When most of us hear the word “movie”, we think of Hollywood but foreign films deserve a place in the spotlight. This list features the 50 top foreign language films, period.
In the golden age of the so-called “art cinema”, college-aged cineastes and middle-aged professorial types needed only to congregate at the local repertory theatre for a fix of the latest and greatest in international film. They could catch a Bergman-Fellini double feature and wile away the evening in a coffee shop discussing the Christ-figure symbolism or whatever.