100 Best Foreign Movies on Tubi Right Now

100 Best Foreign Movies on Tubi Right Now

April 25, 2025

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When you get free streaming, all in exchange for just a few ads, it can be a little hard to believe that Tubi would have a great selection. Yet, for some reason, their library, one of the largest among all streaming sites, is packed with rare, hidden gems that you can’t find anywhere else. And on top of these, these films aren’t just limited to American-made films, the selection includes great titles from all over the world. So if you’re willing to get over the subtitles and watch something out of your comfort zone, all for free, here’s the best foreign films on Tubi:

51. Baraka (1992)

7.6

Genres

Documentary, Drama

Director

Ron Fricke

Actors

Patrick Disanto

Moods

Challenging, Original, Raw

Slow, contemplative, but captivating, Baraka uses no narration, dialogue, or text to connect its images. The documentary stitches together shots with different subjects from different locations around the world. At first, it seems very peaceful—gorgeous, high-definition shots of nature paired with a soothing, resonant score that lulls you into hypnosis—but as the film progresses, director and cinematographer Ron Fricke presents more scenes with people, from the cities to the countryside, to places rarely documented on film. Depending on how you look at it, Baraka will either feel like just a compilation of screensavers or a profound meditation on how intrinsically connected everything is. It’s totally breathtaking either way.

52. The Forest for the Trees (2004)

7.6

Genres

Comedy, Drama

Director

Female director, Maren Ade

Actors

Daniela Holtz, Eva Löbau, Heinz Röser-Dümmig, Ilona Schulz

Moods

Character-driven, Funny, Raw

More than a decade before she made Toni Erdmann, German filmmaker Maren Ade turned her eye on a small-town school, a socially awkward teacher, and the inarticulate in between. Even with her debut, Ade showcased a talent for spotting the hidden comic potential of situations that can be wounding, turning vulnerabilities into power through comedy. The Forest For the Trees is a dilemma-film, in the ways in which it both invites and rejects identification with Melanie. A frighteningly optimistic person, she misreads most if not all social cues and finds herself in embarrassing situations. Even more, her devotion to making it all work, after moving away from the big city for said teaching job, is something a lot of viewers can recognize and support, but her borderline unlikeability is sometimes too hard to ignore. However, a majestic finale crowns the film with a scene that is worth rewatching again and again, like a dream you wish to appropriate for yourself.

53. Night of the Kings (2021)

7.6

Genres

Drama, Fantasy

Director

Philippe Lacôte

Actors

Denis Lavant, Digbeu Jean Cyrille, Issaka Sawadogo, Koné Bakary

Moods

Gripping, Original, Thought-provoking

With a script that seems to have been written for a medieval fantasy, but set in a present-day Ivorian jail, Night of the Kings immediately situates itself between the realms of reality and imagination. Whether or not one thinks that certain details about the prison’s strange rituals have been lost in translation, the mysticism surrounding the events of the movie remains impossible to shake. The idea of improvising one’s way out of trouble should make sense in any cultural context after all, and this is what keeps the film on edge—and what helps Night of the Kings work as such a singular vision from an often underrepresented region of world cinema.

54. The Wailing (2016)

7.5

Genres

Horror, Mystery

Director

Hong-jin Na, Na Hong-jin

Actors

Bae Yong-geun, Cho Han-cheul, Chun Woo-hee, Do-won Kwak

Moods

Discussion-sparking, Dramatic, Mind-blowing

In rural Korea a policeman starts to investigate peculiar and violent events that most of the people in his village attribute to the arrival of a new Japanese resident. As the occurrences keep multiplying, and different perspectives in the film are shown, you start to lose touch with reality in the face of what can only be described as genius film-making. As critic Jada Yuan puts it, the film operates on a level “that makes most American cinema seem clunky and unimaginative”. For this reason, and while The Wailing is a true horror flick with a great premise, it’s also more than just that: it boosts a mind-boggling, interesting plot that will have you thinking about it long after the credits roll. Protip: grab the person next to you and make them watch this movie with you so you can have someone to discuss it with after!

55. Rams (2014)

7.5

Genres

Drama

Director

Grímur Hákonarson

Actors

Þorleifur Einarsson, Charlotte Bøving, Charlotte Bøving, Gunnar Jonsson

Moods

Discussion-sparking, Sunday, Uplifting

I always seek out Icelandic films; something about the quality of light and quirky sensibility that appeal to me. Having developed a fondness for sheep on a recent Welsh trek, “Rams” had a double attraction. A tale of brothers divided by life but ultimately united in and by their deep, tender, inspiring love of their rams. Close to perfection. Sigurdur Sigurdurjonsson is luminous in the lead role.

