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.

  • Blubber28@lemmy.world
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    4 months 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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    4 months ago

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

    • dpunked@feddit.de
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      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.

    • Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world
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      4 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.

    • EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works
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      4 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.

  • Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
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    4 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/him]@lemmy.ml
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    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.

  • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    4 months 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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      4 months 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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    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.
  • nicerdicer@feddit.org
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    4 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).

  • Iunnrais@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    Pan’s Labyrinth is a rare modern fairytale, in the old sense of the word, not the Disney sense.