100 Greatest Foreign Films

5 - Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)



4 - Tokyo Story (Yasujirō Ozu, 1953)



3 - La Règle du jeu (Jean Renoir, 1939)



2 - 8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963)



1 - Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950)

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Cool. Cool cool cool.

I approve of number one, four and five.

Great list dude!

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Some others for the 2000s, although this should be in another thread. I'd add Sophie Scholl: The Final Days and Tell No One.

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Good list Mark, not heard of that one so I'll add it to my watchlist too

Rashomon is the best Kurosawa.

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San Franciscan lesbian dwarves and their tomato orgies.

Holy sh*t, I never would have guessed that order! Guess this means I'm gonna have to see Rashomon ASAP.

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yes you must!

Glad to see a De Sica film so high, even though I don't think it's his best.

I'm glad Seven Samurai wasn't Kurosawa's highest film; it's an American Japanese film.

And yet the Japanese critics were not keen on Rashomon when it was released. Irony for ya. Either way, my two favorite Kurosawa movie's in the top ten and one taking the top spot? I call that a good list.

You seem to have a lot of agendas.

It sure is.

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That's an individual's favorites list. It doesn't have any methodology behind it, also I though that the film comments were rather ignorant.

Gotta watch Rashomon again.

Indeed. That movie even topped the 1952 Sign and Sound poll.

Well, the enormous influence of Seven Samurai over Hollywood can be easily perceived, but Rashomon also influenced western cinema to a very high degree. Overall, both movies remain ludicrously influential and very "American" in the sense that many American movies were enormously influenced by them.

This is true but it also works both ways. Kurosawa was influenced by some of Hollywood's best, most notably John Ford.

Jeeeez.

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One movie i think is missing from the list is...

Umberto D.

That's really strange.