86 Films & TV Shows Set In Malaysia
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Malaya
🇲🇾 Malaysia The 1940sAfter living abroad for several years, journalist John Royer returns to the United States just after the U.S. enters World War II. His boast that he could easily smuggle rubber, a key wartime natural resource, out of Malaya has him tasked with doing just that. He manages to get someone from his past, Carnaghan, sprung from Alactraz and together they head off to South East Asia posing as Irishmen. Once there, Carnaghan lines up some of his old cronies and with Royer and a few plantation owners plans to smuggle the rubber out from under the Japanese army's watchful eye.
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Banana Ridge
England 🇲🇾 MalaysiaWhen Susie Long appears, together with her 20 year old son, Pink and Pound are thrown into confusion that one of them could be his father.
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The Letter
🇲🇾 Malaysia 🇸🇬 SingaporeFascinating, Tantalizing and DANGEROUS! — After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.
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Island of Lost Men
🇲🇾 Malaysia 🇸🇬 SingaporeA Chinese general's daughter (Anna May Wong) tracks her father to a slave-labor tyrant's (J. Carrol Naish) jungle empire.
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Woman of Malacca
England 🇲🇾 MalaysiaUnhappy with her humdrum life as a provincial schoolteacher, Audrey Greenwood marries Major Carter, an officer in the British Army whom she does not love. Not long after the wedding Carter is on his way to Malaysia, accompanied by his wife, to take up a post in the British colony. During the long sea voyage, Audrey becomes acquainted with the handsome Prince Selim, the heir to the Malaysian throne. Life in the province of Malacca soon proves disagreeable to the free-spirited Englishwoman and she becomes a social outcast when her amorous affair with the prince is discovered.
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The Jungle Princess
🇲🇾 MalaysiaHer exotic beauty held all the allure of the tropic jungle! — Christopher Powell is in Malaysia with his fiancée and her father, capturing wild animals. While out hunting, he is attacked by a tiger, and his native guides run away, leaving him for dead. But the tiger is the pet of Ulah, a beautiful young woman who grew up by herself in the jungle. She rescues Chris and takes him back to her cave, where she nurses him to health and falls in love with him. When he eventually returns to camp, she follows. The fiancée is jealous, and the natives don't like Ulah or her pet tiger either, all of which leads to a lot of trouble.
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Four Frightened People
🇲🇾 MalaysiaMalaya tropical island romantic love triangle adventure thriller, about a cruise ship where Bubonic plague breaks out. Four people are able to leave the ship in a tiny boat and make it to a desert island, where many adventures ensue and, of course, the two men fight over the beautiful young schoolteacher who is with them.
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White Woman
🇲🇾 MalaysiaGong beaters turn on a ruthless jungle trader and the well-dressed blonde who travels with him.
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Perils of Pauline
🇨🇳 China 🇲🇾 MalaysiaA famous scientist and his beautiful daughter travel to Indochina to find an ivory disc that has the formula for a deadly gas engraved on it. An evil doctor and his gang are also looking for it.
