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Famous Foreign-language Films

These are the most well-known films in languages other than English: the ones with over 50 Wikipedia languages (by Oct 2022), in descending order. The majority of the film's dialogue has to be in a foreign language to qualify.
Silent films not produced in English-speaking countries are included!
Some films have multiple original dubs, including in English
Lesser-knows films whose number of languages might be due to article spamming are excluded
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Last updated: September 7, 2024
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original language
year
film
Japanese
2001
Spirited Away
Italian/English
1966
The Good, the Bad
and the Ugly
Korean
2019
Parasite
Italian
1997
Life is Beautiful
Japanese
1997
Princess Mononoke
Japanese
1988
My Neighbor Totoro
French
2001
Amélie
silent (Russia)
1925
Battleship Potemkin
Japanese
2004
Howl's Moving Castle
Japanese
1950
Rashomon
Japanese
2016
Your Name.
Italian
1948
Bicycle Thieves
Italian/English
1964
A Fistful of Dollars
silent (Germany)
1927
Metropolis
Japanese
1954
Seven Samurai
German
2006
The Lives of Others
original language
year
film
Yucatec Maya
2006
Apocalypto
English, Spanish,
Arabic, Japanese,
Berber, Japanese
Sign Language
2006
Babel
French
2011
The Intouchables
Aramaic, Latin,
Hebrew
2004
The Passion of the Christ
Swedish
1957
The Seventh Seal
Italian
1963
German
2004
Downfall
Italian/English
1965
For a Few Dollars More
Italian
1960
La Dolce Vita
Spanish
2006
Pan's Labyrinth
Hindi
2009
3 Idiots
Mandarin
2000
Crouching Tiger,
Hidden Dragon
Swedish
1957
Wild Strawberries
2 Comments
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Level 78
Nov 13, 2024
I don't know how the Italo-westerns qualify as a foreign language films, only because it was an Italian production and some dialogue - depending on the actors - may have been recorded in Italian. The majority however was done in English and then all dialogue re-dubbed in English again. To be eligible as a foreign language film - or partly - there should have been (subtitled) Italian as well as English conversations alongside each other, and I cannot recall any scene in those films where that has happened.
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Level 74
Nov 14, 2024
Not "may have", I believe all the Italian actors recorded their dialogue in Italian. I was not able to find out whether that constituted more or less than half the dialogue (my criterion for whether it counts as a foreign-language film), so I decided to include them since the majority of the actors seemed Italian. The English dialogue was also redubbed in Italian I think (there were two dubs), so that argument doesn't work. But I understand where you're coming from.