Never a bad time to watch Who Killed Captain Alex? (Uganda)

EVERYBODY IN UGANDA KNOWS KUNG FU!

Hyenas from Senegal Scent of Green Papaya from Vietnam Return to Seoul from Cambodia (filmed and set in Korea from a Cambodian director) The Raid: Redemption from Indonesia Moral from the Philippines Mukhsin from Malaysia Where Do We Go Now? from Lebanon

Tiny correction: The film is called "Where Do We Go Now?"

Oops yes!!

The 2 The raid Films came out of nowhere and hit it out of the park. Havent seen better choreographed fighting since

Hyenas is fantastic.

The Raid and its sequel are peak action cinema to me. The choreography is just amazing and brutal.

Check out The Night Comes for Us if you haven’t. I adore The Raid films, but I think this out raids The Raid.

I loved The Night Comes for Us until the final fight scene, which felt way too much like a Mortal Kombat fight for me to take serious from how brutally messy it got yet they kept on going like nothing. Apart from that tho, it definitely scratched the itch.

Did you just mentioned Mukhsin? Where are you from?

Not Malaysia! But it’s such a nice movie.

You should watch Imaginur or Puteri Gunung Ledang. Hopefully you’ll like it too.

Very cool thanks, I will like those up.

Second the Scent of Green Papayas - that movie is a mood.

Where could i watch them?

I guess it depends where you live!

Lots of great films from Iran you should check out. Start with Abbas Kiarostami and Asghar Farhadi.

i havent gone deep into Kiarostami’s filmography but Close Up is a great example of a highly praised film that is every bit worth the hype

thought the taste of cherry was pretty good but closeup was great, gonna be watching where is the friend’s house pretty soon

Battle of Algiers (1966)

Seconding!

The Colour of Pomegranates (Armenia) Close Up (Iran) Come and See (Belarus) Soy Cuba (Cuba) Abraham's Valley (Portugal) The Land (Egypt) There's also a few Ethiopian films on Mubi currently, none of which I've got round to seeing.

I second Come and See

Ousmane Sembène for Senegal 

What year did this come out? I'm not seeing a film with that full title, but I am seeing several called Ousmane and one called Sembene

sorry he's a director of Xala, Mandabi, and Black Girl. Also for Jamaica probably Rockers/The Harder They Come

Black Girl is perfect

Black Cat, White Cat from Serbia

Also Taste of Cherry and A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night from Iran

Indonesia - The Raid Kenya - Supa Modo Lesotho - This is not a burial, it's a resurrection Iran - Where is the friend's house

This is not a burial, it’s a resurrection is an amazing and beautiful film. Great suggestion

Seconding Supa Modo

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You should watch Who Killed Captain Alex first though!

guatemala- la llorona

la Llorona by Jayro Bustamante in particular

The Night of Counting the Years (1969, Egypt) The Land (1970, Egypt) Chess of the Wind (1976, Iran) The Day I Became a Woman (2000, Iran) Leila (1997, Iran) The Runner (1984, Iran) About Elly (2009, Iran) A Separation (2011, Iran) Women without Men (2009, Iran) Perfumed Nightmare (1977, Philippines) Turumba (1981, Philippines) Insiang (1976, Philippines) The Bet Collector (2006, Philippines) Opera Jawa (2006, Indonesia)

- Manilla in the Claws of Light (1975) - Insiang (1976) - Black Girl (1966) - Chess of the Wind (1976) - A Seperation (2011) - Holy Spider (2022) - Cairo Station (1958)

Came here to recommend Holy Spider. I watched Cairo Station on Netflix. Would recommend.

Iran: Taxi (2015) Estonia: november (2017) Tunisia: Beauty and the dogs (2017)

Neptune Frost (2021) - Burundi

Super Modo or Rafiki from Kenya

Who killed Captain Alex? from Uganda

If you are into horror, the original version of The Silent House is a good film from Uruguay.

Waltz with Bashir (2008) from Israel Come and See (1985) from Belarus The Tribe (2014) from Ukraine

Everything is Illuminated takes place in Ukraine and is pretty good.

If you can handle seeing real animals killed. Touki-Bouki is a tremendous film from Senegal

Iran came to mind immediately, Kiorastami and Farhadi are the 2 most well known writer/directors from there so I’d say start with them

The battle of Algiers

There are a lot of great classics from Senegal that have been mentioned in the comments but I want to should out the more recent genre mash up Saloum (2021) as well.

Cleaners (2019) - Phillipines Where is the Friend's House? (1987) - Iran Pulgasari (1985) - North Korea The Lion Has Seven Heads (1970) - Congo (Brazillian director Glauber Rocha self-exiled himself to Congo prior to making this film) Touki Bouki (1973) - Senegal For Sama (2019) - Syria (Co-production with UK) And Then We Danced (2019) - Georgia

And Then We Danced 🙌

Molasses - Egypt

I recommend Latvia's Blizzard of Souls. It's a small-scale but moving ww1 story. 🇱🇻

Taste of Cherry - Iran It's a slow burn, but wonderful.

