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.
Pridyider, the Filipino movie about a haunted fridge. Haven’t been able to find a copy of it in years unfortunately.
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.
I second Extraordinary Attorney Woo, what a wholesome and heart-warming show!!
Lupin and Ragnarok were pretty cool
There’s no streaming service in my country with these titles except lupin 🙃
Streaming sucks, but not as much as plain old air tv 🤷♂️
If you have Netflix, you have access to Ragnarok too I think
Oh true, the service I used to find what service has movies doesn’t cover Netflix apparently. What do you guys use?
Lots of info here about something to use that always has everything available.
Oh yeah the high seas is always an option, but as my family goes it’s not convenient
Shaolin Soccer for sure
Yes!
Pretty intense but I thought the Seediq Bale films were really good.
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.
Yeah, these guys are great. I love seeing some of the same faces in completely different roles)
Joyeux Noel. It’s a French/German/English language film about the Christmas Truce during WW1. Very moving film in my opinion.
I agree!
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.
City of god was a great movie
Reminder that city of God and elite squad are based on historical facts.
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.
Dark (German/Netflix)
I wanna add to that Who Am I
It’s a movie made by the same people
If you liked the mystery of Dark and are looking for something to scratch that itch you’ll love it.
Thank you. Will check it out!
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.
Hands down.
I dont remember another tv show where we watched 10 hours of recap/explanation/theory videos on youtube before each new season.
Amazing show and my favourite part is not even how brilliant the storyline is, but the god tier casting of different aged actors for the same characters.
Agreed. Some of that casting was SO spot on (Jonah in particular)
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.
- Bangkok Dangerous, the original one not with Nicage.
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!
I loved Drive My Car. Incredible soundtrack, well paced, and incredibly moving.
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.
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.
I didn’t watch the rest after the first episode… It felt so… Forced.
I guess you are talking about the tv series? Because that was, indeed, kind of not so good. I watched a couple of episodes.
The movies, at least for me, were good in a general sense but La habitación del niño was great in my opinion.
Oh I hadn’t heard of those, added to the watch list
