The Secret In Their Eyes (the original Argentinian film). One of my top ten favorite films. Won the “Best Foreign Film” Oscar. Deservedly.
That one was great, too. I agree it most definitely deserved its Academy Award.
Ah, yes, I saw Wings of Desire in college and it really stuck with me.
IMHO, the best way to watch “Das Boot” is the German mini-series. I watched it when it was aired first in the early 80s, and though it’s 4+ hours long, not one scene is wasted, and the additional stuff enhances the plot.
You can’t go wrong with Aki Kaurismäki. They say the Fins are the most stoic people in the world, but this Fin made some of the most emotionally moving, but well, stoic movies of all time. Further recommendations: “I Hired A Contract Killer”, I think the only movie he did in English (it plays in London), with a great Jean-Pierre Leaud in the lead role, and “The Man Without A Past”, which will bring you to tears although it’s played totally laconically.
I still haven’t seen any of Kurosawa’s contemporary films, but I can only wholeheartedly recommend his historical dramas. One of the best directors ever.
Bring it on, my fellow K9.
Is this a play on “Kaleun”? Then it’s very clever. 
Umm, I was too lazy to spell out, “canine.” 
So I overestimated your wit. I had to google K9 to even get the meaning “canine”, and I thought of Jürgen Prochnow’s Kaleun. Kneun, Kaneun, Kaleun, you see…(or maybe it’s just my twisted mind sometimes working in strange ways).
I’d like to recommend Kurosawa’s The Sea is Waiting. I found it almost hypnotic. And very beautiful visually.
Have you ever seen La grande bouffe? A group of middle-aged men get together at a villa for the weekend with the purpose of eating themselves to death. A strange premise, but I remember it having interesting dialogue. It has some of the same deadpan sensibility, I think (although it’s been a long time since I’ve seen either movie).
Sugar Baby (1985) Original title: Zuckerbaby
German
Director
Stars Marianne Sägebrecht, Eisi Gulp
Marianne Sagebrecht made a slightly bigger impact a few years later with Bagdad Cafe. She starts an improbable romance with a smaller, cuter man by appealing to him in a way his more traditionally good-looking girlfriend can’t. It ends about the way you’d think it would, but what a charming journey!
Small Crime (2008) Original title: Mikro eglima
Greek
Director Christos Georgiou
Stars Aris Servetalis, Vicky Papadopoulou, Rania Oikonomidou
A particularly feckless young detective appears to be the entirety of law enforcement in a tiny Greek beach community. A dead man on a fallen ladder has a cryptic smile on his face, and eventually we find out why.
The Nasty Girl (1990) Original title: Das schreckliche Mädchen
Director Michael Verhoeven
Stars Lena Stolze, Hans-Reinhard Müller, Monika Baumgartner
A high school girl in 1980s Germany has a terribly inappropriate relationship with her teacher, but that’s not what is going to get her run out of town. After growing up with bullshit stories about how virtuous her town was during the War years, she does a project for her high school history class and finds out that her family and neighbors were not, in fact, the kind of “good Germans” who would have hidden Anne Frank’s family in the attic (I know, that was in Holland, not Germany). Acid satire and an ending so powerful, he might just have stolen it from Spike Lee, who used the same one two years earlier.
An English remake, titled Living, was recently released, with Bill Nighy, it seems to have gotten good reviews.
It’s a pity Emir Kusturica has turned out to be a pro-Polanski Putinist dick, because While Father Was Away on Business and Time of the Gypsies were both masterworks.
Even Dwarfs Started Small, by Werner Herzog, is certainly unique.
At the risk of sounding plebian, I’m going to go with Shin Godzilla, the 2016 Studio Toho reboot of the Godzilla franchise. It’s a masterpiece as far as disaster/kaiju movies go, and it’s very much a political movie on a level not seen since the original, being a satire of the Japanese government’s response to the Fukushima disaster, and does an amazing job of making the titular creature both terrifying and sympathetic.
The scene where Godzilla discovers how to use its atomic breath, set to an orchestral piece with operatic vocals about dying alone and forgotten, sends a chill every time I see it.
For context, the elderly guy getting onto the helicopter, which Godzilla casually destroys, is the Prime Minister.
Yes, yes, yes. Almost makes up for Matthew Broderick - it is that good!
I fourth it and also suggest Marusa no onna – A Taxing Woman in the English-subtitled version.
The same director and two principles as Tampopo, they’re opponents in this one instead of allies.
Anything by Aki Kaurismäki is great. Anything.
Almodóvar is great too, but maybe too Spanish and absurd. Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown would be a good start.
Jim Jarmush’s Night on Earth is mostly not in English. And the bits in English are an interesting English. I enjoyed that a lot, and the music by Tom Waits is so fitting.
Seconding: La Grande Bouffe, Tampopo, Das Boot
I’ve seen a lot of war movies, but the1985 Soviet film Come and See really stands out.
Chungking Express (1994, Hong Kong, dir. Kar Wai Wong)
The Criterion box set of the complete Jacques Tati filmography is an asbolute jewel. Playtime is my favorite of his, just a masterclass is subtle, escalating, human laughs.