Dateline: 01/01/01

In this third [Part I, Part II] of a three-part series listing the world's all-time greatest movies created outside of Hollywood, I've selected 30 films from 1975 to 1999 that have been hailed by critic's and viewers around the world.

28 Up, England, 1985
Directed by Michael Apted
Featuring Tony Walker, Bruce Balden, Suzanne Dewey, Nicholas Hitchon, Peter Davies, Paul Kligerman, John Brisby, Andrew Brackfield, Charles Furneaux, Neil Hughes, Jacki Bassett, Lynn Johnson, Susan Sullivan, and Simon Basterfield

Perhaps the finest of the Growing Up series of documentaries, in which Apted returns every seven years to document the lives of a group of people growing up in England.

Reviews:
Roger Ebert
Film.com
Motion Picture Database

Additional Information:
Internet Movie Database

Blue Velvet, USA, 1986
Directed by David Lynch
Starring Kyle MacLachlan, Laura Dern, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Dean Stockwell, Hope Lange

A young man finds an ear in a vacant field which leads him into the world of a mysterious and beautiful nightclub singer controlled by a psychopath. Although critics are split about the merits of this film, it's arguably Lynch's finest film.

Awards:
Best Female Lead--Isabella Rossellini. Independent Spirit Awards, USA
Best Director, Best Supporting Actor--Dennis Hopper. Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Best Actor--Dennis Hopper. Montréal World Film Festival
Best Film, Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Supporting Actor--Dennis Hopper. National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA

Reviews:
Film.com
Filmsite's Greatest Films
Motion Picture Database
Washington Post

Additional Information:
Internet Movie Database

The Boat (Das Boot), West Germany, 1981
Directed by Wolfgang Petersen
Starring Jurgen Prochnow, Herbert Gronemeyer

Epic submarine drama about a German U-boat that undergoes a series of attacks in 1941.

Reviews:
Roger Ebert
Motion Picture Database
Roughcut

Additional Information:
Internet Movie Database

Character (Karakter), Netherlands, 1997
Directed by Mike van Diem
Starring Fedja Van Huet, Betty Schuurman, Tamar Van Den Dop, Jan Decleir

Based on Ferdinand Bordewijk's classic 1938 Dutch novel, first-time director van Diem tells the story of a young, self-taught lawyer who defends himself against accusations that he killed the city's most feared bailiff.

Awards:
Best Foreign Language Film. Academy Awards, USA
Golden Frog--Rogier Stoffers. Camerimage, Poland
Best Belgian Actor. Flanders International Film Festival, Belgium
Grand Jury Prize. Los Angeles International Film Festival
Golden Calf--Best Feature, Audience Award. Nederlands Film Festival
Grand Prix, Best Actor--Jan Decleir. Paris Film Festival, France

Reviews:
Film.com
Motion Picture Database
Movie Magazine International

Additional Information:
Internet Movie Database

Do the Right Thing, USA, 1989
Directed by Spike Lee
Starring Danny Aiello, Spike Lee, John Turturro, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee

Racial tensions escalate on a hot day in Brooklyn when an Italian-American pizzeria owner refuses to place pictures of prominent African-Americans on his "Wall of Fame." Hailed as the most insightful film on race relations in the USA, Spike Lee's success opened Hollywood's door to a new generation of black filmmakers.

Awards:
Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor--Danny Aiello, Best Music. Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Best Cinematography. New York Film Critics Circle Awards

Reviews:
Roger Ebert
Jim Emerson
Motion Picture Database
Washington Post

Additional Information:
Internet Movie Database

Drugstore Cowboy, USA, 1989
Directed by Gus Van Sant
Starring Matt Dillon, Kelly Lynch, James Remar, James Le Gros, Heather Graham, William S. Burroughs

Four juvenile junkies rob Portland pharmacies to support their drug habit. When tragedy results, the leader attempts to escape his addiction as well as the law.

