251 Films & TV Shows Set In Asia During The 1990s
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Apart Together
Shanghai The 1990sLiu returns to his native city Shanghai after 50 years spent in Taiwan. He has come to find the first love of his life, Qiao, who he left behind pregnant. In the meantime, Qiao has married and formed a family. But Liu is determined to get the family's approval to take her away with him.
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The Men Who Stare at Goats
๐ฐ๐ผ Kuwait Michigan North Carolina The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sNo goats. No glory. โ A reporter in Iraq might just have the story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady, a guy who claims to be a former member of the U.S. Army's New Earth Army, a unit that employs paranormal powers in their missions.
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๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1990sPart fact. Part fiction. Pure fun. โ Two unlucky delinquents stumble into a series of random misadventures when they attempt to collect a debt for their boss.
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Shinjuku Incident
Tokyo Prefecture The 1990sThey destroyed his life... Now he'll destroy them all. โ Steelhead is a Chinese laborer who comes to Japan hoping for a better life. Unable to find honest work and bullied into the shadows with his fellow Chinese illegal immigrants, he soon finds himself ascending as the boss of a black market mob. After providing a deadly service to a powerful Yakuza crime boss, Steelheadโs rise to mafia power spirals rapidly out of control as heโs given reign over the dangerous and lucrative Shinjuku district.
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Command Performance
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1990sDying is easy, Rock and Roll is hard. โ A Moscow charity concert turns bloody when armed extortionists take the headlining American pop-star, Venus, and the Russian President with his family, hostage. The drummer of a heavy metal warm-up band, an ex-bad ass biker played by Lundgren, and a young Russian F.S.B. agent team up to fight back. Our two heroes are seriously outnumbered, and things aren't as simple as they appear, when old ghosts from the Soviet Union appear to haunt the present in this fast paced action piece.
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The Breath
๐น๐ท Turkey The 1990sA small task force of the Turkish army have to defend a relay station in the middle of nowhere against a possible terrorist raid.
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Hachi: A Dog's Tale
Rhode Island ๐ฏ๐ต Japan The 1990s The 2000sA true story of faith, devotion and undying love. โ A drama based on the true story of a college professor's bond with the abandoned dog he takes into his home.
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Sergio
๐ง๐ฆ Bosnia and Herzegovina ๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq ๐ฑ๐ง Lebanon ๐น๐ฑ Timor-Leste ๐ฐ๐ญ Cambodia The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sCharismatic, charming and complex, Sรฉrgio Vieira de Mello was the world's go-to guy, a man who could descend into the most dangerous places, charm the worst war criminals, and somehow protect the lives of the ordinary people to whom he'd devoted his life. The documentary tells the story of his most treacherous mission ever... a mission in which his own life hangs in the balance.
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
New York Louisiana Florida ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ท๐บ Russia ๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1920s The 1910s The 2000sLife isn't measured in minutes, but in moments. โ I was born under unusual circumstances. And so begins. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time. We follow his story, set in New Orleans, from the end of World War I in 1918 into the 21st century, following his journey that is as unusual as any man's life can be. Directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett with Taraji P. Henson, Tilda Swinton, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas and Julia Ormond, Benjamin Button, is a grand tale of a not-so-ordinary man and the people and places he discovers along the way, the loves he finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.
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Slumdog Millionaire
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 2000s The 1990sWhat does it take to find a lost love? A. Money, B. Luck, C. Smarts, D. Destiny โ Jamal Malik is an impoverished Indian teen who becomes a contestant on the Hindi version of โWho Wants to Be a Millionaire?โ but, after he wins, he is suspected of cheating.
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Winds of September
๐น๐ผ Taiwan The 1990sLin Shu-Yu's semi auto-biographical debut takes us back to 1996, during the time of the tragic Taiwan baseball scandal, an event that devastated many teenage boys. The story follows Yen and Tang and their gang through the last year of their high school life. From chasing girls to midnight skinny dipping to rooting for their favorite baseball team, they do everything together. When an accident throws Yen into a coma, their world starts falling apart.
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Ara
๐น๐ท Turkey The 1990s The 2000sAra is the story of four people and an empty house. These people are stuck between their past and stormy relationships, between Istanbul and the "homes" they can't get back, between their innermost secrets and the lies they tell, between east and west. They are stuck in the "space between". The whole action takes place in an almost empty flat which is belong to one of the characters. The camera goes out only once. But various other visuals from commercials, TV series' that has been shot in the same flat, sneak into the film. Spanning around 10 years, the story is told between intervals of these visuals. Turkey has been through a huge change in the last 20-30 years. The modest country of the recent past is a faded memory compared to the consumerist life style of modern day. It is the time of ambitious people who can do anything to "live well", to "break through". This is the story of a small group of people who manage to "live well" but can't help getting lost in a spiritual vacuum.
