263 Films & TV Shows Set In Asia During The 2000s
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
🇹🇷 Turkey 🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇵🇭 Philippines 🇨🇱 Chile The 2000sTerror has two faces. — In New York, a Pakistani native finds that his American Dream has collapsed in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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The Summit
🇵🇰 Pakistan The 2000sThe Summit is a 2012 documentary film about the 2008 K2 disaster directed by Nick Ryan. It combines documentary footage with dramatized recreations of the events of the 2008 K2 disaster. On the way to and from the summit, eleven climbers died during a short time span creating one of the worst catastophes in climbing history. Much of the documentary footage was captured by Swedish mountaineer Fredrik Sträng. Sträng was planning to do a Documentary which was aborted due to the fact that he did not reach the summit. The footage was still valuable to help solving what really did happen since all the climbers had different stories about what happened.
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Kai Po Che!
🇮🇳 India The 2000sBrothers...For Life. — Three friends growing up in India at the turn of the millennium set out to open a training academy to produce the country's next cricket stars.
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The Attacks Of 26/11
🇮🇳 India The 2000sThe real-life story of eight Pakistani terrorists, who sail to Mumbai and wage war on the populace for the next 24 hours.
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Arrambam
🇮🇳 India 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates 🇯🇴 Jordan The 2000sThe film's plot is set in the backdrop of 26/11 serial blasts in Mumbai, and revolves around Ashok Kumar (Ajith), who is on a mission to expose a scam regarding faulty bullet proof jackets that are provided to security forces, which resulted in many bloody deaths including his best friend and colleague, Assistant Commissioner Sanjay (Rana).
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Lone Survivor
🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 2000sBased on true acts of courage — Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of Afghanistan that leads them into an enemy ambush. As they confront unthinkable odds, the SEALs must find reserves of strength and resilience to fight to the finish.
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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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The Patrol
🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 2000sIf you know neither yourself nor your enemy, you will lose every battle — Afghanistan, 2006, Helmand Province becomes one of the most dangerous places on Earth as the British Army is deployed into the Taliban heartland. The Operation, Herrick, became synonymous with the struggle as British troops fought a losing battle against this unseen enemy.
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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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Battleship
New York District of Columbia Hawaii Scotland England 🇭🇰 Hong Kong Tokyo Prefecture Pacific Ocean The 2000s The 2010sThe Battle for Earth Begins at Sea — When mankind beams a radio signal into space, a reply comes from ‘Planet G’, in the form of several alien crafts that splash down in the waters off Hawaii. Lieutenant Alex Hopper is a weapons officer assigned to the USS John Paul Jones, part of an international naval coalition which becomes the world's last hope for survival as they engage the hostile alien force of unimaginable strength. While taking on the invaders, Hopper must also try to live up to the potential that his brother, and his fiancée's father—an Admiral—expect of him.
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The Bourne Legacy
New York Illinois District of Columbia Alaska Virginia 🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇰🇷 South Korea 🇵🇭 Philippines 🇹🇭 Thailand The 2000sThere Was Never Just One — New CIA operative Aaron Cross experiences life-or-death stakes that have been triggered by the previous actions of Jason Bourne.
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The Impossible
🇹🇭 Thailand The 2000sNothing is more powerful than the human spirit. — In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an incomprehensible nightmare when a terrifying roar rises from the depths of the sea, followed by a wall of black water that devours everything in its path. Though Maria and her family face their darkest hour, unexpected displays of kindness and courage ameliorate their terror.
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Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
🇨🇳 China The 2000s The 2010sCan an artist change China? — An account of the many tribulations that Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, known for his subversive art and political activism, endured between 2008 and 2011, from his rise to world fame via the Internet to his highly publicized arrest due to his frequent and daring confrontations with the Chinese authorities.
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August. Eighth
🇬🇪 Georgia 🇷🇺 Russia The 2000sAugust Eighth - story of an ordinary young woman. Ksenia's life is not too happy. Problem at work, problem in personal life, problem with mother, a baby requiring constant cares... Ksenia want to spend a few days in Sochi with new boyfriend, and mom sends her son Artem to the boy's father on Caucasus. But Georgia started war and she must overcome fear, overcome circumstances, she must save her child...
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Zero Dark Thirty
🇰🇼 Kuwait 🇵🇰 Pakistan District of Columbia New York Nevada Virginia England 🇵🇱 Poland 🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 2000s The 2010sThe greatest manhunt in history. — A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May, 2011.
