Fans of foreign-language dramas don't need to look too far to find their next bold, refreshing drama – Channel 4's offshoot streaming service Walter Presents is full of them.

Walter Presents launched back in 2016 and is an on-demand platform featuring a hand-picked selection of award-winning foreign-language dramas, curated by Walter Iuzzolino.

Iuzzolino is an Italian TV producer who considers three criteria when making his choices: the shows must have had mainstream success in their home countries; they must have outstanding writing, acting and directing; and they must have been critically acclaimed.

"It's a balance of being innovative so we never become repetitive, but also to bring viewers what they love," Iuzzolino tells us. "I knew there were thousands of great shows all over the world that were not being shown because there was that subtitle stigma.

"Walter Presents is like opening the club. The more people love it, the more people will talk about it. It's a bit of a mission to ensure that as many people as possible get to appreciate the joys of international drama."

Iuzzolino says that Italy, France and Eastern Europe are the places to look out for when it comes to new drama, and that Dutch series, like The Adulterer, are consistently ranking highly.

"It's like going on a sexy city break without leaving your sofa," he adds. "Access to a different culture is also a nice counterpoint to all the tension and bad feeling that is in our world today. It encourages tolerance, open-mindedness and understanding of the other."

From hit German cold-war drama Deutschland 89, which the service launched with, and supernatural Italian series The Red Door to Ukraine's Hide and Seek (Pryatki), here are our picks of the best shows available to stream right now on Walter Presents. You're bound to find something you like.

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  • R.I.P. Henry

    Henry Johnsen embarks on a secret quest to cure his incurable brain tumour while he retains his usual air of superiority. Norwegian drama, starring Mads Ousdal and Julie Agnete Vang
    Channel 4

  • The Sketch Artist

    Gripping Canadian crime thriller from Walter Presents. Artist Eve sees what others don't so she fits perfectly into a police unit handling problem cases. Can they solve her own pain filled cold case?
    Channel 4

  • 1985

    Crime drama set against the backdrop of Belgium's most notorious unsolved crime spree. Three friends begin a new chapter of their lives when they set off from their home town to Brussels. However, as their adulthood and careers in the big city commence, the trio risks losing their innocence and noble illusions, as they find themselves caught in the middle of the horrifying events that shocked a generation and will come to leave a scar on the entire country. Tijmen Govaerts, Aimé Claeys and Mona Mina Leon star. In French and Dutch
    Channel 4

  • Morten

    Morten Mathijsen, an ambitious politician aiming to be Prime Minister, finds his path rendered rocky when dubious past actions dog his climb upwards. In Dutch
    Channel 4

  • The Bank Hacker

    Belgian crime drama, starring Tijmen Govaerts and Gène Bervoets as two criminals from different backgrounds - one a professional conman hoping to rebuild his fortunes after a spell in prison, the other a talented young hacker with a grudge against the financial system. They pool their skills to hijack the digital highway of money transfers that run between banks. In Flemish
    Channel 4

  • Arctic Circle

    Finnish crime drama, starring Iina Kuustonen
    Channel 4

  • Grow

    Danish crime drama, in which a stockbroker is plunged into a self-destructive cycle following the death of his father, which leads to his being reunited with his brother, now a police officer. Starring Lars Mikkelsen and Andreas Jessen. In Danish
    Channel 4

  • Astrid: Murder in Paris

    A brilliant, young autistic detective investigates murder cases on the streets of Paris in a French drama starring Sara Mortensen and Lola Dewaere.
    Channel 4

  • Seaside Hotel

    Danish drama from Walter Presents set in the 1920s and 1930s. Wealthy guests, and not-so-wealthy staff and locals, make an annual hotbed of intrigue at a luxury seaside hotel.
    Channel 4

  • Partisan

    Swedish thriller about a truck driver who suspects a farm in an idyllic gated community is being used as a cover for human trafficking. In Swedish, English and Polish
    Channel 4

  • Deutschland 89

    Martin Rauch experiences the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 during his activities as an East German spy. Drama, starring Jonas Nay. In German
    Channel 4

  • The Swingers

    Dutch drama with Daan Schuurmans and Bracha van Doesburgh. A young couple move into a new house on the outskirts of Amsterdam and become increasingly friendly with their neighbours.
    Channel 4

  • All the Sins

    A psychological crime drama of three seasons, each set in different era in a conservative christian community of rural northern Finland.
    Channel 4

  • Redemption

    Italian crime drama about a detective investigating the apparent suicide of his estranged son. Starring Alessandro Gassmann. In Italian
    Channel 4

  • The Adulterer

    Drama from the Netherlands, originally titled Overspel. Sylvia Hoeks plays a photographer having a passionate affair with a defence attorney who's representing an accused murderer.
    Channel 4

  • A French Case

    Fact-based crime drama about the murder of a four-year-old boy whose body was found in the Vologne River and the mysterious threats sent to his family. In French
    Channel 4

  • The Twelve - Cinderella Murder

    From Walter Presents comes an intense and richly characterised Belgian courtroom drama series about the juries on sensational murder trials
    Channel 4

  • Manayek

    Izzy Bachar, a police internal affairs investigator, discovers just before retirement that his long time friend Barak, a senior police officer, is accused of being corrupt. Life as he knows it breaks into pieces.
    Channel 4

  • Carmen Curlers

    Stylish Danish period drama from Walter Presents inspired by real events. In 1963, businessman Axel Byvang invests in an obscure invention. Will it spark to life or curl up into nothing?
    Channel 4

  • Spiral of Lies

    35-year-old Audrey, the only survivor of a mysterious serial killer who raged in the Biarritz region 16 years earlier, is brutally taken back to her past by a new crime: a 17-year-old girl is found murdered on the Basque coast. Nothing links this murder to the series of crimes committed in the early 2000s by the 'Itsas Killer,' but Audrey is certain that Itsas is back. To prove it, she must face her past--and her lies. Because that night, when she crossed paths with the killer, she lied. About everything. To everybody. Belgian crime drama, starring Camille Lou. In French
    Channel 4

  • Love and Trouble in Paris

    Life of Julie a 36 years old woman dumped, childless, unemployed but a phone call will change everything in her life.
    Channel 4

  • Faking Hitler

    In the 1980s, German paper Stern published Hitler's diary, giving insights into his deepest and private thoughts; shortly after, it is revealed that they are fake. The mini-series is a fictional account of the publication and reveal.
    Channel 4
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