Foreign Comedies on Netflix
Last updated April 19, 2025
Old Cats
2010 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsNow in her 70s, Isadore (Bélgica Castro) begins to realize that her mental faculties are failing. However, she's determined to hide this fact from her domineering daughter Rosario (Claudia Celedón), whom she fears will take advantage of her. Indeed, both Rosario and her no-good druggie girlfriend (Catalina Saavedra) would like nothing more than to steal Isadore's flat. But Isadore also shows some cunning in this black-humored domestic farce.
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The Clink of Ice
2010 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsCharles, a renowned author whose alcoholism drove his family away years ago, receives a surprising visit from a man claiming to be his brain cancer. Annoying and wickedly sarcastic, the cancer taunts Charles as he begins to reexamine his life.
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El Crack
2011 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsFreddy dreams of becoming a soccer star, but he doesn't have the age or the talent. But when the best player is hurt and has to sit out, Freddy gets a chance to prove himself. Can he rise to the occasion?
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Ajj De Ranjhe
2012 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsIn the heartland of Punjab, unemployed Ambar and rookie cop Manjeet must work together in their efforts to become successful. Ambar hopes to become a TV journalist and win his lady fair, while Manjeet wants to triumph over father-and-son gangsters.
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Mera Pind
2007 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsSuccessful entrepreneur Sidhu journeys to his native Indian village, where he imparts his business know-how to the locals. Under the leadership of Himmat, the villagers prosper, winning over their friends and family.
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Hello Goodbye
2008 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsWhen they move to Israel to explore their Jewish heritage and revive their flagging marriage, fiftysomething French émigrés Alain and Gisèle Gaash (Gérard Depardieu and Fanny Ardant) arrive in Tel Aviv to find their luggage lost, their apartment gone and Alain's new job taken. Now, as Alain struggles through this midlife crisis, Gisèle finds herself attracted to a handsome young rabbi. Graham Guit directs this French romantic comedy.
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A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
2009 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsMaster director Yimou Zhang tackles an adaptation of the Coen brothers' classic Blood Simple in this period dramedy full of slapstick and plot twists. When the owner of a Chinese noodle shop attempts to kill his adulterous wife, the fireworks fly. The proprietor also hopes to eliminate his wife's woebegone lover, but complications and high-flying action arise courtesy of a rampaging band of feudal soldiers and the shop's wacky employees.
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Tees Maar Khan
2010 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsIn this musical-comedy caper, flamboyant con artist Tabrez Mirza Khan and his band of gleeful robbers have pulled off heists the world over, but they may be gambling with fate when smugglers hire them to swipe antiques from a speeding train.
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Rio Sex Comedy
2010 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsJonathan Nossiter directs this gleefully chaotic comedy that follows three sets of outsiders as they explore -- and to varying degrees get transformed by -- Rio de Janeiro's steamy and wildly eclectic society.
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Goat Story
2008 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsA country boy named Jemmy, and his friend Goat, move to the big city to experience life to the fullest. Trouble ensues when Katy, a streetwise girl, falls in love with Jemmy, making Goat the unwilling third wheel and setting the town into chaos.
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Joker
2012 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsA remote village becomes its own republic after inmates at a mental asylum bust loose and take over. Frozen in time, the town and its kooky inhabitants have been forgotten by the outside world. That is, until a scientist turns up looking for aliens.
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Granny's Funeral
2012 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsIn this offbeat comedy, Armand operates a pharmacy in Paris with his wife, Helene, but is carrying on an affair with the more sympathetic Alix. When Armand's grandmother dies, the distractions mount as he tries to plan an appropriate funeral for her.
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Husbands in Goa
2012 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsThree professional friends, all husbands living with domineering wives, take a well-deserved vacation in the resort city of Goa. But reality sets in when they meet a new friend, a husband in their situation who's about to get divorced.
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Superstar
2012 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsMartin's on his way to work one morning when people begin mobbing him and trying to get his picture. The only trouble is, he doesn't know why. As the media closes in, Martin starts to realize that his fame may come from his very desire to avoid it.
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Hulla
2008 | NR | 2.7 out of 5 StarsStockbroker Raj and his wife look forward to peace and quiet in the suburbs of Mumbai as they move into their new flat. But when the whistle of a night watchman prevents Raj from sleeping, he is soon a wreck at home and work.
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Park Benches
2009 | NR | 2.7 out of 5 StarsIn this star-laden slice-of-life comedy set in France, workers ponder a sign reading "Lonely Man" that hangs out the office facing theirs, a mix of visitors traverse the town square and the clerks of a local shop commingle with their patrons.
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Reality
2012 | NR | 2.5 out of 5 StarsJovial fishmonger and small-time con artist Luciano hopes to enrich his humble family by participating in the Italian version of "Big Brother," but his obsession with appearing to be an ideal contestant soon has his family doubting his sanity.
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Go
2007 | NR | 2.4 out of 5 StarsAbhay and Vasu are two lovers who attempt to elope but instead find themselves embroiled in a nonstop comedic chase with a serial killer, a clever con man, a chief minister and his deputy.
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Fatso
2008 | NR | 2.4 out of 5 StarsObsessed with women but still a virgin, an overweight loner named Rino keeps himself going with porn and his own bizarrely erotic comic stories. Suddenly, his lonely life is transformed by his new housemate, the beautiful and very sexual Malin.
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Sex.Violence.FamilyValues.
2013 | NR | 2.4 out of 5 StarsIn three shorts, a kindergarten principal finds a series of cartoons drawn by her docile top pupil; an actor struggles to rise to the occasion in Singapore's first porn movie; and a nightclub bouncer faces off with a rebellious teenage stripper.
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Santos
2008 | NR | 2.3 out of 5 StarsSalvador Santos seems like an unlikely hero, but when he discovers that his best friend Nova is actually a tyrant from another dimension who plans to destroy the world, Salvador must rise to the occasion and stop him.
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Blubberella
2011 | NR | 2.3 out of 5 StarsIn this gleefully low-rent action-comedy, hefty half-vampire Blubberella sets her always-ravenous sights on a Nazi leader who's concocting a diabolical plan: to create an army of undead soldiers to help his Führer conquer the globe.
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Ram Gopal Varma Ki Aag
2007 | NR | 2.2 out of 5 StarsEx-cop Narasimha hires a pair of best friends, Raj and Heero, to find and capture crime boss Babban, the man who killed Narasimha's family. But while training to defeat Babban, the two young men get distracted by falling in love with two women.
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Gudgudee
1997 | NR | 2.1 out of 5 StarsIn Bombay to attend a wedding, a naive married man from the countryside becomes enamored of a glamorous woman who acts in commercials. He decides to indulge in an affair with her, with hilarious results.
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