Updated On September 11th, 2022
Looking for the best Foreign? You aren't short of choices in 2022. The difficult bit is deciding the best Foreign for you, but luckily that's where we can help. Based on testing out in the field with reviews, sells etc, we've created this ranked list of the finest Foreign.
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L'inhumaine (Blu-ray)
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Yojimbo (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)
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100%
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Yojimbo & Sanjuro (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)
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100%
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Le Beau Serge (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)
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Carlos [Criterion Collection] [2 Discs] [Blu-ray] [2009]
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Purple Noon (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)
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The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears (Blu-ray)
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86%
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La Cienaga [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray] [2001]
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80%
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Two Days, One Night (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)
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74%
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I Knew Her Well (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)
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70%
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Blu-Ray edition. L'Inhumaine (quot;the inhuman womanquot; is a 1924 French drama-science fiction film directed by Marcel L'Herbier. Georgette Leblanc plays the Inhuman Woman of the title, Claire Lescot, who lives on the outskirts of Paris, where she draws important men to her like moths to a flame. At her luxurious parties, she basks in the amorous attentions of her many admirers while always remaining aloof. When it appears she is the reason for a young devotee's suicide, however, her fans desert her. The filming of the concert where she's raucously booed is a renowned piece of cinema history: L'Herbier invited more than 2,000 people from the arts and fashionable society to attend the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and play the part of the unruly audience. Among the attendees were Pablo Picasso, Man Ray, Erik Satie, René Clair, James Joyce, and Ezra Pound (although none are actually visible).
L'inhumaine (Blu-ray)
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Thanks to perhaps the most indelible character in Akira Kurosawa's oeuvre, Yojimbo surpassed even Seven Samurai in popularity when it was released. The masterless samurai Sanjuro, who slyly manipulates two warring clans to his advantage.
Yojimbo (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)
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Thanks to perhaps the most indelible character in Akira Kurosawa's oeuvre, Yojimbo surpassed even Seven Samurai in popularity when it was released. The masterless samurai Sanjuro, who slyly manipulates two warring clans to his advantage.
Yojimbo & Sanjuro (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)
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Of the hallowed group of Cahiers du cinima critics turned filmmakers who would transform French film history, Claude Chabrol (LES BONNES FEMMES) was the first to direct his own feature. His stark and absorbing landmark debut, LE BEAU SERGE, follows a successful yet sickly young man (A WOMAN IS a WOMANs Jean-Claude Brialy) who returns home to the small village where he grew up. There, he finds himself at odds with his former close friend (LES COUSINSsS Girard Blain) now unhappily married and a wretched alcoholic and the provincial life he represents. The remarkable and raw LE BEAU SERGE heralded the arrival of a cinematic titan who would go on to craft provocative, entertaining films for five more decades.
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CARLOS, directed by Olivier Assayas, is an epic, intensely detailed account of the life of the infamous international terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez - also known as Carlos the Jackal. One of the twentieth centurys most-wanted fugitives, Carlos was committed to violent left-wing activism throughout the seventies and eighties, orchestrating bombings, kidnappings, and hijackings in Europe and the Middle East. Assayas portrays him not as a criminal mastermind but as a symbol l of seismic political shifts around the world, and the magnetic Idgar Rammrez (THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM) brilliantly embodies him as a swaggering global gangster. Criterion presents the complete, uncut, director-approved, five-and-a-half-hour version of CARLOS.
Carlos (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)
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Alain Delon (THE LEOPARD) was at his most impossibly beautiful when PURPLE NOON (PLEIN SOLEIL) was released and made him an instant star. This ripe, colorful adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's vicious novel THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY, directed by the versatile Rene Climent (FORBIDDEN GAMES), stars Delon as Tom Ripley, a duplicitous American charmer in Rome on a mission to bring his privileged, devil-may-care acquaintance Philippe Greenleaf (ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS' Maurice Ronet) back to the United States; what initially seems a carefree tale of friendship soon morphs into a thrilling saga of seduction, identity theft, and murder. Featuring gorgeous on-location photography in coastal Italy, PURPLE NOON is crafted with a light touch that allows it to be suspenseful and erotic at once, while giving Delon the role of a lifetime.
Purple Noon (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)
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From directing duo Helene Cattet & Bruno Forzani (AMER), comes this homage to the masters of classic Italian Giallo horror. Dan returns home to find his wife is missing. With no signs of struggle or break-in and with no help from the police, Dans search for answers leads him down a psychosexual rabbit hole. THE STRANGE COLOR OF YOUR BODYS TEARS is a bloody and taut fantasia of suspense that leaves the viewer entranced in this highly original erotic thriller.
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The release of Lucrecia Martel's LA CIENAGA HERALDED the arrival of an astonishingly vital and original voice in Argentine cinema. With a radical take on narrative, disturbing yet beautiful cinematography, and a highly sophisticated use of on and off-screen sound, Martel turns her tale of a decaying bourgeois family, whiling away the hours of one sweaty, sticky summer, into a cinematic marvel. This visceral take on class, nature, sexuality, and the ways political turmoil and social stagnation can manifest in human relationships is a drama of amazing tactility and one of the great contemporary film debuts.
This collection of films from internationally renowned director Werner Herzog includes Even Dwarfs Started Small, Land of Silence and Darkness, Fata Morgana, Aguirre, The Wrath of God, The Enigma of Kasper Hauser, Heart of Glass, Stroszek, Woyzeck, Nosferatu the Vampyre, Fitzcarraldo, Ballad of the Little Soldier, Where the Green Ants Dream, Cobra Verde, Lessons of Darkness, Little Dieter Needs to Fly, and My Best Friend.
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Oscar winner Marion Cotillard (La Vie En Rose) received another nomination for her searing, deeply felt performance as a working-class woman desperate to hold on to her factory job, in this gripping film from master Belgian directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (The Kid with a Bike). Cotillard is Sandra, a wife and mother who suffers from depression and discovers that, while she was home on sick leave, a majority of her coworkers voted in favor of her being fired rather than give up their annual bonuses. She then spends a Saturday and Sunday visiting them each in turn, to try to convince them to change their minds. From this simple premise, the Dardennes render a powerful, humanist drama about the importance of community in an increasingly impersonal world.
Two Days, One Night (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)
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Following the gorgeous, seemingly liberated Adriana (Divorce Italian Style's Stefania Sandrelli) as she chases her dreams in the Rome of La dolce vita, I Knew Her Well is at once a delightful immersion in the popular music and style of Italy in the sixties and a biting critique of it's sexual politics and the culture of celebrity. Over a series of intimate episodes, just about every one featuring a different man, a new hairstyle, and an outfit to match, the unsung Italian master Antonio Pietrangeli, working from a script he co-wrote with Ettore Scola, composes a deft, seriocomic character study that never strays from it's complicated central figure. I Knew Her Well is a thrilling rediscovery, by turns funny, tragic, and altogether jaw-dropping.
I Knew Her Well (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)