Top 5 foreign language films?

[North Star]

Thanks for the contributions guys .. I'll now have to check for the market availability of these other obscurities. Over to Criterion & blu ray.com .. (best place to start looking!)

Some Criterion user had actually listed the Palmu movie in the list of movies they'd like to see on Criterion!

[Drasko]

Les enfants du paradis, Carne
Szindbad, Huszarik
In the Mood for Love, Wong Kar-wai
Le Samourai, Melville
The Falls, Greenaway

As for the last one, English is foreign language to me.

ps: That is a nice list, Sarge.

[Karl Henning]

The Kozintsev Hamlet and King Lear, indeed.

Visiting the BPL today, I checked out Ladri di biciclette again.

[Karl Henning]

Visiting the BPL today, I checked out Ladri di biciclette again.

It received an Academy Honorary Award in 1950 and, just four years after its release, was deemed the greatest film of all time by Sight & Sound magazine's poll of filmmakers and critics;^[3] fifty years later the same poll ranked it sixth among greatest-ever films.^[4] It is also one of the top ten among the British Film Institute's list of films you should see by the age of 14.

[Florestan]

I didn't read War and Peace

You should redress this ASAP. 

On topic:

Balanța
Moromeții
Concertul/

Only 3 and not foreign at all for me... 

[TheGSMoeller]

Some recent fun ones that I would put up there with the finest out there ever of their respective genres ..

Audition (1999, Japan, Horror)
The Host (2006, South Korea, Monster Movie)
Pan's Labyrinth (2006, Fantasy, Spanish)

Ones I would like to see that I haven't yet

Battle Royale (2000, Japan, Action-thriller)

Four films that anyone interested in cinema should see.