1,702 Films & TV Shows Set In Asia During The 20th Century
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Song Lang
🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1980sWhen theatre and real life become one. — Set against a gloriously filmed backdrop of the distinctly jaded charm of mid-90s Saigon, the lives of two men intertwine as they are both bound by traditions and honor. One to his mafia family, the other to the traveling troupe that performs elaborate classic operas. Yet they have much more in common than either wants to admit.
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Hasina A Daughter's Tale
🇧🇩 Bangladesh The 1970sThe film covers the assassination of Hasina's father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman along with most of her family member in 1975.
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Default
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1990sOnly one week left until South Korea will go under sovereign default. Han Shi-Hyun is a leader of the monetary policy team at the Bank of Korea. and is assigned to a crisis team.
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Tankers
🇷🇺 Russia The 1940sThe film is based on the true story about a Soviet KV-1 crew of a Soviet KV-1 tank, under the command of Semyon Konovalov , whom despite being heavily outnumbered by German forces, destroyed 16 tanks, 2 armored vehicles and 8 other enemy vehicles at the village of Nizhnemytyakin, Tarasovsky district, Rostov region on July 13th, 1942.
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K.G.F: Chapter 1
🇮🇳 India The 1970s The 1980sFrom The Streets Of Mumbai...To The Bloody Gold Mines Of Kolar — A period drama set in the 1970s, KGF follows the story of a fierce rebel who rises against the brutal oppression in Kolar Gold Fields and becomes the symbol of hope to legions of downtrodden people.
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Sister
🇨🇳 China The 1990sA man remembers his childhood memory of growing up with an annoying little sister in 1990s China. How would his life have been if things had gone differently?
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Commando Ninja
California 🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1980s The 1990s The 1960sJohn Hunter is Vietnam Green Beret Veteran, Half Commando, Half Ninja, whose daughter has been abducted by a secret Ninja Organization, led by a Central-American dictator, who wants to create a new-world order - through time.
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The Looming Tower: Season 1
New York 🇾🇪 Yemen The 1990s The 2000sWhile Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda become a global threat, the rivalry between the CIA and FBI inadvertently sets the stage for the tragedy of 9/11 and the Iraq War.
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Kong: Skull Island
Illinois District of Columbia 🇹🇭 Thailand 🇻🇳 Vietnam Pacific Ocean The 1970s The 1940sAll hail the king — Explore the mysterious and dangerous home of the king of the apes as a team of explorers ventures deep inside the treacherous, primordial island.
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Guardians
🇦🇲 Armenia 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan 🇷🇺 Russia The 1980sSquad of Soviet Superheroes — During the Cold War, an organization called "Patriot" created a super-hero squad, which includes members of multiple soviet republics. For years, the heroes had to hide their identities, but in hard times they must show themselves again.
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Raees
🇮🇳 India The 1980sSet in the early ’80s and ’90s in Gujarat, India, ‘Raees’ is a fictitious story of a crime lord named Raees, who builds an entire empire from scratch, and a police officer who is determined to bring him down.
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Enkitta Mothathe
🇮🇳 India The 1980sTwo cut-out artists who idolize Tamil Superstar's Rajinikanth and Kamal Hassan face a challenge in the form of a bigwig who challenges them.
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Dalida
🇪🇬 Egypt The 1930s The 1940s The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980sBased on the true story of acclaimed music icon "Dalida" born in Cairo, who gained celebrity in the 50s, singing in French, Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, German, Italian, playing in awarded Youssef Chahine's picture "Le Sixième Jour", and who later committed suicide in 1987 in Paris, after selling more than 130 million records worldwide.
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Rangoon
🇲🇲 Myanmar The 1940sLove. War. Deceit — Julia travels to the Indo-Burma border to perform for the troops during the World War II, on the insistence of Billimoria, her lover. She finds herself in love with Jemadar Malik, a soldier there.
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Unknown Soldier
🇫🇮 Finland 🇷🇺 Russia The 1940sFinland, behold, thy daylight now is dawning. — The film follows Finnish army machine gun company in Continuation War against Soviet Union, 1941–1944. Based on Väinö Linna's best selling novel Tuntematon Sotilas (The Unknown Soldier) and the novel's uncensored version, Sotaromaani (A War Novel).
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Jagga Jasoos
🇮🇳 India Africa - General The 1990sA gifted teenage detective searches for his missing father with his ladylove assistant.
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The Death of Stalin
🇷🇺 Russia The 1950sIn the Kremlin, no one can hear you scheme — Proclaimed the funniest political comedy of the year (The Daily Beast), The Death of Stalin delivers a brutally executed parody of Cold War Russia. When the tyrannical ruler Stalin dies, his hapless inner circle scrambles to come up with the next evolution of the revolution ? but it's clear everyone is really out for themselves. Written and directed by Emmy® Award winning and Oscar® nominated Armando Iannucci, Rolling Stone calls the film a brilliant satire from a crack ensemble (including Emmy® and Golden Globe® winner Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Andrea Riseborough and Michael Palin). Proof that comedy, like politics, is all in the execution.
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The Eternal Road
🇷🇺 Russia 🇫🇮 Finland The 1930sFreedom lies beyond heaven and hell — Based on true events an epic story of one man's struggle for survival. Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930, nationalist thugs violently abduct Ketola from his home. Beaten and forced to walk the Eternal Road towards a foreign Soviet Russia, where cruelty seems to know no end, his only dream is to return to his family cost it what it may. Hope dies last.
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The Woman Who Left
🇵🇭 Philippines The 1990sGod sees the truth, but waits. — After spending the last 30 years in prison, Horacia is immediately released when someone else confessed to the crime. Still overwhelmed by her new freedom, she comes to the painful realization that her aristocratic former lover had set her up. As kidnappings targeting the wealthy begin to proliferate, Horacia sees the opportunity to plot her revenge.
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A Death in the Gunj
🇮🇳 India The 1970sA sensitive university student unraveling while on a week-long vacation with a crowd of cocksure relatives and family friends.
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Mr. No Problem
Chongqing Municipality The 1940sShot in stylish black-and-white, this three-act fable, set in wartime Chongqing, focuses on the indifferent rich, the head clerk on a farm, and some young intruders. Based on a 1943 short story, the film was directed by noted screenwriter Mei Feng.
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Top Knot Detective
🇦🇺 Australia 🇯🇵 Japan The 1990sThe greatest 90's Japanese samurai series you've never heard of — In the early 1990s, a Japanese samurai detective series was aired in Australia and became a cult success. Titled in Japan “Ronin Suiri Tentai” (meaning roughly “Deductive Reasoning Ronin”), it was soon known in the West as “Top Knot Detective.” The original series was legendary in Japan, a cultural train wreck led by Takashi Tawagoto, a crazy writer, producer, director and lead actor; one who could not act, fight or write at all.
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Anbanavan Asaradhavan Adangadhavan
🇮🇳 India 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates The 1980s The 2010sLovable Man, Uninfluenced Man, Undisciplined Man — A local gangster in Madurai bids adieu to his past life. Years after, in his mid-50s, he falls in love with a young girl, which changes his life
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Victoria & Abdul
Scotland England 🇮🇹 Italy 🇮🇳 India The 1900s The 1880sHistory's most unlikely friendship. — Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
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1971: Beyond Borders
🇮🇳 India 🇵🇰 Pakistan The 1970sSet against the backdrop of 1971 Indo-Pak war, the movie is inspired by real incidents and the protagonists are inspired by Param Vir Chakra recipients. The movie shows what consequences of war are on the lives of soldiers on either side of the border.
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