18 Films & TV Shows Set In Thailand During The 20th Century
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Inhuman Kiss
🇹🇭 Thailand The 1940sIn a far-away village, lived an innocent teenage girl, "Sai" who later discovered herself inheriting the curse of "Krasue". At night, her head would detach from her body and hunts for flesh and blood. Villagers are terrified by the deaths of their livestocks and that is when the Krasue hunt begins. "Jerd" a friend joined the hunt with an unknown reason while "Noi", the childhood friend who had just came back to the village decided to stand beside Sai despite knowing the horrifying truth.
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Kong: Skull Island
Illinois District of Columbia 🇹🇭 Thailand 🇻🇳 Vietnam Pacific Ocean The 1970s The 1940sAll hail the king — Explore the mysterious and dangerous home of the king of the apes as a team of explorers ventures deep inside the treacherous, primordial island.
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The Mule
🇹🇭 Thailand Victoria The 1980sIt's what's inside that counts. — In 1983, a naive man is detained by Australian Federal Police with lethal narcotics hidden in his stomach. After being apprehended, ‘The Mule’ makes a desperate choice... to defy his bodily functions and withhold the evidence – literally.
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The Railway Man
🇲🇲 Myanmar 🇹🇭 Thailand The 1980s The 1940sRevenge is never a straight line. — A victim from World War II's "Death Railway" sets out to find those responsible for his torture. A true story.
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Shanghai
Shanghai 🇹🇭 Thailand The 1940s The 1930sAn American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.
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American Gangster
New York New Jersey North Carolina 🇹🇭 Thailand 🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1970s The 1990s The 1960sThere are two sides to the American dream — Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. Partly based on a true story.
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The Unseeable
🇹🇭 Thailand The 1930sSet in 1934 Siam, the story involves a young pregnant woman named Nualjin who's searching for her missing husband. She comes to stay in the spooky rural mansion of a widow, Runjuan.
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Hello Yasothorn
🇹🇭 Thailand The 1960sSet in a rural village in the 1960's Yam tries to get away from Jaew. On the night before Jaew leaves for Bangkok, Yam has a change of heart ...
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Brokedown Palace
🇹🇭 Thailand The 1990sTheir graduation present was a trip to paradise, but they never thought they would land in hell. — Best friends Alice and Darlene take a trip to Thailand after graduating high school. In Thailand, they meet a captivating Australian man, who calls himself Nick Parks. Darlene is particularly smitten with Nick and convinces Alice to take Nick up on his offer to treat the two of them to what amounts to a day trip to Hong Kong. In the airport, the girls are seized by the police and shocked to discover that one of their bags contains heroin.
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Operation Dumbo Drop
🇹🇭 Thailand 🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1960sA Top-Secret Mission Of Gigantic Proportions! — Five Green Berets stationed in Vietnam in 1968 grudgingly undertake the mission of a lifetime -- to secretly transport an 8,000-pound elephant through 200 miles of rough jungle terrain. High jinks prevail when Capt. Sam Cahill promises the Montagnard villagers of Dak Nhe that he'll replace their prized elephant in time for an important ritual. But for Capt. T.C. Doyle, the mission becomes a jumbo-sized headache!
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Natural Causes
🇹🇭 Thailand 🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1970sAn American links her mothers death in Bankok to a plot involving Vietnamese refugees.
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Hot Shots! Part Deux
🇮🇶 Iraq 🇹🇭 Thailand The 1990sJust deux it. — Topper Harley is found to be working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA want him to lead a rescue mission into Iraq, to rescue the last rescue team, who went in to rescue the last rescue team—who went in to rescue hostages left behind after Desert Storm.
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Rambo III
🇦🇫 Afghanistan 🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇹🇭 Thailand The 1980sThe first was for himself. The second for his country. This time it's to save his friend. — Combat has taken its toll on Rambo, but he's finally begun to find inner peace in a monastery. When Rambo's friend and mentor Col. Trautman asks for his help on a top secret mission to Afghanistan, Rambo declines but must reconsider when Trautman is captured.
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Vice Versa
Illinois 🇹🇭 Thailand The 1980sJust when he was ready for mid-life crisis, something unexpected came up. Puberty. — A mysterious oriental skull transforms a father into his son, and vice versa.
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Braddock: Missing in Action III
🇹🇭 Thailand The 1970s The 1980sHe's fighting for everyone who can't fight back. — When Colonel James Braddock is told that his Asian wife and 12-year-old son are still alive in Communist Vietnam, he mounts a one-man assault to free them. Armed with the latest high-tech firepower, Braddock fights his way into the heart of the country and ends up battling his way out with several dozen abused Amerasian children in tow! Struggling to keep them alive while outmaneuvering a sadistic Vietnamese officer, Braddock ignites the jungle in a blazing cross-country race for freedom.
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Rambo: First Blood Part II
🇻🇳 Vietnam 🇹🇭 Thailand The 1980sWhat most people call hell, he calls home. — John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.
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Volunteers
🇹🇭 Thailand The 1960sReady or not, here they come. — After his rich father refuses to pay his debt, compulsive gambler Lawrence Bourne III joins the Peace Corps to evade angry creditors. In Thailand, he is assigned to build a bridge for the local villagers with the help of American-As-Apple-Pie WSU Grad Tom Tuttle and the beautiful and down-to earth Beth Wexler. What they don't realize is that the bridge is coveted by the U.S. Army, a local Communist force, and a powerful drug lord. Together with the help of At Toon, the only English speaking native, they must fight off the three opposing forces and find out what is right for the villagers, as well as themselves.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
🇹🇭 Thailand The 1940sIt spans a whole new world of entertainment! — The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson , the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.
