BBC's 100 Greatest Foreign-Language Films

BBC's 100 Greatest Foreign Language Films is a list compiled in 2018 by BBC Culture, as part of their annual critics' poll.[1][2][3]

Selection Criteria

BBC Culture polled 209 film critics from 43 different countries, asking them to submit their list of the 10 greatest foreign-language movies (i.e. not in English). As with other BBC Culture 100 Greatest polls, the ranking was established by a point system: ten points awarded to the film ranked first, nine to the film ranked second and so forth.[1]

Criticism

Writing for Vanity Fair, K. Austin Collins lamented the predictability of the list - "heavy on works from Europe and East Asia; low on women; low on avant garde and documentary filmmaking" - and the absence of popular genres such as Nollywood, Bollywood or Giallo, arguing that "a truly worthy list of this nature wouldn’t be so snobby about high and low culture. It’d be a glorious, messy mix of arthouse and pop, as any list about the greatest art—rather than the greatest textbook art—should be."[4]

Full List
No. Title Director Country Original Language Year
1 Seven Samurai Akira Kurosawa Japan Japanese 1954
2 Bicycle Thieves Vittorio De Sica Italy Italian 1948
3 Tokyo Story Yasujirō Ozu Japan Japanese 1953
4 Rashomon Akira Kurosawa Japan Japanese 1950
5 The Rules of the Game Jean Renoir France French 1939
6 Persona Ingmar Bergman Sweden Swedish 1966
7 8½ Federico Fellini Italy, France Italian 1963
8 The 400 Blows François Truffaut France French 1959
9 In the Mood for Love Wong Kar-wai Hong Kong, France Cantonese 2000
10 La Dolce Vita Federico Fellini Italy, France Italian, English, French, German 1960
11 Breathless Jean-Luc Godard France French, English 1960
12 Farewell My Concubine Chen Kaige China, Hong Kong Mandarin 1993
13 M Fritz Lang Germany German 1931
14 Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles Chantal Akerman Belgium, France French 1975
15 Pather Panchali Satyajit Ray India Bengali 1955
16 Metropolis Fritz Lang Germany silent film 1927
17 Aguirre, the Wrath of God Werner Herzog West Germany, Mexico, Peru German, Mexico, Quechua 1972
18 A City of Sadness Hou Hsiao-hsien Taiwan various 1989
19 The Battle of Algiers Gillo Pontecorvo Italy, Algeria Arabic, French 1967
20 Mirror Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet Union Russian, Spanish 1975
21 A Separation Asghar Farhadi Iran Persian 2011
22 Pan's Labyrinth Guillermo del Toro Spain, Mexico Spanish 2006
23 The Passion of Joan of Arc Carl Theodor Dreyer France silent film 1928
24 Battleship Potemkin Sergei Eisenstein Soviet Union silent film 1925
25 Yi Yi Edward Yang Taiwan, Japan Mandarin, Taiwanese, Japanese, English 2000
26 Cinema Paradiso Giuseppe Tornatore Italy, France Italian, English, Portuguese, Sicilian 1988
27 The Spirit of the Beehive Víctor Erice Spain Spanish 1973
28 Fanny and Alexander Ingmar Bergman Sweden, France, West Germany Swedish, German 1982
29 Oldboy Park Chan-wook South Korea Korean 2003
30 The Seventh Seal Ingmar Bergman Sweden Swedish, Latin 1957
31 The Lives of Others Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck Germany German 2006
32 All About My Mother Pedro Almodóvar Spain, France Spanish, Catalan, English 1999
33 Playtime Jacques Tati France, Italy French, English, German 1967
34 Wings of Desire Wim Wenders Germany, France various 1987
35 The Leopard Luchino Visconti Italy, France Italian 1963
36 La Grande Illusion Jean Renoir France French, German, English 1937
37 Spirited Away Hayao Miyazaki Japan Japanese 2001
38 A Brighter Summer Day Edward Yang Taiwan Mandarin, Taiwanese, Shanghainese 1991
39 Close-Up Abbas Kiarostami Iran Persian 1990
40 Andrei Rublev Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet Union Russian, Tatar, Italian 1966
41 To Live Zhang Yimou China, Taiwan Mandarin 1994
42 City of God Fernando Meirelles Brazil Portuguese 2002
43 Beau Travail Claire Denis France French, Italian, Russian 1999
44 Cléo from 5 to 7 Agnès Varda France, Italy French 1962
45 L'Avventura Michelangelo Antonioni Italy Italian 1960
46 Children of Paradise Marcel Carné France French 1945
