The biggest gift of the streaming revolution is subtitles. Which is to say, international series (for maximum viewing pleasure, always choose original language and subtitles). Everyone likely already has a favorite or two \u2014 \u201cNarcos,\u201d<\/a> \u201cCall My Agent,\u201d \u201cBorgen,\u201d<\/a> \u201cDark\u201d and, of course, \u201cSquid Game\u201d \u2014 but for those looking to keep up the global connection the World Cup created, here are a few more. <\/p>\n \u00d6zlem Saglanmak as Esra Foldager, Mikkel Boe F\u00f8lsgaard as Mark Hess, Danica Curcic as Naia Thulin and Katinka Laerke Petersen as Sandra Lindstrom in \u201cThe Chestnut Man.\u201d<\/p>\n (Tina Harden \/ Netflix)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n Nordic noir, with \u201cBlair Witch\u201d talismans. An opening scene flashes back to a horrific family murder in which one of two surviving foster children is found in the basement filled with figures constructed from chestnuts. More than 30 years later, a similar token discovered at a grisly murder scene sends Copenhagen police detective Naia Thulin (Danica \u0106ur\u010di\u0107) and her new Interpol partner Mark Hess (Mikkel Boe F\u00f8lsgaard) on a twisting, turning trail of abduction and murder. And, of course, more of the truly creepy chestnut men. <\/p>\n A scene from \u201cThe \u00c5re Murders.\u201d<\/p>\n (Nea Harnebrandt Asphall \/ Netflix)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n Stockholm police detective Hanna Ahlander (Carla Sehn) has fled to the dark and snowy ski town of \u00c5re to escape problems at home and work. But the day she arrives, a girl goes missing and Hanna cannot resist becoming part of the team searching for her. The first season (another is on its way) covers two crimes and many glorious vistas of Sweden\u2019s mountainous beauty. <\/p>\n A scene from \u201cMoney Heist.\u201d<\/p>\n (Tamara Arranz Ramos \/ Netflix)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n Some time between its 2017 release and the COVID-19 lockdowns, the wild-ride chaos of \u201cMoney Heist\u201d became streaming\u2019s hottest international thriller<\/a>. Assembled by the mysterious mastermind known as \u201cThe Professor\u201d (\u00c1lvaro Morte), a misfit group must first rob the Royal Mint and then, in later series, the Bank of Spain. As you might guess, nothing goes as planned but \u2014 as narrated by one of the would-be thieves, Tokyo (\u00darsula Corber\u00f3) \u2014 robberies, like people, are rarely what they seem. <\/p>\n A scene from \u201cSacred Games.\u201d<\/p>\n (Zishaan A. Latif \/ Netflix)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n Sartaj Singh (Saif Ali Khan) is a cop in Mumbai<\/a> (still known as Bombay in the series) whose commitment to honor has kept him from advancing and cost him his marriage. He receives a phone call from Ganesh Gaitonde (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), a notorious gangster believed to be long dead, who tells him, among other things, that Singh has 25 days to save his city. As Singh tries to prevent that from happening, his efforts are transposed with Gaitonde\u2019s story, an epic tale that examines the nature of power amid the city\u2019s religious and economic tensions. <\/p>\n Chicha Amatayakul as Nanno in \u201cGirl From Nowhere.\u201d<\/p>\n (Yupanakorn Boonprem \/ Netflix)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n Though clearly not human, Nanno (Chicha Amatayakul) is just a schoolgirl who wants to have fun. Except her version of fun involves vengeance, sly righteousness and the exposure of humanity\u2019s darker tendencies. In each social-commentary-teetering-on-horror episode, Nanno is a pupil at a different school, picture perfect and scanning the room for whatever secrets \u2014 an abusive teacher, an absurd hierarchical system, petty jealousy \u2014 demand to be revealed. Girl Power on steroids, Nanno prefers cold hard justice to empathy every time. <\/p>\n Omar Sy as Assane Diop in \u201cLupin.\u201d<\/p>\n (Emmanuel Guimier \/ Netflix)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n Assane Diop (Omar Sy<\/a>) is a charming, brilliant,<\/a> chameleon-like professional criminal who styles himself as Maurice Leblanc\u2019s fictional \u201cgentleman thief\u201d Ars\u00e8ne Lupin. He is also on a mission \u2014 to clear his father\u2019s name as the wrongfully convicted thief of a valuable necklace owned by the Pellegrini family. Not since Cary Grant in \u201cTo Catch a Thief\u201d has there been a more charismatic and lovable \u201cvillain,\u201d not to mention some pretty great heists. <\/p>\n Seraphina Maria Schweiger as Ines Reisig in \u201cDear Child.