The Best Foreign Movies?

Most of the ones I would recommend have already been recommended. Here are few others though:

Rashomon
Tengoku to jigoku (High and Low)
Caché (Hidden)
Kwaidan
La Reine Margot
 
The Host (Korea)
Switchblade Romance (France)
Sauna (Finland)

Only three I have (apart from the already mentioned City of God & Pans Labyrinth) and all are a good watch.
 
I saw The Devil (2010)
Another South Korean cracker, well worth a watch :-)


Turtles Can Fly (2004)
One of the most powerful foreign films I have ever seen, utter masterpiece imho


The Hunt (2012)
Another great foreign film showing the power and devastation a few simple words can create!!


Friend (2001)
Another fantastic South Korean film, highly highly recommended.


Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004)
A superb South Korean War Film, really shows how average shaving private ryan is!!!


A Bittersweet Life (2005)
A brilliant South Korean gangster film with possibly the best gun fight scene at the end that you'll have EVER seen!!


Lilya 4-Ever (2002)
Extremely powerful and gritty film about the sex trafficking industry, will leave you speechless !!


Incendies (2010)
Masterpiece, a MUST watch for ANY film fan!!


Tell No One (2006)

Tsotsi (2005)

The Orphanage (2007)

The Intouchables (2011)

Amores Perros (2000)

The Lives of Others (2006)

J.S.A.: Joint Security Area (2000)

The Man from Nowhere (2010)

Memories of Murder (2003)

Samaritan Girl (2004)

A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)

Maria Full of Grace (2004)

Azumi (2003)

Downfall (2004)

Maidentrip (2013)

A Hijacking (2012) (MUCH better than Hollywood's effort with Tom Hanks imho)

The Front Line (2011)
 
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Das Experiment - think most of the others I would recommend have already been noted. Also another one is Irreversible - one of the most powerful films you can see but truly horrifc too - not for everyone.
 
Adding "Come and see" to the the list. Russian WW2 film. My brother pinched the DVD on me and I've yet to have it back. That was a couple years ago.

Come and See (Russian: Иди и смотри, Idi i smotri; Belarusian: Ідзі і глядзі, Idzi i hlyadzi) is a 1985 Soviet war drama-psychological thriller film directed by Elem Klimov about and occurring during the Nazi German occupation of the Byelorussian SSR.
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Also,

The film was shot in chronological order over a period of nine months. Aleksey Kravchenko says that he underwent "the most debilitating fatigue and hunger. I kept a most severe diet, and after the filming was over I returned to school not only thin, but grey-haired."[7] The 2006 UK DVD sleeve states that the guns in the film were often loaded with live ammunition as opposed to blanks, for realism. Aleksey Kravchenko mentions in interviews that bullets sometimes passed just 4 inches (10 centimeters) above his head (such as in the cow scene).
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I don't know how true the last bit is, but it wouldn't surprise me. There's a forest attack scene and I remember watching it for the first time thinking "holy **** these special effects are amazing" only to later read the DVD cover and say to myself "well, that explains it".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_and_See
 
  • Rec - Spanish zombie movie, not actually much zombie in it, very good though.
  • Pan's Labyrinth - Spanish/Mexican fantasy movie about a girl in (just after?) the Spanish civil war
  • Taare Zameen Par - Indian drama about a teacher going above and beyond to help a kid with leearning difficulties

Taare Zameen Par I especially liked, very well written.
 
+ 1 for Rec.
REC 2
A Better Tomorrow

I am sure these have been mentioned somewhere
RINGU, 2 and i actually actually like the explaination in 0
Audition
Dark Water
 
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