47 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days Cristian Mungiu Romania Romanian 2007
48 Viridiana Luis Buñuel Mexico, Spain Spanish 1961
49 Stalker Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet Union Russian 1979
50 L'Atalante Jean Vigo France French 1934
51 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg Jacques Demy France, West Germany French 1965
52 Au Hasard Balthazar Robert Bresson France, Sweden French 1966
53 Late Spring Yasujirō Ozu Japan Japanese 1949
54 Eat Drink Man Woman Ang Lee Taiwan, United-States Mandarin 1994
55 Jules and Jim François Truffaut France French, German 1962
56 Chungking Express Wong Kar-wai Hong Kong Cantonese 1994
57 Solaris Andrei Tarkovsky Soviet Union Russian, German 1972
58 The Earrings of Madame de… Max Ophüls France, Italy French 1953
59 Come and See Elem Klimov Soviet Union Belarusian, Russian, German 1985
60 Contempt Jean-Luc Godard France, Italy French, Italian, German, English 1963
61 Sansho the Bailiff Kenji Mizoguchi Japan Japanese 1954
62 Touki Bouki Djibril Diop Mambéty Senegal Wolof 1973
63 Spring in a Small Town Fei Mu China Mandarin 1948
64 Three Colours: Blue Krzysztof Kieślowski France, Poland, Switzerland French 1993
65 Ordet Carl Theodor Dreyer Denmark Danish 1955
66 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul Rainer Werner Fassbinder West Germany German 1974
67 The Exterminating Angel Luis Buñuel Mexico Spanish 1962
68 Ugetsu Kenji Mizoguchi Japan Japanese 1953
69 Amour Michael Haneke France, Austria, Germany French 2012
70 L'Eclisse Michelangelo Antonioni Italy Italian, English 1962
71 Happy Together Wong Kar-wai Hong Kong Cantonese 1997
72 Ikiru Akira Kurosawa Japan Japanese 1952
73 Man with a Movie Camera Dziga Vertov Soviet Union silent film 1929
74 Pierrot le Fou Jean-Luc Godard France French, English 1965
75 Belle de Jour Luis Buñuel France, Italy French, Spanish 1967
76 Y Tu Mamá También Alfonso Cuarón Mexico Spanish 2001
77 The Conformist Bernardo Bertolucci Italy, France, West Germany Italian, French, English 1970
78 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Ang Lee Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, United-States Mandarin 2000
79 Ran Akira Kurosawa Japan, France Japanese 1985
80 Los Olvidados Luis Buñuel Mexico Spanish 1950
81 Celine and Julie Go Boating Jacques Rivette France French 1974
82 Amélie Jean-Pierre Jeunet France, Germany French 2001
83 La Strada Federico Fellini Italy Italian 1954
84 The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie Luis Buñuel France, Italy, Spain French 1972
85 Umberto D. Vittorio De Sica Italy Italian 1952
86 La Jetée Chris Marker France French, German 1962
87 Nights of Cabiria Federico Fellini Italy Italian 1957
88 The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums Kenji Mizoguchi Japan Japanese 1939
89 Wild Strawberries Ingmar Bergman Sweden Swedish 1957
90 Hiroshima Mon Amour Alain Resnais France, Japan French 1959
91 Rififi Jules Dassin France French 1955
92 Scenes from a Marriage Ingmar Bergman Sweden Swedish 1973
93 Raise The Red Lantern Zhang Yimou China, Hong Kong Mandarin 1991
94 Where Is the Friend's House? Abbas Kiarostami Iran Persian 1987
95 Floating Clouds Mikio Naruse Japan Japanese 1955
96 Shoah Claude Lanzmann France various 1985
97 Taste of Cherry Abbas Kiarostami Iran Persian 1997
98 In The Heat of the Sun Jiang Wen China Mandarin 1994
99 Ashes and Diamonds Andrzej Wajda Poland Polish 1958
100 Landscape in the Mist Theo Angelopoulos Greece, France, Italy Greek 1998

References
  1. Sharf, Zack (2018-10-30). "BBC's 100 Greatest Foreign-Language Films Ever: 209 Film Critics Crown 'Seven Samurai,' 'In the Mood for Love,' and More". IndieWire. Retrieved 2022-05-02.
  2. Clarke, Donald. "The 100 greatest foreign-language films revealed". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2022-05-02.
  3. "BBC reveals list of 100 Greatest Foreign Language Films". New Age | The Most Popular Outspoken English Daily in Bangladesh. Retrieved 2023-01-12.
  4. "Trying to Name the 100 Best "Foreign-Language" Films Is a Fool's Errand". Vanity Fair. 2018-10-30. Retrieved 2023-01-18.
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