535 Films & TV Shows Set In Asia During The 21st Century
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For Sama
๐ธ๐พ Syria The 2010sAn intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war โ A love letter from a young mother to her daughter, the film tells the story of Waad al-Kateabโs life through five years of the uprising in Aleppo, Syria as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth to Sama, all while cataclysmic conflict rises around her. Her camera captures incredible stories of loss, laughter and survival as Waad wrestles with an impossible choiceโ whether or not to flee the city to protect her daughterโs life, when leaving means abandoning the struggle for freedom for which she has already sacrificed so much.
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Battalion 609
๐ฎ๐ณ India ๐ต๐ฐ Pakistan The 2010sOne Man Will Break The Rules And Change The History โ The story of Battalion 609 revolves around a cricket match between the Indian Army and the Pakistan army gone wrong and narrates the tale of the brave soldiers of Battalion 609 putting up a fight with the mighty Taliban.
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Rubaru Roshni
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1980s The 2000sThe movie traces three real-life incidents that took place in '80s, 90s and 2000s respectively through the stories titled 'Orphan and the Convict', 'The Farmer and the Nun' and 'The Terror and the Mom'.
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Aziza
๐ฑ๐ง Lebanon The 2010sA dynamic take on the life of Syrian refugees told through black comedy.
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Ashfall
๐ฐ๐ต North Korea (DPRK) ๐ฐ๐ท South Korea The 2010sOnly one chance to save the nation. โ A group of unlikely heroes from across the Korean peninsula try to save the day after a volcano erupts on the mythical and majestic Baekdu Mountain.
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Argentina Fans Kaattoorkadavu
๐ฆ๐ช United Arab Emirates The 2010sSet on the background of an Argentina football team fan Vipinan between their reign from the 2010 to 2018 FIFA world cups.
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Bombay Rose
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 2010sAmidst the bustle of a magnetic and multifaceted city, the budding love between two dreamers is tested by duty and religious divides.
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Fahim
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฎ๐ณ India ๐ง๐ฉ Bangladesh The 2010sFahim Mohammad, a Bangladeshi immigrant, becomes a world junior chess champion in France.
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Nina Wu
๐น๐ผ Taiwan The 2010sNina Wu, a girl who leaves small theatre company in the country for the big city in pursuit of her actress dream. The wait seems to be endless, as she lives a lonely and repressed life combined with hereditary condition, she suffers from minor depression. One day, she gets a role as a heroine in a 70s espionage film. Having decided to devote herself completely to the character, she did everything she could to get the role and she did succeed. When she finally welcomes her long anticipation of fame, series of unfortunate events and threats start to haunt her. Having to struggle her way through gender and sexuality equality, can Nina, like many other minor individual fight against the odds in life and stand undefeated? Or is it just real life that no one can escape from endless hardships?
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Hello World
Osaka Prefecture Kyoto Prefecture The 2020s The 2030s The 2050sYear 2027, The city of Kyoto has undergone tremendous advancement. Within the city lives Naomi Katagaki, an introvert and Ruri Ichigyล, a girl with a cold personality. Both share a love for reading books. Despite having similar interests, Naomi is afraid to approach Ruri due to her unfriendly nature. One day, as Naomi goes out for a walk, a crimson aurora pierces through the sky for a brief moment. Shortly after, he sees a three-legged crow and a mysterious man who reveals himself to be Naomi from 10 years in the future, explaining that he has come to change a tragic event that happens to Ruri shortly after they start dating. Naomi follows his future self's instructions and starts getting closer to Ruri, determined to save her. With the help of his future self, Naomi begins his preparations to save Ruri. Will he be able to change the future?
