1) Lunacy - (Czech) A surrealist film by director Jan Svankmajer.
2) Barton Fink- (English) Another surrealist film, winner of 1991 Palme d'Or at Cannes.
3) 8 1/2 - (Italian) Fellini's classic movie.
4) Todo sobre mi madre /All about my mother- (Spanish) Most famous film of Spanish director, Pedro Almodovar.
5) Kanal - (Polish) A film about the Warsaw Uprising by Andrez Wajda.
6) The Pianist - (English) Roman Polanski's film based on the autobiography of holocaust victim Wladyslaw Szpilman.
7) Vivre sa vie / My Life to live - (French) Film of Jean-Luc Goddard from the '60s.
8) Cleo- from 5 to 7 -(French) Agnes Varda's direction.
9) Pather Panchali/ Song of the little road - (Bengali) Satyajit Ray's most famous film.
10) The Seventh Seal - (Swedish) A knight invites Death for a game of chess, Ingmar Bergman's well acclaimed work.
11) Wild Strawberries - (Swedish) Another moving work of Bergman.
12) Taste of Cherry - (Persian) Abbas Kiarostami's minimalist style approach about a man who wants to find a person to bury him after he commit suicides.
13) A time for drunken horses - (Kurdish/Persian) Bahman Ghobadi's deeply moving movie. won Camera d'Or at Cannes in 2000.
14) Umberto D - (Italian) Vittorio De Sica's movie.
15) Two letters from Iwo-Jima - (Japanese/English) Director: Clint Eastwood.
16) Apocalypto - (Yucatec Maya) A very nice movie set in the backdrop of a declining Mayan civilization.
17) Pan's labyrinth - (Spanish) Guillarmo Del Toro's beautiful movie, steeped in fantasy and magical-realism.
18) Paradise Now - (Arabic) A contemporary movie that takes a look into terrorism, drawing up elements from Palestinian issue.
19) Bicycle Theives/Ladri di biciclette - (Italian) Vittorio De Sica's well acclaimed Italian neorealist movie.
20) L'Age d'Or - (French) Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali's surrealist movie from 1930s.
21) Taxi Driver - (English) Martin Scorsese's famous 1976 film.
22) Dreams - (Japanese) Akira Kurosawa's film based on eight of his dreams.
23) The Piano Teacher - (French) Michael Haneke's film based on the Nobel Laureate Elfriede Jelinek novel. The movie won several awards at the 2001 Cannes Film festival.
24) 71 fragments of a chronology of chance - (German/Romanian) Another of Michael Haneke's movie that interweaves several parallel strands of storyline into a climactic ending scene.
25) Another Woman - (English) A Woody Allen's film about a 50 year old philosophy professor who looks back at her past and her relationship with her family members, and takes the audience on a psychological journey.
26) Bananas - (English) An absurd comedy movie from Woody Allen.
27) Schindler's List - (English) Steven Spielberg's movie based on the holocaust and German businessman Oskar Schindler's role in saving the life of many. It won many academy awards.
28) Days and nights in the forest - (Bengali) Satyajit Ray's movie about four friends from the city of Calcutta who visit a tribal part of rural Bengal with the idea of breaking free from city life and having some fun, but their experiences over there enlighten them with a new perspective on life, love, nature and human endurance.
29) 2001: A space odyssey - (English) Stanley Kubrick's film from the 1970's which is hailed as a great movie for its special effect in those times, however, this film is more abstract fiction than a science fiction, surviving on the scraps of AI, Robotics, ET and other awe-inspiring concepts thrown in. Critics are divided in their opinion, some call it a great film, while the Grand Dame of Movie criticism, the Late Pauline Kael dubbed it as a "monumentally unimaginative film."
30) Eyes Wide Shut - (English) Another of Kubrick's movies that explores sexual obsession and relationships, much like his earlier film Lolita.
31) Water - (Hindi) Deepa Mehta's film that made the headlines even before its shooting was started due to the controversies created by right-wing Hindu hardliners. This film is good, but not really great, had the potential to be better.
32) Manhattan - (English) Woody Allen's famous romantic comedy film from the 1979.
33) Godfather - (English/Italian) Mario Puzo's famous work transformed into a great movie by Francis Ford Coppola. This 1972 movie had won three Oscars.
34) One flew over the cuckoo's nest - (English) An enjoyable movie from Milos Forman that got him an Academy Award for Best Direction and a great performance by Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher.
35) Silence of the Lambs - (English) This 1991 film from Jonathan Demme swept 5 Academy Awards. It is a psychological thriller which centers around a very sharp cannibalistic serial killer.
36) The Unvanquished/Aparajito - (Bengali) Another masterpiece from Satyajit Ray's, the sequel to 'Pather Panchali'.
37) The Chess Player/Shatranj Ki Khiladi - (Hindi) Set in the backdrop of colonial India and the decadence of administration in the princely state of Oudh, this Hindi film from Satyajit Ray won Best Film award at Filmfare and was India's nomination for the Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards in 1977. Nobel Laureate Sir V.S.Naipaul described the conversation between two British generals as: "It's like a Shakespeare scene. Only three hundred words are spoken but goodness! - terrific things happen".
38) The Stranger/Agantuk - (Bengali) Widely regarded as the last masterpiece from the master artist, Satyajit Ray. This film was directed by an ailing Ray and released a year before his death. London Times described it as "Nothing, it seems, can take away the old fire. Ray's eye for detail and the old magic of his genius can't let go of The Stranger, a tour-de-force. The camera is wielded like a conductor's baton as it strikes chords deep in the mind."
39) Closely Watched Trains - (Czech/German) Jiri Menzel's 1967 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
40) 12:08 East of Bucharest - (Romanian) 2006 Camera d'Or Cannes Film Festival.
41) The Official Story - (Spanish) 1985 film from Argentina that won the Academy Awards and Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language film. It is based on the large number of disappearances that occurred during the 1970's dirty war period.
42) Fanny & Alexander - (Swedish) 1982 Academy Award winning Best Foreign Language film of Ingmar Bergman.
43) Gangs of New York - (English) Martin Scorsese's acclaimed film.
44) A clockwork Orange - (English) Director: Stanley Kubrick
45) Farewell My Concubine - (Mandarin) 1993 Palme d'Or, BAFTA, Golden Globe Award winning film.
46) The Lives of Others - (German) 2007 Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.
47) The Rules of the game/ La Règle du jeu - (French) Director: Jean Renoir
48) The Sea Inside/Mar Adentro - (Spanish) 2004 Academy Award, Golden Globe Award winning movie from Alejandro Amenabar.
49) Amadeus - (English) 1984 Academy Award winning film from Milos Forman based on the rivalry between Mozart and Salieri.
50) The Piano - (English) 1993 Academy Award and Palme d'Or winning film from New Zealand's Jane Campion.
51) Atonement - (English) 2007 film based on Ian McEwan's novel.
52) Nuovo Cinema Paradiso - (Italian) 1988 Oscar, BAFTA, Cannes prize winning movie, deservedly so.
53) The Namesake - (English, Bengali) Mira Nair's film based on Jhumpa Lahiri's novel by the same name.
54) The wind that shakes the barley - (English/Irish) Ken Loach's 2006 Palme d'Or winning movie based on the struggle of the Irish against the British in the early 1920s.
55) Fahrenheit 9/11 - (English) Michael Moore's movie attacking the 'Patriot Act' and US Government policies, winner at Cannes.
56) Bowling for Columbine - (English) Michael Moore's Oscar winning best documentary.
57) An Inconvenient Truth - (English) Al Gore's 2006 Oscar winning documentary on the looming threats of Global Warming.
58) Sicko - (English) Michael Moore's documentary on the US Health System crippled by the corporate evil.
59) Charulata/The Lonely Wife - (Bengali) Satyajit Ray's famous film based on Tagore's novella, 'The Broken Nest'.
60) Citizen Kane -(English) One of the most famous movies ever made, Orson Welles' 1941 directorial masterpiece.
61) Babel - (English/French/Arabic..) 2007 film that weaves four storylines of characters from US, Mexico, Morocco and Japan.
