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.

    • EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      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.

    • dpunked@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      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.

    • Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      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.

  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    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@reddthat.comEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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

  • Blubber28@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

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

  • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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@feddit.dk
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      1 year ago

      +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
  • Luke@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.
      • huf [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        1 year ago

        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 (famous)@lemmy.zip
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          1 year ago

          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.

  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    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.