| extr@ (2002) | 7.2 | |
| Ladies in Lavender (2004) | 7.0 | |
| Intergirl (1989) | 7.0 | |
| Night and Day (2008) | 7.1 | |
| Enter the Dragon (1973) | 7.6 |
Foreigner movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant foreigner movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, captivating, touching, suspenseful and melancholic films and TV shows about / with foreigner, friendship, culture clash, family relations, society, male female relationship, betrayal, death, father son relationship and husband wife relationship plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, Japan, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as foreigner: Intergirl (1989), Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974), The Runway (2010), Hostel (2005), Speechless (2012), Adaptation (2017), Pinoy Sunday (2009), Ladies in Lavender (2004), Blue Blue Sky (2010), Eye Love You (2024).
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union, Sweden
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
A hospital nurse becomes an "international girl", a prostitute who caters to foreigners with hard currency.
Style:
realistic, cynical, serious, touching, tragic ending ...
Plot:
prostitute, materialism, loveless marriage, perestroika, couples, society, culture clash, sexual attraction, sex, marriage for money, foreigner, money ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
europe, ussr, russia, soviet union
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: West Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar frequented by Arab immigrants and strikes up a friendship with middle-aged mechanic ...
Style:
art house, political, atmospheric, stylized, emotional ...
Plot:
racism, culture clash, female nudity, relationships, older woman younger man relationship, loneliness, working class, old woman, impossible love, forbidden love, male nudity, friendship ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1974
Place:
west germany, munich germany, germany, europe, central europe ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Ireland, Luxembourg, Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The Runway is inspired by the true story of a South American pilot who landed his plane near Mallow, in 1983. Against all odds, the people of the town came together to build a runway to get him home and briefly caught the imagination of the nation. ...
Style:
emotional, touching, semi serious, feel good, realistic ...
Plot:
hopes, social relations, village life, village, getting home, foreigner, friendship, airplane, travel, biopic, youth, single mother ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, europe
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Three backpackers head to a Slovakian city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.
Style:
slasher, scary, brutal, bloody, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
torture, gory, psychopath, survival, danger, captivity, sadistic horror, revenge, blood, tourist, torment, dismemberment ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
amsterdam, slovakia, europe, iceland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A guy is found by the police swimming naked. He can't, or refuses to, speak and is sent to a hospital. Since no diagnosis can be made, he will be transferred to a mental hospital, when his male nurse decides to take another route. Slowly the ...
Style:
homoerotic, suspenseful, realistic, serious, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
gay, homoeroticism, lgbt, small town, male pubic hair, foreigner, mental institution, gays and lesbians, small town life, male nudity, erotica, lgbtq ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong, china
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
The series is about how an American spy infiltrated the largest gas producing company in Russia.
Style:
feel good, humorous, light, entertaining, suspenseful ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
culture clash, foreigner, secret agent, heroes, adaptation, society, transformation, escapades, relationships, cultural difference, mission, espionage ...
Place:
russia, siberia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Taiwan, Philippines
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The discovery of a discarded sofa, in Taipei city, transforms a routine Sunday into a capricious adventure of perseverance and self-discovery for Filipino guest workers Manuel and Dado.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, surreal ...
Plot:
friendship, destiny, self discovery, against the odds, obsessive quest, on the road, working class, ambition, escapades, hopes, foreigner, factory ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
taiwan, taipei
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Andrea, a gifted young Polish violinist from Krakow, is bound for America when he is swept overboard by a storm. When the Widdington sisters discover the handsome stranger on the beach below their house, they nurse him back to health. However, the ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, witty, emotional, period piece ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
friendship, violinist, polish, village life, sister sister relationship, sisters, human nature, musician, aging, foreigner, suspicion, bittersweet ...
Time:
1930s, year 2004, 2000s, 20th century
Place:
england, cornwall, europe, london, new jersey ...
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Shinko (Karin Aiba) is a high school student from Hamamatsu. Due to university admission pressures, she struggles with her mother. She hasn't really made conversation with her mom in a year. Shinko's friend Misato (Mayuu Kusakari) then ...
Style:
feel good, light, entertaining, sincere, captivating
Audience:
family outing, girls' night, teens
Plot:
skirt, school, high school, japanese teenager, teenage girl, japanese culture, mother daughter relationship, teacher, school teacher, girl, japanese woman, mother ...
