My favorite non-English language movies of 2019:
SUMMA CUM LAUDE
- Our Time
- Pain and Glory
- Climax
- Synonyms
- Parasite
- Dogman
- In the Aisles
- The Image Book
- Asako I & II
- Los Reyes
- Everybody Knows
- Luz
- Transit
- Diamantino
- Varda by Agnès
- Sunset
- Non-Fiction
- Aniara
- Rojo
- América
- I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians
- Woman at War
- For Sama
MAGNA CUM LAUDE
- Working Woman
- Perfect Strangers
- Loro
- At War
- Midnight Traveler
- The Competition
- The Disappearance of My Mother
- The Chambermaid
- Island of the Hungry Ghosts
- Tito and the Birds
- The Third Wife
- Ramen Shop
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire
- End of the Century
- Les Misérables
- Invisible Life
- The Fall of the American Empire
- Pig
- Knife + Heart
- Birds of Passage
- The Golden Glove
- Ash Is Purest White
- The Wild Pear Tree
- Grass
- Midnight Family
- Ip Man 4: The Finale
CUM LAUDE
The rest of my 2019 non-English language movie viewing-log, listed in a totally random order:
- Slut in a Good Way
- Sauvage
- Gully Boy
- Funan
- Master Z: Ip Man Legacy
- Buddy
- Styx
- 3 Faces
- Rafiki
- Rezo
- Shadow
- Hotel by the River
- The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
- Sorry Angel
- Too Late to Die Young
- An Elephant Sitting Still
- Suburban Birds
- Iceman
- Long Day’s Journey Into Night
- My Son
- Photograph
- Girls of the Sun
- The White Crow
- Daughter of Mine
- The Heiresses
- Furie
- The Raft
- Three Peaks
- The Other Story
- A Faithful Man
- The Sweet Requiem
- The Ground Beneath My Feet
- Tel Aviv on Fire
- Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles
- This Is Not Berlin
- Tigers Are Not Afraid
- The Load
- Ne Zha
- One Cut of the Dead
- Monos
- First Love
- The Cave
- In My Room
- Cyrano, My Love
- By the Grace of God
- Diego Maradona
- I Lost My Body
- Shooting the Mafia
- Atlantics
- Honeyland
- Temblores
- Advocate