3 Best Foreign Movies on Peacock Right Now

It’s been acclaimed as one the best Kung Fu movies ever made. You are probably wondering why this contemporary movie made that short list when its genre had its peak decades ago: it is visually striking and at the same time surprisingly story-oriented. As you would expect of course, there is quite a fair amount of action scenes, but the characters are also brilliant which is very uncommon in this type of movie. It is an exciting movie, and worthy of any compliment or good rating it may get.

There’s a whole genre of film about men in a room deciding the fate of the world, and Pressure is a sturdy addition to it. The room is a weather station in June 1944. The decision is whether to launch the D-Day invasion, and it hinges on a Scottish meteorologist, James Stagg, telling General Eisenhower that the sky says wait. Andrew Scott plays Stagg with a clenched, sleepless intensity, and Brendan Fraser is a surprisingly good Eisenhower, all folksy calm hiding a man who knows thousands will die on his word.

It started as a stage play and it shows, in a good way: this is tension and forecasts, not battle. If you want the invasion, watch something else. If you want the argument that made it possible, this is a tight, grown-up thriller about the terror of a single call.

A woman loses her phone on her way back to her countryside childhood home. Once there, she connects an old landline in hopes of finding her lost mobile, only to start receiving weird calls that seem to be from 20 years ago.

On the other side of the receiver is a girl who seems to be in danger. The Call is thrilling, sometimes scary, but also brilliantly shot, and its plot is so expertly woven. It’s a proper movie-night movie.