I don’t remember. I remember watching opera on the telly with subtitles as a wee one, that’s one of the ways we realized I needed glasses, when I stopped being able to read the subtitles. I imagine the first full movie with subtitles I saw would have been later, when SBS finally started screening in my home state. Due to the early exposure to subtitles I can’t say it was striking enough for me to make note of. That hoity-toity upbringing didn’t rub off unless you count watching obscene amounts of subtitled anime now.
There were probably others before it, but My Father’s Glory is the first I have strong memories of. Wonderful movie, at least for a 10 year old. I ought to watch it again.
I was four years old, and I watched (the funny parts of) *Namak *Halaal, which happened to be subtitled in English as well.
You didn’t ask if we could understand the subtitles.
That’s the only one I can think of. People always told me that if a movie was worth it, God would have chosen English speaking actors. That is probably true in general but Life is Beautiful was really good anyway.
Did too! Did too! See, this part: (Not in a language you understand)". 
But what if you can read and understand the words of the subtitles, but still don’t understand what’s going on? 
Earliest I can remember is Fanny and Alexander (Fanny Och Alexander in Swedish / German / Yiddish / English). 1982 so I was probably in second grade at the time. My mom was a film buff and took me to all sorts of movies without censorship since I was old enough to sit in her lap.
Probably Jean de Florette, followed a week or so later by Manon Of The Spring.
Probably Cocteau’s “La Belle et La Bête”. Which is a pretty good place to start.
No? This is 35 years ago, you could be right. I thought part of it was in French. Or German. Or something.
Probably La Historia Oficial. My Spanish teacher was from Argentina and wanted us to see it. I didn’t understand Spanish (yet) so it counts.
Oh, that was so cool. So his version of the Orpheus legend. Although both of those I saw in university long after my first subtitled flick.
I’m sure I must have seen something subtitled as a kid, but nothing presently comes to mind.
Some old kung fu movie when I was 6 or so. Had an old guy with 2 scimitars that he could throw like boomerangs.
Wow, given that there’ve been thousands since then, it’s kind-of-a toughie. I’m going to guess, though, that it was Fritz Lang’s M since I remember buying it when I was still in middle school.
This aside, since I did indeed see it as a little girl, the first one I saw was El Norte in my Spanish I class. That would have been in 1991 or 1992. (None of us understood anything they said yet that wasn’t read off the subtitles.)
It was the German documentary about the Berlin Olympics. The one filmed by Hitler’s friend (I can never remember her name nor the name of the film for that matter) - the one that begins with the three women dancing nude.
I was about 11 watching a local commercial station late at night (parents were bowling or something) and all of a sudden these three naked ladies come on dancing with scarves and stuff in some field. It then went to the Olympics (with English subtitles) and how wonderfully German athletes and organizers had done. They couldn’t avoid mentioning Jesse Owens and friends, but they tried.
It was very well done. I was impressed. I don’t think I had seen any documentaries up until then and the concept of a feature length film made from reality was fascinating. Also I kept waiting for the naked ladies to come back.
Anyway, that was back in the late '50x.
I suspect (other than the Red Balloon) Das Boot or something else I ran into on HBO in the early 80s. Oh, or Fantastic Planet, which I saw very young but I can remember if it has subtitled dialogue at all. Otherwise, probably something in high school Spanish class in the late 80s, like El Norte. My parents weren’t big readers, when it came to movies.
I’m not sure at all. It could have been Fanny and Alexander or Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! I’m leaning towards Fanny & Alex because I remember thinking I couldn’t possibly get into a movie I had to read and then forgetting completely that I was reading.
I think it was Das Boot, in my high school German class.
My best guess is Le Dîner de cons.