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.

  • Luke@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    5 months 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.
  • nicerdicer@feddit.org
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    5 months ago

    Lammbock

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

  • Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
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    5 months 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

    • Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world
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      5 months 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.

    • dpunked@feddit.de
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      5 months 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.

    • EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works
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      5 months 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.

  • Randomgal@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    RRR, this shit has everything. Great fights, cool story, great landscapes from all over India, amazing VFX and art direction. Great musical interludes too. Absolutely recommended.

  • MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub
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    5 months ago

    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.

    • Truffle@lemmy.ml
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      5 months ago

      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.

        • Truffle@lemmy.ml
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          5 months ago

          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.

  • jaxxed@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Not Turkish, but Hot Skull was a great watch. At the risk of speaking on behalf of Turks, I think that the premises run deep into the culture.

  • FergleFFergleson@infosec.pub
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    5 months ago

    Series:

    • Dark: I love this series. It’s complex and smart and isn’t afraid to let the viewer think and not hold our hand. I re-watch this at least once a year, sometimes more. The show runners also made another series, 1899, which I liked - but didn’t love - and Netflix killed it after only one season.
    • Alta Mar/High Seas: The first season especially just captured my heart. It’s a fun murder-on-a-cruise-liner scenario with absolutely lavish set dressing, costumes, etc. The cast is a delight. There are a few unnecessary twists and the subsequent seasons didn’t grab me as hard, but this is one I happily come back to periodically.
    • Paranormal: This is, in some ways, only an “okay” series if I’m honest. The stories are solid, but mid-tier, the effects are pretty low grade, and the episodes didn’t connect well. But why I still have a fondness for this one: This series wasn’t just set in Egypt, it was an Egyptian production. So you don’t have some of the baggage of Hollywood/the U.S. or even other, major media countries. It’s refreshing to get a different cultural view occasionally.
    • Control-z: This was a fun, stylish mystery series set in a Mexican high-school. Not terribly deep and after the first season the quality drops pretty quickly, but it was enjoyable.
    • Squid Game: Who doesn’t love a game? :)
    • Post Mortem: No One Dies in Skarnes: Not very long series but it was enjoyable if you like the possibly over used trope of someone coming back from the dead and the challenges they encounter.
    • Katla: A short Icelandic supernatural series. Creepy vibes aplenty.
    • Money Heist: Spanish bank heist series. Good, not great, but good. A little predictable in places, a little unpredictable in places. Went for several seasons and spawned a couple of spin-offs.
    • Fallet: An interestingly little series from Sweden. The premise is a stretch, but the characters were kind of endearing. I enjoyed it.

    Movies:
    I know I’ve watched a lot more foreign films recently that I liked than this, but I’m having a hard time recalling any that stand out. Here’s still a few I felt like mentioning:

    Classics: Pan’s Labyrinth, Run Lola Run, Seven Samurai.

    A few you might not have heard of:

    • Errementari: a stylish, enjoyable fable of a blacksmith and the devil
    • The Little Switzerland: A silly little comedy set in Spain. Not a lot of depth, but entertaining.
  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
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    5 months ago

    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.