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Films Preferred by Voters from Non-English-Speaking Nations and by Voters from English-Speaking Nations

The lists below contain films that voters from non-English-speaking nations like more than voters from English-speaking nations did and the reverse. The lists are ranked by the "% difference," which is the absolute value of the difference between the percent of ballots from English-speaking nations on which a film appeared and the percent of ballots from non-English-speaking nations on which a film appeared. For example, if a film appeared on 9.74% of ballots from non-English-speaking nations and 5.31% of ballots from English-speaking nations, the % difference would be 4.43%.

Films That Voters from Non-English-Speaking Nations Like More than Voters from English-Speaking Nations Do

Rank Title Year Director % Difference
1 8½ 1963 Federico Fellini 6.11%
2 Modern Times 1936 Charles Chaplin 5.61%
3 Rashomon 1950 Akira Kurosawa 4.83%
4 Andrei Rublev 1966 Andrei Tarkovsky 3.98%
5 City Lights 1931 Charles Chaplin 3.93%
6 Amarcord 1972 Federico Fellini 3.51%
7 Breathless 1960 Jean-Luc Godard 3.23%
8 Ordet 1955 Carl Theodor Dreyer 2.85%
9 strada, La 1954 Federico Fellini 2.71%
10 Metropolis 1927 Fritz Lang 2.63%
11 Godfather: Part I, The 1972 Francis Ford Coppola 2.61%
12 Blow Up 1966 Michelangelo Antonioni 2.55%
13 Battleship Potemkin 1925 Sergei M Eisenstein 2.46%
14 River, The 1951 Jean Renoir 2.40%
15 Tokyo Story 1953 Ozu Yasujirô 2.37%
16 Apocalypse Now 1979 Francis Ford Coppola 2.22%
17 Maman et la putain, La 1973 Jean Eustache 2.16%
18 Pierrot le Fou 1965 Jean-Luc Godard 2.13%
19 Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman 2.12%
20 Germany Year Zero 1948 Roberto Rossellini 2.09%
21 Searchers, The 1956 John Ford 2.04%
22 Gertrud 1964 Carl Theodor Dreyer 1.95%
23 Great Dictator, The 1940 Charles Chaplin 1.91%
24 Tropical Malady 2004 Apichatpong Weerasethakul 1.90%
25 Sátántangó 1994 Béla Tarr 1.79%
26 Mirror 1974 Andrei Tarkovsky 1.77%
27 Husbands 1970 John Cassavetes 1.75%
28 Travelling Players, The 1975 Theodoros Angelopoulos 1.72%
29 Histoire(s) du cinéma 1988-2004 Jean-Luc Godard 1.66%
30 Journey to Italy 1954 Roberto Rossellini 1.62%
31 mépris, Le 1963 Jean-Luc Godard 1.55%
32 Viridiana 1961 Luis Buñuel 1.52%
33 North by Northwest 1959 Alfred Hitchcock 1.49%
34 Rocco and his Brothers 1960 Luchino Visconti 1.43%
35 Clockwork Orange, A 1971 Stanley Kubrick 1.42%
= Faces 1968 John Cassavetes 1.42%
37 To Be or Not To Be 1942 Ernst Lubitsch 1.41%
38 Pulp Fiction 1994 Quentin Tarantino 1.40%
39 Vivre Sa Vie 1962 Jean-Luc Godard 1.39%
40 400 Blows, The 1959 François Truffaut 1.37%
41 M 1931 Fritz Lang 1.32%
42 notte, La 1961 Michelangelo Antonioni 1.28%
= Where is My Friend's House? 1989 Abbas Kiarostami 1.28%
44 Tabu 1931 F. W. Murnau 1.27%
45 Cries and Whispers 1957 Ingmar Bergman 1.26%
= Solaris 1972 Andrei Tarkovsky 1.26%
