1,702 Films & TV Shows Set In Asia During The 20th Century
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The Last Full Measure
Ohio District of Columbia 🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1990s The 1960s The 2000sThe ultimate sacrifice deserves the highest honor. — The incredible true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger, a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen medic who personally saved over sixty men. Thirty-two years later, Pentagon staffer Scott Huffman investigates a Congressional Medal of Honor request for Pitsenbarger and uncovers a high-level conspiracy behind the decades-long denial of the medal, prompting Huffman to put his own career on the line to seek justice for the fallen airman.
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Wonder Woman 1984
District of Columbia Virginia England 🇷🇺 Russia 🇪🇬 Egypt 🇨🇳 China Tokyo Prefecture The 1980sA new era of wonder begins. — A botched store robbery places Wonder Woman in a global battle against a powerful and mysterious ancient force that puts her powers in jeopardy.
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Radioactive
Ohio Nevada 🇸🇪 Sweden 🇫🇷 France 🇵🇱 Poland 🇺🇦 Ukraine Hiroshima Prefecture The 1980s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1910s The 1900s The 1890s The 1870sPioneer. Genius. Rebel. — The story of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries—through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre—and the seismic and transformative effects their discovery of radium had on the 20th century.
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Bill & Ted Face the Music
California Louisiana England 🇦🇹 Austria 🇨🇳 China Africa - General The 1960s The 1920s The 2020s The 2030s The 2060s The 18th CenturyThe future awaits — Yet to fulfill their rock and roll destiny, the now middle-aged best friends Bill and Ted set out on a new adventure when a visitor from the future warns them that only their song can save life as we know it. Along the way, they are helped by their daughters, a new batch of historical figures and a few music legends—to seek the song that will set their world right and bring harmony to the universe.
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The Eight Hundred
Shanghai The 1930s The 1940sBased on the true story of one of the greatest battles of WWII — In 1937, eight hundred Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese army.
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Disco Raja
🇮🇳 India The 1980sFound frozen and brain-dead in Ladakh, Vasu is brought back to life but with no memories of who he was, until he starts to regain his past and piece it together to find the people responsible for his murder.
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Minamata
Kumamoto Prefecture The 1970sLet truth be the prejudice. — War photographer W. Eugene Smith travels back to Japan where he documents the devastating effect of mercury poisoning in coastal communities.
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The Man Standing Next
🇫🇷 France 🇰🇷 South Korea The 1970sLoyalty. Betrayal. Execution. — In the 1970s, Korea is under the absolute control of the President Park, who controls the KCIA, the organization with an edge over any branch of government. The director of KCIA, KIM Gyu-pyeong, is the seemingly most prospective second-in-command. In the midst of reign of fear, a former KCIA director, PARK Yong-gak who knows all about the government’s obscure operations, exiles to the U.S. where the investigation of ‘Koreagate’ is underway. As the tension escalates, the stifling political maneuvering by the all second-in-command’s unfolds.
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Silver Skates
🇷🇺 Russia The 1900s The 1890sA Magical Journey Awaits You! — 1899, the Christmas-time St.Petersburg. Ice-covered rivers and canals of the capital seethe with festive activities. On the eve of the new century those who should not be destined to meet, come together. They are people from different worlds: Matvey, the son of a lamplighter, whose only treasure is his silver-plated skates; Alice is the daughter of a high-ranking official dreaming of science. Each of them has his own difficult life-story, but having accidentally met they rush forward together in pursuit of their dreams.
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The Last Frontier
🇷🇺 Russia The 1940sThey fought for Moscow — The story of the Podolsk cadets’ heroic stand outside Moscow in October 1941. Cadets were sent to the Ilyinsky line, fighting alongside units from the Soviet 43rd Army to hold back the German advance until reinforcements arrived. Hopelessly outnumbered, young men laid down their lives in a battle lasting almost two weeks to obstruct the far superior German forces advancing towards Moscow. Around 3,500 cadets and their commanding officers were sent to hold up the last line of defense outside Moscow. Most of them remained there for eternity.
