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Top Foreign Films

2005 Paradise Now, 2046, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, Downfall, Walk on Water
2004 The Sea Inside, Bad Education, Maria Full of Grace, The Chorus (Les Choristes), The Motorcycle Diaries
2003 Barbarian Invasions, Best of Youth, Monsieur Ibrahim, Autumn Spring, Man on the Train
2002 Talk to Her, Y Tu Mama Tambien, 8 Women, City of God, El Crimen del Padre Amaro
2001 Amores Perros, Behind the Sun, Dark Blue World, No Man´s Land, Amelie
2000 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Butterfly, A Time for Drunken Horses, Malena, Girl on the Bridge
1999 All About My Mother, Run Lola Run, East-West, Cabaret Balkan, The Emperor and The Assassin
1998 Central Station, Life Is Beautiful, The Thief, Beyond Silence, Men With Guns
1997 Shall We Dance?, Beaumarchais, Ma Vie en Rose, La Promesse, Ponette
1996 Ridicule, Les Voleurs, Bitter Sugar, La Ceremonie, Kolya
1995 Shanghi Triad, Les Misérables, Il Postino, Farinelli, Lamerica
1994 Eat Drink Man Woman, To Live, Strawberries and Chocolate, Red, Queen Margot
1993 Farewell My Concubine, El Mariachi, Un Coeur en Hiver, The Story of Qiu Ju, The Accompanist
1992 Indochine, Raise The Red Lantern, Tous Le Matins Du Monde, Mediterraneo, Like Water for Chocolate
1991 Europa, Europa, The Vanishing, La Femme Nikita, My Father´s Glory and My Mother´s Castle, Toto Le Heros
1990 Cyrano de Bergerac, Jesus of Montreal, The Nasty Girl, Monsieur Hire, Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
1989 The Story of Women, Camille Claudel, La Lectrice, Chocolat, The Little Thief
1988 Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Pelle the Conqueror, Le Grand Chemin, Salaam Bombay, A Taxing Woman
1987 Jean de Florette and Manon of the Spring, My Life as a Dog, Au Revoir Les Enfants, Tampopo, Dark Eyes
1986 Otello, Miss Mary, Ginger and Fred, Menage, Men
1985 Ran, The Official Story, When Father Was Away on Business, La Chevre, The Home and the World
1984 A Sunday in the Country, Carmen, A Love in German, The Fourth Man, The Basileus Quartet
1983 Fanny and Alexander, The Return of Martin Guerre, Le Nuit de Varennes, La Traviata, The Boat People
1982 Mephisto, Das Boot, Three Brothers, Yol, Siberiade
1981 Oblomov, The Boat is Full, The Last Metro, Contract, Pixote
1980 The Tin Drum, Kagemusha, Knife In the Head, From the Life of the Marionettes, Eboli
1979 La Cage Aux Folles, The Tree of Wooden Clogs, The Marriage of Marie Brown, Nosferatu The Vampyre, Peppermint Soda
1978 Autumn Sonata, Dear Detective, Madame Rosa, A Slave of Love, Bread and Chocolate
1977 That Obscure Object of Desire, The Men Who Loved Women, A Special Day, Cria!, The American Friend
1976 The Marquise of O´, Face to Face, Small Change, Cousin, Cousine, The Clockmaker
1975 The Story of Adele H, A Brief Vacation, Special Section, Stavisky, Swept Away
1974 Amarcord, Lacombe Lucien, Scenes From a Marriage, The Phantom of Liberty, The Pedestrian
1973 Cries and Whispers, Days for Nights, The New Land, The Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe, Alfredo, Alfredo, Traffic
1972 The Sorrow and the Pity, The Emigrants, The Discreet Charme of the Bourgeoisie, Chloe in the Afternoon, Uncle Vayna
1971 Claire´s Knee, Bed and Board, The Clowns, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, The Conformist
1970 The Wild Child, My Night at Maud´s, The Passion Of Anna, The Confession, This Man Must Die
