What’s a 10/10 show you would recommend that is not primarily in English

Babylon Berlin

Dark

Kingdom (Korean show about zombie apocalypse set in 1601). It's on Netflix and only has two seasons plus a prequel movie but the story is wrapped up fairly well.

The Bureau (Le bureau des légendes), My Brilliant Friend (L'amica geniale), Deutschland 83, 86, 89

Pachinko

Bron aka The Bridge.

Narcos.

The Bridge (Bron / Broen). It’s a Swedish/Danish crime series. I think a US version exists (I might be mistaken), but I don’t think I need to see it when the Nordic version exists. It’s superb.

The Returned / Les Revenant Supernatural mystery.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Returned_(French_TV_series)

Spiral/Engrenages

"El Eternauta" on Netflix. Argentinian show about a sudden lethal snow (in the middle of summer!) that kills on contact and it gets worse from there. 

Shogun counts I feel.

Midnight Diner - the TV equivalent of a warm bowl of ramen on a cold night in Tokyo

If you like political thrillers check out Borgen, it's Danish. If you like comedies, check out Rundfunk. But be aware that it is Dutch humour and can get quite a bit dark compared to other cultures humour lol. If you like historical war dramas, check out Tuntematon Sotilas (2018) (The Unknown Soldier), it's Finnish. There are also Films.

Gomorrah and My ~~Beautiful~~ Brilliant Friend (both Italian)

Deutschland 83

100 years of solitude on Netflix. I love the book, and it’s a cool show, all in (Colombian) Spanish

Zero Zero Zero - English, Italian and Spanish in here

In Spanish: Division Palermo El Eternauta Yakarta Poquita fe Paquita Salas La mesias Antidisturbios 

Lillyhammer with Steven Van Zandt was pretty great i thought. Also really enjoyed an Italian series called Maltese, set in Trapani. A lot of great suggestions here already

The Wire is entirely in Balmerese

Personal favourite k-drama is The Glory. Available on Netflix in the UK

Marianne It's an absolute shit your pants experience. It's in French with subtitles or you can watch it dubbed in English, but it's better in the original French in my opinion. There's only one 8-episode season which makes it an instant classic in my book because they get out before they overstay their welcome and leave you wanting more. It's legitimately one of the scariest things I've ever watched.

Midnight Dinner on Netflix.

Tokyo Vice

A swedish series called Quicksand/Störst av allt. Totally bingeable series about a Swedish girl accused of shooting her boyfriend and classmates. Incredible TV. Its on Netflix in the UK. Not sure about other countries.

***Mussolini: Son of the Century*** ([Italian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_language): *M. Il figlio del secolo*)

Los Espookys, Real Humans, Les Revenants, Pachinko

Extraordinary Attorney Woo Young Woo - just a sweet show about a lawyer with autism. definitely tugs on the heartstrings, but every episode is great. the show is literally eyebleach and will clear your mind.

Attack on Titan - Japanese Mouse - Korean Dark - German

Extraordinary Attorney Woo , A shop for Killers

Dark

Chief of War. Fantastic show.

Department Q, the original Danish version 

Forbrydelsen. the original Danish version of The Killing.

Beforeigners (Norwegian sci-fi) The first season is the best.

Das Boot & Dark (German). Le bureau des legendes (french). Those are all better than most English language shows.

1670 on Netflix

Kleo is a fun German show.

Call your agent (10 pour cent)

Los Espookys. Takes place in a “Latin American country” (intentionally not a specific one) and Produced by Fred Armisen and one of the funniest shows I’ve ever seen

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French Call my agent and Les Revenants (returned), israeli False flag

Lupin

Engrenages/ Spiral. The French Wire.

As with many Dark

"Unit One." From Denmark - a police show featuring Mads Mikkleson and several other excellent actors who are not as well known. "Unit One" is a mobile task force that travels across Denmark to help local police with difficult cases. 8/1 on IMDB but 10/10 for me! I have re-watched it a couple of times.

