263 Films & TV Shows Set In Asia During The 2000s
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Rosapoo
🇮🇳 India The 2000sShajahan and Ambros are two youngsters who struggle to make the ends meet. Already neck deep in debt, they try a variety of businesses, without much success in any. Following a friend's advice, they decide to try their luck in filmmaking as a last resort.
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The Looming Tower: Season 1
New York 🇾🇪 Yemen The 1990s The 2000sWhile Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda become a global threat, the rivalry between the CIA and FBI inadvertently sets the stage for the tragedy of 9/11 and the Iraq War.
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Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel I. Presage Flower
Ōita Prefecture The 2000sShiro Emiya is a young magus who attends Homurahara Academy in Fuyuki City. One day after cleaning the Archery Dojo in his school, he catches a glimpse of a fight between superhuman beings, and he gets involved in the Holy Grail War, a ritual where magi called Masters fight each other with their Servants to win the Holy Grail. Shiro joins the battle to stop an evildoer from winning the Grail and to save innocent people, but everything goes wrong when a mysterious "Shadow" begins to indiscriminately kill people in Fuyuki...
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The Yellow Birds
🇮🇶 Iraq Virginia The 2000sThere Are Moments That Test Us And Choices That Define Us — Two young soldiers, Bartle and Murph, navigate the terrors of the Iraq war under the command of the older, troubled Sergeant Sterling. All the while, Bartle is tortured by a promise he made to Murph's mother before their deployment.
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Okja
New York 🇰🇷 South Korea The 2000s The 2010sA young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a massive animal named Okja.
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Sand Castle
🇮🇶 Iraq The 2000sHome is a war away — Set during the occupation of Iraq, a squad of U.S. soldiers try to protect a small village.
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The Wall
🇮🇶 Iraq The 2000sThis isn't war. It's a game. — An American sniper and his spotter engage in a deadly cat-and-mouse game with an Iraqi sniper.
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Megan Leavey
🇮🇶 Iraq The 2000sBased on the true story of a marine's best friend. — The true story of Marine Corporal Megan Leavey, who forms a powerful bond with an aggressive combat dog, Rex. While deployed in Iraq, the two complete more than 100 missions and save countless lives, until an IED explosion puts their faithfulness to the test.
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The Breadwinner
🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 2000sA headstrong young girl in Afghanistan, ruled by the Taliban, disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.
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Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru
🇮🇳 India The 1990s The 2000sA hardnosed cop goes after a gang of ruthless dacoits who have been terrorising residents along the highway for a decade.
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100 Poems for Stella
🇵🇭 Philippines The 2000sThroughout his four years in college, Fidel, a stuttering student, tries to finish 100 poems dedicated to Stella, an aspiring but frustrated rock star, to win her heart.
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Ayla: The Daughter of War
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950s The 2000sIn 1950, amidst the ravages of the Korean War, Sergeant Süleyman stumbles upon a a half-frozen little girl, with no parents and no help in sight. Frantic, scared and on the verge of death, this little girl captures the heart of Süleyman, who risks his own life to save her, smuggling her into his Army base and out of harms way. Not knowing her name and unable to communicate with her, Süleyman names her Ayla, in reminiscence of the moon on the fateful night during which they met. The two form an instantaneous and inseparable bond, and Ayla, almost effortlessly, brings an uncanny joy to the Turkish brigade in the grip of war. As the war comes to a close however, Süleyman's brigade is told that they will be returning home. Süleyman cannot bear abandoning Ayla, and does everything within his power to take her with him. After repeated failure, he is forced to give Ayla to an orphanage, but doesn't give up on the hope of one day reuniting with her. Will the two ever get back together?
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Chowka
🇮🇳 India The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sThe film is the narrative which emerges through various decades, encapsulating the lives of four people and their love lives while sending across a strong message relatable to the common man. Four individuals, each with their own dreams and aspirations, land up in jail. They meet a school teacher who not just shows them hope but also stirs up a passion towards reform.