62) The Bridge on the River Kwai - (English) A 1957 film of international acclaim.
63) A short film on killing - (Polish) Krzysztof Kieslowski's film that exposes the brutality that society's laws carries out through capital punishment for murder. Won FIPRESCI at Cannes.
64) The Son's Room - (Italian) Nanni Moretti's 2001 Palme d'Or winning movie about a psychiatrist and his family coping with their son's loss.
65) The Last King of Scotland -(English) A movie based on Idi Amin's cruel rule in Uganda.
66) The Queen - (English) Dame Helen Mirren's Academy Award winning performance as Queen Elizabeth II in the backdrop of Lady Diana's tragic death.
67) Ordet - (Danish) A film of Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer that went on to win the Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival in 1955.
68) Breathless - (French) Jean-Luc Godard's first feature film that marveled critics with its new stylistic approach, namely jump cuts and hand-held camera techniques.
69) Missing - (English/Spanish) 1982 Palme d'Or winning movie from Greek director Costa Gavras that depicts the story of the search for a journalist by his wife and father after he went missing during the Chilean coup of 1973 in South America.
70) Three Colors: Red - (Polish/French) 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski's last film of the color trilogy with the storyline of each film drawing vision from the French revolutionary ideas (colors of the French flag) .
71) Three Colors: White- (Polish/French) 1994 Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski, Best Director award at Berlin International Film Festival.
72) Three Colors: Blue- (Polish/French) 1993 Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski, Best Film and Best Actress at Venice Film Festival.
73) Murmur of the heart/ Le souffle au coeur - (French) Louis Malle's well acclaimed coming of age film about a 15 year old boy.
74) Goodbye, children/ Au revoir les enfants -(French) Louis Malle's 1987 Oscar nominated film, winner of Venice Golden Lion award and Cesar award.
75) Cries & Whispers - (Swedish) Director: Ingmar Bergman.
76) Salo - (Italian) Pier Paolo Pasolini's controversial film of 1975, based on Marques de Sade's 120 days of sodom.
77) Decalogue - (Polish) Krzysztof Kieslowski ten part movie dealing with the interpretation of the ten commandments, often with plots that bring out the contradicting nature of human morality and conscience.
78) L'Enfant/The Child - (French) 2005 Cannes Palme d'Or winning movie from the famous Belgian directors, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
79) The marriage of Maria Braun - (German) Rainer Werner Fassbinder's first movie of the Bundesrepublik Deutschland (BRD) Trilogy.
80) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - (English) Stanley kubrick's famous cold war satire, often cited as the best political satire of the 20th century.
81) Death in Venice - (English/Italian) Luchino Visconti's movie based on Thomas Mann's novel. Winner of 25th Anniversary Award at Cannes, 1971.
82) Fat Girl - (French) Catherine Breillat's movie exploring issues of sibling rivalry and teenage sexuality. Winner at 2001 Berlin Film Festival.
83) Bullets over Broadway - (English) 1994, Director: Woody Allen.
84) Annie Hall - (English) 1977 film from Woody Allen that won him the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.
85) Play it again, Sam - (English) Director: Woody Allen.
86) 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days - (Romanian) Cristian Mungiu's 2007 Palme d'Or winning movie.
87) Eternity and a Day - (Greek) Noted film director Theo Angelopoulos' 1998 Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or winner.
88) Elephant - (English) Gus Van Sant's 2003 Palme d'Or winning movie based on Columbine High School massacre.
89) Mephisto - (German) Hungarian director, Istvan Szabo's 1981 Academy Award winning film.
90) The Counterfeiters - (German) 2008 Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award winner.
91) No Man's Land - (Bosnian, English, German, French) 2001 Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award winner.
92) Deconstructing Harry - (English) Director: Woody Allen
93) Take the money and run - (English) Director: Woody Allen
94) Manhattan Murder Mystery - (English) Director: Woody Allen
95) Religulous - (English) Bill Maher's satirical take on religion.
96) Autumn Sonata - (Swedish) A Bergman classic.
97) Persona - (Swedish) 1966 film of Ingmar Bergman, considered to be his masterpiece.
98) Gandhi - (English) 1982 film of Richard Attenborough that won the 8 Academy Awards and also the Golden Globe award.
99) Kolya - (Czech, Russian, Slovak) 1996 film of Jan Sverak which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
100) The Mission - (English) 1986 British film about the experience of Jesuit missionaries in South America around 1750. It won the Palme d'Or and was nominated for Oscar.
101) Stalker - (Russian) Director: Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979.
102) The Barbarian Invasion - (French) 2003 Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award, Canadian entry.
103) Nostalghia - (Russian) Director: Andrei Tarkovsky.
104) Uzak/Distant - (Turkish) Nuri Bilge Ceylan's movie, 2003 Grand Prix at Cannes.
105) I stand Alone - (French)
106) Man Bites Dog - (French) Belgian. Director: Remy Belvaux.
107) Climates - (Turkish) Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
108) Milk - (English) Director: Gus Van Sant. Biopic on Harvey Milk's life. Nominated for 8 oscars at the 2009 Academy Awards, including Best Director and Best Actor for Sean Penn.
109) The Return/Vozvrashcheniye - (Russian) Winner of the 2003 Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
110) Buffalo Boy/Mùa len trâu - (Vietnamese) Director: Minh Nyugen-Vo. 2006 FIPRESCI and Silver Hugo Award winner.
111) The Motorcycle Diaries - (Spanish) Biopic about the journey of Ernesto Che Guevara. Winner of Francois Chalais Prize at 2004 Cannes Film Festival.
112) Doubt - (English) Golden Globe Award winning movie with Meryl Streep and Philip Hoffman in lead roles.
113) Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring - (Korean) Director: Kim-Ki Duk.
114) New York Stories - (English) Three short movies by New York based film directors, Martin Scorsese, Francis Coppola and Woody Allen.
115) The Sacrifice/Offret - (Russian) Director Andrei Tarkovsky's final film which won the Grand Prix at Cannes Film Festival in 1986.
116) The Red Ballon - (French) Albert Lamorisse's 1956 short film that won Academy Award for best screenplay and Palme d'Or at Cannes.
117) The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie - (French) Luis Bunuel's satiric surrealist masterpiece, winner of 1972 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
118) Seven Samurai - (Japanese) 1954 film of Akira Kurosawa.
119) Solaris - (Russian) Andrei Tarkovsky's 1972 Grand Prix winning film.
120) The Mirror/ Zerkalo - (Russian) 1975 film of Andrei Tarkovsky.
121) Europa - (German, English) 1991. Director Lars Von Trier won the Best Director Award at Cannes.
122) Mon Oncle- (French) Director: Jacques Tati. 1958 Academy Award winning best Foreign Language Film. Satirical comedy about the eccentric Monsieur Hulot.
123) Man of Marble - (Polish) Director: Andrzej Wajda. 1976.
124) Man of Iron - (Polish) 1981 Palme d'Or winning movie from the acclaimed Polish director Andrzej Wajda.
125) The man without a past - (Finnish) Director Aki Kaurismaki's 2002 Grand Prix winner at the Cannes Film Festival.
126) Z - (French) Directed by the famed Greek director Costa Gavras, it is one of the best political thriller based on the real life assassination of Pacifist senator Gregoris Lambrakis. The film won the Best Foreign Language Film in 1970 on nomination from Algeria.
127) Un Chien Andalou/The Andalusian Dog - (France) One of the most famous surrealist films of all time; produced by Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel in 1929.
128) Destino - (animated) A 2003 animated film released by the Walt Disney Company which was created by Salvador Dali.
129) That Obscure Object of Desire - (French/Spanish) 1977. Luis Bunuel's last film.
130) Amarcord - (Italian) Federico Fellini's 1973 film, winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film.
131) Dancer in the dark - (English) 2000 Palme d'Or winning movie of Danish film director Lars Von Trier featuring Icelandic singer Bjork in the lead.
132) The Class/ Entre Les Murs - (French) 2008 Palme d'Or winner.
133) The Ossuary and other tales - (Czech) A collection of surrealist short films by Czech director Jan Svankmajer.
