The OFFICIAL BOT Top 100 Foreign Films of all Time Ever List Begins...

[chasmmi]

175th - 200th

 

Alexsandr Nevsky	Russia	54
All about my mother	Spain	54
Ponyo	Japan	53
The boy and the beast	Japan	53
Thirst	Korea	53
Eyes Without a Face	France	52
Police Story 2	Hong Kong	52
House	Japan	52
Late Spring	Japan	52
A Taxi Driver	Korea	52
black book	netherlands	52
The Devil's Backbone	Spain	52
The Orphanage	Spain	52
The night comes for us	Indonesia	51
The Wailing	Korea	51
Loves of a Blonde	czech	50
Les Visiteurs	France	50
The diving bell and the butterfly	France	50
The Passion of Joan of Arc	France	50
Don't go breaking my heart	Hong Kong	50
Abigail	Hungary	50
The lunchbox	india	50
The Secret Life of Arriety	Japan	50
The Cranes are flying	Russia	50
Women on the verge of Nervous Breakdown	Spain	50
Shadow	China	49

[chasmmi]

150th - 175th

 

The Triplets of Belleville	France	60
run lola run	Germany	60
Drug War	Hong Kong	60
Audition	Japan	60
A Bittersweet Life	Korea	60
Autumn Sonata	Swedish	60
La Vie En Rose	France	58
The White Ribbon	Germany	58
Perfect Blue	Japan	58
The Vanishing	netherlands	58
Nosferatu	Germany	57
The Secret in their eyes	Argentina	56
Daisies	czech	56
The Earrings of Madame De	France	56
What's in a name	France	56
Playtime	Germany	56
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara	India	56
Godzilla	Japan	56
Paprika	Japan	56
whisper of the heart	Japan	56
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo	Swedish	56
A town called panic	France	54
I Lost my Body	France	54
Drunken Master 2	Hong Kong	54
Shaolin Soccer	Hong Kong	54

[chasmmi]

126th-150th

 

Taare Zameen Par	India	69
Irreversible	France	68
orpheus	France	68
Waltz with Bashir	Iran	68
Millenial Actress	Japan	68
The Fool	Russia	68
Carlos	Spain	67
3 Iron	Korea	66
Andrei Rublev	Russia	66
Ikiru	Japan	65
Day of Wrath	Denmark	64
Army of Shadows	France	64
Cleo from 5 to 7	France	64
La Femme Nikita	France	64
Raw	France	64
Goodbye Lenin	Germany	64
Eat,Drink, Man Woman	Hong Kong	64
Police Story 3	Hong Kong	64
Dil Se	India	64
Munnabhai MBBS	India	64
Tumbbad	India	64
Smiles of a Summer Night	Swedish	64
IP Man	Hong Kong	62
Corpus Christi	Poland	62
martyrs	France	60

[chasmmi]

101st-125th

 

The Ring	Japan	77
Wild Tales	Argentina	76
Phoenix	Germany	76
Aguirre: The Wrath of God	Germany	75
Kuch Kuch Hota Hai	India	75
Breathless	France	74
The Raid 2	Indonesia	74
Close-up	Iran	74
Howl's moving Castle	Japan	74
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind	Japan	74
Tokyo Story	Japan	74
Farewell My Concubine	China	72
Elle	France	72
Hum Aapke Hain Kaun	India	72
Kabhi Kushi Kabhie Gham	India	72
Wolf Children	Japan	72
A Tale of Two Sisters	Korea	72
Porco Rosso	Japan	70
Throne of Blood	Japan	70
When Marnie was There	Japan	70
The Good, The Bad, and the Weird	Korea	70
Pain and Glory	Spain	70
Fanny and Alexander	Swedish	70
Kung Fu Hustle	China	69

[Tower]

2 hours ago, chasmmi said:

Also there are a film or two that do not qualify for the list, again, I only sought to double check/remove things like that if they were threatening the main top 100. 

 

Anyhows: 

 

601st and below:

 

M	Germany	1

 

M was 85th on the list... If you add this point to M's total then it jumps over The Host.

[Tower]

Also it looks like the only Israeli films to get votes from anyone other than myself are Waltz With Bashir (which is definitely Israeli despite you listing as Iranian) which makes sense as it made a bit of a name for itself internationally and was nominated for a Oscar, And the surprising Tel Aviv On Fire which I haven't actually seen myself yet.

[Daxtreme]

Thirst...

FeelsBadMan

 

[grim22]

On 7/20/2020 at 9:37 AM, chasmmi said:

83rd: Drishyam - India (2013/15)

1 top 10

88 pts 

 

Assumed Plot: So Drishyam means something along the lines of visual or vision. Therefore, here goes... Drishyam is the story of a guy who is luckless in love but never loses faith that the perfect girl is out there. Then one day he see her, she is everything that he could dream she would be. But then he wakes up. Did he overdrink? Was she a dream? A mirage? No, surely she was real, it was all too real. He meets her again and again but each time only as a vision, as a dream. He strives to believe that this girl must exist, that they are being connected across a higher plane. Is she real? Or merely a vision? 

 

 

Ok, this seems to involve death by car into icy water. 

 

So I am pretty far off again with my guess. And again this appears to be a Hindi movie that errs more on the serious side as opposed to having 17 peppy songs each with 42 sari changes per song. 

 

I am also aware that there appears to be two language versions of this, one in Hindi and one in Malayalam.  I have assumed Hindi as that is the most prominent cinema industry/language, but I am aware that this may be a slightly more ambiguous entry than most because of how India will sometimes essentially produce the same film in multiple regional languages. 

 

This tentatively bumps Bollywood up to 3 entries on the countdown, continuing its strong showing so far. 

 

From Amazon user,  Dr. Garabet

 

After the execrable flop of Action Jackson Ajay Devgn returns to the screen with a memorable well acted, well scripted thriller. It is not for the faint-hearted. The only weak link is Tabu's overacted performance as the cruel police chief cum tender mother of her only son (the killed ultra-scoundrel of a teenager). To see Tabu at her best watch the towering Haider, where she plays the mother to Shahid Kapoor's Hamlet. A powerful movie laying bare India's bleeding social wounds.

 

Films by Nation

 

5 - France

3 - Bollywood

2 - Italy

1 - Hong Kong

1 - Mexico

1 - China

1 - Denmark

1 - Soviet Union

1 - Sweden

1 - Germany

1 - South Korea

Good article about how one pivotal scene is played by the lead in all the 5 different versions:  https://www.filmcompanion.in/features/malayalam-features/the-best-scene-in-drishyam-as-performed-by-mohanlal-kamal-haasan-ajay-devgn-venkatesh-and-ravichandran-malayalam-tamil-telugu-kannada-bollywood-jeethu-joseph-baradwaj-rangan/