@menckencynic Yeah but I can't always tell, because I don't always know what you're talking about. For example, this one here. I am assuming this has some link with poontang, which is something to do with Vietnamese prostitutes and their 'parts', I believe made popular by Full Metal Jacket. Maybe... I dunno. My introduction to this concept was as a kid when my favourite cricketer was named Ricky Ponting. He later went on to become one of the most celebrated Australian cricketers ever, but not when I was young, he was just a good player back then. But this guy I hung around called him Poon-tang, which one day he semi-explained to me, just saying that it was a euphamism. So I come to your joke with only some of the context that you might be referring to. The same thing happened with the apocalypse and Australian asking for a doughnut joke. Like, is it meant to be that Australians are stupid or just that we eat a lot? Both may be true but I don't "get" the joke.
There's a French crime series "La forêt" which we liked a lot. I enjoyed the first season of Brazilian "3%" but that may be due to Lusophilia. Many people in my circle of friends enjoyed "Les revenants" but I don't dig zombies :) Stay away from 1983, the Polish series, where the writers seem to have tried a new recipe: let's keep ALL the ideas from the brainstorm. The dozens of story lines quickly grow apart and it takes an army of deux ex machina to bring them back together, or in most cases, not.
Stumbled upon your channel today. Absolutely delighted. Personally, I haven't done a top 10 list yet and am not sure if I can frame it the way you did. Off-hand, I'm more inclined to ranking individual seasons rather than shows. If so, Trapped Season 1 has to be at the top for me, way above anything else. Again off-hand, I might give the second spot to Braquo Season 1. But if I look at shows in totality, I'd rate Millennium the highest (assuming we can call it a show). If not, I'd probably rank The Bridge the highest followed by Trapped and Wallander. There would also be some names that are not on your list: Hinterland and Four Seasons in Havana. I'm not sure where exactly I'd place them. I haven't seen Undercover as yet but you've given me a reason to. I haven't seen A Very Secret Service or Fauda either but for watching those, I guess I'll need a lot more encouragement.
Dude you don't know how grateful I am that I found my your channel. I knew I could trust your critiques when you did one on money heist and my god you were right. Most of the tv reviewers on this platform are either having terrible taste/critiques or are straight up sell outs. You just introduced me to hours of quality entertainment and are even (mostly) available on netflix. For months I was looking for reviewers that do international tv I could trust. And behold I found your channel. You have good taste. For that, thanks.
This comment came just at the right time for me, THANK YOU. I was really stewing on some crap that went down on my other channel, and to receive something encouragement like this was really nice. Yeah I have to do my part 4 review of Money Heist haha, reviewing it is going to be a lot more fun than watching it was.
In no particular order some non English language recommendations Dark Money heist The Returned Delhi Crime Gomorrah Fauda The bridge Kingdom Riget Ares Ghoul Narcos Giri/haji Deutschland 83 Green Frontier Babylon Berlin Thanks for the list, I have just started Undercover and loved the first episode!
-Top Boy -ZeroZeroZero -Vis A Vis -Kingdom -Money Heist -Narcos -El Robo Del Siglo -El Candidato -Hernan -Reality Z/Black Summer -Into the Night -The Rain - even tho it Fell off this last season
i will look for all of the above. i just finished watching 5 seasons of SHETLAND in english made by the scots. i know its in english, but to someone born & bred in manhattan ny, sometimes, i needed subtitles for the accent! lol. I loved it. & i'm putting shetland on my 'have to visit' list.
