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Southeastern Asian Movies

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  • Metro Manila (2013)

    1. Metro Manila

    20131h 55mNot Rated65Metascore
    7.6 (9.4K)
    This riveting crime thriller follows Oscar, a recent emigrant to Manila who gets pulled into a harrowing world of corruption and violence when he takes a job as an armored car driver to support his family (in Tagalog w/ English subtitles).
    DirectorSean EllisStarsJake MacapagalJohn ArcillaAlthea Vega
  • Captive (2012)

    2. Captive

    20122h
    6.1 (872)
    Follows the hostage crisis of the Dos Palmas kidnappings in the southern Philippines, the life of the hostages whose survivors were freed after an awful year in captivity.
    DirectorBrillante MendozaStarsIsabelle HuppertKatherine MulvilleMarc Zanetta
  • Tony Jaa in Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior (2003)

    3. Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior

    20031h 45mR69Metascore
    7.1 (80K)
    When the head of a statue sacred to a village is stolen, a young martial artist goes to the big city and finds himself taking on the underworld to retrieve it.
    DirectorPrachya PinkaewStarsTony JaaPhetthai VongkumlaoPumwaree Yodkamol
  • The Raid: Redemption (2011)

    4. The Raid: Redemption

    20111h 41mR73Metascore
    7.6 (225K)
    A S.W.A.T. team becomes trapped in a tenement run by a ruthless mobster and his army of killers and thugs.
    DirectorGareth EvansStarsIko UwaisAnanda GeorgeRay Sahetapy
  • The Raid 2 (2014)

    5. The Raid 2

    20142h 30mR71Metascore
    7.9 (136K)
    Only a short time after the first raid, Rama goes undercover with the thugs of Jakarta and plans to bring down the syndicate and uncover the corruption within his police force.
    DirectorGareth EvansStarsIko UwaisYayan RuhianArifin Putra
  • Ong Bak 2 (2008)

    6. Ong Bak 2

    20081h 38mR47Metascore
    6.2 (33K)
    A young Thai boxer learns the skills and inner meaning of martial arts.
    DirectorsTony JaaPanna RittikraiStarsTony JaaSarunyu WongkrachangSorapong Chatree
  • The Protector (2005)

    7. The Protector

    20051h 51mR52Metascore
    7.0 (40K)
    A young fighter named Kham must go to Australia to retrieve his stolen elephant. With the help of a Thai-born Australian detective, Kham must take on all comers, including a gang led by an evil woman and her two deadly bodyguards.
    DirectorPrachya PinkaewStarsTony JaaNathan JonesXing Jin
  • Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)

    8. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

    20101h 54mNot Rated87Metascore
    6.7 (18K)
    Dying of kidney disease, a man spends his last, somber days with family, including the ghost of his wife and a forest spirit who used to be his son, on a rural northern Thailand farm.
    DirectorApichatpong WeerasethakulStarsThanapat SaisaymarJenjira PongpasSakda Kaewbuadee
  • Kazuki Kitamura and Oka Antara in Killers (2014)

    9. Killers

    20142h 17mNot Rated51Metascore
    6.4 (5.5K)
    A psychopathic Japanese executive accidentally triggers a journalist's 'dark side'. They begin to connect over the Internet and make a complicated bond.
    DirectorsKimo StamboelTimo TjahjantoStarsKazuki KitamuraOka AntaraRin Takanashi
  • RZA, Tony Jaa, Marrese Crump, JeeJa Yanin, and Yayaying Rhatha Phongam in The Protector 2 (2013)

    10. The Protector 2

    20131h 44mR45Metascore
    5.3 (7.8K)
    When the owner of a major elephant camp is murdered, Kham finds himself the number one suspect and on the run from both the police and the deceased's vengeful twin nieces. But luck is on Kham's side when he runs into an Interpol agent sent to Thailand on a secret mission.
    DirectorPrachya PinkaewStarsTony JaaRZAPhetthai Vongkumlao
  • Ananda Everingham and Natthaweeranuch Thongmee in Shutter (2004)

    11. Shutter

    20041h 37mNot Rated
    7.0 (52K)
    When Jane and Tun run over a girl in a car accident, they speed away immediately from the crime scene. However, Tun, a photographer, soon discovers strange shadows in his photos, which unsettles them.
    DirectorsBanjong PisanthanakunParkpoom WongpoomStarsAnanda EveringhamNatthaweeranuch ThongmeeAchita Sikamana
  • Bangkok Dangerous (2000)

    12. Bangkok Dangerous

    20001h 45mR45Metascore
    6.5 (3.8K)
    The story is of a deaf-mute hitman and his partner who are based in Bangkok. He is friends with his partner's girlfriend who is a stripper at a local club. They go about their assassination business as usual as the boss climbs the underworld ladder and forms new alliances. Flashbacks explain how he got to this point in his life. He forms a relationship with a young woman from the pharmacy who is caring and innocent. The hunts continue as treachery begins. A big name hit makes him realize that good people are hurt by his actions. The first rule of assassination closes in on him as he strikes revenge.
    DirectorsDanny PangOxide Chun PangStarsPawarith MonkolpisitPremsinee RatanasophaPatharawarin Timkul
  • Sunny Pang, Julie Estelle, Zack Lee, Iko Uwais, Very Tri Yulisman, Chelsea Islan, and David Hendrawan in Headshot (2016)