134) Waltz with Bashir - (Hebrew) Ari Forman's 2008 animated documentary on the Sabra and a Best foreign film nominee at the Academy Awards.
shatila massacre.
135) The Wrestler - (English) 2008 Golden Lion winner at the Venice Film festival.
136) Husbands and Wives - (English) A 1992 movie from director and actor Woody Allen.
137) Crimes and Misdemeanors - (English) 1989 Oscar nominated movie from Woody Allen.
138) Gomorrah - (Italian) Winner of the Grand Prix at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.
139) The Phantom of Liberty - (French) One of Luis Bunuel's surrealist masterpieces.
140) The Milky Way - (French) Another of Luis Bunuel's surrealist works.
141) Moscow, Belgium - (Dutch) A Belgian romantic comedy. Winner of Semaine de la critique at 2008 Cannes Film Festival.
142) Vicki, Cristina, Barcelona - (English, Spanish) Director: Woody Allen.
143) Bad Education - (Spanish) Director: Pedro Almodovar.
144) Talk to her - (Spanish) Director: Pedro Almodovar.
145) Through a glass darkly - (Swedish) Ingmar Bergman's first film of the 'faith trilogy' (1961).
146) Scenes from a marriage - (Swedish) Director: Ingmar Bergman.
147) The Shining - (English) Director: Stanley Kubrick.
148) Baraka - (silent) Director: Ron Fricke. A cinematographic masterpiece.
149) 12 - (Russian) Director: Nikita Mikhalkov.
150) The 400 Blows/ Les Quatre Cents Coups - (French) Director: Francios Truffaut.
151) Hunger - (English/Irish) 2008 film from Steve McQueen.
152) Tokyo Sonata - (Japanese) 2008 movie. Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
153) Good bye, Lenin! - (German) Director: Wolfgang Becker. 2004.
154) Lemon Tree - (Hebrew) 2008 film from Eran Riklis.
155) Ivan's Childhood - (Russian) Director: Andrei Tarkovsky.
156) Departures - (Japanese) Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film in 2008.
157) Stardust Memories - (English) Director: Woody Allen. 1980.
158) Whatever Works - (English) Director: Woody Allen. 2009.
159) Viridiana - (Spanish) Director: Luis Bunuel, winner of 1961 Palme d'Or.
160) Lorna's Silence - (Belgian) Directors: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 2009 Cannes Best Screenplay.
161) The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum - (German) Based on a novel by Heinrich Boll. Directed by Volker Schlondorff and Margarethe Von Trotta.
162) Antonie and Colette - (French) Francois Truffaut's second Antoine Doinel movie.
163) The Double Life of Veronique - (Polish/French) Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
164) Katyn - (Polish) Director: Andrzej Wajda.
165) Burnt by the sun - (Russian) Director: Nikita Mikhalkov. Winner of 1994 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film and Cannes Grand Jury Prize.
166) Colonel Redl - (Hungarian/German) Director: Istcan Szabo. 1985 Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival.
167) Babette's Feast - (Danish) 1987 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film.
168) The Great Dictator - (English) 1940 movie of Charles Chaplin.
169) Before the Rain - (Macedonian, Albanian) Director: Milko Mancevski. 1994 Golden Lion Winner at the Venice Film Festival.
170) The Scent of Green Papaya - (Vietnamese) 1993 Camera d'Or winner at the Cannes Film Festival.
171) Blind Chance - (Polish) Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski.
172) Dangerous Moves - (French) Swiss movie by director Richard Dembo, winner of 1985 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
173) Amelie - (French) Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Year 2001.
174) Ashes & Diamonds - (Polish) Director Andrzej Wajda's last film of the War trilogy.
175) L'Avventure - (Italian) Michelangelo Antonioni's film. 1960 Palme d'Or winner at Cannes Film Festival.
176) The Firemen's Ball - (Czech) 1968 Czech New Wave movie from director Milos Forman.
177) Loves of a Blonde - (Czech) 1965 Czech New Wave movie from director Milos Forman.
178) The Cranes are Flying - (Russian) 1958 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or winning film from director Mikhail Kalatozov.
179) The Beaches of Agnes - (French) 2009 Cesar Award winning lyrical and profound autobiographical documentary from the famed French New Wave director, Agnes Varda.
180) Rashomon - (Japanese) Director Akira Kurosawa's 1951 Golden Lion winner at the Venice Film Festival and Academy Award winning movie.
181) Stolen Kisses - (French) Director: Francios Truffaut. Third movie of the Antoine Doinel series.
182) Bed and Board - (French) Director: Francios Truffaut. Fourth movie of the Antoine Doinel series.
183) When father was away on business - (Serbo-Croat) 1985 Yugoslavian film and winner of Palme d'Or at Cannes.
184) Love on the run- (French) Director: Francios Truffaut. Final movie of the Antoine Doinel series.
185) Der Baader Meinhof Komplex- (German) Director Uli Edel's 2008 Academy Award nominated film.
186) Capitalism: A Love Story - (English) Director: Michael Moore.
187) Revanche - (German) Austrian Film, winner of the Best European Film at the Berlin Film Festival 2008.
188) La Strada - (Italian) Federico Fellini's 1956 Academy Award Winning Best Foreign Language Film.
189) Diary for my children - (Hungarian) Director: Marta Meszaros. The film won the Grand Prix Special du Jury at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.
190) Diamonds of the Night - (Czech) 1964 film by Jan Nemec.
191) The Party & the Guests - (Czech) 1966 film by Director Jan Nemec. A masterpiece of the Czech New Wave.
192) Invasion - (Spanish) Argentine Director Hugo Santiago's 1969 film, cowritten with Adolfo Casares and Jorge Luis Borges.
193) Au Hasard Balthazar - (French) Director Robert Bresson's 1966 film.
194) Black God, White Devil - (Protuguese) Brazilian director Gluaber Rocha's 1964 masterpiece of the Cinema Novo movement.
195) Broken Embraces - (Spanish) A 2009 movie of Pedro Almodovar.
196) The Battle of Algiers - (French, Arabic) 1966 Winner of the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival.
197) The Stranger - (French) Luchino Visconti's adaptation of Albert Camus' novel.
198) Journey on the Plain - (Hungarian) Bela Tarr, 1995.
199) Entranced Earth - (Portuguese) Brazilian director Gluaber Rocha's 1967 FIPRESCI Award Winner.
200) The White Ribbon - (German) 2009 Palme d'Or winner. Director: Michael Haneke.
201) The Case is Closed - (Bengali) 1983 Cannes Jury Award winner. Director: Mrinal Sen.
202) Karhozat - (Hungarian) Director: Bela Tarr. 1988.
203) Police, Adjective - (Romanian) 2009 Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard Award winning film from director Corneliu Porumboiu.
204) Lacombo, Lucien - (French) 1974 film, director: Louis Malle.
205) Forbidden Games - (French) 1952 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and Golden Lion winner at the Venice Film Festival. Director: Rene Clement.
206) Band of Outsiders - (French) 1964. Director: Jean-Luc Goddard.
207) Life is Beautiful - (Italian) 1998 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and Grand Prize of the Jury at Cannes.
208) The Shop on Main Street - (Czech) 1965 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, directors: Jan Kadar, Elmar Klos.
209) Death of a Cyclist - (Spanish) Director Javier Bardem's film, 1955 Cannes Film Festival FIPRESCI award winning movie.
210) Pickpocket - (French) Director: Robert Bresson's 1959 film, inspired by Dostoevsky's 'Crime & Punishment'.
211) Mouchette - (French) Director: Robert Bresson. 1967.
212) The Passion of Anna - (Swedish) Director: Ingmar Bergman. 1969.
213) The Exterminating Angel - (Spanish) Director: Luis Bunuel. 1962 FIPRESCI Award winner at the Cannes Film Festival.
214) Simon of the Desert - (Spanish) Director: Luis Bunuel. Winner of the 1965 Special Jury Prize, Venice Film Festival.
215) Diary of a Chambermaid - (French) Director: Luis Bunuel. 1964.
216) Le Bonheur - (French) Director Agnes Varda's 1965 Jury Grand Prix winning film at the Berlin Film Festival.
