ISO Foreign Travel via Cinema

[WillJ]

Real travel's out this year, so I'm trying to travel by cinema. Any suggestions of streaming movies about off-the-wall places (e.g., not France, Germany or Canada)? Here's what I've got recently:

1. Honeyland (North Macedonia)
2. My Happy Family (Georgia)
3. Men in the Arena (Somalia)
4. The Battle of Algiers (Algeria)
5. Eternity (Peru)
6. The Motorcycle Diaries (Argentina, Chile, Peru)
7. Dark Waters (Egypt)
8. The Wedding Party (Nigeria)

These were all interesting, though Eternity (90 minutes in a stone hut in the Andes without subtitles) might not be to everyone's taste.

[CameronBornAndBred]

Real travel's out this year, so I'm trying to travel by cinema. Any suggestions of streaming movies about off-the-wall places (e.g., not France, Germany or Canada)? Here's what I've got recently:

1. Honeyland (North Macedonia)
2. My Happy Family (Georgia)
3. Men in the Arena (Somalia)
4. The Battle of Algiers (Algeria)
5. Eternity (Peru)
6. The Motorcycle Diaries (Argentina, Chile, Peru)
7. Dark Waters (Egypt)
8. The Wedding Party (Nigeria)

These were all interesting, though Eternity (90 minutes in a stone hut in the Andes without subtitles) might not be to everyone's taste.

One of my favorite movies is Baraka. It's hard to describe exactly what it is; it is an anthology of amazing imagery highlighting scenery and cultures from all over the globe. There is no dialogue, no plot. It's like watching a National Geographic pictorial in motion.

Here's the trailer

(Recommend you turn sound on)

and you can actually stream the whole thing here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LETtcYGc__4

[luburch]

In Bruges. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780536/

[BlueTeuf]

Slumdog Millionaire (Mumbai, India)

[Deslok]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/katheri.../#19db4fa633a4
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/...ound-the-world

just a couple articles about the same idea, with some suggestions(of course, with a 6 and a 2 year old, most of what I see are animated...)

[rsvman]

A Passage to India.

[-jk]

In Bruges. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0780536/

This. And they have nooks and crannies!

-jk

[WillJ]

Thanks for all the tips. I've got places to go now.

[jimmymax]

Breaker Morant
Gallipoli
1917
Picnic at Hanging Rock
Touching the Void
A Room with a View
A Passage to India
Diva
Strange Brew
The Quiet American
The African Queen
Apocalypse Now
The Killing Fields
Argo
Train to Busan
Bourne series?
Braveheart
Gladiator
Snatch
Withnail and I
The Guard
The Commitments
Trainspotting
Run Lola Run
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
La Dolce Vita
Roman Holiday
Babette's Feast
Il Postino

[cspan37421]

Hinterland (Wales)

(not a movie, but it's a 3-season, 13 episode series. Each episode is 90-95 minutes, so movie-like)

Copenhagen - (eponymous, and is a movie!)

Long Way Round [documentary series; a loop around the northern hemisphere on motorcycle (mostly Asia and Europe), with Ewan MacGregor and Charley Boorman]