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87
8.1
/26759/
80
/575/
77
/340/
4.1
/11715/
99
/69/
94
/817/
82
/25/

The Twilight Samurai (2002)
Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects seem to open up when the beautiful Tomoe, a childhood friend, comes back into he and his daughters' life, but as the Japanese feudal system unravels, Seibei is still bound by the code of honor of the samurai and by his own sense of social precedence. How can he find a way to do what is best for those he loves?
poster
85
8.3
/21950/
82
/465/
80
/350/
4.2
/21920/
87
/23/
96
/404/

To Live (1994)
Married couple Fugui and Jiazhen endure tumultuous events in mid-20th century mainland China as their personal fortunes move from wealthy landownership to peasantry.
poster
84
8.2
/113153/
79
/1850/
76
/581/
3.9
/44926/
100
/15/
90
/111/

Andhadhun (2018)
A series of mysterious events changes the life of a blind pianist who now must report a crime that was actually never witnessed by him.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
83
7.4
/104984/
74
/5628/
74
/2405/
3.9
/1112539/
96
/275/
88
/474/
91
/55/
7.6
/87528/
cc age 10+

The Boy and the Heron (2023)
While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother's tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his new stepmother Natsuko, a woman who bears a striking resemblance to the boy's mother. As he tries to adjust, this strange new world grows even stranger following the appearance of a persistent gray heron, who perplexes and bedevils Mahito, dubbing him the "long-awaited one."
poster
Criterion Channel
82
7.6
/18156/
76
/658/
75
/400/
4.1
/65916/
100
/10/
86
/416/
80
/6/

Lady Snowblood (1973)
Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
80
7.6
/6754/
76
/227/
71
/131/
3.8
/11941/
100
/23/
91
/296/
82
/12/
cc age 11+

The Endless Summer (1966)
Bruce Brown's The Endless Summer is one of the first and most influential surf movies of all time. The film documents American surfers Mike Hynson and Robert August as they travel the world during California’s winter (which, back in 1965 was off-season for surfing) in search of the perfect wave and ultimately, an endless summer.
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Kanopy
81
79
7.7
/12325/
76
/309/
74
/227/
4.0
/6441/
92
/53/
86
/275/
85
/13/

City of Life and Death (2009)
In 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army has just captured Nanjing, then-capital of the Republic of China. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a six week period wherein tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed.
poster
MGM Plus
77
7.2
/11652/
65
/251/
69
/237/
3.4
/14403/
95
/22/
71
/222/

Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (1919)
The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal and harsh place to live.
poster
77
7.1
/11847/
73
/593/
72
/354/
3.7
/14436/
100
/49/
73
/44/
78
/14/

The Age of Shadows (2016)
Set in the late 1920s, The Age of Shadows follows the cat-and-mouse game that unfolds between a group of resistance fighters trying to bring in explosives from Shanghai to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and Japanese agents trying to stop them.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
76
7.5
/561082/
76
/19627/
73
/9804/
3.6
/703802/
77
/137/
82
/22492/
57
/14/
cc age 11+

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees – and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient palace.
poster
Kanopy
76
7.0
/30819/
67
/481/
65
/315/
3.4
/8524/
87
/154/
72
/471/
84
/39/

The Quiet American (2002)
Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her attention. In retaliation, Fowler informs the communists that the American is selling arms to their enemy.
poster
78
75
7.5
/10166/
74
/277/
71
/190/
3.5
/3289/
91
/11/
88
/4790/

Aftershock (2010)
Tangshan, 1976. Two seven-year-old twins are buried under the rubble of the deadliest earthquake of the 20th century. The rescue team explains to their mother that freeing either child will almost certainly result in the death of the other. Forced to make the most difficult decision of her life, she finally chooses to save her son. Though left behind as dead, the little girl miraculously survives, unbeknownst to her brother and mother.
poster
75
7.2
/3431/
69
/29/
72
/32/
3.6
/1160/
77
/31/
89
/100/

Three Seasons (1999)
The residents of Ho Chi Minh City face modernization amid widespread poverty. A retired American Marine arrives on a search for his daughter, whom he abandoned at the end of the Vietnam War. Elsewhere, a cyclo driver falls for a troubled prostitute and schemes to raise money so he can spend time with her. Additionally, a young women begins harvesting lotuses for a writer suffering from leprosy, and a child trinket seller loses his traveling case.
poster
Hoopla
75
7.1
/24336/
69
/377/
66
/345/
3.5
/13249/
88
/34/
77
/302/
65
/9/

