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.

    • EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      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.

    • Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world
      3·
      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
      1·
      6 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.

  • Iunnrais@lemm.ee
    8·
    5 months ago

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

  • Blubber28@lemmy.world
    7·
    5 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!

    • trolololol@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 months ago

      I put lunchbox in my watch list, it’s the one that’s pg and available where I live. I’m not up to these animations lately, though I saw Akira in the 90s and loved it.

  • Pronell@lemmy.world
    6·
    5 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.

  • Luke@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    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.
  • Philote@lemmy.ml
    5·
    6 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.

  • thepreciousboar@lemm.ee
    5·
    5 months ago

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

  • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    5 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
      5·
      5 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
  • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    4·
    5 months ago

    The Good, The Bad, and the Weird (좋은 놈, 나쁜 놈, 이상한 놈) 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.