Foreign-Language Films · 2020s So Far
Best Foreign-Language Films of the 2020s So Far, Ranked by IQ Score
Half-decade into the 2020s, the foreign-language cinema reaching American audiences. Ranked by IQ Score.
The 2020s in foreign-language cinema in American distribution is the decade Korean, Japanese, French, and Asian arthouse work continued to reach U.S. screens at unprecedented scale. Drive My Car (2021) won Best International Feature. Anatomy of a Fall (2023) won Best Original Screenplay. The Zone of Interest (2023) won Best International Feature.
Anchor picks: Drive My Car is the canonical contemplative entry. Anatomy of a Fall is the canonical courtroom-drama entry. The Zone of Interest (Glazer, 2023) at 193 is among the highest-scoring films in the database. Decision to Leave (2022) and Past Lives (2023) round out the canonical entries.
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