263 Films & TV Shows Set In Asia During The 2000s
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Arirang
๐ฐ๐ท South Korea The 2000sDocumentary on director Kim Ki-Duk looking back at his film career.
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Nobel Chor
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 2000sThe Nobel Medal of great Indian Poet Rabindra Nath Tagore was stolen in 2004 and it was never found. This film is a fictional account of what might have happened to the medal. A poor farmer...
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Dear John
South Carolina New York ๐ฆ๐ซ Afghanistan The 2000sLove brought them together. Will fate tear them apart? โ While Sergeant John Tyree is home on two weeks leave from Germany, he meets Savannah after he dives into the ocean to retrieve Savannah's purse that had fallen off a pier. John eventually falls in love with Savannah, who promises to write to him until he returns from overseas.
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Green Zone
๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq The 2000sChief Warrant Officer Roy Miller is done following orders โ During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors are dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that threatens to invert the purpose of their mission.
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My Name Is Khan
Pennsylvania California Georgia New York ๐ฎ๐ณ India The 2000sAn Ordinary Man, An Extraordinary Journey ... FOR LOVE. โ Rizwan Khan, a Muslim from the Borivali section of Mumbai, has Asperger's syndrome. He marries a Hindu single mother, Mandira, in San Francisco. After 9/11, Rizwan is detained by authorities at LAX who treat him as a terrorist because of his condition and his race.
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Buried
๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq The 2000s170,000 sq miles of desert. 90 minutes of oxygen. No way out. โ Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.
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The A-Team
๐ฒ๐ฝ Mexico ๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq California Colorado ๐ฉ๐ช Germany The 2000sThere Is No Plan B โ A group of Iraq War veterans goes on the run from U.S. military forces while they try to clear their names after being framed for a crime they didn't commit. Along the way, Col. Hannibal Smith, Capt. H.M. โHowling Madโ Murdock , Sgt. Bosco โB.A.โ Baracus, and Lt. Templeton โFacemanโ Peck help out various people they encounter.
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Fair Game
๐ฒ๐พ Malaysia The 2000sWife. Mother. Spy. โ Wife and mother Valerie Plame has a double life as a CIA operative, hiding her vocation from family and friends. Her husband, Joseph Wilson, writes a controversial article in The New York Times, refuting stories about the sale of enriched uranium to Iraq, Then Valerie's secret work and identity is leaked to the press. With her cover blown and other people endangered, Valerie's career and personal life begin to unravel.
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Restrepo
๐ฆ๐ซ Afghanistan The 2000sOne platoon, one valley, one year โ Directors Hetherington and Junger spend a year with the 2nd Battalion of the United States Army located in one of Afghanistan's most dangerous valleys. The documentary provides insight and empathy on how to win the battle through hard work, deadly gunfights and mutual friendships while the unit must push back the Taliban.
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Au Revoir Taipei
๐น๐ผ Taiwan The 2000sKai (Jack Yao), who works at his parent's noodle shop by day and spends his nights in a bookstore to learn French, decides to go to Paris after his girlfriend, who recently left for Paris, dumps him by phone. Then the local neighborhood mafia boss offers Kai a free plane ticket to Paris if he takes a mysterious package with him.
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Tere Bin Laden
๐ต๐ฐ Pakistan ๐ฆ๐ซ Afghanistan The 2000sA million dollar fake โ Ali Hassan (Ali Zafar), a reporter with a downmarket TV channel in Karachi, is keen to go to USA for a better life, but his visa has been refused six times in seven years. In desperation, he gets hold of an Osama Bin Laden look alike and makes a fake Osama tape which he sells to the owner of his channel to raise money for a false identity, a new passport and better luck with US visa. As one can expect, it is far from smooth sailing for him and his friends, as they get into a series of comic situations.
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Aftershock
Hebei Province The 1970s The 2000s23 seconds, 32 years. โ The epic story of a family separated as a result of the Great Tangshan Earthquake of 1976. Based on the Tangshan Earthquake in 1976 that took the lives of 240,000 people.