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Persepolis
๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐ฎ๐ท Iran The 1970s The 1980s The 1990sIn 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Statrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. However as Marji grows up, she witnesses first hand how the new Iran, now ruled by Islamic fundamentalists, has become a repressive tyranny on its own.
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American Gangster
New York New Jersey North Carolina ๐น๐ญ Thailand ๐ป๐ณ Vietnam The 1970s The 1990s The 1960sThere are two sides to the American dream โ Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. Partly based on a true story.
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The Kite Runner
๐ต๐ฐ Pakistan ๐ฆ๐ซ Afghanistan The 1970s The 1980s The 1990sThere is a way to be good again. โ After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.
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Shootout at Lokhandwala
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1990sBased on true rumours โ On a calm summer day in 1991, in the bustling Lokhandwala Complex, five criminals including Maya and Dilip were counting 70 lakhs in flat no. 32 B, when 286 policemen, headed by ACP Khan, took strategic positions around their building. A gunfire ensued and the entire nation witnessed the most talked about daylight encounter lasting 6 hours that transformed suburban Mumbai into a war zone.
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In Bar
๐น๐ท Turkey The 1990sA horror film featuring Nejat ฤฐลler as the head of a gang which brutalizes, murders and rapes a group of young friends, which was based on a real life event that happened in Ankara, Turkey in 1997 and marketed as the most violent Turkish film ever made.
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5 Centimeters per Second
Tokyo Prefecture Tochigi Prefecture Saitama Prefecture Kagoshima Prefecture The 1990s The 2000sAt what speed must I live to see you again? โ Three moments in Takaki's life: his relationship with Akari and their forced separation; his friendship with Kanae, who is secretly in love with him; the demands and disappointments of adulthood, an unhappy life in a cold city.
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Blind Mountain
Shaanxi Province The 1990sBlind Mountain follows a young woman, Bai Xuemei, in the early 1990s who recently graduated from college and attempts to find work to help pay for her brother's education. In the process, she is drugged, kidnapped and sold as a bride to a villager in the Qinling Mountains of China's Shaanxi province. Trapped in the fiercely traditional town, the young woman finds that her avenues of escape are all blocked. As she searches for allies, including a young boy, a school teacher and a mailman, she suffers from being raped by her "husband" and continued beatings at the hands of the villagers, her husband, and her husbands' parents.
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Voice of a Murderer
๐ฐ๐ท South Korea The 1990sOne day, the only son of famous news anchor HAN Kyung-bae, disappears without a trace. Soon, the kidnapper calls the mother demanding a $100,000 ransom. The police assign a veteran inspector to the case and assemble a top-notch task force to work under his command. But the kidnapper constantly outwits the police and continues calling the parents with yet more instructions for the money drop.
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A Story of People in War and Peace
๐ฆ๐ฟ Azerbaijan The 1990sStarting in 1988, a fierce battle raged between the two neighbouring states of Armenia and Azerbaijan (until 1991 part of the Soviet Union) over Nagorno-Karabakh. In 1994, an armistice gave control of Karabakh and the Azeri territory in-between to Armenia. Director Vadan Hovhannisyan shows the footage he shot as an independent war reporter on the front 12 years ago. He runs across the battlefield with a shaky camera, under a fierce shower of bullets. Scrawny soldiers with sunken eyes spend their days smoking, waiting and taking cover in trenches. Fallen comrades are carried down forest paths. Then, Hovhannisyan revisits the soldiers now, bringing prints of stills and frontline footage on his laptop. Although they have put on some weight, many of them are "victims of the peace," as Hovhannisyan calls it in his voice-over.
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Summer Palace
Beijing Chongqing Municipality Hubei Province The 1990s The 1980sCountry girl Yu Hong leaves her village, her family and her lover to study in Beijing. At university, she discovers an intense world of sexual freedom and forbidden pleasure. Enraptured, compulsive, she falls madly in love with fellow student Zhou Wei. Driven by obsessive passions they can neither understand nor control, their relationship becomes one of dangerous games - betrayals, recriminations, provocations - as all around them, their fellow students begin to demonstrate, demanding democracy and freedom.
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Pu-239
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1990sA worker at a Russian nuclear facility gets exposed to a lethal dose of radiation. In order to provide for his family, he steals some plutonium and sets out to sell it on Moscow's black market with the help of an incompetent criminal.
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Traces of Love
๐ฐ๐ท South Korea The 1990s The 2000sThe collapse of a department store disturbs a local community, causing strife for some, and bringing some people closer than ever before.
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Jarhead
๐ฐ๐ผ Kuwait The 1980s The 1990sWelcome to the suck. โ Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swoffordโs experience in the Gulf War. After putting up with an arduous boot camp, Swofford and his unit are sent to the Persian Gulf where they are eager to fight, but are forced to stay back from the action. Swofford struggles with the possibility of his girlfriend cheating on him, and as his mental state deteriorates, his desire to kill increases.
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