Which are your favorite non-English movies, series etc? (lemmy.sdf.org)

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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.

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[-] alfenstein@beehaw.org 2 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] yewg85lcx@feddit.uk 2 points 5 months ago

Suspect X

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

Bangkok Dangerous, the original one not with Nicage.

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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!

[-] scytale@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

For Korean media:

TV shows:

Beyond Evil
Moving
D.P.

Movies:

The Handmaiden
Parasite
Decision to Leave
Old Boy

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 months ago

A tanú (The Witness) - Hungarian comedy of communism

[-] EfreetSK@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

When it comes to Christmas movies my most favorite ones are:

Joulutarina (Finnish)
Listy do M (Polish)

[-] seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 months ago

Hana-bi by Takeshi Kitano

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

Pretty intense but I thought the Seediq Bale films were really good.

[-] dditty@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

Cure (1997) is an absolutely mesmerizing film

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

Classic French thriller.

"Wages Of Fear." Four men, two trucks, a desert, and five tons of unstable dynamite. They need to get the explosives to a uncontrolled oil well fire. They've got nothign to lose...

[-] zgasma@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 months ago

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

The Quake (the sequel) is almost as good.

[-] Trollivier@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

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

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