47 Spring in a Small Town 1948 Fei Mu 1.25%
48 One and a Two, A 1999 Edward Yang 1.23%
49 chien andalou, Un 1928 Luis Buñuel 1.21%
= Wild Strawberries 1957 Ingmar Bergman 1.21%
51 Avventura, L' 1960 Michelangelo Antonioni 1.20%
52 Nostalghia 1983 Andrei Tarkovsky 1.12%
53 Ashes and Diamonds 1958 Andrzej Wajda 1.11%
= Music Room, The 1958 Satyajit Ray 1.11%
= Opening Night 1977 John Cassavetes 1.11%
56 Turin Horse, The 2011 Béla Tarr 1.10%
= Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives 2010 Apichatpong Weerasethakul 1.10%
58 Breaking the Waves 1996 Lars von Trier 1.09%
= Hour of the Wolf 1968 Ingmar Bergman 1.09%
60 Last Laugh, The 1924 F. W. Murnau 1.08%
= Passenger, The 1974 Michelangelo Antonioni 1.08%
62 Jules et Jim 1962 François Truffaut 1.07%
= Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The 1962 John Ford 1.07%
64 Greed 1925 Erich von Stroheim 1.06%
65 olvidados, Los 1950 Luis Buñuel 1.05%
66 Brighter Summer Day, A 1991 Edward Yang 1.04%
67 2001: A Space Odyssey 1968 Stanley Kubrick 0.99%
68 Affair to Remember, An 1957 Leo McCarey 0.97%
= Europa 51 1952 Roberto Rossellini 0.97%
= Executioner, The 1963 Luis García Berlanga 0.97%
= Matrix, The 1999 Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski 0.97%
= Mother and Son 1997 Aleksandr Sokurov 0.97%
= Numéro deux 1975 Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville 0.97%
= Round-Up, The 1966 Miklos Jancso 0.97%
= Young Mr Lincoln 1939 John Ford 0.97%
76 October 1928 Sergei M Eisenstein 0.96%
= Quince Tree Sun, The 1992 Víctor Erice 0.96%
= Stromboli 1950 Roberto Rossellini 0.96%
79 White Ribbon, The 2009 Michael Haneke 0.95%
80 Fanny and Alexander 1984 Ingmar Bergman 0.94%
81 Conversation, The 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 0.94%
= Death of Mr Lazarescu, The 2005 Cristi Puiu 0.94%
83 Gold Rush, The 1925 Charles Chaplin 0.90%
84 Imitation of Life 1959 Douglas Sirk 0.89%
= Mouchette 1966 Robert Bresson 0.89%
= Partie de campagne 1936 Jean Renoir 0.89%
87 Aguaespejo granadino 1955 José Val del Omar 0.81%
= Hatari! 1961 Howard Hawks 0.81%
= Lola Montès 1955 Max Ophüls 0.81%
= Teorema 1968 Pier Paolo Pasolini 0.81%
= The Tiger of Eschnapur/The Indian Tomb 1958 Fritz Lang 0.81%
= Woman of Paris, A 1923 Charles Chaplin 0.81%
93 By the Bluest of Seas 1935 Boris Barnet, S. Mardanin 0.79%
= Idiots, The 1998 Lars von Trier 0.79%
= Quiet Man, The 1952 John Ford 0.79%
= Silent Light 2007 Carlos Reygadas 0.79%
= Underground 1995 Emir Kusturica 0.79%
98 Cloud-Capped Star, The 1960 Ritwik Ghatak 0.78%
= Death in Venice 1971 Luchino Visconti 0.78%
= F for Fake 1975 Orson Welles 0.78%
= Happy Together 1997 Wong Kar Wai 0.78%
= Ivan's Childhood 1962 Andrei Tarkovsky 0.78%
103 Love Streams 1984 John Cassavetes 0.77%
104 Playtime 1967 Jacques Tati 0.77%
105 Grapes of Wrath, The 1940 John Ford 0.76%
= Marketa Lazarová 1967 Frantisek Vlácil 0.76%
107 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1975 Milos Forman 0.75%
