251 Films & TV Shows Set In Asia During The 1990s
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Jobs
🇮🇳 India The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sSome see what's possible, others change what's possible. — The story of Steve Jobs' ascension from college dropout into one of the most revered creative entrepreneurs of the 20th century.
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David
🇮🇳 India England The 1970s The 1990s The 2010sThree lives, three destinies, one name — The story is about two Davids living in different parts of India whose lives eventually come together in a twist of events., who are about to take a step which is going to change their lives forever.
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Ilo Ilo
🇸🇬 Singapore The 1990sSet in the mid 1990s in Singapore, ILOILO chronicles the relationship between a family and their maid from Ilo Ilo, a province in the Philippines.
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American Dreams in China
Beijing The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sDuring the economic reform period of the 80’s, three undergraduates bind together by a common ambition – to live the American dream. They are Cheng Dongqing, a hillbilly who refuses to accept his destiny of being a farmer; Meng Xiaojun, a self-confident, cynical intellectual; and Wang Yang, an idealistic romantic poet. Xiaojun is the first to obtain an US Visa for studying abroad. Yang follows but decides to remain in China for his beloved. Poor Dongqing is rejected by the US Embassy repeatedly. Baffled, he reluctantly accepts the job as an English instructor in the university but eventually gets fired for teaching tutorial classes in private. Across the Pacific, Xiaojun fails to find a decent job and is driven to work as a busboy in a diner.
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Madras Cafe
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka The 1990sIntercept The Truth — An Indian intelligence agent journeys to a war-torn coastal island to break a resolute rebel group and meets a passionate journalist.
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The Saratov Approach
🇷🇺 Russia The 1990sKidnapped, Ransomed, Delivered — An inspirational true story. On what seemed like any other day, Elders Travis Tuttle (Corbin Allred) and Andrew Propst (Maclain Nelson) are approached by Nikolai (Nikita Bogolyubov) to teach a friend. But then the missionaries experience the unimaginable - they are kidnapped, beaten, and held for ransom. While their families, friends, and the world pray for their safe release, Tuttle and Propst are tested physically, emotionally, and most of all spiritually.
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Tangerines
🇬🇪 Georgia The 1990sWar in Abkhazia, 1992. An Estonian man Ivo has stayed behind to harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo is forced to take him in.
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Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States: Specials
🇮🇶 Iraq 🇺🇸 United States of America 🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1940s The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sOliver Stone's re-examination of under-reported events in American history.
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Nameless Gangster
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1980s The 1990s The 2010sPower Cannot Be Taken Alone — A corrupt customs official joins forces with a vicious gangster to form the most powerful crime partnership in Busan.
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Architecture 101
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1990s The 2010sWhen Seung Min was on his first year at the Academy of Architecture, he met Seo Yeon. She was a musician student, and Seung Min totally fell in love with her. Years have passed, and now he meets Seo Yeon again - she asks him to rebuild her father's old house.
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Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 1
🇮🇳 India The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sTERI KEH KE LUNGA ! — Shahid Khan is exiled after impersonating the legendary Sultana Daku in order to rob British trains. Now outcast, Shahid becomes a worker at Ramadhir Singh's colliery, only to spur a revenge battle that passes on to generations. At the turn of the decade, Shahid's son, the philandering Sardar Khan vows to get his father's honor back, becoming the most feared man of Wasseypur.
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Gangs of Wasseypur - Part 2
🇮🇳 India The 1990s The 1940s The 2000sSABKA BADLA LEGA RE TERA FAIZAL ! — It’s the sequel and the final chapter in the bloody lives of the avenging ‘Gangs of Wasseypur’. Sardar Khan’s sons are at war with Ramadhir Singh’s men; and the knives clash and the bullets flash; till either drops dead.
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Bekas
🇮🇶 Iraq The 1990sThe American Dream is waiting just around the corner — Two shoeshiner homeless brothers named Zana (7) and Dana (10) live on the edge of survival. They catch a glimpse of Superman through a hole in the wall at the local cinema and decide that they want to go to America in order to meet Superman.
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Black Mask
🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1990sThe stink never really gets out of you. — Jimmy McNamara is an ex-writer and WWII vet turned accountant who receives a call from Vivian, his ex-fiance and nightclub singer. Vivian got a Hollywood contract and is taking Jimmy with her. All he has to do is retrieve the negatives of compromising pictures that put her bright future in danger. But Jimmy's mission might not be as simple as it seems.
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Losers' Club
🇹🇷 Turkey The 1990sKaan and Mete, co-hosts of a mid 1990s radio show called Kaybedenler Kulübü (Losers' Club), struggle to deal with their daily lives after their show becomes an instant hit. Kaan meets Zeynep, the girl of his dreams, but their relationship comes under pressure as the show continues to stir controversy and attract fans from every segment of Istanbul society.
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The Devil's Double
🇮🇶 Iraq The 1980s The 1990sThe 80's were brilliant, if you were in charge. — A chilling vision of the House of Saddam Hussein comes to life through the eyes of the man who was forced to become the double of Hussein's sadistic son.
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The Lady
🇲🇲 Myanmar The 1980s The 1990sFrom House Arrest to Parliament — The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris.
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Karamay
🇨🇳 China The 1990sIn 1994, the oil-rich city of Karamay in Northwest China was the site of a horrible fire that killed nearly 300 schoolchildren. The students were performing for state officials and were told to stand by while the officials exited first. After the fire, the story was heavily censored in the Chinese state media. To this day, the families of Karamay have not been allowed to publicly mourn their children.
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Bombay March 12
🇮🇳 India The 1990sHe believes in his country. But his country dosen't believe in him — The story is about Sameer (Mammootty), a sweeper with the Alapuzha Municipality, who is always on tenterhooks because he is on the police radar whenever there is trouble or an act of terror occurs. Later it is revealed that his brother-in-law Shahjahan (Unni Mukundan) was suspected to be part of the terror team that had planted bombs in Bombay in 1993 and was later killed in an encounter with the Army in Andhra Pradesh.
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Kandahar
🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 1990sA docudrama about the escape of Russian pilots after being taken hostage by the Taliban in 1996.
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Dream Home
🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1990s The 2000sIn a cut-throat property market, she'd kill for a harbour view. — A woman will go to whatever lengths necessary to obtain her dream home with a view of the sea. This includes driving down the property value and decreasing the occupancy rate by killing her potential neighbors ...
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The Oath
🇦🇫 Afghanistan 🇨🇺 Cuba 🇾🇪 Yemen The 1990s The 2000sTwo Men. Bound to Al-Qaeda. Divided by Fate. — Tells the story of two men, Abu Jandal and Salim Ahmed Hamdan, whose fateful encounter in 1996 set them on a course of events that led them to Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden, 9/11, Guantanamo, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Bandage
Tokyo Prefecture The 1990sSet in Japan in the early 1990s, there's one rising band called LANDS, that is starting to find success amidst a flood of other bands. Asako and Miharu are two Tokyo high school students. When Miharu gives Asako her favorite indie rock band; a LANDS CD, she becomes an overnight fan and sets her heart on the talented guitarist Yukiya. LANDS was formed among friends, but as the band begins to climb the ladder towards major stardom, they get in touch with the dark side of the music industry, discord surfaces, inevitable frictions emerge, and unrequited love strains their friendship, threatening to pull their bonds apart.
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Press
🇹🇷 Turkey The 1990sEarly 1990's, journalists after the truth... — The story of a Kurdish newspaper whose journalists are under the constant threat of being abducted and killed by the state security forces.
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