedish (Silent)
2858
1132
1992
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog
Documentary / Sci-Fi / History
France / UK / Germany
German
2858
1132
1966
Shohei Imamura
Shoichi Ozawa, Sumiko Sakamoto, Masaomi Kondo, Keiko Sagawa, Ganjiro Nakamura
Comedy / Drama
Japan
Japanese
2859
1133
1972
Luchino Visconti
Helmut Berger, Trevor Howard, Silvana Mangano, Gert Fröbe
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film / Epic
France / Italy / West Germany
Italian
2859
1133
1974
Sohrab Shahid Saless
Zadour Bonyadi, Mohammed Kani, Hibibollah Safarian
Drama
Iran
Persian
2860
1134
1970
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Karl Scheydt, Elga Sorbas, Jan George, Hark Bohm, Marius Aicher
Drama / Crime / Gangster
West Germany
German
2860
1134
1983
Federico Fellini
Freddie Jones, Barbara Jefford, Victor Poletti, Peter Cellier
Comedy / War / Period Film
France / Italy
Italian
2860
1134
1949
Mehboob Khan
Nargis, Dilip Kumar, V.H. Desai, Cuckoo, Raj Kapoor
Musical / Drama / Crime / Romance
India
Hindi
2860
1134
1951
Raj Kapoor
Prithviraj Kapoor, Nargis, Raj Kapoor, K.N. Singh
Drama / Family / Musical / Romance
India
Hindi
2860
1134
1952
Vijay Bhatt
Bharat Bhushan, Meena Kumari, Surendra, B.M. Vyas
Drama / Musical
India
Hindi
2860
1134
1989
Bahram Beizai
Susan Taslimi, Parvis Pourhosseini, Adnan Afravian
Drama / Adventure
Iran
Persian
2860
1134
1985
Teguh Karya
Alex Komang, Rina Hassim, Sylvia Widiantono, Ray Sahetapy
Drama
Indonesia
Indonesian
2860
1134
1987
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Boguslaw Linda, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz
Drama / Fantasy
Poland
Polish
2860
1134
1979
Govindan Aravindan
Ashokan, Kottara Gopalakrishnan
Fantasy / Family
India
Malayalam
2860
1134
1958
Ingmar Bergman
Eva Dahlbeck, Ingrid Thulin, Bibi Andersson
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
2860
1134
1986
Euthana Mukdasanit
Suriya Yaovasang, Vasana Pholyiem, Suchow Phongvilai, Rome Isra
Drama
Thailand
Thai
2860
1134
1991
Nicolás Echevarría
Juan Diego, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Roberto Sosa
Action / Adventure / Drama / Biography
Mexico / Spain / USA / UK
Spanish
2860
1134
1976
Federico Fellini
Donald Sutherland, Tina Aumont, Cicely Browne, Carmen Scarpitta
Drama / Comedy / Biography / Period Film
Italy / USA
Italian
2860
1134
1980
Ishmael Bernal
Charito Solis, Johnny Wilson, Orestes Ojeda, Gina Alajar
Drama
Philippines
Filipino
2860
1134
1999
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Emin Ceylan, Fatma Ceylan, Mehmet Emin Toprak
Drama
Turkey
Turkish
2860
1134
1949
Junli Zheng
Dan Zhao, Yinyan Wu, Daolin Sun, Yunzhu Shangguan
Drama
China
Mandarin
2860
1134
1995
Álex de la Iglesia
Álex Angulo, Armando De Razza, Santiago Segura
Comedy / Horror / Thriller
Spain / Italy
Spanish
2860
1134
1933
Yu Sun
Zhanfei Gao, Li-li Li, Juanjuan Ye, Congmei Yuan
Drama
China
Mandarin (Silent)
2860
1134
1988
Aleksandr Sokurov
Aleksei Ananishnov, Eskender Umarov, Irina Sokolova
