Foreign Movies on Netflix
Last updated April 20, 2025
Loose Cannons
2010 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsThis fiery comedy from director Ferzan Ozpetek finds young Tommaso about to reveal to his large, frenetic Italian family that he's gay. But he's beaten to the punch by his older brother, who is promptly disinherited by their furious father.
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Abel
2010 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsWhen 9-year-old Abel assumes his absent father's role as man of the house, he garners his family's respect, and life resumes a comfortable rhythm -- until a man arrives at the house, claiming he's the long-lost patriarch.
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Soul Kitchen
2009 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsYoung restaurant owner Zinos (Adam Bousdoukos) decides to revamp Soul Kitchen, his dumpy diner, but the customer response isn't what he was hoping for. To make matters worse, his girlfriend (Anna Bederke) flies off to Shanghai, and the tax collector comes knocking. But with the help of an inspired new chef (Birol Ünel), Zinos still has a chance at redemption. German director Fatih Akin delivers a riotous modern romantic comedy.
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Darr
1993 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsThis story centers on a borderline psychotic young man named Rahul who's dangerously obsessed with a college student named Kiran. When Rahul realizes Kiran is engaged to a naval officer, he vows to stop the wedding and possess her once and for all.
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Agora
2009 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsAs Christianity gains steam in Roman Egypt toward the end of the fourth century A.D., a young slave weighs his desire for freedom against his growing love for his mistress, an atheist and professor of philosophy.
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Luck by Chance
2009 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsWhen struggling actor Vikram gets tapped to play the male lead in a big-budget Bollywood film, he can't believe his luck. But fame and fortune have a way of ruining his relationship with his longtime girlfriend.
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The Return
2003 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsThe sudden reappearance of a man who left his family 12 years earlier stirs up a torrent of mixed emotions in the household. His sons only know him from photographs, and his younger brother, Ivan, wants answers.
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The Grocer's Son
2007 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsWhen his father suffers a stroke, Antoine (Nicolas Cazale) reluctantly returns home from the big city to his small mountain village to help out with the family business, a grocery that makes daily rounds to the town's elderly inhabitants. But when Antoine's poor manners rub the villagers the wrong way, can the lovely young Claire (Clotilde Hesme) help smooth things over? French director Eric Guirado helms this charmingly low-key film.
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Kabhi Kabhie
1976 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsForced apart by their families, poet Amit and his true love, Pooja, marry other people. But years later, when Pooja's son, Vicky, falls in love with a girl named Pinky, their connection forces everyone to reexamine the past.
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Shinjuku Incident
2009 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsFleeing mainland China to search for his lost love, Xiu Xiu, an illegal immigrant known as Steelhead travels to Tokyo -- where he reluctantly becomes a yakuza hit man after discovering that Xiu Xiu has married into the mob.
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Race
2008 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsRanvir and Rajeev are competitors when it comes to horse racing and everything else, including love. The plot thickens when three women enter their lives and a murder is committed. Now, it's up to a sharp inspector to determine the killer's identity.
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CJ7
2008 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsDicky (Jiao Xu) yearns for the hottest new toy -- a robotic dog -- but his poor father (Stephen Chow) gives him a strange, green ball he found in a junkyard instead. Turns out the unassuming present is actually an alien endowed with unearthly powers. Is Dicky ready for the responsibility of a pet that's capable of granting his every whim? Chow also directs, lending his off-kilter sensibility to this fable about being careful what you wish for.
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The Trap
2007 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsWhen their son is diagnosed with a deadly disease, Mladen (Nebojsa Glogovac) and Marija (Natasa Ninkovic) place an ad in the paper seeking help with the cost of his treatment. The only response comes from Milos (Miki Manojlovic), who will pay for the boy's care if Mladen murders Milos's business partner. Tension threatens to tear the couple apart in this morality tale set amid the social disparity of modern-day Belgrade.
