535 Films & TV Shows Set In Asia During The 21st Century
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Ardha Shathabdham
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 2000sAfter five decades of Independence, India's rural landscape still throws up unanswerable questions. Can a love story bring a revolution? Witness this earthy love story set in the early 2000s.
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And Tomorrow You Will Be Dead
๐ต๐ฐ Pakistan The 2010sIn 2011 the young married Swiss couple Daniela Widmer and David Och got kidnapped while being on a long trip along the old Silk Road in Pakistan. They were hand over to the Taliban and were held as hostages for 8 months under the most precarious conditions.
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Chinese Doctors
Hubei Province The 2020sBased on real-life events, the film recounts the efforts of the Wuhan medical staff as they attempt to deal with the rising cases of Covid-19.
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The Falls
๐น๐ผ Taiwan The 2020sWhile quarantining, the relationship between a mother and daughter takes an unexpected turn.
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Q: Into the Storm: Season 1
๐ต๐ญ Philippines District of Columbia The 2010sWho controls QAnon? โ A three-year investigation chronicles the evolution of โQโ in real time, with access to key players, along with an examination of how the anonymous character uses conspiracy theories and information warfare to influence politics.
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Squid Game: Season 1
๐ฐ๐ท South Korea The 2020sHundreds of cash-strapped players accept a strange invitation to compete in children's games. Inside, a tempting prize awaits โ with deadly high stakes.
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The Last Full Measure
Ohio District of Columbia ๐ป๐ณ Vietnam The 1990s The 1960s The 2000sThe ultimate sacrifice deserves the highest honor. โ The incredible true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger, a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen medic who personally saved over sixty men. Thirty-two years later, Pentagon staffer Scott Huffman investigates a Congressional Medal of Honor request for Pitsenbarger and uncovers a high-level conspiracy behind the decades-long denial of the medal, prompting Huffman to put his own career on the line to seek justice for the fallen airman.
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The Grudge
Pennsylvania Tokyo Prefecture The 2000sAfter a young mother murders her family in her own house, a detective attempts to investigate the mysterious case, only to discover that the house is cursed by a vengeful ghost. Now targeted by the demonic spirits, the detective must do anything to protect herself and her family from harm.
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Bill & Ted Face the Music
California Louisiana England ๐ฆ๐น Austria ๐จ๐ณ China Africa - General The 1960s The 1920s The 2020s The 2030s The 2060s The 18th CenturyThe future awaits โ Yet to fulfill their rock and roll destiny, the now middle-aged best friends Bill and Ted set out on a new adventure when a visitor from the future warns them that only their song can save life as we know it. Along the way, they are helped by their daughters, a new batch of historical figures and a few music legendsโto seek the song that will set their world right and bring harmony to the universe.
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Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku
Tokyo Prefecture The 2010sAn effervescent musical about one of the most unlikely couples seen on screen: two Otaku intent on hiding their nerdiness from their colleagues!
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Fukushima 50
Fukushima Prefecture The 2010sIn the darkest hours, courage prevails โ Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan risk their lives and stay at the nuclear power plant to prevent total destruction after the region is devastated by an earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
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Da 5 Bloods
๐ป๐ณ Vietnam The 2020sA War Never Ends โ Four African-American Vietnam veterans return to Vietnam. They are in search of the remains of their fallen squad leader and the promise of buried treasure. These heroes battle forces of humanity and nature while confronted by the lasting ravages of the immorality of the Vietnam War.
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Yalda
๐ฎ๐ท Iran The 2010sA Night for Forgiveness โ Maryam accidentally killed her husband Nasser and is sentenced to death. The only person who can save her is Mona, Nasser's daughter. All Mona has to do is appear on a TV show and forgive Maryam. But forgiveness proves difficult when they are forced to relive the past.
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The Asadas!
Mie Prefecture The 2010sMasashi (Kazunari Ninomiya) is a photographer. He has his parents and an older brother Yukihiro (Satoshi Tsumabuki). Through the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, Masashi begins to take staged photos of his family.
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Pawn
๐ฐ๐ท South Korea The 1990s The 2000sA loan shark takes a girl hostage as pawn for her parents' debt.
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Steel Rain 2: Summit
๐ฐ๐ต North Korea (DPRK) ๐ฐ๐ท South Korea The 2020sA War Begins With The Summit For Peace โ A futuristic film about a crisis near the brink of war after three leaders are kidnapped by a North Korean nuclear submarine in a coup dโรฉtat during a summit between the two Koreas and the United States.
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Gulabo Sitabo
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 2020sSet in present-day Lucknow, Gulabo Sitabo is a social satire about two impossibly peculiar human beings, Mirza Chunnan Nawab, who stays in a dilapidated mansion and one of the tenants, Bankey Rastogi.
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An American Pickle
New York ๐ท๐บ Russia The 2020s The 2010s The 1910sAn immigrant worker at a pickle factory is accidentally preserved for 100 years and wakes up in modern day Brooklyn. He learns his only surviving relative is his great grandson, a computer coder who he canโt connect with.
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Chintu Ka Birthday
๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq The 2000sDuring US invasion of Iraq some illegal migrants are waiting to get back home to India. As one such family prepares to celebrate the 6th birthday of their youngest member Chintu, their kind-hearted Iraqi landlord lends them a helping hand.
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Josee, the Tiger and the Fish
Ontario Osaka Prefecture The 2010sTogether they can fly. โ With dreams of diving abroad, Tsuneo gets a job assisting Josee, an artist whose imagination takes her far beyond her wheelchair. But when the tide turns against them, they push each other to places they never thought possible, and inspire a love fit for a storybook.
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Welcome to Chechnya
๐ท๐บ Russia The 2010sInside the Russian Republic's deadly war on gays โ This searing investigative work shadows a group of activists risking unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ program raging in the repressive and closed Russian republic. Unfettered access and a remarkable approach to protecting anonymity exposes this under-reported atrocityโand an extraordinary group of people confronting evil.
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The Reason I Jump
๐ฎ๐ณ India Virginia England The 2010sBased on the book by a non-verbal autistic man, Naoki Higashida, filmmaker Jerry Rothwell examines the lives of five non-speaking, autistic youngsters.
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Curveball
๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq The 2000sAlthough he already has searched Iraq unsuccessfully for weapons of mass destruction as a member of a UN mission, German bio-weapons expert Arndt Wolf is still obsessed with the idea that Saddam Hussein is hiding something. Nobody around him is interested in this topic any more. This changes abruptly when an Iraqi asylum seeker claims to have been involved in the manufacture of chemical weapons. The German Federal Intelligence Service summons Dr. Wolf to ascertain the legitimacy of the claims made by the informant, who has been given the code name โCurveballโ.
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The Man Who Sold His Skin
๐ง๐ช Belgium ๐ฑ๐ง Lebanon ๐ธ๐พ Syria The 2010sTo be able to travel to Europe and find the love of his life, Sam Ali, a Syrian refugee, accepts to have his back tattooed by one of the most sulfurous contemporary artist; becoming that way a precious work of art.
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Karthik Dial Seytha Yenn
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 2020sA sequel to his Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa (2010), it stars Silambarasan and Trisha reprising their roles from that film.
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