World's Best Foreign Language Films

This is a subset of the non-English language films from all the other lists (my preferences, these are not from the Top Ranked on the Net survey we did - that post is listed seperately, as over 400 foreign language films made that list), with a few more worthy films added (* = new additions)

Updated: 5.13.11
8 ½ (1963) Italy, bw
13 Tzameti (2006) France, bw*
The 400 Blows (1959) France, bw*
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My Favorite 100 Movies

[Updated 1.5.11]
Films in gold won Best Picture Oscars®
(* = recent addition)

The Top 20 (alpha order): 2001, All About Eve, Babe, The Best Years of Our Lives, City of God (Brazil), Cinema Paradiso (Italy), The Conformist (Italy), Dr. Strangelove, The Godfather II, Hannah and Her Sisters, Hero (China), Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring (France), Lawrence of Arabia, Lord of the Rings

Cannes Award Winning Films

The recent 2011 Cannes winners can be seen here at IMDB, a complete list

All Seventy-Eight Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or Winners

1939 Union Pacific  U.S. Director Cecil B. DeMille

1946 Torment Sweden Director Alf Sjöberg
1946 Lost Weekend U.S. Director Billy Wilder
1946 The Red Earth Hungary Director Bodil Ipsen & Lau Jr. Lauritzen
1946 Lowly City India Director Chetan Anand
1946 Brief

World's Best Romance Films

The world's best romance films, those without comedy Films in gold won Best Picture Oscars® (* = new additions)










A Room With a View (also in Romantic Comedy)
A Town Like Alice (mini-series)
A Very Long Engagement [photo rt]
The Age of Innocence
An Education * [photo top]
Atonement
Bad Timing, a Sexual Obsession
Brideshead Revisited (mini-series)
Casablanca
Children of a Lesser God
The

Worlds Best Romantic Comedy Films

I decided to make this a genre since many romances were serious but just as many good ones are comedies, and because some comedies have no romance at all, plus it's a long list of really great films
(updated: 3/12/10; * = new additions)


A Room With a View
Adam's Rib (bw)
Alice
Annie Hall (4 Oscars/5 noms.)
As Good As It Gets (2 Oscars/7 noms.)
Beautiful Girls
Big
Blast From the Past
Breaking

World's Best Crime Films

The worlds best crime and mystery films
Films in gold won Best Picture Oscars®


Atlantic City
Chinatown
Chungking Express (China)
City of God (Brazil)
The Conversation
The Departed
Diva (France)
Double Indemnity (bw)
Gangs of New York
The Godfather
The Godfather, Pt. II
Goodfellas
The Grifters
Heavenly Creatures
House of Games
La Femme Nikita (France)
The Lives of Others (Germany)
The Maltese

World's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy

The worlds best fantasy and science fiction films
2001: A Space Odyssey
A Clockwork Orange
Aliens
Back to the Future
Big Fish
Blade Runner
Brazil
Cocoon
Contact
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Dune (SF-channel mini-series)
E.T.: The Extraterrestrial
The Empire Strikes Back
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Field of Dreams
Frequency
Gattica
Gormenghast (SF-channel mini-series)
Inception

World's Best Sports Films

Films in gold won Best Picture Oscars®

Breaking Away
Bull Durham
Chariots of Fire
Field of Dreams
Friday Night Lights
Glory Road
Golden Boy
The Great White Hope
Hoop Dreams (doc.)
Hoosiers
Million Dollar Baby
The Natural
Phar Lap
Pride of the Yankees
Raging Bull
Requiem for a Heavyweight
Seabiscuit (remake)


I guess I stretched a bit to make a sports list, as Bull Durham and Breaking Away

Additions and Under Consideration

New additions:

A Boy Ten Feet Tall (childrens)
A Coal Miner's Daughter (musical/concert)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (bw, drama)
The Apartment (bw)
Baby Boom (comedy)
Bad Timing, a Sexual Obsession (romance)
Black Orpheus (musical/concert)
Bride and Prejudice (India, musical)
Broadcast News (drama)
Broken Trail (western, mini-series)
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (western)
Dead Can Dance: Toward