86 Films & TV Shows Set In Malaysia
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Summer Holiday
๐ฒ๐พ MalaysiaSummer Holiday is about a Hong Kong (Sammi Cheng) girl who loses her office job and finds that her boyfriend has been cheating on her, and travels to an island in Malaysia to sell her half of a beach that her cousin gave her. Only then does she know that her cousin sold the other half to his best friend (Richie Ren) to pay off debts. In her quest to convince him to sell, they begin to fall in love
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Entrapment
๐ฒ๐พ Malaysia New York Scotland England The 1990s The 2000sThe trap is set. โ Two thieves, who travel in elegant circles, try to outsmart each other and, in the process, end up falling in love.
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Return to Paradise
๐ฒ๐พ MalaysiaGive up three years of their lives or give up the life of their friend. They have eight days to decide. โ Lewis, Sheriff and Tony are three friends vacationing in Malaysia. Sheriff and Tony eventually leave to pursue careers in New York, but Lewis stays behind to work with orangutans. Two years later, Sheriff and Tony learn that, because of their past actions, Lewis has been arrested for drug possession. With Lewis facing a death sentence, the friends are left with a difficult decision: return to Malaysia and split Lewis' sentence, or let him die.
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Police Story 3: Super Cop
Guangdong Province ๐ญ๐ฐ Hong Kong ๐ฒ๐พ MalaysiaThere's never a cop around when you need one, but when this cop's around, all you need is one. โ A Hong Kong detective teams up with his female Red Chinese counterpart to stop a Chinese drug czar.
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Turtle Beach
๐ฒ๐พ MalaysiaReporter Judith Wilkes leaves her husband and two sons in Sydney and goes to Malaysia to cover the story of the Vietnamese boat people. She becomes romantically involved with Kanan, and strikes up a friendship with Lady Minou Hobday, who keeps a regular vigil at "Turtle Beach" where the refugees try to land secretly in the hope that one day her own children will arrive. Accompanying Minou one night, Judith witnesses a brutal massacre by the Malaysians which spurs her on to expose the horrors of the internment camps at Bidong.
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Amongst Barbarians
๐ฒ๐พ MalaysiaAmongst Barbarians is set far away from Margaret Thatcher's Britain in Penang, Malaysia, a former British colony, where two young Englishmen have been arrested for drug trafficking. As they both face the death penalty, their relatives travel to Penang to come to their rescue. However, they soon find out that there is nothing they can do to save the boys' lives. In the course of their futile attempts at influencing the authorities, their racism becomes more than apparent. The question which is never made explicit is of course who the real barbarians are. Wall's play is based on a true story and featured David Jason's first straight acting role on TV.
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Dadah Is Death
๐ฒ๐พ Malaysia The 1980sOn 9th of November 1983 two Australians, Kevin Barlow and Geoff Chambers were arrested at Penang Airport in Malaysia carrying 179 grams of Heroin. A crime which in Malaysia carries a mandatory sentence of death... Dadah Is Death (A Long Way From Home) is the true story of Barbara Barlow's desperate attempt to save her son from the Hangmans rope - a courageous effort that involved impassioned pleas to President Reagan, The British Prime Minister, and even the Pope. By July 1986 this international struggle had seemed to reach a hopeless conclusion and all that was left was a mother's love for her son.
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Bukit Kepong
๐ฒ๐พ Malaysia The 1950s"We the police will never surrender! We will stand here to the death! Bukit Kepong will be our graves!" โ 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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La tigre รจ ancora viva: Sandokan alla riscossa!
๐ฒ๐พ Malaysia The 19th CenturyThe pirate Sandokan, the Bengal tiger and the East India Company's terror, fighting the British Empire and the ondeskefulla James Brooke, rahjan of Sarawak.
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Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
๐ฒ๐พ MalaysiaSome British soldiers in Singapore are more concerned with finding sex than finding Communists.
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The Virgin Soldiers
๐ฒ๐พ Malaysia The 1950sSooner or later, they're going to get it โ 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.
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Sourness and Sweetness
๐ฒ๐พ MalaysiaSaari a teacher in Ulu Klang school also play music at the Copacabana Nite Club because of his love for music. This led him back to his room on late morning and often fall asleep while teaching. Since it had been six times found asleep in the classroom by the headmaster (professor Basar), the teacher Saari has been given an ultimatum by Mr Basar.
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Sandokan: Pirate of Malaysia
๐ฒ๐พ Malaysia The 19th CenturyFilmed in Singapore it tells the story of Sandokan who is a Malaysian rebel who, with a group of renegades, goes up against a British General who is trying to force the King to resign.
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The 7th Dawn
๐ฒ๐พ MalaysiaPolitical and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War.
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Sandokan the Great
๐ฒ๐พ Malaysia The 19th CenturyHeroism and High Adventure in the Malay Jungle! โ After the capture of the Sultan of Muluder, Sandokan, the sultan's son, leads a guerilla army through treacherous jungles to free his father and defeat Queen Victoria's army of invaders.
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Rampage
๐ฒ๐พ MalaysiaIn colonial Malaysia, British big game-hunter Otto Abbot and American trapper Harry Stanton clash over the ethics of catching versus killing animals and over Abbot's mistress, Anna.
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Sergeant Hassan
๐ฒ๐พ Malaysia The 1940sHassan (P. Ramlee) is 10 when his father died. His mother had died when he was younger. His late father's boss feels sorry for Hassan and adopts him. However, Hassan's foster father's own child, Aziz (Jins Shamsudin) is jealous of Hassan and hates him. When both of them have fully grown up, Aziz and Buang (Salleh Kamil) always bully Hassan. At the same time, Salmah (Saadiah) has developed a crush towards Hassan, fuelling Aziz's fury. When the Second World War is approaching, the Royal Malay Regiment begins recruiting young soldiers.
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The Camp on Blood Island
๐ฒ๐พ Malaysia The 1940sThis is not just a story - it is based on brutal truth โ Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film focuses on the brutality and horror that the allied prisoners were exposed to as the Japanese metered out subjugation and punishment to a disgraced and defeated enemy. This harrowing drama concentrates on the deviations of legal and moral definitions when two opposing cultures clash. Although fictional, this was one of the earliest films to deal realistically with life and death in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during the Second War.
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Windom's Way
๐ฒ๐พ MalaysiaA doctor's sophisticated wife joins him at his remote Asian practice to try and patch up their marriage. Increasingly violent friction between local rubber plantation workers and the authorities force both parties to make decisions.
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A Town Like Alice
England ๐ฒ๐พ Malaysia Northern Territory The 1940sA tale of survival. โ In 1941, The advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no plan on what to do with the women and children of the British.
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Corinna Darling
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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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The Planter's Wife
๐ฒ๐พ MalaysiaWhere Civilization Ends... and Adventure Begins! โ The wife of a rubber plantation owner must put her marriage problems on hold when her family is forced to defend themselves during a native uprising.
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Three Came Home
๐ฒ๐พ Malaysia The 1940sThe true story of one woman's personal experience! โ Borneo, 1941, during World War II. When the Japanese occupy the island, American writer Agnes Newton Keith is separated from her husband and imprisoned with her son in a prison camp run by the enigmatic Colonel Suga.
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