Some of my favourite foreign language films:
8½
Persona
The Seventh Seal
Rashomon
Sundays and Cybele
The Throne of Blood
La Strada
Downfall
The Naked Island
Ikiru
Mustang
Rififi
Autumn Sonata
Sanshô dayû
The Tin Drum
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
What are yours?
I haven't seen very many foreign language films - Bicycle Thieves and La Vie en Rose are the only ones I can think of at the moment. La Vie en Rose certainly helped me appreciate Edith Piaf's talent.
shareI have listed up hundreds of foreign horror films I like on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/klownz/lists/
Haven't got round to listing any non-horror yet though.
My top 25 favourite foreign language films:
1. 8½ (1963)
2. Persona (1966)
3. The Seventh Seal (1957)
4. Rashomon (1950)
5. Sundays and Cybele (1962)
6. Throne of Blood (1957)
7. The Color of Pomegranates (1969)
8. Woman in the Dunes (1964)
9. Beyond the Hills (2012)
10. La Strada (1954)
11. Pickpocket (1959)
12. Downfall (2004)
13. The Lure (2015)
14. The World of Apu (1959)
15. Cries and Whispers (1972)
16. My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
17. Dreams (1990)
18. Ikiru (1952)
19. The Piano Teacher (2001)
20. Mustang (2015)
21. Rififi (1955)
22. La dolce vita (1960)
23. M (1931)
24. The Passion of the Christ (2004)
25. Autumn Sonata (1978)
Run Lola Run (German)
The Hidden Face (Spanish)
Los Cronos Crimines (Spanish)
Kontroll (Hungarian)
Reykyavik 101 (Icelandic)
Da Twelf (Belgian)
The Man From Nowhere (Korean)
Gods Must Be Crazy (South African)
PK (Indian but Bollywood is a league of its own with probably hundreds you can watch given the 10s of 1000s they've produced)
The usual bunch from me too, Herzog, Tarkovsky, Kurosawa.
Some more that spring to mind -
Battle Royale
Departures
Save The Green Planet
The Happiness of the Katakuris
and I also have a soft spot for Potische