Foreign Dramas on Netflix
Last updated March 10, 2025
Cloud 9
2008 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsWhen 60-year-old Inge (Ursula Werner) suddenly delves into a lively, adulterous affair with the even older Karl (Horst Westphal), she finally confesses her newfound passion to her husband of 30 years, Werner (Horst Rehberg). But will she end her illicit relationship with Karl to keep her unexciting-but-stable marriage intact? Andreas Dresen directs this compelling drama also starring Steffi Kühnert.
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Fear Me Not
2008 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsAfter moving to a suburb of Copenhagen with his wife (Paprika Steen) and teenage daughter, the uptight Michael (Ulrich Thomsen) tests a new drug designed to help him unwind. But the medication has unexpected consequences for Michael's relationships with everyone around him. Lars Brygmann and Stine Stengade also star in this disturbing psychological drama from Danish director Kristian Levring.
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35 Shots of Rum
2008 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsThis heartfelt slice-of-life drama by filmmaker Claire Denis tells the story of widower Lionel (Alex Descas), a train driver, and his grown daughter, Sophie (Mati Diop). The two spend most of their time together, but change is in the cards. A neighbor (Grégoire Colin) becomes attracted to Sophie, a family friend retires and Lionel tries to maintain a friendship with his ex-girlfriend (Nicole Dogue).
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Heaven's Heart
2008 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsWhen a dinner party conversation turns to the topic of infidelity, surprising revelations and unsettling questions emerge, and the marriages of two happy couples become increasingly compromised by doubt and distrust. Is unfaithfulness a forgivable response to temptation or an unpardonable offense? Jakob Eklund, Maria Lundqvist, Mikael Persbrandt and Lena Endre star in this provocative drama from director Simon Staho.
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Villa Amalia
2009 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsIn this moody character study from French director Benoît Jacquot, Anne (Isabelle Huppert) discovers her husband's infidelity and begins to carefully disassemble her neatly ordered life, cutting ties to the present in order to reconnect with her past. Is Anne on a mission of self-reinvention or self-negation? With an old acquaintance (Jean-Hugues Anglade) as her only confidant, Anne plays her emotions and intentions close to the vest til the end.
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By the Will of Genghis Khan
2009 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsDirector Andrei Borissov's epic biopic follows a young Mongol child by the name of Temüjin (Ayan Ouspun), who has a stunning destiny: to become Genghis Khan (Eduard Ondar), the most ruthless leader of the largest empire in history. An international crew and a talented cast (Stepanida Borissova, Sergei Egorov and Gernot Grimm, among others) filmed in Russia, Mongolia and the United States, bringing Nikolay Luginov's novel to life.
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Mein Kampf
2009 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsSatire and history blend in director Urs Odermatt's adaptation of playwright's George Tabori's imaginative and controversial retelling of Adolf Hitler's early life as a young man desperate to be admitted to art school. In pre-World War I Vienna, Hitler (Tom Schilling) is befriended by elderly Jew Schlomo Herzl (Götz George), who takes the starving artist under his wing and encourages him to enter politics.
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Diary of a Nymphomaniac
2008 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsEver since her first sexual encounter at age 15, middle-class Barcelona Frenchwoman Valére (Belén Fabra) has reveled in her exploits and, at her grandmother's urging, begins writing about them in her diary in director Christian Molina's lush erotic escapade. After losing her job, Valére meets an older man and believes she has found true love. But when he turns out be a disappointment, Valére indulges her love of pleasure by working in a brothel.
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Certified Copy
2010 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsIn Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami's captivating meditation on art and love, British writer James Miller meets a beautiful gallery owner in Tuscany and begins -- or possibly continues -- a romance with her.
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Eloise's Lover
2009 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsWhen she meets alluring lesbian artist Eloïse (Ariadna Cabrol), young architecture student Àsia (Diana Gómez) thrills at the chance to escape her conventional life -- a banal boyfriend, an overbearing mother and average expectations. Àsia agrees to model for Eloïse and they begin a passionate affair, but their tryst sparks unintended consequences, including a tragedy that could destroy Àsia's life.
