One more mention for Dark, absolutely the best thing on Netflix IMO.

Others:

• Neuvas Rienas (9 queens) - an excellent Argentinian heist/scam film with quite a cool look. Like a mix of Ocean's Eleven (plotwise) and the Bourne films (visually).
• Intacto - interesting Spanish movie about people who are able to steal others' luck. I could imagine Christopher Nolan doing an English language remake.
• Le Havre - fun French film about an old man helping shelter a child who is in the country illegally. Very funny.
• Akira - obviously
• Ringu - original Japanese version. Terrifying.
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - quite an obvious choice, but it absolutely blew me away when it came out.
• The Killing - Danish TV show. Not seen the American remake, but the original is amazing
• Oldboy - Korean movie, as above, remade, but I've only seen this. I suspect this one is better!
• Godzilla Minus One - monsters! And the suffering of post WW2 Japan! Odd mix, but it works!
• 8 Femmes - very funny French murder mystery. Recently remade (pretty well) in Italian as 7 Women and a Murder.
• Duet for Cannibals - very strange Swedish film I saw recently about two couples and some strange living/working arrangements.
• Rashomon - classic Japanese movie, where we see the same event from 3 different perspectives
• Taxi - brilliant French heist/crime/driving movie, with some superb car chases

So many more, but this list is getting too long!

• Bangkok Dangerous, the original one not with Nicage.

Lammbock

Back then (early to mid-2000s) it was considered the most popular German stoner movie (at least among my social group back then).

Suspect X

• Rusalka
• 2LDK

Pretty intense but I thought the Seediq Bale films were really good.

I really liked Vidocq, and the Brotherhood of the wolf.

Hana-bi by Takeshi Kitano

Classic French thriller.

"Wages Of Fear." Four men, two trucks, a desert, and five tons of unstable dynamite. They need to get the explosives to a uncontrolled oil well fire. They've got nothign to lose...

Cure (1997) is an absolutely mesmerizing film

A tanú (The Witness) - Hungarian comedy of communism

When it comes to Christmas movies my most favorite ones are:

• Joulutarina (Finnish)
• Listy do M (Polish)

The Wave (about a landslide in a fjord) is one of my favorite disaster movies.

The Quake (the sequel) is almost as good.