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.
Pan’s Labyrinth is a rare modern fairytale, in the old sense of the word, not the Disney sense.
Dark (German/Netflix)
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)
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.
Thank you. Will check it out!
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.
Hands down.
Shaolin Soccer for sure
Yes!
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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.
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!
Lots of classic films are not English, e.g. Seventh Seal.
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.
Reminder that city of God and elite squad are based on historical facts.
City of god was a great movie
Train to Busan is without a doubt the best zombie movie I have ever seen.
cat city
What a weird and wonderful movie. Fantastic pick
dont watch the sequel (i havent either).
but yeah, it’s a james bond type story set in a super weird garbled mirror image of the cold war. with mice and cats. and bats. and rats.
man i’m gonna re-watch it tonight. got myself hyped up :D
What I found especially interesting was how the movie showed a cycle of violence.
The main cat is being threatened by the boss cat to the point of needing to take anxiety medication.
The main cat then relentlessly bullies and injures his assistant.
His assistant then bullies the person lower on the social ladder than him… Aka his daughter…
His daughter then breaks the chain by not bullying the mouse who in turn doesn’t bully anyone.
At the end of the movie when it’s all ended and the assistant is no longer being actively harmed by his superior, we see him as a loving father again.
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.
I enjoyed Dark(German), Deutschland 83(German), and Gomorrah(Italian)
Deutschland 83! Loved it. I’ll add Babylon Berlin.
Oh nice I’ll have to check that one out
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.
Persepolis, the tragic animated story of how Iran transformes from a modern and rich country to a religious dictatorship
Cinema Paradiso
I found these through now defunct/gone bad sites, but Fei Ren Zai (非人哉) and All Saints Street (万圣街). Both series are animated adaptations of webcomics from the same guy.
Both have similar premises but are vastly different. Fei Ren Zai is a slice of life about mythological creatures, deities, and other such creatures from Chinese mythology living in modern day, done in short skits, pretty much being animated versions of the 4 panel comics the webcomic series is.
All Saints Street follows something similar, except for the fact that it’s western creatures (vampires, devils, angels, mummies, zombies, werewolves) living in modern times and doesn’t really have that 4 panel comic style Fei Ren Zai has. It follows a demon named Neil Bowman who moves from Hell (Australia if I remember correctly) to live with a vampire friend of his and ends up in the first few episodes (maybe around 10 or less if I’m not wrong?) living with a vampire, mummy, werewolf, and his landlord, an angel and eventually his younger sister. All under a single roof. It’s available on Crunchyroll with a Japanese dub, but I personally don’t like it. Especially since I really love the use of vocaloid for the original Chinese dub theme song and love the Chinese voices (props to the voice actors).
Also, France’s Code Lyoko is an absolute favorite of mine because of how awesome I thought it was growing up and how I still think it’s awesome. Mid-2000s cartoon where a group of 2D animated students at an academy must sneak off to go to a 3D CGI virtual world made possible by a radioactive material powered supercomputer that has a deadly computer virus like villainous thing housed inside the virtual world, trying to take out the kids so it can probably take over and get rid of all humans. If you don’t wanna be confused on episode 1, as you’re thrown in with no explanation, I recommend the episodes X.A.N.A. Awakens part 1 & 2.
