Dark (German/Netflix)
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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.
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.
Agreed. Some of that casting was SO spot on (Jonah in particular)
Hands down.
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.
I enjoyed Dark(German), Deutschland 83(German), and Gomorrah(Italian)
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.
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.
Panβs Labyrinth is a rare modern fairytale, in the old sense of the word, not the Disney sense.
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.
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.
- Brahmayugan (2024)
- 3 Idiots (2009)
- Akira (1988)
- Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
- The Secret World of Arrietty (2010)
- Princess Mononoke (1997)
- Spirited Away (2001)
- The Lunchbox (2013)
- Newton (2017)
- Titli (2014)
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!
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.
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.
Train to Busan is without a doubt the best zombie movie I have ever seen.
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?)
+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
Cinema Paradiso
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.
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 (Ξ¦ΟΞ½ΞΉΟΟΞ± - Greek) from last year is pretty impactful.
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 habitaciΓ³n del niΓ±o" such a good story! I am a horror buff and it is always refreshing to watch something that surprises me in a good way.
I didn't watch the rest after the first episode... It felt so... Forced.
Persepolis, the tragic animated story of how Iran transformes from a modern and rich country to a religious dictatorship
RRR the movie is so good
The Good, The Bad, and the Weird (μ’μ λ, λμ λ, μ΄μν λ) is a fantastic slapstick take on the classic western that has a lot of fun with the setting.
Trollhunter (Trolljegeren) is a great horror-mockumentary done in a found footage style.
Basically anything by Kurosawa.
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 itβeven 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?"
Thanks for reminding me about Manon Des Sources. I remember being totally captivated by it but can't remember any details!
I loved Drive My Car. Incredible soundtrack, well paced, and incredibly moving.
Joyeux Noel. Itβs a French/German/English language film about the Christmas Truce during WW1. Very moving film in my opinion.
Pridyider, the Filipino movie about a haunted fridge. Haven't been able to find a copy of it in years unfortunately.
Your Name makes me feel nostalgia for a childhood I never had and its fucking gorgeous.
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.
For Korean media:
TV shows:
- Beyond Evil
- Moving
- D.P.
Movies:
- The Handmaiden
- Parasite
- Decision to Leave
- Old Boy
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.
Back then (early to mid-2000s) it was considered the most popular German stoner movie (at least among my social group back then).
- Rusalka
- 2LDK
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.