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Why I Love International Cinema

An ever-expanding list of noteworthy international films that I both deeply appreciate and strongly recommend. Sorted by release date. (Excludes East Asian films, which are featured in my Why I Love East Asian Cinema list.)

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  • Mädchen in Uniform
  • The Other One
  • In the Palm of Your Hand
  • The Nightingale's Prayer
  • Black Girl
  • The Official Story
  • Vagabond
  • Salaam Bombay!
  • Wodaabe: Herdsmen of the Sun
  • Fire
  • Leila
  • Open Your Eyes
  • Divorce Iranian Style
  • Amores Perros
  • The Hidden Half
  • The Piano Teacher
  • Y Tu Mamá También
  • City of God
  • And Along Came a Spider
  • Love Me If You Dare
  • Maria Full of Grace
  • Beautiful City
  • Moolaadé
  • Tsotsi
  • Princesses
  • Fireworks Wednesday
  • Angels of the Sun
  • Volver
  • Pan's Labyrinth
  • Tuya's Marriage
  • Tell No One
  • Persepolis
  • The Aerial
  • 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
  • Leonera
  • Pontypool
  • Surrogate
  • About Elly
  • The Milk of Sorrow
  • Sin Nombre
  • Enter the Void
  • The Secret in Their Eyes
  • Fish Tank
  • Biutiful
  • Kidnapped
  • Incendies
  • Little White Lies
  • A Separation
  • The Skin I Live In
  • The Raid
  • With Every Heartbeat
  • The Intouchables
  • Lovely Man
  • Amour
  • Mosquita y Mari
  • 7 Boxes
  • The Body
  • The Patience Stone
  • In Bloom
  • Atlas
  • The Past
  • The Lunchbox
  • Girlhood
  • Breathe
  • Two Days, One Night
  • The Raid 2
  • Lilting
  • Victoria
  • Sworn Virgin
  • The Second Mother
  • Mustang
  • Call Me Marianna
  • Much Loved
  • 3000 Nights
  • The Lure
  • India's Daughter
  • Sand Storm
  • The Invisible Guest
  • The Untamed
  • Ma' Rosa
  • Rara
  • Divines
  • The Salesman
  • Trapped
  • My Happy Family
  • Seventeen
  • November
  • A Fantastic Woman
  • Tehran Taboo
  • In the Fade
  • Friendly Beast
  • Thelma
  • The Breadwinner
  • Tigers Are Not Afraid
  • The Guilty
  • Girls of the Sun
  • Everybody Knows
  • Sir
  • Carmen & Lola
  • Capernaum