6 Films & TV Shows Set In Lao Peoples Democratic Republic
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River
🇱🇦 Lao Peoples Democratic RepublicRun for your life — In the south of Laos, an American volunteer doctor becomes a fugitive after he intervenes in the sexual assault of a young woman. When the assailant's body is pulled from the Mekong River, things quickly spiral out of control.
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TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay - Away from Keyboard
🇸🇪 Sweden 🇰🇭 Cambodia 🇱🇦 Lao Peoples Democratic RepublicTPB AFK is a documentary about three computer addicts who redefined the world of media distribution with their hobby homepage The Pirate Bay. How did Tiamo, a beer crazy hardware fanatic, Brokep a tree hugging eco activist and Anakata – a paranoid hacker libertarian – get the White House to threaten the Swedish government with trade sanctions? TPB AFK explores what Hollywood’s most hated pirates go through on a personal level.
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The Rocket
🇱🇦 Lao Peoples Democratic RepublicSet against the lush backdrop of rural Laos, this spirited drama tells the story of scrappy ten-year-old Ahlo, who yearns to break free from his ill-fated destiny. After his village is displaced to make way for a massive dam, Ahlo escapes with his father and grandmother through the Laotian outback in search of a new home. Along the way, they come across a rocket festival that offers Ahlo a lucrative but dangerous chance to prove his worth.
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Air America
🇱🇦 Lao Peoples Democratic Republic The 1960sThe few. The proud. The totally insane. — Air America was the CIA's private airline operating in Laos during the Vietnam War, running anything and everything from soldiers to foodstuffs for local villagers. After losing his pilot's license, Billy Covington is recruited into it, and ends up in the middle of a bunch of lunatic pilots, gun-running by his friend Gene Ryack, and opium smuggling by his own superiors.
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Love is Forever
🇱🇦 Lao Peoples Democratic Republic The 1970sComeback. A True Story. — Michael Landon stars in this real life story about a journalist in Laos, and the extent to which he will go for his girlfriend.
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The 317th Platoon
🇱🇦 Lao Peoples Democratic Republic The 1950sIn Laos, 1954, eight days before the french defeat in the Indochina war, the 317th platoon – four french soldiers and 41 laotian combatants – has been ordered to leave its outpost and to retreat for the plains of Diên Biên Phu, where the french army is getting stucked. Led by the inexperienced and idealistic sous-lieutenant Torrens, fresh out of the military academy, and by adjutant Willsdorf, a WWII veteran of the Werhmacht, the group must cross 150 kilometers of jungle. But dripping rainwater, hostile nature, and the Viêt-minh ambushes expose them to constant danger.
