Highest-Rated Movies about 'Asia'

Tangerines (2013), The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (2010), Bombay (1995), Persepolis (2007), The Exorcist (1973), The Impossible (2012), Sonatine (1993), In This World (2002) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Asia movies.

#16. No Escape (2015)

Storyline: A couple (Owen Wilson and Lake Bell) and their two daughters relocate to Asia, only to find themselves caught in the middle of a dangerous coup. Realizing that foreigners are being murdered on the spot, they make a desperate decision to escape the violence on the streets and seek refuge at the American Embassy, all while trying to avoid detection by the merciless rebels.

Plot Keywords: asia, fictional country, jumping from a rooftop, helicopter, rooftop, swimming pool, elevator ...

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#17. Black Rain (1989)

Storyline: Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. In Japan, however, he manages to escape. As they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese Mafia scene and they have to learn that they can only win by playing the game the Japanese way.

Plot Keywords: japan, yakuza, police chase, counterfeit, pistol, police badge, rain ...

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#18. Hot Shots! Part Deux (1993)

Storyline: Topper Harley is found working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA wants him to lead a rescue mission into Iraq, to rescue the last rescue team, who went in to rescue the last rescue team who... who went in to rescue hostages left behind after Desert Storm. The President is Tug Benson, who also likes to be in on the action. Basically, it's a send-up of all the big shoot-em-up Rambo/Robocop/T2/Commando-type movies.

Plot Keywords: pistol, shot in the leg, shot to death, spit in the face, stupidity, subtitled scene, tank ...

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#19. Octopussy (1983)

Storyline: James Bond's next mission sends him to the circus. A British Agent was murdered and found holding onto a priceless Fabergé egg. Kamal Kahn buys the egg at an auction, but Bond becomes suspicious when Kahn meets up with Russian General Orlov. Bond soon finds out that Kahn's and Orlov's plan is to blow-up a nuclear device on a U.S. Air Force Base. Bond teams up with a circus group, which are headed by the beautiful Octopussy, who is also close friend of Kahn.

Plot Keywords: agent, india, train, circus, russian, 007, exploding building ...

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#20. Malaya (1950)

Storyline: After 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.—garykmcd

Plot Keywords: pith helmet, convoy, revolver, machine gun, torture, beating, dirt road ...

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#21. War of the Worlds (2005)

Storyline: An ordinary man has to protect his children against alien invaders in this science fiction action film freely adapted from the classic story by H.G. Wells. Ray Ferrier (Tom Cruise) is a dockworker living in New Jersey, divorced from his first wife Mary Ann (Miranda Otto) and estranged from his two children Rachel and Robbie (Dakota Fanning and Justin Chatwin), of whom he has custody on weekends. On one such visitation, looking after the kids becomes a little more difficult when, after a series of strange lighting storms hit his neighborhood, Ray discovers that a fleet of death-ray robotic spaceships have emerged nearby, part of the first wave of an all-out alien invasion of the Earth. Transporting his children from New York to Boston in an attempt to find safety at Mary Ann's parents' house, Ray must learn to become the protector and provider he never was in marriage.

Plot Keywords: alien, survival, ex husband ex wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, mother son relationship, outer space, violence ...

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#22. The Sum of All Fears (2002)

Storyline: When the President of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. This change in political leaders sparks paranoia amongst American C.I.A. officials, so C.I.A. Director Bill Cabot (Morgan Freeman) recruits young analyst Jack Ryan (Ben Affleck) to supply insight and advice on the situation. Then the unthinkable happens: a nuclear bomb explodes in a U.S. city, and America is quick to blame the Russians.

Plot Keywords: nuclear explosion, washington d.c., throat slitting, atomic bomb, helicopter, terrorist plot, secret agent ...

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#23. Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995)

Storyline: Ace Ventura, emerging from self-imposed exile in a remote Himalayan hideaway, travels to Africa with explorer Fulton Greenwall to find a sacred bat which is told will avert a war between with Wachootoo and Wachati tribes. Of course, when Ace gets involved, all hell breaks loose...

Plot Keywords: surprise ending, shrine, tail, time lapse photography, yelling, poison dart, crude humor ...

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#24. The Hangover Part II (2011)

Storyline: Stu is getting married. Along with Doug, Phil, and his soon-to-be brother-in-law Teddy, he regretfully invites Alan to Thailand for the wedding. After a quiet night on the beach with a beer and toasting marshmallows by the camp fire, Stu, Alan and Phil wake up in a seedy apartment in Bangkok. Doug is back at the resort, but Teddy is missing, there's a monkey with a severed finger, Alan's head is shaved, Stu has a tattoo on his face, and they can't remember any of it. The wolf-pack retrace their steps through strip clubs, tattoo parlors and cocaine-dealing monkeys on the streets of Bangkok as they try and find Teddy before the wedding.

Plot Keywords: wedding, pubic hair, male frontal nudity, female nudity, female full frontal nudity, bachelor party, strip club ...

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#25. Farewell to the King (1989)

Storyline: An American soldier who escapes the execution of his comrades by Japanese soldiers in Borneo during WWII becomes the leader of a personal empire among the headhunters in this war story told in the style of Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling. The American is reluctant to rejoin the fight against the Japanese on the urging of a British commando team but conducts a war of vengeance when the Japanese attack his adopted people.—Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca>

Plot Keywords: soldier, world war two, jungle, 1940s, epic, u.s. army, battle ...

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#26. Mile 22 (2018)

Storyline: In a visceral modern thriller from the director of Lone Survivor, Mark Wahlberg stars as James Silva, an operative of the CIA's most highly-prized and least-understood unit. Aided by a top-secret tactical command team, Silva must retrieve and transport an asset who holds life-threatening information to Mile 22 for extraction before the enemy closes in.

Plot Keywords: number in title, beard, bare chested male, black ops, top secret, commando raid, shot through a wall ...

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#27. Cars 2 (2011)

Storyline: The famous race car Lightning McQueen and his team are invited to compete in the World Grand Prix race. There, McQueen's best friend Mater finds himself involved in international espionage, and alongside two professional British spies attempts to uncover a secret plan led by a mysterious mastermind and his criminal gang, which threatens the lives of all competitors in the tournament.

Plot Keywords: car race, best friend, spy, conspiracy, gadget car, london england, gambling ...

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#28. Mortal Engines (2018)

Storyline: A mysterious young woman, Hester Shaw, emerges as the only one who can stop a giant, predator city on wheels devouring everything in its path. Feral, and fiercely driven by the memory of her mother, Hester joins forces with Tom Natsworthy, an outcast from London, along with Anna Fang, a dangerous outlaw with a bounty on her head.

Plot Keywords: steampunk, post apocalypse, capitalism, social commentary, machine, dystopia, slave auction ...

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#29. The Wolf's Call (2019)

Storyline: The sun is dying out. The earth will soon be engulfed by the inflating sun. To save the human civilization, scientists draw up an escape plan that will bring the whole human race from danger. With the help of thousands of infusion powered engines, the planet earth will leave the solar system and embark on a 2,500 year journey to the orbit of a star 4.5 light years away.

Plot Keywords: planet earth, survival, end of the world, astronaut, grandfather grandson relationship, asia, truck driver ...

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#30. The Grudge (2004)

Storyline: Karen Davis, an American Nurse, moves to Tokyo and encounters a supernatural spirit who is vengeful and often possesses its victims. A series of horrifying and mysterious deaths start to occur, with the spirit passing its curse onto each victim. Karen must now find a way to break this spell, before she becomes its next victim.

Plot Keywords: elderly, male frontal nudity, housewife, pet cat, bus, suicide, video surveillance ...

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