it isn't on Netflix but I am gonna use this as a catch-all for non-english language series on streaming services ... would love to hear other ilxors recommendations, reviews, etc .
I just finished watching all 7 years of A French Village (occupied France during and after WW2)-- it's really good imo and relevant to current events in terms of Occupation and tactics and repression as well as history stuff.
Features Thierry Godard and Audrey F from Engranages
― sarahell, Thursday, 16 May 2024 01:44 (two weeks ago) link
also has communists and communists having meetings! And passive-aggressively calling each other Comrade
― sarahell, Thursday, 16 May 2024 01:45 (two weeks ago) link
Currently watching Furies on Netflix — a dumb John Wick-esque show about a woman, "the Fury," who is in charge of enforcing the bylaws of the French underworld, murdering gangsters who step out of line in order to preserve the balance of power between the six big gangster families who run Paris, or whatever. Could just as easily have posted this in my international-violent-action-trash thread. It's only eight episodes but each one feels as long as a Bela Tarr movie.
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Thursday, 16 May 2024 02:39 (two weeks ago) link
Danish prison drama Prisoner (with Sofie Gråbøl) on BBC iPlayer is excellent.
― bored by endless ecstasy (anagram), Thursday, 16 May 2024 07:08 (two weeks ago) link
Really enjoying Prisoner, thanks for the recommendation
― badg, Saturday, 25 May 2024 05:15 (one week ago) link
Started watching Hidden Theories (portugal) and I am somewhat confused about how banks work there
― sarahell, Sunday, 26 May 2024 16:46 (one week ago) link
as posted on the other streaming thread, I started watching the Korean ad agency drama AGENCY on Netflix, and it hits a similar sweet spot as my other recent Korean fave STRANGER while being completely different. Two episodes in and it's already extremely twisty with a couple thoroughly despicable male agency execs engaging in a Succession-type war against the female lead. She's similar to one of the two leads in Stranger (Cho Seung-woo as Si-mok) in that the trauma of her childhood has informed her superficial coldness and callousness, which leads to those around her misunderstanding and underestimating her. Absolutely soapy OTT kinda stuff, I love it so far.
― omar little, Thursday, 30 May 2024 19:10 (six days ago) link
Spymaster on iPlayer is familiar but not. it's another cold war spy drama set in the 70s with all the necessary retro fashions but this one is Romanian (and German and Russian and American)
― koogs, Sunday, 2 June 2024 10:22 (three days ago) link
(a joint Hungarian Romanian production based on the credits)
― koogs, Sunday, 2 June 2024 10:56 (three days ago) link