\u201d<\/p>\n (Netflix)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n After a hit-and-run accident, a badly injured woman is found with an unharmed child named Hannah (Naila Schuberth). Hannah says the woman is her mother Lena (Kim Riedle) and that her blood type is AB negative. This triggers the belief that Lena is a woman who went missing 13 years before. At the hospital, Hannah says many other things, which lead staff and police to believe that she, her mother and her brother have been held captive. Overlaying the rescue of the boy and the identification of the abductor is a nuanced and troubling examination of trauma and how it creates its own kind of prison. Also a terrific performance by Schuberth.<\/p>\n Roisin Gallagher as Saoirse Shaw, left, Caoilfhionn Dunne as Dara Friel and Sinead Keenan as Robyn Winters in \u201cHow to Get to Heaven From Belfast.\u201d <\/p>\n (Christopher Barr \/ Netflix)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n This is an English-language series (though the accents may send you to subtitles), but if you\u2019re looking for a dark and truly hilarious mystery-comedy set in the wilds of County Donegal from the creator of \u201cDerry Girls,\u201d look no further. When Saoirse (Roisin Gallagher), Robyn (Sin\u00e9ad Keenan<\/a>) and Dara (Caoilfhionn Dunne) learn that their childhood friend Greta (Natasha O\u2019Keeffe) has died, they travel to a small Donegal town to pay their respects, and find out if she revealed a secret they all shared before she died. <\/p>\n A man and a child out to cut a Christmas tree find a corpse instead. Soon enough, Larvik detective William Wisting (Sven Nordin), his journalist daughter Line (Thea Green Lundberg) and, eventually, FBI special agent Maggie Griffin (Carrie-Anne Moss<\/a>) are tracking an international killer through snow and uncovering secrets from the past and present of this coastal town. <\/p>\n In this folklore fantasy, Lee Yeon (Lee Dong-wook) is a mountain god who traded his throne in exchange for the promise that his true love, Ah-eum, would be reincarnated. As he seeks her in the present day, he is tasked with hunting wicked supernatural creatures for the Afterlife Immigration Office. During one of his hunts, he is noticed by Nam Ji-ah (Jo Bo-ah), a TV producer he once saved after a car accident during which her parents vanished. Though Nam Ji-ah looks like Ah-eum, Lee does not believe it is her but together they try to discover what happened to her parents. A supernatural action thriller fueled by literal fairy-tale romance.<\/p>\n What initially seems to be the story of three super-powered high school students trying to fit in quickly becomes a multigenerational spy thriller. Kim Bong-seok (Lee Jeong-ha), Jang Hui-soo (Go Youn-jung) and Lee Gang-hoon (Kim Sung-kyun) come by their powers genetically and now that they are being hunted by an unknown organization, their parents reactivate their own powers, and violent pasts, to safeguard them. Based on a popular Korean webtoon, \u201cMoving\u201d <\/a>is a bit bloody for the Disney brand but the winsome kids and the family solidarity fits right in. <\/p>\n Aislinn Derbez, left, Ver\u00f3nica Castro and Dar\u00edo Yazbek Bernal in \u201cThe House of Flowers.\u201d<\/p>\n (Javier Avila \/ Netflix)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n This dark, soapy comedy opens with a dramatic suicide and the promise that what led to it will be revealed. The florist business has appeared to make the De la Mora family rich though clearly not happy. And maybe not rich either. As the family gathers for patriarch Ernesto\u2019s (Arturo R\u00edos) birthday, his wife Virginia (Ver\u00f3nica Castro<\/a>) may insist that everything is perfect but anyone who has seen a telenovela and\/or \u201cDallas\u201d knows better. All manner of high-gloss betrayal, secrets and bad choices will be revealed. <\/p>\n Ricardo Dar\u00edn as Juan Salvo in \u201cEl Eternauta.\u201d<\/p>\n (Mariano Landet \/ Netflix )<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n \u201cThe Day After Tomorrow\u201d meets \u201cIndependence Day\u201d in Buenos Aires<\/a>. A group of friends are playing cards at Tano\u2019s (C\u00e9sar Troncoso) house in the middle of summer when the power goes out and a mysterious deadly snow begins to fall. Though it seems they are safe inside, Juan (Ricardo Dar\u00edn<\/a>) rigs up a suit that will allow him to go out and find his family. As the scrappy band of survivors grows and adapts (tip: mechanics and engineers are handy in this kind of crisis), it eventually becomes clear that this is a worldwide phenomenon that is extraterrestrial in nature. Stayed tune for Season 2. <\/p>\n Margherita Mazzucco, left, and Gaia Girace as young Len\u00f9 and Lila in \u201cMy Brilliant Friend.