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Antara Dua Darjat
๐ธ๐ฌ SingaporeGhazali, a local musician, and his friends came to the rescue of Tengku Zaleha when her car got stuck in the mud during a downpour.. She requested to take up piano lesson from Ghazali, knowing this would give her a chance to meet him everyday. Their relationship became closer but was quickly separated when Tengku Zaleha's father and brother found out. Ghazali was beaten by several men till he fainted. In the meantime, Tengku Zaleha was brought back to Singapore and forced to marry Tengku Mukri. Few years later, she went back to Anggerik Villa and Ghazali just couldn't believe his eyes when he saw her as he thought she was dead. Tengku Zaleha was torn between two worlds but later decided to end her marriage. When Tengku Mukri realized what was going on, he couldn't accept the fact as his wife had left him, a man of status and wealth, for a commoner like Ghazali.
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Die Herrin der Welt - Teil I
๐ฐ๐ญ CambodiaProfessor Johansson has made a huge scientific breakthrough; a device that will create a huge magnetic pulse that knocks out all electricity over a continent-wide area. The military applications are already being thought of when Dr. Johansson is kidnapped by a group of profit-seeking mercenaries. Meanwhile, his daughter, Karin, finds herself having to consort with all manner of shady characters as she searches for her father.
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Never So Few
๐ฒ๐ฒ Myanmar The 1940sKiss by kiss the time ran out and never so few were the moments left for love! โ A U.S. military troop takes command of a band of Burmese guerillas during World War II.
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Operation Petticoat
๐ต๐ญ Philippines The 1950s The 1940s20,000 Laughs Under The Sea! โ A World War II submarine commander finds himself stuck with a damaged sub, a con-man executive officer, and a group of army nurses.
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Fires on the Plain
๐ต๐ญ Philippines The 1940sIn the closing days of WWII remnants of the Japanese army in Leyte are abandoned by their command and face certain starvation.
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Pendekar Bujang Lapok
๐ธ๐ฌ Singapore3 friends want to become warriors. Ramli, Aziz and Sudin wanted to learn Silat from an expert, Pendekar Mustar. Mustar's daughter, Ros the village teacher, initially thought that they were crooks but soon realized that she was wrong and even fell for Ramli. The second instalment of the 'Bujang Lapok' series, this film chronicles the misadventures of the three bachelors as they learn self defence. Along the way, they discover their mutual attraction for their teacher's daughter and their illiteracy.
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Yesterday's Enemy
๐ฒ๐ฒ Myanmar The 1940sWar Is Hell! โ Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage and endurance of the soldiers struggling at close quarters against the enemy. The film examines the moral dilemmas ordinary men face during war, when the definitions of acceptable military action and insupportable brutality become blurred and distorted
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Surrender - Hell!
๐ต๐ญ Philippines The 1940sDirector John Barnwell's 1959 WWII drama stars Keith Andes as an American soldier in the Philippines who trains a village of headhunters to fight the Japanese. Also in the cast are Susan Cabot and Paraluman.
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The Wind Cannot Read
๐ฒ๐ฒ Myanmar The 1940sDirk Bogarde is an officer during World War II learning Japanese in India in order to do intelligence work on the Indian front. While there he gets a Japanese teacher, who is full of the inscrutable and mysterious East, like a Chinese motorcycle.
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Sergeant Hassan
๐ฒ๐พ Malaysia The 1940sHassan (P. Ramlee) is 10 when his father died. His mother had died when he was younger. His late father's boss feels sorry for Hassan and adopts him. However, Hassan's foster father's own child, Aziz (Jins Shamsudin) is jealous of Hassan and hates him. When both of them have fully grown up, Aziz and Buang (Salleh Kamil) always bully Hassan. At the same time, Salmah (Saadiah) has developed a crush towards Hassan, fuelling Aziz's fury. When the Second World War is approaching, the Royal Malay Regiment begins recruiting young soldiers.
