The Deer Hunter (1978), King Kong (1933), The Impossible (2012), Born to Be Wild (2011), Indochine (1992), The Year of Living Dangerously (1982), The Quiet American (2002), The Sapphires (2012) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Southeast Asia movies.
Storyline: This is the story of Anna Leonowens, the English schoolteacher who came to Siam in the 1860s to teach the children of King Mongkut. She becomes involved in his affairs, from the tragic plight of a young concubine to trying to forge an alliance with Britain to a war with Burma that is orchestrated by Britain. In the meantime, a subtle romance develops between them.
Plot Keywords: based on true story, 19th century, briton abroad, thailand, schoolteacher, 1860s, king ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Garland's novel centers on a young nicotine-addicted traveler named Richard, an avid pop-culture buff with a particular love for video games and Vietnam War movies. While at a hotel in Bangkok, he finds a map left by his strange, whacked-out neighbor, who just committed suicide. The map supposedly leads to a legendary island paradise where some other wayward souls have settled.
Plot Keywords: thailand, beach, dream sequence, electronic music, fantasy sequence, farmer, swimming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An intelligent, articulate scholar, Harrison MacWhite, survives a hostile Senate confirmation hearing at the hands of conservatives to become ambassador to Sarkan, a southeast Asian country where civil war threatens a tense peace. Despite his knowledge, once he's there, MacWhite sees only a dichotomy between the U.S. and Communism. He can't accept that anti-American sentiment might be a longing for self-determination and nationalism. So, he breaks from his friend Deong, a local opposition leader, ignores a foreman's advice about slowing the building of a road, and tries to muscle ahead. What price must the country and his friends pay for him to get some sense?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: nationalism, based on novel, american abroad, anti communist, cold war, battle, blonde ...
Movie Details Click Here!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 ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Alice and Darlene, best friends, decide to take a trip to Thailand to celebrate high-school graduation. While there, they are befriended by charming Australian rogue Nick Parks. Nick convinces them to take a weekend side trip to Hong Kong, but at the airport, they are busted for smuggling drugs. They are convicted in a show trial and sentenced to 33 years; in desperation, they contact Yankee Hank, an American lawyer based in Thailand who has been reported to be helpful if you've got the cash.
Plot Keywords: smuggling, false accusation, jail, women's prison, defense attorney, drug dealing, coercion ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Eric Gorman returns with his wife Evelyn from a trip to the Orient collecting zoo animals, having killed a member of his expedition who happened one day to kiss Mrs. Gorman. On board ship Evelyn meets Roger Hewitt, who falls in love with her. After delivering his animals to the zoo, Gorman plots a way to dispose of Hewitt using one of his latest specimens, then continues using the zoo's non-human residents to do his beastly work.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
Plot Keywords: millionaire, jealousy, doctor, banquet, bear, elephant, press agent ...
Movie Details Click Here!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 ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Captain Tom Reynolds and his band of skilled OSS operatives are in WWII Burma to arm and train the Kachin natives. But jungle combat, particularly against a Japanese army as familiar with the terrain as the Kachin, is hazardous. Some respite is found during leaves in the arms of beautiful gold digger Carla, but after Chinese raiders cross the border to loot and murder American soldiers, Reynolds abandons all notions of "military protocol" and seeks requital.—Chris Stone <jstone@bellatlantic.net>
Plot Keywords: based on novel, world war two, u.s. military, jungle, 1940s, year 1943, combat ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Air America was the CIA's private airline operating in Laos during the Vietnam War, running anything and everything from soldiers to foodstuffs for local villagers. After losing his pilot's license, Billy Covington is recruited into it, and ends up in the middle of a bunch of lunatic pilots, gun-running by his friend Gene Ryack, and opium smuggling by his own superiors.
Plot Keywords: pilot, based on book, southeast asia, cambodia, smuggler, aviation, 1960s ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Dutch East Indies, at the end of the nineteenth century. An adventurous captain of an American merchant vessel is looking for a sunken Dutch vessel containing 10,000 precious diamonds. Unfortunately, he's not the only one and then there's also that volcano on the nearby island of Krakatau, waiting to explode in its historical, disastrous eruption...—Homme A. Piest <piest@pobox.leidenuniv.nl>
Plot Keywords: based on novel, sunken ship, smuggling, fistfight, brawl, port, harbor ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Lawrence is a rich kid with a bad accent and a large debt. After his father refuses to help him out, Lawrence escapes his angry debtors by jumping on a Peace Corp flight to Southeast Asia, where is assigned to build a bridge for the local villagers with 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.—Michael Silva <silvamd@cleo.bc.edu>
Plot Keywords: product placement, coca cola, village, wealth, yale university, parody, gag humor ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Dutch East Indies, in the late 19th century. Capt. Hanson of the "Batavia Queen" is preparing to embark on a salvage expedition. His mistress, Laura, knows the location of a ship belonging to her late husband, a shipwreck concealing a cargo of rare pearls. A diver and a diving bell are aboard ship. But a government agent coerces Hanson into accepting a shipment of convicts for the ship's hold. The wreck lies dangerously close to the erupting volcano on the island of Krakatoa, where Laura's young son attends the convent school...—David Woodfield
Plot Keywords: woman wears a bikini, underwater scene, ship, convict, pearl, shipwreck, volcano ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: While escaping war-torn China, a group of Europeans crash in the Himalayas, where they are rescued and taken to the mysterious Valley of the Blue Moon, Shangri-La. Hidden from the rest of the world, Shangri-La is a haven of peace and tranquility for world-weary diplomat Richard Conway. His ambitious brother, George, sees it as a prison from which he must escape, even if it means risking his life and bringing destruction to the ancient culture of Shangri-La.—Marg Baskin <marg@asd.raytheon.ca>
Plot Keywords: based on novel, children, dancer, dancing, englishman, falling in love, businessman ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Mark Corley is a Los Angeles police detective who visits his estranged teenage son, Trent, having landed in jail due to brawling just as an alien invasion begins and the entire population of the city is sucked into various spaceships by the blue light. Mark leads a group of surviving humans through the underground subway tunnels to try to escape from the various aliens. (Wikipedia)
Plot Keywords: alien, survival, spaceship, rescue, alien abduction, alien technology, alien invasion ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Brothers Johnny, an adolescent surf talent, and Adam, a preadolescent video-game addict, grow up care-free in California as adopted sons of Marines veteran Mac, inseparable friends of wacky local lout Iggy. Colonel Chi's military reign of terror culminates in their tiny birth-land, island state Patu San, off the Viet Nam coast. Former royal guards officer Zatch comes to summon the brothers to return and restore the pacific monarchy, because they are the sons of the murdered king, whom Mac took in exile for safety. They are joined on the adventurous journey by a bored Californian police detective whose attention was drawn by the ninja team that failed, thanks to Zatch, to murder the brothers in Mac's home.—KGF Vissers
Plot Keywords: adoptive father adopted son relationship, destiny, martial arts, royalty, surfer, action hero, tough guy ...
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