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.
- RandomStickman ( @RandomStickman@kbin.run ) 16•4 months ago
Shaolin Soccer for sure
- I_Am_Jacks_____ ( @I_Am_Jacks_____@lemmings.world ) 14•4 months ago
Dark (German/Netflix)
- dpunked ( @dpunked@feddit.de ) 4•4 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.
- ryan213 ( @ryan213@lemmy.ca ) 9•4 months ago
Brotherhood of the Wolf Kung Fu Hustle Shaolin Soccer
- BarHocker ( @BarHocker@discuss.tchncs.de ) 4•4 months ago
Punctuation helps.
- ryan213 ( @ryan213@lemmy.ca ) 1•4 months ago
Looked fine when I posted it. It had line breaks. Weird.
- shapesandstuff ( @shapesandstuff@feddit.de ) 3•4 months ago
Double space + linebreak
for this and double linebreakFor a paragraph.
Doesn’t help that thunder seems to eat a trailing space when you linebreak.
- ryan213 ( @ryan213@lemmy.ca ) 2•4 months ago
I’m on Connect. Not sure I’ve noticed this before. Lol
- FergleFFergleson ( @FergleFFergleson@infosec.pub ) 6•4 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.
- MicrowavedTea ( @MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub ) 2•4 months ago
I had totally forgotten about 1899. I think it had as much potential as Dark, just didn’t have a great first season. And the multiple languages was an interesting concept.
- ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠 ( @Nemo@midwest.social ) 2•4 months ago
Life Is Beautiful
- Luke ( @lukecooperatus@lemmy.ml ) English6•4 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.
- dandelion ( @dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 2•4 months ago
I second Extraordinary Attorney Woo, what a wholesome and heart-warming show!!
- Fizz ( @Fizz@lemmy.nz ) 5•4 months ago
RRR the movie is so good
- MicrowavedTea ( @MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub ) 5•4 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 ( @Truffle@lemmy.ml ) 2•4 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.
- MicrowavedTea ( @MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub ) 2•4 months ago
Oh I hadn’t heard of those, added to the watch list
- iturnedintoanewt ( @iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee ) 2•4 months ago
I didn’t watch the rest after the first episode… It felt so… Forced.
- Truffle ( @Truffle@lemmy.ml ) 2•4 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.
- Philote ( @Philote@lemmy.ml ) 5•4 months ago
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.
- Truffle ( @Truffle@lemmy.ml ) 1•4 months ago
City of god was a great movie
- unce ( @unce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 5•4 months ago
I enjoyed Dark(German), Deutschland 83(German), and Gomorrah(Italian)
- tetris11 ( @tetris11@lemmy.ml ) 5•4 months ago
I liked the idea of Dark, I just disliked having to pull up a convoluted family tree hastily constructed from Reddit so that I could work out who was screwing who whilst visiting themselves.
Deutschland 83! Loved it. I’ll add Babylon Berlin.
- unce ( @unce@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 2•4 months ago
Oh nice I’ll have to check that one out
- Zagorath ( @Zagorath@aussie.zone ) English4•4 months ago
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 ( @Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee ) 2•4 months ago
Thanks for reminding me about Manon Des Sources. I remember being totally captivated by it but can’t remember any details!
- Randomgal ( @Randomgal@lemmy.ca ) 4•4 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.
- Iunnrais ( @Iunnrais@lemm.ee ) 4•4 months ago
Pan’s Labyrinth is a rare modern fairytale, in the old sense of the word, not the Disney sense.
- apotheotic (she/her) ( @apotheotic@beehaw.org ) English3•4 months ago
Your Name makes me feel nostalgia for a childhood I never had and its fucking gorgeous.
- Lemuria ( @lemuria@lemmy.ml ) English3•4 months ago
Pridyider, the Filipino movie about a haunted fridge. Haven’t been able to find a copy of it in years unfortunately.
- Cowbee [he/him] ( @Cowbee@lemmy.ml ) 3•4 months 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.