Awards:
CICAE New Cinema Forum Award. Berlin International Film Festival
Best Male Lead--Matt Dillon, Best Supporting Male--Max Perlich, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography. Independent Spirit Awards
Best Screenplay. Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay. National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA
Best Screenplay. New York Film Critics Circle Awards

Reviews:
Roger Ebert
Edinburgh University Film Society
Jim Emerson
Motion Picture Database
Slacker Film Guide

Additional Information:
Internet Movie Database

Entre Nous (Coup de Foudre), France, 1983
Directed by Diane Kurys
Starring Isabelle Huppert, Guy Marchand, Miou-Miou

In postwar France, two attractive young mothers with tragic pasts find emotional fulfillment in a loving and erotic friendship.

Reviews:
Motion Picture Database

Additional Information:
Internet Movie Database

Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander), Sweden, 1982
Directed by Ingmar Bergman
Starring Pernilla Allwin, Bertil Guve, Jarl Kulle

The magic of a 1907 Christmas fades when Fanny and Alexander's mother marries a puritanical and authoritarian minister after the sudden death of their loving father.

Awards:
Best Foreign Language Film, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design. Academy Awards, USA
Best Cinematography. British Academy Awards
Best Cinematography. British Society of Cinematographers
Best Foreign Film. César Awards, France
Best Foreign Film. Golden Globes, USA
Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor--Jarl Kulle. Guldbagge Awards, Sweden
Best Foreign Language Film, Best Cinematography. Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Best Foreign Language Film. National Board of Review, USA
Best Foreign Language Film, Best Director. National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA

Analysis:
Alexander's Dream Play by Mason West

Reviews:
Motion Picture Database

Additional Information:
Internet Movie Database

Farewell, My Concubine (Ba Wang Bie Ji), China/Hong Kong, 1993
Directed by Chen Kaige
Starring Leslie Cheung, Zhang Fengyi, Gong Li

In this epic drama set against the changing political backdrop of China, two friends grow up to achieve stardom in the Peking Opera. But as one man's real identity displays the traits of his famous character, the other marries a prostitute creating a tense romantic triangle.

Awards:
Best Foreign Language Film. British Academy Awards
Golden Palm. Cannes Film Festival, France
Best Foreign Language Film. Golden Globes, USA
Best Foreign Language Film. Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Best Foreign Language Film. National Board of Review, USA
Best Foreign Language Film, Best Supporting Actress--Gong Li. New York Film Critics Circle Awards

Reviews:
Roger Ebert
Film.com
Motion Picture Database

Additional Information:
Internet Movie Database

Goodbye, Children (Au Revoir, Les Enfants), France, 1987
Directed by Louis Malle
Starring Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejto, Philippe Morier-Genoud, Francine Racette

Two young schoolmates become best friends in Nazi-occupied France. When one learns the other is Jewish, he makes a tragic mistake that can never be undone.

Awards:
Best European Film, Best Director. Bodil Festival, Denmark
Best Direction. British Academy Awards
Best French Film, Best Director, Best Writing, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Sound, Best Production Design. César Awards, France
Best Screenplay. European Film Awards
Best Foreign Language Film. Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Golden Lion, OCIC Award. Venice Film Festival

Reviews:
Roger Ebert
Motion Picture Database
Washington Post

Additional Information:
Internet Movie Database

Hoop Dreams, USA, 1994
Directed by Steve James
Featuring William Gates, Arthur Agee

A couple Chicago high school basketball players dream of making it to the NBA. This acclaimed documentary follows their triumphs and misfortunes both on and off the court.

