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Top 5 Foreign Language Films  |  Archive

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2021 TOP 5 FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMS

Benedetta  Lamb  Lingui, The Sacred Bonds  Titane  The Worst Person in the World 

2020 TOP 5 FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMS

Apples  Collective  Dear Comrades!  The Mole Agent  Night of the Kings 

2019 Top 5 Foreign Language Films

Atlantics  Invisible Life  Pain and Glory  Portrait of a Lady on Fire  Transit 

2018 Top 5 Foreign Language Films

Burning  Custody  The Guilty  Happy as Lazzaro  Shoplifters 

2017 Top 5 Foreign Language Films

A Fantastic Woman  Frantz  Loveless  Summer 1993  The Square 

2016 Top 5 Foreign Language Films

Elle  The Handmaiden  Julieta  Land of Mine  Neruda 

2015 Top 5 Foreign Language Films

Goodnight Mommy  Mediterranea  Phoenix  The Second Mother  The Tribe 

2014 Top 5 Foreign Language Films

Force Majeure  Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem  Leviathan  Two Days, One Night  We Are the Best! 

2013 Top 5 Foreign Language Films

Beyond the Hills  Gloria  The Grandmaster  A Highjacking  The Hunt 

2012 Top 5 Foreign Language Films

Barbara  The Intouchables  The Kid With A Bike  No  War Witch 

2011 Top 5 Foreign Language Films

13 Assassins  Elite Squad: The Enemy Within  Footnote  Le Havre  Point Blank 

2010 Top 5 Foreign Language Films

I Am Love, Incendies, Life Above All, Soul Kitchen, White Material 

2010 Top 5 Documentaries

A Film Unfinished, Inside Job, Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, Restrepo, The Tillman Story 

2009 Top 5 Foreign Language Films

The Maid   Revanche  Song of Sparrows  Three Monkeys  The White Ribbon 

2008 Top 5 Foreign Language Films

The Edge of Heaven, Let the Right One In, Roman De Gare, A Secret, Waltz With Bashir 

2007 Top 5 Foreign Language Films

4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days  The Band's Visit  The Counterfeiters  La Vie En Rose  Lust, Caution 

2006 Top 5 Foreign Language Films

Curse of the Golden Flower  Days of Glory  Pan's Labyrinth  Volver  Water 

2005 Top 5 Foreign Language Films

2046  Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress  Downfall  Paradise Now  Walk on Water 

2004 Top 5 Foreign Language Films

Bad Education  The Chorus (Les Choristes)  Maria Full of Grace  The Motorcycle Diaries  The Sea Inside 

2003 Top 5 Foreign Language Films

Autumn Spring  The Barbarian Invasions  Best of Youth  Man on the Train  Monsieur Ibrahim 

2002 Top Foreign Films

8 Women  El Crimen del Padre Amaro   City of God  Talk to Her   Y Tu Mamá También 

2001 Top 5 Foreign Language Films

Amelie  Amores Perros  Behind the Sun  Dark Blue World  No Man's Land 

2000 Top 5 Foreign Language Films

Butterfly  Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon  Girl on the Bridge  Malena  A Time for Drunken Horses 

1999 Top Foreign Films

All About My Mother  Cabaret Balkan  East-West   The Emperor and The Assassin   Run Lola Run 

1998 Top 5 Foreign Language Films

Beyond Silence  Central Station  Life is Beautiful  Men With Guns  The Thief 

1997 Top 5 Foreign Language Films

Beaumarchais  Ma Vie en Rose  Ponette  La Promesse  Shall We Dance? 

1996 Top 5 Foreign Language Films

Bitter Sugar  La Ceremonie  Kolva  Ridicule  Les Voleurs 

1995 Top 5 Foreign Language Films

Farinelli  Lamerica  Les Misérables  Il Postino  Shanghai Triad 

1994 Top 5 Foreign Language Films

Eat Drink Man Woman  Queen Margot  Red  Strawberries and Chocolate  To Live 

1993 Top 5 Foreign Language Films

The Accompanist  Un Coeur en Hiver  Farewell My Concubine  El Mariachi  The Story of Qiu Ju 

1992 Top 5 Foreign Language Films

Indochine  Like Water for Chocolate  Mediterraneo  Raise The Red Lantern  Tous Le Martins Du Monde 

1991 Top 5 Foreign Language Films

Europa, Europa  La Femme Nikita  My Father's Glory and My Mother's Castle  Toto Le Heros  The Vanishing 

1990 Top 5 Foreign Language Films

Cyrano de Bergerac  Jesus of Montreal  Monsieur Hire  The Nasty Girl  Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! 

