Really good foreign language films, 2001-2010

2001

Read My Lips (Jacques Audiard)
The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke)
What Time Is It There? (Tsai Ming-liang)
Time Out (Laurent Cantet)
In Praise of Love (Jean-Luc Godard)
Y Tu Mamá También (Alfonso Cuarón)
Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat)
Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)

2002

On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate (Hong Sang-soo)
Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki)
Blisfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Bad Education (Pedro Almodovar)
Distant (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
The Son (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
Friday Night (Claire Denis)
Ten (Abbas Kiarostami)
man on the Train (Patrice Leconte)
The Man Without a Past (Aki Kaurismaki)

2003

The Return (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
Blind Shaft (Li Yang)
Crimson Gold (Jafar Panahi)
The Story of Marie and Julien (Jacques Rivette)
Strayed (Andres Techine)
The Five Obstructions (Jorgen Lett and Lars von Trier)

2004

Samaritan Girl (Kim Ki-duk)
3-Iron (Kim Ki-duk)
The World (Jia Zhangke)
Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Talk to Her (Pedro Almodovar)
Kings and Queen (Arnaud Desplechin)
Notre Musique (Jean-Luc Godard)
2046 (Wong Kar-wai)

2005

Tale of Cinema (Hong Sang-soo)
The Child (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne)
Cache (Michael Haneke)
Three Times (Hou Hsiao-Hsien)

2006

Still Life (Jia Zhangke)
Volver (Pedro Almodovar)

2007

4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas)

2008

The Class (Laurent Cantet)
35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis)
A Christmas Tale (Arnaud Desplechin)
Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
Gomorrah (Matteo Garrone)

2009

The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)
In Prophete (Jacques Audiard)
Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodovar)
White Material (Claire Denis)
The Girl on the Train (Andres Techine)

2010

Uncle Boonmee  Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Carlos (Olivier Assayas)