217) My Dinner with Andre - (English) Director Louis Malle, Actors: Wally Shawn, and Andre Gregory. 1981.
218) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - (Silent) 1920. This film is said to be the "first example in cinema of German Expressionism, a visual style in which not only the characters but the world itself is out of joint" (Ebert).
219) M - (German) Director: Fritz Lang. 1931.
220) Wings - (Russian) An amazing movie of the director Larisa Shepitko. 1966.
221) The Ascent - (Russian) Director: Larisa Shepitko. Winner of the 1977 Golden Bear Award and FIPRESCI Awards at the Berlin Film Festival.
222) Love Affair, or The Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator - (Serbo-Croat) 1967 classic of director Dusan Makavejev.
223) WR: The Mysteries of Organism - (Serbo-Croat) Dusan Makavejev's 1971 film. Winner of the Luis Bunuel Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
224) Les Rendez-vous d'Anna - (French) Belgian film director Chantal Akerman's 1978 film.
225) La boulangère de Monceau - (French) Director Eric Rohmer's first film of the six moral tales series.
226) The Godfather, Part II - (English, Italian) Director: Francis Ford Coppola. 1974.
227) Daisies - (Czech) Director Vera Chytilova's 1966 Czech New Wave film.
228) La Collectionneuse - (French) Eric Rohmer's 1967 film of the six moral tales series; winner of the Silver Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival.
229) Shutter Island - (English) Director: Martin Scorsese. 2010.
230) The Ghost Writer - (English) Silver Bear winner at the Berlin Film Festival. Director: Roman Polanski.
231) The Downfall - (German) Hitler and the End of the Third Reich. 2004.
232) A Prophet - (French) 2009 Grand Prix winner at Cannes Film Festival.
233) The secret in their eyes - (Spanish) Argentine movie that won the 2009 Best Foreign Language film at the 82nd Academy Awards.
234) Looking for Eric - (English) Director: Ken Loach.
235) Small Time Thieves - (English) Director: Woody Allen.
236) Winter's Bone - (English) Winner of Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
237) Antonio Gaudi - Japanese and Spanish documentary, director: Hiresho Teshigahara, 1984.
238) The Father of My Children - (French) Winner of the Jury Special Prize in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
239) L'affaire Farewell - (French/Russian) 2009 film.
240) Landscape in the Mist - (Greek) Winner of Best European Film 1989, and the Venice Film Festival Silver Lion 1988, Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos.
241) Remains of the Day - (English) 1993 film from Merchant-Ivory Production based on Kazuo Ishiguro's Booker Prize winning novel.
242) Howard's End - (English) 1992 film from Merchant-Ivory Production based on E. M. Froster's novel.
243) A Room with a View - (English) 1985 film from Merchant-Ivory Production based on E. M. Froster's novel.
242) Maurice - (English) 1987 film from Merchant-Ivory Production based on E. M. Froster's novel.
245) Animal Kingdom - (English) A 2010 Australian crime thriller by David Michod.
246) Never Let Me Go - (English) A 2010 film based on Kazuo Ishiguro's novel.
247) Last Train Home - (Mandarin Chinese) Winner of the Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Director: Lixia Fan.
248) No Country for Old Men - (English) Directors: Coen Brothers. Winner of the best movie at the Academy Awards.
249) Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives- (Thai) Director:Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Winner of Palme d'Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.
250) Lights in the Dusk - (Finnish) Director Aki Kaurismaki's third movie of the famous Finland trilogy.
251) Drifting Clouds - (Finnish) Director Aki Kaurismaki's first movie of the famous Finland trilogy.
252) The Girl who Played with Fire - (Swedish) The second of author Stieg Larsson's 'The Millennium trilogy'.
253) The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - (Swedish) The last of Stieg Larsson's 'The Millennium trilogy'.
254) Rosetta - (French) Belgian film by the Dardenne brothers, winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.
255) O Horten - (Norwegian) Director: Bent Hammer. 2007.
256) Kitchen Stories - (Norwegian) Director: Bent Hammer. 2003.
257) The Postmaster - (Bengali) Tagore's story made into film by Satyajit Ray.
258) You will meet a tall, dark stranger - (English) Director: Woody Allen. 2010.
259) Another Year - (English) Director: Mike leigh. 2010.
2) Barton Fink- (English) Another surrealist film, winner of 1991 Palme d'Or at Cannes.
3) 8 1/2 - (Italian) Fellini's classic movie.
4) Todo sobre mi madre /All about my mother- (Spanish) Most famous film of Spanish director, Pedro Almodovar.
5) Kanal - (Polish) A film about the Warsaw Uprising by Andrez Wajda.
6) The Pianist - (English) Roman Polanski's film based on the autobiography of holocaust victim Wladyslaw Szpilman.
7) Vivre sa vie / My Life to live - (French) Film of Jean-Luc Goddard from the '60s.
8) Cleo- from 5 to 7 -(French) Agnes Varda's direction.
9) Pather Panchali/ Song of the little road - (Bengali) Satyajit Ray's most famous film.
10) The Seventh Seal - (Swedish) A knight invites Death for a game of chess, Ingmar Bergman's well acclaimed work.
11) Wild Strawberries - (Swedish) Another moving work of Bergman.
12) Taste of Cherry - (Persian) Abbas Kiarostami's minimalist style approach about a man who wants to find a person to bury him after he commit suicides.
13) A time for drunken horses - (Kurdish/Persian) Bahman Ghobadi's deeply moving movie. won Camera d'Or at Cannes in 2000.
14) Umberto D - (Italian) Vittorio De Sica's movie.
15) Two letters from Iwo-Jima - (Japanese/English) Director: Clint Eastwood.
16) Apocalypto - (Yucatec Maya) A very nice movie set in the backdrop of a declining Mayan civilization.
17) Pan's labyrinth - (Spanish) Guillarmo Del Toro's beautiful movie, steeped in fantasy and magical-realism.
18) Paradise Now - (Arabic) A contemporary movie that takes a look into terrorism, drawing up elements from Palestinian issue.
19) Bicycle Theives/Ladri di biciclette - (Italian) Vittorio De Sica's well acclaimed Italian neorealist movie.
20) L'Age d'Or - (French) Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali's surrealist movie from 1930s.
21) Taxi Driver - (English) Martin Scorsese's famous 1976 film.
22) Dreams - (Japanese) Akira Kurosawa's film based on eight of his dreams.
23) The Piano Teacher - (French) Michael Haneke's film based on the Nobel Laureate Elfriede Jelinek novel. The movie won several awards at the 2001 Cannes Film festival.
24) 71 fragments of a chronology of chance - (German/Romanian) Another of Michael Haneke's movie that interweaves several parallel strands of storyline into a climactic ending scene.
25) Another Woman - (English) A Woody Allen's film about a 50 year old philosophy professor who looks back at her past and her relationship with her family members, and takes the audience on a psychological journey.
26) Bananas - (English) An absurd comedy movie from Woody Allen.
27) Schindler's List - (English) Steven Spielberg's movie based on the holocaust and German businessman Oskar Schindler's role in saving the life of many. It won many academy awards.
28) Days and nights in the forest - (Bengali) Satyajit Ray's movie about four friends from the city of Calcutta who visit a tribal part of rural Bengal with the idea of breaking free from city life and having some fun, but their experiences over there enlighten them with a new perspective on life, love, nature and human endurance.
29) 2001: A space odyssey - (English) Stanley Kubrick's film from the 1970's which is hailed as a great movie for its special effect in those times, however, this film is more abstract fiction than a science fiction, surviving on the scraps of AI, Robotics, ET and other awe-inspiring concepts thrown in. Critics are divided in their opinion, some call it a great film, while the Grand Dame of Movie criticism, the Late Pauline Kael dubbed it as a "monumentally unimaginative film."
30) Eyes Wide Shut - (English) Another of Kubrick's movies that explores sexual obsession and relationships, much like his earlier film Lolita.
31) Water - (Hindi) Deepa Mehta's film that made the headlines even before its shooting was started due to the controversies created by right-wing Hindu hardliners. This film is good, but not really great, had the potential to be better.
