Eight or so years ago, young film­mak­er Col­in Levy got an oppor­tu­ni­ty of a life­time. “It was a defin­ing moment in my path as a film­mak­er,” he lat­er wrote on his blog. A cou­ple weeks lat­er, Scorsese’s assis­tant sent him a hand­ful of books and 39 for­eign movies per­son­al­ly picked by the film­mak­er. In any case, as Scorsese’s assis­tant writes, this list is a great place to start for any­one look­ing to learn more about for­eign film. At least the first few films on the list you will find in our col­lec­tion, 4,000+ Free Movies Online: Great Clas­sics, Indies, Noir, West­erns, Doc­u­men­taries & More.