Added by SJMJ91 on 9 Sep 2010 09:02

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Favourite foreign language films.

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Decade: Rating: List Type:

1742

7.9

Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror

COUNTRY: Germany
LANGUAGE: German

SJMJ91's rating:

1238

8.4

8.3

Bicycle Thieves

COUNTRY: Italy
LANGUAGE: Italian

SJMJ91's rating:

4949

8.2

Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

COUNTRY: Mexico
LANGUAGE: Spanish

SJMJ91's rating:

1719

8.3

8.1

The Seventh Seal (1957) (1957)

COUNTRY: Sweden
LANGUAGE: Swedish

SJMJ91's rating:

4700

8.4

8.6

Spirited Away (2001)

COUNTRY: Japan
LANGUAGE: Japanese (there's a dubbed English version too)

SJMJ91's rating:

2127

8.6

Seven Samurai (1954)

COUNTRY: Japan
LANGUAGE: Japanese

SJMJ91's rating:

1246

8.2

8.1

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

COUNTRY: Germany
LANGUAGE: German

SJMJ91's rating:

1520

8.5

8.3

M (1931)

COUNTRY: Germany
LANGUAGE: German

SJMJ91's rating:

2261

7.8

7.9

Let the Right One In

COUNTRY: Sweden
LANGUAGE: Swedish

SJMJ91's rating:

5373

8.1

8.3

Amélie (2001)

COUNTRY: France
LANGUAGE: French

SJMJ91's rating:

2267

7.4

7.7

Run Lola Run (1998)

COUNTRY: Germany
LANGUAGE: German

SJMJ91's rating:

3216

8.3

8.6

City of God

COUNTRY: Brazil
LANGUAGE: Portuguese

SJMJ91's rating:

1556

8.3

8½

COUNTRY: Italy
LANGUAGE: Italian

SJMJ91's rating:

1214

8.4

8.1

The 400 Blows (1959)

NOTE: Contains a few moments of English but it pretty much all contains French.

COUNTRY: France
LANGUAGE: French

SJMJ91's rating:

2013

8.3

Metropolis (1927)

COUNTRY: Germany
LANGUAGE: German

SJMJ91's rating:

841

7.9

Amour

NOTE: Contains a few moments of English but it pretty much all contains French.

COUNTRY: France
LANGUAGE: French

SJMJ91's rating:

2390

6.3

7.2

The Passion of the Christ (2004)

NOTE: American-made but the film contains foreign languages.

COUNTRY: USA
LANGUAGE: Aramaic, Latin, Hebrew.

SJMJ91's rating:

1734

7.5

7.7

Ponyo (2008)

COUNTRY: Japan
LANGUAGE: Japanese (there's a dubbed English version too)

SJMJ91's rating:

2213

7.5

Battle Royale (2000)

COUNTRY: Japan
LANGUAGE: Japanese

SJMJ91's rating:

1303

8.2

A Trip to the Moon

COUNTRY: France

SJMJ91's rating:

1791

7.5

7.8

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)

COUNTRY: Sweden
LANGUAGE: Swedish

SJMJ91's rating:

3258

8.6

Life Is Beautiful

COUNTRY: Italy
LANGUAGE: Italian, German

SJMJ91's rating:

3107

7.4

7.9

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

COUNTRY: Hong Kong, China
LANGUAGE: Mandarian

SJMJ91's rating:

394

7.6

7.5

A Royal Affair (2012)

COUNTRY: Denmark
LANGUAGE: Danish

SJMJ91's rating:

2111

8.3

8.5

Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

COUNTRY: Japan
LANGUAGE: Japanese

SJMJ91's rating:

1370

8.3

8.2

Rashomon (1950)

COUNTRY: Japan
LANGUAGE: Japanese

SJMJ91's rating:

5476

8.4

Inglourious Basterds (2009)

NOTE: I have included Inglourious Basterds as a foreign language film despite being made by American director Quentin Tarantino, some of the actors are American and probably everybody involved in the film speak English. Inglourious Basterds makes this list because the majority of the film isn't in English. Most of it is in French and German and there's some Italian involved too. It's my favourite film of the films in this list but because there's English involved, that's the reason why it doesn't make number 1.

COUNTRY: USA, Germany
LANGUAGE: German, French, English, Italian

SJMJ91's rating:

1555

7.9

Persepolis (2007)

COUNTRY: France
LANGUAGE: French (there's a dubbed English version too)

SJMJ91's rating:

7.4

A Dirty Carnival (2006)

COUNTRY: South Korea
LANGUAGE: Korean

SJMJ91's rating:

2035

7.1

7.8

Apocalypto (2006)

NOTE: American-made but spoken in foreign language.

COUNTRY: USA
LANGUAGE: Mayan

SJMJ91's rating:

1551

7.6

7.9

Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

NOTE: American-made but spoken in foreign language.

COUNTRY: USA
LANGUAGE: Japanese (and English only in scenes with the Americans)

SJMJ91's rating:

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This list features my favourite films that don't speak the English language and/or are silent foreign classics (such as Nosferatu and Metropolis - both German films). Also, I might include a film made in the USA or the UK by an American or British director but doesn't involve the English language (such as Mel Gibson's Apocalypto and Clint Eastwood's Letters From Iwo Jima.