535 Films & TV Shows Set In Asia During The 21st Century
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Zulfiqar
🇮🇳 India The 2010sA modern day adaptation of two of William Shakespeare's tragedies - Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra.
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Someone to Talk To
Henan Province Shanxi Province The 2010sAn adaptation of Liu Zhenyun’s award-winning novel One Sentence Worth Ten Thousand, produced by Bill Kong. The novel, which won the Mao Dun Literature Prize after it was published in 2008, revolves around a divorced woman and her married younger brother and deals with loneliness and alienation in contemporary Chinese society. The film marks the feature debut of award-winning short filmmaker Liu Yulin, who is adapting her father’s work. A New York University film graduate, Liu’s short film Door God (2014) won a silver medal at the 41st Student Academy Awards and was selected by Cannes.
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Ism
🇮🇳 India 🇪🇸 Spain Atlantic Ocean The 2010sAn undercover journalist finds himself hunted by corrupt politicians and the gangster whose daughter he betrayed in order to obtain evidence against him.
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My Annoying Brother
🇰🇷 South Korea 🇧🇷 Brazil The 2010sSometimes brothers are no better than strangers. — A jailed swindler leaps at the chance to earn parole in return for taking care of his estranged brother, an athlete who recently lost his sight.
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Till We Meet Again
New York 🇹🇭 Thailand The 2010sThey need to find themselves before they can find each other — Follows a couple through their completely different journeys in Thailand and simultaneously reveals their past in New York through flash backs.
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Santa Claus. Battle of Mages
🇷🇺 Russia The 2010sYoung girl Masha accidentally discovers the organization of snow and ice mages fighting the global devil under the leadership of Santa Claus.
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Jayammu Nischayammuu Raa
🇮🇳 India The 2010sA simple man begins to find himself when he leaves his home and mother to pursue love and a career.
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Colkatay Columbus
🇮🇳 India The 2010sColumbus In Kolkata — 'Colkatay Columbus' is a satirical film which is set in present day, modern Kolkata. Where people are busy with their own lives and struggles, which leaves them in constant need of a rescuer or a hero who will be there for them in their time of need. In Colkatay Columbus, writer and director Saurav Palodhi has shown how everyone, from the ordinary person to a legend, is in search of something. The story unfolds through an encounter of Columbus and two boys in Kolkata. When Columbus somehow lands up in Kolkata in 2016, he is surprised to see that everyone is in search of something. He is in search of roads that would lead him back home while the boys are in search for Columbus to get him to offer tips on attaining success. Columbus starts doling out suggestions to the boys but is also put off by the “competition”.
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Cholai
🇮🇳 India The 2010sCholai is a black comedy based on the 2011 hooch fatalities in Bengal, India. Country liquor, commonly known as 'Cholai' is a flourishing business in rural Bengal It is cheap and highly addictive. A sudden turn of events is triggered when a batch of Cholai gets toxic during the brewing process. Soon people who had consumed the Cholai start falling ill and the death toll rises to 172. Media turns the incident into a political drama. To pacify the outrage, the Government launches compensation for the family members of the victims. A gold-rush ensues following the announcement, everyone wants their share. Deaths due to other causes could be become 'entitled' for compensation if the right palms are greased with their share. The mourning soon transforms into greed and corruption.
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The German Neighbor
🇦🇷 Argentina 🇮🇱 Israel The 1960s The 2010sIn 1960 Adolf Eichmann was kidnapped in Argentina and taken to Israel to face trial. In 2016, Renate -a young German translator who lives in Buenos Aires- is hired to translate it. Her work shows the unusual life and remarkable trial defense of Eichmann.
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The Lovers
Massachusetts 🇮🇳 India 🇦🇺 Australia The 18th Century The 2010s The 2020sLove is longer than life. — The Lovers is an epic romance time travel adventure film. Helmed by Roland Joffé from a story by Ajey Jhankar, the film is a sweeping tale of an impossible love set against the backdrop of the first Anglo-Maratha war across two time periods and continents and centred around four characters — a British officer in 18th century colonial India, the Indian woman he falls deeply in love with, an American present-day marine biologist and his wife.
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Avengers: Age of Ultron
New York England 🇳🇴 Norway 🇰🇷 South Korea 🇿🇦 South Africa The 2010sA New Age Has Come. — When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are put to the ultimate test as the fate of the planet hangs in the balance. As the villainous Ultron emerges, it is up to The Avengers to stop him from enacting his terrible plans, and soon uneasy alliances and unexpected action pave the way for an epic and unique global adventure.
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Furious 7
California England 🇩🇴 Dominican Republic 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates Tokyo Prefecture The 2010sVengeance Hits Home — Deckard Shaw seeks revenge against Dominic Toretto and his family for his comatose brother.
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Spectre
Ciudad de México England 🇻🇦 Holy See 🇦🇹 Austria 🇮🇹 Italy Tokyo Prefecture 🇪🇭 Western Sahara 🇲🇦 Morocco Africa - General The 2010sA Plan No One Escapes — A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE.
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Hitman: Agent 47
🇦🇹 Austria 🇩🇪 Germany 🇸🇬 Singapore The 2010sYour Number is Up. — An assassin teams up with a woman to help her find her father and uncover the mysteries of her ancestry.
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Anegan
🇲🇲 Myanmar The 1980s The 1960s The 2010sGame Begins. — Madhumitha is convinced that she and her colleague Ashwin were lovers in their past lives and have been brought together by fate. Is there any truth to this or is she merely hallucinating?
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The Martian
Mars New York California Texas England Beijing The 2030sBring Him Home — During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.
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Mountains May Depart
🇨🇳 China 🇦🇺 Australia The 1990s The 2010s The 2020sThe life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.
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Dheepan
🇫🇷 France 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka The 2000sWhen the war continues to rage in your heart and mind — Three people who have lost everything, a soldier tired of fighting, a young woman and a little girl, pose as a family to escape the civil war in Sri Lanka. They emigrate to France and settle in a chaotic neighborhood on the outskirts of Paris, where apparently the law no longer exists; but they, who barely know each other, struggle to survive there, even when the ghosts of war begin to haunt them again.
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Meru
🇮🇳 India The 2000s The 2010sBelieve in the impossible — Meru is the electrifying story of three elite American climbers—Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin, and Renan Ozturk—bent on achieving the impossible.
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Lost and Love
Chongqing Municipality Fujian Province Hubei Province Jiangxi Province Sichuan Province The 2010sAfter his young son goes missing, Lei (Andy Lau) begins a 14-year quest to find him.
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Suck Me Shakespeer 2
🇹🇭 Thailand The 2010sMr. Müller is not satisfied with his new work at the Goethe-Gesamtschule. The early getting up and correcting exams annoy him. Director Gerster wants to improve the image of the Goethe-Gesamtschule because she wants to be a symbol of the new company. To achieve this, she wants to take away the partnership from the Schillergymnasium with a Thai school. So, Mr. Müller, Mrs. Schnabelstedt and the 10b must go on a school trip to Thailand.
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Indru Netru Naalai
🇮🇳 India The 2060sElango and his astrologer friend Pulivetti Arumugam come in possession of a time machine and start profiting from it. However, their meddling with time prevents the death of a gangster, who begins to wreck havoc in their lives.
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Eye in the Sky
Nevada Hawaii England Beijing 🇸🇬 Singapore 🇰🇪 Kenya The 2010sWelcome to the new front line — A UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from “capture” to “kill.” As American pilot Steve Watts is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone, triggering an international dispute reaching the highest levels of US and British government over the moral, political, and personal implications of modern warfare.
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