535 Films & TV Shows Set In Asia During The 21st Century
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Snowden
Virginia Maryland Georgia Hawaii ๐ท๐บ Russia ๐จ๐ญ Switzerland ๐ญ๐ฐ Hong Kong ๐ฏ๐ต Japan The 2000s The 2010sThe only safe place is on the run. โ CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.
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War Dogs
Florida ๐ฆ๐ฑ Albania ๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq ๐ฆ๐ซ Afghanistan The 2000sAn American dream โ Based on the true story of two young men, David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli, who won a $300 million contract from the Pentagon to arm America's allies in Afghanistan.
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Queen of Katwe
๐ท๐บ Russia ๐บ๐ฌ Uganda The 2000s The 2010sA young girl overcomes her disadvantaged upbringing in the slums of Uganda to become a Chess master.
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The Forest
Yamanashi Prefecture The 2010sEveryone comes here looking for a way out โ Set in the Aokigahara Forest, a real-life place in Japan where people go to end their lives. Against this backdrop, a young American woman comes in search of her twin sister, who has mysteriously disappeared.
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Lion
๐ฎ๐ณ India Victoria Tasmania The 1980s The 2000s The 2010sThe search begins โ A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
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Army of One
๐ต๐ฐ Pakistan The 2010sOne Man's Wildly True Quest To Capture Osama Bin Laden โ Gary Faulkner is an ex-con, unemployed handyman, and modern day Don Quixote who receives a vision from God telling him to capture Osama Bin Laden. Armed with only a single sword purchased from a home-shopping network, Gary travels to Pakistan to complete his mission. While on his quest, Gary encounters old friends back home in Colorado, the new friends he makes in Pakistan, the enemies he makes at the CIA - and even God and Osama themselves.
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Jeruzalem
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel The 1970s The 2010sOn Judgement Day, Hell Shall Inherit The Earth. โ When a couple of American young adults fly to Israel to visit the city of Jerusalem, a biblical nightmare falls upon the city
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No Land's Song
๐ฎ๐ท Iran The 2010sIn Iran, since the 1979 Islamic revolution, women are no longer allowed to sing in public as soloists - at least in front of men. Defying censorship and taboos, the young composer Sara Najafi is determined to organize an official concert for solo female singers. In order to support their fight, Sara and her friends invite three French female singers, Elise Caron, Jeanne Cherhal and Emel Mathlouthi, to join them in Tehran and collaborate on their musical project, re-opening a musical bridge between Europe and Iran. Are they going to succeed and finally be gathered in Tehran, sing together, on stage and without restrictions, and to open a door towards a new freedom of women in Iran ?
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Boyka: Undisputed IV
๐ท๐บ Russia ๐บ๐ฆ Ukraine The 2010sBoyka is back! โ In the fourth installment of the fighting franchise, Boyka is shooting for the big leagues when an accidental death in the ring makes him question everything he stands for. When he finds out the wife of the man he accidentally killed is in trouble, Boyka offers to fight in a series of impossible battles to free her from a life of servitude
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Rage
Tokyo Prefecture Okinawa Prefecture The 2010sA man brutally murders a married couple and leaves the word โikariโ (โrageโ) written with their blood. The killer undergoes plastic surgery and flees. At three different locations in Japan, a male stranger appears. People suspect that the stranger might be the murderer.
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Under the Sun
๐ฐ๐ต North Korea (DPRK) The 2010sOver the course of one year, this film follows the life of an ordinary Pyongyang family whose daughter was chosen to take part in Day of the Shining Star (Kim Jong-il's birthday) celebration. While North Korean government wanted a propaganda film, the director kept on filming between the scripted scenes. The ritualized explosions of color and joy contrast sharply with pale everyday reality, which is not particularly terrible, but rather quite surreal.
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Jim: The James Foley Story
๐ธ๐พ Syria ๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq ๐ฑ๐พ Libya The 2010s The 2000s The 1990sIn August, 2014, a video of the public execution of American photojournalist James Foley rippled across the globe. Foley wore an orange jumpsuit as he knelt beside an ISIS militant dressed in black. That image challenged the world to deal with a new face of terror. And it tested one American family. Seen through the lens of filmmaker Brian Oakes, Foleyโs close childhood friend, Jim takes us from small-town New England to the adrenaline-fueled front lines of Libya and Syria, where Foley pushed the limits of danger to report on the plight of civilians impacted by war.
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Mafia: Survival Game
๐ท๐บ Russia The 2070sA twist on the classic game of Mafia. 12 competitors take part in a game of life and death where the innocent must take out the Mafia in order to win the cash prize. Those that are voted out must face their biggest fears in a computer simulation.