32) Manhattan - (English) Woody Allen's famous romantic comedy film from the 1979.
33) Godfather - (English/Italian) Mario Puzo's famous work transformed into a great movie by Francis Ford Coppola. This 1972 movie had won three Oscars.
34) One flew over the cuckoo's nest - (English) An enjoyable movie from Milos Forman that got him an Academy Award for Best Direction and a great performance by Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher.
35) Silence of the Lambs - (English) This 1991 film from Jonathan Demme swept 5 Academy Awards. It is a psychological thriller which centers around a very sharp cannibalistic serial killer.
36) The Unvanquished/Aparajito - (Bengali) Another masterpiece from Satyajit Ray's, the sequel to 'Pather Panchali'.
37) The Chess Player/Shatranj Ki Khiladi - (Hindi) Set in the backdrop of colonial India and the decadence of administration in the princely state of Oudh, this Hindi film from Satyajit Ray won Best Film award at Filmfare and was India's nomination for the Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards in 1977. Nobel Laureate Sir V.S.Naipaul described the conversation between two British generals as: "It's like a Shakespeare scene. Only three hundred words are spoken but goodness! - terrific things happen".
38) The Stranger/Agantuk - (Bengali) Widely regarded as the last masterpiece from the master artist, Satyajit Ray. This film was directed by an ailing Ray and released a year before his death. London Times described it as "Nothing, it seems, can take away the old fire. Ray's eye for detail and the old magic of his genius can't let go of The Stranger, a tour-de-force. The camera is wielded like a conductor's baton as it strikes chords deep in the mind."
39) Closely Watched Trains - (Czech/German) Jiri Menzel's 1967 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
40) 12:08 East of Bucharest - (Romanian) 2006 Camera d'Or Cannes Film Festival.
41) The Official Story - (Spanish) 1985 film from Argentina that won the Academy Awards and Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language film. It is based on the large number of disappearances that occurred during the 1970's dirty war period.
42) Fanny & Alexander - (Swedish) 1982 Academy Award winning Best Foreign Language film of Ingmar Bergman.
43) Gangs of New York - (English) Martin Scorsese's acclaimed film.
44) A clockwork Orange - (English) Director: Stanley Kubrick
45) Farewell My Concubine - (Mandarin) 1993 Palme d'Or, BAFTA, Golden Globe Award winning film.
46) The Lives of Others - (German) 2007 Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.
47) The Rules of the game/ La Règle du jeu - (French) Director: Jean Renoir
48) The Sea Inside/Mar Adentro - (Spanish) 2004 Academy Award, Golden Globe Award winning movie from Alejandro Amenabar.
49) Amadeus - (English) 1984 Academy Award winning film from Milos Forman based on the rivalry between Mozart and Salieri.
50) The Piano - (English) 1993 Academy Award and Palme d'Or winning film from New Zealand's Jane Campion.
51) Atonement - (English) 2007 film based on Ian McEwan's novel.
52) Nuovo Cinema Paradiso - (Italian) 1988 Oscar, BAFTA, Cannes prize winning movie, deservedly so.
53) The Namesake - (English, Bengali) Mira Nair's film based on Jhumpa Lahiri's novel by the same name.
54) The wind that shakes the barley - (English/Irish) Ken Loach's 2006 Palme d'Or winning movie based on the struggle of the Irish against the British in the early 1920s.
55) Fahrenheit 9/11 - (English) Michael Moore's movie attacking the 'Patriot Act' and US Government policies, winner at Cannes.
56) Bowling for Columbine - (English) Michael Moore's Oscar winning best documentary.
57) An Inconvenient Truth - (English) Al Gore's 2006 Oscar winning documentary on the looming threats of Global Warming.
58) Sicko - (English) Michael Moore's documentary on the US Health System crippled by the corporate evil.
59) Charulata/The Lonely Wife - (Bengali) Satyajit Ray's famous film based on Tagore's novella, 'The Broken Nest'.
60) Citizen Kane -(English) One of the most famous movies ever made, Orson Welles' 1941 directorial masterpiece.
61) Babel - (English/French/Arabic..) 2007 film that weaves four storylines of characters from US, Mexico, Morocco and Japan.
62) The Bridge on the River Kwai - (English) A 1957 film of international acclaim.
63) A short film on killing - (Polish) Krzysztof Kieslowski's film that exposes the brutality that society's laws carries out through capital punishment for murder. Won FIPRESCI at Cannes.
64) The Son's Room - (Italian) Nanni Moretti's 2001 Palme d'Or winning movie about a psychiatrist and his family coping with their son's loss.
65) The Last King of Scotland -(English) A movie based on Idi Amin's cruel rule in Uganda.
66) The Queen - (English) Dame Helen Mirren's Academy Award winning performance as Queen Elizabeth II in the backdrop of Lady Diana's tragic death.
67) Ordet - (Danish) A film of Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer that went on to win the Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival in 1955.
68) Breathless - (French) Jean-Luc Godard's first feature film that marveled critics with its new stylistic approach, namely jump cuts and hand-held camera techniques.
69) Missing - (English/Spanish) 1982 Palme d'Or winning movie from Greek director Costa Gavras that depicts the story of the search for a journalist by his wife and father after he went missing during the Chilean coup of 1973 in South America.
70) Three Colors: Red - (Polish/French) 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski's last film of the color trilogy with the storyline of each film drawing vision from the French revolutionary ideas (colors of the French flag) .
71) Three Colors: White- (Polish/French) 1994 Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski, Best Director award at Berlin International Film Festival.
72) Three Colors: Blue- (Polish/French) 1993 Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski, Best Film and Best Actress at Venice Film Festival.
73) Murmur of the heart/ Le souffle au coeur - (French) Louis Malle's well acclaimed coming of age film about a 15 year old boy.
74) Goodbye, children/ Au revoir les enfants -(French) Louis Malle's 1987 Oscar nominated film, winner of Venice Golden Lion award and Cesar award.
75) Cries & Whispers - (Swedish) Director: Ingmar Bergman.
76) Salo - (Italian) Pier Paolo Pasolini's controversial film of 1975, based on Marques de Sade's 120 days of sodom.
77) Decalogue - (Polish) Krzysztof Kieslowski ten part movie dealing with the interpretation of the ten commandments, often with plots that bring out the contradicting nature of human morality and conscience.
78) L'Enfant/The Child - (French) 2005 Cannes Palme d'Or winning movie from the famous Belgian directors, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
79) The marriage of Maria Braun - (German) Rainer Werner Fassbinder's first movie of the Bundesrepublik Deutschland (BRD) Trilogy.
80) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - (English) Stanley kubrick's famous cold war satire, often cited as the best political satire of the 20th century.
81) Death in Venice - (English/Italian) Luchino Visconti's movie based on Thomas Mann's novel. Winner of 25th Anniversary Award at Cannes, 1971.
82) Fat Girl - (French) Catherine Breillat's movie exploring issues of sibling rivalry and teenage sexuality. Winner at 2001 Berlin Film Festival.
83) Bullets over Broadway - (English) 1994, Director: Woody Allen.
84) Annie Hall - (English) 1977 film from Woody Allen that won him the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.
85) Play it again, Sam - (English) Director: Woody Allen.
86) 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days - (Romanian) Cristian Mungiu's 2007 Palme d'Or winning movie.
87) Eternity and a Day - (Greek) Noted film director Theo Angelopoulos' 1998 Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or winner.
88) Elephant - (English) Gus Van Sant's 2003 Palme d'Or winning movie based on Columbine High School massacre.
89) Mephisto - (German) Hungarian director, Istvan Szabo's 1981 Academy Award winning film.
90) The Counterfeiters - (German) 2008 Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award winner.
91) No Man's Land - (Bosnian, English, German, French) 2001 Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award winner.
92) Deconstructing Harry - (English) Director: Woody Allen
93) Take the money and run - (English) Director: Woody Allen
94) Manhattan Murder Mystery - (English) Director: Woody Allen
95) Religulous - (English) Bill Maher's satirical take on religion.
96) Autumn Sonata - (Swedish) A Bergman classic.
97) Persona - (Swedish) 1966 film of Ingmar Bergman, considered to be his masterpiece.
