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Which are you favorite non-English movies, series etc?

If not favorite, ones that touched you in some way.

I’ll start by mentioning some movies from my mother tongue(Malayalam of Kerala, India):

  • Mumbai Police
    A crime thriller (Came out almost 2 decades ago n was very striking for the time)
  • KammaraSambhavam Political/Historic satire/drama (The main actor has some cases on him, but the movie is quite good)
  • Kathavasheshan
  • Devasuram
    Conservative sigma male upper class Kerala dude getting character development. I really liked how the transformation happened in it
  • Maheshinte Parthikaaram (Mahesh’s Revenge)
    Not an action movie.

From my country, but not in my mother tongue:

  • Enthiran (Robot), a Tamil movie
    Has over the top stuff, but is fun to watch
  • Viduthalai(Liberation), another Tamil movie
  • Agent Vinod - A Hindi spy-comedy movie

The anime that I like are Hunter x Hunter, Parasyte, Samurai Flamenco, Gintama.

I_Am_Jacks_____ ,

Dark (German/Netflix)

dpunked ,

Best show, period. I was happy that finally there is a story thought out from start to finish, is smart and does not hold your hand. I should rewatch it soon.

pastermil ,

Hands down.

Randomgal ,

RRR, this shit has everything. Great fights, cool story, great landscapes from all over India, amazing VFX and art direction. Great musical interludes too. Absolutely recommended.

TheCannonball ,

Came to say this. The movie also won an Oscar for best original song.

unce ,

I enjoyed Dark(German), Deutschland 83(German), and Gomorrah(Italian)

tetris11 ,
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I liked the idea of Dark, I just disliked having to pull up a convoluted family tree hastily constructed from Reddit so that I could work out who was screwing who whilst visiting themselves.

RandomStickman ,
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Shaolin Soccer for sure

Fizz ,
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RRR the movie is so good

FergleFFergleson ,

Series:

  • Dark: I love this series. It’s complex and smart and isn’t afraid to let the viewer think and not hold our hand. I re-watch this at least once a year, sometimes more. The show runners also made another series, 1899, which I liked - but didn’t love - and Netflix killed it after only one season.
  • Alta Mar/High Seas: The first season especially just captured my heart. It’s a fun murder-on-a-cruise-liner scenario with absolutely lavish set dressing, costumes, etc. The cast is a delight. There are a few unnecessary twists and the subsequent seasons didn’t grab me as hard, but this is one I happily come back to periodically.
  • Paranormal: This is, in some ways, only an “okay” series if I’m honest. The stories are solid, but mid-tier, the effects are pretty low grade, and the episodes didn’t connect well. But why I still have a fondness for this one: This series wasn’t just set in Egypt, it was an Egyptian production. So you don’t have some of the baggage of Hollywood/the U.S. or even other, major media countries. It’s refreshing to get a different cultural view occasionally.
  • Control-z: This was a fun, stylish mystery series set in a Mexican high-school. Not terribly deep and after the first season the quality drops pretty quickly, but it was enjoyable.
  • Squid Game: Who doesn’t love a game? :)
  • Post Mortem: No One Dies in Skarnes: Not very long series but it was enjoyable if you like the possibly over used trope of someone coming back from the dead and the challenges they encounter.
  • Katla: A short Icelandic supernatural series. Creepy vibes aplenty.
  • Money Heist: Spanish bank heist series. Good, not great, but good. A little predictable in places, a little unpredictable in places. Went for several seasons and spawned a couple of spin-offs.
  • Fallet: An interestingly little series from Sweden. The premise is a stretch, but the characters were kind of endearing. I enjoyed it.

Movies:
I know I’ve watched a lot more foreign films recently that I liked than this, but I’m having a hard time recalling any that stand out. Here’s still a few I felt like mentioning:

Classics: Pan’s Labyrinth, Run Lola Run, Seven Samurai.

A few you might not have heard of:

  • Errementari: a stylish, enjoyable fable of a blacksmith and the devil
  • The Little Switzerland: A silly little comedy set in Spain. Not a lot of depth, but entertaining.
Nemo ,

Life Is Beautiful

MicrowavedTea ,

I had totally forgotten about 1899. I think it had as much potential as Dark, just didn’t have a great first season. And the multiple languages was an interesting concept.

ryan213 ,
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Brotherhood of the Wolf Kung Fu Hustle Shaolin Soccer

BarHocker ,

Punctuation helps.

ryan213 ,
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Looked fine when I posted it. It had line breaks. Weird.

shapesandstuff ,

Double space + linebreak
for this and double linebreak

For a paragraph.

