249 Films & TV Shows Set In Asia During The 1930s
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Inviati speciali
๐ช๐ธ Spain ๐ช๐ฌ Egypt The 1940s The 1930sAn Italian film from 1943.
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Flying Tigers
๐จ๐ณ China The 1930s The 1940sStrong Brave Men Flying in the Face of Death that We may Live ... โ Jim Gordon commands a unit of the famed Flying Tigers, the American Volunteer Group which fought the Japanese in China before America's entry into World War II. Gordon must send his outnumbered band of fighter pilots out against overwhelming odds while juggling the disparate personalities and problems of his fellow flyers.
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Lady from Chungking
๐จ๐ณ China The 1930s The 1940sBLOODY REBELLION AGAINST SAVAGE CONQUERORS! โ In World War II, Chinese guerrillas fight against the occupying Japanese forces. A young woman is the secret leader of the villagers, who plot to rescue two downed Flying Tigers pilots who are currently in the custody of the Japanese. The rescue mission takes on even more importance with the arrival of a Japanese general, which signals a major offensive taking place in the area.
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Inside Fighting China
๐จ๐ณ China The 1930s The 1940sThis wartime newsreel from 1942 documents the efforts of China to deal with Japanese aggression.
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G.P.U.
๐ธ๐ช Sweden ๐ซ๐ฎ Finland ๐ณ๐ฑ Netherlands ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1940s The 1930sOlga, a Russian refugee from Bolshevik terror, has joined the Soviet secret police to find the man responsible for killing her parents. Meanwhile, a young Baltic couple are caught up in the schemes of the communists.
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They Met in Bombay
๐ฎ๐ณ India ๐ญ๐ฐ Hong Kong ๐จ๐ณ China The 1930s The 1940sStealing jewels for profit . . . and hearts for pleasure! โ A jewel thief and a con artist are rivals in the theft of a valuable gem as the Japanese army invades China.
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Kukan: The Battle Cry of China
๐จ๐ณ China The 1930s The 1940sRey Scott received an Honorary Academy Award for this documentary "For his extraordinary achievement in producing Kukan, the film record of China's struggle, including its photography with a 16mm camera under the most difficult and dangerous conditions."
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The Shining Path
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1930sTanya Morozova, an illiterate but industrious textile factory worker, finds happiness through her education and the Stakhanovite movement. She becomes a shock labourer and ascends through the Party ranks, ultimately being elected as a member of the Supreme Soviet.
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Ninotchka
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ท๐บ Russia ๐น๐ท Turkey The 1930sGarbo Laughs โ A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
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Disputed Passage
๐จ๐ณ China The 1930s The 1940s"Love...marriage...give them up...they're not for we men of science! " โ A doctor's medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl returns to China, but complications ensue when she runs into him in Nanking during a Japanese bombing raid.
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The Shanghai Drama
Shanghai ๐ญ๐ฐ Hong Kong The 1930s The 1940sA Russian emigrant sings in a Shanghai nightclub under the assumed name of Kay Murphy. All she dreams of is a peaceful life with her daughter Vera. But this is only a pipe dream as she has been forced by her former lover Ivan to work for a secret criminal organization, "The Black Dragon". Vera, who studies in a Hong Kong boarding-school, knows nothing about her mother's past. When Ivan, who is also Vera's father, resurfaces and blackmails Kay, the young woman is determined to fight back...
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The Eight Hundred Heroes
Shanghai The 1930s The 1940s800 Chinese soldiers guard the important warehouse district against the invading Japanese Army. Re-imagination of a famous (bordering on legendary) episode from the battle of Shanghai: 800 soldiers of the 88th regiment against what feels like the whole of Japanโs Imperial Army - think Thermopylae, Chinese version. A splendid, visually amazing gem which, in its own way, is also a last stand: of silent cinema, Shanghai style. (iffr)
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Lost Horizon
Tibet The 1930sAt last! The masterpiece of America's foremost film genius blazes to the screen! โ British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash land in the Himalayas, and are rescued by the people of the mysterious, Eden-like valley of Shangri-la. Protected by the mountains from the world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-la provides a seductive escape for the world-weary Conway.
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The General Died at Dawn
๐จ๐ณ China The 1930sChina, 1930s, during the ravaging civil war. General Pen entrusts O'Hara, an intrepid American adventurer, with the mission of providing a large sum of money to Mr. Wu with the task of buying weapons in Shanghai to help end General Yang's tyranny that keeps an entire province under his ruthless iron boot.
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Blood on Wolf Mountain
๐จ๐ณ China The 1930s The 1940sBlood on Wolf Mountain tells the story of a village that is beset by a pack of wolves. Made just prior to the commencement of full-scale war with the Japanese, the film itself is often considered an allegory of conflict between China and Japan.
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Children of Troubled Times
๐จ๐ณ China The 1930s The 1940sThe young poet Xin Baihe flees Shanghai with his friend, Liang. Liang soon joins the resistance against the Japanese invaders, but Xin chooses to pursue a relationship with a glamorous and westernized widow in Qingdao. After hearing that Liang has been killed, Xin has a change of heart and rushes to join the war effort.
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The Big Road
๐จ๐ณ China The 1930s The 1940sSix young men from the city take jobs building roads for the Chinese Army
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Kid Millions
New York ๐ช๐ฌ Egypt The 1930sHE HAD PLENTY OF DOLLARS AND NO SENSE! โ A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.
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Apart From You
๐ฏ๐ต Japan The 1930sFor Apart from You, Mikio Naruse turned his camera on the lives of working women, which he would continue to do throughout his long career. In this gently devastating drama, a critical breakthrough for the director, he contrasts the life of an aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, with that of her youthful counterpart, a lovely young girl resentful of her family for forcing her into a life of ignominy.
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Shanghai Express
Shanghai The 1930sMany Men Had Loved Her -- but only one had been loved in return ! โ A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.
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The Mummy
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt The 1930s The 1920sIt Comes to Life! โ An ancient Egyptian priest named Imhotep is revived when an archaeological expedition finds his mummy and one of the archaeologists accidentally reads an ancient life-giving spell. Imhotep escapes from the field site and searches for the reincarnation of the soul of his lover.
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Fire Under the Snow
Tibet The 1930s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980sPalden Gyatso, a Buddhist monk since childhood, was arrested by the Chinese Communist Army in 1959. He spent the next 33 years in prison for the "crimes" of peaceful demonstration and refusal to denounce his apolitical teacher as an Indian spy. He was tortured, starved and sentenced to hard labor. He watched his nation and culture destroyed, his teachers, friends and family displaced, jailed or killed under Chinese occupation. Fire Under the Snow reaches back to Palden's birth in 1933 and follows him through the Orwellian nightmare that began with the Chinese invasion. We cut back and forth between the past and Palden's present as an activist, living in exile. Our P.O.V. becomes a "third eye" hovering over Paldenโs current life, haunted by his memories of the past. We explore the escalating cycle of interrogation and physical violation during his years in prison that ended decades later with Palden's escape from Tibet and a cathartic meeting with His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
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King of the Sands
๐ธ๐ฆ Saudi Arabia The 1920s The 1930s The 1940sA daring, compelling and controversial take on the life of prince Abdulaziz Al Saud (Ibn Saud), founder of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Hands Up!
๐จ๐ณ China The 1930s The 1940sHands Up! is a 2003 Chinese historical comedy film directed and written by Feng Xiaoning, and produced by Han Sanping. The film stars Pan Changjiang, Guo Da, and Liu Wei. It based on the Second Sino-Japanese War.