Brook's Personal Top 100 Foreign Language Film List
Updated: Saturday, March 05, 2016
| 1 | Ikiru ( Kurosawa 1952 ) |
| 2 | Rashomon (Kurosawa, 1950) |
| 3 | The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928) |
| 4 | The Seventh Seal (Bergman, 1957) |
| 5 | Belle De Jour (Bunuel, 1967) |
| 6 | Ugetsu Monogatari (Mizoguchi, 1953) |
| 7 | The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (Fassbinder, 1972) |
| 8 | The Decalogue (Kieslowski, 1988) |
| 9 | Stalker (Tarkovsky, 1979) |
| 10 | Persona (Bergman, 1966) |
| 11 | Children of Paradise (Carne, 1945) |
| 12 | Ran (Kurosawa, 1985) |
| 13 | Aguirre, The Wrath of God (Herzog, 1972) |
| 14 | Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror (Murnau, 1922) |
| 15 | Strike! (Eisenstein, 1925) |
| 16 | Chloe In The Afternoon (Rohmer, 1972) |
| 17 | My Life To Live (Godard, 1962) |
| 18 | Wild Strawberries (Bergman, 1957) |
| 18 | M (Lang, 1931) |
| 19 | 8 1/2 (Fellini, 1963) |
| 20 | Three Colors: Red (Kieslowski, 1994) |
| 21 | Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966) |
| 22 | Grave of the Fireflies (Takahata, 1988) |
| 23 | Breathless (Godard, 1960) |
| 24 | The Rules of the Game (Renoir, 1939) |
| 25 | Cries & Whispers (Bergman, 1972) |
| 26 | The 400 Blows (Truffaut, 1959) |
| 27 | The Conformist (Bertolucci, 1970) |
| 28 | The Battleship Potempkin (Eisenstein, 1925) |
| 29 | Throne of Blood (Kurosawa, 1957) |
| 30 | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Wiene, 1919) |
| 31 | Mother & Son (Sokurov, 1997) |
| 32 | The Man With The Movie Camera (Vertov, 1929) |
| 33 | Madadayo (Kurosawa, 1993) |
| 34 | Tristana (Bunuel, 1970) |
| 35 | Happy Together (Kar-Wai, 1997) |
| 36 | To Live (Yimou, 1994) |
| 37 | Nights of Cabiria (Fellini, 1957) |
| 38 | Repulsion (Polanski, 1965) |
| 39 | Yojimbo (Kurosawa, 1961) |
| 40 | Fireworks (Kitano, 1998) |
| 41 | Fitzcarraldo (Herzog, 1982) |
| 42 | My Neighbor Totoro (Miyazaki, 1988) |
| 43 | The Mirror (Tarkovsky, 1975) |
| 44 | The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeosie (Bunuel, 1972) |
| 45 | In The Realm Of The Senses (Oshima, 1976) |
| 46 | Metropolis (Lang, 1926) |
| 47 | Cinema Paradiso (Tornatore, 1988) |
| 48 | The Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954) |
| 49 | Three Colors: Blue (Kieslowski, 1993) |
| 50 | Yi-Yi (Yang, 2000) |
| 51 | Pierre Le Fou (Godard, 1965) |
| 52 | Tokyo Drifter (Suzuki, 1966) |
| 53 | Kiki's Delivery Service (Miyazaki, 1989) |
| 54 | Das Boot (Peterson, 1981) |
| 55 | Vampyr (Dreyer, 1931) |
| 56 | The Grande Illusion (Renoir, 1937) |
| 57 | Kagemusha (Kurosawa, 1980) |
| 58 | A Better Tomorrow (Woo, 1986) |
| 59 | City of Lost Children (Jeunet/Caro, 1995) |
| 60 | Whity (Fassbinder, 1971) |
| 61 | Faust (Murnau, 1926) |
| 62 | In The Mood For Love (Kar-Wai, 2000) |
| 63 | Bullet In The Head (Woo, 1990) |
| 64 | Princess Mononoke (Miyazaki, 1997) |
| 65 | Jules And Jim (Truffaut, 1962) |
| 66 | La Collectioneuse (Rohmer, 1967) |
| 67 | Ju-Dou (Yimou, 1990) |
| 68 | The Last Metro (Truffaut, 1980) |
| 69 | Run Lola Run (Tykwer, 1998) |
| 70 | Dersu Uzala (Kurosawa, 1974) |
| 71 | The Girl On The Bridge (Leconte, 1999) |
| 72 | Zentropa (Von Trier, 1991) |
| 73 | All About My Mother (Almodovar, 1999) |
| 74 | The Fall Of The House Of Usher (Epstein, 1928) |
| 75 | Butterfly (Cuerda, 1999) |
| 76 | Delicatessen (Jeunet/Caro, 1991) |
| 77 | Nostalghia (Tarkovsky, 1983) |
| 78 | Nosferatu, The Vampyre (Herzog, 1979) |
| 79 | Raise The Red Lantern (Yimou, 1991) |
| 80 | Good Morning (Ozu, 1959) |
| 81 | The Dreamlife of Angels (Zonea, 1998) |
| 82 | Stolen Kisses (Truffaut, 1968) |
| 83 | Claire's Knee (Rohmer, 1970) |
| 84 | Alphaville (Godard, 1965) |
| 85 | Sonatine (Kitano, 1993) |
| 86 | Hard Boiled (Woo, 1992) |
| 87 | Shoot The Piano Player (Truffaut, 1960) |
| 88 | Cobra Verde (Herzog, 1988) |
| 89 | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Lee, 2000) |
| 90 | Open Your Eyes (Amenabar, 1997) |
| 91 | My Night At Maud's (Rohmer, 1969) |
| 92 | Children of Heaven (Majidi, 1997) |
| 93 | Don't Torture A Duckling (Fulci, 1972) |
| 94 | The Killer (Woo, 1989) |
| 95 | Suspiria (Argento, 1977) |
| 96 | Amarcord (Fellini, 1974) |
| 97 | Yellow Earth (Kaige, 1984) |
| 98 | Not One Less (Yimou, 1999) |
| 99 | Maborosi (Koreeda, 1995) |
| 100 | Chunyhang (Kwon-Taek, 2000) |