108 Hiroshima Mon Amour 1959 Alain Resnais 0.74%
109 Tree of Life, The 2010 Terrence Malick 0.72%
110 Late Spring 1949 Ozu Yasujirô 0.72%
111 Pickpocket 1959 Robert Bresson 0.65%
112 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days 2007 Cristian Mungiu 0.64%
= As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty 2000 Jonas Mekas 0.64%
= Cairo Station 1958 Youssef Chahine 0.64%
= Dancer in the Dark 2000 Lars von Trier 0.64%
= Easy Rider 1969 Peter Fonda/Dennis Hopper 0.64%
= Host, The 2006 Bong Joon-ho 0.64%
= Limelight 1951 Charles Chaplin 0.64%
= Nazarín 1958 Luis Buñuel 0.64%
= Party, The 1968 Blake Edwards 0.64%
= Terra Trema, La 1948 Luchino Visconti 0.64%
= Time to Live and a Time To Die, A 1985 Hsiao-hsien Hou 0.64%
= Wind, The 1928 Victor Sjöström 0.64%
124 Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 0.64%
125 Broken Blossoms 1919 D.W. Griffith 0.63%
= El 1953 Luis Buñuel 0.63%
= Elephant 2003 Gus van Sant 0.63%
= In the Realm of the Senses 1976 Nagisa Oshima 0.63%
= Sacrifice, The 1986 Andrei Tarkovsky 0.63%
= Short Film About Killing, A 1987 Krzysztof Kieslowski 0.63%
= Silence, The 1963 Ingmar Bergman 0.63%
132 Night of the Hunter, The 1955 Charles Laughton 0.63%
= Rear Window 1954 Alfred Hitchcock 0.63%
134 Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors 1964 Sergei Parajanov 0.62%
= Taste of Cherry, The 1997 Abbas Kiarostami 0.62%
136 I Was Born, But… 1932 Ozu Yasujirô 0.61%
= Nights of Cabiria 1957 Federico Fellini 0.61%
= Wings of Desire 1987 Wim Wenders 0.61%
139 Belle de Jour 1967 Luis Buñuel 0.60%
= Melancholia 2011 Lars von Trier 0.60%
= Story of the Late Chrysanthemums, The 1939 Mizoguchi Kenji 0.60%
142 Samouraï, Le 1967 Jean-Pierre Melville 0.59%
143 Memories of Underdevelopment 1968 Tomás Gutiérrez Alea 0.58%
= Nosferatu 1922 F. W. Murnau 0.58%
= Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom 1975 Pier Paolo Pasolini 0.58%
146 Ivan the Terrible 1945 Sergei M Eisenstein 0.57%
147 Colour of Pomegranates, The 1968 Sergei Parajanov 0.55%

Films That Voters from English-Speaking Nations Like More than Voters from Non-English-Speaking Nations Do

Rank Title Year Director % Difference
1 Vertigo 1958 Alfred Hitchcock 5.12%
2 Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles 1975 Chantal Akerman 3.86%
3 Sunrise 1927 F. W. Murnau 3.55%
4 Battle of Algiers, The 1966 Gillo Pontecorvo 3.39%
5 Jetée, La 1962 Chris Marker 3.32%
6 Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The 1943 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger 2.93%
7 Passion of Joan of Arc 1927 Carl Theodor Dreyer 2.72%
8 General, The 1926 Buster Keaton 2.71%
9 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 David Lean 2.65%
10 Performance 1970 Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg 2.59%
11 Barry Lyndon 1975 Stanley Kubrick 2.55%
12 Singin' in the Rain 1951 Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly 2.44%
