1,702 Films & TV Shows Set In Asia During The 20th Century
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99
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1990s99 is a 2019 Indian Kannada-language romance film directed by Preetham Gubbi and produced by Ramu. The film stars Ganesh and Bhavana in the lead roles.The film was released on 1 May 2019. It is a remake of the 2018 Tamil film 96 which was reported to have similarities with the 2016 movie Blue Jay.
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Detention
๐น๐ผ Taiwan The 1960sBack to School... โ Set in Taiwan during the 'White Terror' period of martial law, a high school girl who awakens in an empty school, only to find that her entire community has been abandoned except for one other student. Soon they realize that they have entered a realm filled with vengeful spirits and hungry ghosts.
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Labyrinth of Cinema
Hiroshima Prefecture The 1940sThe story centers on a group of young people who travel back in time when they are in a movie theater just before closing time. They witness deaths during the closing days of Japanโs feudal times and on the battlefront in China before they are sent to Hiroshima just before the Aug. 6, 1945, atomic bombing of the city.
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Porinju Mariam Jose
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1980sKattalan Porinju and Jose are friends as thick as thieves. Mariyam and Porinju have an unrequited love story that has Jose invested in fulfilling. Chaos ensues when a skirmish pulls in all three of them in a series of violent outbursts.
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Operation Gold Fish
๐ฎ๐ณ India ๐ต๐ฐ Pakistan The 1980sOperation Gold Fish is an upcoming Telugu action thriller film written and directed by Sai Kiran Adivi.
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Coup 53
๐ฎ๐ท Iran The 1950sOld secrets cast long shadows โ Tehran, Iran, August 19, 1953. A group of Iranian conspirators who, with the approval of the deposed tyrant Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, have conspired with agents of the British MI6 and the US CIA, manage to put an end to the democratic government led by Mohammad Mosaddegh, a dramatic event that will begin the tragic era of coups d'รฉtat that, orchestrated by the CIA, will take place, over the following decades, in dozens of countries around the world.
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The Garden of Evening Mists
๐ฒ๐พ Malaysia The 1950sA woman seeking a quiet life in post-World War II British Malaya finds love and a common interest in gardening with a mysterious Japanese man.
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Avane Srimannarayana
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1980sIn the pursuit of solving an ancient mystery of Amaravati, Narayana, a corrupt cop must battle the dangerous clan of dacoits and it's fierce leader.
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Culion
๐ต๐ญ Philippines The 1940sThis is as much the story of three women as it is the story of Culion. โ In the 1940s, Anna, Doris, and Ditas are patients afflicted with Hansenโs Disease (or widely known as leprosy) who live in Culion at a time when the disease is practically a life sentence. No cure has yet been found, and no one is allowed to leave.
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Saak
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1940sSaak โ While at home on leave, a Punjabi soldier falls in love with a woman whose father forbids her to marry a member of the military.
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George Reddy
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1960s The 1970sGeorge Reddy is a biopic based on the life of a student leader, boxer and Gold medalist, who influenced the politics of Andhra Pradesh state in Osmania University between 1967 and 1972. He is often remembered for inspiring revolutionary thoughts until he was brutally murdered at his hostel in 1972.
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Ip Man: Kung Fu Master
Guangdong Province The 1940sIp Manโs promising career as a Policeman is ruined after he is framed for murder and targeted by a mob bossโs daughter.
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The Outsider
๐ฏ๐ต Japan The 1950sA former American G.I. joins a yakuza family after his release from prison in post-World War II Osaka.
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Black Panther
Africa - General California England ๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐ฐ๐ท South Korea ๐ณ๐ฌ Nigeria The 1990s The 2010sLong live the king. โ King T'Challa returns home to the reclusive, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda to serve as his country's new leader. However, T'Challa soon finds that he is challenged for the throne by factions within his own country as well as without. Using powers reserved to Wakandan kings, T'Challa assumes the Black Panther mantle to join with ex-girlfriend Nakia, the queen-mother, his princess-kid sister, members of the Dora Milaje (the Wakandan 'special forces') and an American secret agent, to prevent Wakanda from being dragged into a world war.
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Damascus Cover
๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ธ๐พ Syria The 1980sA spy navigates the precarious terrain of love and survival during an undercover mission in Syria.
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Air Strike
Chongqing Municipality The 1940s The 1930sThey fought World War II's greatest battle. โ An American pilot is sent to a Chinese province to teach a crew of would-be pilots how to fly war planes against the Japanese during World War II.
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Mohalla Assi
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1980sAn idealist Sanskrit teacher deals with issues like commercialization of religion as things around him change and he struggles to keep up. But is he ready to pay the price?
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Beirut
๐ฑ๐ง Lebanon The 1970s The 1980sBeirut, 1982: The Paris of the Middle East Was Burning โ In 1980s Beirut, Mason Skiles is a former U.S. diplomat who is called back into service to save a colleague from the group that is possibly responsible for his own family's death. Meanwhile, a CIA field agent who is working under cover at the American embassy is tasked with keeping Mason alive and ensuring that the mission is a success.
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Vada Chennai
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sA young carrom player in North Chennai becomes a reluctant participant in a war between two warring gangsters.
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7 Days in Entebbe
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐บ๐ฌ Uganda The 1970s248 passengers were held hostage. For seven days, the world was held captive. โ In 1976, four hijackers take over an Air France airplane en route from Tel Aviv to Paris and force it to land in Entebbe, Uganda. With 248 passengers on board, one of the most daring rescue missions ever is set in motion.
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96
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1990sRam is a photographer and nature lover who travels all around India capturing moments. On a chance visit to his hometown Tanjavur, he goes into his school and begins to walk down memory lane to 1994 when he was a student harboring feelings for his classmate Janu.
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Arif V 216
๐น๐ท Turkey The 1960sAfter 8 years, Arif's old friend 216 from planet GORA pays a visit to Earth.Together they go on a quest where they'll be visiting 60's.
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Demons in Paradise
๐ฑ๐ฐ Sri Lanka The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sSri Lanka 1983, Jude Ratman is five years old. On a red train, he feels the massacre of the Tamils instigated by the Pro-Sinhalese majoritarian government. Now a filmmaker, he takes the same train from South to North. As he advances, the traces of the violence of the 26-year-old war and the one which turned the Tamil's fight for freedom into a self-destructive terrorism pass before his eyes. Reminiscing the hidden souvenirs of fighters and Tamil Tigers, he unveils the repressed memories of his compatriots, opening the door to a new era and making peace possible again. DEMONS IN PARADISE is the result of ten years of work. For the first time, a Tamil documentary filmmaker living in Sri Lanka is seeing the Civil war from the inside.
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Crazy Rich Asians
๐ฒ๐พ Malaysia ๐ธ๐ฌ Singapore The 1990s The 2010sThe only thing crazier than love is family. โ An American-born Chinese economics professor accompanies her boyfriend to Singapore for his best friend's wedding, only to get thrust into the lives of Asia's rich and famous.
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