Place:
japan, mount fuji
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Sparks begin to fly when a telepathic woman who'd given up on love meets a kindhearted Korean student who thinks in a language she can't understand.
Style:
captivating, psychological, romantic drama, thrilling, romantic ...
Plot:
foreigner, workplace romance, love and romance, love affair, love interest, relationships, love story, love, couple relations, romantic relationship, male female relationship, mind reading ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Based on a true story. A Japanese girl and an American guy, fall in love in Japan. Their relationship will not be easy to manage, with their different cultures and their different langages.
Style:
satirical, psychological, captivating, intercultural, entertaining ...
Plot:
foreigner, couples, male female relationship, cross cultural relations, relationship problems, writers, living together, couple relations, writer's life, lifestyle, romantic relationship, relationships ...
Place:
tokyo
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story:
Our House is a British Entertainment television programme. Broadcast on UKTV Style, it is a show which more thoroughly follows the DIY show fad of the late 1990s.
The object of the show is to take a dilapidated house and completely do it up into a ...
Style:
psychological, semi serious, captivating, satirical, heartfelt ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
single father, family relations, foreigner, blended family, family drama, family problems, father daughter relationship, relationship problems, male female relationship, relationships, problem, single parent ...
Place:
tokyo
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Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jerónimo is an antisocial person who rents rooms to foreign people, and then registers their belongings. Sanna, a beautiful and funny Nordic girl arrives at Jerónimo's house, bringing a breath of fresh air to his life. He becomes obsessed ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
under the surface, obsession, foreigner, wooing, stalking, dancing, mural, hiding, cooking, laptop, photograph, gift ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, chile, santiago chile
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
On a one-day business trip to New York, a young German business executive falls in love with a singer-songwriter who exposes him to her Brooklyn world and emotions he's never experienced before.
Style:
sentimental, melancholic, humorous, disturbing, light ...
Plot:
white male black female relationship, forbidden love, singer, interracial couple, interracial relations, love, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, foreigner, love at first sight, businessman, father daughter relationship, faith ...
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Kim Seong-nam travels to Paris to escape an arrest, leaving his wife behind in Korea. After he arrives, he meets an ex-girlfriend and is introduced to a small community of Korean artists.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, touching
Plot:
lovers reunited, starting over, fish out of water, interracial relations, culture clash, social relations, unfulfillment, foreigner, expatriate, painting, wife, escape ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, seoul, north korea, south korea
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Genre: Documentary, Animation, Biography, Drama
Country: Romania, Poland
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
An animated feature-length documentary telling the story of the life of Crulic, a 33 year-old Romanian accused of having stolen a wallet from an important Polish judge. Crulic was brought to the Krakow Detention Center Custody prison. He decided to ...
Style:
thought provoking, stylized, disturbing, serious, adult animation ...
Plot:
prison, injustice, false accusation, prison life, life is a bitch, false arrest, foreigner, starvation, biopic, protest, hunger, innocence ...
Place:
poland
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Italian gambler who is well-skilled in the card trade owes people in authority, and leaves his country to win the money. Arriving in a small Russian town, he tries to show off his tricks to the local card swindlers but is caught and ends up agreeing ...
Style:
cynical, semi serious, humorous, suspense, tension ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
deception, con artists, betrayal, confidence artist, foreigner, gambling, card playing, trick, trap, partner, dishonesty, buddies ...
Time:
2000s
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The Visa papers have arrived for stock broker, Salim Rajabali, and he is scheduled to leave in less than a week. Then everything goes wrong when he and his brother, Javed, inadvertently implicate themselves in the murder of Deputy Commissioner of ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Plot:
family relations, down on your luck, hopes, human nature, love and romance, couples, destiny, coincidence, flying, multiple storylines, poverty, panic ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, india
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Korean international student A-Joong (Kim Kkobbi) takes part in a camp at a country village, located in the suburbs of Los Angeles. A-Joong isn't happy with the Japanese international students who seem to be addicted to alcohol, drugs or sex. ...
Style:
suspense, slasher, suspenseful, thrilling, scary ...
Plot:
student, teenage life, twists and turns, plot twist, american horror, theft, college student, blood, characters killed one by one, murder, small town, heroine ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Pathemari features the life of Pallikkal Narayanan who migrated to the Middle-East in the early 1980s, when the Kerala Gulf boom was at its peak.
Style:
period piece, emotional, captivating, dramatic, serious ...
