The Best World Movies (up to 2017)

Film name	Country, year	Film director
USA
A Clockwork Orange	1971	Stanley Kubrick
A Fish Called Wanda	1988	Charles Crichton
American Beauty	1999	Sam Mendes
Avatar	2009	James Cameron
Barton Fink	1991	Ethan & Joel Coen
Bridget Jones's Diary	2001	Sharon Maguire
Cabaret	1972	Bob Fosse
Café Society	2018	Woody Allen
Chinatown	1974	Roman Polanski
City Lights	1931	Charlie Chaplin
Easy Rider	1969	Dannis Hopper
Edward Scissorhands	1990	Tim Burton
Empire of the Sun	1987	Steven Spielberg
Forrest Gump	1994	Robert Zemeckis
Frida	2002	Julie Taymor
Gone with the Wind	1939	Victor Fleming
Kramervs Kramer	1979	Robert Benton
La-La-Land	2016	Damien Chazelle
Lostin Translation	2003	Sofia Coppola
Midnight in Paris	2011	Woody Allen
Mulholland Drive	2001	David Lynch
Pulp Fiction	1994	Quentin Tarantino
Rain Man	1988	Barry Levinson
Scent of a Woman	1992	Martin Brest
Secretary	2001	Steven Shainberg
Something's Gotta Give	2003	Nancy Meyers
Taxi Driver	1976	Martin Scorsese
The Apartment	1960	Billy Wilder
The Bodyguard	1992	Mick Jackson
The Bourne Identity	2002	Doug Liman
The Matrix	1999	L. Wachowski (sisters)
The Pianist	2002	Roman Polanski
The Shape of Water	2017	Guillermo del Toro
The Truman Show	1998	Peter Weir
The Unbearable Lightness of Being	1984	Philip Kaufman
The Whole Nine Yards	2000	Jonathan Lynn
Titanic	1997	James Cameron
Tootsie	1982	Sydney Pollack
Europe
81/2	Italy, 1963	Federico Fellini
A Man and a Woman	France , 1966	Claude Lelouch
Amélie	France, 2001	Jean Jeunet
Amour	France, 2012	Michel Haneke
A Short Film About Killing	Poland, 1988	Krzyszt of Kieslowski
Black Cat, White Cat	Serbia , 1998	Emir Kusturica
Caligola	Italy, 1979	Tinto Brass
Caravaggio	England, 1986	Dereck Jarman
Crush	England, 1996	David Cronenberg
Daisies	Czechoslov, 1966	Vera Chytilova
Damage	France, 1992	Louis Malle
Dancer in the Dark	Denmark, 2000	Lars von Trier
Elle	France, 2016	Paul Verhoeven
Fanny and Alexander	Sweden, 1982	Ingmar Bergman
Fitzcarraldo	Germany, 1982	Werner Herzog
Going Places	France, 1974	Bertran Blier
Ken Park	England, 2002	Larry Clark
Landscape in the Mist	Greece, 1988	Theo Angelopoulos
Le Bal	France, 1983	Ettore Scola
Leon	France, 1994	Luc Besson
Life is Beautiful	Italy, 1997	Roberto Benigni
Love Actually	England, 2003	Richard Curtis
Marriage Italian Style	Italy, 1964	Vittorio de Sica
Mr. Robinson	Italy, 1976	Sergio Corbucci
Orchestra Rehearsal	Italy, 1978	Federico Fellini
Pride & Prejudice	UK-France, 2005	Joe Wright
Profession: Reporter (The Passenger)	Italy, 1975	Michelangelo Antonioni
Salome's Last Dance	England, 1988	Ken Russell
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom	Italy, 1975	Pier Paolo Pasolini
Sara	Poland, 1997	Maciej Slesicki
Stealing Beauty	Italy, 1996	Bernardo Bertolucci
Talk to Her	Spain, 2002	Pedro Almodóvar
The Artist	France, 2011	Michel Hazanavicius
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie	France, 1972	Luis Bunuel
The Fugitives	France, 1986	Francis Veber
TheLover	France, 1992	Jean-Jacques Annaud
The Night Porter	Italy, 1974	Liliana Cavani
The Piano	England, 1993	Jane Campion
The Pillow Book	England, 1996	Peter Green a way
The Pointsman	Netherlands, 1986	Jos Stelling
The Reader	France , 1988	Michel Deville
Asia , Lat in America
Always	S. Korea, 2011	Il-gon Song
Amores Perros	Mexico, 2000	Alejandro Inárritu
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	China, 2000	AngLee
Farewell My Concubine	China, 1993	Chen Kaige
Hero	China, 2002	Zhang Yimou
High and Low	Japan, 1963	Akira Kurosawa
Inthe Mood for Love	Hong Kong, 2000	Wong Kar-wai
In the Realmof the Senses	Japan, 1976	Nagisa Oshima
Lust, Cautin	China, 2007	Ang Lee
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…	S. Korea, 2003	Kim Ki -duk
The Ballad of Narayama	Japan, 1983	Shohei Imamura
The Secret in Their Eyes	Argentina, 2009	Juan José Campanella
Y Tu Mamá También	Mexico, 2001	Alfonso Cuarón
USSR, Russia, Ukraine
A Cruel Romance	USSR, 1984	Eldar Ryazanov
Andrei Rublev	USSR, 1966	Andrei Tarkovsky
A Slave of Love	USSR, 1976	Nikita Mikhalkov
Assa	USSR, 1987	Sergei Soloviyov
Beginning (“Nachalo”)	USSR, 1970	Gleb Panfilov
Commissar	USSR, 1967	Aлех Askoldov
Don't Grieve !	USSR , 1969	Georgiy Daneliya
Encore, Once More Encore!	Russia , 1993	Pyotr Todorovsky
Giselle's Mania	Russia, 1995	Aleksei Uchitel
Hipsters	Russia, 2008	Valery Todorovsky
Kerosene Salesman's Wife	USSR, 1988	Alex Kaidanovski
Leviathan	Russia, 2014	Andrey Zvyagintsev
Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears	USSR, 1980	Vladimir Menshov
My Friend Ivan Lapshin	USSR, 1984	Alex German (Sr .)
Pokrovsky Gate	USSR, 1982	Mikhail Kozakov
Prorva	Russia , 1992	Ivan Dykhovichny
Save and Protect	USSR, 1989	Alex Sokurov
The Asthenic Syndrome	Ukraine , 1991	Kira Muratova
The Chekist	Russia, 1992	Alex Rogozhkin
The Color of Pomegranates	USSR, 1969	Sergei Parajanov
The Diamond Arm	USSR, 1969	LeonidGaidai
The Flight	USSR , 1970	A. Alov and V. Naumov
The Master and Margarita	Russia, 1994	Yuriy Kára
The Thief	Russia, 1997	Pavel Chukhray
The Tribe	Ukraine, 2014	Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy
To Kill a Dragon	USSR, 1988	Mark Zakharov
War and Peace	USSR, 1966	Sergei Bondarchuk
White Sun of the Desert	USSR , 1970	Vladimir Motyl