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.

  • Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
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    7 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

  • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    7 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.

  • Randomgal@lemmy.ca
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    7 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.

  • FergleFFergleson@infosec.pub
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    7 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.
  • CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Joyeux Noel. It’s a French/German/English language film about the Christmas Truce during WW1. Very moving film in my opinion.

    • Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world
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      7 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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      7 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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      7 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.

  • Philote@lemmy.ml
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    7 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.

  • Pronell@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    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.