1,702 Films & TV Shows Set In Asia During The 20th Century
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Lost Patrol
🇮🇶 Iraq The 1910sA patrol of twelve soldiers is lost in the desert and killed by the tribesmen, but the sergeant makes sure that one of the tribesmen dies for every one of his men.
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October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
🇷🇺 Russia The 1910sSergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet Montage' style, it re-enacts in celebratory terms several key scenes from the revolution.
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Anastasia, die falsche Zarentochter
🇷🇺 Russia The 1910sAnastasia's supposed escape and possible survival was one of the most popular historical mysteries of the 20th century, provoking many books and films. At least ten women claimed to be her, offering varying stories as to how she had survived. Anna Anderson, was maybe the best known Anastasia impostor.
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Clothes Make the Woman
California 🇷🇺 Russia The 1910sThe strange drama and romance of a princess without a name! Told against the background of grim Russia and gay Hollywood! — A young Russian peasant feels pity for the Princess Anastasia and saves her life by accidentally wounding her in the massacre of the Romanovs during the Russian Revolution.
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Dornenweg einer Fürstin
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The End of St. Petersburg
🇷🇺 Russia The 1910sThe End of St. Petersburg (Russian: Конец Санкт-Петербурга, translit. Konets Sankt-Peterburga) is a 1927 silent film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin and produced by Mezhrabpom. Commissioned to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution, The End of St Petersburg was to be Pudovkin's most famous film and secured his place as one of the foremost Soviet montage film directors. The film forms part of Pudovkin's 'revolutionary trilogy', alongside Mother (1926) and Storm Over Asia (1928).
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What Price Glory
🇵🇭 Philippines The 1910sU.S. Marine sergeants Quirt and Flagg are inveterate romantic rivals on peacetime assignments in China and the Philippines. In 1917, W.W. I brings them to France, where Flagg, now a captain, takes up with flirtatious Charmaine, inn-keeper's daughter. Of course, Quirt has to arrive and spoil his fun. But the harsh realities of war and the threat of a shotgun marriage give the two men a common cause...
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The Duchess of Buffalo
🇷🇺 Russia The 1900sZOWSKI! She danced on her toes and put Russia on it's ear! Napoleon's retreat from Moscow wasn't half so sensational as Connie's entry. — An American dancer on a tour of pre-Boleshevik Russia falls for a young army officer, and the feeling is mutual. However, the officer's father is the Grand Duke of Russia, and he has designs on the girl himself--not letting a minor detail like his already being married bother him--and refuses to let his son marry her.
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Aelita: Queen of Mars
🇷🇺 Russia Mars The 1920sA young man travels to Mars in a rocket ship, where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling group with the support of Queen Aelita, who has fallen in love with him after watching him through a telescope.
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The Epic of Everest
Tibet The 1920sThe official record of Mallory and Irvine's 1924 expedition. When George Mallory and Sandy Irvine attempted to reach the summit of Everest in 1924 they came closer than any previous attempt. Inspired by the work of Herbert Ponting (The Great White Silence) Captain Noel filmed in the harshest of conditions, with specially adapted equipment, to capture the drama of the fateful expedition.
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Bella Donna
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1900s The 1890sBella Donna, a seductive woman snares Nigel Armine into marriage and he takes her to Egypt to live. Tired of her simple husband, Bella becomes involved with brutish Baroudi.
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Love One Another
🇷🇺 Russia The 1900s The 1890sBased on the novel 'Elsker hverandre' by Aage Madelung, the film follows various lives, one of which is Jewish girl Hanne-Liebe, as she grows up, and experiences the pains of living as a Jew in Russia, leading to a revolution.
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The Murder of General Gryaznov
🇬🇪 Georgia The 1900sRevolutionary uprising of Georgian laborers in 1905.
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The Breath of the Gods
California 🇯🇵 Japan The 1900sWhile attending college in Washington, D.C., Yuki Onda, the daughter of a Japanese samurai, meets and falls in love with Pierre Le Beau, a diplomatic attaché. At the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, Pierre is sent to Japan as attaché to the Australian ambassador. When Yuki's father discovers his daughter's romance with a foreigner, he becomes enraged and betroths her to Prince Hagane for political reasons.
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Inside the Lines
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1910sA spy known as "1932" during World War I, is commissioned by the German Secret Service to trail English agent Captain Woodhouse to the Straits of Gibraltar and there effect the destruction of the British fleet. Before his departure, 1932 helps Jane Gerson, an American girl falsely accused of espionage, and later falls in love with her.
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
🇮🇶 Iraq 🇮🇹 Italy The 1910s The 1st Century The 16th CenturyThe Cruel Hand of Intolerance — The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
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Madame Butterfly
🇯🇵 Japan The 1900sThe story of a Japanese woman and the tragedy that ensues when she loves an American naval officer.
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Fire Under the Snow
Tibet The 1930s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980sPalden Gyatso, a Buddhist monk since childhood, was arrested by the Chinese Communist Army in 1959. He spent the next 33 years in prison for the "crimes" of peaceful demonstration and refusal to denounce his apolitical teacher as an Indian spy. He was tortured, starved and sentenced to hard labor. He watched his nation and culture destroyed, his teachers, friends and family displaced, jailed or killed under Chinese occupation. Fire Under the Snow reaches back to Palden's birth in 1933 and follows him through the Orwellian nightmare that began with the Chinese invasion. We cut back and forth between the past and Palden's present as an activist, living in exile. Our P.O.V. becomes a "third eye" hovering over Palden’s current life, haunted by his memories of the past. We explore the escalating cycle of interrogation and physical violation during his years in prison that ended decades later with Palden's escape from Tibet and a cathartic meeting with His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
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King of the Sands
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia The 1920s The 1930s The 1940sA daring, compelling and controversial take on the life of prince Abdulaziz Al Saud (Ibn Saud), founder of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Xinjiang The 1970sA child's-eye story of Shanghainese settlers in Xinjiang during the late Mao era.
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Roudram Ranam Rudhiram
🇮🇳 India The 1920sA fictional tale about two legendary Indian revolutionaries and their journey away from home before they started fighting for their country in 1920s.
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Hands Up!
🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sHands Up! is a 2003 Chinese historical comedy film directed and written by Feng Xiaoning, and produced by Han Sanping. The film stars Pan Changjiang, Guo Da, and Liu Wei. It based on the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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Virata Parvam
🇮🇳 India The 1990sRevolution is an act of LOVE — Set in a vintage backdrop, this period drama takes place in the year 1992 and reflects the socio-political conditions of the society at that time.
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