Doesn’t help that thunder seems to eat a trailing space when you linebreak.

ryan213 ,
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I’m on Connect. Not sure I’ve noticed this before. Lol

Philote ,

City of God, (Portuguese/Brazil) One of my all time favorite movies period. Gangster/Crime lord style movie about kids running the Favelas in Rio

Elite Squad 1 and 2 also (Portuguese/Brazilian) Top notch Cop/shoot out movie really reinvigorated the Sicario and John Wick style films.

Oldboy (Korean) The WTF twist is an early stand out of what the amazing Korean producers are now famously known for.

Truffle ,

City of god was a great movie

MicrowavedTea ,

There are many good thriller/horror movies in spanish.

  • La piel que habito
  • REC
  • Los ojos de julia
  • La cara oculta (I think this one’s from Colombia)

Shutter is also a great Thai horror movie.

From my country Murderess (Φόνισσα - Greek) from last year is pretty impactful.

Truffle ,

Have you watched “Historias para no dormir”? It was series of Spanish horror movies, I think four or five. My favorite from that series was “La habitación del niño” such a good story! I am a horror buff and it is always refreshing to watch something that surprises me in a good way.

MicrowavedTea ,

Oh I hadn’t heard of those, added to the watch list

Cowbee ,
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The Handmaiden by Park Chan-wook is fantastic for movies.

For books, Roadside Picnic by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, and the movie adaptation Stalker by Tarkovsky, are sci-fi classics.

Human Acts is another amazing book, this time from Han Kang.

Vanth ,
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Hmm, if I sort my Letterboxd watched list by my highest rating, the first non-english movie to come up is Parasite. I don’t think that’s actually my fave, but it’s up there.

I liked Monkey Man, best non-english language movie I’ve seen so far this year.

3 Idiots, just like anyone who’s gone through engineering school and has seen it.

Seven Samurai and Rashoman

ProfessorOwl_PhD ,
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The Good, The Bad, and the Weird (좋은 놈, 나쁜 놈, 이상한 놈) is a fantastic slapstick take on the classic western that has a lot of fun with the setting.
Trollhunter (Trolljegeren) is a great horror-mockumentary done in a found footage style.
Basically anything by Kurosawa.

Zagorath ,
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For a serious drama: Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources, a shockingly good pair of French films that start when an idealistic city dweller moves out to the countryside to start farming on some valuable land that the locals would rather went to them.

Much less seriously: Le Concert. A French comedy-drama about a Russian conductor forced out of his prestigious role after a falling out with the Soviet leadership, who many years later gets an opportunity to re-form his orchestra out of a rag-tag group who haven’t played in years, and travel with them to Paris to give the eponymous concert, performing the same piece that he was conducting at the moment a KGB agent stormed in to strip him of his title. There are some more layers to it that give the movie some brilliant genuine heart, in addition to the hilarious hijinks of the premise.

I’ll just add an extra one that doesn’t really fit, but is kinda close. Death and the Maiden, by Ariel Dorfman. Doesn’t fit both because it’s a play rather than a movie or TV show, and because it might be originally English (I’m honestly not sure and have seen contrary answers about it—even in my copy of the play itself it’s unclear, with references to the “world premiere” in England being after it “was staged and opened in…Chile”). But regardless of the original language, it’s very much not from an anglo perspective, being written by a Chilean and set in post-Pinochet Chile (technically, it’s described as being potentially any country post dictatorship, but it’s primarily written for Chile). It’s about a husband who accidentally welcomes into their home a man whom his wife swears was her warden and rapist while she was imprisoned by the dictatorial regime, and the play is all centred around “is she right, and will her husband believe her?”

Churbleyimyam ,

Thanks for reminding me about Manon Des Sources. I remember being totally captivated by it but can’t remember any details!

Pronell ,

City of Lost Children, and to a slightly lesser extent, Delicatessen and Amelie, all directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet.

I’ve yet to see worldbuilding as effortless as it is in the first two movies.

Drop you in blind, explain nothing, get very weird, and tell a fantastic story.

CommissarVulpin ,

Joyeux Noel. It’s a French/German/English language film about the Christmas Truce during WW1. Very moving film in my opinion.

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