The Best Netflix Original Foreign Language Shows
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Here are the best Netflix original foreign language shows currently streaming right now. Featuring Spanish language Netflix originals, Korean, Portuguese, Japanese, French and Hindi series, and more this list of Netflix foreign language originals and co-productions is updated with new and popular shows. What is the best Netflix original foreign language series?
The latest and newest Netflix original foreign language shows feature series in every genre, from the post-apocalyptic Turkish show The Rain and the supernatural Turkish series The Protector to the Spanish-language period drama Cable Girls. Must-watch Netflix foreign language co-productions also includes the German thriller Perfume and the Japanese food drama Samurai Gourmet.
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Premiered: 2017
Genres (Tv): Sci-fi, Thriller
Language: German
Dark (Netflix, 2017) is a German science fiction thriller web television series created by Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese. The disappearance of two young children in the German town of Winden ...more
Premiered: 2019
Genres (Tv): Crime, Thriller
Language: Hindi
Sacred Games (Netflix, 2018) is an Indian web television thriller series based on the 2006 novel by Vikram Chandra. Sartaj Singh (Saif Ali Khan) is a troubled police officer in Mumbai who ...more
Premiered: 2019
Genres (Tv): Historical, Fantasy, Thriller, Horror
Language: Korean
Kingdom (Netflix, 2019) is a South Korean historical horror television series based on the webcomic series "Land of the Gods" by Kim Eun-hee. In Korea’s medieval Joseon period, a crown ...more
Premiered: 2018
Genres (Tv): Thriller, Teen drama
Language: Spanish
Elite (Netflix, 2018) is a Spanish thriller teen drama web television series created by Carlos Montero and Darío Madrona. When three working-class teenagers begin attending an exclusive ...more
Genres (Tv): Drama-Thriller, Science fiction
Language: Portuguese
3% (Netflix, 2016) is a Brazilian dystopian thriller series created by Pedro Aguilera. The show is set in a future wherein people are given a chance to go to the "better side" of a ...more
Premiered: 2018
Genres (Tv): Sci-fi, Thriller
Language: Danish
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The Rain (Netflix, 2018) is a Danish web series created by Mosholt Esben, Toft Jacobsen, and Christian Potalivo. After a brutal virus wipes out most of the population, two young siblings embark ...more
Premiered: 2019
Genres (Tv): Biopic, Drama
Language: Japanese
Premiered: 2019
Genres (Tv): Drama, Crime, Crime Drama
Language: Hindi
Delhi Crime (Netflix, 2019) is an Indian anthology television drama. Based on the true story of the Nirbhaya case, the show follows the Delhi Police investigation into the finding of the men who ...more
Premiered: 2019
Genres (Tv): Comedy, Crime, Drama, Dark comedy
Language: German
How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast) (Netflix, 2019) is a German coming-of-age comedy-drama web television series co-created by Philipp Käßbohrer and Matthias Murmann. Inspired by a true ...more
Premiered: 2018
Genres (Tv): Action, Fantasy, Sci-fi
Language: Turkish
The Protector (Netflix, 2018) is a Turkish drama fantasy series. Given mystical powers by a talismanic keepsake, a young man embarks on a quest to fight shadowy forces and solve a mystery from ...more
Premiered: 2019
Genres (Tv): Crime drama, drama
Language: Swedish
Quicksand (Netflix, 2019), in Swedish "Störst av allt", is a Swedish crime drama based on the eponymous book, Quicksand (Störst av allt) by Malin Persson Giolito. After a ...more
Language: Italian
Suburra: Blood on Rome (Netflix, 2017) is an Italian crime drama web television series developed by Daniele Cesarano and Barbara Petronio. In 2008, a fight over land in a seaside town near Rome ...more
Premiered: 2019
Genres (Tv): Drama, Crime drama
Language: Dutch
Undercover (VRT, Netflix, 2019) is a Belgian television crime drama. A major ecstasy producer, Ferry Bouman (Frank Lammers), living in luxury on the Dutch-Belgian border faces big changes when ...more
Premiered: 2019
Language: French
Marianne (Netflix, 2019) is a French drama horror television series. Lured back to her hometown, a famous horror writer (Victoire Du Bois) discovers that the evil spirit who plagues her dreams is now wreaking havoc in the real world.
Premiered: 2019
Genres (Tv): Fantasy, Drama
Language: Spanish
Siempre Bruja (Netflix, 2019), also called "Always A Witch," is a Colombian fantasy drama television series created by Ana María Parra based on the novel "Yo, Bruja" ...more
Genres (Tv): Drama
Language: Japanese
Atelier (Netflix, 2015) is a Japanese web television drama series. A new employee struggles to find her place at a high-class lingerie design house.
Premiered: 2019
Genres (Tv): True crime, Anthology, Crime, Drama
Language: Spanish
Crime Diaries (Netflix, 2019), originally named "Historia de un crimen," is a Mexican true crime scripted anthology television series. Each season focuses on notorious and ...more
Premiered: 2018
Language: German
Genres (Tv): Comedy, Drama
Language: Spanish
Club of Crows (Netflix, 2015) is a Mexican comedy-drama TV series directed by Gary Alazraki. After the death of its owner, Mexican football club Cuervos F deals with a power struggle between the ...more
Premiered: 2012
Genres (Tv): Police procedural, Drama, Comedy-drama, Comedy
Language: Norwegian, English
Lilyhammer is a Norwegian television series, starring Steven Van Zandt, about a fictional New York gangster, Frank "The Fixer" Tagliano, trying to start a new life in isolated ...more
Genres (Tv): Drama, Mystery, Fantasy
Language: Japanese
Erased (Netflix, 2017) is a Japanese drama series based on the manga by Kei Sanbe. After finding his mom killed, Satoru's time-traveling ability takes him back 18 years for a chance to prevent ...more
Premiered: 2018
Genres (Tv): Drama, Telenovela, Comedy
Language: Spanish
The House of Flowers (Netflix, 2018), in Spanish "La Casa de las Flores," is a Mexican comedy-drama television series created by Manolo Caro. The show depicts a dysfunctional ...more
Premiered: 2019
Genres (Tv): Romantic comedy, Thriller
Language: Korean
When the Camellia Blooms (KBS2, 2019) is a South Korean romantic comedy-thriller television series. Dong Baek, owner of a bar named Camellia, encounters three men who will change her life
Premiered: 2019
Language: Russian
Better Than Us (2018), also known as "Luchshe, chem lyudi," is a Russian dramatic sci-fi television series. Set in 2029, robots have become an ordinary part of human life - for most people, "Bots" are just soulless machines that perform routine work, but they also become capable of emotions, but others reject life with the bots, and will use violence if necessary.
Genres (Tv): Political drama, Crime
Language: Portuguese
The Mechanism (Netflix, 2018) is a Brazilian political drama television series created by José Padilha and Elena Soarez. A small group of dogged investigators are on the hunt to discover ...more