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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.

nicerdicer ,

Lammbock

Back then (early to mid-2000s) it was considered the most popular German stoner movie (at least among my social group back then).

yogthos ,
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  • Seventeen Moments of Spring
  • Kin-dza-dza!
  • Train to Busan
  • New World
  • Parasite
  • City of God
  • Fist of Legend
  • Drunken Master II
  • The Raid
  • Pan’s Labyrinth
  • Stalker
  • Brother
velox_vulnus ,
  • Brahmayugan (2024)
  • 3 Idiots (2009)
  • Akira (1988)
  • Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)
  • The Secret World of Arrietty (2010)
  • Princess Mononoke (1997)
  • Spirited Away (2001)
  • The Lunchbox (2013)
  • Newton (2017)
  • Titli (2014)
trolololol ,

I put lunchbox in my watch list, it’s the one that’s pg and available where I live. I’m not up to these animations lately, though I saw Akira in the 90s and loved it.

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

Blubber28 ,

Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front). A movie about WWI from the German perspective. While not 100% accurate, it does a great job of showing the harrowing trench warfare, the propaganda, and the out-of-touch militarism in the higher ranks. I highly recommend it.

A much older one: Le Grand Vadrouille (The Great Escape). A French WWII comedy about a few British pilots that need to escape occupied France. There is a little bit of English but it’s predominantly French in language. While not all movies from that age have stood the test of time (e.g. Les Gendarmes are quite racist), this one does a decent job!

thepreciousboar ,

Persepolis, the tragic animated story of how Iran transformes from a modern and rich country to a religious dictatorship

flambonkscious ,

I loved bron|broen (remade by Americans as the bridge, but that’s bound to be lame in comparison). Great detective show set in Denmark and Sweden (? It’s been ages, don’t judge me). This is reasonably old tv series. Some great demonstrations of neurodivergence from (what feels like) a previous decade

Also Rain was a great Scandinavian sci-fi series (Netflix?)

privsecfoss ,
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+1 Bron/Broen. I am a big fan of Scandinavian series, and can also recommend:

  • Follow the Money (Bedrag/Deception)
  • The Killing (Forbrydelsen)
  • Trapped
  • Exit
scytale ,

For Korean media:

TV shows:

  • Beyond Evil
  • Moving
  • D.P.

Movies:

  • The Handmaiden
  • Parasite
  • Decision to Leave
  • Old Boy
shinigamiookamiryuu ,

Portuguese Dragon Ball Z ranks up there.

Churbleyimyam ,

Cinema Paradiso

tetris11 ,
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  • Bangkok Dangerous, the original one not with Nicage.
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!

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.

tiefling ,

Does Pan’s Labyrinth count?

Drusas ,

Why wouldn't it?

sanguinepar ,
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One more mention for Dark, absolutely the best thing on Netflix IMO.

Others:

  • Neuvas Rienas (9 queens) - an excellent Argentinian heist/scam film with quite a cool look. Like a mix of Ocean’s Eleven (plotwise) and the Bourne films (visually).
  • Intacto - interesting Spanish movie about people who are able to steal others’ luck. I could imagine Christopher Nolan doing an English language remake.
  • Le Havre - fun French film about an old man helping shelter a child who is in the country illegally. Very funny.
  • Akira - obviously
  • Ringu - original Japanese version. Terrifying.
  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - quite an obvious choice, but it absolutely blew me away when it came out.
  • The Killing - Danish TV show. Not seen the American remake, but the original is amazing
  • Oldboy - Korean movie, as above, remade, but I’ve only seen this. I suspect this one is better!
  • Godzilla Minus One - monsters! And the suffering of post WW2 Japan! Odd mix, but it works!
  • 8 Femmes - very funny French murder mystery. Recently remade (pretty well) in Italian as 7 Women and a Murder.
  • Duet for Cannibals - very strange Swedish film I saw recently about two couples and some strange living/working arrangements.
  • Rashomon - classic Japanese movie, where we see the same event from 3 different perspectives
  • Taxi - brilliant French heist/crime/driving movie, with some superb car chases

So many more, but this list is getting too long!

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