World cinema & TV: not in English

Bong Joon-ho's class thriller still cuts with dark comedy and staircase tension, and critics keep calling it a modern global masterpiece.

Kore-eda's found-family drama earns near-perfect notices for tender portraits of poverty that refuse easy judgment and linger long after the credits.

Postwar kaiju grief and practical awe stun critics, who call this Japanese monster return human, thrilling and surprisingly moving without irony.

Kurosawa's village-defense epic still sets the action template critics cite whenever they rank the all-time greats, and few films equal it.

Quiet family distance in postwar Japan still devastates critics who rank Ozu among the gentlest most precise masters of everyday cinema.

Contradictory testimonies about a forest crime still shape how critics across cultures discuss truth on screen, and syllabi keep teaching it.

This Korean survival spectacle became a global phenomenon that critics still widely credit for class allegory wrapped in brutal game-show inventiveness.

Quiet desire burns through painterly frames and glances in this French drama critics call one of the decade's great love stories.

Courtroom ambiguity and fractured alpine marriage keep critics debating guilt while praising craft, performances and moral unease that refuse neat answers.

This next-door Holocaust horror uses sound design and domestic banality to chill critics, who call it essential and unsettling modern cinema.

This neorealist father-and-son hunt through Rome still devastates critics, who call it essential humanist cinema born amid ruined postwar Italian streets.

Fritz Lang's futurist city spectacle stuns critics a century on, a German silent science-fiction landmark imagining skylines, machines and class conflict.

This German time-loop mystery rewards patience with nested timelines that critics praise as one of Netflix's densest, smartest European thrillers ever.

Kieslowski's ten-part moral tales stun critics as cinema-quality television that maps the commandments onto ordinary lives in a Warsaw housing estate.

This German U-boat drama carried its dread from film into television, and critics still cite it as landmark European war storytelling.

Cuarón's memory piece turns domestic labor and Mexico City detail into devastating intimacy that critics still rank among modern film masterpieces.

This documentary-style uprising drama still shocks with street-level realism that critics call essential political cinema, shot inside the Algiers casbah itself.

Ray's village childhood drama opened global eyes to Indian neorealism and still earns critic scores for its tender rural poverty detail.