Awards:
Best Documentary Direction. Directors Guild of America, USA
Best Documentary. Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Best New Filmmaker. MTV Movie Awards, USA
Best Documentary. National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA
Best Documentary. New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Audience Award-Documentary. Sundance Film Festival, USA

Reviews:
The Australian
Roger Ebert
Film.com
Motion Picture Database

Additional Information:
Internet Movie Database

Kids, USA, 1995
Directed by Larry Clark
Starring Leo Fitzpatrick, Justin Pierce, Chloe Sevigny, Rosario Dawson

Clark's debut feature from a script by Harmony Korine takes a look at a day in the life of New York street kids. A teen-ager uses any means to seduce virgins, and when one of his conquests tests HIV positive, she frantically tries to find him before he infects the next girl.

Awards:
Best Debut Performance--Justin Pierce. Independent Spirit Awards

Reviews:
Roger Ebert
Motion Picture Database
Time

Additional Information:
Internet Movie Database

A depressed slaughterhouse worker in a poor black neighborhood kicks his son out of the house, refuses to join his friends in a murder plan, and rejects his wife's intimate initiatives. Made with an amateur cast for $10,000, this realistic portrait was proclaimed a national treasure in 1990.

Awards:
FIPRESCI New Cinema Forum Award. Berlin International Film Festival
National Film Registry. National Film Preservation Board, USA

Reviews:
Motion Picture Database

Additional Information:
Internet Movie Database

Kings of the Road (Im Lauf der Zeit), West Germany, 1975
Directed by Wim Wenders
Starring Rudiger Vogler, Hanns Zischler, Lisa Kreuzer

Naturally lit and beautifully shot in black and white without a script, the foremost director of the New German cinema created the ultimate road movie in which two men travel from one desolate town to the next on the back roads of West Germany.

Reviews:
Motion Picture Database

Additional Information:
Internet Movie Database

The Last Emperor, China/Italy/England, 1987
Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
Starring John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Dennis Dun

Three-year-old Pu Yi ascends to the Chinese throne in 1908 and becomes China's last emperor. This epic biography chronicals his entire life in which he served as a figurehead and puppet to various governments and ultimately was "re-educated" and deposed by the Communists.

Awards:
Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Sound, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Original Score. Academy Awards, USA
Best Edited Feature Film. American Cinema Editors, USA
Best Film, Best Costume Design, Best Make-Up. British Academy Awards
Best Cinematography. British Society of Cinematographers
Best Foreign Film. César Awards, France
Best Director. Directors Guild of America, USA
Special Jury Prize for the cultural and economic achievements of the film. European Film Awards
Best Dramatic Motion Picture, Best Motion Picture Director, Best Motion Picture Screenplay, Best Original Motion Picture Score. Golden Globes, USA
Best Cinematography, Best Music. Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Freedom of Expression Award for Director's Cut. National Board of Review, USA
Best Cinematography. New York Film Critics Circle Awards

Reviews:
Boston Phoenix
Roger Ebert
Motion Picture Database
Washington Post

Additional Information:
Internet Movie Database

Money (L'Argent), France/Switzerland, 1983
Directed by Robert Bresson
Starring Christian Patey, Caroline Lang, Sylvie Van Den Elsen

Based on a Tolstoy short story, money accounts for the conviction of an innocent man accused of forgery and his subsequent life of crime.

Awards:
Best Screenplay. Cannes Film Festival
Best Director. National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA

Reviews:
Motion Picture Database

Additional Information:
Internet Movie Database

My American Uncle (Mon Oncle D'Amerique), France, 1980
Directed by Alain Resnais
Starring Gerard Depardieu, Nicole Garcia, Roger Pierre

A behavioral psychologist bases his theories about human ambition on the lives of three people: a farmer pursuing a career in the city; an actress having an affair with a married man; and the married man--a ruthless politician.

Awards:
Grand Jury Prize. Cannes Film Festival
Best Foreign Language Film. New York Film Critics Circle Awards

Reviews:
Motion Picture Database

Additional Information:
Internet Movie Database

My Left Foot, Ireland, 1989
Directed by Jim Sheridan
Starring Daniel Day Lewis, Ray McAnally, Brenda Fricker, Fiona Shaw

In this filmed adaptation of Christy Brown's autobiography, the Irish painter and author, born with cerebral palsy which rendered him almost completely paralyzed, overcame his disability by writing and drawing with his left foot.

