Best Movies (not in any particular order):
Strictly Ballroom (Australian): mockumentary of ballroom dancing, super funny with love story
Lawrence of Arabia: true, grand, character development, English vs Arab, personal favorite
Waking Ned Devine (Irish): win lottery, but death of ticket holder
The Return of Martin Guerre (French): true, medieval life, 30 years war
Citizen Kane: first reverse chronological-order film, Wilhelm Randolph Hearst as theme, great film
Raiders!: The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made: documentary of kids making an exact copy
Babette's Feast (Danish): meal for pious sect
Johnny Stecchino (Italian): comedy of double bus driver/mafioso, banana
King of Hearts (English/French): comedy of WWI insanity
There Will Be Blood: oil boom, Daniel Day Lewis is incredible
2001 Space Odyssey: best sci-fi
Clockwork Orange: future society/criminality
Vertigo/North by Northwest: best of Hitchcock
Lilies of the Field: German nuns need a chapel, Sydney Portier
The Intouchables (French): rich paralyzed guy hires local hood
To Be and to Have (French): teacher/kids in a rural school, turtle
Straight Story: lawn tractor across Iowa
Pride and Prejudice (English): chick-flick, 1800s high society
Princess Bride: fairy-tale with modern overtones
War of the Buttons (Irish): kid turf war
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre: suspense, early Humphrey Bogart
Mostly Martha (German): cooking, Italian vs German
The Miracle of Bern (German): post WWII, soccer theme
Departures (Japanese): working as a mortician
Seven Samurai (Japanese): village hires Samurai to defend themselves
Monsoon Wedding (Indian): Bollywood, rich/poor weddings
The Matrix: everything is a computer simulation, great film
Biggest Little Farm: 200 acres outside of LA
Pot-au-Feu (French): aristocratic cooking a la 1890
The Duke (English): 1961 true story of Duke of Wellington portrait theft
Truman Show: programmed Utopian life
Station Agent: moving from city to rural life