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Dear Comrades!
🇷🇺 Russia The 1960sWhen the communist government raises food prices in 1962, the rebellious workers from the small industrial town of Novocherkassk go on strike. The massacre which then ensues is seen through the eyes of a devout party activist.
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Pawn
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1990s The 2000sA loan shark takes a girl hostage as pawn for her parents' debt.
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Kalashnikov AK-47
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan 🇷🇺 Russia The 1940sThe weapon that would change the world — Tank commander Kalashnikov is severely injured in battle in 1941. The accident leaves him incapacitated and unable to return to the front line. While recovering in the hospital he begins creating the initial sketches of what will become one of the world’s most legendary weapons. A self-taught inventor, Mikhail Kalashnikov, is only 29 when he develops the now iconic assault riffle — the AK-47.
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Sputnik
🇷🇺 Russia The 1980sThe only survivor did not come back alone — At the height of the Cold War, a Soviet spacecraft crash lands after a mission gone awry, leaving the commander as its only survivor. After a renowned Russian psychologist is brought in to evaluate the commander’s mental state, it becomes clear that something dangerous may have come back to Earth with him…
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Superman: Red Son
🇩🇪 Germany 🇷🇺 Russia 🇰🇷 South Korea The 1980s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sSet in the thick of the Cold War, Red Son introduces us to a Superman who landed in the USSR during the 1950s and grows up to become a Soviet symbol that fights for the preservation of Stalin’s brand of communism.
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An American Pickle
New York 🇷🇺 Russia The 2020s The 2010s The 1910sAn immigrant worker at a pickle factory is accidentally preserved for 100 years and wakes up in modern day Brooklyn. He learns his only surviving relative is his great grandson, a computer coder who he can’t connect with.
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Samjin Company English Class
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1990sRather than adjusting to an unreasonable world, one must join forces with others to change the world. — In mid '90s, 3 female high school-grad office workers take up English classes together to get promotions and they team up to uncover corruption within their company.
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The East
🇮🇩 Indonesia The 1940sA war between duty and conscience. — A young Dutch soldier deployed to suppress post-WWII independence efforts in the Netherlands’ colony of Indonesia finds himself torn between duty and conscience when he joins an increasingly ruthless commander’s elite squad.
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Milea
🇮🇩 Indonesia The 1980s The 1990sYears after his teen romance with Milea, a now-adult Dilan tells his version of their love story when a high school reunion brings them back together.
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Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl
🇮🇳 India The 1990sInspired by the life of a fearless young officer who made history by becoming the first Indian female Air Force officer to fly in a combat zone during the 1999 Kargil War
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The Diam Diam Era
🇸🇬 Singapore The 1970s The 1980sThe story of the Lim family from Long Long Time Ago 《我们的故事》continues in this two-part film series. Conflict grows between Ah Kun and his nephew Shun Fa. Themes of a generation gap between those born in the 1950s and the following generation are explored in their varying reactions to nation-building policies implemented from the 1980s to the present day.
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Shukranu
🇮🇳 India The 1970sSet in Delhi/UP/Haryana, SHUKRANU is a comic take on the darkest phases of Indian democracy through the encounters of a would-be groom who is forcefully sterilized just days before his much-awaited marriage.
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Palasa 1978
🇮🇳 India The 1970sMohan Rao and his elder brother face Pedda Shavukar and Chinna Shavukar, a political battle where low caste fights the high caste power.
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Wife of a Spy
Hyōgo Prefecture The 1940sWho should I trust? — In the 1940s, a Japanese merchant leaves his wife behind in order to travel to Manchuria, where he witnesses an act of barbarism.
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Beyond That Mountain
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1920s"Beyond That Mountain" is a biopic that portrays the early life of the late Stephen Kim Sou-hwan, Korea's first Roman Catholic cardinal.
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