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We Are X
๐ฏ๐ต Japan The 1980s The 1990s The 2010sThe music never had to be explained. โ As glam rock's most flamboyant survivors, X Japan ignited a musical revolution in Japan during the late '80s with their melodic metal. Twenty years after their tragic dissolution, X Japanโs leader, Yoshiki, battles with physical and spiritual demons alongside prejudices of the West to bring their music to the world.
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A Silent Voice: The Movie
Gifu Prefecture The 2000s The 2010sSometimes the answer is as simple as learning to listen. โ Shouya Ishida starts bullying the new girl in class, Shouko Nishimiya, because she is deaf. But as the teasing continues, the rest of the class starts to turn on Shouya for his lack of compassion. When they leave elementary school, Shouko and Shouya do not speak to each other again... until an older, wiser Shouya, tormented by his past behaviour, decides he must see Shouko once more. He wants to atone for his sins, but is it already too late...?
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Erased
Hokkaido Prefecture The 1980s The 2000sStruggling manga author Satoru Fujinuma is beset by his fear to express himself. However, he has a supernatural ability of being forced to prevent deaths and catastrophes by being sent back in time before the incident occurred, repeating time until the accident is prevented. One day, he gets involved in an accident that has him framed as a murderer. Desperate to save the victim, he sends himself back in time only to find himself as a grade-schooler one month before fellow classmate Kayo Hinazuki went missing. Satoru now embarks on a new quest: to save Kayo and solve the mystery behind her disappearance.
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Moondraam Ullaga Por
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 2020sA patriotic Indian soldier is captured by the rival army, struggles to fight against the torture of his enemies and escape captivity.
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Sadako vs. Kayako
๐ฏ๐ต Japan The 2000sWho will win this curse!? โ A girl, Yลซri Kurahashi, after watching a cursed videotape together with her friend in a haunted house, becomes trapped in a conflict between the two murderous ghosts: Sadako Yamamura and Kayako Saeki
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Doraemon the Movie: Nobita and the Birth of Japan
๐จ๐ณ China The 2010s Prehistoric timesThis film is a remake of the 1989 Doraemon Movie 10: Nobita no Nippon Tanjou. Nobita and the gang run away from home, traveling back in time to 70,000 years ago before Japan was even born. After a while, they return to the present. However, when they bump into a young caveman, Kukuru, who they have accidentally transported forward to their current era, they realize they must take him back to the primitive age. On top of that, they will have to save Kukuru's tribe, called the Hikari tribe, which was attacked and abducted by the Giganzonbie and Kurayami tribe.
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King of the Belgians
๐ง๐ช Belgium ๐ฆ๐ฑ Albania ๐ง๐ฌ Bulgaria ๐ท๐ธ Serbia ๐ฒ๐ช Montenegro ๐น๐ท Turkey The 2010sThe King of the Belgians is on a state visit in Istanbul when his country falls apart. He must return home at once to save his kingdom. But a solar storm causes airspace and communications to shut down. No planes. No phones. With the help of a British filmmaker and a troupe of Bulgarian folk singers, the King and his entourage manage to escape over the border. Incognito. Thus begins an odyssey across the Balkans during which the King discovers the real world - and himself.
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The Hero
๐ท๐บ Russia The 1920s The 1910s The 2010sAndrey Kulikov goes to Paris to visit the grave of his great-grandfather, Andrey Dolmatov, who had been an officer in the White Army during the Russian Revolution. On the headstone of the grave next to his great-grandfather's, he notices the face of a young woman. Later, while walking through Paris, Andrey sees a woman, Vera, who looks just like the young woman he had seen on the headstone. And so begins the telling of two love stories, separated by three generations and one hundred years.
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Clash
๐ช๐ฌ Egypt The 2010sConflict is on the inside โ In 2013, in Cairo, a tragic fate brings together several detainees from different political and social backgrounds inside a police truck, during the turmoil that followed the ousting of president Morsi.
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Train to Busan
๐ฐ๐ท South Korea The 2010sLife-or-death survival begins. โ Martial law is declared when a mysterious viral outbreak pushes Korea into a state of emergency. Those on an express train to Busan, a city that has successfully fended off the viral outbreak, must fight for their own survivalโฆ
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Your Lie in April
Tokyo Prefecture The 2000s The 2010sArima Kousei won numerous piano competitions while under the strict watch of his mother. He was known as the human metronome during that time. Since the death of his mother, Kousei has been unable to hear the sound of his piano. He then meets Miyazono Kaori through childhood friend Sawabe Tsubaki. Kaori plays the violin and has a free sprit. Since meeting her, Kousei is able to face the piano again. Meanwhile, Kaori holds a secret.
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Hard Target 2
Nevada ๐ฒ๐ฒ Myanmar ๐น๐ญ Thailand The 2010sIt's hunting season again... โ Forced into a deadly cat-and-mouse game, a disgraced mixed martial arts fighter is hunted through the jungles of Southeast Asia.
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