1,702 Films & TV Shows Set In Asia During The 20th Century
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Death on the Nile
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1930sMurder was just the beginning. — Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot’s Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple’s idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short.
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K.G.F: Chapter 2
🇮🇳 India The 1980sRocky, whose name strikes fear in the heart of his foes. His allies look up to Rocky as their Savior, the government sees him as a threat to law and order; enemies are clamoring for revenge and conspiring for his downfall. Bloodier battles and darker days await as Rocky continues on his quest for unchallenged supremacy.
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F9
California Scotland England 🇬🇪 Georgia 🇩🇪 Germany Tokyo Prefecture Space - General The 1980s The 1990s The 2020sJustice is coming. — Dominic Toretto and his crew battle the most skilled assassin and high-performance driver they've ever encountered: his forsaken brother.
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Black Widow
Ohio New York 🇳🇴 Norway 🇨🇺 Cuba 🇭🇺 Hungary 🇷🇺 Russia 🇲🇦 Morocco The 1990s The 2010sHer world. Her secrets. Her legacy. — Natasha Romanoff, also known as Black Widow, confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises. Pursued by a force that will stop at nothing to bring her down, Natasha must deal with her history as a spy and the broken relationships left in her wake long before she became an Avenger.
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The Courier
Virginia England 🇷🇺 Russia The 1960sBased on the incredible true story of a Welsh businessman turned spy. — Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Where the Wind Blows
🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1960sThe most momentous but unacknowledged chapter in the past thirty years of Hong Kong's history — Once so full of righteousness, young Lui Lok and Nam Kong joined forces to forge their own career dominions, even attaining Chief Detectives Chinese. Yet just at the pinnacles of their lives they became fugitives, forced to flee to foreign countries, never to have the chance to return to their homelands -- because they were Worldwide Wanted as the ICAC's Most Wanted Corrupt Officials.
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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
California 🇲🇴 Macao The 1990sYou can't outrun your destiny. — Shang-Chi must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization.
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Compartment No. 6
🇷🇺 Russia The 1990sAs a train weaves its way up to the arctic circle, two strangers share a journey that will change their perspective on life.
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Champion of the World
🇷🇺 Russia The 1970sSome sporting victories are about more than just claiming a title. Some of them go down in history. The film follows the most dramatic and legendary showdown in the history of chess – the match between Anatoly Karpov, then world champion, and Viktor Korchnoi, a recent emigrant from the USSR. In this battle between two outstanding chess players, a duel of personalities under immense psychological pressure, the stakes are incomprehensibly high.
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The Pilot: A Battle for Survival
🇷🇺 Russia The 1940sDecember of 1941, Northwestern Front. A German tank column is moving towards Moscow. During a mission to stop the enemy advance, Nikolai Komlev's IL-2 is shot down. Komlev manages to crash-land his plane in a remote forest clearing. He's alive, but far from friendly territory. Ahead of him is a relentless trial of severe physical and mental endurance. After battling hunger and extreme cold, evading packs of wolves and detachments of Nazi soldiers, the wounded Komlev finally makes it back to safety. But there he faces another challenge, the most life-changing of them all.
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Shershaah
🇮🇳 India The 1990sInspired by the life of Captain Vikram Batra (PVC), the film celebrates his bravery, valiant spirit and honors his invaluable sacrifice during the Kargil War of 1999, at the age of 24.
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Mumbai Saga
🇮🇳 India The 1980s The 1990sThey rose from the streets of Bombay to rule Mumbai. — The film, set in the 1980s and 90s, chronicles the transformation of Bombay to Mumbai. The story is a cat and mouse game between a deadly don, Amartya Rao, who doesn’t think twice before killing, and there’s nobody who could stop him and a cop, who is dogging his every step.
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Cliff Walkers
Heilongjiang Province The 1930sSet in the puppet state of Manchukuo in the 1930s, the film follows four Communist party special agents who return to China after receiving training in the Soviet Union. Together, they embark on a secret mission code-named "Utrennya". After being sold out by a traitor, the team find themselves surrounded by threats on all sides from the moment they parachute into the mission. Will the agents break the impasse and complete their mission? On the snowy grounds of Manchukuo, the team will be tested to their limit.
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The Protégé
England 🇷🇴 Romania 🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1990s The 2020sWherever you run, the past follows... — Rescued as a child by the legendary assassin Moody and trained in the family business, Anna is the world’s most skilled contract killer. When Moody, the man who was like a father to her and taught her everything she needs to know about trust and survival, is brutally killed, Anna vows revenge. As she becomes entangled with an enigmatic killer whose attraction to her goes way beyond cat and mouse, their confrontation turns deadly and the loose ends of a life spent killing will weave themselves ever tighter.
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V2. Escape from Hell
🇩🇪 Germany 🇷🇺 Russia The 1940sMikhail Devyatayev, a captured Soviet pilot who leads an escape from a German concentration camp by hijacking an aircraft.
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Jersey
New York 🇮🇳 India The 1980s The 1990s The 2010sThe story is about a thirty six year old cricketer who stopped his cricketing career ten years ago, now aiming to play for Indian team.
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Miracle: Letters to the President
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1980sDreaming of making a way station for his sister and the villagers who have no choice but to commute along the dangerous train tracks every day, Joon-kyung sends many letters to the President, but with no reply. Ra-hee, who has a crush on Joon-kyung, does everything she can to help him meet the President.
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Funny Boy
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka The 1970s The 1980sLove was an act of war. — A student must navigate issues of sexuality, identity and family amid Sri Lanka's social turmoil of the 1970s and 1980s.
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The Battle at Lake Changjin
Beijing 🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sIn the winter of 1950, in the icy and snowy area of Changjin Lake, a bloody battle between the United States and China was about to begin. China and the United States respectively sent the most elite troop troops to fight-the 9th Corps of the Chinese People's Volunteers, the 1st US Marine Division, and the 7th Infantry Division.
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The Pioneer
Beijing Shanghai The 1910s The 1920sThe story of Li Dazhao's revolutionary deeds from 1912 to 1927, and the story of the benevolent and revolutionary pioneers who were led by him to devote themselves to the great cause of Marxism
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Sarpatta Parambarai
🇮🇳 India The 1970s The 1980sA young man from the Black Town of 1970’s segregated Madras finds himself with the opportunity to redeem his boxing clan and himself from years of defeat. Can he do it? Will he be allowed to?
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Play Back
🇮🇳 India The 1990s The 2010sKarthik is an investigative crime reporter from 2019, while Sujatha is from 1993 . An accidental cross time phone talk connects them. When Karthik knows about her difficulties, he tries to change her future by changing the incidents from her past.
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Once Upon a Time in Hong Kong
🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1970sThe story tells the story of a collusion between Hong Kong police and criminals in 1973, under the instigation of the British, they embezzled huge profits and poisoned the citizens. The Governor of Hong Kong established the Independent Commission Against Corruption
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Last of the Wolves
Hiroshima Prefecture The 1990sAfter, Shogo Ogami’s death in Hiroshima, Detective Shuichi Hioka successfully implemented Shogo Ogami’s plan, which was to control the yakuza to prevent further gang wars and save innocent people from getting harmed. Shuichi Hioka manages the criminal organizations, but, due to one evil person who gets released from prison, the situation drastically changes.
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