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Movieline Magazine's "Top 100 Foreign Films" (1996)

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1. Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (1922)
2. Nosferatu (1922)
3. La Roue (1923)
4. Strike (1925)
5. Metropolis (1927)
6. Napoleon (1927)
7. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
8. Pandora's Box (1929)
9. Der Blaue Engel (1930)
10. Earth (1930)
11. L'Age D'Or (1930)
12. La Chienne (1931)
13. M (1931)
14. Le Million (1931)
15. A Nous La Liberte (1931)
16. Boudu Saved From Drowning (1932)
17. Vampyr (1932)
18. Zero For Conduct (1933)  (41m short)
19. L'Atalante (1934)
20. Le Jour Se Leve (1939)
21. The Rules of the Game (1939)
22. Children of Paradise (1945)
23. Beauty and the Beast (1946)
24. The Bicycle Thief (1948)
25. Rashomon (1950)
26. Diary of a Country Priest (1951)
27. Europa '51 (1952)
28. Forbidden Games (1952)
29. Ikiru (1952)
30. The Golden Coach (1952)
31. The Earrings of Madame de... (1953)
32. Tokyo Story (1953)
33. Ugetsu (1953)
34. Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
35. Senso (1954)
36. The Seven Samurai (1954)
37. Diabolique (1955)
38. Lola Montes (1955)
39. Night and Fog (1955)  (32m Documentary Short)
40. Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
41. The Burmese Harp (1956)
42. Throne of Blood (1957)
43. Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
44. The World of Apu (1959)
45. The 400 Blows (1959)
46. Floating Weeds (1959)
47. Eyes Without a Face (1960)
48. Breathless (1960)
49. L'Avventura (1960)
50. La Dolce Vita (1960)
51. Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
52. La Notte (1961)
53. Last Year At Marienbad (1961)
54. Lola (1961)
55. Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
56. Viridiana (1961)
57. Jules and Jim (1962)
58. L'Eclisse (1962)
59. 8 1/2 (1963)
60. Contempt (1963)
61. Red Desert (1964)
62. Gertrud (1964)
63. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
64. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964)
65. The Gospel According To St. Matthew (1964)
66. Pierrot Le Fou (1965)
67. Repulsion (1965)
68. Masculine-Feminine (1966)
69. Persona (1966)
70. Belle de Jour (1967)
71. The Red and the White (1967)
72. Playtime (1967)
73. Week End (1967)
74. Shame (1968)
75. Le Boucher (1970)
76. The Conformist (1970)
77. The Spider's Stratagem (1970)
78. Tristana (1970)
79. Two English Girls (1971)
80. Murmur of the Heart (1971)
81. Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
82. The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (1972)
83. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
84. Solaris (1972)
85. The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
86. Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
87. 1900 (1976)
88. Cria! (1976)
89. The American Friend (1977)
90. Fanny and Alexander (1982)
91. Night of the Shooting Stars (1982)
92. Ran (1985)
93. Shoah (1985)  (Documentary Feature)
94. Wings of Desire (1987)
95. Landscape In the Mist (1988)
96. The Decalogue: Season 1 (1989)  (Mini-Series)
97. Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
98. The Double Life of Veronique (1991)
99. The Kingdom (1994)
100. Lamerica (1994)

NOTE: Movieline Magazine selected The 100 Greatest Foreign Films - 100 of the all-time greatest non English-language films in the magazine's article of July 1996 written by Michael Atkinson, Stephen Rebello and David Thomson. They wrote: "Take a video vacation of the spirit and rent or buy these films of rare greatness. Some are austere and challenging. Many are intensely entertaining. All are rewarding respites from the familiar fare of our own culture."