Criteria:
2.500+ ratings
Non-English-Language Live Action Films
The list excludes mini-series, documentary, animated and short films.
Countries:
(56) Japan
(36) France
(23) Italy
(14) Sweden
(13) Iran՟
(12) China"
(11) Russia^
(9) Germany*
(7) India • Korea • Mexico
(6) Brazil
(5) Greece • Spain
(4) Denmark • Hungary
(3) Serbia • Turkey
(2) Canada • Czechia° • Palestine • Philippines
(1) Algeria • Argentina • Armenia^ • Belarus^ • Belgium • Colombia • Cuba • Egypt • Georgia^ • Lebanon • Libya • Norway • Poland • Romania • Slovakia° • Thailand
Decades:
2020s (9)
2010s (22)
2000s (33)
1990s (36)
1980s (22)
1970s (32)
1960s (52)
1950s (33)
1940s (5)
1930s (2)
1920s (4)
Most popular years: 1957…
Criteria:
2.500+ ratings
Non-English-Language Live Action Films
The list excludes mini-series, documentary, animated and short films.
Countries:
(56) Japan
(36) France
(23) Italy
(14) Sweden
(13) Iran՟
(12) China"
(11) Russia^
(9) Germany*
(7) India • Korea • Mexico
(6) Brazil
(5) Greece • Spain
(4) Denmark • Hungary
(3) Serbia • Turkey
(2) Canada • Czechia° • Palestine • Philippines
(1) Algeria • Argentina • Armenia^ • Belarus^ • Belgium • Colombia • Cuba • Egypt • Georgia^ • Lebanon • Libya • Norway • Poland • Romania • Slovakia° • Thailand
Decades:
2020s (9)
2010s (22)
2000s (33)
1990s (36)
1980s (22)
1970s (32)
1960s (52)
1950s (33)
1940s (5)
1930s (2)
1920s (4)
Most popular years: 1957 • 2000 (8)
՟ (12) Persian (1) Kurdish
^ (12) USSR
" (5) China (5) Hong Kong (2) Taiwan
° (3) Czechoslovakia
* (4) West Germany (3) Weimar Republic (2) Germany
Directors:
(12) Akira Kurosawa
(11) Ingmar Bergman
(7) Andrei Tarkovsky
(6) Masaki Kobayashi • Hirokazu Kore-eda • Yasujirō Ozu
(5) Federico Fellini • Abbas Kiarostami • Satyajit Ray • Theo Angelopoulos
(4) Krzysztof Kieślowski • Kenji Mizoguchi • Wong Kar-wai
(3) Fritz Lang • Sergio Leone • Carl Theodor Dreyer • Jean-Pierre Melville • Béla Tarr • Michael Haneke
(2) Emir Kusturica • Asghar Farhadi • François Truffaut • Wim Wenders • Werner Herzog • Agnès Varda • Luis Buñuel • Bahram Beyzai etc.
Updating one film every 1st of the month.
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Films are picked randomly from those that fit the criteria. If It would be picked otherwise just a few of them will rotate repeatedly, or the list would remain the same for months.
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