Sci-Fi / Experimental
Soviet Union
Russian
2860
1134
1978
Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Zdzislaw Mrozewski, Marek Walczewski, Henryk Bista
Drama / Biography
Poland
Polish
2860
1134
1981
Emir Kusturica
Slavko Stimac, Slobodan Aligrudic, Ljiljana Blagojevic, Mira Banjac
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Yugoslavia
Serbo-Croatian
2860
1134
1998
I. Nyamgavaa
Drama / Period Film / Religion
Mongolia
Mongolian
2860
1134
1973
Chang-hwa Jeong
Lieh Lo, Wang Ping, Wang Ching-Feng, Tien Feng
Action / Drama / Adventure
Hong Kong
Cantonese
2860
1134
1981
Manoel de Oliveira
Teresa Menezes, Diogo Dória, Mario Barroso, Silvia Rato
Drama / Romance / Period Film
Portugal
Portuguese
2860
1134
1931
Gustav Machatý
Ladislav H. Struna, Magda Maderova, Jirina Sejbalová
Drama / Romance
Czechoslovakia / Austria
Czech
2860
1134
1980
Helma Sanders-Brahms
Eva Mattes, Ernst Jacobi, Elisabeth Stepanek, Angelika Thomas
Drama / War
West Germany
German
2860
1134
1974
Werner Herzog
Walter Steiner
Documentary / Biography / Sports
West Germany
German
2860
1134
1932
Aleksandr Medvedkin
Petr Zinovyev, Yelena Yegorova, L. Nenasheva
Comedy
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2860
1134
1999
Luis Estrada
Damián Alcázar, Pedro Armendáriz Jr.
Comedy / Crime / Mystery
Mexico
Spanish
2860
1134
1934
Yu Sun
Yan Jin, Yanyan Chen, Li-li Li, Ming Luo, Junili Zheng
Comedy / Musical / Drama / War
China
Mandarin
2860
1134
1938
Marcel Carné
Annabella, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Louis Jouvet, Arletty
Drama
France
French
2860
1134
1985
Suzana Amaral
Marcelia Cartaxo, José Dumont, Tamara Taxman
Comedy
Brazil
Portuguese
2860
1134
1968
Tai Kato
Chieko Baisho, Yuki Kawamura, Sanae Nakahara, Ran Fan O
Drama / Thriller / Mystery
Japan
Japanese
2860
1134
1991
Teresa Villaverde
Ricardo Colares, Teresa Roby, Joaquim de Almeida, Vincent Gallo
Drama
Portugal / Germany
Portuguese
2860
1134
1978
Guy Debord
Documentary / Experimental
France
French
2860
1134
1963
Shohei Imamura
Sachiko Hidari, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Hiroyuki Nagato
Drama / Comedy
Japan
Japanese
2860
1134
1938
Abel Gance
Victor Francen, Line Noro, Marie Lou, Jean-Max
Drama / Horror / War
France
French
2860
1134
1959
Fritz Lang
Debra Paget, Paul Hubschmid, Walter Reyer, Claus Holm
Adventure / Romance
Italy / France / West Germany
German
2860
1134
1993
Subhash Ghai
Sanjay Dutt, Jackie Shroff, Madhuri Dixit, Ali Asghar, Subhash Ghai
Action / Crime / Musical / Romance / Fantasy
India
Hindi
2860
1134
1936
Sadao Yamanaka
Chojuro Kawarasaki, Utaemon Nakamura, Shizue Yamagishi
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2860
1134
1961
Ritwik Ghatak
Gyanesh Mukherjee, Bijon Bhattacharya, Anil Chatterjee
Drama / Romance
India
Bengali
2860
1134
1970
Groupe Dziga Vertov, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Gérard Martin
Gian Maria Volonté, Anne Wiazemsky, Paolo Pozzesi
Drama
France / Italy / West Germany
French
