1,702 Films & TV Shows Set In Asia During The 20th Century
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One Child Nation
🇨🇳 China The 1980s The 1990s The 2000s The 2010sThe truth beyond the propaganda. — Through interviews with both victims and instigators, Nanfu Wang, a first-time mother, breaks open decades of silence on a vast, unprecedented social experiment that shaped — and destroyed — countless lives in China.
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Battle of Jangsari
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sThe forgotten heroes — Korean War, September 1950. In order to fight the enemy forces based in the South of the peninsula, General MacArthur orders the start of the Incheon Landing Operation, deploying diversionary attacks in other locations. Without real military forces to spare, 772 very young Korean student soldiers, barely trained, are sent to Jangsari Beach, where they will face a heroic fate and discover the value of friendship. (A sequel to Operation Chromite, released in 2016.)
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N.T.R: Kathanayakudu
🇮🇳 India The 1960s The 1970s The 1940sBased on the journey of the legendary Telugu actor, filmmaker and ex-Chief Minister Late Taraka Rama Rao Nandamuri.
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Bharat
🇮🇳 India The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960s The 2010sAt the cusp of India's birth as an Independent nation, a family makes an arduous journey to freedom at a cost. A young boy Bharat, makes a promise to his Father that he will keep his family together no matter what.
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Tune in for Love
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1990sIn 1994, on the first day that Yoo Yeul went on air as the new DJ of the popular radio show ‘Music Album,' a college girl Mi-su meets Hyun-woo who happens to drop by the bakery she works at. Like the music streaming from the radio, their frequencies slowly come in sync; even when they're apart, the show brings them together through ebbs and flows of events arising from both pure coincidence and inevitability, until the bitter reality sets in and drives them apart...
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Saving Leningrad
🇷🇺 Russia The 1940sSeptember, 1941. In a turn of events, young lovebirds Kostya and Nastya find themselves on board a barge that will evacuate people from the sieged Leningrad. At night the barge gets into the storm. When it starts sinking, enemy planes — but not rescuers — were the first to arrive at the scene.
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The Least of These
🇮🇳 India The 1990sThe Graham Staines Story — The story of missionary Graham Staines who was martyred in India in 1999. “The Least of These” shares the story leading up to the murders of the Australian Christian missionary and his sons, Philip, 10, and Timothy, 6, who were helping a community of lepers in India.
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The Gandhi Murder
🇮🇳 India The 1940sThree Senior police officers in different parts of India, who, well aware of the intelligence that Gandhi’s life in under threat, must take key decisions that would eventually either save the Mahatma, or the country.
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The Battle: Roar to Victory
Jilin Province 🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) 🇰🇷 South Korea The 1920sIn 1920, when Korea is under Japanese rule the Korean Independence Army’s Hae-chul and his subordinates are carrying out the operation to deliver funds to the Korean Provisional Government in Shanghai. During the operation Hae-chul is reunited with Jang-ha, a young squad commander, whose mission is to defend Samdunja. They unite and trap the Japanese soldiers in Samdunja, soundly defeating them. Now they’re chased by Japanese troops and Hae-chul finds out that Jang-ha’s mission isn’t over yet. A crucial yet dangerous task is still assigned to him.
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Rubaru Roshni
🇮🇳 India The 1980s The 2000sThe movie traces three real-life incidents that took place in '80s, 90s and 2000s respectively through the stories titled 'Orphan and the Convict', 'The Farmer and the Nun' and 'The Terror and the Mom'.
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The Swallows of Kabul
🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 1990sSummer 1998—Kabul under Taliban rule. Zunaira and Mohsen are young and in love. Despite the daily violence and misery, they hope for a better future. One day, a foolish gesture causes life to take an irrevocable turn.
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Bell Bottom
🇮🇳 India The 1980sThe Adventures of Detective Divakar — A fun ride to the 80s where a detective solves the mystery of serial police station robbery.
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Romeo Akbar Walter
🇮🇳 India 🇵🇰 Pakistan The 1970sOur Hero. Their Spy. — Prior to the India-Pakistan war of 1971, the RAW (Research and Analysis Wing) trains an Indian banker in espionage and martial arts, and sends him to Pakistan for an undercover operation where he finds himself sinking between emotions and violence.
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Inhuman Kiss
🇹🇭 Thailand The 1940sIn a far-away village, lived an innocent teenage girl, "Sai" who later discovered herself inheriting the curse of "Krasue". At night, her head would detach from her body and hunts for flesh and blood. Villagers are terrified by the deaths of their livestocks and that is when the Krasue hunt begins. "Jerd" a friend joined the hunt with an unknown reason while "Noi", the childhood friend who had just came back to the village decided to stand beside Sai despite knowing the horrifying truth.
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The Prisoner of Sakura
Ehime Prefecture The 1900sWith all the unrest and uncertainty in the world today, now feels as good a time as any for a movie portraying good will and love between people from opposing countries. The film is a love story set in the city of Matsuyama in Ehime Prefecture on the Japanese island of Shikoku against the historical backdrop of the Russo-Japanese War. The movie is centered around the romance between a Russian officer, a war prisoner in Matsuyama, and a Japanese nurse who find themselves on opposing sides of the war. It is a kind of "Romeo and Juliet story of the Russo-Japanese War".
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72 Hours: Martyr Who Never Died
🇮🇳 India The 1960sThe story is based on the life of Rifleman Jaswant Singh Rawat. 55 years ago during 1962 Indo-China war , when the destiny of war was pre decided, there stood a brave soldier from 4th Garhwal Rifle against all odds and guarded our post from Nurunaang Base in Arunachal Pradesh then called NEFA border.
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Kuwaresma
🇵🇭 Philippines The 1980sDarkness will test the strength of this family. — Luis finds out that his twin has just died, and comes back home to find out the cause of her death. He soon realizes that the darkness in their house never left.
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The Climbers
Tibet The 1960sMay 1960. Mount Everest, the second step under the cliff. The four members of the China Everest Climbing Commando are attacking the most difficult and most difficult "second step". This is their fifth assault. The first four failures have cost them too much physical strength - ...finally, the wind and snow stop the gap.
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Kaadhal Munnetra Kazhagam
🇮🇳 India The 1980sFour fans of actors Rajinikanth, Kamal Haasan, Vijayakanth and Karthik respectively, pursue the same girl.
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Chasing the Dragon II: Wild Wild Bunch
🇭🇰 Hong Kong 🇲🇴 Macao The 1990sBased on real-life crimes that terrorized Hong Kong in the 1990s, Logan (Tony Leung Ka-Fai) is the head of leading a notorious human trafficking gang, abducting the children of Hong Kong's elite. Police forces decide to send in Sky (Louis Koo), a Hong Kong undercover agent whose mission is to infiltrate and save the hostages, all while bringing the gang and their leader to justice.
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Ghost of the Golden Groves
🇮🇳 India The 1960sStrange incidents occur in the heart of Shonajhuri forest in rural Bengal which develops an ominous character of its own that allures and finally engulfs the protagonists.
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Quezon's Game
New York 🇵🇭 Philippines The 1930sThe film centers around Philippine President Manuel L. Quezon and his plan to shelter Jews in the Philippines who were fleeing from Nazi Germany during the World War II era.
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Gaddalakonda Ganesh
🇮🇳 India The 1980sAbhi wants to make a feature film with an antagonist as his lead and finds the perfect muse in the ruthless Gaddalakonda Ganesh. How he finally manages to make his debut forms the crux of the tale.
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Dorasaani
🇮🇳 India The 1980sSet in rural Telangana, A commoner dares to fall in love with a dorasaani named Devaki. Will their love survive despite the class differences?
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