The following lists my top 50 movies that are not in the English language:
1. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee, 2001)
2. House of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou, 2004)
3. Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo Del Toro, 2006)
4. Let the Right One In (Thomas Alfredson, 2008)
5. Wings of Honneamise (Hiroyuki Yamaga, 1987)
6. Amelie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001)
7. Sanjuro (Akira Kurasawa, 1962)
8. Lust, Caution (Ang Lee, 2007)
9. The Seven Samurai (Akira Kurasawa, 1954)
10. The Twilight Samurai (Yoji Yamada, 2002)
11. Not One Less (Zhang Yimou, 1999)
12. Riding Alone For Thousands of Miles (Zhang Yimou, 2005)
13. Hero (Zhang Yimou, 2002)
14. Zatoichi (Takeshi Kitano, 2003)
15. Red Sorghum (Zhang Yimou, 1987)
16. Rashomon (Akira Kurasawa, 1950)
17. Apocalypto (Mel Gibson, 2006)
18. The Class (Laurent Cantet, 2008)
19. Musa: The Warrior (Sung-su Kim, 2001)
20. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
21. Oldboy (Chan-wook Park, 2003)
22. City of God (Fernando Meirelles & Katia Lund, 2002)
23. Downfall (Oliver Herschbiegel, 2004)
24. Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki, 1997)
25. The Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata, 1988)
26. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel, 2007)
27. The Road Home (Zhang Yimou, 1999)
28. Sunflower (Yang Zhang, 2005)
29. Night Watch: Nochnoi Dozer (Timur Bekmambentov, 2004)
30.Tell No One (Guillaumet Canet, 2006)
31. Infernal Affairs (Wei-keung Lau & Alan Mak, 2002)
32. Mongol: The Rise to Power of Genghis Khan (Surgey Bodrov, 2007)
33. In the Mood for Love (Kar Wai Wong, 2000)
34. Happy Times (Zhang Yimou, 2000)
35. The Banquet (Xiaogang Feng, 2006)
36. 2046 (Kar Wai Wong, 2004)
37. The Passion of the Christ (Mel Gibson, 2004)
38. Ju Dou (Zhang Yimou, 1990)
39. Bullet in the Head (John Woo, 1990)
40. The Devil's Backbone (Guillermo Del Toro, 2001)
41. The Orphanage (Juan Antonio Bayona, 2007)
42. Three Colours: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1994)
43. Curse of the Golden Flower (Zhang Yimou, 2006)
44. Day Watch: Dnevnoy Dozer (Timur Bekmambentov, 2004)
45. The Big Blue (Luc Besson, 1988)
46. One: Cavale (Lucas Belvaux, 2002)
47. Ghost in the Shell (Mamoru Oshii, 1995)
48. Cinema Paradiso (Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988
49. The Eye (Oxide Pang Chun & Danny Pang, 2002)
50. Police Story (Jackie Chan, 1985)
Saturday, 5 March 2011
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