    13. Headshot

    20161h 58m61Metascore
    6.3 (17K)
    Uwais plays a young man who washes ashore, an amnesiac with a serious head injury whose past comes back to haunt him shortly after being nursed back to health by a young doctor. Violence ensues. Sweet, sweet violence.
    DirectorsKimo StamboelTimo TjahjantoStarsIko UwaisChelsea IslanSunny Pang
  • JeeJa Yanin in Chocolate (2008)

    14. Chocolate

    20081h 50mR
    6.9 (19K)
    An autistic girl with powerful martial art skills looks to settle her ailing mother's debts by seeking out the ruthless gangs that owe her family money.
    DirectorPrachya PinkaewStarsJeeJa YaninHiroshi AbePongpat Wachirabunjong
  • Iko Uwais in The Night Comes for Us (2018)

    15. The Night Comes for Us

    20182h 1mTV-MA69Metascore
    6.9 (31K)
    Ito, a gangland enforcer, is caught amidst a treacherous and violent insurrection within his Triad crime family upon his return home from a stint abroad.
    DirectorTimo TjahjantoStarsIko UwaisJoe TaslimSunny Pang
  • Sareum Srey Moch in First They Killed My Father (2017)

    16. First They Killed My Father

    20172h 16mTV-MA72Metascore
    7.2 (21K)
    Cambodian author and human rights activist Loung Ung recounts the horrors she suffered as a child under the rule of the deadly Khmer Rouge.
    DirectorAngelina JolieStarsSareum Srey MochPhoeung KompheakSveng Socheata
  • Veronica Ngo in Furie (2019)

    17. Furie

    20191h 38mTV-14
    6.3 (5.9K)
    When her daughter is kidnapped, a desperate yet determined mother treks through her former gang's turf in Saigon to track down the abductors.
    DirectorLe-Van KietStarsVeronica NgoMai Cát ViThanh Nhien Phan
  • The Scent of Green Papaya (1993)

    18. The Scent of Green Papaya

    19931h 44mNot Rated81Metascore
    7.3 (11K)
    A Vietnamese servant girl, Mui, observes lives within two different Saigon families: the first, a woman textile seller with three boys and a frequently absent husband; the second, a handsome young pianist with his fiancée.
    DirectorAnh Hung TranStarsNu Yên-Khê TranMan San LuThi Loc Truong
  • Cyclo (1995)

    19. Cyclo

    19952h 3m76Metascore
    7.1 (5.8K)
    When a poor bicycle-taxi driver has his cyclo stolen, he is forced into a life of crime. Meanwhile, his sister becomes a prostitute.
    DirectorAnh Hung TranStarsLe Van LocTony Leung Chiu-waiNu Yên-Khê Tran
  • The Rocket (2013)

    20. The Rocket

    20131h 36m72Metascore
    7.3 (3.3K)
    Laos. In a land ravaged by war and exploitation, a boy whose family believe he is cursed must redeem himself by taking part in a dangerous rocket competition.
    DirectorKim MordauntStarsSitthiphon DisamoeLoungnam KaosainamSuthep Po-ngam
  • Piolo Pascual, Joel Torre, Joey Marquez, and Gerald Anderson in On the Job (2013)

    21. On the Job

    20131h 58mNot Rated70Metascore
    6.9 (3.5K)
    Inspired by a real-life scandal in which prison inmates are temporarily released from prison to work as contract killers on behalf of politicians and high ranking military officials.
    DirectorErik MattiStarsPiolo PascualGerald AndersonJoel Torre
  • Jenjira Pongpas in Cemetery of Splendor (2015)

    22. Cemetery of Splendor

    20152h 2mUnrated88Metascore
    6.8 (5.8K)
    A group of soldiers in a small town on the Mekong River in northern Thailand are struck with a bizarre sleeping illness.
    DirectorApichatpong WeerasethakulStarsJenjira PongpasBanlop LomnoiJarinpattra Rueangram
  • Max Eigenmann in Verdict (2019)

    23. Verdict

    20192h 6m
    6.7 (649)
    Battered wife Joy stands up for justice against her alcoholic husband Dante in a turmoil process of the justice system.
    DirectorRaymund Ribay GutierrezStarsMax EigenmannKristoffer KingJordhen Suan
  • Ugyen Norbu Lhendup, Sonam Tashi, Sherab Dorji, Pem Zam, Kelden Lhamo Gurung, Tandin Sonam, Kunzang Wangdi, Sangay Lham, Chimi Dem, Dophu, and Tshering Dorji in Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (2019)

    24. Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom

    20191h 50m76Metascore
    7.5 (7.8K)
    An aspiring singer living with his grandmother in the capital of Bhutan dreams of getting a visa to move to Australia.
    DirectorPawo Choyning DorjiStarsSherab DorjiUgyen Norbu LhendupKelden Lhamo Gurung

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