2860
1134
1916
Yevgeni Bauer
Vera Kholodnaya, Lydia Koreneva, Ivane Perestiani, Vitold Polonsky
Drama / Romance
Russia
Russian (Silent)
2860
1134
1972
Raymundo Gleyzer
Víctor Proncet, Raúl Fraire, Susana Lanteri
Drama / Crime
Argentina
Spanish
2860
1134
1964
Mai Zetterling
Harriet Andersson, Gunnel Lindblom, Gio Petré,
Drama
Sweden
Swedish
2860
1134
1993
Yousry Nasrallah
Zaki Abdel Wahab, Taheya Cariocca, Seif El Dine, Youssra
Drama / Adventure / Romance
Egypt / France
Arabic
2860
1134
1936
Sacha Guitry
Sacha Guitry, Gaston Dubosc, Serge Grave, Paul Bernard
Comedy
France
French
2860
1134
1975
Jean-Pierre Dikongue-Pipa
Philippe Abia, Arlette Din Beli, Gisèle Dikongue-Pipa
Drama
Cameroon
French
2860
1134
1949
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Mito, Kuniko Miyake, Ichirô Sugai
Drama / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2860
1134
1944
Veit Harlan
Carl Raddatz, Kristina Söderbaum, Irene von Meyendorff
Romance / Drama
Germany
German
2860
1134
1970
Manoj Kumar
Ashok Kumar, Saira Banu, Manoj Kumar, Pran, Bharti, Nirupa Roy
Drama / Musical / Romance
India
Hindi
2860
1134
1995
Tong Wang
Tao shu, Lu zhi, Shi jun, Zhang Shi
Drama / Documentary
Taiwan
Mandarin
2860
1134
1935
Sadao Yamanaka
Denjirô Ôkôchi, Kiyozo, Kunitaro Sawamura
Comedy
Japan
Japanese
2860
1134
1990
Ann Hui
Maggie Cheung, Tan Lang Jachi Tian, Waise Lee, Zi Xiong Li
Drama
Hong Kong / Taiwan
Cantonese
2860
1134
1954
Mikio Naruse
Setsuko Hara, Ken Uehara, Yôko Sugi, Sô Yamamura
Drama
Japan
Japanese
2860
1134
1937
Kenji Mizoguchi
Ichiro Sugai, Haruo Tanaka, Kumeko Urabe, Masao Shimizu
Drama / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2860
1134
1956
Yuzo Kawashima
Michiyo Aratama, Yukiko Todoroki, Seizaburô Kawazu
Drama / Comedy
Japan
Japanese
2860
1134
1924
Lupu Pick
Edith Posca, Eugen Klöpfer, Frieda Richard, Karl Harbacher
Drama
Germany
German (Silent)
2860
1134
1983
Raoul Ruiz
Jean-Bernard Guillard, Philippe Deplanche, Jean Badin
Drama / Fantasy / Experimental / Adventure
France
French
2860
1134
1991
Maurice Pialat
Jacques Dutronc, Alexandra London, Bernard Le Coq
Drama / Biography / Period Film
France
French
2860
1134
1980
Slobodan Sijan
Pavle Vujisic, Dragan Nikolic, Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic
Comedy / Drama / War
Yugoslavia
Serbo-Croatian
2860
1134
1962
Riccardo Freda
Kirk Morris, Hélène Chanel, Vira Silenti
Adventure / Fantasy / Horror
Italy
Italian
2860
1134
1978
Andrzej Wajda
Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Ewa Dalkowska, Andrzej Seweryn
Drama
Poland / France
Polish
2861
1135
1987
Eric Rohmer
Emmanuelle Chaulet, Sophie Renoir, Anne-Laure Meury, Eric Viellard
Comedy / Romance
France
French
NR
-
1962
François Truffaut
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marie-France Pisier, Patrick Auffay, Rosy Varte
Drama / Romance
France
French
NR
-
2006
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Nazan Kirilmis, Mehmet Eryilmaz, Arif Asçi
Drama
Turkey / France
Turkish
NR
-