My wife and I got about 2 episodes into “Trapped’ and decided the pace was too slow. We did enjoy “The Valhalla Murders” though. We throughly enjoyed all 4 seasons of “The Bridge” after first seeing “The Tunnel” Fr/En version. “Bordertown” was too dark for her and missing the police partner dynamic that she prefers but I just finished Season 3 and very much enjoyed it. “Deadwind” was fun too. We live in Los Angeles so we’re largely limited to Netflix and Amazon Prime Video for our foreign tv offerings. We’ve decided that we much prefer to watch in the original languages with English subtitles to get all the emotional nuances from the original actors. Neither of us has lived in Europe (some vacations though) so part of the appeal is learning more about the countries. For example in “Deadwind” we thought she was doing a lot of unlawful entry until I checked Google and found Finnish police don’t need search warrants. Thanks for all the suggestions!
No Gomorrah in the Top 10? Amazing show from start to finish. Highly recommended. We just finished The Missing. Not bad, thanks for the recommendation.
Toronto here and so glad I found you! I’ve seen Undercover and Trapped and enjoyed both, I like your critiques immensely. I’m starting on the rest as of tonight. You’re my kind of reviewer. Hey and get a fan to cool you down in the studio.
Haha - well it doesn't matter anymore because we're heading into winter, but the problem with a fan would be the noise. My sound isn't even that great as it is, but yeah I was using a fan between takes. Thanks for your support! I have some reviews still over on my other channel (this channel is my second when I decided to split two kinds of content that I make) but yeah my reviews from this late 2019 onwards are generally better than the older ones.
@@huzaifanazir363 More twists doesn't make a better series. The reason season 1 didn't have as many twists was that the whole thing was so inherently logical. Anybody can write a script that just changes what it's doing every 3 minutes... and for a REAL example of that very thing, see La Trêve.
1 The Bureau (Le bureau des légendes) (my best tv show ever was breaking bad, The bureau took the first place). 2 Spiral (engrenages) (Police / justice tv show, quality on par with the wire, the shield) 2 Gomorra (best mafia show, even better than Sopranos and mafiosa)
Borgen, Giri/Haji, Deadwind and Bordertown are all brilliant! Quicksand, Babylon Berlin and Occupied are also real good. And yes,Trapped and The Valhalla Murders are worth watching. PS. Add The Bridge to the brilliant list!
Glad I found this video, I was always like what's next to watch and wasn't able to find a good series. Thanks for making this video some of the mentioned series are really awesome. Keep it up! 😊
I miss Le Bureau (France) on this list. Maybe because I am catching up with it - with the distinct feeling of a series growing a LOT on my by every season (something I am not sure I can say about series outside the realm the Wire and the very echelon of TV-history).
I knew some titles, but most of your recommendations seem like solid gems, by yours and IMDB's descriptions. Thanks a lot! This is just what I was looking for!
"Spiral"; Special Division"; "All The Sins"; "Blood Pact"; "Sr. Avila"; OMG unbelievable. But I loved "Undercover" and "The Bridge" etc. All of your choices are great. "Fauda" is out of sight. One of the tops.
A lot of Filipinos are into Korean dramas right now and love La Casa de Papel, but when I suggest other non English tv series, no one would pay attention, so methinks they are missing a lot.
First on my list would be Kingdom, I enjoyed watching it because it’s a zombie in Joseon era. So for me that’s refreshing because it’s the first time for zombie genre and the setting is from ancient times. And I am glad that it didn’t focus on love story. I’m not a hater of love stories but if I have seen series that has been ruined because they focused too hard on love angle only. Second would be Vagabond and while others didn’t enjoy it exactly, I loved it because I’m into action. The sound of your heart, it’s the only Korean comedy that really made me laugh. That’s all for now.
@@iamnobody2241 ok thanks. I watched Vagabond on Netflix and waiting for the 2nd season. I haven't watched Kingdom yet since im not into zombies but I'll try The sound of your heart. There are a few good ones on Netflix but the rest are trash love stories and comedies. I prefer good serious korean dramas
As in you don’t want to take a look for at least 15 minutes of the first time episode of Kingdom? Most of the Korean series for TV are made with consideration of minors. Since watching TV is a family thing at night so I can’t think much of seriously heavy stuff, most of what I have seen are light drama with of course love story. Light comedies with love story, with the exception of The Good Manager. Or maybe because there’s not much selection on Netflix in my region. So I haven’t seen something similar to Vagabond. But then you can try their movies on that area they have a lot of good stuff like Old Boy.