13 Matter of Life and Death, A 1946 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger 2.43%
14 Règle du jeu, La 1939 Jean Renoir 2.42%
15 Blue Velvet 1986 David Lynch 2.33%
16 Nashville 1975 Robert Altman 2.30%
17 Godfather: Part II, The 1974 Francis Ford Coppola 2.26%
18 Canterbury Tale, A 1944 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger 2.24%
= Celine and Julie Go Boating 1974 Jacques Rivette 2.24%
20 Chinatown 1974 Roman Polanski 2.14%
= Third Man, The 1949 Carol Reed 2.14%
22 Magnificent Ambersons, The 1942 Orson Welles 2.12%
23 Don't Look Now 1973 Nicolas Roeg 2.10%
24 Do The Right Thing 1989 Spike Lee 2.09%
25 Sweet Smell of Success 1957 Alexander Mackendrick 2.05%
26 Lady Eve, The 1941 Preston Sturges 1.92%
27 Kes 1969 Ken Loach 1.90%
= Meet Me In St. Louis 1944 Vincente Minnelli 1.90%
29 Man with a Movie Camera 1929 Dziga Vertov 1.90%
30 Psycho 1960 Alfred Hitchcock 1.90%
31 Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949 Robert Hamer 1.89%
32 Beau Travail 1998 Claire Denis 1.80%
= Sansho Dayu 1954 Mizoguchi Kenji 1.80%
34 Conformist, The 1970 Bernardo Bertolucci 1.79%
35 Wild Bunch, The 1969 Sam Peckinpah 1.63%
36 His Girl Friday 1939 Howard Hawks 1.55%
37 Atalante, L' 1934 Jean Vigo 1.55%
38 I Know Where I'm Going! 1945 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger 1.54%
39 Dr. Strangelove 1963 Stanley Kubrick 1.43%
40 Ikiru 1952 Akira Kurosawa 1.42%
= Madame de… 1953 Max Ophüls 1.42%
42 Red Shoes, The 1948 Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger 1.41%
43 Day of Wrath 1943 Carl Theodor Dreyer 1.39%
= It's a Wonderful Life 1947 Frank Capra 1.39%
45 Army of Shadows 1969 Jean-Pierre Melville 1.38%
= Listen to Britain 1942 Humphrey Jennings, Stewart McAllister 1.38%
47 Fear Eats the Soul 1974 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1.29%
= Seventh Seal, The 1957 Ingmar Bergman 1.29%
49 Raging Bull 1980 Martin Scorsese 1.27%
50 Days of Heaven 1978 Terrence Malick 1.26%
= Shining, The 1980 Stanley Kubrick 1.26%
= Two or Three Things I Know About Her… 1967 Jean-Luc Godard 1.26%
53 Shoah 1985 Claude Lanzmann 1.25%
54 Werckmeister Harmonies, The 2000 Béla Tarr 1.24%
55 Jaws 1975 Steven Spielberg 1.23%
= Out 1 1990 Jacques Rivette 1.23%
57 Some Like It Hot 1959 Billy Wilder 1.22%
58 Thin Blue Line, The 1989 Errol Morris 1.22%
59 Chelsea Girls 1966 Andy Warhol, Paul Morrissey 1.21%
= Groundhog Day 1993 Harold Ramis 1.21%
61 Crime of Monsieur Lange, The 1935 Jean Renoir 1.20%
= Safe 1994 Todd Haynes 1.20%
63 Man Escaped, A 1956 Robert Bresson 1.18%
64 Stalker 1979 Andrei Tarkovsky 1.10%
65 Earth 1930 Aleksandr Dovzhenko 1.06%
= Out of the Past 1947 Jacques Tourneur 1.06%
67 Pather Panchali 1955 Satyajit Ray 1.05%
68 Killer of Sheep 1977 Charles Burnett 1.05%
= Pandora's Box 1928 G W Pabst 1.05%
= Shop Around the Corner, The 1940 Ernst Lubitsch 1.05%
= Tale of Tales, A 1979 Yuri Norstein 1.05%
= Wanda 1970 Barbara Loden 1.05%
