5 Films & TV Shows Set In Malaysia During The 1950s
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The Garden of Evening Mists
🇲🇾 Malaysia The 1950sA woman seeking a quiet life in post-World War II British Malaya finds love and a common interest in gardening with a mysterious Japanese man.
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Mountain of Gold
🇲🇾 Malaysia The 1950sThe story of Almayer, a Dutch trader struggling to survive in Malaysia at the turn of the 19th Century. His dream of finding a mythical gold mountain is challenged by his scheming wife, the colonial authorities, the political machinations of the local chief and Arab traders, and his daughter's love for a freedom-fighting Malay prince.
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Almayer's Folly
🇲🇾 Malaysia The 1950sA tale of an occidental merchant, Kaspar Almayer, whose dreams of riches for his beloved daughter, Nina, collapse under the weight of his own greed and prejudice.
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Bukit Kepong
🇲🇾 Malaysia The 1950s"We the police will never surrender! We will stand here to the death! Bukit Kepong will be our graves!" — The dramatisation of a Communist Terrorist assault on a rural Federation of Malaya Police station at Bukit Kepong, Muar, Johor, of then Malaya, on February 23, 1950, during the height of the First Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960.
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The Virgin Soldiers
🇲🇾 Malaysia The 1950sSooner or later, they're going to get it — The core of the plot is the romantic triangle formed by the protagonist, a conscripted soldier named Private Brigg; a worldly professional soldier named Sergeant Driscoll, and Phillipa Raskin, the daughter of the Regimental Sergeant Major. The location is a British army base in Singapore during the Malayan Emergency.