@@iamnobody2241 I'm just not into zombie stuff but i will give it a try and check out the Good manager as well. 10 years ago when my ex introduced me to korean stuff i used to find good ones but now i can't. Even their period dramas about palace stories are usually good as well
My absolute favorite is the Belgian version of "Professor T" with Koen de Beow. Pure genius. (There are 4 other remakes - don't come close to the Belgian.)
Hatufim - my first Israeli series. Maybe I was moved by it because it’s the first tv show I have seen that’s about the conflicts of two countries. And about terrorism. Our series are mainly about love stories & poverty so Hatufim is entirely new to me. Lehiyot Ita - another Israeli but it’s a love story. I’m not good in explaining but it’s different from all other love stories I have seen. Hashoter Hatov - comedy. I’m pestering Netflix when other seasons will come out. Srugim & Shtisel.
I know these were released several years ago. That said, I’d like to know what you think about the Swedish version of Wallander (2005-2013) 🇸🇪 and Spiral (2005-2020), also known as Engrenages (original title), from France 🇫🇷. Also, what are your thoughts about Line of Duty (2012- ) and Luther (2010-2019) from the UK 🇬🇧. As an American, these are a few of my favorite European crime, drama, mystery TV Shows. Thank you, sir.
The Killing was my first love and the first series I watched online, (thinking it was Netflix?), and was totally mesmerized. She is an amazing actor. Thanks, will subscribe and check in for your videos!
Forbrydelsen for me is top 1. Even though by the third series it makes you wonder how many times can the same detective be involved in crimes that involve all the political world lol... It's so well made that I didn't care : P
Danes just love throwing politics into stuff. Bedrag and Borgen are both full of it too (Borgen is obviously ABOUT that so it's a bit different...) but for me it gets really boring.
@@lamontmcleod2 And let's not forget it has the most epic episodes ending than any other series : P That soundtrack with the cinematography that accompanies it just pumps you up for another episode no matter how much you struggle to avoid binge watch lol
@film fan I do like it but it would be higher than no. 7 if it just stuck to the murders and didn't "conveniently" have a political plot to every season.
Thank you for including Undercover. It’s based on real events, which makes it all the more interesting. And the Dutch actor Raymond Thiry is a standout.
The Restaurant. The most addictive, awesome series. There literally isn't a false moment in it. It's tight, tight, tight. I am dreading It's ending. Dreading it!
Are there any worthwhile Australian tv shows or films that we can watch. Although your channel does foreign language tv and film reviews, maybe you could do a video on the best stuff out of Australia.
Blue Murder (the one with Richard Roxburgh, not the other one), it's a mini series of like 4 hours or something. Other than that I don't have anything for series but for movies there is: The Dish Two Hands Mystery Road (movie not the series) That's about it.
@@PrateekJain-pi9jc All while I was growing up, Australia was properly dog balls at TV and movies. Other than the ones I've typed, there are only ones that are good "compared to most Australian movies". But compared to a decent US, British or French film, they are only OK. Two Hands is probably my favourite. Back before Heath Ledger had made it to Hollywood.
Thanks so very much again, and btw wanted to add that I found your channel after finishing The Valhalla Murders and simply had to find another foreign series tonight.
Great video! The only one of that top 10 I’ve seen is Dark, which I thought was brilliant. I’ve watched Spiral (Engranages) and Gomorrah and they’re both awesome. Highly recommend if you haven’t seen them 👍🏻
I think Twin is fantastic (although probably not released until after your video) also like Deadwind but not a patch on Trapped and The Bridge. I haven’t seen The Missing so looks like that’s going next on the list! Thanks.
