BBC Culture site's 100 Greatest Foreign Language Films (October 2018 poll of 209 critics in 43 countries)
A sampling of how some of the 209 critics voted in the BBC Culture Poll for 100 Greatest Foreign Films
Matthew Anderson – The New York Times (UK)
1. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
2. Tokyo Story (Yasujirô Ozu, 1953)
3. Aguirre, Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972)
4. The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke, 2001)
5. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 2007)
6. The Exterminating Angel (Luis Buñuel, 1962)
7. Caché (Michael Haneke, 2005)
8. Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1973)
9. Ghost in the Shell (Mamuru Oshii, 1995)
10. Run Lola Run (Tom Tykwer, 1998)
Lindsay Baker – BBC Culture (UK)
1. La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, 1960)
2. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
3. I Am Love (Luca Guadagnino, 2009)
4. City of God (Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund, 2002)
5. Together (Lukas Moodysson, 2000)
6. Belle de Jour (Luis Buñuel, 1967)
7. La Vie en Rose (Olivier Dahan, 2007)
8. Volver (Pedro Almodóvar, 2006)
9. The Tin Drum (Volker Schlöndorff, 1979)
10. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
Nicholas Barber – BBC Culture (UK)
1. La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, 1960)
2. Aguirre, Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972)
3. Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972)
4. The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959)
5. A Separation (Asghar Farhadi, 2011)
6. Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
7. Still Walking (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2008)
8. Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau and René Clément, 1946)
9. Grave of the Fireflies (Isao Takahata, 1988)
10. Rififi (Jules Dassin, 1955)
Christian Blauvelt – IndieWire (US)
1. Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami, 1990)
2. Hyenas (Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1992)
3. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
4. La Grande Illusion (Jean Renoir, 1937)
5. Supercop (Stanley Tong, 1992)
6. Dersu Uzala (Akira Kurosawa, 1975)
7. Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)
8. Aparajito (Satyajit Ray, 1956)
9. Lucía (Humberto Solás, 1968)
10. Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai, 1994)
Richard Brody – The New Yorker (US)
1. The Last Laugh (FW Murnau, 1924)
2. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928)
3. Shoah (Claude Lanzmann, 1985)
4. Ivan the Terrible: Part I (Sergei M Eisenstein, 1944)
5. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
6. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1939)
7. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
8. In Praise of Love (Jean-Luc Godard, 2001)
9. The Wind Will Carry Us (Abbas Kiarostami, 1999)
10. Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1967)
Ty Burr – Film critic (US)
1. Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974)
2. Aguirre, Wrath of God (Werner Herzog, 1972)
3. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu, 2007)
4. Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965)
5. Late Spring (Yasujirô Ozu, 1949)
6. Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
7. Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders, 1987)
8. Where is the Friend's Home? (Abbas Kiarostami, 1987)
9. Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)
10. My Neighbour Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki, 1988)
Justin Chang – Los Angeles Times (US)
1. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
2. Sansho the Bailiff (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)
3. Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
4. Tokyo Story (Yasujirô Ozu, 1953)
5. Flowers of Shanghai (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1998)
6. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
7. Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955)
8. Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai, 1994)
9. Léon Morin, Priest (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1961)
10. Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
Aisha Harris – The New York Times (US)
1. Breathless (Jean-Luc Godard, 1960)
2. M (Fritz Lang, 1931)
3. The Act of Killing (Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn and Anonymous, 2012)
4. The Killer (John Woo, 1989)
5. The Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini, 1957)
6. BPM (Robin Campillo, 2017)
7. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
8. Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, 2014)
9. In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000)
10. Black Girl (Ousmane Sembene, 1966)
Molly Haskell – Film critic (US)
1. The Earrings of Madame de… (Max Ophüls, 1953)
2. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
3. Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
4. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1939)
5. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972)
6. Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman, 1982)
7. À Nos Amours (Maurice Pialat, 1983)
8. Hero (Zhang Yimou, 2002)
9. The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache, 1973)
10. Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
Annette Insdorf – Columbia University (US)
1. Ashes and Diamonds (Andrzej Wajda, 1958)
2. The Rules of the Game (Jean Renoir, 1939)
3. The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)
4. Decalogue: 1 (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1989)
5. Hiroshima Mon Amour (Alain Resnais, 1959)
6. The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959)
7. Come and See (Elem Klimov, 1985)
8. Three Colours: Red (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1994)
9. The Tin Drum (Volker Schlöndorff, 1979)
10. The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)
Isabelle Regnier – Le Monde (France)
1. L’Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)
2. Germany Year Zero (Roberto Rossellini, 1948)
3. Man With a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
4. A Summer at Grandpa’s (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1984)
5. Scenes from a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman, 1974)
6. The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959)
7. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972)
8. Teorema (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1968)
9. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Commerce Quay, 1080 Brussels (Chantal Akerman, 1975)
10. Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (Wang Bing, 2002)
David Sims – The Atlantic (US)
1. Yi Yi (Edward Yang, 2000)
2. L’Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)
3. Late Spring (Yasujirô Ozu, 1949)
4. Pather Panchali (Satyajit Ray, 1955)
5. Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami, 1990)
6. Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai, 1994)
7. Beau Travail (Claire Denis, 1999)
8. The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963)
9. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
10. Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)
Kenneth Turan – Los Angeles Times (US)
1. Children of Paradise (Marcel Carné, 1945)
2. Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
3. The Earrings of Madame de… (Max Ophüls, 1953)
4. Casque d’Or (Jacques Becker, 1952)
5. Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
6. The Dybbuk (Michał Waszyński, 1937)
7. Le Samouraï (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1967)
8. Léolo (Jean-Claude Lauzon, 1992)
9. Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001)
10. A Short Film About Killing (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1988)