Awards:
Best Actor--Daniel Day-Lewis, Best Supporting Actress--Brenda Fricker. Academy Awards, USA
Best Actor--Daniel Day-Lewis, Best Supporting Actor--Ray McAnally. British Academy Awards
Best Foreign Film. Independent Spirit Awards
Best Actor--Daniel Day-Lewis, Best Supporting Actress--Brenda Fricker. Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Best Actor--Daniel Day-Lewis, Jury Distinction--Brenda Fricker. Montréal World Film Festival
Best Actor--Daniel Day-Lewis. National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA
Best Film, Best Actor--Daniel Day-Lewis. New York Film Critics Circle Awards

Reviews:
Roger Ebert
Motion Picture Database
Washington Post

Additional Information:
Internet Movie Database

That Obscure Object of Desire (Cet Obscur Objet du Désir), France/Spain, 1977
Directed by Luis Bunuel
Starring Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Angela Molina

Against the backdrop of guerrilla terrorism, a man pursues a beautiful young woman only to have her taunt him with the promise of fulfilled desire and then deny him the pleasure.

Awards:
Best Foreign Language Film. Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Best Foreign Language Film, Best Director. National Board of Review, USA
Best Director. National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA

Reviews:
Motion Picture Database

Additional Information:
Internet Movie Database

The Piano, New Zealand/France, 1993
Directed by Jane Campion
Starring Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin

Set in the 19th century, a mute Scottish woman arrives in New Zealand with her piano and her young daughter to marry a pioneer farmer. But he refuses to haul her piano to the farm; instead, he sells it to an illiterate Englishman who later agrees to return the piano to the woman in exchange for lessons that become increasingly erotic.

Awards:
Best Original Screenplay, Best Actress--Holly Hunter, Best Supporting Actress--Anna Paquin. Academy Awards, USA
Best European/Non-American Film. Bodil Festival, Denmark
Best Actress--Holly Hunter, Best Costume Design, Best Production Design. British Academy Awards
Golden Palm, Best Actress--Holly Hunter. Cannes Film Festival
Best Foreign Film. César Awards, France
Best Dramatic Motion Picture Actress--Holly Hunter. Golden Globes, USA
Best Foreign Film. Guldbagge Awards, Sweden
Best Foreign Film. Independent Spirit Awards, USA
Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress--Holly Hunter, Best Supporting Actress--Anna Paquin, Best Cinematography. Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Best Actress--Holly Hunter. National Board of Review, USA
Best Screenplay, Best Actress--Holly Hunter. National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA
Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actress--Holly Hunter. New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Most Promising Motion Picture Producer--Jan Chapman. PGA Golden Laurel Awards, USA
Best Foreign Film. Robert Festival, Denmark
Best Original Screenplay. Writers Guild of America, USA

Reviews:
Roger Ebert
Motion Picture Database
ReelViews
Washington Post

Additional Information:
Internet Movie Database

Pixote, Brazil, 1981
Directed by Hecter Babenco
Starring Marilia Pera, Fernando Ramos Da Silva

A 10-year-old boy leaves reform school and struggles for survival in a world filled with violence, drugs, prostitutes and crime in the streets of Sao Paulo.

Awards:
Silver Leopard. Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland
Best Foreign Language Film. Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Best Actress--Marília Pêra. National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA
Best Foreign Language Film. New York Film Critics Circle Awards

Reviews:
Motion Picture Database

Additional Information:
Internet Movie Database

Pulp Fiction, USA, 1984
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
Starring John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, Uma Thurman, Eric Stoltz, Harvey Keitel, Ving Rhames, Amanda Plummer, Tim Roth, Rosanna Arquette, Quentin Tarantino, Steve Buscemi, Angela Jones

Three interwoven yet seemingly disparate tales come together at the end. One story focuses on two hit men working for a crime boss; another tells the story of two lovers who rob a diner; and the third features a washed-up boxer who's supposed to take a fall.

