16 Foreign Movies That Will Captivate You From The First Scene

Although they can sometimes seem intimidating, complex or even boring, there are foreign films that have been pioneers in showing intense, moving and really interesting plots.

If you are a movie lover and you are looking for something new that is not the same Hollywood thrillers, action or romance that are everywhere, we recommend these 16 foreign titles that will captivate you from the first moment.

1. Toni Erdmann

A working woman agrees to spend time with her father after years of never seeing or living together. Always a joker, the father does his best to reconnect with his daughter by pretending to be the one coach life of your boss.

2. The Assassin

During the 9th century, the young daughter of a general is kidnapped and trained to be an exceptional assassin. When she does not execute a mission, she is ordered to kill her own mentor, forcing her to choose between love, her family, and the murderers.

3. Attenberg

Marina thinks that the human species is strange and repellent, until a curious stranger enters her life, forcing her to change her way of thinking completely and showing her the complexities of a world that she did not always know and of which she could be a part.

4. Burning

Jon-soo meets Hae-mi, a girl who once lived in his neighborhood, who asks him to take care of her cat while she leaves town. When she returns, Hae-mi introduces her to Ben, a man she met on the trip who shows Jon-soo his new hobby.

5. Cemetery of Splendor

A middle-aged housewife takes care of a soldier who suffers from a disease that does not allow him to sleep, triggering a series of hallucinations that cause her to have strange dreams that will lead to an unusual romance between them.

6. It

A successful and ruthless boss of a video game company tries to find and catch the man who attacked her in her own home. Soon, Michéle Leblanc is part of a huge and dangerous cat and mouse chase that seems to have no end.

7. Force Majeure

A man’s selfish reaction when an avalanche threatens his life causes his marriage and relationship with his children to deteriorate, leading to a series of complicated situations that show true human nature and the much-talked about survival instinct.

8. Happy as Lazarus

Lazzaro, a kind-hearted boy without much money, and Tancredi, a young man of noble origin with a complicated imagination, form an unexpected bond when Tancredi asks Lazzaro if he can help him plan and carry out his own kidnapping.

9. Holy Motors

A mysterious man roams the streets of Paris with his loyal chauffeur, wearing different costumes and playing a series of strange characters, connecting an unexpected and unusual group of people around the French capital.

10. Jauja

Gunnar Dinesen and his daughter Ingeborg travel from Denmark to an unknown desert on the fringes of civilization during the late 1880s, escaping a cruel fate due to a terrible misunderstanding that has put their lives in danger.

11. Let the Sunshine In

This film tells the story of Isabelle, a middle-aged French woman who, after being a mother and having divorced, seeks love on the streets of Paris, meeting different characters who will put everything they used to believe in perspective.

12. Neighboring Sounds

Daily life in a middle-class neighborhood in the city of Recife, in Brazil, takes an unexpected turn after the arrival of an independent private security firm. The presence of these men will cause a series of unexpected events that will put everything at risk.

13. No Home Movie

This film documents the conversations in person and via Skype between Chantal Ackerman and her mother, Natalia, who was one of the Auschwitz survivors. In the middle of the film, Ackerman cuts the story and begins to show a series of unexpected images.

14. Phoenix

Berlin, 1945. The singer Nelly Lenz returns to the terribly disfigured city after having survived the concentration camps. After recovering from complicated plastic surgery, she refuses to believe that her late husband could have turned her over to the Nazis.

15. Right Now, Wrong Then

An art film director named Ham Cheon-soo travels to Suwon to screen one of his films. While out for a walk, he meets a pretty young woman with whom he begins to have a conversation that could radically change his mind.

16. Sieranevada

A doctor and his wife are having a family dinner in the city of Bucharest to commemorate the death of their father when a discussion about the attack on September 11 begins to deteriorate the meeting and triggers a series of personal problems among all.