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A Letter to Momo
🇯🇵 Japan The 2000sClinging to an unfinished letter written by her recently deceased father, young Momo moves with her mother from bustling Tokyo to the remote Japanese island of Shio. Upon their arrival, she begins to explore her new habitat, meeting local children and learning their routines and customs. However, it's not long before several bizarre occurrences crop up around the previously tranquil island. Orchards are found ransacked, prized trinkets start disappearing and, worst of all, each morning after her mother leaves for work, Momo hears strange mumblings coming from the attic of their home. Annoyed by these creepy goings-on and her mother's refusal to believe them, Momo embarks on a strange and supernatural adventure to discover the source of the mischief, which leads her to a trio of troublesome imps: the flatulent lizard Kawa, the childlike Mame and their hulking ogre leader Iwa. Momo also learns that her visit to the island is in some way connected to her father's mysterious letter.
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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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If Only Everyone
🇦🇲 Armenia 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan The 2000sA beautiful girl named Sasha from Russia comes to Armenia. Born between Russian father and Armenian mother, Sasha is searching for the grave of her father who died in the Karabakh War. Karabakh, which was the territory of the Azerbaijani Republic during the Soviet Union’s collapse, has many Armenian residents. At the time, Armenians demanded their independence from Azerbaijani Republic and the subsequent conflict caused heavy casualties. Many Russian soldiers also lost their lives in the war. The conflict is still going on. This film is a postscript to a historical event occurred in the early 1990s and about a still ongoing conflict. In the scene that camera quietly crosses the border from Armenia, the director presents an image of each side of the people communicating with one another despite their own wounds instead of one pointing a gun at the other side.
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Maximum
🇮🇳 India The 2000sTWO COPS. ONE JOURNEY. A STRUGGLE FOR POWER. MAXIMUM POWER. — A story of two of Mumbai Police's top encounter specialists' fight for control and oneupmanship which goes through a complex maze of politics, land deals, fake encounters and bad money.
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Soul Surfer
Hawaii 🇹🇭 Thailand The 2000sWhen you come back from a loss, beat the odds, and never say never, you find a champion. — The true story of teen surfer Bethany Hamilton, who lost her arm in a shark attack and courageously overcame all odds to become a champion again, through her sheer determination and unwavering faith.
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5 Days of War
🇬🇪 Georgia The 2000sTheir only weapon is the truth. — An American journalist and his cameraman are caught in the combat zone during the first Russian airstrikes against Georgia. Rescuing Tatia, a young Georgian schoolteacher separated from her family during the attack, the two reporters agree to help reunite her with her family in exchange for serving as their interpreter. As the three attempt to escape to safety, they witness--and document--the devastation from the full-scale crossfire and cold-blooded murder of innocent civilians.
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The Lost Valentine
Georgia 🇵🇭 Philippines The 2000s The 1940sLove can stand the test of time. — A young and cynical female journalist learns love may transcend trials and time as she discovers a story that will change her life forever. When war separates lovers on their wedding anniversary Feb. 14, 1944 at LA Union Train Station, Navy pilot Neil Thomas makes a promise he isn't sure he can keep - to return to the train station safe by their next anniversary. For sixty years Caroline Thomas keeps her promise by waiting at the train station until her missing in action husband can finally keep his with the "lost valentine." The message and meaning shows romance and love can be real; worth fighting, and maybe even dying for.
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Hell and Back Again
🇦🇫 Afghanistan North Carolina The 2000s The 2010sWhat does it mean to lead men in war? What does it mean to come home? Hell and Back Again is a cinematically revolutionary film that asks and answers these questions with a power and intimacy no previous film about the conflict in Afghanistan has been able to achieve. It is a masterpiece in the cinema of war.
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Five Broken Cameras
🇵🇸 Palestine The 2000sFive broken cameras – and each one has a powerful tale to tell. Embedded in the bullet-ridden remains of digital technology is the story of Emad Burnat, a farmer from the Palestinian village of Bil’in, which famously chose nonviolent resistance when the Israeli army encroached upon its land to make room for Jewish colonists. Emad buys his first camera in 2005 to document the birth of his fourth son, Gibreel. Over the course of the film, he becomes the peaceful archivist of an escalating struggle as olive trees are bulldozed, lives are lost, and a wall is built to segregate burgeoning Israeli settlements.
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Putin's Kiss
🇷🇺 Russia The 2000sWhat happens when your enemies become your friends? — Masha Drokova is a rising star in Russia's popular nationalistic youth movement, Nashi. A smart, ambitious teenager who – literally – embraced Vladimir Putin and his promise of a greater Russia, her dedication as an organizer is rewarded with a university scholarship, an apartment, and a job as a spokesperson. But her bright political future falters when she befriends a group of liberal journalists who are critical of the government, including blogger Oleg Kashin, who calls Nashi a "group of hooligans," and she's forced to confront the group's dirty – even violent – tactics.
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