90 Films & TV Shows Set In Indonesia
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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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Broken Silence
๐ฎ๐ณ India ๐ฎ๐ฉ IndonesiaA Carthusian monk, dedicated to silence and meditation for the last 25 years, must travel from France to Jakarta to get a signature that will renew the property lease for his monastery. Terrified of his experience on the airplane, he gets off at its first stop, New Delhi, plunging into the strange world outside his monastery walls.
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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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Blood Oath
๐ฎ๐ฉ IndonesiaWhere does war end and murder begin? โ On an obscure Pacific Island just north of Australia, the Japanese Empire has operated a prisoner of war camp for Australian soldiers. At the close of World War II, the liberated POWs tell a gruesome tale of mass executions of over eight hundred persons as well as torture style killings of downed Australian airmen. In an attempt to bring those responsible to justice, the Australian Army establishes a War Crimes Tribunal to pass judgement on the Japanese men and officers who ran the Ambon camp. In an added twist, a high ranking Japanese admiral is implicated, and politics become involoved with justice as American authorities in Japan lobby for the Admiral's release. Written by Anthony Hughes
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Mother
๐ฎ๐ฉ IndonesiaA Javanese mother has to struggle to lead their children against a complex confusion of their age. Unfortunately, the mother realized that actually, her children are trying to lead her too.
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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 Devil's Sword
๐ฎ๐ฉ IndonesiaSex, savagery and mystical martial arts. An astounding voyage into the unknown. โ The DEVIL'S SWORD lies hidden in a secret cave inside Devils Mountain, everything evil will fight to the death for it... "For whoever possesses the sword, will rule the kingdom!" Four warriors attack the keeper of the mountain and try to force him to hand over the map that will lead them to the sword. The tortured keeper escapes and runs to MANDALA his master, who after hearing of the attempt, sets off on his own journey to save the DEVIL'S SWORD. He has many blood-curdling battles along the way, he is attacked by the evil crocodile men and encounters many fiendish traps set for intruders entering the mountain. At last MANDALA captures his prize - can he call upon the Gods and use the mystical sword against the raging warriors with their awesome magical power? Will he win the fight with the crocodile queen who craves the DEVIL'S SWORD at any cost?
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The Warrior and the Blind Swordsman
๐ฎ๐ฉ IndonesiaDutch colonial army in West Java holds a martial arts tournament to select the best warrior to confront local warrior-freedom fighter Parmin (nicknamed Jaka Sembung). The winner is an obscure blind swordsman and the Dutch commander De Mandes (Gino Makasutji) commissions him. However, the swordsman is sympathetic with Jaka Sembung's cause and things get more complicated when magician seductress Dewi Magi as well as her guru (W. D. Mochtar) intervene on behalf of the Dutch.
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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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Mystics in Bali
๐ฎ๐ฉ IndonesiaShe sold her soul to possess the secrets of black magic... โ A woman researches a book that takes her to the black magic cult of Leรกk in Bali. She meets an evil witch who promises to train her dark arts, but she is tricked and turned into a flying vampire with internal organs hanging from her neck.
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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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Zombie Holocaust
New York ๐ฎ๐ฉ IndonesiaHe's a depraved, homicidal killer...and he makes house calls! โ After Malukan immigrants engage in a string of corpse mutilations at various New York City hospitals, a doctor and a morgue assistant travel to the Maluku Islands to investigate.
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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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Max Havelaar
๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia The 19th CenturyAn idealistic Dutch colonial officer posted to Indonesia in the 19th century is cohvinced that he can make the kinds of changes that will actually help the local people he is in charge of, but circumstances soon make him realize just how out of touch he really is, and it doesn't take long for things to go from bad to worse.
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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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Bali
๐ฎ๐ฉ IndonesiaThe wife of a European photographer on assignment in exotic Bali falls for an enigmatic ex patriot under the spell of a mystical death cult...
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Krakatoa, East of Java
๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia The 1880sA team of maritime salvage workers are about to embark on a recovery dive. However the 1883 Krakatoa Volcano eruption provides more pressing problems.
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The Spiral Road
๐ฎ๐ฉ IndonesiaA selfish and prideful young Dutch doctor, through a series of circumstances, comes to learn that he does indeed "need" a higher spiritual being and other people.
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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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Alley to Bali
๐ฎ๐ฉ IndonesiaAn angry volcano god in the South Pacific demands a sacrifice, and a lovely young woman in the god's service finds the perfect candidates in the form of two American sailors: Woody Woodpecker and Buzz Buzzard.
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Road to Bali
๐ฎ๐ฉ IndonesiaTOGETHER AGAIN!...in the BEST and FUNNIEST 'Road' Picture Yet! โ Having to leave Melbourne in a hurry to avoid various marriage proposals, two song-and-dance men sign on for work as divers. This takes them to an idyllic island on the way to Bali where they vie with each other for the favours of Princess Lala. The hazardous dive produces a chest of priceless jewels which arouses the less romantic interest of some shady locals.
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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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East of Sumatra
๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia ๐ฒ๐พ MalaysiaFor her savage kisses ... he plundered the last forgotten corner of the earth ! โ Duke Mullane, manager of a Malayan tin mine, goes to a little-known island to open a new mine in the jungle. Initially, the natives there are friendly, especially dancer Minyora...who proves to be affianced to local ruler King Kiang. Alas, a series of unfortunate incidents changes Kiang's attitude to hostility, and Duke is stranded with his crew, Minyora, and his old flame Lory...who's now engaged to his boss!
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