2017 Highest Rated Foreign Language Films

125 Essential Movies, According to Martin Scorsese In 2012, Fast Company published an extensive interview with Scorsese in which he talked about his 85 movies “you need to see to know anything about film.” Meanwhile, in 2006, a young filmmaker named Colin Levy wrote to the filmmaker, asking for recommendations on where to start an education on foreign films. Scorsese responded with a list of almost 40 suggestions. And, of course, Scorsese shared even more of his favorite films with Sight & Sound magazine. Each film he has mentioned is listed below, chronologically, so you can start your education at the…

Missing Movies, a non-profit organization, was founded in 2022 to help publicize the problem of films that are unavailable (legally) to the general public because of rights/clearances, materials, or "distributor indifference." We have chosen our top 101 (mostly North American) films that we hope will become more readily available this year. This is not a definitive list since films are continuously being discovered and released by companies such as Criterion, Kino Lorber, Milestone, Strand, Flicker Alley, Kanopy, and others, but we are publishing this list to start the conversation. Please feel free to make your own lists and link to…