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Suicide Battalion
๐ต๐ญ PhilippinesSecond World War drama, set in the Philippines about a group of men recruited for the dangerous mission of destroying an American base to keep strategic papers out of enemy hands when Japanese forces invade. The men spend their last hours drowning their sorrows in a bar, but time is running out. American International Pictures originally distributed this film as a double feature with "Jet Attack".
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The Camp on Blood Island
๐ฒ๐พ Malaysia The 1940sThis is not just a story - it is based on brutal truth โ Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film focuses on the brutality and horror that the allied prisoners were exposed to as the Japanese metered out subjugation and punishment to a disgraced and defeated enemy. This harrowing drama concentrates on the deviations of legal and moral definitions when two opposing cultures clash. Although fictional, this was one of the earliest films to deal realistically with life and death in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during the Second War.
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Ghost of the China Sea
๐ต๐ญ PhilippinesA ragtag group of survivors escape a Filipino sugar plantation overrun by Japanese soldiers during World War II, finding a small boat along the way.
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The Day of the Trumpet
๐ต๐ญ Philippines The 1900sDESPERATE MEN...FIGHTING FOR LIFE AND LOVE IN A HOSTILE LAND! โ An American cavalry brigade is sent to occupy a small Filipino village in 1902 and quell guerilla resistance in the surrounding jungle. Working with the people to build roads, schools, and bridges, they prove that the most important thing an army can have is "good will and integrity."
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
๐น๐ญ Thailand The 1940sIt spans a whole new world of entertainment! โ The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson , the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.
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Bujang Lapok
๐ธ๐ฌ Singapore The 1950sThe misadventures of three bachelors as they pursue love and life together. โ The first of four 'Bujang Lapok' ('Worn Out Bachelor') movies, this first one chronicles the loves and lives of three bachelors living in '50s Singapore.
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China Gate
๐ป๐ณ Vietnam The 1950sAn American dynamiter love-locked in war-locked China! โ Near the end of the French phase of the Vietnam War, a group of mercenaries are recruited to travel through enemy territory to the Chinese border.
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Windom's Way
๐ฒ๐พ MalaysiaA doctor's sophisticated wife joins him at his remote Asian practice to try and patch up their marriage. Increasingly violent friction between local rubber plantation workers and the authorities force both parties to make decisions.
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Flame Over Vietnam
๐ป๐ณ VietnamA nun comes to missions during the war in China and then friend of refugee children becomes. One day, a dealer is injured and led him to the mission, where he falls for the nun.
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The King and I
๐น๐ญ Thailand The 1860sMore than your eyes have ever seenโฆ More than your heart has ever known! โ Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna and the King have a clash of personalities as she works to teach the royal family about the English language, customs and etiquette, and rushes to prepare a party for a group of European diplomats who must change their opinions about the King.
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The Burmese Harp
๐ฒ๐ฒ Myanmar The 1940sIn the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.
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Anakku Sazali
๐ธ๐ฌ SingaporeThe movie tells us the story of Hassan who has great passion for music. Hassan and Ani fell in love and ran away to Singapore knowing that their marriage will never be approved by Ani's parents. Hassan soon made a name for himself as a musician and later as a composer. His compositions received great reviews. Hassan was overjoyed when he found out that his wife was pregnant but it soon turned to sorrow as Ani died giving birth to a son, Sazali. Hassan turned his affection towards Sazali and soon Sazali grew up into a rich spoilt kid. Sazali grew up to become one of Singapore's most wanted men. The police was tipped off when Sazali and his gang committed burglary. Sazali was shot but managed to escape and seek shelter in his father's home. What did Hassan do?
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Between Heaven and Hell
๐ต๐ญ PhilippinesFrom the best-selling novel of young love in war! โ Sam Gifford remembers : In prewar years he was an arrogant southern cotton plantation owner, married to the daughter of a colonel. At the beginning of the war he was mobilized with his National Guard unit as a sergeant. Came the day when, revolted by the cowardice of his lieutenant, who had fired at his own men, he hit him. Downgraded, he was sent to a disciplinary battalion. Sam now discovers his new detachment, his new commanding officer, just another cowardly brute, Captain Waco Grimes. While in combat, Sam will gradually become closer to the privates, working-class people he used to despise. He will become another man, a better man.