The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
A young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of President Sukarno with the help of a diminutive photographer.
poster
Fandango at Home Free
75
7.6
/35442/
76
/733/
73
/436/
3.6
/10750/
73
/41/
91
/1630/
57
/22/

The Red Violin (1998)
300 years of a remarkable musical instrument. Crafted by the Italian master Bussotti (Cecchi) in 1681, the red violin has traveled through Austria, England, China, and Canada, leaving both beauty and tragedy in its wake. In Montreal, Samuel L Jackson plays an appraiser going over its complex history.
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Kanopy
75
7.1
/80843/
73
/2568/
71
/1777/
3.6
/39564/
85
/106/
84
/5350/
69
/28/

Ong-Bak (2003)
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.
poster
YouTube TV
74
7.2
/91580/
72
/1813/
71
/1477/
3.4
/56557/
62
/90/
82
/2106/
69
/18/
cc age 13+

Out of Africa (1985)
Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on her 1937 autobiographical novel.
poster
fuboTV
77
74
7.5
/17595/
73
/285/
72
/265/
3.6
/5758/
85
/20/
87
/260/

The Sand Pebbles (1966)
Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the 'rice-bowl' system which runs the ship and the uneasy symbiosis between Chinese and foreigner on the river. Hostility towards the gunboat's presence reaches a climax when the boat must crash through a river-boom and rescue missionaries upriver at China Light Mission.
poster
Fandor
74
7.2
/36606/
72
/1481/
72
/1028/
3.6
/45789/
83
/18/
83
/561/
68
/4/
cc age 14+

Fist of Fury (1972)
Chen Chen returns to his former school in Shanghai when he learns that his beloved instructor has been murdered. While investigating the man's death, Chen discovers that a rival Japanese school is operating a drug smuggling ring. To avenge his master’s death, Chen takes on both Chinese and Japanese assassins… and even a towering Russian.
poster
74
7.4
/99245/
73
/1374/
72
/1229/
3.6
/30064/
74
/141/
85
/6612/
69
/33/
cc age 15+

The Painted Veil (2006)
A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
poster
74
7.8
/498028/
77
/13815/
75
/7271/
3.8
/274948/
65
/216/
83
/21055/
55
/43/
cc age 14+

The Last Samurai (2003)
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.
poster
Netflix
73
6.1
/4401/
63
/306/
67
/208/
3.2
/20160/
100
/10/
82
/14/
cc age 16+

The Big 4 (2022)
A by-the-book female detective teams up with four down-on-their-luck assassins to investigate her father's murder.
poster
Criterion Channel
82
73
7.8
/4795/
74
/110/
78
/124/
4.1
/8470/
94
/18/
91
/37/

The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (1939)
In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that he is only praised for his acting due to his status as his father's heir. Devastated by this, he turns to Otoku, a servant of his family, for comfort, and they fall in love. Kikunosuke becomes determined to leave home and develop as an actor on his own merits, and Otoku faithfully follows him.
poster
The Roku Channel
69
6.6
/38254/
67
/1377/
66
/937/
3.6
/37494/
78
/139/
59
/656/
73
/37/
cc age 14+

The Grandmaster (2013)
Ip Man's peaceful life in Foshan changes after Gong Yutian seeks an heir for his family in Southern China. Ip Man then meets Gong Er who challenges him for the sake of regaining her family's honor. After the Second Sino-Japanese War, Ip Man moves to Hong Kong and struggles to provide for his family. In the mean time, Gong Er chooses the path of vengeance after her father was killed by Ma San.
poster
75
68
7.1
/5866/
72
/87/
70
/109/
3.8
/5424/
82
/11/
85
/140/
76
/15/

Cyclo (1995)
Follows a young cyclo driver on his poverty-driven descent into criminality in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City. The boy's struggles to scratch out a living for his two sisters and grandfather in the mean streets of the city lead to petty crime on behalf of a mysterious Madame from whom he rents his cyclo.
poster
Kanopy
68
6.5
/31145/
66
/735/
63
/384/
3.5
/26281/
79
/139/
58
/847/
68
/34/
cc age 17+

