I know somebody had to have asked this at one point, but I'm going to ask it again.  What was the first foreign film that you ever watched?  I'm talking about the first one that made you decide to see more foreign films.  I watched a lot of French movies in high school French class, but none of them inspired me to delve deep into the seething underworld of foreign film gangsters.

The first one that I saw that made me think "Hey, I need to see more of these!  They don't make movies like this in America!" was one I saw just a month or two ago.  I saw The Hidden Fortress (Kurosawa) and was completely  astonished.  Toshiro Mifune's excellent performance broke through the language barrier, as it did in the second one I watched, "Seven Samurai."  Then I saw "City of Lost Children."  That was the movie that made me realize that I was missing out on (literally) a WORLD of great cinema.