Foreign Thrillers on Netflix
Last updated September 22, 2023
Dragon Tattoo Trilogy: Extended Edition
2010 | NR | 4.3 out of 5 StarsBased on Stieg Larsson's best-selling novels, this gripping trilogy follows computer hacker Lisbeth Salander, starting with her investigation into a 40-year-old cold case and ending with a court case involving murder and government conspiracy.
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Dragon Tattoo Trilogy: Extended Edition
2010 | NR | 4.3 out of 5 StarsBased on Stieg Larsson's best-selling novels, this gripping trilogy follows computer hacker Lisbeth Salander, starting with her investigation into a 40-year-old cold case and ending with a court case involving murder and government conspiracy.
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The Man from Nowhere
2010 | NR | 4.2 out of 5 StarsTae-Sik is a widower with a mysterious past. When a young girl he befriends is kidnapped by a vicious drug gang, Tae-Sik rushes to save her. Hell-bent on justice after being framed by the nasty criminals, he takes the law into his own hands.
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Kahaani
2012 | NR | 4.1 out of 5 StarsPregnant and alone in the city of Kolkata, a woman begins a relentless search for her missing husband, only to find that nothing is what it seems. All clues seem to reach a dead end when everyone tries to convince her that her husband does not exist.
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I Saw the Devil
2011 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsSecret agent Kim Soo-hyeon learns how far he'll go for revenge after his fiancée is brutally slain by a serial killer. With police baffled, Soo-hyeon decides to catch the murderer, but his growing violence makes him wonder who the monster really is.
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
2009 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsThe third in the original trio of films inspired by author Stieg Larsson's "Millennium Trilogy," this thriller follows feisty computer hacker Lisbeth Salander as she finds herself hospitalized, suspected of murder and targeted for death by thugs.
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New World
2013 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsAfter the head of Korea's largest crime syndicate dies, undercover cop Ja-seong, who is exhausted and conflicted by his lengthy assignment, is ordered by his potentially corrupt boss to help the number two man in the organization become its leader.
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The Wave
2008 | NR | 4.0 out of 5 StarsTo give his students a real-world example of how dictatorships can grow powerful, a high school teacher starts a social experiment that gives some of his students a strong advantage while leaving others subservient and powerless.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2009 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsA journalist and a rebellious computer hacker team up to investigate the unsolved disappearance of wealthy Henrik Vanger's niece, only to uncover dark secrets about Vanger's powerful family in this adaptation of the bestseller by Stieg Larsson.
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Battle Royale
2000 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsWhen even schoolchildren begin to abuse a system on the verge of social collapse, the Japanese government introduces a strict new punishment whereby randomly chosen students are taken to a deserted island and forced to fight each other to the death.
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Talaash
2012 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsSet in the jumbled landscape of Mumbai, this mystery drama centers on a police inspector who's trying to cope with the collapse of his marriage. When he meets a prostitute while investigating a recent death, events conspire to further entangle them.
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The Girl Who Played with Fire
2009 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsHacker Lisbeth Salander becomes the prime suspect when two journalists die after magazine publisher Mikael Blomkvist launches an expose of the Swedish sex trade, so the vampiric Salander vanishes as Blomkvist digs deep into a possible conspiracy.
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Oldboy
2003 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsWith no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years -- and no one to hold accountable for his suffering -- a desperate businessman seeks revenge on his captors, relying on assistance from a friendly waitress.
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Legend of the Fist: Return of Chen Zhen
2010 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsPlaying the hero first portrayed by Bruce Lee in Fist of Fury, Donnie Yen reprises his role as legendary fighter Chen Zhen in this breakneck kung fu thriller set in Shanghai during its occupation by the Japanese in World War II.
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Dragon
2011 | NR | 3.9 out of 5 StarsIn this intriguing combination of historical mystery and martial-arts actioner, Liu Jin-xi, a seemingly humble paper maker, is hounded by a persistent detective after events reveal he might possibly be a killer with a complex, blood-soaked past.
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Elite Squad: The Enemy Within
2010 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsTenente-Coronel Nascimento, a hardened vet of Rio de Janeiro's drug wars, is now head of a special police unit. With his new title comes new responsibilities and dangers, which the captain navigates with brashness and resolve.
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The Chaser
2008 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsWhen his escorts start disappearing without settling their debts, a cash-strapped pimp -- and former police detective -- draws upon the skills of his old job to track down one of his recently missing prostitutes.
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Mesrine: Part 1: Killer Instinct
2008 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsThis blistering biopic stars Vincent Cassel as notorious French gangster Jacques Mesrine. The first in a duology, the film details the genesis of Mesrine's career, including an incident in the army that gave him his first taste of violent power.
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The Hidden Face
2011 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsWhen his girlfriend, Bethlehem, vanishes, the handsome director of the Bogota Philharmonic Orchestra despairs -- then gradually moves on. But even as he finds comfort in a new relationship, questions about Bethlehem's disappearance linger.
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A Company Man
2012 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsWhen his new trainee gets killed on the job, an ambitious corporate assassin feels an obligation to care for the kid's family -- but taking his eye off the ball is not how a guy gets promoted and starting a new life may prove harder than expected.
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Mesrine: Part 2: Public Enemy #1
2008 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsJacques Mesrine finds his star rising throughout the 1970s as both a gangster and a publicity-hungry celebrity. But while his criminal plans are as grandiose as ever, the Paris police are redoubling their efforts with a special anti-Mesrine unit.
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Headhunters
2011 | NR | 3.8 out of 5 StarsLiving way beyond his means, corporate recruiter Roger Brown steals rare artwork to maintain his lavish lifestyle. But when he plans to boost an especially valuable painting, he targets a man who has headhunting skills of a different variety.
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The Baader Meinhof Complex
2008 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsA radical terrorist group known as the Red Army Faction uses extreme violence to combat what they perceive as a new fascist threat in 1970s Germany. The group's savagery belies its revolutionary postwar intentions in this fast-paced fact-based drama.
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Lady Vengeance
2005 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsThe final installment of director Chan Wook Park's revenge trilogy chronicles the efforts of Lee Geum-ja to track down the man who betrayed her. Taking the rap for her accomplice and incarcerated for 13 long years, she plots an elaborate retribution.
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The Secret Reunion
2010 | NR | 3.7 out of 5 StarsYears after he got fired for botching the arrest of a North Korean hit man and his protégé, Song (Dong-won Kang), former South Korean agent Lee (Kang-ho Song) hires Song, now exiled from the North, for freelance detective work. But both men are playing an angle -- Song wants to get back home, and Lee wants another shot at nabbing Song's old boss, the ruthless assassin Shadow (Gook-hwan Jeon). Hun Jang directs this tense thriller.
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