I live in Canada and want to watch ‘Follow the Money ‘ and have watched Season 1but can’t stream Season 2 and 3 via Syncler on my Nvidia Shield. Can you help?
Finished watching De Dag yesterday and was looking to see what others had to say about the show, and surprisingly, your video was the only one i ran into. And it was spot on. One link led to another and I ended up here. Will be watching stuff on this list, and will get back to you. A foreign language series I'd recommend: Breathe, Prime Video original (Indian Tv show, available in multiple Indian languages) Two seasons, both different stories. 01 was epic. You can skip 02.
Have you watched Black Spot, Jordskott, The Kettering Incident? All in same topic. Won't spoil it. Would love to hear from you on this genre. Fortitude was also on the same lines. But 2nd and 3rd season didn't match up to the first one. Let me know what you think
Hi - I have watched Black Spott and Jordskott, but not The Kettering Incident. Jordskott I found a bit silly, Black Spot was a little bit better; it had some good moments but nothing that would be in my top 10. I actually have a review of both seasons of it but I don't think I have moved them over to this channel yet.
When i type "The Killing" in netflix search bar there are a fuck load of other shows pop up and I am noticing how many of them ive watched already.. Ffs.
Hey, thanks for your comment. I felt Borgen was a bit boring. I never got around to watching Babylon Berlin... the lack of anything other than English subtitles on Netflix was part of that.
Great pick! I'm no expert and just watch whatever I like, so great to know what I like are highly recommended by guru! Fortitude make your almost foreign show?
I haven't seen it but it gets pretty average reviews generally. I think it's like 7.0 on IMDB or something. Every show here would be 7.8+ (which is not how I pick them, but it's just a general indication of quality).
Trying to recall a show from years ago that was likely in Spanish or Portuguese, and had a plot where the cast was trapped on a boat after the world flooded. Any help with remembering the name would be appreciated.
Caliphate was an amazing show! Seriously good acting, very tense scenes and a conclusion that hits you like a bag of bricks. It's a relatively short show at 8 episodes, definitely recommend 10/10
It's funny how non-English movies are defined to be foreign when really it depends on the watcher's nationality whether the movie is foreign to them or not. 😄
I was hoping to see Occupied on here. Is it one you didn’t like or haven’t seen yet? Also, the American remake of The Killing is pretty good, but the American remake of The Bridge is awful.
Hey - Occupied, I watched 2 episodes and never continued (possibly more out of life circumstances than actually disliking the series) but I doubt it would have made it in anyway. The American remake of the Killing bored me to tears... I mean the first season of the Danish one isn't even that exciting (it's good but it's veeeeery slow) but once your remove Sara Lund from that equation, but keep exactly the same repetitive music score, I just couldn't deal. I made it through like 7 episodes. These days I ONLY watch foreign stuff (except Chernobyl, I made an exception for that) because my life is just too full to be making these as well as watching any English speaking thing that comes along. Thanks for the comment! (And thanks for actually listening to the thing about either not having seen it or not including it.)
I had seen The Bridge when I watched this so I took you seriously and watched The Missing, I just finished season 1, it’s 4am and I would call in sick if I had a job. No way I can sleep.
Just came back to this video to ask a question: I'm watching the Killing S1 now, on the 5th episode and I'm still not feeling it. And I know there are 20 something episodes. If I jump to S2, would I miss something? Thanks for your reply.
@@lamontmcleod2 just going through the season. Has eventually become interesting although it's not as dark as I'd expected it based on your review. There are other Nordic noir series that are way darker. But maybe the second season?
