The Best Netflix Original Foreign Language Shows
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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- 1Yoo Ah-in, Kim Hyun-joo, Jeong Min Park
- Premiered: 2021
- Genres: Crime, Fantasy, Drama
Language: Korean
Hellbound (Netflix, 2021) is a South Korean crime fantasy drama created by Yeon Sang-ho and Choi Gyu-seok based on a comic of the same name. Set in a fictional Earth where supernatural beings drag ...more - 2Mert Yazicioglu, Kaan Urgancioglu, Kubilay Aka
- Premiered: April 24, 2020
- Genres: Comedy,Drama,Romance
Language: Turkish
A group of teenage outcasts band together and attempt to help their beloved teacher find love. - 3David Tennant, Clare-Hope Ashitey and Youssef Kerkour, Nathalie Baye
- Premiered: 2019
- Genres: Crime, Anthology, Police procedural
Language: French, German, Spanish
Criminal: UK, Criminal: France, Criminal: Germany, and Criminal: Spain (Netflix, 2019) are parts of a police procedural anthology series created by Kay Smith and Jim Field Smith. The series takes ...more - 4Oliver Masucci, Karoline Eichhorn, Jördis Triebel
- Premiered: December 1, 2017
- Genres: Crime,Drama,Mystery
Language: German
The disappearance of two young children exposes the fractured relationships among four families. - 5Jeff Wilbusch, Amit Rahav, Maria Schrader
- Premiered: March 26, 2020
- Genres: Drama
Language: German, Yiddish
Unorthodox (Netflix, 2020) is a German drama television series created by Anna Winger and directed by Maria Schrader based on the novel of the same name by Deborah Feldman. It follows the story of a ...more - 6Çagatay Ulusoy, Hazar Ergüclü, Okan Yalabik
- Premiered: December 14, 2018
- Genres: Drama,Mystery,Thriller
Language: Turkish
Given mystical powers, a young man embarks on a quest to solve a mystery from his past. - 7
Drug Squad: Costa del Sol
Language: Spanish
Drug Squad: Costa del Sol (Netflix, 2019) is a Spanish police procedural television series. Four cops with very different personality unite to create a skilled narcotics squad in the Spain of late 70s.
8Mortel
Language: French
Mortel (Netflix, 2019) is a French supernatural drama television series.
- 9Edvin Ryding, Pernilla August, Omar Rudberg
- Premiered: July 1, 2021
- Genres: Drama,Romance
Language: Swedish
Prince Wilhelm adjusts to life at his prestigious new boarding school. - 10Dov Glickman, Michael Aloni, Neta Riskin
- Premiered: June 29, 2013
- Genres: Drama
Language: Hebrew, Yiddish
Life in an orthodox family in Israel. - 11Antonio Le Fosse, Giacomo Mazzariol, Marco Raspanti
- Premiered: 2018
- Genres: Drama
Language: Italian
Baby (Netflix, 2018) is an Italian drama television series created by Antonio Le Fosse, Giacomo Mazzariol, and Marco Raspanti. By day, Chiara is a promising student at one of Rome's most elite ...more - 12Alba Gaïa Kraghede Bellugi, Jan Bijvoet, Laurent Capelluto
- Premiered: May 1, 2020
- Genres: Drama,Science Fiction,Thriller
Language: French
A plane full of passengers must travel at night to avoid the sun's destructive power. - 13Bae Doona, Ju Ji-hoon, Ryu Seung-ryong
- Premiered: January 25, 2019
- Genres: Action,Horror
Language: Korean
The deceased king rises and a mysterious plague begins to spread; the prince faces new enemies. - 14Gong Hyo-jin, Kang Ha-neul, Kim Ji-seok
- Premiered: 2019
- Genres: 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 forever. - 15Hanna Ardéhn, Felix Sandman, Maria Sundbom
- Premiered: April 5, 2019
- Genres: Drama
Language: Swedish
After a tragedy at a Stockholm school, high school student Maja finds herself on trial for murder. - 16Takayuki Yamada, Shinnosuke Mitsushima, Tetsuji Tamayama
- Premiered: August 8, 2019
- Genres: Drama,Documentary
Language: Japanese
In 1980s Japan, one determined man turns every crushing setback into opportunity. - 17
The Gift
Language: Turkish
The Gift (Netflix, 2019) is a Turkish supernatural drama television series. A painter in Istanbul embarks on a personal journey as she unearths universal secrets about an Anatolian archaeological site and its link to her past.
- 18Luis Gerardo Méndez, Mariana Treviño, Stephanie Cayo
- Genres: 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 - 19Arón Piper, Miguel Bernardeau, Ester Expósito
- Premiered: October 5, 2018
- Genres: Crime,Drama
Language: Spanish
The clash between working-class teens and wealthy students at a private school leads to murder. - 20
Skylines
Peri Baumeister, Sahin Eryilmaz, Edin Hasanovic- Premiered: 2019
Language: German
Skylines (Netflix, 2019) is a German television drama. The story follows Jinn (Hasanovic), a hip-hop producer in Frankfurt, Germany, where he signs with the record label Skyline Records and finds out that it is really a place where music and organized crime meet.
- 21Luna Wedler, Susanne Jokiel
- Premiered: 2020
- Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Language: German
Biohackers (Netflix, 2020) is a German drama sci-fi thriller television series created by Christian Ditter. Mia, a medical student, discovers highly advanced biohacking technology in her university ...more - 22Tom Dingler, Joséphine Draï, Zita Hanrot
- Premiered: December 7, 2018
- Genres: Comedy
Language: French
The Hook Up Plan (Netflix, 2018) is a French romantic comedy series created by Chris Lang, Noemie Saglio, and Julien Teisseire. Elsa (Zita Hanrot) gets hung up on an ex and her best friends secretly ...more - 23
Better Than Us
Paulina Andreeva, Kirill Käro, Aleksandr Ustyugov- 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.
- 24Tom Waes, Anna Drijver, Frank Lammers
- Premiered: February 24, 2019
- Genres: 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 two ...more - 25
Marianne
Victoire Du Bois, Lucie Boujenah, Tiphaine Daviot- 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.
