100 Best Foreign Movies on Tubi Right Now

100 Best Foreign Movies on Tubi Right Now

November 5, 2024

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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:

71. Omar (2013)

7.2

Country

Palestine, Palestinian Territory

Director

Hany Abu-Assad

Actors

Adam Bakri, Adi Krayem, Doraid Liddawi, Eyad Hourani

Moods

Raw, Thought-provoking, Thrilling

Ask yourself how many Palestinian movies you have seen before. You will want to give this smart and twisty Academy Award nominee by Golden Globe winning director Hany Abu-Assad a chance to change your answer. Omar, a Palestinian baker, climbs the West Bank Wall to see his lover, Nadia, whom he wants to marry. When Israeli soldiers catch and humiliate him, he gets implicated in the shooting of an Israeli soldier, and eventually gets arrested and faces an extremely lengthy sentence. Later, his captors’ motives and his own get tangled up in politics, friendship, trust, and love. Omar is a highly realistic, compelling crime drama you don’t want to miss.

72. The Body (El cuerpo) (2012)

7.2

Country

Spain

Director

Oriol Paulo

Actors

Ahmed Adel, Aida Oset, Aina Planas, Aura Garrido

Moods

Intense, Raw, Suspenseful

Without a shadow of a doubt, one of the most gripping thrillers in recent years. It starts in a morgue where a corpse of a deceased femme fatale goes missing. Her husband is the first person to be suspected as evidence starts pointing to him for killing his wife and hiding the body. He is called by the police to the crime scene to help with the investigation that is led by a shady detective. The film then takes you on a journey filled with reflections on marriage, deceit and the character’s urge to safeguard whats their own and the territories they are willing to cross to keep it. Drawing you into the atmosphere from the very start, it refuses to let you go out of it. All while maintaining a simple premise.

 

73. Juror 8 (2019)

7.2

Country

South Korea

Director

Hong Seung-wan

Actors

Baek Soo-jang, Cha Mi-kyeong, Cho Soo-hyang, Choi Ri

Moods

Character-driven, Dramatic, Grown-up Comedy

Based on the first jury trial in South Korea, Juror 8 tells the story of eight ordinary citizens with different backgrounds who are summoned to be the jurors of a case that’s believed to be a murder. These characters who have no background or knowledge in law find themselves able to decide someone’s fate. Unlike 12 Angry Men, Juror 8 delivers a lot of cunning and humorous dialogue between the characters. It’s a good mix between comedy and mystery.

74. Always (2011)

7.2

Country

South Korea

Director

Song Il-gon

Actors

Cho Seong-ha, Goo Seung-hyun, Han Hyo-joo, Jin Goo

Moods

Depressing, Emotional, Intense

Always follows the story of Jeong-hwa and Cheol-min, both very different individuals who are gentle in their own way. The story starts off by demonstrating how different the leads are in terms of their personality and their outlook on life. The plot can be a little predictable and cliche in some moments, but Always is not a complicated movie—though in addition to being a romance, it also includes some surprising violence that may intensify your viewing experience. Still, Always is about the two leads’ struggle against fate as they try to survive their tough situations, with strong chemistry between the lead actors from start to finish.

75. Heidi (2015)

7.2

Country

Australia, Belgium, France

Director

Alain Gsponer

Actors

Anna Schinz, Anuk Steffen, Beth Armstrong, Bruno Ganz

Moods

Easy, Feel-Good, Heart-warming

Where The Secret Garden championed the restorative powers of tending to a garden as well as one’s thoughts, Swiss novel Heidi touched on similar themes a few decades before, celebrating instead the natural beauty of the Alps mountainside, and the titular character bringing back joy and hope to her family. The film remains faithful to the novel, playing out the book’s events with a more sleek look and even more stunning landscapes of the Swiss Alps. While previous generations would inevitably compare the version of their time to this latest version, 2015’s Heidi is a decent adaptation, recreating the classic tale for today’s kids.