98) Gandhi - (English) 1982 film of Richard Attenborough that won the 8 Academy Awards and also the Golden Globe award.
99) Kolya - (Czech, Russian, Slovak) 1996 film of Jan Sverak which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
100) The Mission - (English) 1986 British film about the experience of Jesuit missionaries in South America around 1750. It won the Palme d'Or and was nominated for Oscar.
101) Stalker - (Russian) Director: Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979.
102) The Barbarian Invasion - (French) 2003 Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award, Canadian entry.
103) Nostalghia - (Russian) Director: Andrei Tarkovsky.
104) Uzak/Distant - (Turkish) Nuri Bilge Ceylan's movie, 2003 Grand Prix at Cannes.
105) I stand Alone - (French)
106) Man Bites Dog - (French) Belgian. Director: Remy Belvaux.
107) Climates - (Turkish) Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
108) Milk - (English) Director: Gus Van Sant. Biopic on Harvey Milk's life. Nominated for 8 oscars at the 2009 Academy Awards, including Best Director and Best Actor for Sean Penn.
109) The Return/Vozvrashcheniye - (Russian) Winner of the 2003 Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
110) Buffalo Boy/Mùa len trâu - (Vietnamese) Director: Minh Nyugen-Vo. 2006 FIPRESCI and Silver Hugo Award winner.
111) The Motorcycle Diaries - (Spanish) Biopic about the journey of Ernesto Che Guevara. Winner of Francois Chalais Prize at 2004 Cannes Film Festival.
112) Doubt - (English) Golden Globe Award winning movie with Meryl Streep and Philip Hoffman in lead roles.
113) Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring - (Korean) Director: Kim-Ki Duk.
114) New York Stories - (English) Three short movies by New York based film directors, Martin Scorsese, Francis Coppola and Woody Allen.
115) The Sacrifice/Offret - (Russian) Director Andrei Tarkovsky's final film which won the Grand Prix at Cannes Film Festival in 1986.
116) The Red Ballon - (French) Albert Lamorisse's 1956 short film that won Academy Award for best screenplay and Palme d'Or at Cannes.
117) The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie - (French) Luis Bunuel's satiric surrealist masterpiece, winner of 1972 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
118) Seven Samurai - (Japanese) 1954 film of Akira Kurosawa.
119) Solaris - (Russian) Andrei Tarkovsky's 1972 Grand Prix winning film.
120) The Mirror/ Zerkalo - (Russian) 1975 film of Andrei Tarkovsky.
121) Europa - (German, English) 1991. Director Lars Von Trier won the Best Director Award at Cannes.
122) Mon Oncle- (French) Director: Jacques Tati. 1958 Academy Award winning best Foreign Language Film. Satirical comedy about the eccentric Monsieur Hulot.
123) Man of Marble - (Polish) Director: Andrzej Wajda. 1976.
124) Man of Iron - (Polish) 1981 Palme d'Or winning movie from the acclaimed Polish director Andrzej Wajda.
125) The man without a past - (Finnish) Director Aki Kaurismaki's 2002 Grand Prix winner at the Cannes Film Festival.
126) Z - (French) Directed by the famed Greek director Costa Gavras, it is one of the best political thriller based on the real life assassination of Pacifist senator Gregoris Lambrakis. The film won the Best Foreign Language Film in 1970 on nomination from Algeria.
127) Un Chien Andalou/The Andalusian Dog - (France) One of the most famous surrealist films of all time; produced by Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel in 1929.
128) Destino - (animated) A 2003 animated film released by the Walt Disney Company which was created by Salvador Dali.
129) That Obscure Object of Desire - (French/Spanish) 1977. Luis Bunuel's last film.
130) Amarcord - (Italian) Federico Fellini's 1973 film, winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film.
131) Dancer in the dark - (English) 2000 Palme d'Or winning movie of Danish film director Lars Von Trier featuring Icelandic singer Bjork in the lead.
132) The Class/ Entre Les Murs - (French) 2008 Palme d'Or winner.
133) The Ossuary and other tales - (Czech) A collection of surrealist short films by Czech director Jan Svankmajer.
134) Waltz with Bashir - (Hebrew) Ari Forman's 2008 animated documentary on the Sabra and a Best foreign film nominee at the Academy Awards.
shatila massacre.
135) The Wrestler - (English) 2008 Golden Lion winner at the Venice Film festival.
136) Husbands and Wives - (English) A 1992 movie from director and actor Woody Allen.
137) Crimes and Misdemeanors - (English) 1989 Oscar nominated movie from Woody Allen.
138) Gomorrah - (Italian) Winner of the Grand Prix at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.
139) The Phantom of Liberty - (French) One of Luis Bunuel's surrealist masterpieces.
140) The Milky Way - (French) Another of Luis Bunuel's surrealist works.
141) Moscow, Belgium - (Dutch) A Belgian romantic comedy. Winner of Semaine de la critique at 2008 Cannes Film Festival.
142) Vicki, Cristina, Barcelona - (English, Spanish) Director: Woody Allen.
143) Bad Education - (Spanish) Director: Pedro Almodovar.
144) Talk to her - (Spanish) Director: Pedro Almodovar.
145) Through a glass darkly - (Swedish) Ingmar Bergman's first film of the 'faith trilogy' (1961).
146) Scenes from a marriage - (Swedish) Director: Ingmar Bergman.
147) The Shining - (English) Director: Stanley Kubrick.
148) Baraka - (silent) Director: Ron Fricke. A cinematographic masterpiece.
149) 12 - (Russian) Director: Nikita Mikhalkov.
150) The 400 Blows/ Les Quatre Cents Coups - (French) Director: Francios Truffaut.
151) Hunger - (English/Irish) 2008 film from Steve McQueen.
152) Tokyo Sonata - (Japanese) 2008 movie. Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
153) Good bye, Lenin! - (German) Director: Wolfgang Becker. 2004.
154) Lemon Tree - (Hebrew) 2008 film from Eran Riklis.
155) Ivan's Childhood - (Russian) Director: Andrei Tarkovsky.
156) Departures - (Japanese) Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film in 2008.
157) Stardust Memories - (English) Director: Woody Allen. 1980.
158) Whatever Works - (English) Director: Woody Allen. 2009.
159) Viridiana - (Spanish) Director: Luis Bunuel, winner of 1961 Palme d'Or.
160) Lorna's Silence - (Belgian) Directors: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 2009 Cannes Best Screenplay.
161) The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum - (German) Based on a novel by Heinrich Boll. Directed by Volker Schlondorff and Margarethe Von Trotta.
162) Antonie and Colette - (French) Francois Truffaut's second Antoine Doinel movie.
163) The Double Life of Veronique - (Polish/French) Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
164) Katyn - (Polish) Director: Andrzej Wajda.
165) Burnt by the sun - (Russian) Director: Nikita Mikhalkov. Winner of 1994 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film and Cannes Grand Jury Prize.
166) Colonel Redl - (Hungarian/German) Director: Istcan Szabo. 1985 Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival.
167) Babette's Feast - (Danish) 1987 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film.
168) The Great Dictator - (English) 1940 movie of Charles Chaplin.
169) Before the Rain - (Macedonian, Albanian) Director: Milko Mancevski. 1994 Golden Lion Winner at the Venice Film Festival.
170) The Scent of Green Papaya - (Vietnamese) 1993 Camera d'Or winner at the Cannes Film Festival.
171) Blind Chance - (Polish) Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski.
172) Dangerous Moves - (French) Swiss movie by director Richard Dembo, winner of 1985 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
173) Amelie - (French) Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Year 2001.
174) Ashes & Diamonds - (Polish) Director Andrzej Wajda's last film of the War trilogy.
175) L'Avventure - (Italian) Michelangelo Antonioni's film. 1960 Palme d'Or winner at Cannes Film Festival.
176) The Firemen's Ball - (Czech) 1968 Czech New Wave movie from director Milos Forman.
177) Loves of a Blonde - (Czech) 1965 Czech New Wave movie from director Milos Forman.
178) The Cranes are Flying - (Russian) 1958 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or winning film from director Mikhail Kalatozov.