Awards:
Best Original Screenplay. Academy Awards, USA
Best Film. Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor--Samuel L. Jackson. British Academy Awards
Golden Palm. Cannes Film Festival
Best Motion Picture Screenplay. Golden Globes, USA
Best Feature, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Male Lead--Samuel L. Jackson. Independent Spirit Awards, USA
Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor--John Travolta. Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Best Movie, Best Dance Sequence. MTV Movie Awards, USA
Best Picture, Best Director. National Board of Review, USA
Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay. National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA
Best Director, Best Screenplay. New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Bronze Horse, Best Screenplay, Best Actor--John Travolta. Stockholm Film Festival

Reviews:
Roger Ebert
Film.com
Motion Picture Database
Washington Post

Additional Information:
Internet Movie Database

Raise the Red Lantern
(Da Hong Deng Long Gao Gao Gua), China/Hong Kong/Taiwan , 1991
Directed by Zhang Yimou
Starring Gong Li, Ma Jingwu, Jin Shuyuan, Cao Cuifeng, He Caifei

A beautiful young woman is selected to serve as concubine to an affluent man in 1920's China. In order to survive financially, she accepts, but her life takes a turn for the worse when her master's other wives become jealous.

Awards:
Best Foreign Language Film. British Academy Awards
Best Cinematography. Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Best Foreign Language Film, Best Cinematography. National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA
Best Foreign Language Film. New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Silver Lion. Venice Film Festival

Reviews:
Roger Ebert
Edinburgh University Film Society
Motion Picture Database

Additional Information:
Internet Movie Database

Ran, Japan/France, 1985
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryu, Mieko Harada, Yoshiko Miyazaki

Kurosawa adapts Shakespeare's King Lear to feudal Japan. In the process of dividing his kingdom among his three sons, an old warlord disowns his youngest son who truly cares about him. The two eldest sons fight among themselves over the inheritance and eventually turn on their father.

Awards:
Best Costume Design. Academy Awards, USA
Best European/Non-American Film. Bodil Festival, Denmark
Best Foreign Language Film, Best Make-up Artist. British Academy Awards
Best Foreign Language Film, Best Music. Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Best Foreign Language Film, Best Director. National Board of Review, USA
Best Film, Best Cinematography. National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA
Best Foreign Language Film. New York Film Critics Circle Awards

Reviews:
Film.com
Motion Picture Database

Additional Information:
Internet Movie Database

Red France/Poland/Switzerland, 1994
Directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski
Starring Irene Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Frederique Feder, Jean-Pierre Lorit

A young student and model finds herself mesmerized by a judge whose bitterness and isolation intrigue her and mirror her own sadness.

Awards:
Best European Film. Bodil Festival, Denmark
Best Original Music. César Awards, France
Best Foreign Film. Independent Spirit Awards, USA
Best Foreign Language Film. Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Best Foreign Language Film. National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA
Best Foreign Language Film. New York Film Critics Circle Awards

Reviews:
Roger Ebert
Motion Picture Database
Washington Post

Additional Information:
Internet Movie Database

A Room With a View, England, 1986
Directed by James Ivory
Starring Helena Bonham Carter, Maggie Smith, Daniel Day-Lewis, Denholm Elliott, Julian Sands, Judi Dench, Simon Callow, Fabia Drake, Patrick Godfrey, Rupert Graves

Based on E.M. Forster's 1908 novel, a young woman and her chaperone travel to Florence in pursuit of a room with a view. But when she falls in loves with a British gentleman, she must choose between him and her fiance in England.