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 2000sFrom the headlines to the front lines. — In 2002, cable news producer Kim Barker decides to shake up her routine by taking a daring new assignment in Kabul, Afghanistan. Dislodged from her comfortable American lifestyle, Barker finds herself in the middle of an out-of-control war zone. Luckily, she meets Tanya Vanderpoel, a fellow journalist who takes the shell-shocked reporter under her wing. Amid the militants, warlords and nighttime partying, Barker discovers the key to becoming a successful correspondent.
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
California Florida Wales England Tokyo Prefecture The 2000s The 2010s The 1940sStay peculiar — A teenager finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures intent on destroying them.
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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Virginia Texas 🇮🇶 Iraq The 2000s19-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through flashbacks the film shows what really happened to his squad - contrasting the realities of war with America's perceptions.
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Snowden
Virginia Maryland Georgia Hawaii 🇷🇺 Russia 🇨🇭 Switzerland 🇭🇰 Hong Kong 🇯🇵 Japan The 2000s The 2010sThe only safe place is on the run. — CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.
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War Dogs
Florida 🇦🇱 Albania 🇮🇶 Iraq 🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 2000sAn American dream — Based on the true story of two young men, David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli, who won a $300 million contract from the Pentagon to arm America's allies in Afghanistan.
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Queen of Katwe
🇷🇺 Russia 🇺🇬 Uganda The 2000s The 2010sA young girl overcomes her disadvantaged upbringing in the slums of Uganda to become a Chess master.
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Lion
🇮🇳 India Victoria Tasmania The 1980s The 2000s The 2010sThe search begins — A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
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Jim: The James Foley Story
🇸🇾 Syria 🇮🇶 Iraq 🇱🇾 Libya The 2010s The 2000s The 1990sIn August, 2014, a video of the public execution of American photojournalist James Foley rippled across the globe. Foley wore an orange jumpsuit as he knelt beside an ISIS militant dressed in black. That image challenged the world to deal with a new face of terror. And it tested one American family. Seen through the lens of filmmaker Brian Oakes, Foley’s close childhood friend, Jim takes us from small-town New England to the adrenaline-fueled front lines of Libya and Syria, where Foley pushed the limits of danger to report on the plight of civilians impacted by war.
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A Silent Voice: The Movie
Gifu Prefecture The 2000s The 2010sSometimes the answer is as simple as learning to listen. — Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his lack of compassion. When they leave elementary school, Shouko and Shouya do not speak to each other again... until an older, wiser Shouya, tormented by his past behaviour, decides he must see Shouko once more. He wants to atone for his sins, but is it already too late...?
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Erased
Hokkaido Prefecture The 1980s The 2000sStruggling manga author Satoru Fujinuma is beset by his fear to express himself. However, he has a supernatural ability of being forced to prevent deaths and catastrophes by being sent back in time before the incident occurred, repeating time until the accident is prevented. One day, he gets involved in an accident that has him framed as a murderer. Desperate to save the victim, he sends himself back in time only to find himself as a grade-schooler one month before fellow classmate Kayo Hinazuki went missing. Satoru now embarks on a new quest: to save Kayo and solve the mystery behind her disappearance.
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Sadako vs. Kayako
🇯🇵 Japan The 2000sWho will win this curse!? — A girl, Yūri Kurahashi, after watching a cursed videotape together with her friend in a haunted house, becomes trapped in a conflict between the two murderous ghosts: Sadako Yamamura and Kayako Saeki
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Your Lie in April
Tokyo Prefecture The 2000s The 2010sArima Kousei won numerous piano competitions while under the strict watch of his mother. He was known as the human metronome during that time. Since the death of his mother, Kousei has been unable to hear the sound of his piano. He then meets Miyazono Kaori through childhood friend Sawabe Tsubaki. Kaori plays the violin and has a free sprit. Since meeting her, Kousei is able to face the piano again. Meanwhile, Kaori holds a secret.
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