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:

  • 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
  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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    4 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.

    • 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.

    • 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.

    • 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.

  • jaxxed@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    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.

  • MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub
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    4 months ago

    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 (Φόνισσα - Greek) from last year is pretty impactful.

    • Truffle@lemmy.ml
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      4 months ago

      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 habitación del niño” such a good story! I am a horror buff and it is always refreshing to watch something that surprises me in a good way.

        • Truffle@lemmy.ml
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          4 months ago

          I guess you are talking about the tv series? Because that was, indeed, kind of not so good. I watched a couple of episodes.

          The movies, at least for me, were good in a general sense but La habitación del niño was great in my opinion.

  • CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Joyeux Noel. It’s a French/German/English language film about the Christmas Truce during WW1. Very moving film in my opinion.

  • Philote@lemmy.ml
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    4 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.

  • Pronell@lemmy.world
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    4 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.