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the most enticing films from each Asian country...

1-21 Afghanistan
22 (watched)
.
23-37 Armenia
38-40 (watched)
.
41-60 Azerbaijan
61-64 (watched)
.
65 Bahrain (watched)
.
66-80 Bangladesh
.
81-88 Bhutan
.
89-90 Brunei (watched)
.
91-98 Cambodia
99 (watched)
.
100-104 China
105-106 (watched)
.
107-124 Georgia
.
125 Hong Kong
126-128 (watched)
.
129-133 India
134-137 (watched)
.
138-139 Indonesia
140 (watched)
.
141-145 Iran
.
146-151 Iraq
.
152 Israel
.
153-168 Japan
169-174 (watched)
.
175-176 Jordan
.
177-183 Kashmir
184 (watched)
.
185-254 Kazakhstan
.
255-264 Kurdistan
.
265 Kuwait
.
266-282 Kyrgyzstan
.
283-287 Laos
288-290 (watched)
.
291-322 Lebanon
323-325 (watched)
.
326-327 Macau
328 (watched)
.
329 Malaysia
.
330 Maldives
.
331-353 Mongolia
354 (watched)
.
355-363 Myanmar
364-366 (watched)
.
367-389 Nepal
.
390-396 North Korea
397 (watched)
.
398 Oman
.
399-401 Pakistan
402-403 (watched)
.
404-439 Palestine
440-443 (watched)
.
444-445 Philippines
446 (watched)
.
447-449 Qatar
.
450 Russia
451-455 (watched)
.
456-458 Saudi Arabia (watched)
.
459 Singapore
460-461 (watched)
.
462-468 South Korea
469-478 (watched)
.
479-485 Sri Lanka
.
486-505 Syria
506 (watched)
.
507-513 Taiwan
514-516 (watched)
.
517-519 Tajikistan
.
520-525 Thailand
526-528 (watched)
.
529-532 Tibet
.
533 Timor-Leste
534 (watched)
.
535-537 Turkey
538 (watched)
.
539-542 Turkmenistan
.
543-547 United Arab Emirates
548-551 (watched)
.
552-563 Uzbekistan
564-565 (watched)
.
566-590 Vietnam
591 (watched)
.
592-598 Yemen
608 (watched)
.
609-617 Inner Mongolia

↓ country name markers ↑ in notes.
(Those in bold still need to be added.)

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1. The White Diamond

   Afghanistan ↓

2. The Patience Stone
3. The Prince of Nothingwood
4. The Land of the Enlightened
5. Wolf and Sheep
6. The Orphanage
7. Stray Dogs
8. An Afghan Love Story
9. Tell Spring Not to Come This Year
10. A Thousand Girls Like Me

...plus 1145 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

the most enticing films from each European country...

1-31 Albania
.
32 Andorra
.
33-53 Austria
54-57 (watched)
.
58-92 Belarus
93-94 (watched)
.
95-101 Belgium
102-104 (watched)
.
105-154 Bosnia and Herzegovina
.
155-184 Bulgaria
185 (watched)
.
186-210 Croatia
211 (watched)
.
212-213 Cyprus
.
214-218 Czechia
219 (watched)
.
220-226 Denmark
227-233 (watched)
.
234-285 Estonia
.
Finland
(watched)
.

(watched)
.

(watched)
.
Greece
(watched)
.
Greenland
.
Holy See/Vatican City
.
Hungary
(watched)
.
Iceland
(watched)
.
Ireland
(watched)
.
Italy
(watched)
.
Kosovo
.
Latvia
.
Liechtenstein
.
Lithuania
(watched)
.
Luxembourg
.
Malta
.
Moldova
.
Monaco
.
Montenegro
.
Netherlands
(watched)
.
North Macedonia
(watched)
.
Norway
(watched)
.
Poland
(watched)
.
Portugal
.
Romania
.
San Marino
.
Serbia
(watched)
.
Slovakia
.
Slovenia
.
Spain
(watched)
.
Sweden
(watched)
.
Switzerland
(watched)
.
Ukraine
.
United Kingdom (England)
(watched)
.
United Kingdom (Northern Ireland)
.
United Kingdom (Scotland)
(watched)
.
United Kingdom (Wales)
(watched)

↓ country name markers ↑ in notes.
(Those in bold still need to be added.)