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The Wind Journeys
2009 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsIn the wake of his wife's death, Ignacio leaves his small Colombian town and journeys to the country's remote northern region, resolving to return his devil-cursed accordion to the teacher who once gave it to him. His traveling companion is teenager Fermín, who aspires to emulate Ignacio's past life as an accordion-playing troubadour who roamed the countryside. Marciano Martínez and Yull Núñez star in filmmaker Ciro Guerra's enthralling odyssey.
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Army of Crime
2009 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsThis gripping historical drama recounts the story of Armenian-born Missak Manouchian, a woodworker and political activist who led an immigrant laborer division of the Parisian Resistance on dozens of operations against the Nazis in 1943.
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Johnny Gaddaar
2007 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsA thug double-crosses his partners, planning to make off with a big score -- and the wife of another gang member. Preparing to start a new life abroad, he realizes he must not only outwit his partners, but at some point, he'll have to kill them, too.
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Bananas!*
2009 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsNicaraguan laborers are paying a high price to get cheap bananas onto the world's tables, and Southern California personal injury lawyer Juan Dominguez has decided to do something about it. This film tells his story. Director Fredrik Gertten follows Dominguez as he takes on corporate giants Dole Food and Dow Chemical on behalf of 10,000 banana workers made ill by a pesticide used in Nicaraguan plantations years after it was banned in the States.
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The Violin
2005 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsDon Plautarco (Ángel Tavira), his son Genaro (Gerardo Taracena) and grandson Lucio (Mario Garibaldi) earn a living as traveling musicians while also smuggling weapons to rebels fighting the country's oppressive regime. But when they return home to find their town occupied by the army and the residents forced into hiding, they make a bold play to recover the ammunition the troops have seized. Francisco Vargas directs.
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New York
2009 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsIndian students Samir, Maya and Omar enjoy life in New York City, joining in the college revelry. But when Sept. 11 devastates the country, the friends are targeted for their ethnicity and begin to feel the isolating sting of suspicion.
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The Last Station
2009 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsSet during the last year of Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy's life, this biopic explores the fractious relationship between Tolstoy (Oscar nominee Christopher Plummer) and his wife (Oscar nominee Helen Mirren), as he embraces a life of asceticism. Paul Giamatti co-stars as impassioned Tolstoy devotee Vladimir Chertkov, with James McAvoy playing the aging writer's assistant, Valentin, who is caught in the middle of various struggles.
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Battle of the Warriors
2006 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsTension swirls in ancient China as the evil Zhao commander Xiang Yan-zhong (Sung-kee Ahn) sets his sights on conquering the small city-state of Liang, where the residents would be otherwise defenseless if it weren't for the valiant warrior Ge Li (Andy Lau). Jacob C.L. Cheung (Hero) directs this epic action-drama based on the popular Japanese manga, based in turn on a Japanese novel about China's Warring States Period.
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Don
2006 | NR | 3.5 out of 5 StarsDon, a ruthless crime boss and drug lord, is nabbed and held captive by the authorities, who send his naïve look-alike, Vijay, to infiltrate the man's gang. But Vijay soon realizes he's caught in a double cross.
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The King of the Streets
2012 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsYue Feng is a young thug with exceptional streetfighting abilities. He will stop at nothing to defeat all challengers until a tragic accident sends him to prison. Eight years later, Yue Feng seeks a new life of peace and fulfillment.
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Alatriste
2006 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsPart military hero, part privateer, Capt. Alatriste (Viggo Mortensen) fights for imperial Spain and tries to keep a dangerous seductress (Elena Anaya) away from his young squire, Inigo (Unax Ugalde), in this adventure based on Arturo Pérez-Reverte's novels. The film follows 17th-century mercenary Alatriste as he woos beauty María de Castro (Ariadna Gil), honors a promise by keeping Inigo out of the war and plots to destroy his sworn enemy.
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Of Gods and Men
2010 | NR | 3.4 out of 5 StarsA group of French Trappist monks making their home in the Algerian mountains have ample reason to believe they're in danger. But their assumption that there can be common ground between Islam and Christianity leads them to remain at the monastery.
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