179) The Beaches of Agnes - (French) 2009 Cesar Award winning lyrical and profound autobiographical documentary from the famed French New Wave director, Agnes Varda.
180) Rashomon - (Japanese) Director Akira Kurosawa's 1951 Golden Lion winner at the Venice Film Festival and Academy Award winning movie.
181) Stolen Kisses - (French) Director: Francios Truffaut. Third movie of the Antoine Doinel series.
182) Bed and Board - (French) Director: Francios Truffaut. Fourth movie of the Antoine Doinel series.
183) When father was away on business - (Serbo-Croat) 1985 Yugoslavian film and winner of Palme d'Or at Cannes.
184) Love on the run- (French) Director: Francios Truffaut. Final movie of the Antoine Doinel series.
185) Der Baader Meinhof Komplex- (German) Director Uli Edel's 2008 Academy Award nominated film.
186) Capitalism: A Love Story - (English) Director: Michael Moore.
187) Revanche - (German) Austrian Film, winner of the Best European Film at the Berlin Film Festival 2008.
188) La Strada - (Italian) Federico Fellini's 1956 Academy Award Winning Best Foreign Language Film.
189) Diary for my children - (Hungarian) Director: Marta Meszaros. The film won the Grand Prix Special du Jury at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.
190) Diamonds of the Night - (Czech) 1964 film by Jan Nemec.
191) The Party & the Guests - (Czech) 1966 film by Director Jan Nemec. A masterpiece of the Czech New Wave.
192) Invasion - (Spanish) Argentine Director Hugo Santiago's 1969 film, cowritten with Adolfo Casares and Jorge Luis Borges.
193) Au Hasard Balthazar - (French) Director Robert Bresson's 1966 film.
194) Black God, White Devil - (Protuguese) Brazilian director Gluaber Rocha's 1964 masterpiece of the Cinema Novo movement.
195) Broken Embraces - (Spanish) A 2009 movie of Pedro Almodovar.
196) The Battle of Algiers - (French, Arabic) 1966 Winner of the Grand Prize at the Venice Film Festival.
197) The Stranger - (French) Luchino Visconti's adaptation of Albert Camus' novel.
198) Journey on the Plain - (Hungarian) Bela Tarr, 1995.
199) Entranced Earth - (Portuguese) Brazilian director Gluaber Rocha's 1967 FIPRESCI Award Winner.
200) The White Ribbon - (German) 2009 Palme d'Or winner. Director: Michael Haneke.
201) The Case is Closed - (Bengali) 1983 Cannes Jury Award winner. Director: Mrinal Sen.
202) Karhozat - (Hungarian) Director: Bela Tarr. 1988.
203) Police, Adjective - (Romanian) 2009 Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard Award winning film from director Corneliu Porumboiu.
204) Lacombo, Lucien - (French) 1974 film, director: Louis Malle.
205) Forbidden Games - (French) 1952 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and Golden Lion winner at the Venice Film Festival. Director: Rene Clement.
206) Band of Outsiders - (French) 1964. Director: Jean-Luc Goddard.
207) Life is Beautiful - (Italian) 1998 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and Grand Prize of the Jury at Cannes.
208) The Shop on Main Street - (Czech) 1965 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, directors: Jan Kadar, Elmar Klos.
209) Death of a Cyclist - (Spanish) Director Javier Bardem's film, 1955 Cannes Film Festival FIPRESCI award winning movie.
210) Pickpocket - (French) Director: Robert Bresson's 1959 film, inspired by Dostoevsky's 'Crime & Punishment'.
211) Mouchette - (French) Director: Robert Bresson. 1967.
212) The Passion of Anna - (Swedish) Director: Ingmar Bergman. 1969.
213) The Exterminating Angel - (Spanish) Director: Luis Bunuel. 1962 FIPRESCI Award winner at the Cannes Film Festival.
214) Simon of the Desert - (Spanish) Director: Luis Bunuel. Winner of the 1965 Special Jury Prize, Venice Film Festival.
215) Diary of a Chambermaid - (French) Director: Luis Bunuel. 1964.
216) Le Bonheur - (French) Director Agnes Varda's 1965 Jury Grand Prix winning film at the Berlin Film Festival.
217) My Dinner with Andre - (English) Director Louis Malle, Actors: Wally Shawn, and Andre Gregory. 1981.
218) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari - (Silent) 1920. This film is said to be the "first example in cinema of German Expressionism, a visual style in which not only the characters but the world itself is out of joint" (Ebert).
219) M - (German) Director: Fritz Lang. 1931.
220) Wings - (Russian) An amazing movie of the director Larisa Shepitko. 1966.
221) The Ascent - (Russian) Director: Larisa Shepitko. Winner of the 1977 Golden Bear Award and FIPRESCI Awards at the Berlin Film Festival.
222) Love Affair, or The Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator - (Serbo-Croat) 1967 classic of director Dusan Makavejev.
223) WR: The Mysteries of Organism - (Serbo-Croat) Dusan Makavejev's 1971 film. Winner of the Luis Bunuel Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
224) Les Rendez-vous d'Anna - (French) Belgian film director Chantal Akerman's 1978 film.
225) La boulangère de Monceau - (French) Director Eric Rohmer's first film of the six moral tales series.
226) The Godfather, Part II - (English, Italian) Director: Francis Ford Coppola. 1974.
227) Daisies - (Czech) Director Vera Chytilova's 1966 Czech New Wave film.
228) La Collectionneuse - (French) Eric Rohmer's 1967 film of the six moral tales series; winner of the Silver Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival.
229) Shutter Island - (English) Director: Martin Scorsese. 2010.
230) The Ghost Writer - (English) Silver Bear winner at the Berlin Film Festival. Director: Roman Polanski.
231) The Downfall - (German) Hitler and the End of the Third Reich. 2004.
232) A Prophet - (French) 2009 Grand Prix winner at Cannes Film Festival.
233) The secret in their eyes - (Spanish) Argentine movie that won the 2009 Best Foreign Language film at the 82nd Academy Awards.
234) Looking for Eric - (English) Director: Ken Loach.
235) Small Time Thieves - (English) Director: Woody Allen.
236) Winter's Bone - (English) Winner of Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
237) Antonio Gaudi - Japanese and Spanish documentary, director: Hiresho Teshigahara, 1984.
238) The Father of My Children - (French) Winner of the Jury Special Prize in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
239) L'affaire Farewell - (French/Russian) 2009 film.
240) Landscape in the Mist - (Greek) Winner of Best European Film 1989, and the Venice Film Festival Silver Lion 1988, Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos.
241) Remains of the Day - (English) 1993 film from Merchant-Ivory Production based on Kazuo Ishiguro's Booker Prize winning novel.
242) Howard's End - (English) 1992 film from Merchant-Ivory Production based on E. M. Froster's novel.
243) A Room with a View - (English) 1985 film from Merchant-Ivory Production based on E. M. Froster's novel.
242) Maurice - (English) 1987 film from Merchant-Ivory Production based on E. M. Froster's novel.
245) Animal Kingdom - (English) A 2010 Australian crime thriller by David Michod.
246) Never Let Me Go - (English) A 2010 film based on Kazuo Ishiguro's novel.
247) Last Train Home - (Mandarin Chinese) Winner of the Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Director: Lixia Fan.
248) No Country for Old Men - (English) Directors: Coen Brothers. Winner of the best movie at the Academy Awards.
249) Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives- (Thai) Director:Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Winner of Palme d'Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.
250) Lights in the Dusk - (Finnish) Director Aki Kaurismaki's third movie of the famous Finland trilogy.
251) Drifting Clouds - (Finnish) Director Aki Kaurismaki's first movie of the famous Finland trilogy.
252) The Girl who Played with Fire - (Swedish) The second of author Stieg Larsson's 'The Millennium trilogy'.
253) The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - (Swedish) The last of Stieg Larsson's 'The Millennium trilogy'.
254) Rosetta - (French) Belgian film by the Dardenne brothers, winner of the Palme d'Or at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.
255) O Horten - (Norwegian) Director: Bent Hammer. 2007.
256) Kitchen Stories - (Norwegian) Director: Bent Hammer. 2003.
