535 Films & TV Shows Set In Asia During The 21st Century
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Hondros
๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq ๐ฑ๐พ Libya ๐ฑ๐ท Liberia The 2000s The 2010sHONDROS follows the life and career of famous war photographer Chris Hondros by exploring the poignant and often surprising stories behind this award-winning photojournalist's best-known photos. Driven by a commitment to bear witness to the wars of our time after the events of 9/11, Chris was among the first in a new generation of war photographers since Vietnam. HONDROS explores the complexities inherent in covering more than a decade of conflict, while trying to maintain a normal life. It also examines the unknowable calculus involved in making split-second life and death decisions -- before, during and after his photos were made. Chris was killed in Libya in 2011, but he left a lasting impact on his profession that is still felt today.
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Demons in Paradise
๐ฑ๐ฐ Sri Lanka The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sSri Lanka 1983, Jude Ratman is five years old. On a red train, he feels the massacre of the Tamils instigated by the Pro-Sinhalese majoritarian government. Now a filmmaker, he takes the same train from South to North. As he advances, the traces of the violence of the 26-year-old war and the one which turned the Tamil's fight for freedom into a self-destructive terrorism pass before his eyes. Reminiscing the hidden souvenirs of fighters and Tamil Tigers, he unveils the repressed memories of his compatriots, opening the door to a new era and making peace possible again. DEMONS IN PARADISE is the result of ten years of work. For the first time, a Tamil documentary filmmaker living in Sri Lanka is seeing the Civil war from the inside.
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Crazy Rich Asians
๐ฒ๐พ Malaysia ๐ธ๐ฌ Singapore The 1990s The 2010sThe only thing crazier than love is family. โ An American-born Chinese economics professor accompanies her boyfriend to Singapore for his best friend's wedding, only to get thrust into the lives of Asia's rich and famous.
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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
England ๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฌ๐ท Greece Tokyo Prefecture The 1970s The 1980s The 2010sDiscover how it all began. โ Five years after meeting her three fathers, Sophie Sheridan prepares to open her motherโs hotel. In 1979, young Donna Sheridan meets the men who each could be Sophieโs biological father.
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Johnny English Strikes Again
England ๐ซ๐ท France Tokyo Prefecture ๐ธ๐ฌ Singapore The 2010sHis licence renewed. His intelligence restricted. โ Disaster strikes when a criminal mastermind reveals the identities of all active undercover agents in Britain. The secret service can now rely on only one man - Johnny English. Currently teaching at a minor prep school, Johnny springs back into action to find the mysterious hacker. For this mission to succeed, heโll need all of his skills - what few he has - as the man with yesterdayโs analogue methods faces off against tomorrowโs digital technology.
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Kedarnath
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 2010sLove Is A Pilgrimage โ Mansoor, a reserved and reticent Pithoo (porter), helps pilgrims make an arduous journey upwards to the temple town. His world turns around when he meets the beautiful and rebellious Mukku who draws him into a whirlwind of intense love.
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Illang: The Wolf Brigade
๐ฐ๐ท South Korea The 2020sIn 2029, the elite police squad Illang combats a terrorist group opposing reunification of the two Koreas. But another enemy may be lurking nearby.
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Creed II
New York Pennsylvania Nevada California British Columbia ๐ท๐บ Russia ๐บ๐ฆ Ukraine The 1980s The 2010sThere's More to Lose than a Title โ 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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Unforgiven
๐จ๐ญ Switzerland ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ช๐ธ Spain ๐ท๐บ Russia The 2000sI've Given Up On God โ Based on true and tragic events in the life of Vitaly Kaloyev, an architect and family man. In 2002, his wife and children die in a mid-air collision along with 70 other people, mostly children. Vitaly is one of the first people to discover the bodies of his family at the site of the crash. The blame is put on the company responsible for monitoring the air space, as well as the lone air traffic controller on duty at the time. Two years later, after much obstructed efforts to get apologies and answers, Vitaly flies to Switzerland to obtain justice.
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The Trader
๐ฌ๐ช Georgia The 2010sA traveling trader provides a window into rural life in the Republic of Georgia, where potatoes are currency and ambition is crushed by poverty.
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Our New President
๐ท๐บ Russia ๐บ๐ธ United States of America The 2010sThe story of Donald Trump's election told entirely through Russian propaganda. By turns horrifying and hilarious, the film is a satirical portrait of Russian meddling in the 2016 election that reveals an empire of fake news and the tactics of modern day information warfare.
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The Price of Free
๐ฎ๐ณ 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 manโs journey to do what many believed was impossible.
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On Her Shoulders
๐จ๐ฆ Canada ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq New York The 2010sNadia Murad, a 23-year-old Yazidi, survived genocide and sexual slavery committed by ISIS. Repeating her story to politicians and media, this ordinary girl finds herself thrust onto the world stage as the voice of her people. Away from the podium, she must navigate bureaucracy, fame and people's good intentions.
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Butterflies
๐น๐ท Turkey The 2010sThere is nothing more dangerous than an astronaut with nothing to lose โ Three strangers with one thing in common โ the same father โ come to a Turkish village to bury him, and learn about him and each other.
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Dead Pigs
Shanghai The 2010sA pig farmer, a busboy, a salon owner, an expat architect and a jaded rich girl cross paths as thousands of dead pigs float down the Yangtze River toward Shanghai.
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Genesis 2.0
๐ท๐บ Russia The Arctic Circle ๐จ๐ณ China ๐ฐ๐ท South Korea Massachusetts The 2010sA well-preserved mammoth carcass is found in the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, opening up the possibility of a world-changing โJurassic Parkโ moment in genetics.
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Rosapoo
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 2000sShajahan and Ambros are two youngsters who struggle to make the ends meet. Already neck deep in debt, they try a variety of businesses, without much success in any. Following a friend's advice, they decide to try their luck in filmmaking as a last resort.
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How Long Will I Love U
๐จ๐ณ 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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Heading Home: The Tale of Team Israel
๐ฐ๐ท South Korea ๐ฏ๐ต Japan The 2010sA team of nice Jewish baseball players takes on the world.
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De acรก a la China
๐จ๐ณ 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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When the Storm Fades
๐ต๐ญ Philippines The 2010sIn this affecting, provocative docudrama from Sean Devlin, a Filipino family reenacts their own experiences of resolutely rebuilding their homes and lives in the wake of the devastation wrought by 2013โs Hurricane Yolanda. Not helping matters are two ineffectual foreign aid workers (Kayla Lorette and Aaron Read) who arenโt quite the white saviours they fancy themselves to be.
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Pause
๐จ๐พ Cyprus The 2010sTrapped in the misery of an oppressive marriage, a middle-aged woman finds refuge in a fantasy world of vindictive violence โ Trapped in the misery of an oppressive marriage, a middle-aged woman finds refuge in a fantasy world of vindictive violence. Soon, reality and fantasy start to blur.
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Take Point
๐ฐ๐ต North Korea (DPRK) ๐ฐ๐ท South Korea The 2020sStateless. Honorless. War for Money. โ On the day of the U.S. presidential election in 2024, a team of elite mercenaries embark on a secret CIA mission to abduct North Korea's politician in an underground bunker below the Korean Demilitarized Zone. However, they get caught in the crossfire which causes tensions to escalate to the brink of World War III.
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Little Miss Sumo
๐ฏ๐ต Japan The 2010sIn an ancient sport traditionally reserved for men, 20-year-old female sumo prodigy Hiyori attempts to revolutionize Japanโs national pastime.
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The Looming Tower: Season 1
New York ๐พ๐ช 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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