#10 in a series of 10
Rankings taken from TSPDT's 2025 list. Feature length films only.
List image from top ranked film, "Portrait of a Lady on Fire"
"Atlantics" (France/Senegal/Belgium, #17) and "The Assassin" (Taiwan/China/Hong Kong, #23), are co-productions where it is basically impossible to identify a primary country of origin; the other 48 films by country:
Argentina—10, 19
Belgium—20
China—30, 43
Denmark—8
Finland—31
France—1, 7, 11, 12, 15, 22, 24, 32, 42, 45
Germany—6
Hungary—5, 33
Iran—4, 29
Italy—13, 26, 49
Japan—26, 37, 46
Mauritania—41
Mexico—14
Poland—27, 48
Portugal—16, 18, 35, 47
Russia—28, 44
South Korea—2, 34, 36, 39, 40, 50
Taiwan—38
Thailand—3, 21
Turkey—9
Previous (2000s): https://www.listchallenges.com/50-best-foreign-language-movies-2000s