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a choice to live simply.
True Minimalist Travel ↓ video series
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1. Ulysses' Gaze

   Albania ↓

2. Wild Flower
3. The Forgiveness of Blood
4. Cash Only
5. Tomka and His Friends
6. Bloodlands
7. The Great Warrior Skanderbeg
8. Daybreak
9. Amnesty
10. The Albanian

...plus 2281 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

international productions that portray each country I've visited in some reasonably accurate way...

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• Snowtown

  Australia

• The Giants

  Belgium

• The OceanMaker

  Belize (not culturally representative)

• Aquarius

  Brazil

• Directions

  Bulgaria

• Lost World

  Cambodia (replace)

• A Worthy Man

  Denmark

• God's Own Country

  England

• Paris Je T'aime

• Roadtrip

...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

the best films Letterboxd hasn't seen...

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a choice to live simply.
True Minimalist Travel ↓ video series
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• True Minimalist Travel
• The Last Church Bells
• Ballet & Bullets: Dancing Out of the Favela
• Namibia: Cuba’s Female Boxing Revolution
• Please Don't Rush
• Enquanto o trem não a
• Under Whose Roof
• The Visible
• Fairy Tales
• The End of Eternity

...plus 217 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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True Minimalist Travel ↓ video series
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• The Wild Pear Tree
• Burning
• Shoplifters
• Leviathan
• Post Tenebras Lux
• Silent Light
• Monos
• The Loneliest Planet
• Out of Nature
• Safe

...plus 89 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

the most enticing films from each Latin American country...

South America:
1-43 Brazil
44-62 (watched)
.
63-141 Argentina
142-152 (watched)
.
153-166 Bolivia
.
167-201 Chile
202-203 (watched)
.
204-232 Colombia
233-236 (watched)
.
237-243 Ecuador
.
244-251 Paraguay
252 (watched)
.
253-265 Peru
266-267 (watched)
.
268-269 Suriname
.
270-274 Uruguay
275 (watched)
.
276-284 Venezuela

North America:
285-291 Mexico
292-297 (watched)

Central America:
298 Belize (watched)
.
299-307 Costa Rica
308 (watched)
.
309-318 El Salvador
319 (watched)
.
320-330 Guatemala
331-332 (watched)
.
333-334 Honduras
.
337-339 Nicaragua
.
338-342 Panama

The Caribbean:
343-352 Cuba
353-354 (watched)

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(Mexico still needs to be added.)

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1. Neighboring Sounds

   Brazil ↓

2. Master, a Building in Copacabana
3. Playing
4. A Dog's Will
5. Twenty Years Later
6. Neon Bull
7. Land and Shade
8. Rio, Northern Zone
9. The Salt of the Earth
10. Copacabana Mon Amour

...plus 486 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

purposefully political films...

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True Minimalist Travel ↓ video series
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• Conscience Point
• First Cow
• The Nightingale
• Embrace of the Serpent
• Wantoks: Dance of Resilience in Melanesia
• Sikkim
• Nauru: Paradise Ruined
• Kiribati: The President's Dilemma
• Sea and the Jungle
• Lost and Found

...plus 153 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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• Embrace of the Serpent
• The Motorcycle Diaries
• Safe
• The Killing of a Sacred Deer
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Patch Adams
• Young Frankenstein
• High Life
• The Theory of Everything

...plus 12 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

the most enticing films from each Oceanian country...

1-44 Australia
45-61 (watched)
.
62-67 New Zealand
68-71 (watched)
.
72-76 Papua New Guinea
.
77 Fiji
78 (watched)
.
79 Federated States of Micronesia
.
80 Kiribati (watched)
.
81-82 Marshall Islands
83 (watched)
.
84 Nauru
85-86 (watched)
.
87 Palau
.
88-90 Samoa
.
91-93 Solomon Islands
94 (watched)
.
95-96 Tonga
.
97-98 Tuvalu
99 (watched)
.
100-101 Vanuatu
.
102 Cook Islands (associated state of New Zealand)
103-104 (watched)
.
105 Niue (associated state of New Zealand) (watched)
.
106 Tokelau (dependent territory of New Zealand) (watched)
.
107-109 New Caledonia (special collectivity of the French Republic)
.
110-112 French Polynesia (overseas collectivity of the French Republic)
.
113 Wallis and Futuna (overseas collectivity of the French Republic)
.
114-116 Pitcairn Islands (British overseas territory, UK)
.
117 Guam (unincorporated and organised territory of the United States)
.
118 American Samoa (unincorporated and organised territory of the United States)
119 (watched)
.
120 Northern Mariana Islands (unincorporated and organised territory of the United States)
.
121-122 Christmas Islands (external territory of Australia)