56. Dogman (2019)

7.5

Genres

Crime, Drama, Thriller

Director

Matteo Garrone

Actors

Adamo Dionisi, Alida Baldari Calabria, Aniello Arena, Edoardo Pesce

Moods

Thrilling, Well-acted

In a small Italian town, a dog cleaner’s wholesome days dealing with elderly owners and eager children are balanced with a series of messy nights. The small and frail man finds himself targetted by the town’s black-sheep, a strong and fearless ex-convict. Dogman is about the line between being bullied and wanting to be part of something, it’s a beautiful and often thrilling character study from Italian genius filmmaker Matte Garone. Won the Best Actor award at Cannes.

57. Macadam Stories (2015)

7.5

Genres

Comedy, Drama

Director

Samuel Benchetrit

Actors

Gustave Kervern, Isabelle Huppert, Jules Benchetrit, Larouci Didi

Moods

Weird

This dark French comedy is set in a neglected building in a working-class neighborhood. The elevator breaks and every tenant agrees to pay to fix it, except for the person who lives on the first floor. The neighbors go through with the reparations without the first-floor tenant, on the condition he never uses the elevator. Everything is fine until an incident puts him in a wheelchair.

58. Polytechnique (2009)

7.5

Genres

Crime, Drama, History

Director

Denis Villeneuve

Actors

Adam Kosh, Alexandre St-Martin, Alexis Lefebvre, Anne Trudel

Moods

Intense, True-story-based

Polytechnique directed by Denis Villeneuve, is a dramatization of the 1989 Montreal massacre of multiple female engineering students. This film focuses on a male student navigating the massacre for the majority of the film’s run time. The performances and minimal dialogue in this film certainly make this an unnerving film to watch. Littered with the screams of the actors portraying the engineering students, this could be mistaken as a gaudy horror film. However, this is far from a fictionalized horror.

This Villeneuve classic is undoubtedly one of the most emotionally brutal films of the 2000s, yet I appreciate the honesty of the storytelling. Polytechnique encourages its audience to ask itself if it truly understands the truth of misogyny. 

59. Ringu (1998)

7.5

Genres

Drama, Horror, Thriller

Director

Hideo Nakata

Actors

Daisuke Ban, Hiroyuki Sanada, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Hitomi Satô

Moods

Dark, Gripping, Slow

Despite being remade, parodied, and absorbed into pop culture over the years, the original Ring defiantly marches to the beat of its own drum. Focused entirely on building a slow-burn mystery instead of dispensing scares, the film provides ample space for a number of interpretations: on the spread of technology, the erasure of traditional beliefs, or even motherhood. It’s all relentlessly quiet and extremely creepy, the tension building with the same energy as ghost stories told around a campfire. And while famous for its eerie images and the rules surrounding its cursed videotape, Ringu also serves as a reminder that great horror should compel the audience to keep on watching, even if they already know exactly what awaits them if they do.

60. Riders of Justice (2021)

7.5

Genres

Action, Comedy, Drama

Director

Anders Thomas Jensen

Actors

Albert Rudbeck Lindhardt, Alice E. Bier Zandén, Anders Nyborg, Andrea Heick Gadeberg

Moods

Character-driven, Funny, Gripping

Don’t let the title and poster fool you—Riders of Justice isn’t the testosterone-filled action flick you’d expect going in (though it does get ridiculous at some points). It centers on deployed military man Markus, played by the appropriately masculine Mads Mikkelsen, who has to return home to his teenage daughter Mathilde after his wife dies in an accident. Instead of coping normally and sticking with his daughter to get through the tragedy, he goes down a rabbit hole discovering how the accident that killed his wife is more than just bad luck and may have been collateral damage from a gang orchestrating an assassination.

Surprisingly, director Anders Thomas Jensen injects this violent film with a lot of gentle moments about trauma and togetherness. Mikkelsen and the rest of the cast play off of each other very well, using dark humor to bring together a bunch of characters who are, in oversimplified terms, “fucked up but trying their best.”

It may seem like the guns, blood, and badass moments are a front for this film that, at its core, shows men who badly need therapy banding together to cope with the harshness of life. Extremely funny and deeply moving, it qualifies as a heartwarming Christmas movie, believe it or not.

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