Interesting list. Of those you listed I’d rank 1) The Bridge, 2) Fauda, 3) Trapped. Anywho, here’s my top 10 for what it’s worth. Foreign Language Mini Series (10) * Broen/ Bron [The Bridge] (2011-2018) 🇩🇰 🇸🇪 * Deutschland 83 (2015) 🇩🇪 * El ministerio del tiempo [The Ministry of Time] (2015-2017) 🇪🇸 * Fauda (2015-2020) 🇮🇱 * Hatufim [Prisoners Of War] (2010-2012) 🇮🇱 * Narcos (2015-2019) 🇨🇴 🇲🇽 * Les Revenants [The Returned] (2012-2015) 🇫🇷 * Trapped [Ófærð] (2015-2019) 🇮🇸 * Unsere Mütter, unsere Väter [Generation War] (2013) 🇩🇪 * 3% (2016-2020) 🇧🇷
A few years ago I binge watched a swedish film series (the episodes are filmlenght but I would still consider it a series, kinda like Sherlock) called Johan Falk and I really liked it. Would love to rewatch it but it's not on Netflix anymore. Who knows if it is actually as good as I remember, but if you ever come across it, give it a watch (if only to see Joel Kinnaman).
Good series from India🇮🇳: •Delhi Crime (Crime,Investigation) •Rocket Boys (Biographical) •Tabbar (Crime drama, family) •Jamtara (Cyber crimes) •Kudi Yedamaithe (Scifi,time loop,thriller) Now please introduce me to good series from your country ❤
I would include Borgan and Shetland (almost a foreign language to my old ears). Also foreign to me (but not you) and worthy would be A Place to Call Home. Although I watched both The Killing The Bridge when first available on dvd through Amazon.uk)and thought both excellent, I am distressed about the level of violence in so many of these shows. Would be nice to have some less violent choices.
I have Borgen, entire 3 seasons on DVD, but I've not watched it (I know, it's bad of me haha). These days I have so much French to commit to that I sort of have to watch just French stuff. But also to be honest, the political bits in The Killing were the most boring to me, so a whole series of just politics sounded more boring. Whatever you do don't watch "The Break". It's more violent than basically any of these shows, and literally the worst show I have ever seen.
@@lamontmcleod2 I love your whole list and didn't love the political stuff as much in The Killing, but Borgen is great...and I really usually don't like shows about politics.
Couldn't agree more. Especially the emotional connect part. Just discovered your channel. ❤️ Watched all of the series mentioned except Undercover and A very secret service. On my watchlist now.
Nice list, however(!), I'd still put Bordertown on there someplace, and maybe even Black Spot. Hope two or three of those shows that I've never heard of make on to my services one day. Final note: A Very Secret Service looks even better the second time around. Really hope there is a third season.
Thanks for the comment! Yeah, to be honest, Bordertown never entered the picture for me. I just found it way too dry, although the music was good. I was hoping it would pick up in the second season but I don't feel that it did. Deadwind was pretty similar I found. Blackspot would be higher on my list, but still maybe 15 or 16.
@@lamontmcleod2 Yup, second season of Bordertown was a let down ( that home invasion plot was kinda trite and annoying ) and, I must admit, I had forgotten about how in Black Spot, every single major character did at least one incredibly stupid thing almost every episode. BTW, for guilty pleasures, check out Hache, a Spanish noir series that is a lot of fun, kind of stupid in places but very atmospheric and sexy (and with great use of old pop songs).
We just finished Black Spot and even though some of the stories in the middle of the main story I found a little silly, I loved being able to visit that world and the characters. Really hoping there will be another series.
I loved your video. Some of the shows on you list I have watched already and they totally immersed me in the story, the characters, the mood, the winter, cold and dark of northern Europe (which, living in Brazil at the moment, was a blessing). Based you your good taste, I will watch the others I haven't seen. You asked to not do it, but Finnland's "Bordertown" should make the list include 11 shows... :) In case you haven't seen it yet, you may like the danish "The Chesnut Man" (I am saying it based on your taste). Anyway, thank you for your excellent video!!!
DARK is a masterpiece but it's not everyone's cup of tea. I'm grateful and proud that I experienced the entire series, and understand the story at it's complexity.