76. Pusher (1996)

7.2

Country

Denmark

Director

Nicolas Winding Refn

Actors

Gordon Kennedy, Gyda Hansen, Jesper Lohmann, Karsten Schrøder

Moods

Challenging, Character-driven, Dark

Films about drug dealing aren’t particularly new, but the way Pusher delves into their lives feels different– more realistic than glamorous, somewhat like a guerrilla documentary, with the handheld camera as a silent, unnamed witness. As the camera follows low-level dealer Frank through the course of a week, Kim Bodnia skillfully garners empathy with the way he holds himself through the pressure, and does the opposite when he does the same wrongs that were done to him. The story itself may be simple, but writer-director Nicolas Winding Refn made his mark through this debut, inadvertently creating a franchise and influencing Danish cinema.

77. The Tiger (2015)

7.2

Country

South Korea

Director

Park Hoon-jung

Actors

Ahn Sang-woo, Choi Min-sik, Han Dong-wook, Jeong Man-sik

Moods

Action-packed, Binge-Worthy, Challenging

For a while, tigers roamed Korea, garnering fear and respect, as the clawed creature resembled the peninsula. However, tigers roam no more due to Japanese occupation in the early 20th century. The Tiger: An Old Hunter’s Tale takes these historical facts to create a thrilling adventure drama– where man versus the titular beast are compelled to meet again due to political pressure, the government bounty, and personal revenge on both parties. The CGI is occasionally spotty, and the relationship between father and son isn’t as developed as the one between hunter and tiger, but the face-off between the opponents and their shared history makes The Tiger a good movie to watch.

78. Pieta (2012)

7.2

Country

South Korea

Director

Kim Ki-duk

Actors

Cho Min-soo, Heo Joon-seok, Jin Yong-uk, Kang Eun-jin

Moods

Challenging, Character-driven, Dark

The subject of the Catholic Pieta– the Virgin Mary cradling the corpse of Jesus– has captivated plenty of artists, most famously in the sculpture by Michelangelo in St. Peter’s Basilica. This time, however, director Kim Ki-duk twists the image into modern day Seoul, with a mourning mother and a loan shark in place of their more innocent inspirations. Though with more dialogue than his other works, Kim delves into this crime thriller with his signature slow burn, crafting an intense, emotional healing for the gruff, violent Lee Kang-do, while his past deeds come to catch up with him, and while he reckons with the way money has replaced all what makes life meaningful. While the (thankfully, pseudo-) incest may be hard to stomach, Pieta is nonetheless a haunting, compelling portrayal of revenge. Just don’t watch this with your mom, though.

79. Zerograd (1988)

7.2

Country

Soviet Union

Director

Karen Shakhnazarov

Actors

Aleksei Zharkov, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Evgeniy Evstigneev, Leonid Filatov

Moods

Challenging, Discussion-sparking, Quirky

When visiting a new town, it’s easy to expect that there will be some differences from the place you’ve come from, but the strange small town of Zerograd is downright bizarre. From naked secretaries to cakes with that look exactly like his face, Zerograd is a boggling trip, with writer-director Karen Shakhnazarov parodying the ways the Soviet Union then clung to their distortions of reality, even as it crumbles, but it also eerily echoes the way governments around the world have manipulated their people’s concept of reality all for the sake of their respective states. Zerograd’s bizarre episodes don’t seem to go anywhere, but that’s sort of expected, especially with the world still having to deal with the loss of truth globally.

80. Hawaii (2013)

7.2

Country

Argentina

Director

Marco Berger

Actors

Antonia De Michelis, Luz Palazón, Manuel Martínez Sobrado, Manuel Vignau

Moods

Raw, Romantic, Slow

People’s first impression of us usually sticks with them, but there are some lucky instances where you meet again, and their impression of you gets updated to the point that you start to care for each other more than you do other people– you both become special to each other. This change is at the center of Hawaii, the 2013 Argentine gay drama. Writer-director Marco Berger crafts a charged, compelling connection because of that change in impression, as their dynamic holds much more at stake than just a summer romance. Through shared, natural moments, Hawaii is content in letting the tension simmer between the two men as they start to reassess the task and their attraction at hand.

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