Subtitles welcome — the best non-English movies on the ranking
Seven Samurai stands with the best of anything Hollywood ever made. The best non-English films, in strict order.
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Hide English-language films from the ranking and the top of the list stops looking like a video-store wall and starts looking like the rest of the world. Ten films, zero subtitles skipped:
Read that again: the best non-English film on the planet, by consensus, sits near the very top of every movie on the site, English included. Japanese cinema holds four of the first six slots — and 777 Charlie, a Kannada film with a cult-sized audience, sits above nearly everything Hollywood released this century. Iran is on the board too, with A Separation.
None of these need rescuing. They already win over everyone who gives them a chance — the only thing in the way is a language barrier. Trust the picks, turn on the subtitles, and work down the list from the top.
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