LOL. Season 3 was Netflix cashing in and either you know that and you're just in denial, or you actually think it's that complex because you've swallowed their BS hook, line and sinker.
@@lamontmcleod2 I don't get why you put it in top 10, ask your audience opinion, then bash everyone who likes DARK. Obviously you hate the show. So it's either you don't know what your doing, or you just haven't watched enough foreign series yet which invalidates your so-called top 10... or you're just a rude piece of crap with an ego bigger than your balls. 🙄🙄🙄 I can see that it's all of the above.
You are so dumb. Look at the date of this video. Now look at the date of Dark S3. Because you are too stupid to work this out yourself: THIS VIDEO WAS BEFORE DARK S3. This video was from a time that Dark was still acceptably good. (See, that's how time works. Most 5 year olds have kind of understood that.) Haha, you come bashing me on my videos but then say I am rude. And as for my ego being bigger than something else... well, hate to break it to you, but everything I have is big. 😆👊
Can we get an updated list on this for 2020? I have been watching some series from the list and I believe all are good. Also I would like very much if you make top 20 foreign language movies on Netflix too? I am open to watch movies/series on any language as long it is unique and intriguing.
I figured The Bridge would be your #1, but that may be because I haven't seen The Missing yet. I need to check it out. Coincidentally, I'm currently rewatching Bron for the fourth time right now. lol
Hello and thanks for making these videos with all the great language learning tips, I'm glad I subscribed since I'm having difficulties comprehending French but mainly because I think I'm too lazy so flicks might be the way to go. I'm living in France but don't find much opportunity to practice, get that.. ! I'll have to scan your videos to see if you've listed favourite french language tv and films, I like your style and taste, no nonsense and a bit off the wall..
Haha, thanks. For some reason this got marked as spam, which is why I didn't reply sooner. I haven't done my favourite French films and series... in fact I feel they only have 1 or 2 that I really liked.
Fauda is a great show. It transcends from fantasy to straight-up disinformation within the first few episodes of season 1, and takes it to new heights by the end of season 2. I understand the eurocentricity of these reviews (we are all a product of our sociocultural backgrounds, after all), but please don't say "that's just the way life is in those places" ... it is a dangerous transgression from reviewing a show with personal and subjective opinions, to making a false social commentary about a region and its people and the lives they live.
This is the second time I watch this awesome series, thanks to the great script and great actors who carry this tv series.. only one I couldn’t stand is the gruesome Officer Linn, Saga’s new boss who is revengeful, power hungry,sanctimonious, uses her position to instill cruelty towards Saga.. now watching Season Four..
My top 3 that aren't on this list: Agent Hamilton (Sweden); Bordertown (Finland) and Pagan Peak (Germany/Austria). Also that great French drama set in the forest in central France ... Blind Spot i think it's called in English.
Saw Killing, Bridge and would probably agree with Missing as number one. Strong stuff. Stays with you forever. But the first season was so powerfull and such a archetypal story that there was no way the second season could compare and it did not. I would have expected Der Pass to be above even Bridge as well as zero zero zero.
Omg, you have my exact taste in series; so glad I happened upon you! Most of my faves were on this list, but I hadn't heard of The Missing - this has now been rectified! I hope you review Parasite, but as I understand, it won't be out in the UK for a bit. Your channel is going to grow by leaps and bounds!!
Thank you very much for this comment! Comments like this really help. I actually saw Parasite at the cinema (I'm Australian though, not British)... but the reason I didn't review it was that I felt like I didn't quite... GET it? Like, I understood it. I understood some of the ideas being expressed, but I felt that I lacked the knowledge of Asian and Korean cinema to actually make a good review. Like, I watched Chris Stuckmann's review a while after I saw it and was like "It probably IS as good as he says... but I don't feel like I saw it for what it was." So I didn't want to review it when I didn't feel like I'd properly understood it. But I might watch it again and then do a review.
