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Which are your 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:

  • Super Deluxe - A Tamil movie that I recently watched, quite unique
  • 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.

lukecooperatus ,

Some great favorites of mine that I haven’t seen mentioned here yet:

  • Extraordinary Attorney Woo is a Korean drama which follows Woo Young-woo, a female rookie attorney with autism, who is hired by a major law firm in Seoul.
  • Lupin is a French series about Assane Diop, a man who is inspired by the adventures of master thief Arsène Lupin.
  • Ragnarok is a Norwegian fantasy drama television series reimagining of Norse mythology. It takes place in the present-day fictional Norwegian town of Edda.
  • Tribes of Europa is a German series set in 2074, 43 years after a mysterious global technological failure caused nations to slip into anomie and fracture into dystopian warring tribal microstates.
dandelion ,
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I second Extraordinary Attorney Woo, what a wholesome and heart-warming show!!

trolololol ,

There’s no streaming service in my country with these titles except lupin 🙃

Streaming sucks, but not as much as plain old air tv 🤷‍♂️

Trollivier ,

If you have Netflix, you have access to Ragnarok too I think

trolololol ,

Oh true, the service I used to find what service has movies doesn’t cover Netflix apparently. What do you guys use?

lukecooperatus ,

Lots of info here about something to use that always has everything available.

trolololol ,

Oh yeah the high seas is always an option, but as my family goes it’s not convenient

Trollivier ,

Lupin and Ragnarok were pretty cool

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.

PeterLossGeorgeWall ,

Deutschland 83! Loved it. I’ll add Babylon Berlin.

unce ,

Oh nice I’ll have to check that one out

huf ,

cat city

Maven ,

What a weird and wonderful movie. Fantastic pick

huf ,

dont watch the sequel (i havent either).

but yeah, it’s a james bond type story set in a super weird garbled mirror image of the cold war. with mice and cats. and bats. and rats.

man i’m gonna re-watch it tonight. got myself hyped up :D

Maven ,

What I found especially interesting was how the movie showed a cycle of violence.

The main cat is being threatened by the boss cat to the point of needing to take anxiety medication.

The main cat then relentlessly bullies and injures his assistant.

His assistant then bullies the person lower on the social ladder than him… Aka his daughter…

His daughter then breaks the chain by not bullying the mouse who in turn doesn’t bully anyone.

At the end of the movie when it’s all ended and the assistant is no longer being actively harmed by his superior, we see him as a loving father again.

seliaste ,
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Hana-bi by Takeshi Kitano

CommissarVulpin ,

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

Trollivier ,

I agree!

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.

Trollivier ,

Trollhunter yes!

ryan213 ,
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Brotherhood of the Wolf Kung Fu Hustle Shaolin Soccer

BarHocker ,

Punctuation helps.

ryan213 ,
@ryan213@lemmy.ca avatar

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 ,
@ryan213@lemmy.ca avatar

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

Trollivier ,

Brotherhood of the wolf is excellent!

RandomStickman ,
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Shaolin Soccer for sure

Trollivier ,

Yes!

Trollivier ,

I really liked Vidocq, and the Brotherhood of the wolf.

AceFuzzLord ,

I found these through now defunct/gone bad sites, but Fei Ren Zai (非人哉) and All Saints Street (万圣街). Both series are animated adaptations of webcomics from the same guy.

Both have similar premises but are vastly different. Fei Ren Zai is a slice of life about mythological creatures, deities, and other such creatures from Chinese mythology living in modern day, done in short skits, pretty much being animated versions of the 4 panel comics the webcomic series is.

All Saints Street follows something similar, except for the fact that it’s western creatures (vampires, devils, angels, mummies, zombies, werewolves) living in modern times and doesn’t really have that 4 panel comic style Fei Ren Zai has. It follows a demon named Neil Bowman who moves from Hell (Australia if I remember correctly) to live with a vampire friend of his and ends up in the first few episodes (maybe around 10 or less if I’m not wrong?) living with a vampire, mummy, werewolf, and his landlord, an angel and eventually his younger sister. All under a single roof. It’s available on Crunchyroll with a Japanese dub, but I personally don’t like it. Especially since I really love the use of vocaloid for the original Chinese dub theme song and love the Chinese voices (props to the voice actors).

Also, France’s Code Lyoko is an absolute favorite of mine because of how awesome I thought it was growing up and how I still think it’s awesome. Mid-2000s cartoon where a group of 2D animated students at an academy must sneak off to go to a 3D CGI virtual world made possible by a radioactive material powered supercomputer that has a deadly computer virus like villainous thing housed inside the virtual world, trying to take out the kids so it can probably take over and get rid of all humans. If you don’t wanna be confused on episode 1, as you’re thrown in with no explanation, I recommend the episodes X.A.N.A. Awakens part 1 & 2.

alfenstein ,

The Hunt (2012) (Movie)IMDb Summary: Lucas is a Kindergarten teacher who takes great care of his students. Unfortunately for him, young Klara has a run-away imagination and concocts a lie about her teacher. Before Lucas is even able to understand the consequences, he has become the outcast of the town. The hunt is on to prove his innocence before it’s taken from him for good.

Klovn (Series)IMDb Summary: The socially awkward misadventures of Frank Hvam, his girlfriend Mia and his best friend Casper.

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zgasma ,

The Wave (about a landslide in a fjord) is one of my favorite disaster movies.

The Quake (the sequel) is almost as good.

mindbleach ,

Hardly a deep cut, but Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is absolutely fantastic.

A master of mystical superhuman martial arts is trying to retire, but a suspiciously talented thief keeps making off with his unbreakable sword. The movie is sold on and remembered for its acrobatic and set-destroying fight scenes, and if you just watched those highlights, you’d have a decent time. But you’d miss the clever characterization, the gorgeous cinematography, the excellent score, and on and on and on. If you just want wire-fu then watch Iron Monkey. This is a movie about all the small moments between complex people. It opens with ten minutes of dialog on purpose. The combat is what happens when characters fail.

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!

trolololol ,

Putting the word of a stranger before his wife’s… I don’t think this aged well.

Zagorath ,
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I can see why you’d say that, but I don’t agree. The whole point of the story is the moral ambiguity, we were never supposed to unambiguously side with the husband, but decided for ourselves who to believe. So our conclusions might change with time, but the play’s relevance has only grown.

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