Take This Waltz (2011)
Twenty-eight-year-old Margot is happily married to Lou, a good-natured cookbook author. But when Margot meets Daniel, a handsome artist who lives across the street, their mutual attraction is undeniable.
poster
Netflix
66
7.3
/170228/
75
/4596/
76
/3270/
3.5
/156708/
35
/165/
83
/20576/
54
/38/
cc age 13+

Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
poster
66
6.5
/5927/
65
/121/
66
/159/
3.2
/2131/
56
/16/
74
/156/

City of Joy (1992)
Max Lowe is a Houston surgeon who has grown weary of the bureaucracy of American medicine. When he loses a patient on the operating table, Max impulsively decides to leave America and travel to India in the hope of finding himself. Not long after he arrives in Calcutta, Max is attacked by a group of thugs and left without money or a passport.
poster
Criterion Channel
79
65
7.6
/3742/
68
/46/
71
/62/
3.8
/5000/
100
/6/
84
/31/

A Story of Floating Weeds (1934)
An aging actor returns to a small town with his troupe and reunites with his former lover and illegitimate son, a scenario that enrages his current mistress and results in heartbreak for all.
poster
64
7.1
/847/
65
/9/
54
/9/
3.3
/289/
73
/51/
67
/20/
66
/22/

Shadow Magic (2000)
Beijing, 1902: an enterprising young portrait photographer named Liu Jinglun, keen on new technology, befriends a newly-arrived Englishman who's brought projector, camera, and Lumière-brothers' shorts to open the Shadow Magic theater. Liu's work with Wallace brings him conflict with tradition and his father's authority, complicated by his falling in love with Ling, daughter of Lord Tan, star of Beijing's traditional opera. Liu sees movies as his chance to become wealthy and worthy of Ling. When the Shadow Magic pair are invited to show the films to the Empress Dowager, things look good. But, is disaster in the script? And, can movies preserve tradition even as they bring change?
poster
64
6.6
/2130/
64
/21/
66
/35/
3.5
/1195/
62
/13/
73
/40/

Temptress Moon (1996)
Set in the decadent 1920s, Temptress Moon tells the very complicated story of a wealthy family living on the outskirts of Shanghai. Their youngest daughter, Ruyi, is brought up as a servant to her opium-addicted father and brother. Meanwhile, her brother-in-law Zhongliang has a successful, if illegal, career seducing and blackmailing married women in the city. When he comes to Ruyi's home the two fall in love, and trouble ensues.
poster
64
63
6.4
/9048/
68
/426/
63
/538/
3.2
/8988/
62
/1361/

The Gendarme in New York (1965)
Sergeant Cruchot and his faithful comrades have been sent to the International Congress of Gendarmerie in N.Y.
poster
Kanopy
72
62
7.2
/3434/
76
/159/
71
/62/
3.3
/2245/
77
/48/

Happy (2012)
Happy is a 2011 feature documentary film directed, written, and co-produced by Roko Belic. It explores human happiness through interviews with people from all walks of life in 14 different countries, weaving in the newest findings of positive psychology. Director Roko Belic was originally inspired to create the film after producer/director Tom Shadyac (Liar, Liar, Patch Adams, Bruce Almighty) showed him an article in the New York Times entitled "A New Measure of Well Being From a Happy Little Kingdom". The article ranks the United States as the 23rd happiest country in the world. Shadyac then suggested that Belic make a documentary about happiness. Belic spent several years interviewing over 20 people, ranging from leading happiness researchers to a rickshaw driver in Kolkatta, a family living in a "co-housing community" in Denmark, a woman who was run over by a truck, a Cajun fisherman, and more.
poster
Netflix
68
61
7.3
/9710/
65
/117/
65
/50/
3.4
/2490/
77
/4520/
63
/4/

Yuva (2004)
An accident on a bridge ties together three young men from different social classes, sparking a course of events that will forever alter their lives.
poster
69
61
6.9
/4708/
64
/89/
62
/95/
3.5
/4218/
86
/58/
64
/48/