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Délice Paloma
2007 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsMadame Aldjéria is a charismatic "fixer" in Algeria who helps her clients with requests, from finding romantic companions to framing innocent people. But one day, the crafty con artist launches a scam that may prove to be her undoing.
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Le Héros de la Famille
2006 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsAging drag queen Gabriel, known as Gabriella at the Parisian nightclub he manages, dies in his sleep one night, setting off a scramble among his friends and family over his will. Among those with vested interests is Gabriel's "surrogate son," Nicky.
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Chiko
2008 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsIsa Cakiroglu (Denis Moschitto) is a young criminal who goes by the name Chiko when doing business with his Hamburg gang. Will he get the respect he desires or become just another victim of the drugs and violence of the streets? As this band of immigrant outsiders pursues money and power via any means necessary, Chiko must confront his own sense of loyalty and friendship. Özgür Yildirim directs.
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Late Bloomers
2011 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsAfter 30 years together, a married couple confronts the unpalatable realities of getting older and concludes that emotional absence is the easiest way to cope. But at what point does distance become divorce?
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Champions
2008 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsIn the 1930s, China announces its first entry in the Olympics, and thousands nationwide vie for a chance to introduce martial arts to the world. Tension mounts as two very different men take the lead: a nationalistic street thug and a noble dreamer.
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Chak Jawana
2010 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsThis film highlights the problems faced by youth in a Punjabi village, where young men fall prey to drugs, become irresponsible and disturb the peace. Captain Gurjeet Singh arrives on leave from the Indian Navy and pledges to reform the youth.
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Mitti Wajaan Maardi
2007 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsA married man with a family in Punjab goes to America, where, in order to obtain citizenship, he takes another wife. Years later, his American-born grown son travels back to India to fulfill his father's last wish.
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Diaz: Don't Clean Up This Blood
2012 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsThis chilling drama details the events near the end of the 2001 G8 summit, when police stormed a school for journalists and brutally attacked the residents -- men and women from all over Europe -- accusing them of planning violent action.
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Dangerous Ishhq
2012 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsFabulously wealthy Rohan is kidnapped, and police tell his supermodel girlfriend Sanjana that even the ransom won't assure his return. Compounding her helplessness, Sanjana starts having strange visions of them together in different historical eras.
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The Taste of Money
2012 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsIn this suspenseful erotic drama, the private male secretary and lover of Madam Baek, a Korean conglomerate's middle-aged matriarch, falls for her more genuine daughter. Meanwhile, Madam Baek's husband has an affair with the Filipino nanny.
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Pieta
2012 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsKang-do, an enforcer for a loan shark in a destitute area of Seoul, is unrelentingly brutal in his collection of debts. But when a mysterious woman appears and claims that she is his mother, Kang-do finds himself developing a hunger for human warmth.
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House in Brittany
2012 | NR | 3.0 out of 5 StarsThirty-something Odile returns to her family home for the first time since childhood and encounters painful memories of her father's death. As ghosts of the past are joined by ghosts of the present, Odile struggles to maintain her grip on reality.
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Daag
1973 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsAfter killing a man who attacked his wife, Sunil escapes police custody, changes his identity, starts a new life and remarries. But in a strange twist of fate, his first wife moves to Sunil's new town. Will the two find each other again?
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Still Life
2006 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsTwo couples reunite amid the construction of a new neighborhood along the Yangtze River near the old city of Fengjie, which is now under water after the opening of the Three Gorges Dam. After 16 years apart, Han Sanming returns to look for his ex-wife, while Shen Hong has come back in search of her husband who's been away for more than two years. Like the submerged city, the couples must decide what's worth saving and what's best left behind.
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Summer 2007
2008 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsThinking that the internship they've just signed up for will be a breeze, five disaffected medical students receive a rude awakening when they're assigned to a rural village in India crippled by poverty, malnutrition and sickness.
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