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A Town Like Alice
๐ฒ๐พ Malaysia The 1940sA tale of survival. โ In 1941, The advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no plan on what to do with the women and children of the British.
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Huk!
๐ต๐ญ PhilippinesHUK! The cry that turned the South Pacific Jungles into a boiling battleground! โ After 14 years in the United States, Greg Dickson returns to his family's plantation in the Philippines to settle his slain father's estate. Boyhood friend Bart Rogers and his wife Cindy meet Greg's plane at Manila, but he dismisses their warnings about the marauding Huks, fanatic guerrillas who are plundering nearby plantations. They repulse a Huk attack on the way to the plantation and are met by Stephen Rogers, Bart's father and the village schoolteacher. With him is Philippine Army Major Balatbat who tells Greg that Kalak, leader of the Huks and murderer of Greg's father, is also after him.
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Escape to Burma
๐ฒ๐ฒ MyanmarA searing story of sudden love .ย .ย . and sudden death .ย .ย . in the hot green hell of the Burma jungle. โ A fugitive in British Burma hides on a tea plantation, thanks to a mutual attraction with owner Gwen Moore.
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Lost Continent
๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia The 1950sThree directors collaborated on the Italian documentary Continente Perduto. The "lost continent" of the title is Asia, specifically Indonesia, here lovingly photographed in Ferraniacolor by Mario Craveri, Giannni Rafaldi and Franco Bernetti. Highlights include a Cantonese wedding aboard a floating junk, the annual wheat and rice harvest, the animal-sacrifice rites at the rim of a volcano, a ceremonial chariot race, and a bevy of Balinese dancers. Though there's no story to speak of, the film has the rhythm and pace of a "continuity" picture. Continente Perduto was the winner of a Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
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08/15
๐ธ๐ฌ Singapore The 1930sLife in the barracks, drill, harassment, and private Aschโฒs pranks are the ingredients of Hans Hellmut Kirstโฒs successful novel "08/15" (the number of an Army regulation). Shortly before the outbreak of World War II: Private Asch and gunner Vierbein belong to the same unit but could not be more contrary. The instructors use every opportunity to bully the clumsy Vierbein with erratic corporal Platzek leading the way. The harassment starts with minor extra duties but soon the methods become more and more brutal. Finally, Asch comes to Vierbeinโฒs help and takes on his superiors. Joachim Fuchsberger stars in his first major role.
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World for Ransom
๐ธ๐ฌ SingaporeHe was lured kiss-by-kiss into an incredible plot to destroy the world! โ In Singapore, a private detective and the British authorities are on the trail of a crime syndicate that kidnaps a nuclear physicist with the aim of selling him to the highest bidder.
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The Purple Plain
๐ฒ๐ฒ Myanmar The 1940sHis peak of adventure! โ A RAF airfield in Burma in 1945, during World War II. Canadian bomber pilot Bill Forrester is a bitter man who lives haunted by a tragic past. He has became a reckless warrior, and is feared by his comrades, who consider him a madman. Dr. Harris, the squadron physician, is determined to help him heal his tormented soul.
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Alley to Bali
๐ฎ๐ฉ IndonesiaAn angry volcano god in the South Pacific demands a sacrifice, and a lovely young woman in the god's service finds the perfect candidates in the form of two American sailors: Woody Woodpecker and Buzz Buzzard.
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Penn
๐ฒ๐ฒ Myanmar The 1950sThe action revolves around two friends played by Vyjayanthimala and Anjali Devi. In Tamil.
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Santi-Vina
๐น๐ญ ThailandSet in a picturesque rural area, Santi-Vina is a story of doomed romance between a blind man and a beautiful girl, with a Buddhist element in the mix.
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Road to Bali
๐ฎ๐ฉ IndonesiaTOGETHER AGAIN!...in the BEST and FUNNIEST 'Road' Picture Yet! โ Having to leave Melbourne in a hurry to avoid various marriage proposals, two song-and-dance men sign on for work as divers. This takes them to an idyllic island on the way to Bali where they vie with each other for the favours of Princess Lala. The hazardous dive produces a chest of priceless jewels which arouses the less romantic interest of some shady locals.
