Turn on the Subtitles: The 32 Best Foreign-Language Shows on Netflix

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If you have traveled past the US offerings on Netflix, you know that the streaming service offers many foreign-language shows that surpass their American counterparts. And 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. At the Television Critics Association last year, Netflix celebrated shows(Opens in a new window) such as France’s Lupin and Spain’s Money Heist and revealed that 97% of its American audience had watched a non-English title in the past year. And that was before the great Squid Game craze. 

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(Opens in a new window). If you don't need visual assistance, I beg of 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. If you start watching and it's in English, select the audio/subtitles icon and look for (Original) next to the audio language options. (Some of the trailers below are dubbed because those were the only ones available.)

The title of The 7 Lives of Léa is literal since, over the course of a week, French teen Léa finds herself in seven different bodies after time-traveling back to the 90s. It seems she has to solve the mystery of how a boy her parents knew in their