Experiment Awards: Foreign – Best of the 2000s

Screenplay Original

original-screenplay

  1. 3-Iron
  2. Amelie
  3. All About Lily Chou Chou
  4. Aruitemo Aruitemo
  5. Barking Dogs Never Bite
  6. City of Life and Death
  7. The Devil’s Backbone
  8. Election
  9. The Good, The Bad, The Weird
  10. Good Bye, Lenin!
  11. Hey Ram
  12. In the Mood for Love
  13. Infernal Affairs
  14. Jogwa
  15. Love Exposure
  16. Millennium Actress
  17. Mother
  18. Mr. Nobody
  19. Pan’s Labyrinth
  20. Paradise Now
  21. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring
  22. Thirst
  23. Wednesday
  24. The White Ribbon
  25. Y Tu Mama Tambien

Screenplay Adapted

adapted-screenplay

  1. 3 Idiots
  2. Air Doll
  3. Battle Royale
  4. City of God
  5. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  6. Devdas
  7. Diarios de Motocicleta
  8. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  9. Downfall
  10. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
  11. Kamikaze Girls
  12. Let the Right One In
  13. Maqbool
  14. Memories of Matsuko
  15. Memories of Murder
  16. Mind Game
  17. My Sassy Girl
  18. Oldboy
  19. Parineeta
  20. Persepolis
  21. Red Cliff I & II
  22. Sophie Scholl
  23. Tekkonkinkreet
  24. The Twilight Samurai
  25. Whale Rider

Director

  1. Alfonso Cuaron – Y Tu Mama Tambien
  2. Ang Lee – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon/Lust, Caution
  3. Bong Joon-ho – Mother/Memories of Murder/Barking Dogs Never Bite
  4. Edward Yang – Yi Yi
  5. Fernando Meirelles – City of God
  6. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck – The Lives of Others
  7. Guillermo del Toro – Pan’s Labyrinth/The Devil’s Backbone
  8. Hayao Miyazaki – Spirited Away
  9. Hirokazu Koreeda – Aruitemo Aruitemo/Air Doll/ Nobody Knows
  10. Jean-Pierre Jeunet – Amelie
  11. John Woo – Red Cliff I & II
  12. Julian Schnabel – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  13. Kamal Hassan – Hey Ram
  14. Kim Ki-duk – 3-Iron/Breath/Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring
  15. Lu Chuan – City of Life and Death
  16. Michael Haneke – The White Ribbon
  17. Oliver Hirschbiegel – Downfall
  18. Park Chan-wook – Oldboy/Thirst
  19. Pedro Almodovar – La Mala Educacion/Hable con Ella
  20. Rajeev Patil – Jogwa
  21. Sanjay Leela Bhansali – Black/Devdas
  22. Satoshi Kon – Paprika/Millennium Actress
  23. Sono Sion – Love Exposure
  24. Shunji Iwai – Hana & Alice/All About Lily Chou Chou
  25. Tetsuya Nakashima – Memories of Matsuko
  26. Tomas Alfredson – Let the Right One In
  27. Vishal Bharadwaj – Maqbool/Omkara
  28. Walter Salles – Diarios de Motocicleta
  29. Wong Kar-wai – In the Mood for Love
  30. Yoji Yamada – The Twilight Samurai

Film

  1. 3-Iron
  2. Air Doll
  3. All About Lily Chou Chou
  4. Aruitemo Aruitemo
  5. Black
  6. City of God
  7. City of Life and Death
  8. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
  9. Devdas
  10. Diarios de Motocicleta
  11. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
  12. Downfall
  13. Garpastum
  14. Hey Ram
  15. In the Mood for Love
  16. Jogwa
  17. Let the Right One In
  18. The Lives of Others
  19. Love Exposure
  20. Lust, Caution
  21. Maqbool
  22. Memories of Matsuko
  23. Mother
  24. Oldboy
  25. Pan’s Labyrinth
  26. Red Cliff I & II
  27. Sophie Scholl
  28. The Twilight Samurai
  29. The White Ribbon
  30. Yi Yi

It’s hard to determine how many non-US movies from the last decade I’ve watched. If I go by rough IMDb calculations, there could be about 555 films legible for this. I hope I get to watch many more!

So tell me, which ones are your favorite foreign films from the last decade… and which ones are looking like possible contenders this decade?

amy

YAM Magazine editor, photographer, blogger, translator and part-time web designer. Film junkie, music junkie… and lately series (a.k.a. TV) junkie.

8 Responses

  1. City of Life and Death is a devastating viewing experience. Pair it with the harrowing Soviet movie Come and See (Idi i smotri) and you might not want to watch WWII movies for a long time.

    heheh putting Let the Right One In for Food.

  2. beeline says:

    More movie suggestions. Yes, I know it is Asian films: Kisaragi (2007), Fish Story (2009), Owl and the Sparrow (2007), Chocolate (2008), House of Flying Daggers (2004), Shaolin Soccer (2001), Waiting in the Dark (2006), 13 Beloved (2006), Linda Linda Linda (2005), Dorm (2006), Citizen Dog (2004), I Not Stupid (2002), Last Life In the Universe (2003), The Great Yokai War (2005), Phobia 2 (2009), Hansel and Gretel (2007)

    • amy says:

      Linda Linda did make it to my Best Comedy Film category, but thank you for all the title suggestions~ But other than Flying Daggers (for which I didn’t care much for) Shaolin Soccer, or Hansel and Gretel (heard and pedning but not seen), I hadn’t heard of most.

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