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Suggestions for a good non English show

There’s also some miniseries by big film directors I could point you to if you have artsy tastes.

Berlin Alexanderplatz
Fanny and Alexander
Scenes From A Marriage
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I highly recommend Trapped, an Icelandic series. The title refers more to the first season, where because of a blizzard, everyone is unable to leave the island when a murder occurs.
 
I actually watched it on Netflix and thought they considered it an Original Series based on streaming rights.
 
Professor T is good. Quirky. I watched the one from Antwerp, but I think there is a German one also. I recently watched an Italian show, Thou Shalt Not Kill. A police drama, it is interesting.
 
Kingdom : Korean : Zombie thriller set in Joseon era Korea.

Sweet Home : Korean : Horror thriller set in modern day Korea.

Barbarians : German & Latin : Set in Roman control Germania.
 
I don't recall the name, so I apologize if it's already been mentioned, but SF Debris has reviews of an interesting looking old school German sci-fi show.
 
It's not a series but the movie 'Amundsen' is pretty good, it looks icily fantastic and it's 90% in Norwegian. A pity the protagonist comes across as so unlikeable.
 
loving this, 4 episodes into season already

That's good to hear. You might be disappointed by season 2 as the story there was quite as good as the first. Still watchable though. Heard they were working on a 3rd season, and don't know what's happened to it. Maybe it's just not available internationally yet.
 
I don't recall the name, so I apologize if it's already been mentioned, but SF Debris has reviews of an interesting looking old school German sci-fi show.
That's "Raumpatrouille - Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion", internationally known as "Space Patrol Orion". This series is ... very much a product of its time, which is the mid-1960s. Quite campy.

There is a more recent German space scifi show, with intentional comedy this time around, loosely based on Stanislaw Lem's "The Star Diaries". It was produced on a very, very low budget (even by German TV standarts), which the producers actually embraced by creating aliens and props from items aquired on flea markets, and having the interior of the space ship resemble a generic Berlin 'Altbauwohnung' (flat in older houses). The result was the brilliant "Ijon Tichy: Space Pilot":
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I recently watched the German post-apocalyptic action show Tribes of Europa, that I really enjoyed. Just to clarify, the title is referring the Europe, not the moon.
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And about 25%-50% of the dialogue in this is English.
There were a couple other non-English language shows I watched and enjoyed recently, but they're both horror/fantasy so I don't know if there's any point recommending them.
 
Isn't it funny that a large amount of foreign shows use the term "OK"? I'll be watching a Flemish show and suddenly someone says "ok!" and it startles me out of the action for a second. That has crept into several different languages, I guess.
 
I recently really enjoyed "Beforeigners" from Norway. There is some crime in there too.
First season has only 6 episodes but they are already working on season 2.
 
I recently watched the German post-apocalyptic action show Tribes of Europa, that I really enjoyed. Just to clarify, the title is referring the Europe, not the moon.

Yeah, that was a great first season. Only wish it had been longer, but it's showing promise with its world-building. It feels like a post-apocalyptic GoT in a way.
 
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