73 Touch of Evil 1958 Orson Welles 1.04%
= Walkabout 1970 Nicolas Roeg 1.04%
75 Devils, The 1971 Ken Russell 1.03%
= Orphée 1950 Jean Cocteau 1.03%
77 Goodfellas 1990 Martin Scorsese 0.94%
78 Wavelength 1967 Michael Snow 0.93%
79 Badlands 1973 Terrence Malick 0.92%
= Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid 0.92%
81 Mulholland Dr 2003 David Lynch 0.91%
82 Chimes at Midnight 1966 Orson Welles 0.90%
83 Russian Ark 2002 Aleksandr Sokurov 0.89%
84 Cleo from 5 to 7 1962 Agnès Varda 0.88%
= Duck Soup 1933 Leo McCarey 0.88%
86 All That Heaven Allows 1955 Douglas Sirk 0.87%
= Eyes Without a Face 1960 Georges Franju 0.87%
= Flowers of Shanghai 1998 Hsiao-hsien Hou 0.87%
= Plaisir, Le 1951 Max Ophüls 0.87%
= Sullivan's Travels 1941 Preston Sturges 0.87%
91 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004 Michel Gondry 0.86%
= Headless Woman, The 2008 Lucrecia Martel 0.86%
= Long Goodbye, The 1973 Robert Altman 0.86%
= Lusty Men, The 1952 Nicholas Ray 0.86%
= Portrait of Ga 1952 Margaret Tait 0.86%
= This Is Spinal Tap 1983 Rob Reiner 0.86%
97 grande illusion, La 1937 Jean Renoir 0.83%
98 Sans Soleil 1982 Chris Marker 0.82%
99 Woman Under the Influence, A 1974 John Cassavetes 0.78%
100 Napoleon 1927 Abel Gance 0.75%
101 Brief Encounter 1945 David Lean 0.74%
= Manhattan 1979 Woody Allen 0.74%
103 In a Lonely Place 1950 Nicholas Ray 0.73%
= Notorious 1946 Alfred Hitchcock 0.73%
= Zero de Conduite 1933 Jean Vigo 0.73%
106 Devil Probably, The 1977 Robert Bresson 0.72%
= Rosemary's Baby 1968 Roman Polanski 0.72%
= Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The 1974 Tobe Hooper 0.72%
= Three Colours: Red 1994 Krzysztof Kieslowski 0.72%
110 WALL-E 2008 Andrew Stanton 0.71%
111 Belle et la Bete, La 1946 Jean Cocteau 0.70%
= Graduate, The 1967 Mike Nichols 0.70%
= Innocents, The 1961 Jack Clayton 0.70%
= Lola 1961 Jacques Demy 0.70%
= Possession 1981 Andrzej Zulawski 0.70%
= Scorpio Rising 1964 Kenneth Anger 0.70%
= Sorrow and the Pity, The 1969 Marcel Ophüls 0.70%
118 Anatomy of a Murder 1959 Otto Preminger 0.68%
= Bad Sleep Well, The 1960 Akira Kurosawa 0.68%
= Cul-de-Sac 1966 Roman Polanski 0.68%
= Dazed and Confused 1993 Richard Linklater 0.68%
= Detour 1945 Edgar G. Ulmer 0.68%
= Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! 1966 Russ Meyer 0.68%
= Gleaners & I, The 2000 Agnès Varda 0.68%
= Harakiri 1962 Kobayashi Masaki 0.68%
= Late Chrysanthemums 1954 Naruse Mikio 0.68%
= Repulsion 1965 Roman Polanski 0.68%
= Shoot the Pianist 1960 François Truffaut 0.68%
= Synecdoche, New York 2008 Charlie Kaufman 0.68%
= Toy Story 1995 John Lasseter 0.68%
= Uzak/Distant 2003 Nuri Bilge Ceylan 0.68%
= Vacances de M. Hulot, Les 1953 Jacques Tati 0.68%
= White Material 2009 Claire Denis 0.68%
134 Leopard, The 1963 Luchino Visconti 0.66%
135 Rio Bravo 1958 Howard Hawks 0.65%
136 enfants du paradis, Les 1945 Marcel Carné 0.63%
137 Chungking Express 1994 Wong Kar Wai 0.57%
= Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The 1964 Jacques Demy 0.57%
