France: "La Haine", "Notre Jour Viendra", "Steak", anything by Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, François Truffaut, Francis Veber, Luc Besson.
Canada: "Léolo", "C.R.A.Z.Y.", "Mon oncle Antoine", "Manufactured Landscapes".
Italy: Anything by Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Sergio Leone, Paolo Pasolini, Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti, Bernardo Bertolucci.
Spain: "El Espinazo del Diablo", "El Laberinto del Fauno", [REC], "Abre los Ojos", "Lucia y el Sexo", Tesis, anything by Almodovar, Luis Buñuel.
Germany: "Goodbye Lenin!", "Metropolis", "The Tin Drum", "Downfall", "Run Lola Run", "Das Boot".
Sweden: "Let the Right One In", anything by Ingmar Bergman.
Finland: anything by Aki Kaurismäki.
Yugoslavia/Serbia: anything by Emir Kusturica.