Top Ranked Foreign Crime Films

These are from our complete list of all crime films from our internet survey. Either foreign language (non-English) films or foreign silent films, all three of which were German. There were 61 mentioned, with 47 making the top 1000.

Foreign Crime Films
1. M [Lang, Fritz, 1931] #11 - Germany [photo top]
2. Bicycle Thief, The [De Sica, Vittorio, 1949] #16 -Italy
3. Rashomon [Kurosawa, Akira, 1950] #22 -Japan
4. 400 Blows, The [Truffaut, François, 1959] #60 -France
5. Conformist, The [Bertolucci, Bernardo, 1970] #76 -Italy-France-Germany
6. Wages of Fear, The [Clouzot, Henri-Georges, 1952] #134 -France-Italy
7. Nights of Cabiria [Fellini, Federico, 1957] #136 -Italy-France
8. Lives of Others, The [von Donnersmarck, Florian Henckel, 2006] #163 -Germany [photo rt]
9. Diaboliques, Les [Clouzot, Henri-Georges, 1955] #164 -France
10. Yojimbo [Kurosawa, Akira, 1961] #172 -Japan
11. Breathless [Godard, Jean-Luc, 1959] #179 -France
12. City of God [Meirelles, Fernando, 2002] #192 -Brazil-Germany-France 13. Rocco and His Brothers [Visconti, Luchino, 1964] #239 -Italy-France
14. Le Jour se lève [Carné, Marcel, 1939] #255 -France
15. Le Samouraï [Melville, Jean-Pierre, 1967] #358 -France
16. Los Olvidados [Buñuel, Luis, 1950] #371 -Mexico
17. Band of Outsiders [Godard, Jean-Luc, 1964] #375 -France
18. Shoot the Piano Player [Truffaut, François, 1960] #393 -France
19. L'Argent [Bresson, Robert, 1983] #442 -France-Switzerland
20. Crime of Monsieur Lange, The [Renoir, Jean, 1936] #469 -France
21. Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler [Lang, Fritz, 1922] #487 -Germany (silent)
22. Amores perros [Inarritu, Alejandro Gonzalez, 2000] #489 -Mexico
23. Salvatore Giuliano [Rosi, Francesco, 1961] #495 -Italy
24. High and Low [Kurosawa, Akira, 1963] #515 -Japan
25. Chungking Express [Wong Kar-Wai, 1994] #533 -Hong Kong
26. Casque d'or [Becker, Jacques, 1952] #543 -France
27. Accattone [Pasolini, Pier Paolo, 1961] #551 -Italy
28. Le Boucher [Chabrol, Claude, 1970] #611 -France
29. Fox and His Friends [Fassbinder, Rainer Werner, 1975] #708 -Germany
30. Killer, The [Woo, John, 1989] #710 -Hong Kong
31. Pépé le Moko [Duvivier, Julien, 1937] #719 -France
32. Bob le flambeur [Melville, Jean-Pierre, 1956] #767 -France
33. Time of the Gypsies [Kusturica, Emir, 1988] #769 -Yugoslavia
34. L'Enfant (The Child) [Dardenne, Jean-Pierre & Luc, 2005] #795 -France
35. Gomorra [Garrone, Matteo, 2008] #806 -Italy
36. Hana-Bi [Kitano, Takeshi, 1997] #820 -Japan
37. Maria Full of Grace [Marston, Joshua, 2004] #821 -Columbia-US
38. Short Film About Killing, A [Kieslowski, Krszystof, 1988] #845 -Poland
39. 47 Ronin, The [Mizoguchi, Kenji, 1962] #869 -Japan
40. Z [Costa-Gavras, Constantin, 1969] #903 -France
41. Branded to Kill [Suzuki, Seijun, 1967] #934 -Japan
42. Port of Shadows [Carné, Marcel, 1938] #936 -France
43. Le Trou [Becker, Jacques, 1960] #938 -France-Italy
44. Il Bidone [Fellini, Federico, 1955] #954 -Italy
45. Red Circle, The [Melville, Jean-Pierre, 1970] #956 -France-Italy
46. Edge of Heaven, The [Akin, Fatih, 2007] #965 -Gy-Tky-Italy
47. La Bête humaine [Renoir, Jean, 1938] #989 -France
48. Sonatine [Kitano, Takeshi, 1993] #1067 -Japan
49. Plein soleil (Purple Noon) [Clément, René, 1960] #1119 -France
50. La Femme Infidèle [Chabrol, Claude, 1969] #1122 -France
51. Touki Bouki [Mambéty, Djibril Diop, 1973] #1124 -Senegal
52. Judex [Franju, Georges, 1963] #1126 -France-Italy
53. Rocker [Lemke, Klaus, 1972] #1130 -Germany
54. Fallen Angels [Wong Kar-Wai, 1995] #1150 -Hong Kong
55. Virgin Spring, The [Bergman, Ingmar, 1960] #1155 -Sweden
56. Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz, The [Buñuel, Luis, 1955] #1175 -Mexico
57. Variety [Dupont, E. A. , 1925] #1184 -Germany (silent)
58. Second Breath [Melville, Jean-Pierre, 1966] #1195 -France
59. Spione [Lang, Fritz, 1928] #1208 -Germany (silent)
60. Pixote [Babenco, Hector, 1981] #1238 -Brazil
61. Rififi [Dassin, Jules, 1955] #1260 -France