I agree with Goodbye Lenin, Shaun of the Dead, Maria Full of Grace, Butterfly

For now here are 50 films, off the top of my head.

And of course there's no order:

Anything by Sergio Leone
A Fistful of Dollars
For a few Dollars More
The Good, the Bad & the Ugly
Once upon a time in the West
Duck you sucker (A Fistful of Dynamite)
Once upon a time in America (though I think this is an American production)

The 7 Samurai
Ran
Rashômon
Ikiru
Yojimbo
Kagemusha
Akira Kurosawa's Dreams
Twilight Samurai
Tiger & Dragon
City of God
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Nosferatu (Murnau version)
Nosferatu (Herzog version)
Texas - Doc Snyder hält die Welt in Atem
00 Schneider
Praxis Dr. Hasenbein
Jazzclub
Das Boot
The Neverending Story
Die Brücke
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes
M
Run Lola Run
Léon
Les Maîtres du temps
La Planet Sauvage
Le Samurai
Children of Paradise
Wild Strawberries
The Seventh Seal
Festen
Dancer in the Dark
Valhalla (1986)
Bad Boy Bubby
Stalker
Andrei Rublev
Solyaris
Battleship Potemkin
Amores Perros
La Dolce Vita
8 1/2
Life is Beautiful
Cinema Paradiso
Il Grande Silenzio

We got nine new hits guys, se we're nearing 60. I scvanned everything, and it looks like all the below movies are still up for grabs, so go right out and match one of them. i you know you already did, just remind me cause I missed it.

Films still up for grabs:

00 Schneider
After Life (Japan)
Aguirre, Wrath of God
Amantes
Andrei Rublev
Bad Boy Bubby
Beauty and the Beast (France)
Betty Blue (France)
Beijing Bicycle (Taiwan)
Black Cat, White Cat (Yugoslavia)
Belle Epoche
Black Orpheus (Brazil)
Breathless (France)
Chandini Bar(India)
Chungking Express
Cinema Paradiso
Cleo from 5 to 7 (France)
El Crimen del Padre Amaro (Mexico)
Cold Fever (Iceland)
Dark Water
Das Boot
Day for Night (France)
Day of the beast
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (India)
The Double Life of Veronique (France)
Dreams
Duck you sucker (A Fistful of Dynamite)
Facing Windows (Italy)
Farewell My Concubine (China)
Fistful of Dollars
For a few Dollars More
Fubar (Canada?)
Funny Games
Girl on the Bridge (France)
Il Grande Silenzio
Hero (China)
Indochine (France)
Ikiru
Jazzclub
Kagemusha
Lo que le paso a Santiago (Puerto Rico)
Look at Me
M
Maedchen in Uniform (Germany)
Maîtres du temps, Les
Metropolis (Germany)
Miracle in Milan (Italy)
Moolaade (Senegal)
My Twentieth Century (Hungary)
The Nights of Cabiria (Italy)
Nine Queens (Argentina)
Nosferatu (Murnau version)
Nosferatu (Herzog version)
Pakeezah (India)
Planet Sauvage, Le
Porco Rosso (the crimson pig)
Praxis Dr. Hasenbein
Profondo Rosso (Italy)
Rififi (France)
Raise the Red Lantern (China)
Red (France)
The Red Balloon (France)
Ringu (Japan)
The Sea Inside
Seventh Seal
Shangai Triad (China)
Sholay (India)
Show me love
Solyaris
Son of the bride
Stalker
Strawberry and Chocolate
Strictly Ballroom (Australia)
Suspiria (Italy)
Take my eyes
Tenebre (Italy)
Texas - Doc Snyder hält die Welt in Atem
Tiger & Dragon
Together
Twilight Samurai
Valhalla (1986)
Whisky
White (France)
White Balloon, The (Iran)
Wild Reeds
Wild Strawberries
Yojimbo

Only 41 more to go, and don't forget the indie top 100 thread too.

I'd like to 2nd neverending story (i keep on forgetting thats german!)

these were me, si? if not, l'll second em. but l'm pretty sure i firsted em. so.
definitely love these three. 2nded.
can l half these? they're both quite good, but l'm not sure l'd wanna back em 100 percent. eh, go ahead and add these, too.

also, Tokyo Drifter
All About Lily Chou-Chou
The 400 Blows
Hana-Bi (Fireworks)

I think i have only seen 5 foreign movies.

CTHD
HOFD
A martial arts one with three women, one who flies by throwing dynamite on a trashcan and sitting on it.
HERO
1/3 of city of god



I'm so not cultured.

did you like what you saw of City of God?

nevermind, you don't have to answer that. either way, finish it. it's such an amazing movie.

I think City of God is a good movie, but definitely overrated. I mean it sits at the 19th spot of IMDB's TOP 250. It is good, but not THAT good.

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Why isn't it THAT good?

Unlike Downfall, it actually involves the audience EMOTIONALLY. :wink:

Certainly it is better than movies like American Beauty, Fight Club, Spirited Away, Memento, Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Pianist.

I think it is better than some of those.

Now, it certaintly isn't in MY top 20, but IMDB is always strange. It's not overrated. Thing is - some movies are hated more than others (let's be honest. people are probably giving Raiders, Memento, Spirited Away, and Fight Club 1s without even having seen them) and no one really objects to City of God or votes against it.

It'll drop just like many modern movies that rise high and then drop. FOTR was replaced in the TOP 10 by Cuckoo's nest and Eternal Sunshine started falling as well.

*gives city of god a one despite not seeing it *

in my opinion, City of God is definitely that good.

American Beauty was even No. 1 for a while when it first came out, then it steadily fell off. It's understandable, because once it reaches that high ranking, there will be backlash. CTHD was in the top 20 during its oscar run. However, American Beauty is the only film I can remember to ever replace Godfather as No. 1 all-time for that short while, and if ROTK can't, I don't see a film challenging Godfather and The Shawshank Redemption for the top 2 spots at IMDb in the foreseeable future.

Wow, I never knew that American Beauty was #1 for a while... Not a bad pick, I'd say. Out of the entire TOP 10 the only movie I really have problems with being there is Pulp Fiction.

I'd like to see Return of the King removed from the #3 slot. It was good, but really not worth that high of a ranking.

If it was up to me, ROTK would be ahead of Shawshank's Redemptions. And so would be other movies on the list. I think Shawshank is a good Hollywood fairy tale, but not a masterpiece.

Titanic was no. 1 of the imdb list when it was released.

My number one choice is definitely Kung-Fu Hustle, followed by City of God.

Are you kidding?

No.

I heard that before as well. I could see that happening since IMDb and the whole Internet were still at their early stages back in 1997-1998. As there have been a lot more reviews for the top movies, it should be much harder for a new movie to crack the top 10 list now.