2016
Nitesh Tiwari
Aamir Khan, Sakshi Tanwar, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Sanya Malhotra, Aparshakti Khurana
Action | Biography | Drama | Sports
India
Hindi
NR
-
2018
Sicheng Chen
Haoran Liu, Baoqiang Wang, Yang Xiao, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Yuxian Shang
Action / Comedy / Adventure / Mystery
China
Mandarin
NR
-
2011
Andrey Zvyagintsev
Nadezhda Markina, Andrey Smirnov, Elena Lyadova, Aleksey Rozin, Evgeniya Konushkina
Drama
Russia
Russian
NR
-
2012
Radu Jude
Serban Pavlu, Sofia Nicolaescu, Gabriel Spahiu, Mihaela Sirbu
Drama / Comedy
Romania / Netherlands
Romanian
NR
-
2009
Christian Carion
Emir Kusturica, Guillaume Canet, Alexandra Maria Lara, Ingeborga Dapkunaite
Thriller / Spy / Period Film
France
French
NR
-
2005
Philip Gröning
Documentary / Religion
France / Switzerland / Germany
French
NR
-
2001
Dover Koshashvili
Lior Ashkenazi, Ronit Elkabetz, Moni Moshonov, Lili Koshashvili, Aya Steinovitz
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Israel / France
Hebrew
NR
-
2012
Abbas Kiarostami
Tadashi Okuno, Rin Takanashi, Ryo Kase, Denden, Reiko Mori, Kaneko Kubota
Drama / Romance
France / Japan
Japanese
NR
-
2012
Cate Shortland
Saskia Rosendahl, Nele Trebs, André Frid, Mika Seidel, Kai-Peter Malina
Drama / Thriller / War / Adventure
Germany / Australia / UK
German
NR
-
2016
Stephen Chow
Chao Deng, Yun Lin, Show Luo, Yuqi Zhang, Pierre Bourdaud
Drama / Fantasy / Romance / Sci-Fi / Comedy
China
Mandarin
NR
-
2011
Gerardo Naranjo
Stephanie Sigman, Juan Carlos Galván, Noé Hernández
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Action
Mexico
Spanish
NR
-
2015
Raman Hui
Baihe Bai, Boran Jing, Wu Jiang, Elaine Jin, Wallace Chung, Eric Tsang
Action / Comedy / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Adventure
China / Hong Kong
Mandarin
NR
-
2018
Raman Hui
Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Baihe Bai, Boran Jing, Yuchun Li, Tony Yo-ning Yang
Adventure / Comedy / Sci-Fi
China
Mandarin
NR
-
2019
Yu Yang
Yanting Lü, Joseph, Mo Han, Hao Chen, Qi Lü, Jiaming Zhang
Animation / Fantasy / Thriller
China
Mandarin
NR
-
2012
Kleber Mendonça Filho
Irma Brown, Sebastião Formiga, Gustavo Jahn, Maeve Jinkings, Dida Maia
Drama / Thriller / Action
Brazil
Portuguese
NR
-
2018
Dante Lam
Yi Zhang, Johnny Huang, Hai-Qing, Jiang Du, Luxia Jiang, Sanâa Alaoui
Action / Drama / Thriller / War / Adventure / Spy
China / Morocco
Mandarin
NR
-
1983
Eric Rohmer
Amanda Langlet, Arielle Dombasle, Pascal Greggory, Féodor Atkine
Comedy / Drama / Romance
France
French
NR
-
2010
Baran bo Odar
Ulrich Thomsen, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Katrin Saß, Sebastian Blomberg
Crime / Drama / Thriller
Germany
German
NR
-
2019
Frant Gwo
Jing Wu, Chuxiao Qu, Guangjie Li, Man-Tat Ng, Jin Mai Jaho, Mike Kai Sui
Sci-Fi
China
Mandarin
NR
-
2017
Jing Wu
Jing Wu, Frank Grillo, Celina Jade, Gang Wu, Hans Zhang, Qian Yu, Nan Yu
Action / Drama / War / Adventure / Thriller
China
Mandarin
