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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.

Stuck at a crossroad, will Malaya fight for the love she found, or will she choose to set her heart free?

Anikkuttan is an ill-tempered electronics technician who leads a quiet life with his mother. His daily routines are disrupted when his next door neighbour's new born baby stirs up undesirable memories from his past. What will happen next?

Pavithran (Jayasurya) is a story writer for the stage plays of Jayabharathy Theaters. Pavithran is also known as 'Shakespeare' because he of his writing abilities. Kottayam Gopalan (Kalabhavan Mani), who runs Jayabharathy Theaters, likes him because all his scripts are super hit and always earn him awards. Once Gopalan makes Pavithran go to a remote village to write a play based on the life of the villagers there. Pavithran comes across Alli, a young country girl who is having a debtful life. Alli impresses him as a character and he sets out seeking to know her story.

When Anandakuttan goes to bring his sister for his wedding, she sends her daughter, Parvathy, in her place. However, in a sudden turn of events, Parvathy unknowingly falls in love with her uncle.

A Shaw Brothers production

Aalparambil Gopi, an unemployed boy, is forced to travel away from home. Fortunately, the journey ends up transforming his life forever.

Malaya Love Afffair 马来亚之恋 was financed, written and directed by Tsi Lo-lin, and it broadly focused on the themes of education, assimilation (of Chinese immigrants in Malaya), romance, kinship and traditional values.

Bhoomi malayalam movie tells an incident that took place in Thillenkeri in Kannur district in 1948 April 15. Communist party was struggling against the rule of Jawaharlal Nehru at that period. In Thillenkeri, comrade

A band of guerrillas fight against occupying British forces in Malaya.

Japanese Navy air cadets train for the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the HMS Prince of Wales.

After Hou Yao moved to Singapore in 1940, he continued to work for the Shaw Brothers and made a handful of films, including Full Moon Over Malaya, before being murdered in 1942.

A movie adapted from 1941 movie

Adapted from an original novel titled Fatimah《花蒂玛》by Chua Boon Hean, 'Sri Menanti' is a poignant portrayal of an intercultural romance inhibited by racial prejudice and segregation, religious conservatism, and repressive social mores. The film stars Malay actress Zaiton and Hong Kong actor Paul Chang as the star-crossed lovers who seek in the Other not only connection and acceptance but also escape and freedom. Released in both Malay and Mandarin-dubbed versions, the film was unprecedented in the Singapore film industry for casting both local Malay and Hong Kong Chinese film stars.

'Oru Malayalam Colour Padam' tells a tale of a guy who decided to turn a gentleman overnight!

Docudrama recreating events in the Malayan Emergency

Ngok Ming is an idealistic young man, passionate about promoting and developing education in Malaya. He approaches a wealthy Chinese businessman to raise funds for building schools and meets the young heiress, Cho-lin. After a whirlwind romance, they get married. However, Ngok Ming struggles to balance his passion for education and performing his duty of managing the family business. As conflicts between the characters escalate, Ngok Ming and Cho-lin make decisions that change their lives forever.

Black and White – Malayan Tapir, hopes to apply an encyclopedic narrative style to deal with the equality between people and non-humans, man and nature, and to explore the changes in the way modern people view images. The scenes switch from the National Gallery Singapore, the National History Museum, Singapore Zoo to search engines and multiple windows. The political relationship between the history of the zoo in Southeast Asia and the colonial era leads to the drawing of a scientific illustration, biology, civil division and the local legend of Malayan tapir.

A feature-length wartime documentary compiled by Nihon Eigasha, Malayan War Record: A Record of the Onward March chronicles Japan’s 1941–42 campaign from the Malayan Peninsula to the fall of Singapore. Built from Japanese newsreels and confiscated British material, the film depicts key operations and ceremonies surrounding the British capitulation at the Ford Factory, functioning as morale-boosting propaganda for home and occupied audiences. First part of the two-film Mare Senki series; the companion title is Birth of Syonan-to.

A Chinese documentary film about the Malayan People’s Anti-Japanese Army’s struggle during the Japanese Occupation.

It is 1947, the year of the communist rebellion in Malaya and the British army's SADUSEA (Song And Dance Unit South East Asia) are called to the Malayan Jungle to entertain the troops. The eccentric, bible-bashing Major Giles Flack (John Cleese) is in command of the unit. Flack is accompanied by an ageing, theatrical drama queen, Terri Dennis (Denis Quilley) who hopes to entertain the troops with his flamboyant impressions, but the bored troops find other ways to enjoy themselves.

Based on the true story of a British secret agent, shot down over Malaya near to a Allied POW forced labour camp. There she is hidden, disguised as a youthful prisoner, until her escape can be effected. The costs of keeping her identity secret fall on all the POW's as the Japanese embark on a policy of ruthless terror to extract her and the focus shifts to the conflicts of the group' s collective concerns against the necessities of personal survival.

