Poll: American Stories Told by Foreign Directors
This is a list of films by non-American filmmakers that explore the distinct American experience from its landscape to its culture. Which American story told by a foreign filmmaker is the best? Discuss Here!
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Directed by Sergio Leone (Italy) -
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Directed by Milos Forman (Czech Republic) -
American Beauty (1999)
Directed by Sam Mendes (England) -
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
Directed by Sergio Leone (Italy) -
Chinatown (1974)
Directed by Roman Polanski (France/Poland) -
Room (2015)
Directed by Lenny Abrahamson (Ireland) -
12 Years a Slave (2013)
Directed by Steve McQueen (England) -
Paris, Texas (1984)
Directed by Wim Wenders (Germany) -
Dogville (2003)
Directed by Lars von Trier (Denmark) -
The Revenant (2015)
Directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu (Mexico) -
Dead Poets Society (1989)
Directed by Peter Weir (Australia) -
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Directed by Norman Jewison (Canada) -
Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée (Canada) -
The Artist (2011)
Directed by Michel Hazanavicius (France) -
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Directed by John Schlesinger (England) -
Captain Phillips (2013)
Directed by Paul Greengrass (England) -
Mississippi Burning (1988)
Directed by Alan Parker (England) -
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
Directed by Lasse Hallström (Sweden) -
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
Directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu (Mexico) -
Hell or High Water (2016)
Directed by David Mackenzie (Scotland) -
Deliverance (1972)
Directed by John Boorman (England) -
Breaking Away (1979)
Directed by Peter Yates (England) -
Jackie (2016)
Directed by Pablo Larraín (Chile) -
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Directed by Ang Lee (Taiwan) -
Sicario (2015)
Directed by Denis Villeneuve (Canada) -
United 93 (2006)
Directed by Paul Greengrass (England) -
The Hurricane (1999)
Directed by Norman Jewison (Canada) -
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
Directed by Andrew Dominik (New Zealand) -
Bullitt (1968)
Directed by Peter Yates (England) -
Tender Mercies (1983)
Directed by Bruce Beresford (Australia) -
Thelma & Louise (1991)
Directed by Ridley Scott (England) -
The Cider House Rules (1999)
Directed by Lasse Hallström (Sweden) -
Witness (1985)
Directed by Peter Weir (Australia) -
Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
Directed by Bruce Beresford (Australia) -
The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)
Directed by Milos Forman (Czech Republic)