\u201d<\/p>\n (Eduardo Castaldo \/ HBO)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n Based on the beloved novels of Elena Ferrante<\/a>, \u201cMy Brilliant Friend\u201d tells the story of two pals<\/a> growing up in a lower-class neighborhood in post-World War II Naples. Studious Elena, called Len\u00f9, and played by Elisa Del Genio as a child and Margherita Mazzucco as a teen, is in thrall to the charismatic Lila (Ludovica Nasti as a child; Gaia Girace as a teen). But as they mature their lives diverge, in part because Len\u00f9\u2019s parents can afford to keep her in school and Lila\u2019s cannot. Still, the two retain a lifelong bond that, while reflecting the reality of the world around them, all but defines Best Friends Forever.<\/p>\n While messing around in Tokyo, three disaffected buddies \u2014 Ry\u014dhei Arisu (Kento Yamazaki), Shuntaro Chishiya (Nijir\u014d Murakami) and Chota Segawa (Y\u00fbki Morinaga) \u2014 suddenly find the city deserted and themselves forced to play a mysterious life-or-death game in which the type of task and level of difficulty are determined by playing cards. They soon meet up with Yuzuha Usagi (Tao Tsuchiya), a classic heroine, but, as with \u201cSquid Game,\u201d don\u2019t get too attached to any of the players. They might not make it.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.latimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The biggest gift of the streaming revolution is subtitles. Which is to say, international series (for maximum viewing pleasure, always choose original language and subtitles). Everyone likely already has a favorite or two \u2014 \u201cNarcos,\u201d \u201cCall My Agent,\u201d \u201cBorgen,\u201d \u201cDark\u201d and, of course, \u201cSquid Game\u201d \u2014 but for those looking to keep up the global […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2502825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2502824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Best-international-shows-to-stream-in-2026.com2F6d2Fc22F06a6ced449918190d935c717.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2502824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2502826,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502824\/revisions\/2502826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2502825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2502824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2502824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2502824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\u2018The Chestnut Man\u2019 (Danish, Netflix, two seasons)<\/h2>\n
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<\/picture>\n\u2018The \u00c5re Murders\u2019 (Swedish, Netflix, one season)<\/h2>\n
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<\/picture>\n\u2018Money Heist\u2019 (Spanish, Netflix, five parts)<\/h2>\n
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<\/picture>\n\u2018Sacred Games\u2019 (Indian, Netflix, two seasons)<\/h2>\n
![\"A](\"https:\/\/ca-times.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/6e7f920\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/9504x6336+0+0\/resize\/320x213!\/format\/webp\/quality\/75\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalifornia-times-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F1e%2F57%2Fa97c33994010b6e83543ae3eebe6%2Fet-best-international-series-girl-from-nowhere.jpg)
<\/picture>\n\u2018Girl From Nowhere\u2019 (Thai, Netflix, two seasons)<\/h2>\n
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<\/picture>\n\u2018Lupin\u2019 (French, Netflix, three seasons)<\/h2>\n
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<\/picture>\n\u2018Dear Child\u2019 (German, Netflix, one season)<\/h2>\n
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<\/picture>\n\u2018How to Get to Heaven From Belfast\u2019 (Irish, Netflix, one season)<\/h2>\n
\u2018Wisting\u2019 (Norwegian, five seasons, AMC+ [all seasons] and Acorn [seasons 1, 4 and 5])<\/h2>\n
\u2018Tale of the Nine Tailed\u2019 (South Korean, Netflix, two seasons)<\/h2>\n
\u2018Moving\u2019 (South Korean, Disney+\/Hulu, one season)<\/h2>\n
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<\/picture>\n\u2018The House of Flowers\u2019 (Mexican, Netflix, three seasons)<\/h2>\n
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<\/picture>\n\u2018El Eternauta\u2019 (Argentine, Netflix, one season)<\/h2>\n
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<\/picture>\n\u2018My Brilliant Friend\u2019 (Italian, HBO Max, four seasons)<\/h2>\n
\u2018Alice in Borderland\u2019 (Japanese, Netflix, three seasons)<\/h2>\n