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Top Films from Medium Sized Studios Outside France, North America, and the United Kingdom

Svensk Filmindustri

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Seventh Seal 1957 Ingmar Bergman 98
2 Persona 1966 Ingmar Bergman 151
3 Wild Strawberries 1957 Ingmar Bergman 182
4 Au hasard Balthazar 1966 Robert Bresson 562
5 Smiles of a Summer Night 1955 Ingmar Bergman 635
6 My Life as a Dog 1985 Lasse Hallström 646
7 Pelle the Conqueror 1987 Bille August 879
8 The Virgin Spring 1960 Ingmar Bergman 901
9 Shame 1968 Ingmar Bergman 1194
10 Masculine Feminine 1966 Jean-Luc Godard 1312
11 Through a Glass Darkly 1961 Ingmar Bergman 1706
12 The Magician 1958 Ingmar Bergman 1772
13 Hour of the Wolf 1968 Ingmar Bergman 1908
14 Winter Light 1962 Ingmar Bergman 2047
15 The Silence 1963 Ingmar Bergman 2164

Toho Company

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 The Seven Samurai 1954 Akira Kurosawa 36
2 Ikiru 1952 Akira Kurosawa 316
3 Yojimbo 1961 Akira Kurosawa 384
4 Akira 1988 Katsuhiro Ôtomo 386
5 Throne of Blood 1957 Akira Kurosawa 581
6 Woman in the Dunes1 1964 Hiroshi Teshigahara 827
7 The Hidden Fortress 1958 Akira Kurosawa 987
8 Kagemusha 1980 Akira Kurosawa 1007
9 High and Low 1963 Akira Kurosawa 1251
10 Godzilla1 1954 Ishirô Honda 1405
11 A Simple Plan 1998 Sam Raimi 1609
12 Samurai 1: Musashi Miyamoto 1954 Hiroshi Inagaki 1716
13 Godzilla, King of the Monsters! 1956 Ishirô Honda and Terry O. Morse 1717
14 Tokyo Olympiad 1965 Kon Ichikawa 1846
15 Stray Dog 1949 Akira Kurosawa 1998
16 Sanjuro 1962 Akira Kurosawa 2008
17 Samurai 3: Duel at Ganryu Island 1956 Hiroshi Inagaki 2120
18 Samurai 2: Duel at Ichijoji Temple 1955 Hiroshi Inagaki 2133
19 Kwaidan 1964 Masaki Kobayashi 2224
20 Red Beard 1965 Akira Kurosawa 2326

1 Produced or co-produced by Toho Film (Eiga) Co. Ltd.

Westdeutscher Rundfunk

Rank Title Year Director(s) Overall
Rank
1 Wings of Desire 1987 Wim Wenders 195
2 Das Boot 1981 Wolfgang Petersen 243
3 Paris, Texas 1984 Wim Wenders 431
4 Run Lola Run 1998 Tom Tykwer 489
5 The Marriage of Maria Braun 1979 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 512
6 Dancer in the Dark 2000 Lars von Trier 1021
7 Berlin Alexanderplatz 1980 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1204
8 Yeelen 1987 Souleymane Cissé 1246
9 The American Friend 1977 Wim Wenders 1279
10 Heimat 1984 Edgar Reitz 1350
11 Dogville 2003 Lars von Trier 1378
12 Downfall 2004 Oliver Hirschbiegel 1576
13 Kings of the Road 1976 Wim Wenders 1616
14 Hidden 2005 Michael Haneke 1906
15 The Kingdom 1994 Morten Arnfred and Lars von Trier 1915
16 Winged Migration 2001 Jacques Perrin 2254
17 The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum 1975 Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta 2259
18 My Name Is Joe 1998 Ken Loach 2468
19 Good Bye Lenin! 2003 Wolfgang Becker 2475
20 Eternity and a Day 1998 Theodoros Angelopoulos 2501
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