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A few that come to mind:
- Festen
- Das Leben der Anderen
- La haine
- Relatos salvajes
- La vita è bella
Stalker
Two from me that haven't yet been mentioned (as far as I can see)
Dark Water: A beautiful Japanese horror that was released at a similar time to Ringu, but didn't get an English language remake.
City of God: A stunning portrait of gang rivalry in Rio de Janiero that bears repeat viewings.
City of God is great. Watched it as part of some recommended films list and it stuck with me.
City of God has the best child acting of any movie I've ever seen. It is so good I sorta suspect they weren't even acting in some scenes. I have to imagine they straight up pulled in random kids and told them they were going to gun them down in the street and just filmed it.
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Run Lola Run
Guimba (AKA Guimba the Tyrant)
Saraounia
Wages of Fear (1953) One of the best thrillers I've ever seen.
It was remade in 1977 and called "Sorcerer". I've never seen that version and neither has anyone else because it opened against Star Wars.
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One is The Irony of Fate, which is a Soviet New Year's movie, fittingly. So charming! Give it a shot!
I don't know if this qualifies, but Bon Cop, Bad Cop is a French and English Canadian film that's hilarious. The conjugating French swear words had me in stitches.
Your Name, the soundtrack is so good too.
Aniara
Ugly Stepsister
All Quiet on the Western Front
(The 2020 Netflix version)
Rififi
Parasite
Seven Samurai
Manon Of The Spring
Babette's Feast
Hero (2002)
Drunken Master (1978)
Shaolin Soccer (2001)
Nezha Conquers the Dragon King (1979)
Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of War (2004)
I really liked "Battle Royal" i feel like the hunger games may have been written taking HEAVY influence from this film.
I have two:
The City of Lost Children (French)
Pan's Labyrinth (Spanish)
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I didn't see a call out for Perfect Blue.
Troll Hunter Amelie The Orphanage The Host
I notice one of those is not like the others.
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With Fire and Sword (Polish). We rewatch it every few years. Amazing!
Under Sandet (danish)
A film about a group of 14 y/o war prisoners that have to clean up the mines on the beach, and about the officer that guards them.
I'm cheating a bit but the French movies Asterix: Mission Cleopatre and La Grande Vadrouille (1966) are both criminally underappreciated in the English speaking world.
Victoria, German film from 2015 Excellent heist thriller.
Perfect Blue is all sorts of fucked up in the best way. Really anything Satoshi Kon made.
Does it have to be exclusively in a foreign language, or does it still count if a dub exists as long as that's not the original? If I can count it, A Silent Voice/Koe no Katachi (2016).
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The most recent The Count of Monte-Cristo from France is an absolute work of art:
The City of Lost Children
Same!
El Hoyo (En: The Platform)
It's also in English but i watched it in Spanish.
There’s so many good ones to choose from, but the one that sprang to mind first for me was the movie Metro. Something about how all the characters felt so believable and the set design was phenomenal.