1,702 Films & TV Shows Set In Asia During The 20th Century
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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
England 🇫🇷 France 🇬🇷 Greece Tokyo Prefecture The 1970s The 1980s The 2010sDiscover how it all began. — Five years after meeting her three fathers, Sophie Sheridan prepares to open her mother’s hotel. In 1979, young Donna Sheridan meets the men who each could be Sophie’s biological father.
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Mahanati
🇮🇳 India The 1970s The 1980s The 1960s The 1950sCome Be A Part of History — Mahanati depicts the life and career of one of Telugu cinema's greatest and most iconic starlets, the first Indian female super star, Savitri.
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Rangasthalam
🇮🇳 India The 1980sChitti Babu begins to suspect his elder brother's life is in danger after they team up to lock horns with their village president and overthrow his unlawful 30 year old regime.
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Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran
🇮🇳 India The 1990sA look at India's second confidential nuclear test series at Pokhran lead by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, during the time of PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee's tenure.
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The Angel
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1970sTrue story of Ashraf Marwan, who was President Nasser's son-in-law and special adviser and confidant to his successor Anwar Sadat - while simultaneously Israeli Intelligence's most precious asset of the 20th century. Based on NYT bestselling book 'The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel' by Uri Bar-Joseph.
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The Blood of Wolves
Hiroshima Prefecture The 1980sSet in 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan, prior to the enactment of the anti-organized crime law. A rumor exists that Detective Shogo Ogami has ties with the yakuza. He is partnered with Detective Shuichi Hioka and they investigate a missing person case involving a financial company employee. Conflicts between opposing yakuza groups become more serious.
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The White Crow
🇫🇷 France 🇷🇺 Russia The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930sTo dance you must be free — The story of Rudolf Nureyev, whose escape to the West stunned the world at the height of the Cold War. With his magnetic presence, Nureyev emerged as ballet’s most famous star, a wild and beautiful dancer limited by the world of 1950s Leningrad. His flirtation with Western artists and ideas led him into a high-stakes game of cat and mouse with the KGB.
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Gold
🇮🇳 India England 🇩🇪 Germany The 1940s The 1930sThe Dream That United Our Nation — Set in 1948, the historic story of India's first Olympic medal post their independence.
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Creed II
New York Pennsylvania Nevada California British Columbia 🇷🇺 Russia 🇺🇦 Ukraine The 1980s The 2010sThere's More to Lose than a Title — Between personal obligations and training for his next big fight against an opponent with ties to his family's past, Adonis Creed is up against the challenge of his life.
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Sakura Guardian in the North
Hokkaido Prefecture The 1940s The 1970sThe film follows the relationship between a mother and her son. In 1945, the mother played by Sayuri Yoshinaga fled with her two sons from the Russians to Hokkaido. In 1972, her son played by Masato Sakai returns to Japan after finding success in the U.S.
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Shirkers
🇸🇬 Singapore The 1990sThere are movers, there are shakers, and there are shirkers — In 1992, teenager Sandi Tan shot Singapore's first indie road movie with her enigmatic American mentor Georges – who then vanished with all the footage. Twenty years later, the 16mm film is recovered, sending Tan, now a novelist in Los Angeles, on a personal odyssey in search of Georges' vanishing footprints.
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The Price of Free
🇮🇳 India The 1980s The 1990s The 2000s The 2010sAs a young man, Kailash Satyarthi promised himself that he would end child slavery in his lifetime. In the decades since, he has rescued more than eighty thousand children and built a global movement. This intimate and suspenseful film follows one man’s journey to do what many believed was impossible.
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1921
England 🇮🇳 India The 1920sA decade after 1920. — When Ayush arrives in England to learn music, he is shocked and scared when the manor he is living in becomes haunted by spirits. To exorcise them, he seeks the help of Rose, a woman who can see and speak with them.