The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932)
An American missionary is gradually seduced by a courtly warlord holding her in Shanghai.
poster
fuboTV
61
6.5
/7272/
64
/84/
62
/81/
3.2
/1615/
51
/87/
49
/253/
60
/30/

The White Countess (2005)
In 1930s Shanghai, 'The White Countess' is both Sofia, a fallen member of the exiled Russian aristocracy, and a nightclub created by a blind American diplomat who asks Sofia to be the centerpiece of the world he wants to create.
poster
64
60
6.7
/7968/
71
/232/
70
/172/
3.2
/3116/
57
/7/
58
/64/

55 Days at Peking (1963)
Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.
poster
Hoopla
72
60
6.9
/4336/
72
/152/
71
/174/
3.3
/1216/
85
/3673/

Fighter in the Wind (2004)
An account of karate competitor Choi Yeung-Eui who went to Japan after World War II to become a fighter pilot but found a very different path instead. He changed his name to Masutatsu Oyama and went across the country, defeating martial artists one after another. This film concentrates on the period when he is still young, and developing his famous karate style, Kyokushin.
poster
76
58
7.0
/2227/
67
/48/
66
/53/
3.9
/3212/
100
/9/
76
/23/

The Puppetmaster (1993)
Master puppeteer Li Tien-lu recalls his life in Japanese-occupied Taiwan during the first half of the 20th century.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
57
5.6
/13570/
64
/1635/
64
/617/
2.8
/11227/
67
/33/
38
/71/
60
/4/

Triple Threat (2019)
A crime syndicate places a hit on a billionaire's daughter, making her the target of an elite assassin squad. A small band of down-and-out mercenaries protects her, fighting tooth and nail to stop the assassins from reaching their target.
poster
Netflix
58
56
5.5
/7905/
60
/859/
66
/598/
2.6
/23190/
75
/8/
41
/30/

Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead (2023)
Bullied by his boss, worked around the clock, he's nothing more than a corporate drone. All it takes is a zombie outbreak for him to finally feel alive!
poster
Criterion Channel
63
56
6.3
/4635/
66
/163/
64
/134/
3.3
/11708/
59
/110/

Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance (1974)
Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the gallows she is rescued by the secret police who offer her a deal to assassinate some revolutionaries.
poster
69
54
6.5
/3178/
68
/40/
63
/66/
3.4
/2032/
83
/6/
71
/28/

The Shanghai Gesture (1941)
A gambling queen uses blackmail to stop a British financier from closing her Chinese clip joint.
poster
80
53
7.5
/2275/
72
/47/
77
/24/
3.5
/426/
100
/7/
90
/106/

Amal (2007)
Autorickshaw driver Amal is content with the small, but vital, role he serves - driving customers around New Delhi as quickly and safely as possible. But his sense of duty is tested by an eccentric, aging billionaire, who, moved by Amal's humility, bequeaths him his entire estate before passing away. With only one month to discover and claim the inheritance, Amal's struggles with duty and wealth are threatened by all those around him - from a young injured beggar girl and a lovely store merchant, to the danger of the old man's upper-caste friends and siblings, all seeking to claim their share of the riches.
poster
71
52
7.5
/6190/
71
/92/
68
/28/
3.4
/1829/
75
/24/

Do Dooni Chaar (2010)
A middle-class father in India struggles through a series of unexpected events for upholding respect and smiles.
poster
69
51
6.9
/3219/
67
/44/
61
/34/
3.3
/1296/
80
/5/
73
/29/

China Seas (1935)
Captain Alan Gaskell sails the perilous waters between Hong Kong and Singapore with a secret cargo: a fortune in British gold. That's not the only risky cargo he carries; both his fiery mistress and his refined fiancee are aboard!
poster
Kanopy
74
50
7.4
/2041/
68
/51/
69
/28/
3.8
/1759/
85
/35/

In the Year of the Pig (1969)
Both sober and sobering, producer-director Emile de Antonio’s In the Year of the Pig is a powerful and, no doubt for many, controversial documentary about the Vietnam War.
poster
77
50
7.9
/5440/
74
/69/
71
/38/
3.7
/5188/
87
/7/

Aayitha Ezhuthu (2004)
A goon, who dreams of making it big in life, a student leader, who strives to keep politicians away from college election and a third guy who wants to settle abroad. Their lives change after an incident on a bridge.


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