Casa de Papel (also known in English as Money Heist). There's also a spin-off called Berlin which you should save until after the main show. I know you're going to get reams of people saying Dark, but personally I found it started well but trailed off by the end. People also say that about Casa de Papel too, so I guess it depends what floats your boat ;) Lupin - French 'gentleman theif' Squid Game - though I'd be surprised if there are many people who haven't seen this yet. Alice in Borderland - Japanese sci-fi/mystery Borgen - Danish political thriller (There's also a recent spin-off, Power & Glory, that I haven't seen yet) The Bridge - Danish/Swedish police drama (this was remade in English, twice, once in the US & once in the UK as The Tunnel, but the original is far better.) Giri/Haji - Japanese/British collaboration. Thriller. Millennium (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) - scandi noir (English remake isn't as good) The Killing (Forbrydelsen) The first internationally popular scandi noir show. (Also suffers a poor English remake)

Shogun

"Girl From Nowhere" from Thailand (netflix). It's an anthology series centered on a karmic entity who takes the form of a schoolgirl, dishing out revenge to each school she visits. It's dark and addictive. Just don't confuse it with a recent reboot "Girl From Nowhere: The Reset" (not half as good at the original)

Shogun

Call My Agent. Great french comedy-drama Beforeigners. Cop show with a unique twist The series concerns the titular "beforeigners", people from different time periods who suddenly appear in the present, and their integration into 21st-century Norway.

Astrid. There’s an English version on PBS call Patience but it’s not as good as Astrid.

Série Noire. A dark comedy about two TV writers who decide to get involved in the criminal underworld of Montreal in order to be better at their job. It's a hoot.

Shogun.

Unsere Mutter; Unsere Vater, german show about teenagers in ww2 germany. Short single season thats nicely wrapped up.

Babylon Berlin. Engrenages. Gomorrah.

Le Bureau des Légendes HPI both have been remade as American shows (one on Paramount, the other on ABC with Kaitlin Olson). Both are far superior to the American versions.

The Swedish tv show Kalifat (”Caliphate”) is terrifying because of how real it felt. I am still horrified by the ending and the show deeply affected me in ways few shows ever have

Money Heist, Spanish.

Depends what you like. I'm in Montreal & exclusively French shows that locals love: 19-2 (2011–2015): A police drama focusing on the intense lives and partnership of two Montreal police officers. La nuit où Laurier Gaudreault s'est réveillé (2022): A fun miniseries about family secrets and trauma. Les Honorables (2019-2022): A drama series following a judge's family doing vigilante justice after their daughter's killer got acquitted. Plan B (2017-): An anthology of dramas+ regarding this service allowing people to go back in time to fix mistakes. And for a quasi-reality show but really meant as pure comedy, watch Les Detestables. It's like Mr Bean but if you know what they are saying as a non-local, it's crazy hilarious.

Drops of God

Le Bureau. It has an American version called the Agency with heavy hitters Jeffrey Wright, Michael Fassbender and ~~Gene Hackman~~ Richard Gere and I'm still going to argue the French version is better Rabo de Peixe - Portuguese, very enjoyable

Babylon Berlin & Kleo

Gomorra and Romanzo Criminale la serie

Both are from Argentina: Okupas, a miniseries about a group of friends living in a squatted house. It explores friendship, drugs, crime. Los Simuladores, think of the A-Team, but they rely on deception to solve problems. Each episode even ends with the victim unknowingly lighting a cigar for the team leader (Disculpe, ¿fuego tiene?).

Pachinko- Apple needs to renew it

Zero Zero Zero It's a third in English, third in Spanish, third in Italian

- El fin de la comedia (absurd humour kind of similar to Louie) - El Ministerio del Tiempo (super creative plot. There's a secret Ministry in Spain in charge of safeguarding some time travel portals that connect with key historical moments in the history of Spain, so that nobody can alter what happened in the past for any good or bad reason)

Suburra: Blood on Rome

Ragnarok

First couple of seasons of Money Heist were great action/turns etc

Duetschland The Bureau Spiral Gomorrah

Trapped (Iceland 2016). Haven't seen the third season, but the first two were fantastic.

The bridge (Swedish original version)

La Casa de Papel ..... Show about a bank robbery. Absolutely brilliant

Money Heist (La Casa de Papel)

Deutschland 83, 86, 89. For anyone who’s seen and liked The Americans, this would be a great fit.