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a choice to live simply.
True Minimalist Travel ↓ video series
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1. Dominion
2. Wake in Fright
3. In My Blood It Runs
4. Breaker Morant
5. Utopia
6. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
7. Mad Max: Fury Road
8. Stateless
9. The Fringe Dwellers
10. Picnic at Hanging Rock

...plus 125 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

'Expatcore': encapsulating the rollercoaster of lost identity as a result of relocation, isolation and unfamiliarity in foreign lands...

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True Minimalist Travel ↓ video series
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• Enter the Void
• A Prayer Before Dawn
• Last Life in the Universe
• Ilo Ilo
• Lost in Translation
• Alice in the Cities
• River
• By the Sea
• Seven Years in Tibet
• Import

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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True Minimalist Travel ↓ video series
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• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• The Act of Killing
• Post Tenebras Lux
• Silent Light
• Mirror
• Stalker
• Samsara
• Baraka
• Irreversible
• Enter the Void

...plus 151 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

films where the character gets lost, travels or is set free on an adventure of some kind...

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• Nordkalotten 365
• Across Canada with Lars Monsen
• Hunt for the Wilderpeople
• Into the Wild
• Captain Fantastic
• Little Miss Sunshine
• The Motorcycle Diaries
• By the Sea
• Everything Is Illuminated
• The Bucket List

...plus 182 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

the most enticing films from each African country...

Algeria x 1, (watched) x 1 .
Angola x 9 .
Benin x 2 .
Botswana x 5 .
Burkina Faso x 11 .
Burundi x 2 .
Cameroon x 5 .
Cape Verde x 5 .
Central African Republic x 2 .
Chad x 2 .
Comoros (watched) x 1 .
Democratic Republic of the Congo x 35, (watched) x 1 .
Congo x 7 .
Djibouti x 2 .
Egypt x 5, (watched) x 1 .
Equatorial Guinea x 1 .
Eritrea x 1 .
Eswatini (Swaziland) x 1 .
Ethiopia x 11 .
Gabon x 3 .
The Gambia x 4 .
Ghana x 18 .
Guinea x 3 .
Guinea-Bissau x 6 .
Ivory Coast x 15 .
Kenya x 2 .
Lesotho x 2 .
Liberia x 9 .
Libya x 17 .
Madagascar x 6 .
Malawi x 5 .
Mali x 22 .
Mauritania x 12 .
Mauritius x 8 .
Morocco x 2 .
Mozambique x 1 .
Namibia x 16, (watched) x 1 .
Niger x 10 .
Nigeria x 2 .
Rwanda x 11 .
Sao Tome and Principe (watched) x 2 .
Senegal x 7 .
Seychelles x 1 .
Sierra Leone x 6 .
Somalia x 10, (watched) x 1 .
South Africa x 4, (watched) x 2 .
South Sudan x 4 .
Sudan x 11 .
Tanzania x 11, (watched) x 1 .
Togo x 3 .
Tunisia x 4, (watched) x 1 .
Uganda x 10 .
Zambia x 9 .
Zimbabwe x 8 .

Somaliland
Western Sahara (Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic) x 1

Autonomous communities / cities / overseas territories of Spain:
Canary Islands
Ceuta
Melilla
Plazas de soberanía

Autonomous region of Portugal:
Madeira

Territory of Italy:
Pelagie Islands

Overseas territories / regions / constituencies of :
French Southern and Antarctic Lands
Mayotte
Reunion

Dependent territories of Great Britain:
Saint Helena
Ascension
Tristan da Cunha

Governorate of Yemen:
Socotra Archipelago

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a choice to live simply.
True Minimalist Travel ↓ video series
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1. The Battle of Algiers

   Algeria

2. Anes

   Algeria

3. Sambizanga

   Angola

4. Air Conditioner
5. Monangambeee
6. Tales of Luanda: Hope the Pitanga Cherries Grow
7. As Cores da Serpente
8. Nelisita
9. Nayola
10. Excuse me, while I disappear.