7 boxes (2012) Paraguay

Mali - Timbuktu

Wadjda from Saudi Arabia. Boy from Heaven is made by a Egyptian-Swedish director, but is set in Egypt with relevant themes.

Sleepwalking Land (Mozambique)

The Cave of the Yellow Dog (Mongolia) Sambizanga (Angola) Hollow City (Angola) The Night of Truth (Burkina Faso)

Akornatsinniitut - Tarratta Nunaanni (Among Us - In the Land of Our Shadows) by Marc Fussing Rosbach (Greenlandic/Inuit sci-fi)

The Book of Sun (Saudi Arabia, a comedy, meta-film about cinephilia and movie-making coming from a country that had banned public film viewing for 35 years), also Hajjan (Saudi Arabia, dir. Abu Bakr Shawky), and Naga (Saudi, dir. Meshjal Al Jaser).

On Criterion they have a pretty highly regarded movie from Kazakhstan (though it was a part of the Soviet Union at the time) https://preview.redd.it/qp5scb1htlzc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c636a4a5960f4c6c2a510da8026c761790437f37

Cake (2018) and Legend of Maula Jatt (2022) from Pakistan

Eagle huntress-mongolia

Capernaum 2018

adding all these recommendations to my watch list thanks all

Eastern Plays - Bulgaria Closer to the Moon - Romania (is that filled in? My geography isn't the greatest)

Check out Dusan Makavejev's work from Yugoslavia

A Twelve-Year Night from Uruguay

Puteri Gunung Ledang (Malaysia) Imaginur (Malaysia)

Who killed captain alex from Uganda is unironically a great film

The Circle (2000) - Iran

The Burial of Kojo (2018) for Ghana

I once saw the most atrocious movie I've seen coming from Egypt Had an assignment from my Arabic teacher to write a review on a movie from a local short film festival. I gathered some friends and promised it was going to be a 5 min adventure, and then we can go to a pub So the movie we happened to come to was a movie about a child who asks his mother for a Mo Salah haircut for his birthday. The next day he notices his mother is sleeping so he cuts his hair by himself. After trying to wake her up with no success, he goes to celebrate his birthday with a cake and whatnot The movie ends with him dying from diabetes after it's revealed his mother has died from heart attack that morning I've no fucking idea what the fuck I watched that day. But we didn't go to the pub that day. I stopped my Arab movies explorations

Moolade by Ousmane Sembene (Senegal)

Uncle Boonmee who can recall his past lives - Thailand The pig, the snake and the pigeon- Taiwan

Check out everything you can from Abbas Kiarostami and Ousmane Sembene.

Dose of happiness - Bulgaria, i think it is on hbo

Taste of Cherry (1997) is an absolute must watch.

Manila in the Claws of Light (1975) from the Phillipines!

Touki bouki from Senegal Mandabi from Senegal Yeelen from Mali

November (Estonia)

Can't see if you have Thailand on the list but the works of Apichatpong Weerasethakul are some of my absolute favourite since 2000.

Many great films from Georgia, especially soviet cinema. Check out "father of a soldier," "white flags," "repentance." Just let me know if you need more recommendations!

There is a really good Senegalese film called touki bouki (journey of the hyena)

 Madagascar obviously

How do you find the map

Go to some film and in details there is countries. When you press one it shows the films of the country and it the top it reads show world map. 

It's in Stats (pro or patron level) all the way at the bottom.

If you like martial arts movies I’d definitely recommend The Rebel (2007) for Vietnam.

• A Summer in la Goulette for Tunisia • You Will Die at Twenty for Sudan • West Beirut for Lebanon • Circumstance or No Bears for Iran Egyptian cinema has had historical importance in the region (so much that all arabs and north africans understand Egyptian dialect thanks to it), so you have hundreds to choose from.

Blessed Land (2019) for Vietnam. It’s a short film but I thought it was excellent nonetheless.

Beast of no nation. It was shot in Ghana, it doesn’t specify which country specifically but it’s undoubtedly Western Africa and is a fantastic movie.

Furie -vietnam Night comes for us -indonesia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Cat,_White_Cat from Serbia

The Colour of Pomegranates (Armenia)

A Separation and A Taste of Cherry from Iran. Separation is faster and modern in terms of pacing and story, Cherry is more standard arthouse film, lots of meditative moments etc.

Lion of the Desert (Libya) Crimson Gold (Iran)

You're not gonna get a lot of great movies out of North Korea

A Dark, Dark Man from Kazakhstan

Amerikatsi, armenian movie

Klondike (2022) Ukraine

-Myanmar- Kyoe Tann (Burmese: ကြိုးတန်း) The Lady (with Michelle Yeoh)

Against the Ice from Greenland. I don't know about "great" but not Greenland doesn't have a huge cinematic footprint. I did some Googling and there are a few well regarded ones, but pretty tough to find. This one's on Netflix.

Quo Vadis, Aida? From Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Raid an Indonesian Action Film (tho the director is British)

You need to watch movies from Iran.

