20 best foreign films that every cinephile should watch

Modified Nov 08, 2024 03:14 ET

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14) Spirited Away

Spirited Away | Image Source: Walt Disney Pictures

Hayao Miyazaki's work is the animated film to be ranked here. The animated movie takes viewers into an imaginative world as a young girl must work in a bathhouse for spirits to save her parents. A lovely mashing up of myth, folklore, and all that is human, crucial themes of growth and responsibility—it's fantastic; the visuals and the building of the world—I mean, everything here has to be one of the greatest animated films of all time. It even got them an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, and it was Spirited Away, which made the film a relevant aspect of global cinema: full of aesthetic and thematic intensity.

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