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Her Blue Sky
Saitama Prefecture The 2010sHigh school student Aoi lives with her elder sister, Akane, after a tragic accident took their parents away 13 years ago. Because Akane has since been taking care of her single-handedly, Aoi wants to move to Tokyo after her graduation to relieve her sister's burden and pursue a musical career, inspired by Akane's ex-boyfriend Shinnosuke "Shinno" Kanamuro. Shinno was part of a band until he left for Tokyo to become a professional bassist after the sisters' parents passed away. One afternoon, while Aoi practices her guitar in a guest house, she gets startled by the 18-year-old version of Shinno from 13 years ago! As if by coincidence, the current 31-year-old Shinno also returns to the town, but he has changed drastically. There are now two Shinno's in existence, but why is the Shinno from the past present? The story revolves around these four individuals as they confront their inner feelings toward each other and make decisions that will affect their lives from here on out.
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Nungambakkam
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 2010sThe story based on the sensational Swathi murder case. Nungambakkam title refers to the railway station in Chennai where the 24-year-old software engineer Swathi was stabbed to death. Swathi was murdered when she was waiting for the train in the morning at the Nungambakkam railway station on June 24, 2016.
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Pacific Rim: Uprising
California Shanghai Tokyo Prefecture New South Wales The 2030sRise Up โ It has been ten years since The Battle of the Breach and the oceans are still, but restless. Vindicated by the victory at the Breach, the Jaeger program has evolved into the most powerful global defense force in human history. The PPDC now calls upon the best and brightest to rise up and become the next generation of heroes when the Kaiju threat returns.
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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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Venom
California ๐ฒ๐พ Malaysia The 2010sThe world has enough Superheroes. โ Investigative journalist Eddie Brock attempts a comeback following a scandal, but accidentally becomes the host of Venom, a violent, super powerful alien symbiote. Soon, he must rely on his newfound powers to protect the world from a shadowy organization looking for a symbiote of their own.
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Tomb Raider
England ๐ญ๐ฐ Hong Kong ๐ฏ๐ต Japan The 2010sHer legend begins. โ Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she finds herself on the island where her father disappeared.
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The Equalizer 2
Massachusetts District of Columbia ๐ง๐ช Belgium ๐น๐ท Turkey The 2010sThere is no equal. โ Robert McCall, who serves an unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed, embarks on a relentless, globe-trotting quest for vengeance when a long-time girl friend is murdered.
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The Meg
Hainan Province Shanghai Tokyo Prefecture ๐น๐ญ Thailand Pacific Ocean The 2010sChomp On This โ A deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally unleashes the seventy foot ancestor of the Great White Shark believed to be extinct.
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Deadpool 2
New York Mississippi ๐ญ๐ฐ Hong Kong Osaka Prefecture ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 2010sPrepare for the Second Coming. โ Wisecracking mercenary Deadpool battles the evil and powerful Cable and other bad guys to save a boy's life.
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Kursk
๐ท๐บ Russia The 2000sTogether till the end โ Barents Sea, August 12th, 2000. During a Russian naval exercise, and after suffering a serious accident, the K-141 Kursk submarine sinks with 118 crew members on board. While the few sailors who are still alive barely manage to survive, their families push for accurate information and a British officer struggles to obtain from the Russian government a permit to attempt a rescue before it is late. But general incompetence are against all their efforts.
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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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12 Strong
๐ฆ๐ซ Afghanistan New York The 2000sThe declassified true story of the horse soldiers โ A team of CIA agents and special forces head into Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks in an attempt to dismantle the Taliban.
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Have a Nice Day
Jiangsu Province The 2010sThree parties pursue the million dollars that driver Xiao Zhang stole to help out his girlfriend.
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Ash Is Purest White
Shanxi Province The 2000s The 2010sSet in China's underworld, this tale of love and betrayal follows a dancer who fired a gun to protect her mobster boyfriend during a fight. On release from prison 5 years later, she sets out to find him.
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Skyscraper
๐ญ๐ฐ Hong Kong The 2010sDon't look down โ Framed and on the run, a former FBI agent must save his family from a blazing fire in the world's tallest building.
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