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.

  • Iunnrais@lemm.ee
    8·
    11 months ago

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

    • dpunked@feddit.de
      1·
      11 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
      1·
      11 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
      1·
      11 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.

    • trolololol@lemmy.world
      1·
      11 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.

  • Blubber28@lemmy.world
    5·
    11 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!

  • Philote@lemmy.ml
    4·
    11 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
    3·
    11 months ago

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

  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    11 months ago

    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.

      • huf [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        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

        • Maven (famous)@lemmy.zip
          2·
          11 months ago

          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.