The danish original of The Killing (Forbrydelsen) and The Chestnut Man (Kastanjemanden).

Moving

Signal (Korean series)

Call My Agent! (Dix Pour Cent) and The Law According to Lidia Poet

DARK

[The BR Chopra production of the Mahabharata](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahabharat_(1988_TV_series\)) - one of the most watched shows ever. It practically brought India to a standstill when first aired, and even its repeat airings could garner 5 million viewers an episode. [The Chinese production of Three Kingdoms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Kingdoms_(TV_series\)) - just a top tier incredible epic.

FullMetal Alchemist Brotherhood is an amazing anime and the english dub is just as good or even better than the original.

Bron|Broen (Nordic) The Bureau ( French) My Mister ( Korean) Someday or one day (Taiwanese) Nirvana in the Fire (Chinese) Dark (German) Signal (korean) Stranger S01 ( korean)

Los Espookys

Dark, Kingdom and El Eternauta

The killing/Forbrydelsen

Family Business French, breaking bad, but with weed and it’s a family comedy.

El Encargado (Spanish) - I've never really seen this mentioned but it's an amazing show. Masterful acting by Guillermo Francella. He plays the superintendent of a residential building who seems like a nice, friendly, nonthreatening guy on the surface, but a series of events reveals how far he's willing to go to maintain his job (I don't want to give away too much).

Frieren

Gomorrah Italian mafia show. not the romanticised style created by Coppola and Scorcese. It's about today's mafia in urban ghetto, and organized crime in Europe.

A normal family. Netflix

All of us are dead (Korean)- zombie  outbreak at a highschool Alice in borderland (Japan)- a group of people get teleported to an abandoned Tokyo and must play a series of death games.

Shogun

Astrid

I thought City of Shadows was perfect. Gaudi's architecture is effectively a character, used spectacularly. My Spanish is pretty good, but I found myself lost on a regular basis. Then I realized on closer attention that some characters were speaking Catalan in informal conversations.

Gomorrah (italian) 4 or 5 seasons cant remember

La Casa del Papel, first two seasons were really good.

Tehran

Made in Heaven on prime video I know most people are western here and would have a general averment to Indian content but this was a beautiful anthropological series. Through the lives of 2 wedding planners in India they depicted the hypocrisy of the rich with one wedding a episode.  But it goes deeper and through the lives of the employees of the company it contrasts the choices lower classes make and how they aren't inherently better either and ig how morality is beyond class.  Id certainly say it's a layered show. Not heavy at all, p fun and the wedding sets are some of the most beautiful I've seen

La casa de papel

Swedish show called Caliphate. On prime I think. Amazing thriller about three teen girls hoodwinked into joining Isis and the Syrian/Swedish detective who tries to save them.

Astrid et Raphaelle.

If you include Anime there's plenty. Sure there's a lot of garbage or weird "barely disguised f*****" stuff. But there's also really good ones, though the good ones often get an English dub pretty quick. If you want something shorter to try and get into it I can recommend a few: * FLCL Ok, ok, I know "barely disguised f*****" and I come right out with FLCL. But the whole thing is 6 episodes, and is a big metaphor for puberty and does a good job of showing a young boy becoming a young man struggling to be treated like he's not a kid anymore while learning to handle new emotions. * Stein's Gate One of the best portrayals of PTSD in media I've seen. Especially disassociation where one of the character says something like >!I wasn't even seeing her as a person anymore, but a problem I needed to solve!< * Freiren: Beyond Journey's End (Still ongoing) A very wholesome and slow starting anime about a mage who is seeking to reunite with a friend from her past who has died. * Cowboy Bebop Action packed but grounded show about bounty hunters in space and the inability to escape your past. * Lupin III A wacky show about the antics of Lupin III, grandson of Arsène Lupin the famous gentleman thief. It's just good fun and feels a bit like loony tunes with some of the silly stuff that goes on.

My Brilliant Friend

The Bureau Spiral (Engrenages)

Casa de papel

Narcos and Narcos Mexico. It’s 90% in Spanish and I watch them both on repeat with the subtitles and still don’t know Spanish 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Shogun

Narcos