1969 Shame, Stolen Kisses, The Damned, La Femme Infidele, Adalen 31´
1968 War and Peace, Hagbard and Signo, Hunger, The Two of Us, The Bride Wore Black
1967 Elvira Madigan, The Hunt, Africa Addio, Persona, The Great British Train Robbery
1966 The Sleeping Car Murders, The Gospel According to St. Matthew, The Shameless Old Lady, A Man and a Woman, Hamlet
1965 Juliet of the Scripts, The Overcoat, La Boheme, La Tia Lula, Gertrud
1964 World Without Sun, The Organizer, Anatomy of a Marriage, Seduced and Abandoned, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
1963 8 1/2, The Four Days of Naples, Winter Light, The Leopard, Any Number Can Win
1962 Sundays and Cybele, Barabbas, Divorce - Italian Style, The Island, Through a Glass Darkly
1961 The Bridge, La Dolce Vita, Two Women, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, A Summer to Remember
1960 The World of Apu, General Della Rovere, The Angry Silence, I´m All Right Jack, Hiroshima, Mon Amour
1959 Wild Strawberries, Room at the Top, Aparajito, The Roof, Look Back in Anger
1958 Pather Panchali, Rouge et Noir, The Horse´s Mouth, Mon Oncle, A Night to Remember
1957 Ordet, Gervaise, Torero!, The Red Baloon, A Man Escaped
1956 The Silent World, War and Peace, Richard III, La Strada, Rififi
1955 The Prisoner, The Great Adventure, The Divided Heart, Diabolique, The End of the Affair
1954 Romeo and Juliet, The Heart of the Matter, Gate of Hell, Diary of a Country Priest, The Little Kidnappers, Genevieve, Beauties of the Night, Mr. Hulot´s Holiday, The Detective Bread, Love and Dreams
1953 A Queen is Crowned, Moulin Rouge, The Little World of Dan Camillo, Strange Deception, The Conquest of Everest
1952 Breaking the Sound Barrier, The Man in the White Suit, Forbidden Games, Beauty and the Devil, Ivory Hunter
1951 Rashomon, The River, Miracle in Milan, Kon-Tiki, The Browning Version
1950 The Titan, The Story of Michelangelo, Tight Little Island, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Paris 1900
1939 Port of Shadows, Harvest, Alexander Nevsky, The End of the Day, Robert Koch
1938 Grand Illusion, Ballerina, Un Carnet de Bal, Generals Without Buttons, Peter the First, Professor Mamlock
1937 The Eternal Mask, The Lower Depths, Baltic Deputy, Mayerling, The Spanish Earth, Golgotha, Elephant Boy, Janosik, the Wedding of Palo
1936 Carnival in Flanders, The New Earth, Rembrandt, The Ghost Goes West, Nine Days a Queen, We Are From Kronstadt, Son of Mongolia, The Yellow Cruise, Les Miserables, The Secret Agent
1935 Chapayev, Crime and Punishment, Le Dernier Milliardaire, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Maire Chapdelaine, La Maternelle, The New Gulliver, Peasants, Thunder in the East, The Youth of Maxim
1934 Man of Aran, The Blue Light, Catherine the Great, The Constant Nymph, Madame Bovary
1933 Hertha´s Erwachen, Ivan, M, Morgenrot, Niemandsland, Poil de Carotte, The Private Life of Henry VIII, Quatorze Juillet, Rome Express, Blood of a Poet
1932 A Nous la Liberte, Der Andere, The Battle of Gallipoli, Golden Mountains, Kameradschaft, Madchen in Uniform, Der Raub der Mona Lisa, Reserved for Ladies, Road to Life, Zwei Menschen
1931 The Threepenny Opera, The Song of Life, Under the Roofs of Paris, Westfront 1918
1930 High Treason, Old and New, Soil, Storm Over Asia, Two Heart in 3/4 Time
1929 Arsenal, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Ten Days That Shook the World, Piccadilly, Homecoming

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