Best 10 Films of China and Hong Kong

© William L. Sinclair
These rankings are from our compendium of all internet film polls, posted here..

Top ranked films on the net from China (7), Hong Kong (8), and Taiwan (8).


China
1. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon [Lee, Ang; 2000] #152 - China-Taiwan-US [photo above]
2. Spring in a Small Town [Fei Mu; 1948] #674 - China
3. House of Flying Daggers [Zhang Yimou; 2004] #710 - China
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Best 10 Films of Japan

Masahiro Motoki stars in Departures
[AA] Academy Award®, Best Foreign Language Film (only 5 Japanese films have won)

1. The Seven Samurai (1957) Japan, bw (Kurosawa) No. 13 on the IMDB 250 - 4 awards
One of the best action films ever made, inspired many remakes and influenced all actions films that followed. The inferior Japanese film The Burma Harp got a foreign language film Oscar nomination

Best 10 Films of Germany

In The Lives of Others, the E. German statepolice tap a dissident playright's homeThe Lives of Others (2007) [AA] No. 57 on the IMDB 250 62 awards overall (out of just 83 nominations) one of just 5 films to win an AA and BAFTA for foreign film, a thought-provoking film with much depth
Run Lola Run (1998) this relentless film moves from the get go and never lets up 26 awards overall
Good Bye,

Best 10 Films of Russia

Man With the Movie Camera (1928) USSR, bw/silent [photo top]
The Cuckoo (2002) Russia
Mongol (2007) Russia
Come and See (1985) Russia
The Battleship Potemkin (1925, Eisenstein) USSR, bw
Ballad of a Soldier (1959) Russia, bw
War and Peace (1968) Russia
Andrei Rublev (1966, Tarkovsky)
Prisoner of the Mountains (1996)
Alexander Nevsky (1938, Eisenstein)
I Am Cuba (1964) Cuba-Russia, bw
Ivan's

Best 10 Films of Australia

Walkabout is one of the most breathtaking films in historyBabe (Chris Noonan, 1995) 10.0, comedy, 18 awards (36 noms.) - One Oscar® (7 noms) - both my favorite childrens' film and animal film (Prod. by George Miller, see below)
Walkabout (Nicholas Roeg, 1971) 10.0, Nominated for Palm d'Or at Cannes - adventure
Baraka (Ron Frick, 1992) 9.5, documentary
A Town Like Alice (David Stephens, 1981, 5

Best 10 Films of Billy Wilder

Wilder juggles the three Oscars he won for The Apartment
Billy Wilder (born Samuel Wilder) was a newspaper reporter in Vienna in the 20's, then later Berlin, and began writing screenplays in 1929, which he did until Hitler came to power in 1933. With Jewish ancestry, he fled to Paris to escape the Nazis, then came to the U.S. He first started as a screenwriter, penning the famous Garbo film

Best 10 Films of Steven Spielberg

Spielberg has directed 49 films, but produced a total of 125 projects in all, including television, making him one of the most influential in film history.
Schindler's List (1993) No. 6 on the IMDB 250, 7 Oscars®, including best picture, director 72 awards overall
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)  Two Oscars®, cinematography and sound effects 12 awards overall
Minority Report (2002) 2

Best 10 Films of Martin Scorsese

When Scorsese finally won a best director Oscar®, for The Departed, he said "I think I want a recount", making fun of the 2000 Presidential election, and the fact that he had never won an Oscar®

Ranked by my order of preference, click for my review

Raging Bull (1980) best actor Oscar® for Robert De Niro, No. 75 on the IMDB top 250, 21 awards overall [This is my favorite boxing film, and one of