PCMag editors select and review products independently. If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn commissions, which help support our testing. If you've traveled beyond the US offerings on Netflix , you know that the streaming service offers many foreign-language shows that surpass their American counterparts.
Plus, they tend to have shorter seasons, so you can go through a series in just a few days. They're also more popular than ever. Netflix is now putting more than half of its content spending into shows produced outside of North America. It's paying off since an Ampere study found a sharp uptick in how many Netflix subscribers ages in English-speaking countries Australia, Canada, the UK, and the US watch non-English-language content. There are dozens of series from around the globe on Netflix, and even more reasons to recommend them.
They offer different perspectives on cultures you might not have the chance to experience and help you brush up on languages you may have left behind in school. These shows and movies can also serve as travelogues. Before you make your way through these shows, let me say that subtitles are not your enemy. Even if you don't need visual assistance, I beg you to watch foreign shows with subtitles and not dubbing.
There's so much to be conveyed in an actor's voice, and you can lose the feeling of a scene, an episode, or an entire series if you turn on English dubbing. Some of the trailers below are dubbed because those were the only ones available. It seems she has to solve the mystery of how a boy her parents knew in their younger days died, plus the more common problems of her present-day life.
Everybody loves puppets. Well, not this particular puppet, perhaps. Abla Fahita started as a sharp-tongued way to criticize the Egyptian government in a literally softer package. Now she has a series where her concerns are more personal. Falsely accused of murder, Abla Fahita must clear her name and is ruthless as she does so.
