535 Films & TV Shows Set In Asia During The 21st Century
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Machines
🇮🇳 India The 2010sThis portrayal of the rhythm of life and work in a gigantic textile factory in Gujarat, India, moves through the corridors and bowels of the enormously disorienting structure—taking the viewer on a journey of dehumanizing physical labor and intense hardship.
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The Breadwinner
🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 2000sA headstrong young girl in Afghanistan, ruled by the Taliban, disguises herself as a boy in order to provide for her family.
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Duckweed
Shanghai The 1990s The 2020sWhen a son attempts to reconcile with his father, a series of fateful events allow him to experience the father’s life in the past.
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Major Grom
🇷🇺 Russia The 2010sIgor Grom, a skilled detective from St. Petersburg, happened to be at the scene of a bank robbery and decides to stop them.
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Tad, the Lost Explorer, and the Secret of King Midas
🇪🇸 Spain 🇹🇷 Turkey The 2010sTad dreams of becoming an archaeologist traveling the world, uncovering hidden secrets and lost treasure, but his job working construction keeps him daydreaming instead of exploring. The chance of a lifetime comes when he is invited to attend archaeologist Sara Lavrof's presentation of her latest discovery - the papyrus that proves the existence of the Necklace of Midas, the legendary King who turned everything he touched into solid gold.
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Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru
🇮🇳 India The 1990s The 2000sA hardnosed cop goes after a gang of ruthless dacoits who have been terrorising residents along the highway for a decade.
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About Love. Adults Only
🇷🇺 Russia The 2010sThe second part of the film “About Love”. Moscow, summer 2016. A new lecture, a new lecturer with a new theme: “How to preserve love in the modern world” – and five new stories about love. The heroes still suffer, struggle for love, even more often get into absurd and ridiculous situations, and yet they trust in love even more.
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Honnouji Hotel
🇯🇵 Japan The 16th Century The 2010sIn Kyoto, Mayuko (Haruka Ayase) stands at a crossroad in her life. She's thinking about marriage with her boyfriend Kyoichi (Hiroyuki Hirayama). By an accidental opportunity, Mayuko stays at Honnouji Hotel. There, she meets historical figure Nobunaga Oda (Shinichi Tsutsumi) who is attempting to unify Japan.
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100 Poems for Stella
🇵🇭 Philippines The 2000sThroughout his four years in college, Fidel, a stuttering student, tries to finish 100 poems dedicated to Stella, an aspiring but frustrated rock star, to win her heart.
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Ayla: The Daughter of War
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950s The 2000sIn 1950, amidst the ravages of the Korean War, Sergeant Süleyman stumbles upon a a half-frozen little girl, with no parents and no help in sight. Frantic, scared and on the verge of death, this little girl captures the heart of Süleyman, who risks his own life to save her, smuggling her into his Army base and out of harms way. Not knowing her name and unable to communicate with her, Süleyman names her Ayla, in reminiscence of the moon on the fateful night during which they met. The two form an instantaneous and inseparable bond, and Ayla, almost effortlessly, brings an uncanny joy to the Turkish brigade in the grip of war. As the war comes to a close however, Süleyman's brigade is told that they will be returning home. Süleyman cannot bear abandoning Ayla, and does everything within his power to take her with him. After repeated failure, he is forced to give Ayla to an orphanage, but doesn't give up on the hope of one day reuniting with her. Will the two ever get back together?
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Amiko
Nagano Prefecture The 2010sAmiko, a high school girl, adores Aomi to the point of nearly worshipping him. But one day, he runs away from home. Amiko's sometimes cynical, sometimes self-deprecating inner monologue goes off like vibrant stand-up comedy.
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Of Fathers and Sons
🇸🇾 Syria The 2010sTalal Derki returns to his homeland where he gains the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing their daily life for over two years. His camera focuses on Osama and his younger brother Ayman, providing an extremely rare insight into what it means to grow up in an Islamic Caliphate.
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Malli Raava
🇮🇳 India The 1990s The 2010sKarthik and Anjali are childhood sweethearts who fell in love when they're fourteen. Despite having immense love for each other, circumstances forced them apart many a time. Will things change when they grow older? Will their love story finally have a happy ending?
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Carbon: A Story of Tomorrow
🇮🇳 India The 2060sIn dystopian future of 2067, Random a desperate man with an artificial heart, undertakes an illegal Oxygen deal, that goes wrong.
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One Cut of the Dead
🇯🇵 Japan The 2010sDon’t Stop Shooting! — "Things go badly for a hack director and film crew shooting a low-budget zombie movie in an abandoned Japanese World War II facility, when they are attacked by real zombies." Or, that's what it says on the tin, but this is the story of how it really happened...
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Chowka
🇮🇳 India The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sThe film is the narrative which emerges through various decades, encapsulating the lives of four people and their love lives while sending across a strong message relatable to the common man. Four individuals, each with their own dreams and aspirations, land up in jail. They meet a school teacher who not just shows them hope but also stirs up a passion towards reform.
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Independence Day: Resurgence
Nevada Colorado Virginia District of Columbia Texas England The Moon 🇸🇬 Singapore Africa - General Atlantic Ocean The 2010s The 2050sWe had twenty years to prepare. So did they. — We always knew they were coming back. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare us for the aliens’ advanced and unprecedented force. Only the ingenuity of a few brave men and women can bring our world back from the brink of extinction.
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Inferno
🇮🇹 Italy 🇹🇷 Turkey The 2010sHis greatest challenge. Humanity's last hope. — After waking up in a hospital with amnesia, professor Robert Langdon and a doctor must race against time to foil a deadly global plot.
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London Has Fallen
England New York Nevada District of Columbia 🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇾🇪 Yemen Tokyo Prefecture 🇵🇭 Philippines The 2010sThe world's leaders have assembled. So have their enemies. — In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.
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A Hologram for the King
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia The 2010sHow far will you go? To find yourself. — Alan Clay, a struggling American businessman, travels to Saudi Arabia to sell a new technology to the King, only to be challenged by endless Middle Eastern bureaucracy, a perpetually absent monarch, and a suspicious growth on his back.
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 2000sFrom the headlines to the front lines. — In 2002, cable news producer Kim Barker decides to shake up her routine by taking a daring new assignment in Kabul, Afghanistan. Dislodged from her comfortable American lifestyle, Barker finds herself in the middle of an out-of-control war zone. Luckily, she meets Tanya Vanderpoel, a fellow journalist who takes the shell-shocked reporter under her wing. Amid the militants, warlords and nighttime partying, Barker discovers the key to becoming a successful correspondent.
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
California Florida Wales England Tokyo Prefecture The 2000s The 2010s The 1940sStay peculiar — A teenager finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures intent on destroying them.
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Doctor Strange
New York England 🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 2010sOpen your mind. Change your reality. — After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under her wing and trains him to defend the world against evil.
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Now You See Me 2
🇨🇳 China England New York New Jersey 🇲🇴 Macao Tokyo Prefecture New South Wales The 2010s The 1980sYou haven't seen anything yet. — One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public’s adulation with their mind-bending spectacles, the Four Horsemen resurface only to find themselves face to face with a new enemy who enlists them to pull off their most dangerous heist yet.
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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Virginia Texas 🇮🇶 Iraq The 2000s19-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through flashbacks the film shows what really happened to his squad - contrasting the realities of war with America's perceptions.
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