Awards:
Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design. Academy Awards, USA
Best Film, Best Actress--Maggie Smith, Best Supporting Actress--Judi Dench, Best Production Design. British Academy Awards
Best Supporting Motion Picture Actress--Maggie Smith. Golden Globes, USA
Special Distinction Award. Independent Spirit Awards, USA
Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor--Daniel Day-Lewis. National Board of Review, USA
Best Cinematography. New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Adapted Screenplay. Writers Guild of America, USA

Reviews:
Roger Ebert
Film.com
Motion Picture Database

Additional Information:
Internet Movie Database

The Story of Women (Une Affaire de Femmes), France, 1988
Directed by Claude Chabrol
Starring Isabelle Huppert, Francois Cluzet, Marie Trintignant, Louis Ducreux, Michael Beaune, Dominique Blanc, Marie Bunel

The true story of the last woman to be executed by guillotine in Nazi-occupied France for performing abortions to support her children.

Awards:
Best Foreign Language Film. Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Best Foreign Language Film. National Board of Review, USA
Best Foreign Language Film. New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Actress--Isabelle Huppert. Venice Film Festival

Reviews:
Motion Picture Database
Washington Post

Additional Information:
Internet Movie Database

The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel), France/Yugoslavia/Poland/West Germany, 1979
Directed by Volker Schlondorff
Starring Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler

Based on the groundbreaking novel by Gunter Grass, a three-year-old boy, put off by the adult world, decides to remain a child forever by not growing any taller. As he ages, he screams and bangs on his tin drum to assert control.

Awards:
Best Foreign Language Film. Academy Awards, USA
Best European Film. Bodil Festival, Denmark
Golden Palm. Cannes Film Festival
Outstanding Feature Film. German Film Awards
Best Foreign Language Film. Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Best Foreign Language Film. National Board of Review, USA

Reviews:
Motion Picture Database

Additional Information:
Internet Movie Database

Wild Reeds (Les Roseaux Sauvages), France, 1994
Directed by Andre Techine
Starring Elodie Bouchez, Gael Morel, Stephane Rideau, Frederic Gorny, Michele Moretti, Jacques Nolot, Eric Kreikenmayer

Set in 1962, four French teenagers awaken emotionally and sexually amidst conflicting desires, political turmoil, and an uncertain future.

Awards:
Best French Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Most Promising Young Actress--Elodie Bouchez. César Awards, France
Best Foreign Language Film. Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Best Foreign Language Film. National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA
Best Foreign Language Film. New York Film Critics Circle Awards

Reviews:
Film.com
Motion Picture Database
Time

Additional Information:
Internet Movie Database

Wings of Desire (Der Himmel Uber Berlin), France/West Germany, 1987
Directed by Wim Wenders
Starring Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander, Peter Falk

An angel from the Berlin sky falls in love with a beautiful trapeze artist and desires to become human.

Awards:
Best Director. Bavarian Film Awards, Germany
Best Director, Best Screenplay. Cannes Film Festival
Best Director, Best Supporting Actor--Curt Bois. European Film Awards
Best Feature Film, Best Cinematography. German Film Awards
Best Foreign Film. Independent Spirit Awards, USA
Best Foreign Language Film, Best Cinematography. Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Best Cinematography. National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA
Best Cinematography. New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Audience Award Best Feature. Sao Paulo International Film Festival

Reviews:
Ebert's Great Movies
MediaCircus
Motion Picture Database
Washington Post

Additional Information:
Internet Movie Database

As I conclude this series, I hope readers have found it educational and entertaining. I know of no other list on the Internet like this. The selections were culled from high-profile online lists and movie review databases. It is not intended to be a definitive collection of the greatest movies produced outside Hollywood, but rather, a widely-agreed upon list with links to critical reviews.

That said, I found it particularly interesting that certain critics could call a film "one of the year's best films, or one of the worst" and subsequently the film shows up on everyone's all-time greatest movies lists. Such comments complicated my admittedly non-scientific selection process, but I'm confident that the movies appearing here deserve the recognition.

Masterpieces of Cinema I: 1900 - 1949
Masterpieces of Cinema II: 1950 - 1974