Plot:
immigration, hardship, immigrant, migration, homesickness, coping, family history, indian history, foreigner, happiness, country, nostalgia ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 60s
Place:
dubai
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Max is an artist seduced by the allure of fame. Sara is an art critic whose obsessions exceed even his. When she lands a writing gig at a major art magazine, the pair retreats to a cabin in the woods, where Max reveals his strange new painting ...
Style:
intellectual, sincere, suspense, offbeat, epic ...
Plot:
art, romantic relationship, artists' life, painter, architecture, secret past, biopic, prodigy, foreigner, schizophrenia, love, iron curtain ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Portugal, Russia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Marta and Manu are two Brazilian actresses that decide to move to Moscow to study the Stanislavski method. There, wrapped around a complex love triangle, they must overcome their differences to survive in a different country.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot:
love triangle, brazilian abroad, relationship problems, romantic triangle, female protagonist, society, girlfriend, foreigner, life is a bitch, romantic relationship, immigrant, girlfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
russia, moscow russia
Is relevant?
600
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
extr@ is a language education television series scripted in the format of a Friends-esque sitcom which was in production from 2002 to 2004, and is mainly marketed to the instructional television market for middle school and high school language ...
Style:
sitcom, captivating, feel good, funny, semi serious ...
Plot:
language learning, girl next door, roommate, training, neighbor, flatmate, culture clash, relationships, foreigner, cross cultural relations, language barrier, satire ...
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Genre: Action
Country: China
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Ip Man’s promising career as a Policeman is ruined after he is framed for murder and targeted by a mob boss’s daughter.
Style:
inspirational, tense, serious, stylized, brutal ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
tai chi, wing chun, martial artist, martial arts, medieval, kung fu, fight, escape, battles, master warrior, sadist, loss of friend ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
hong kong, japan, china, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Polina is a young dancer from a modest family. After years of ballet academy, she is accepted by the Bolshoi; still, she decides to try and audition of a modern dance company in France. She makes it, but her journey will not end there...
Style:
sincere, captivating, touching, romantic, disturbing ...
Plot:
ballerina, ballet, dancing, modern dance, emigrant, teacher, hunting, father daughter relationship, loss of father, homeless, wounded, homeless woman ...
Time:
90s, 21st century
Place:
russia, france, paris france
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A French special op suffers an existential crisis as he wanders New York City in search of a mission and the requisite connections.
Style:
atmospheric, ambiguous ending, enigmatic, noir, melancholic ...
Plot:
spy, alienation, secret agent, existential crisis, foreigner, identity, moral ambiguity, drifter, isolation, slow burn, loneliness, paranoia ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new york
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the ...
Style:
epic, breathtaking, exciting, captivating, period piece ...
Audience:
manly, girls' night, adult
Plot:
samurai, sword fight, battles, war, courage, japanese history, warrior, pride and honor, self discovery, human spirit, honor, loyalty ...
Time:
19th century, middle ages, victorian era, year 2003, 1800s ...
Place:
japan, asia, africa, san francisco, pacific ocean ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In order to avoid a jail sentence, Sean Boswell heads to Tokyo to live with his military father. In a low-rent section of the city, Shaun gets caught up in the underground world of drift racing
Style:
exciting, action packed, serious, suspense, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, manly, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
car, car chase, street racing, car race, high school, foreigner in japan, race, racing, auto racing, yakuza, vigilante, car racing ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Is relevant?
133K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 216 min.
Story:
Fleeing from post-war Europe in 1947, a visionary architect and his wife settle in Pennsylvania where a wealthy and mysterious client changes their lives forever.
Style:
epic, bleak, saga, crying, serious ...
Plot:
architect, architecture, immigrant, holocaust survivor, library, sex scene, strong sexual content, male rape, oral sex, husband wife relationship, female nudity, hand job ...
Time:
1950s, 1940s, post world war two, 20th century, year 1953 ...
Place:
philadelphia, venice, pennsylvania, italy, israel ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Brazil
Duration: 189 min.
Story:
Martin and Hazel Quarrier are small-town fundamentalist missionaries sent to the jungles of South America to convert the Indians. Their remote mission was previously run by the Catholics, before the natives murdered them all. They are sent by the ...
Style:
thought provoking, captivating, touching, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
missionary, jungle, religion, nudity, culture clash, civilization, greed, christianity, male nudity, malaria, genocide, adventurer ...
Time:
year 1991, 60s, 90s
Place:
brazil, latin america, argentina, south america, india
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