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The Top Five International Films (known as Top Five Foreign Language Films prior to 2022) is one of the awards presented annually by the National Board of Review , this category is one of the few awards that is not presented individually but instead as a list of usually five films. The category was first presented in 1929 and its one of two categories for foreign language films alongside the Best Foreign Language Film award.
Initially it was awarded as just as Top Foreign Films therefore including foreign films in English but in 1990 it was modified to only reward films in a foreign language changing the name from Top Foreign Films to Top Foreign Language Films before being changed again to Top International Films in 2022. From 1940 to 1949 the list was not presented at all.
Year
Film
Director
Country
1970
The Confession
Costa-Gavras
France, Italy
This Man Must Die
Claude Chabrol
The Passion of Anna
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden
My Night at Maud's
Éric Rohmer
France
The Wild Child
François Truffaut
1971
The Conformist
Bernardo Bertolucci
Italy, France, West Germany
The Clowns
Federico Fellini
Italy
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Vittorio De Sica
Bed and Board
François Truffaut
France, Italy
Claire's Knee
Éric Rohmer
France
1972
The Emigrants
Jan Troell
Sweden
Chloe in the Afternoon
Éric Rohmer
France
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Luis Buñuel
The Sorrow and the Pity
Marcel Ophuls
Uncle Vanya
Andrey Konchalovskiy
Soviet Union
1973
Alfredo, Alfredo
Pietro Germi
Italy
Cries and Whispers
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden
The New Land
Jan Troell
Day for Night
François Truffaut
France
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Yves Robert
Trafic
Jacques Tati
Italy, France
1974
The Pedestrian
Maximilian Schell
Germany
Amarcord
Federico Fellini
Italy
Lacombe, Lucien
Louis Malle
France
The Phantom of Liberty
Luis Buñuel
Italy, France
Scenes from a Marriage
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden
1975
Swept Away
Lina Wertmüller
Italy
A Brief Vacation
Vittorio De Sica
The Story of Adele H.
François Truffaut
France
Special Section
Costa-Gavras
Stavisky
Alain Resnais
1976
Face to Face
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden
The Clockmaker
Bertrand Tavernier
France
Cousin Cousine
Jean-Charles Tacchella
Small Change
François Truffaut
The Marquise of O
Éric Rohmer
West Germany
1977
The Man Who Loved Women
François Truffaut
France
The American Friend
Wim Wenders
West Germany
Cría Cuervos
Carlos Saura
Spain
A Special Day
Ettore Scola
Italy
That Obscure Object of Desire
Luis Buñuel
France, Spain
1978
Autumn Sonata
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden
Dear Detective
Philippe de Broca
France
Madame Rosa
Moshé Mizrahi
Bread and Chocolate
Franco Brusati
Italy
A Slave of Love
Nikita Mikhalkov
Soviet Union
1979
La Cage aux Folles
Édouard Molinaro
France, Italy
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
West Germany
Nosferatu the Vampyre
Werner Herzog
Peppermint Soda
Diane Kurys
France
The Tree of Wooden Clogs
Ermanno Olmi
Italy
Year
Film
Director
Country
2000
Butterfly
José Luis Cuerda
Spain
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Ang Lee
Taiwan
Girl on the Bridge
Patrice Leconte
France
Malèna
Giuseppe Tornatore
Italy
A Time for Drunken Horses
Bahman Ghobadi
Iran
2001
Amores Perros
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Mexico
Amélie
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
France
Behind the Sun
Walter Salles
Brazil
Dark Blue World
Jan Svěrák
Czech Republic
No Man's Land
Danis Tanović
Bosnia and Herzegovina
2002
8 Women
François Ozon
France
The Crime of Padre Amaro
Carlos Carrera
Mexico
City of God
Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund
Brazil
Talk to Her
Pedro Almodóvar
Spain
Y tu Mamá También
Alfonso Cuarón
Mexico
2003
Autumn Spring
Vladimír Michálek
Czech Republic
The Barbarian Invasions
Denys Arcand
Canada, France
Best of Youth
Marco Tullio Giordana
Italy
Man on the Train
Patrice Leconte
France
Monsieur Ibrahim
François Dupeyron
2004
Bad Education
Pedro Almodóvar
Spain
The Sea Inside
Alejandro Amenábar
Maria Full of Grace
Joshua Marston
Colombia
The Chorus
Christophe Barratier
France
The Motorcycle Diaries
Walter Salles
Argentina, Brazil, United States, Chile, Peru, United Kingdom, Germany, France
2005
2046
Wong Kar-wai
Hong Kong
Downfall
Oliver Hirschbiegel
Germany, Austria, Italy
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Dai Sijie
China, France
Walk on Water
Eytan Fox
Israel
Paradise Now
Hany Abu-Assad
Palestine
2006
Curse of the Golden Flower
Zhang Yimou
China
Pan's Labyrinth
Guillermo del Toro
Spain, Mexico
Days of Glory
Rachid Bouchareb
France
Water
Deepa Mehta
India
Volver
Pedro Almodóvar
Spain
2007
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Cristian Mungiu
Romania
The Band's Visit
Eran Kolirin
Israel, France, United States
The Counterfeiters
Stefan Ruzowitzky
Austria, Germany
La Vie en rose
Olivier Dahan
France, Czech Republic
Lust, Caution
Ang Lee
Taiwan
2008
The Edge of Heaven
Fatih Akın
Germany, Turkey
Let the Right One In
Tomas Alfredson
Sweden
Roman de Gare
Claude Lelouch
France
A Secret
Claude Miller
Waltz with Bashir
Ari Folman
Israel
2009
The Maid
Sebastián Silva
Chile
Revanche
Götz Spielmann
Austria
The Song of Sparrows
Majid Majidi
Iran
Three Monkeys
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Turkey
The White Ribbon
Michael Haneke
Germany
Year
Film
Director
Country
2020 [ 5]
Apples
Christos Nikou
Greece
Collective
Alexander Nanau
Romania
Dear Comrades!
Andrei Konchalovsky
Russia
The Mole Agent
Maite Alberdi
Chile
Night of the Kings
Philippe Lacôte
Ivory Coast
2021 [ 6]
Benedetta
Paul Verhoeven
France
Lamb
Valdimar Johannsson
Iceland
Lingui, The Sacred Bonds
Mahamat Saleh Haroun
Chad
Titane
Julia Ducournau
France
The Worst Person in the World
Joachim Trier
Norway
2022 [ 7]
All Quiet on the Western Front
Edward Berger
Germany
Argentina, 1985
Santiago Mitre
Argentina
Decision to Leave
Park Chan-wook
South Korea
EO
Jerzy Skolimowski
Poland
Saint Omer
Alice Diop
France
2023 [ 8]
La chimera
Alice Rohrwacher
Italy, France, Switzerland
Fallen Leaves
Aki Kaurismäki
Finland, Germany
The Teachers' Lounge
İlker Çatak
Germany
Tótem
Lila Avilés
Mexico, Denmark, France
The Zone of Interest
Jonathan Glazer
United Kingdom, Poland, United States
2024
All We Imagine as Light
Payal Kapadia
France, India, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy
The Girl with the Needle
Magnus von Horn
Denmark, Poland, Sweden
I'm Still Here
Walter Salles
Brazil, France
Santosh
Sandhya Suri
United Kingdom, India, Germany, France
Universal Language
Matthew Rankin
Canada
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