...plus 376 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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True Minimalist Travel ↓ video series
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• Cold War
• Ida
• Cairo Station
• Alice in the Cities
• A Coffee in Berlin
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
• End
• The Path
• Aimless Walk
• Regeneration

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True Minimalist Travel ↓ video series
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• Wild Wild Country
• Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
• The Handmaiden
• Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
• The White Caps
• BlacKkKlansman
• The Wicker Man
• Children of the Corn
• The Village
• Midsommar

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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True Minimalist Travel ↓ video series
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• Candyman
• Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
• Gremlins
• Gremlins 2: The New Batch
• The Witches
• Edward Scissorhands
• Beetlejuice
• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
• Day of the Dead
• The Return of the Living Dead

...plus 31 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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a choice to live simply.
True Minimalist Travel ↓ video series
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• Till We Meet Again
• Directions
• River
• The Giants
• Out of Nature
• And Breathe Normally
• Osama
• Cairo Station
• Ilo Ilo
• The Loneliest Planet

...plus 30 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

4 - 44 minutes...

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True Minimalist Travel ↓ video series
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• A Worthy Man

  (watch on Vimeo)

• Listen

  (watch on Vimeo)

• Whale Valley

  (watch on Vimeo)

• All These Creatures

  (watch on Vimeo)

• Bluesman

  (watch on Youtube)

• Slapper

  (watch on Vimeo)

• Nursery Rhymes

  (watch on Vimeo)

• C'est la Vie

  (watch on Youtube)

• Ellen Is Leaving

  (watch on Vimeo)

• The Turk Shop

  (watch on Vimeo)

...plus 59 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

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a choice to live simply.
True Minimalist Travel ↓ video series
youtu.be/EM_XNtwFHRc

• A Prayer Before Dawn
• Nordkalotten 365
• Touching the Void
• Ballet & Bullets: Dancing Out of the Favela
• Namibia: Cuba’s Female Boxing Revolution
• Battle Royale
• Meru
• The Kite Runner
• Out of Nature
• Into The Empty Quarter

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

shortcuts to experiencing the rest of the world...
(highly rated, popular films from each nation)

every country (197) - [pages 1-2]
plus many dependencies (32) & disputed territories (5) - [page 3]
hard to find places credit: Andrew Liverod - All the Countries

(*) watched countries: 117/234

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True Minimalist Travel ↓ video series
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• Osama

  Afghanistan (*)

• Ulysses' Gaze

  Albania

• The Battle of Algiers

  Algeria

• Devil's Kiss

  Andorra

• Sambizanga

  Angola

• Dadli

  Antigua and Barbuda (*)

• The Motorcycle Diaries

  Argentina (*)

• The Color of Pomegranates

  Armenia (*)

• Candy

  Australia (*)

• The Seventh Continent

  Austria (*)

...plus 224 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All officially available and free to watch on Vimeo/Youtube.

a choice to live simply.
True Minimalist Travel ↓ video series
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• Brotherhood
• The Orphan
• Slapper
• Import
• Kanarí
• Fauve
• Whale Valley
• Listen
• A Worthy Man
• All These Creatures

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

finding positivity through challenging times...

a choice to live simply.
True Minimalist Travel ↓ video series
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• Out of Nature
• The Motorcycle Diaries
• The Tale of the Bunny Picnic
• Hook
• Patch Adams
• The Lunchbox
• The Wild Pear Tree
• The Bucket List
• The Terminal
• About a Boy

...plus 23 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

single figure childhood favourites...

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True Minimalist Travel ↓ video series
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• Edward Scissorhands
• Labyrinth
• Return to Oz
• The Secret of NIMH
• The Witches
• Beetlejuice
• Gremlins
• Ghostbusters
• Jumanji
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

...plus 89 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.