The greatest foreign-language films according to the BBC
The top 3 according to 641 votes from people: Seven Samurai (1954) · Tokyo Story (1953) · The Rules of the Game (1939). (Updated Feb 20, 2022.)
Seven Samurai, Bicycle Thieves, Tokyo Story, Rashomon, The Rules of the Game, Persona, 8½, The 400 Blows, In the Mood for Love and La Dolce Vita: the top ten of BBC Culture's 2018 poll of 209 critics from 43 countries.
Top 10
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1
Seven Samurai (1954)
Akira Kurosawa.
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2
Tokyo Story (1953)
Yasujirō Ozu.
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3
The Rules of the Game (1939)
Jean Renoir.
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4
Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Vittorio De Sica.
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5
Persona (1966)
Ingmar Bergman.
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6
Rashomon (1950)
Akira Kurosawa.
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7
8½ (1963)
Federico Fellini.
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8
The 400 Blows (1959)
François Truffaut.
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9
La Dolce Vita (1960)
Federico Fellini.
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10
In the Mood for Love (2000)
Wong Kar-wai.
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Comments (2)
Seven Samurai at number one, hard to argue. Three and a half hours and it flies by.
Would have liked to see a non-European, non-Japanese film in the top 10 apart from Wong Kar-wai, but great list.