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Operation Finale
🇮🇱 Israel 🇦🇷 Argentina The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sAfter World War II, Hitler’s deadliest lieutenant escaped. — In 1960, a team of Israeli secret agents is deployed to find Adolf Eichmann, the infamous Nazi architect of the Holocaust, supposedly hidden in Argentina, and get him to Israel to be judged.
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The Drug King
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1970sHe who was a criminal and a patriot — Busan, South Korea, 1970s. Lee Doo-sam is a small-time smuggler. After helping a drug gang to smuggle meth, he falls into the dark crime world. Quick-witted and full of ambition, he eventually takes over the drug underworld and starts to lead a double life: a good community leader during the day but an infamous drug lord during the night.
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Leto
🇷🇺 Russia The 1980sLeningrad, one summer in the early eighties. Smuggling LP’s by Lou Reed and David Bowie, the underground rock scene is boiling ahead of the Perestroika. Mike and his beautiful wife Natasha meet with young Viktor Tsoï. Together with friends, they will change the destiny of rock’n’roll in the Soviet Union.
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Hidden Man
🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sA martial arts-infused spy thriller set in 1937 Beijing. A time when China was lurching between revolution, prosperity, and chaos.
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Raid
🇮🇳 India The 1980sHeroes Don't Always Come in Uniform — An incorruptible IT officer Amay Patnaik (Ajay Devgn) gets an anonymous tip about a political leader Tauji’s (Saurabh Shukla) illegal assets. Patnaik plans an elaborate Raid on Tauji’s home and businesses.
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T-34
🇷🇺 Russia The 1940sFast And Furious On Tanks — In 1944, a courageous group of Russian soldiers managed to escape from German captivity in a half-destroyed legendary T-34 tank. Those were the times of unforgettable bravery, fierce fighting, unbreakable love, and legendary miracles.
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Subedar Joginder Singh
🇮🇳 India The 1960sIt is a biographical feature film on India's Highest Wartime Gallantry Award - Param Vir Chakra winner Subedar Joginder Singh. He fought three wars (as per records) for India before achieving martyrdom in the Sino-Indian War of 1962 while commanding a platoon in North Eastern Frontier Agency (NEFA) (Now Arunachal Pradesh). The story portrays his character and motivation in the scene of battle.
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Manto
🇮🇳 India 🇵🇰 Pakistan The 1940sIn Bombay's seedy-shiny film world, Manto and his stories are widely read and accepted. But as sectarian violence engulfs the nation, Manto makes the difficult choice of leaving his beloved Bombay. In Lahore, he finds himself bereft of friends and unable to find takers for his writings.
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The Spy Gone North
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) The 1990sIn the lasting days of the Cold War — South Korea, 1993. An agent of the National Intelligence Service is sent to Beijing with the assignment of infiltrating a group of North Korean officials with the ultimate goal of obtaining information about the North Korean nuclear program.
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Goyo: The Boy General
🇵🇭 Philippines The 1890s The 1900sRemember who you are — With this film (the second war trilogy set during the Filipino-American war in the early 1900s), the revolution marches on against the Americans after the bloody death of General Antonio Luna. The conflicted philosophies behind the heroic struggle continue and become personified in the colorful character of General Gregorio "Goyo" del Pilar.
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How Long Will I Love U
🇨🇳 China The 1990s The 2010sGu Xiaojiao, a young girl from 2018 and Lu Ming, a man from 1999, discover that they have both woken up in the same bed at the same space-time. More surprisingly, they realize that they can time travel by exiting the bedroom door. The fun begins when they start to plan a number of changes within these two eras. However, they do not know that their destiny is in the hands of a mysterious person.
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De acá a la China
🇨🇳 China The 1980s The 2010sIn 1986, Facundo's father had a store in the heart of Buenos Aires, and it was very successful. However, in the early 90s, with the arrival of Chinese supermarkets, the store couldn't compete and had to close. Thirty years later, Facundo travels to the other end of the planet with the sole purpose of getting revenge by opening the first Argentine supermarket in China.
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