Best Indonesia Movies

This is an omnibus film by women directors: Nia Dinata (Love for Share), Upi Avianto (Radit and Jani), Lasja Fauzia Susatyo (Not an Ordinary Star), and one guest director, Fatimah T. Rony. Story of Island (Fatimah T. Rony) Sumantri (Rieke Diah Pitaloka) is the only midwife in one island nears Jakarta. She married with a man named Rokhim (Arswendi Nasution) and cares a retarded woman named Wulan (Rachel Maryam). One day, she left the island for a medical check-up. She convicted by doctor that she is affected by cancer, makes she must takes operation and rest in Jakarta for months, leaving her life in the island. Revealed that she is still seen bad from an abortion that she doing for saves a life of a woman. Night, Wulan raped and pregnant. And from this point, Sumantri cannot doing anything because money is the real ruler in the island. Story of Yogyakarta (Upi Avianto) Safina (Kirana Larasati) is a High School girl who very close to free sex habit which surrounds her and her friends. Many stories going on, she meets a journalist who wants to write article about free sex on teens named Jay Anwar. He covered his mission by introduces that he is an usually college boy. Safina loves Jay and loses her virginity with him. Finally, Jay going to Jakarta after what he doing to Safina. Makes something should to do by her. Story of Cibinong (Nia Dinata) Esi (Shanty) is a cleaning service in a cheap nightclub named "Merem Melek". She friends with dangdut singers such as Cicih (Sarah Sechan). Esi now lives with her boyfriend, Narto, and her daughter, Maesaroh (Ken Nala Amrytha). After Esi see Narto forced Maesaroh to perform oral sex on him, Esi and Maesaroh escape to Cicih's home with Cicih's husband, Mang Jaja. Then Esi should to takes a fact that Cicih and Maesaroh caught in human trafficking. Story of Jakarta (Lasja Fauzia Susatyo) Laksmi (Susan Bachtiar) and her daughter Belinda (Ranti Maria) get news that Reno (Winky Wiryawan) their husband and father, died because overdose. Laksmi gets HIV/AIDS from him and makes Reno's parents and siblings, chases Laksmi and Belinda. Laksmi, with her little money, finally knows that the way to makes her daughter happy is to not with her.

This is the story of women those are live in polygamy life. It's about their consequence to accept the status as other wife.

A female cheap salon worker and a pirated DVDs subtitle maker fall in love during the turbulent presidential election in Indonesia.

A jaded cop. A narcoleptic journalist. A nation divided. A Fantasy you'd wish never come true.

A film delivery man promises a beautiful young woman to deliver a film reel on time to a movie theater. But the the whole city seems to conspire against him.

A woman, given up for adoption when she was young, returns from Holland to Indonesia to find out about her parents. She is about to discover a shocking truth...

Ipang (Vino G. Bastian) and Nugi (Herjunot Ali) are two friends who don't like school. They love to play music and have a dream of becoming rock'n roll musicians. They often skip school to have fun in Sandra's store (Nadine Chandrawinata).

When an aging martial arts master chooses two of her meeker students to be her successors, two older students steal her mystical cane and pursue their rivals.

Marlina lives quietly in Sumba until one day a man named Markus and his gang try to rob her house and she kills him. Eventually, she is haunted by Markus, and her life turns in 180 degrees.

A mature single man is challenged by his friends to bring a girlfriend to his wedding. He doesn't want to be embarrassed and forced to use the dating site which then brings him to a girl that can accompany him to the wedding.

A platform diving athlete in her final year of high school when she meets a transfer student. The initial romance blossoms, but something about him is unfolding one by one.

Diana (Bunga Citra Lestari) lives in Kuala Lumpur following her husband who works there. Diana then applied to work at a company owned by Bossman. Bossman happened to be her husband's college friend while in America.

In the 1970s, a group of 10 students struggles with poverty and develop hopes for the future in Gantong Village on the farming and tin mining island of Belitung off the east coast of Sumatra.

Soe Hok Gie is an activist who lived in the sixties. Set in the darkest era of Indonesian modern history, "Gie" is an interpretation of what happened based on his journal.

A tender, melancholic night is experienced through the eyes of three women as they struggle to find themselves in this ever-changing jungle of Jakarta.

Ambar and her cousin Yusuf get drunk, miss a flight, and decide to drive to the family wedding they are in danger of missing. They encounter bizarre people along the way while avoiding the sexual tension growing between them.

Athirah's life is shattered when another woman enters her husband's life. In a time and cultural background where polygamy is still widely accepted, Athirah struggles alone with the hurt and humiliation.

Maryam a catholic nun who falls in love with a pastor.