Best foreign films ever

A woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. During the search, her lover and her best friend become attracted to each other.

A bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer.

A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.

Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, and he gathers six other samurai to join him.

A small-time crook, hunted by the authorities for a car theft and the murder of a police officer, attempts to persuade a hip American journalism student to run away with him to Italy.

The story of a mistreated donkey and the people around him. A study on saintliness and a sister piece to Bresson's Mouchette.

A nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personae are melding together.

A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.

The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.

In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.

The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.

A young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.

A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.

Two neighbors form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. However, they agree to keep their bond platonic so as not to commit similar wrongs.

Two young Swedish children in the 1900s experience the many comedies and tragedies of their lively and affectionate theatrical family, the Ekdahls.

A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from a German prison in France.

An ex-Foreign Legion officer recalls his once-glorious life of leading troops in Djibouti.

On the eve of a large payment, residents of a collapsing collective farm see their plans turn into desolation when they discover that Irimiás, a former co-worker who they thought was dead, is returning to the community.

A care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.

A married couple is terrorized by a series of surveillance videotapes left on their front porch.

A lonely widow meets a much younger Moroccan worker in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love, to their own surprise and to the outright shock of their families, colleagues, and drinking buddies.

Georges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.

A woman struggles to find a way to live her life after the death of her husband and child.

This final installment in Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy follows Apu's life as an orphaned adult aspiring to be a writer.

A French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. Occupying the next bed in the dormitory to the top student in his class, the two young boys begin to form a bond.