Your favorite foreign films?

[Jeebo]

Because the orange con man in the White House is decreeing that we won't be able to watch foreign films any more, I thought I would post my absolute favorite foreign films here. No particular order, but the last three are silent films.

High Tension
French, 2003. One of the best mad slasher movies I've ever seen.

The Wall
Austrian, 2012. A psychological study of isolation and survival. It's a science-fiction film, because the title phenomenon could only have come from non-human technology.

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
French, 2007. A true story about a 43-year-old magazine publisher who suddenly has a devastating stroke. It was awful what happened to the poor guy, and yet what he was able to accomplish with what he had left was truly uplifting and heartwarming. A beautiful film.

Run Lola Run
German, 1998. A relentless 80-minute roller-coaster ride.

Beauty and the Beast
French, 1946. The first time I watched this movie, I felt like I was in an art gallery watching a painting of a fairy-tale scene come to life. Even though it's in black-and-white.

Metropolis
German, 1927. A silent film classic, and a classic of the science-fiction genre as well.

The Passion of Joan of Arc
French, 1928. Scribes made a written record of the interrogation of Joan of Arc, and that written record survived, to become essentially the screenplay for this film. That's why it's so realistic. As good as this movie is, I have watched it only once; I could not bear to watch it again because of the incredibly realistic burning-at-the-stake scene at the end.

Battleship Potemkin
Russian, 1925. True story of a mutiny aboard a Russian battleship in 1905 that presaged the Russian Revolution. Includes the famous Odessa Steps sequence.

What are y'all's favorite foreign films? Now that we won't be able to watch any more of them, we can still talk about our favorites.

Oh, and I almost forgot to say, I haven't checked but I'm pretty sure you can watch most or all of these on YouTube.

-- Ron