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Hereafter
California England ๐ซ๐ท France ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland ๐น๐ญ Thailand The 2000sTouched by death. Changed by life. โ Three people โ a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy โ are touched by death in different ways.
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Dream Home
๐ญ๐ฐ Hong Kong The 1990s The 2000sIn a cut-throat property market, she'd kill for a harbour view. โ 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 Man from Nowhere
๐ฐ๐ท South Korea The 2000sNothing to lose, nothing to compromise. โ His only friend called him 'the man from nowhere'... Taesik, a former special agent becomes a loner after losing his wife in a miserable accident and lives a bitter life running a pawnshop. He only has a few customers and a friend named Somi, a little girl next door. As Taesik spends more and more time with Somi, he gets attached to her. Then Somi is kidnapped by a gang, and as Taesik tries to save Somi by becoming deeply associated with the gang his mysterious past is revealed...
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The Matchmaker
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1960s The 2000sDuring the summer of 1968 a teenage boy goes to work for a matchmaker who has survived the Holocaust - both their lives are forever altered.
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The Oath
๐ฆ๐ซ Afghanistan ๐จ๐บ Cuba ๐พ๐ช Yemen The 1990s The 2000sTwo Men. Bound to Al-Qaeda. Divided by Fate. โ 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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Colorful
Tokyo Prefecture The 2000sUpon reaching the train station to death, a dejected soul is informed that he is lucky and will have another chance at life. He is placed in the body of a 14-year-old boy named Kobayashi Makoto, who has just committed suicide. Watched over by a neutral spirit named Purapura, the soul must figure out what his greatest sin and mistake in his former life was, before his time limit in Makoto's body runs out. He also has a number of other lesser duties he must complete, such as understanding what led Makoto to commit suicide in the first place and learning how to enjoy his second chance at life.
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Space Tourists
๐ฐ๐ฟ Kazakhstan Space - General The 2000sHow do you put a price on a dream? โ In his most recent work, Christian Frei turns to an age-old dream of man: to leave our planet as a ยซnormal personยป and travel into outer space. For 20 million dollars, the American Anousheh Ansari was able to fulfil this childhood dream. This documentary follows her journey into space and shows everyday life as it is on the International Space Station.
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The Grudge 3
Illinois Tokyo Prefecture The 2000sYou can't escape the curse. โ Jake Kimble, the sole survivor of the Chicago massacre, is killed while in solitary confinement. His doctor begins investigating the claims he made about a long-haired woman in white, as a mysterious Japanese woman arrives at his old apartment building to help them get rid of the curse.
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
New York Pennsylvania Virginia District of Columbia California ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฏ๐ด Jordan ๐ช๐ฌ Egypt Shanghai The 2000sRevenge is coming. โ Sam Witwicky leaves the Autobots behind for a normal life. But when his mind is filled with cryptic symbols, the Decepticons target him and he is dragged back into the Transformers' war.
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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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2012
California District of Columbia Wyoming Nevada England ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ป๐ฆ Holy See ๐ฎ๐ณ India Tibet Tokyo Prefecture Pacific Ocean The 2010s The 2000sWe Were Warned. โ Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of the earth is becoming unstable and that without proper preparations for saving a fraction of the world's population, the entire race is doomed. Meanwhile, writer Jackson Curtis stumbles on the same information. While the world's leaders race to build "arks" to escape the impending cataclysm, Curtis struggles to find a way to save his family. Meanwhile, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of unprecedented strength wreak havoc around the world.
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Red Sands
๐ฆ๐ซ Afghanistan The 2000sSpirits take no prisoners โ A group of U.S. soldiers on a mission in the Middle East find themselves with nothing to do in their free time. Out of sheer boredom they end up destroying an old statue in the desert, only to unleash a horrific entity.
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Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus
California Alaska ๐ฏ๐ต Japan Pacific Ocean The 2000sWinner... Eats... All! โ The California coast is terrorized by two enormous prehistoric sea creatures as they battle each other for supremacy of the sea.
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