My Favorite Foreign Films

Because of the recent release of the French film GAINSBOURG A HEROIC LIFE last week in American art movie theaters which I consider one of the best foreign films I have seen in years, here I am listing my favorite foreign films that I have seen in the last fifty years:

1.METROPOLIS(1926)

2.NOSFERATU(1927)

3.LA STRADA(1956)

4.EYES WITHOUT A FACE(1959)

5.CONTEMPT(1963)

6.THAT MAN FROM RIO(1964)

7.VIVA MARIA(1965)

8.ACOMPANAME(1966)

9.ALPHAVILLE(1966)

10.THE BRIDE WORE BLACK(1968)

11.EL TOPO(1970)

12.BORSALINO(1971)

13.THE BURGLARS(1972)

14.LAST TANGO IN PARIS(1972)

15.TO BE TWENTY(1978)

16.ONE DEADLY SUMMER(1981)

17.THE KILLER(1989)

18.CINEMA PARADISO(1989)

19.LA FEMME NIKITA(1990)

20.BETTY BLUE(1988)

21.BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF(2002)

22.OSS CAIRO NEST OF SPIES(1996)

23.LA VIE EN ROSE(12007)

24.LET THE RIGHT ONE IN(2008)

25.THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO(2009)

26.GAINSBOURG:AN HEROIC LIFE(2010)

Other great foreign films are LA DOUCE VITA, BREATHLESS, THE SEVEN SAMURAI, LE DOULOS, BELLE DE JOUR, THE ORPHANAGE,PAN'S LABRYNTH, THE CONFORMIST, THE LEOPARD, THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE,SUBWAY,DIVA,THE SICILIAN CLAN and many others.