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Laughing Anne
๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia The 1900s The 1890sStory of love affair of captain who runs ship in Java Seas and a French saloon singer. From a story "Because of the dollars" by Joseph Conrad.
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East of Sumatra
๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia ๐ฒ๐พ MalaysiaFor her savage kisses ... he plundered the last forgotten corner of the earth ! โ Duke Mullane, manager of a Malayan tin mine, goes to a little-known island to open a new mine in the jungle. Initially, the natives there are friendly, especially dancer Minyora...who proves to be affianced to local ruler King Kiang. Alas, a series of unfortunate incidents changes Kiang's attitude to hostility, and Duke is stranded with his crew, Minyora, and his old flame Lory...who's now engaged to his boss!
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Fair Wind to Java
๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia The 1880sADVENTURE...SPECTACLE...SAVAGE LOVE! โ The Dutch East Indies, at the end of the nineteenth century. An adventurous captain of an American merchant vessel is looking for a sunken Dutch vessel containing 10,000 precious diamonds. Unfortunately, he's not the only one and then there's also that volcano on the nearby island of Krakatau, waiting to explode in its historical, disastrous eruption...
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Mara Maru
๐ต๐ญ PhilippinesTropical Treasure! Typhoon and Temptation! โ An American salvage diver plunges into dangerous intrigue around a sunken treasure in the Philippines.
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The Planter's Wife
๐ฒ๐พ MalaysiaWhere Civilization Ends... and Adventure Begins! โ The wife of a rubber plantation owner must put her marriage problems on hold when her family is forced to defend themselves during a native uprising.
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Operation Pacific
๐ต๐ญ Philippines The 1940sHe's Skipper "Duke" Gifford Who Could Put A Torpedo Through A Needle...And Sew Up A Date With A Laugh! โ During WWII, Duke E. Gifford is second in command of the USS Thunderfish, a submarine which is firing off torpedoes that either explode too early or never explode at all. It's a dilemma that he'll eventually take up personally. Even more personal is his quest to win back his ex-wife, a nurse; but he'll have to win her back from a navy flier who also happens to be his commander's little brother.
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Crosswinds
๐ฎ๐ฉ IndonesiaRED-HOT SAGA OF THE SOUTH SEAS! โ A sailor gets his boat stolen from him after he's set up for a crime.
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I Was an American Spy
๐ต๐ญ Philippines The 1940sThe startling TRUE story of America's "Mata Hari" of the South Pacific! โ An American nightclub singer in 1940's Singapore becomes a spy for America in an effort to get back at the invading Japanese army. Based on a true story.
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Outcast of the Islands
๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia ๐ธ๐ฌ Singapore The 19th CenturyEven Her Love Was Primitive! โ After financial improprieties are discovered at the Eastern trading company where he works, Peter Willems flees the resulting disgrace and criminal charges. He persuades the man who gave him his start in life, the merchant ship captain Lingard, to bring him to a trading post on a remote Indonesian island where he can hide out.
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Embun
๐ฎ๐ฉ IndonesiaAfter the revolutionary war, Leman is asked by Barjo to join him in collecting donations from businessmen. Some donate while others do not. But Leman gets into a fight with one particular man who refuses to donate and kills him.
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Francis
๐ฒ๐ฒ Myanmar The 1940sA Talking Mule....the funniest film surprise in 5 years! โ The truthful soldier Stirling didn't know how to lie about his source of information, the talking army Mule, Francis, so he was treated as a lunatic and led to one after another hilarious situations, where the mule was the only one that appeared in his right mind. In the process of all this, the mule assisted in uncovering a spy, Mareen, who pretended to be lost among the jungles, but was actually...
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American Guerrilla in the Philippines
๐ต๐ญ PhilippinesAmerican soldiers stranded in the Philippines after the Japanese invasion form guerrilla bands to fight back.
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