257) The Postmaster - (Bengali) Tagore's story made into film by Satyajit Ray.
258) You will meet a tall, dark stranger - (English) Director: Woody Allen. 2010.
259) Another Year - (English) Director: Mike leigh. 2010.
260) Of Gods and Men - (French) Winner of Grand Prix at Cannes, 2010.
261) Biutiful - (Spanish) 2010 Academy Award nominee for best foreign language film.
262) The King's Speech - (English) 2010 Academy Award Winner.
263) Black Swan - (English) 2010.
264) Barney's Version - (English) 2010.
265) Cave of Forgotten Dreams - (English) 2011
266) Bill Cunningham New York - (English) 2011
267) Pelle the Conqueror - (Danish) Winner of Palme d'Or
268) Shadows and Fog - (English) Director: Woody Allen
269) Certified Copy - (English, French) Director: Abbas Kiarostami
270) Food Inc. - (English) 2010
271) Midnight in Paris - (English) Director: Woody Allen, 2011
272) Shadows & Fog - (English) Director: Woody Allen
273) The Blue Kite - (Chinese) Winner of the Grand Prix at the Tokyo International Film Festival, 1993. Banned in China.
274) The Road - (English) Movie based on Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize winning novel of a post-apocalyptic world.
275) The Tree of Life - (English) Winner of Palme d'Or at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival award. Director: Terence Malik.
276) The Clay Bird - (Bangla, Urdu) Winner of 2002 International Critic's Award at Cannes Film Festival. Director: Tareq Masud.
277) Sophie Scholl - The Final Days - (German) Winner of 2005 Berliner Silver Bear for best actress and best director.
278) Chinatown - (English) Winner of 1974 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and golden globes for best film, best screenplay, best director (Roman Polanski), and best actor (Jack Nicholson).
279) A Separation - (Persian) Winner of Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2012, and Golden Bear for Best Film at the Berliner Film Festival.
280) The Descendants - (English) Winner of Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2012 and golden bear for best picture and best actor (George Clooney).
281) The Iron Lady - (English) Winner of Academy Award for Best Actress (Meryl Streep) in 2012.
282) Poetry - (Korean) 2010 South Korean Film by Lee Chang-dong, winner of the best screenplay at Cannes Film Festival.
283) Apocalypse Now - (English) Winner of Palme d'Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival, director: Francis Ford Coppola.
284) Ran - (Japanese) Director: Akira Kurosawa.
285) Autumn Spring - (Czech) 2001. Winner of Best film at Cleveland International Film Festival.
286) Footnote - (Israel) 2011, winner of Best Screenplay at Cannes.
287) Melancholia - (English/Danish) 2011, winner of Best Actress at Cannes Film Festival. Director: Lars von Trier.
288) The Pledge - (English) 2001. Director: Sean Penn. Screenplay based on Friedirch Durrenmatt's novel.
289) The Kid with a Bike - (Belgian) winner of Grand Prix at 2011 Cannes Film Festival. Directors: Jean and Luc Dardenne.
290) Sarah's Key - (French) 2010.
291) Once Upon a Time in Anatolia - (Turkish) 2012. Winner of Grand Prix at Cannes. Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan,
292) Amour - (French) 2012. Winner of Palme d'Or at Cannes and the Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards. Director: Michael Haneke.
293) Life of Pi - (English) 2012. Winner of the Best director at the Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards. Director: Ang Lee.
294) Argo - (English) 2012. Winner of the Best Film at the Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards.
295) The Joke - (Czech) 1969. Adaptation from Milan Kundera's novel during the Czech New Wave. Director: Jaromil Jires.
296) Kes - (English) 1969. Director: Ken Loach.
297) Cria Cuervos - (Spanish) 1976 film by Carlos Saura. Winner of Special Jury Award at 1976 Cannes Film Festival.
298) The Big Lebowski - (English) 1998. Directors: Coen brothers.
299) The Spirit of Beehive - (Spanish) 1973 masterpiece of Spanish cinema. Director: Victor Erice.
300) The Tin Drum - (German) 1959 film by Volker Schlondorff based on Nobel laureate Gunter Grass' work. Winner of the 1959 Palme d'Or and Academy Award for Best Foreign language film.
301) The Man from London - (Hungary) 2007. Director: Bela Tarr.
302) The Death of Mr. Lazarescu - (Romania) 2005. Director Cristi Piui's film of the Romanian New Wave. Winner of Un Certain Regard at Cannes Film Festival.
303) Adoption - (Hungary) 1975. Winner of Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. Director: Marta Meszaros.
304) Whisky - (Uruguay) 2004. Winner of the Prix du Regard Original Award at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.
305) Hidden Agenda - (English) 1990. A political drama about British State terrorism during the Northern Ireland Troubles. Winner of the Jury Prize at 1990 Cannes Film Festival and Best European Movie at the Goya Awards. Director: Ken Loach.
306) Oldboy - (Korean) 2003. Winner of the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. Director: Park Chan-wook.
307) Goodfellas - (English) 1990. Director: Martin Scorsese.
308) Fargo - (English) 1996. Director: Coen Brothers. Best Director award at Cannes.
309) The Conversation - (English) 1974. Winner of Palme d'Or at Cannes. Director: Francis Ford Coppola.
310) Rosemary's Baby - (English) 1968. Winner of the Golden Bear at Berlin Film Festival. Director: Roman Polanski.
311) Psycho - (English) 1960. Director: Alfred Hitchcock.
288) The Pledge - (English) 2001. Director: Sean Penn. Screenplay based on Friedirch Durrenmatt's novel.
289) The Kid with a Bike - (Belgian) winner of Grand Prix at 2011 Cannes Film Festival. Directors: Jean and Luc Dardenne.
290) Sarah's Key - (French) 2010.
291) Once Upon a Time in Anatolia - (Turkish) 2012. Winner of Grand Prix at Cannes. Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan,
292) Amour - (French) 2012. Winner of Palme d'Or at Cannes and the Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards. Director: Michael Haneke.
293) Life of Pi - (English) 2012. Winner of the Best director at the Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards. Director: Ang Lee.
294) Argo - (English) 2012. Winner of the Best Film at the Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards.
295) The Joke - (Czech) 1969. Adaptation from Milan Kundera's novel during the Czech New Wave. Director: Jaromil Jires.
296) Kes - (English) 1969. Director: Ken Loach.
297) Cria Cuervos - (Spanish) 1976 film by Carlos Saura. Winner of Special Jury Award at 1976 Cannes Film Festival.
298) The Big Lebowski - (English) 1998. Directors: Coen brothers.
299) The Spirit of Beehive - (Spanish) 1973 masterpiece of Spanish cinema. Director: Victor Erice.
300) The Tin Drum - (German) 1959 film by Volker Schlondorff based on Nobel laureate Gunter Grass' work. Winner of the 1959 Palme d'Or and Academy Award for Best Foreign language film.
301) The Man from London - (Hungary) 2007. Director: Bela Tarr.
302) The Death of Mr. Lazarescu - (Romania) 2005. Director Cristi Piui's film of the Romanian New Wave. Winner of Un Certain Regard at Cannes Film Festival.
303) Adoption - (Hungary) 1975. Winner of Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. Director: Marta Meszaros.
304) Whisky - (Uruguay) 2004. Winner of the Prix du Regard Original Award at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.
305) Hidden Agenda - (English) 1990. A political drama about British State terrorism during the Northern Ireland Troubles. Winner of the Jury Prize at 1990 Cannes Film Festival and Best European Movie at the Goya Awards. Director: Ken Loach.
306) Oldboy - (Korean) 2003. Winner of the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. Director: Park Chan-wook.
307) Goodfellas - (English) 1990. Director: Martin Scorsese.
308) Fargo - (English) 1996. Director: Coen Brothers. Best Director award at Cannes.
309) The Conversation - (English) 1974. Winner of Palme d'Or at Cannes. Director: Francis Ford Coppola.
310) Rosemary's Baby - (English) 1968. Winner of the Golden Bear at Berlin Film Festival. Director: Roman Polanski.
311) Psycho - (English) 1960. Director: Alfred Hitchcock.
