I'm glad you decided to include LAWRENCE OF ARABIA but when I saw it I was in Arabic school and I was disappointed that it had only two bits of Arabic, "Hut hut hut" (which is hardly Arabic) and "Allahhu akbar!" But that was typical of the times and for very long. Now, that is corrected for the past several decades and western or Hollywood movies about Arabs have lots of Arabic in them. I assume you are familiar with the book by Jack Shaheen, Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People (first published in 2006).

For me personally the two most important Akira Kurosawa films are RASHOMON and IKIRU, the first because it was the first Japanese film I think significantly distributed and known in this country, and IKIRU because it is the one that has most moved me, possibly more deeply moved me than any other film I've ever seen, so I routinely give it as my all-time favorite.