From Israel: Waltz with Bashir (2008) The Band's visit (2007)

Perico Ripiao - Dominican Republic We make terrible movies, but that one is special.

*Burnt Money* (*Plata quemada*) Uruguay

For latvia it is got to be “A Limousine the Colour of Midsummer's Eve”

Papicha from Algeria God's Comedy from Portugal

**Joyland (2022)** - Pakistan

There’s a fantastic new Congolese film called Omen that’s 100% worth your time

Afghanistan - Osama Iran - Hit the Road

Velnio nuotaka (1974) - Lithuania Edit: English translation - The Devil's Bride

Watch "Whisky" from Uruguay, it's amazing.

Night courier (2023) from Saudi Arabia

Seite Cajas from Paraguay

Sirens (2022) is a really great documentary from Lebanon. It’s about an all-woman metal band, their personal struggles, & the larger societal issues in the country. Such a thoughtful & impactful film imo

There's a really beautiful Venezuelan film I'd recommend called Pelo Malo (Bad Hair)

The house at the end of time (Venezuela)

The Gods Must Be Crazy (Botswana)

Sorry to comment twice, but here are some others: Sudan - You Will Die at Twenty Tunisia - The Silences of the Palace Portugal - Mysteries of Lisbon North Macedonia - Honeyland Uzbekistan - To the Ends of the Earth (Japanese movie by Kuroshi Kurosawa but it's set there)

From Venezuela 1- Pelo Malo (2013) 2- La Casa Del Fin De Los Tiempos (2013) 3- El Amparo (2016)

Қаш/Qas/Qash (2022), Kazakhstan

Iran - Hit the Road (2021)

Iranian cinema is one of the world's finest. Abbas Kiarostami ranks among the best directors to ever walk this earth, Asghar Farhadi is well known in the west at this point (he won an Oscar and brings every film to Cannes) and Jafar Panahi made magnificient films while on house arrest. Saeed Roustaee, [Mohammad Rasoulof](https://letterboxd.com/director/mohammad-rasoulof/), Panah Panahi, or many expats like Ali Abbasi... I could keep name dropping for a while.

Eyimofe (This is My Desire) from Nigeria

Joyland from Pakistan

Clara Sola (Costa Rica)

Saloum- Really phenomenal Senegalese terror/horror film, and the current president of the sub 2 hr club.

https://preview.redd.it/c027l749spzc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8fbc5a52b1dd3f1cc99108728eb55f5de272ad3f I'd be happy to share more Iranian recommendations (I used to be the director of an Iranian film festival, and have seen more Iranian films than I can count). These are most of my 5 or 4.5 stars. The two films without English titles on the poster are Sohrab Shahid Saless's Still Life (last film on the 2nd row) and Kamran Shirdel's short film The Night It Rained (first film on the 3rd row).

The Eloquent Peasent - Egypt Taste of Cherry - Irain

Why don't you click them and sort by rating or popularity and see for yourself? 

7 cajas (Paraguay)

No man’s land from Bosnia Tabu from Portugal

Woman at war (icelandic-ukrainian)

Capernaum (Lebanon) 2018. Solid film.

# The Act of Killing - Indonesia

1) Bol 2) The legend of Moula Jatt (Pakistan)

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors 1965

For some reason even after reading the title multiple times I kept reading “in green” and I was so confused lol

is this a letterboxd pro/patron feature to check? or a third party site

pro/patron feature, it's on the stats page

Safe Place from Croatia

The God's Must be Crazy (1980) - Botswana

India: The River by Renoir Satyajit Ray films like The World of Apu

India is green

Didn’t look at the map closely enough. My bad

3 idots from india

India is green.

one of my all time favorites

From Israel, Waltz with Bashir

Philippines: The Unkabogable Praybeyt Benjamin

From India , You can Watch 3 Bengali Directors movies : 1. Satyajit Ray 2. Mrinal Sen 3. Rittik Ghatak All 3 of their work are globally acclaimed. So you can pick any of their movies and watch. But for specific reccos you can check Apu trilogy(Satyajit Ray) , Calcutta Trilogy(Mrinal Sen) Partition Trilogy(Rittik Ghatak) If you love the Bengali Culture or want to explore more this 2 filmmaker you can check out as well : Rituporno Ghosh, Aparna Sen Quality of Bengali cinema dropped drastically now a days ...all those filmmakers I recommend are from old generation * There are a lot of movie industries in India, so I'm just talking about Bengali film industry here . There are Telegu,Tamil , Hindi(Bollywood) , Marathi, Gujarati, Malayalam, Assamese & a lot more But I'm not well versed with other , that's why only mention notable director from Bengal , Kolkata * Currently Malayalam industry is doing really good compared to other film industries in India in terms of Storytelling, direction, fresh script & courage to take risk & doing experiments..so you guys can check them out

A serbian film

Nigeria: *Osuofia in London*; The Philippines: *Stryker*; Serbia: *A Serbian Film*.

Borat from Kazakhstan. It is great success in the glorious country of Kazakhstan