19 Films & TV Shows Set In Indonesia During The 20th Century
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The East
๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia The 1940sA war between duty and conscience. โ A young Dutch soldier deployed to suppress post-WWII independence efforts in the Netherlandsโ colony of Indonesia finds himself torn between duty and conscience when he joins an increasingly ruthless commanderโs elite squad.
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Milea
๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia The 1980s The 1990sYears after his teen romance with Milea, a now-adult Dilan tells his version of their love story when a high school reunion brings them back together.
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Ave Maryam
๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia The 1990sA devoted nun who cares for her elder sisters must choose between upholding her vows or pursuing her forbidden feelings for a fascinating pastor.
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Satan's Slaves
๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia The 1980sAfter the death of Rini's mother, something is disturbing her family.
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Gold
Nevada ๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia The 1980sProve 'em all wrong โ Kenny Wells, a modern-day prospector, hustler, and dreamer, is desperate for a lucky break. Left with few options, Wells teams up with an equally luckless geologist to execute a grandiose, last-ditch effort: to find gold deep in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia.
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The Look of Silence
๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia The 1960sA family that survives the genocide in Indonesia confronts the men who killed one of their brothers.
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Die Mรคnner der Emden
๐ซ๐ท France ๐ฉ๐ช Germany ๐จ๐ณ China ๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia ๐ต๐ฌ Papua New Guinea Pacific Ocean The 1910sWhen their ship is sunk in the Indian Ocean during the first world war, 50 men have to cross infinite stretches of sea and desert, avoid enemies, find allies and finally make it home to Germany. A breathtaking real-life odyssey.
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King Kong
๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia New York The 1930sThe eighth wonder of the world. โ In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with the leading lady.
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Victory
๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia The 1910sAxel Heyst is an American recluse with a dubious past living in the Dutch East Indies port of Surabaya circa 1913. Staying in a German hotel there, Heyst becomes entranced with a member of the hotel's all-female orchestra.
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Braindead
๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia The 1950sSome things won't stay down... even after they die. โ When a Sumatran rat-monkey bites Lionel Cosgrove's mother, she's transformed into a zombie and begins killing (and transforming) the entire town while Lionel races to keep things under control.
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Pengkhianatan G30S/PKI
๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia The 1960sThe official story about the events surrounding the 30 September 1965 coup d'etat carried out by Colonel Untung, the Commandant of the Cakrabirawa Battalion. Seven generals were murdered and Major General Soeharto is depicted as the saviour. A very detailed and "convincing" docudrama from a certain point of view.
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Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia The 1940sJava, 1942โ A clash of cultures, a test of the human spirit. โ Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. Colonel John Lawrence, who has a profound knowledge of Japanese culture, and Sergeant Hara, brutal and simpleton, will witness the struggle of wills between two men from very different backgrounds who are tragically destined to clash.
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The Year of Living Dangerously
๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia The 1960sA love caught in the fire of revolution. โ Australian journalist Guy Hamilton travels to Indonesia to cover civil strife in 1965. Thereโon the eve of an attempted coupโhe befriends a Chinese Australian photographer with a deep connection to and vast knowledge of the Indonesian people, and also falls in love with a British national.
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Attack at Dawn
๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia The 1940sAfter the Japanese occupation, the Indonesian people began fighting for independence, culminating with the 1 March 1949 general attack on the Dutch-held capital at Yogyakarta, led by Suharto. Amidst this backdrop two families face their own, personal issues.
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King Kong
New York ๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia The 1970sThe most exciting original motion picture event of all time. โ In this remake of the 1933 classic, an oil company expedition disturbs the peace of a giant ape and brings him back to New York to exploit him.
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Prophecies of Nostradamus
๐ฏ๐ต Japan ๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia ๐ต๐ฌ Papua New Guinea The 1990s The 1830sCatastrophe 1999 โ Professor Nishiyama, after studying and interpreting the prophecies of Nostradamus, realizes that the end of the world is at hand. Unfortunately, nobody listens to him until it is too late. As the effects of mankind's tampering of the earth - radioactive smog clouds, hideously mutated animals, destruction of the ozone layer - rage out of control, the world leaders hurtle blindly toward the final confrontation. The film sparked controversy in Japan and was subsequently pulled out of circulation, with no official video release of the uncut film.
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Lost Continent
๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia The 1950sThree directors collaborated on the Italian documentary Continente Perduto. The "lost continent" of the title is Asia, specifically Indonesia, here lovingly photographed in Ferraniacolor by Mario Craveri, Giannni Rafaldi and Franco Bernetti. Highlights include a Cantonese wedding aboard a floating junk, the annual wheat and rice harvest, the animal-sacrifice rites at the rim of a volcano, a ceremonial chariot race, and a bevy of Balinese dancers. Though there's no story to speak of, the film has the rhythm and pace of a "continuity" picture. Continente Perduto was the winner of a Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Laughing Anne
๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia The 1900s The 1890sStory of love affair of captain who runs ship in Java Seas and a French saloon singer. From a story "Because of the dollars" by Joseph Conrad.
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Pilot #5
๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia The 1940sBe There When It Happens! โ A small group of Allied soldiers and airmen on Java are being bombed by Japanese 'planes daily. With only one working fighter of their own, and five pilots anxious to fly it, the Dutch commander chooses George Collins to fly a mission to drop a 500-lb bomb on the Japanese carrier lying offshore. As the flight progresses, the commander asks the other pilots to tell him about George. They recount his rise from brilliant law student, through the time he became involved in the corrupt machine of his state's Governor, and his attempts to redeem himself, both in his own eyes, and in Fredie, his long-time love.