7,312 Films & TV Shows Set In Asia
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A Little Princess
๐ฎ๐ณ IndiaLittle Sara Crewe is placed in a boarding school by her father when he goes off to war, but he does not understand that the headmistress is a cruel, spiteful woman who makes life miserable for Sara.
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Fear
๐ฎ๐ณ IndiaA millionaire steals an ancient idol causing some natives fall upon him a terrible curse.
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq ๐ฎ๐น Italy The 1910s The 1st Century The 16th CenturyThe Cruel Hand of Intolerance โ The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
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The Queen of Spades
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ท๐บ Russia The 1820s The 18th CenturyWhile hosting a game of cards one night, Narumov tells his friends a story about his grandmother, a Countess. As a young woman, she had once incurred an enormous gambling debt, which she was able to erase by learning a secret that guaranteed that she could win by playing her cards in a certain order. One of Narumov's friends, German, has never gambled, but he is intrigued by the story about the Countess and her secret. He soon becomes obsessed with learning this secret from her, and he starts by courting her young ward Lizaveta, hoping to use her to gain access to the Countess.
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The Beggar of Cawnpore
๐ฎ๐ณ India The 1850sDr. Robert Lowndes of the British army practices in a small Indian outpost during a cholera epidemic, and to ease his fever, uses morphine. He becomes an addict, but his sweetheart, Betty Archer, makes him promise to reform. Another of Betty's suitors, however, Captain Guy Douglas, uses drugs to tempt Lowndes.
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Madame Butterfly
๐ฏ๐ต Japan The 1900sThe story of a Japanese woman and the tragedy that ensues when she loves an American naval officer.
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The Wrath of the Gods
๐ฏ๐ต JapanAn American sailor falls in love with a fisherman's daughter and convinces her that Jesus is more powerful than the gods who have cursed her.
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The Adventures of Kathlyn
๐ฎ๐ณ IndiaThe serial detailed the experiences of Kathlyn Hare, the pretty daughter of an explorer. Kathlyn resided in a mythical India, fighting off unwanted advances from a handsome native, Umballah, when not battling an endless array of ferocious jungle fauna.
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Zhuangzi Tests His Wife
๐จ๐ณ China The 4th Century BCPhilosopher-eccentric Chuang Tsi comes across a woman fanning the newly built grave of her dead husband because she desires to marry again. On returning home, Chuang Tsi decides to put his wife to the test - he fakes his own death; the wife is grief-stricken and goes into mourning. While funeral arrangement are in progress, a handsome young man come to call on Chuang Tsi. Later, there is talk of marriage between Chuang Tsi wife and the man. However, the young man falls ill; his servant says that taking the human brain is the only medicine to cure him.
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From the Manger to the Cross
๐ฎ๐ฑ IsraelThe life of Jesus is played out in tableaux shot in the Holy Land.
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Captured by Bedouins
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The Fall of Troy
๐น๐ท Turkey Ancient HistoryThe Fall of Troy, is an Italian silent film of 1911 directed by John Pastrone and Luigi Romano Borgnetto. Produced by the Itala Film of Turin, was the first successful film of Pastrone. From the technical point of view it was still composed of still shots, this was not yet the innovation of the cart, experienced only from Cabiria 1914.
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Princess Tarakanova
๐ท๐บ Russia The 18th CenturyDuring the reign of Russia's Empress Ekaterina II (Catherine the Great), Count Orlov writes a letter to the Empress, denouncing Princess Tarakanova as a traitor and a would-be usurper. On the Empress's orders, Tarakanova is led into a trap and arrested. Because the Princess continues to insist that she is the only true heir to the throne, she quickly finds herself in great danger.
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Resurrection
๐ท๐บ RussiaNekhludoff, a Russian nobleman serving on a jury, discovers that the young girl on trial, Katusha, is someone he once seduced and abandoned and that he himself bears responsibility for reducing her to crime. He sets out to redeem her and himself in the process.
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Ben Hur
๐ฎ๐ฑ Israel ๐ฎ๐น Italy Ancient HistoryThe first adaptation of Lew Wallace's novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.
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Attack on a China Mission
๐จ๐ณ ChinaThe titles tell us this film is based on an incident in the Boxer Rebellion. A man tries to defend a woman and a large house against Chinese attackers. They attack with swords, guns, and paddles. He's over-matched. What will become of the mission, its defenders, and its occupants?
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Digital Dharma
TibetGene Smith was born in Utah and raised a Mormon. After studying science and anthropology, Smith relies on an interest and ability in obscure languages to avoid the Vietnam-era draft. While studying Sanskrit and Tibetan at the University of Washington, he takes up Tibetan Buddhism as an academic pursuit and offers to help Tibetan refugees - brought to the U.S. to teach - to assimilate into American life. He is assigned to live with the family of Deshung Rinpoche, one of the most learned lamas to escape Tibet. Smith teaches English to Deshung, and Deshung teaches Smith about Tibetan culture and Buddhism. In 1959, Red Army Soldiers destroy thousands of homes and temples. Tibetan refugees are forced to leave behind countless artifacts, the sole evidence of their culture. A 1500-year literary tradition, in Sanskrit and Tibetan, is in danger of disappearing. Smith travels through India, Bhutan and Nepal...
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The Case
Yunnan ProvinceA mysterious case arrives at a hotel.
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Hair is Falling
๐ฎ๐ณ IndiaA seriously comedy film. โ A model experiences personal and career challenges after his hair starts to fall.
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Fire Under the Snow
Tibet The 1930s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980sPalden Gyatso, a Buddhist monk since childhood, was arrested by the Chinese Communist Army in 1959. He spent the next 33 years in prison for the "crimes" of peaceful demonstration and refusal to denounce his apolitical teacher as an Indian spy. He was tortured, starved and sentenced to hard labor. He watched his nation and culture destroyed, his teachers, friends and family displaced, jailed or killed under Chinese occupation. Fire Under the Snow reaches back to Palden's birth in 1933 and follows him through the Orwellian nightmare that began with the Chinese invasion. We cut back and forth between the past and Palden's present as an activist, living in exile. Our P.O.V. becomes a "third eye" hovering over Paldenโs current life, haunted by his memories of the past. We explore the escalating cycle of interrogation and physical violation during his years in prison that ended decades later with Palden's escape from Tibet and a cathartic meeting with His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
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King of the Sands
๐ธ๐ฆ Saudi Arabia The 1920s The 1930s The 1940sA daring, compelling and controversial take on the life of prince Abdulaziz Al Saud (Ibn Saud), founder of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Amir Salman Shahrukh
๐ฎ๐ณ IndiaAmir Salman Shahrukh is a Bollywood comedy film produced by Raju Rahikwar, lookalike of the king of Bollywood Shah Rukh Khan. It introduces Raju Rahikwar as an actor who is already famous as the lookalike of Shah Rukh Khan.
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English
Xinjiang The 1970sA child's-eye story of Shanghainese settlers in Xinjiang during the late Mao era.
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How Do You Live?
๐ฏ๐ต Japan15-year-old boy Junichi Honda and his uncle move to new neighborhood, as Junichi deals with spiritual growth, bullying, poverty, education, work, courage, and how to live as a human being.
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