Great foreign movies

Mexico
Like Water For Chocolate

Sweden
Tillsammans


France
Amelie
Delicatessen
L'auberge espagnole (I think it was French, kind of hard to tell)
I also loved Cyrano de Bergerac but I think The Barbarian Invasions was Canadian (but good too!)

France/China
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress


Italy
Life is Beautiful

Poland
Deep Blue Sky

Will keep thinking.

I miss Electric Shadows in Canberra (local art house cinema) - nothing like it in Cairns....

I've seen and really liked Like Water for Chocolate.

I liked Life is Beautiful too, but I couldn't get past the first 15 minutes of Amelie. I need to force myself to sit down and watch that properly because a lot of people hold it in high regard.

Barbarian Invasions is indeed French (the Canadian speaking part). Babette's Feast was Belgian.

I'll check out the rest of the films you mentioned on IMDB. Some of the names were familiar.

Caio
TA

Tampopo. Japanese film from the 80's.

Is that the one about the noodle houses? Cool.

Amelie is for softies. I loved the first 15 minutes - it gets a bit more normal after that.

Tampopo dealt with food from every aspect of Japanese society from Japanese Mafia to spiritual masters. It was hilarious!

Great Foreign Films
Argentina: Tango

Gemany: Das Boot

France: Au Revoir les Enfant

Czechoslovakia: A Shop on Main Street

Russia: Potempkin

Sweden: Through a Glass Darkly

England: The Third Man

Russia: Burnt by the Sun, Cranes Are Flying

Brazil: City of God (violent, but awesome)

Sweden: Wild Strawberries

Germany: Wings of Desire

Fellini, Fellini, Fellini. Fellini. Did I mention Fellini?

Is that some kind of oral sex involving pasta, Kicky?

Nope, Babettes gæstebud is a Danish film based on a story by Karen Blixen (depicted in Out of Africa)

Some suggestions:

Sweden
Fanny & Alexander
F*ckung Åmål
Ronja Rövardotter

Sweden/Russia
Offret/The Sacrifice

Russia
Solaris
Stalker
Siberiada

France
Les Uns et les Autres
(If you liked Jean de Florette, then surely you must see) Manon des Sources
Banlieue 13 (action)
Irreversible (warning: difficult to watch!)

The Netherlands
The Assault
The Discovery of Heaven
Lost Luggage

Spain
Cria Cuervos
Los Santos Innocentes

Italy
E la Nave va
Oci ciornie
La Famiglia

Germany
Die Ehe der Maria Braun
Lola

Greece
Pote tin Kyriaki (Never on Sunday)
O Melissokomos (The Beekeeper)

New Zealand
The Piano
Once were Warriors

Norway
Isslottet (The Ice Palace)
Insomnia

Finland
Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning
Jäniksen vuosi
Paha maa

China
To Live
Farewell to my Concubine

Japan
The Ballad of Narayama
Irezumi
Onibaba

Have fun There are many more where those came from.

Don't forget the cracking films from Korea......

Sympathy for Mr. Vengence
Old Boy
Sympathy For Lady Vengence
King And The Clown
Forbidden Quest
J.S.A.
Save The Green Planet
The Island
Memoires Of Murder

and.of course,the latest blockbuster.......The Host.

Roma and Amarcord are my favorite Fellini films. I'll have to spend some time working up a list - I've seen a lot of "foreign" films - but give a quick nod to Tampopo.

Correction:
Deep Blue Sky is a Czech, not polish movie
Shop on the Main Street is Slovak (the only one we ever got an oscar for)

Other good ones from my neck of the woods:
Closely Watched Trains
Sun in a Net
Unbearable Lightness of Being
Kolya
Gypsies Go to Heaven
Garden

Let's also not forget Red, White, and Blue

and

Sky Above Berlin and
So Far so Close

Adding Nights of Cabiria to the Fellini favs.

Germany: The Tin Drum

Italy: Ladri Di Biciclette

France: Les Visiteurs
The Dinner Game

La Femme Nikita

How embarrassment! And I went to see it with a czech lady too - and her name was Dagmar! But she moved to Paris...

India

Monsoon Wedding!

Palestine

Wedding in Ramalla

Another one from India...Salaam Bombay

and from China....Raise The Red Lantern