139 Star Wars 1977 George Lucas 0.56%
140 Piano, The 1992 Jane Campion 0.55%
141 All About Eve 1950 Joseph L. Mankiewicz 0.54%
= Double Life of Veronique, The 1991 Krzysztof Kieslowski 0.54%
= Green Ray, The 1986 Eric Rohmer 0.54%
= In a Year of 13 Moons 1978 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 0.54%
= Marnie 1964 Alfred Hitchcock 0.54%
146 Edvard Munch 1976 Peter Watkins 0.53%
= High and Low 1963 Akira Kurosawa 0.53%
= Lady from Shanghai, The 1947 Orson Welles 0.53%
= McCabe and Mrs Miller 1971 Robert Altman 0.53%
= Région Centrale, La 1971 Michael Snow 0.53%
= Xala 1974 Ousmane Sembene 0.53%
152 Barton Fink 1991 Joel & Ethan Coen 0.52%
= Dawn of the Dead 1978 George A Romero 0.52%
= Dead Ringers 1988 David Cronenberg 0.52%
= Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Sidney Lumet 0.52%
= Elephant 1989 Alan Clarke 0.52%
= Love Me Tonight 1932 Rouben Mamoulian 0.52%
= Masculin Féminin 1966 Jean-Luc Godard 0.52%
= On The Waterfront 1954 Elia Kazan 0.52%
= Treasure of Sierra Madre, The 1947 John Huston 0.52%
= Winter Light 1972 Ingmar Bergman 0.52%
162 Citizen Kane 1941 Orson Welles 0.52%
163 Bande à part 1964 Jean-Luc Godard 0.51%
= Battle of Chile, The 1975 Patricio Guzmán 0.51%
= Bête Humaine, La 1938 Jean Renoir 0.51%
= Bigger Than Life 1956 Nicholas Ray 0.51%
= Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, The 1972 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 0.51%
= Blight 1996 John Smith 0.51%
= Blue 1993 Derek Jarman 0.51%
= Bride of Frankenstein 1935 James Whale 0.51%
= Ceddo 1976 Ousmane Sembene 0.51%
= Circus, The 1928 Charles Chaplin 0.51%
= Duck Amuck 1953 Chuck Jones 0.51%
= Eniaios ? Gregory J. Markopoulos 0.51%
= Exotica 1994 Atom Egoyan 0.51%
= Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner 1975 Werner Herzog 0.51%
= Great Expectations 1946 David Lean 0.51%
= Irreversible 2002 Gaspar Noé 0.51%
= Little Stabs at Happiness 1963 Ken Jacobs 0.51%
= Midnight Cowboy 1969 John Schlesinger 0.51%
= Milestones 1975 Robert Kramer 0.51%
= Our Hospitality 1923 Buster Keaton/John G. Blystone 0.51%
= Palm Beach Story, The 1942 Preston Sturges 0.51%
= Point Blank 1967 John Boorman 0.51%
= Posto, Il 1961 Ermanno Olmi 0.51%
= Power of Speech, The 1988 Jean-Luc Godard 0.51%
= Raising Arizona 1987 Joel & Ethan Coen 0.51%
= Random Harvest 1942 Mervyn LeRoy 0.51%
= Red Balloon, The 1956 Albert Lamorisse 0.51%
= Report 1986 Bruce Conner 0.51%
= Salesman 1968 Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin 0.51%
= Scarlet Empress, The 1934 Josef von Sternberg 0.51%
= Shane 1952 George Stevens 0.51%
= Stardust Memories 1980 Woody Allen 0.51%
= Suspiria 1977 Dario Argento 0.51%
= Taipei Story 1984 Edward Yang 0.51%
= Ten 2002 Abbas Kiarostami 0.51%
= Tootsie 1982 Sydney Pollack 0.51%
= Withnail & I 1986 Bruce Robinson 0.51%
= Yojimbo 1961 Akira Kurosawa 0.51%
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