90 Films & TV Shows Set In Indonesia
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Fair Wind to Java
๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia The 1880sADVENTURE...SPECTACLE...SAVAGE LOVE! โ The Dutch East Indies, at the end of the nineteenth century. An adventurous captain of an American merchant vessel is looking for a sunken Dutch vessel containing 10,000 precious diamonds. Unfortunately, he's not the only one and then there's also that volcano on the nearby island of Krakatau, waiting to explode in its historical, disastrous eruption...
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Crosswinds
๐ฎ๐ฉ IndonesiaRED-HOT SAGA OF THE SOUTH SEAS! โ A sailor gets his boat stolen from him after he's set up for a crime.
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Outcast of the Islands
๐ฎ๐ฉ Indonesia ๐ธ๐ฌ Singapore The 19th CenturyEven Her Love Was Primitive! โ After financial improprieties are discovered at the Eastern trading company where he works, Peter Willems flees the resulting disgrace and criminal charges. He persuades the man who gave him his start in life, the merchant ship captain Lingard, to bring him to a trading post on a remote Indonesian island where he can hide out.
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Embun
๐ฎ๐ฉ IndonesiaAfter the revolutionary war, Leman is asked by Barjo to join him in collecting donations from businessmen. Some donate while others do not. But Leman gets into a fight with one particular man who refuses to donate and kills him.
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Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors
๐ฎ๐ฉ IndonesiaThe first Japanese feature-length animated film. It was directed by Mitsuyo Seo, who was ordered to make a propaganda film for the war by the Japanese Naval Ministry. Shochiku Moving Picture Laboratory shot the 74-minute film in 1944 and screened it on April 12, 1945. It is a sequel to Momotarล no Umiwashi, a 37-minute film released in 1943 by the same director. It is black and white. The whole movie also depicts the Japanese "liberation of Asia", as proclaimed by the Government at the time. Seo tried to give dreams to children, as well as to instill the hope for peace, with hidden movie's hints of dreams and hopes, under the appearance of war propaganda.
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The Story of Dr. Wassell
๐ฎ๐ฉ IndonesiaFlaming Action from the Jungles of Java to China and the Seven Seas! โ As the Japanese sweep through the East Indies during World War II, Dr. Wassell is determined to escape from Java with some crewmen of the cruiser Marblehead. Based on a true story of how Dr. Wassell saved a dozen or so wounded sailors who were left behind when able bodied men were evacuated to Australia.
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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.
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Victory
๐ฎ๐ฉ IndonesiaA hermit's idyllic life on an island is disturbed by the arrival of a bunch of cutthroats.
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Honeymoon in Bali
New York ๐ฎ๐ฉ IndonesiaThose "Honeymoon In Bali"...UUUUUMFFF GIRLS...They've got what it takes! โ Bill Burnett, a resident of Bali, visits New York City, meets and falls in love with Gail Allen, the successful manager of a Fifth Avenue shop, who is determined to remain free and independent. Bill proposes, Gail declines and Bill goes home to Bali. But a young girl, Rosie, and Tony the Window Cleaner, who dispels advice on every floor, soon have Gail thinking maybe she was a bit hasty with her no to Bill's proposal. Ere long she discovers that she does love Bill and can't live without him. She goes down to Bali to give him the good news. He learns that he is soon to marry Noel Van Ness. She goes back to New York City.
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Legong: Dance of the Virgins
๐ฎ๐ฉ IndonesiaNative customs... native music... native cast โ In Bali, a young woman falls for a musician, but he may have eyes for her half sister.
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Amok
๐ฎ๐ฉ IndonesiaDr. Holk leads an isolated and lonely existence in a small, Dutch colony in the tropics. Having fled from love and civilization, his only companions now are alcohol and his work, which takes him to villages ravaged by dirt, fever and a strange illness which turns innocent people into madmen: Amok. One day, he is called on by Helene Haviland, who asks him to abort her lover's child before her husband returns from abroad. Even though Holk is enchanted by her seductive beauty, he haughtily refuses her request. Rejected, the woman turns to a Chinese practitioner. When Holk tracks her down in a dirty dive, it's already too late for the two of them.
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Samarang
๐ฎ๐ฉ IndonesiaWith all the natural beauty of the South Seas! โ A pseudo-documentary, โSamarangโ tells the story of lowly Ahmang (Captain A.V. Cockle) and his socially superior love, Sai-Yu (Theresa Seth). Both live in the village of Samarang in the Indian Ocean. Because Sai-Yu is the daughter of a chief and Ahmang is but a poor fisherman, he needs to increase his wealth before asking for her hand. Thus he accepts the perilous offer of the wily Chang-Fu, who seeks pearl divers. Ahmang must brave the treacherous waters of the Forbidden Lagoon of Sakai, home to bloodthirsty cannibals, killer sharks, and a monstrous grasping octopus. Sai-Yu and Ahmangโs younger brother Ko-Hai come along for kicks, too. Ahmang finds his pearl, but he and Sai-Yu are stranded on the island, where they befriend a local orangutan. When they return to the boat, a shark kills Ko-Hai, and Ahmang must get revenge.
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East of Borneo
๐ฎ๐ฉ IndonesiaThrill Upon Thrill! The Most EXCITING Picture Ever Screened! โ Woman treks through jungle to find her missing husband.
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Dangerous Paradise
๐ฎ๐ฉ IndonesiaA PARAMOUNT ALL TALKIES ROMANTIC DRAMA! โ Heyst, a hermit on his own tropical island, plays unwilling host to red-headed stowaway Alma. Danger looms...
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Victory
๐ฎ๐ฉ IndonesiaAdaptation of Joseph Conrad novel about lust and violence on a South Seas Island.