What's your favourite foreign language tv show?

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There's quite a lot overseas programming on tv at the moment. Do you watch any of it? If so what's your favourite? I'm into the Spanish period drama Gran Hotel.
 
The 9pm on Saturday evening slot on BBC4 has most of my favourite programmes on TV in any language. The current show in that slot (Crimes of Passion) is not as good as some of the others though.
 
I really enjoyed the bridge and the killing. The US remake of the killing is actually very good as well surprisingly.
 
I love all these foreign films as I have to read the subtitles and it makes me concentrate on the plot.

The last season of Wallender was superb
Spiral was great
Montalbano is also very good (interestingly I read The Terracotta Dog and Montalbano smokes and has hair)
The Bridge etc all excellent
 
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TopBanana said:
Coronation Street - I'm informed that Lancashire is considered foreign from Yorkshire! ;)
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Beat me to it, although I was going to say Eastenders! Then again, I don't think we've seen any of the soaps for 20+ years - they're all complete cr@p!
 
ChasG said:
I love all these foreign films as I have to read the subtitles and it makes me concentrate on the plot.
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The last time I was in France, I watched a film on the hotel TV. It was in French with French subtitles!


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Steve Smith said:
The last time I was in France, I watched a film on the hotel TV. It was in French with French subtitles!


Steve.
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I have a satellite dish pointing at 13E. RAI sometimes show programmes in Italian with Italian subtitles. Curiously, one last night (was an old bloke being interviewed somewhere in the countryside) the spoken words and the subtitles only matched up for about 70% of what was being said and I couldn't translate the spoken bits that didn't match the subtitles. So, no idea quite what language(s) he was speaking!
 
Have to agree that The Bridge is pretty damn good.
 
Braquo was excellent, as well as all those mentioned above. If you haven't watched it get hold of the DVDs. Excellent.

Also Borgen which was an excellent political drama.
 
I quite enjoy 50 ways to kill your mammy.
 
Wallander either of the non UK (Kenneth Branagh) ones.
 
andrewc said:
Sky did a remake set in the Channel Tunnel with the original dead body half way between us and France.

I also enjoyed Salamander which BBC4 aired earlier this year.
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Ah yes....the tunnel. I didn't see it.
 
The Scandawegian stuff is all good and some is great. The Bridge, The Killing, Wallender and Borgen are my favourites. Montalbano is OK but not quite up to the Scandinavian "noire".
I also find the Scandi stuff easier to follow as the language seems a bit like English and I don't always need the sub-titles to get the gist of what's occurring.
 
Farmerjim said:
The Scandawegian stuff is all good and some is great. The Bridge, The Killing, Wallender and Borgen are my favourites. Montalbano is OK but not quite up to the Scandinavian "noire".
I also find the Scandi stuff easier to follow as the language seems a bit like English and I don't always need the sub-titles to get the gist of what's occurring.
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what Jim says, Love the Scandinavian stuff!
 
tijuana taxi said:
Not strictly a series, but my favourite was Das Boot
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Actually, my recollection of first seeing Das Boot was as a series on the BBC, it was only later released here as a full length film. What a great piece of work that was though.
 
purpleclouds said:
What do you mean there's another version? It's the original one! :)
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You referred to the Danish/Swedish "version", not me :LOL: :LOL:
I had blissfully forgotten any subsequent remakes :)
If you'd just said The Bridge, none of us would now need therapy :LOL:
 
The french crime series, Engrenages (Spiral) is excellent, just waiting for the new season to start.
All of the US/UK re imaginings of The Bridge are also worth checking out.
 
I thought Phil was referring to the American version, the Yanks have "re-made" The Bridge, set on the US/Mexico border. I think the big difference will be the fact that murders are fairly rare in Denmark/Sweden whereas you can't say the same about the US/Mexico border.
 
the worst ones have been on sky news this week ,all them polls and opinions from scotland :exit:
 
There’s a good one on Sky Atlantic at the moment. A German one called 8 Days.
 
The hours of my life (Japanese) is possibly the best TV drama I've seen. I think I've seen it three times now.

I'd love a CD box set with English subtitles but can't find one anywhere. The nearest I've come is a dubbed Thai version with English subtitles but as I'm used to hearing the characters voices I didn't like the idea of that.
 
My real favourites have got to be those German MILF ones on pornhub LOL
 
The Bridge was excellent but I also liked the quirky Belgian police series, "Professor T"

Dave
 
any of the Sporza live stream coverage of the cyclocross racing. Mainly so I can avoid the english commentary on the UCI or GCN streams i'll admit - but it really gives it more of a "beer frites and mud" atmosphere in the native tongue...
 
I can't watch cycling because the commentators just never stop talking. Hours of utter drivel. It's a shame.

In parts of the world one day cricket is going the same way.

Bish....shut the f*** up man.
 
I watched the first couple of series of Glitch on Netflix, that was all in Australian.
 
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