1989 Top Foreign Films

Camille Claudel  Chocolat  La Lectrice  The Little Thief  The Story of Women 

1988 Top Foreign Films

Le Grand Chemin  Pelle the Conqueror  Salaam Bombay  A Taxing Woman   Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown 

1987 Top Foreign Films

Au Revoir Les Enfants  Dark Eyes  Jean de Florette and Manon of the Spring  My Life as a Dog  Tampopo 

1986 Top Foreign Films

Ginger and Fred  Men  Menage  Miss Mary  Otello 

1985 Top Foreign Films

La Chevre  The Home and the World  The Official Story  Ran  When Father Was Away on Business 

1984 Top Foreign Films

The Basileus Quartet  Carmen  The Fourth Man  A Love in German   A Sunday in the Country 

1979 Top Foreign Films

La Cage Aux Folles   The Marriage of Marie Brown  Nosferatu The Vampyre  Peppermint Soda  The Tree of Wooden Clogs 

1977 Top Foreign Films

The American Friend   Cria Cuervos  The Men Who Loved Women  That Obscure Object of Desire  A Special Day 

1976 Top Foreign Films

The Clockmaker   Cousin Cousine  Face to Face  The Marquise of O  Small Change 

1975 Top Foreign Films

The Story of Adele H  A Brief Vacation  Special Section  Stavisky  Swept Away  

1974 Top Foreign Films

Amarcord  Lacombe Lucien  The Pedestrian  The Phantom of Liberty  Scenes From a Marriage 

1973 Top Foreign Films

Alfredo  Cries and Whispers  Days for Nights  The New Land  The Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe  Traffic 

1972 Top Foreign Films

Chloe in the Afternoon  The Emigrants  The Discreet Charme of the Bourgeoisie  The Sorrow and the Pity  Uncle Vanya 

1971 Top Foreign Films

Bed and Board  Claire´s Knee  The Clowns  The Conformist  The Garden of the Finzi-Continis 

1970 Top Foreign Films

The Confession  My Night at Maud´s  The Passion Of Anna  This Man Must Die  The Wild Child 

1969 Top Foreign Films

Adalen 31  The Damned  La Femme Infidele  Shame  Stolen Kisses 

1968 Top Foreign Films

The Bride Wore Black   Hagbard and Signe  Hunger  The Two of Us  War and Peace 

1967 Top Foreign Films

Africa Addio  Elvira Madigan  The Great British Train Robbery   The Hunt  Persona 

1966 Top Foreign Films

The Gospel According to St. Matthew  Hamlet  A Man and a Woman  The Shameless Old Lady  The Sleeping Car Murders 

1965 Top Foreign Films

La Boheme  Gertrud  Juliet of the Scripts  La Tia Lula  The Overcoat 

1964 Top Foreign Films

Anatomy of a Marriage  The Organizer  Seduced and Abandoned  Today and Tomorrow  World Without Sun  Yesterday 

1963 Top Foreign Films

8 1/2  Any Number Can Win   The Four Days of Naples  The Leopard  Winter Light 

1962 Top Foreign Films

Barabbas  Divorce - Italian Style  The Island  Sundays and Cybele  Through a Glass Darkly  

1961 Top Foreign Films

The Bridge  La Dolce Vita  Saturday Night and Sunday Morning  A Summer to Remember   Two Women 

1960 Top Foreign Films

The Angry Silence  General Della Rovere  Hiroshima, Mon Amour  I´m All Right Jack  The World of Apu 

1959 Top Foreign Films

Aparajito  Look Back in Anger  The Roof  Room at the Top  Wild Strawberries 

1958 Top Foreign Films

The Horse´s Mouth  Mon Oncle  A Night to Remember  Pather Panchali  Rouge et Noir 

1957 Top Foreign Films

Gervaise  A Man Escaped  Ordet  The Red Baloon  Torero! 

1956 Top Foreign Films

Richard III  Rififi  The Silent World  La Strada  War and Peace 

1955 Top Foreign Films

Diabolique  The Divided Heart  The End of the Affair  The Great Adventure  The Prisoner 

1954 Top Foreign Films

Beauties of the Night  The Detective Bread  Diary of a Country Priest  Gate of Hell  Genevieve  The Heart of the Matter  The Little Kidnappers  Love and Dreams  Mr. Hulot´s Holiday  Romeo and Juliet 

1953 Top Foreign Films

The Conquest of Everest  The Little World of Dan Camillo  Moulin Rouge  A Queen is Crowned  Strange Deception 

1952 Top Foreign Films

Beauty and the Devil  Breaking the Sound Barrier  Forbidden Games  Ivory Hunter  The Man in the White Suit 

1951 Top Foreign Films

The Browning Version  Kon-Tiki  Miracle in Milan   Rashomon  The River 

1950 Top Foreign Films

Kind Hearts and Coronets  Paris 1900  The Story of Michelangelo  Tight Little Island  The Titan 

1943 Best Documentary

Battle of Russia  Desert Victory  Prelude to War  Saludos Amigos  The Silent Village 

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