Raman Nair (Innocent) is a miserly business man who is overbearing on his sons, Rameshan (Dileep) and Ramanan (Ashokan). After both of them get married, problems start to creep into the household and Raman's solution is to get married again. Things take a turn again after Gundur Parvathi (Kalpana) comes into their lives as Rameshan's and Ramanan's step-mother.

A lighting event gives the hero the ability to become invisible when desired. He uses the ability to fight the bad guys.

A divorced woman trying to get hired as a French tutor and teaching classical dance, and she has a daughter. Her brother Manuel also resides in a flat in Chennai. Their next door neighbours are Unnikrishnan, a retired Major who has a pet dog, Prabhakaran and Bibeesh who lives with a serial-actress aunt (not related by blood) and his young school going brother. The story revolves around the divorced mother and daughter finding happiness of love in their own ways. The film explores commonality of romantic love in different stages of life.

The film revolves around a middle class Malayalee family. Problems arise when the eldest son alienates his father and gets thrown out of home. The film portrays the other members struggling between the two.

When Ardra suddenly starts acting distant and cold with her family members, her husband Roy and others around her are puzzled and scared. Nobody in the family bothers to take her to a doctor and when they finally do, they learn the truth.

After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.

When two Youtube bloggers decide to make a documentary film about a mystery land, they are confronted with havoc and hell they could never expect.

After SI Vyshakhan commits suicide at the police station following his failure to take control of the law and order situation, Inspector K takes charge at Nanjankode. Will he succeed in quelling the fire?

‘Her’ features five strong, unrestrained female characters, in a hyperlink narrative that celebrates womanhood in all its myriad forms. The story represents today’s women from varied backgrounds coming out of their comfort zones to live life to the fullest.

A student of forensics gets entangled in unraveling the mystery behind the disappearance and murder of a woman with help from the supernatural

A school teacher and her family and depicts how they overcome the overcome the troubling circumstances thrown at them.

A rebellious and spoiled engineering student named Vivek falls into a cycle of bad company and poor choices, leading him down a destructive path.

An exploration of the interconnected experiences of queerness and illness, this film navigates personal and collective journeys through medical spaces, sexual violence, and survival, displays the profound impact on body and identity.

In 1941 Malaysia, the advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no plan on what to do with the women and children of the British.

The cinema hall as a liminal space during a matinee show, and the experience it evokes.

Kumbarees is a tale of friendship. It revolves around two men, who are addicted to drugs.

The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its residents.

‘Marakkar Lion of the Arabian Sea’ portrays the courageous life-events of a rebellious naval chief, Kunjali Marakkar the fourth, who fought against the Portuguese in the ancient times. He was the fourth naval chief of the Calicut Zamorin. The film revolves around him who was also the first Indian Naval Commander and Indian freedom fighter for the war against the Portuguese. He is said to have won 16 such battles with his impeccable strategies and fighting skills.

A story about victims of summary executions. Three people start a strange therapy to escape their agonies.

After her therapist recommends recording voice memos, Nyla chronicles the emotional and visceral reactions of a failed relationship.

A glimpse of the history of an old religion called the Equifrilibricum World Religion, also known as the Moncadista. The filmmaker interviews her grandmother and the elder women members, shedding light to the once obscure religion and at the same time underscoring the mystery behind their faith.

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After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.

A young agent is tasked with investigating a tangled web of corruption and fraud in New York.

The journey of Vikran trying to win the heart of Jaanu whom he was supposed to get arranged marriage with but got rejected due to an unexplained reason. When he got to know the reason behind the rejection the story takes a sharp right turn from being romantic comedy to a suspense action movie.

Student wants to join a fraternity and has to endure live endangering tests in order to do so.

A revival of the classic Filipino horror film, "Patayin sa Sindak si Barbara".

Pablo is seen less and less in the neighborhood. So much so that his friends no longer even know what's become of him. His secret: he has a passion for horse-riding and hides, for fear of having to cope with other people's attitudes. One day, his pals discover the truth. Pablo must then must make a major decision: to come to terms with himself and become the first cowboy in the projects.

On the way to Jogjakarta, Adit was separated from his parents. His journey taught Adit the true meaning of friendship

A famous mommy blogger faces an empty nest as her daughter prepares to go away to college. When she turns to her blog for advice, she finds herself on the attack by a reader who has conflicting opinions. While she deals with him online, offline she finally meets a great single dad and sparks start to fly. What she doesn’t know is that the confrontational reader and the adorable single dad are, in fact, the same person.

Three brothers, Pidiong, Manoy and Tinggoy, who live in a small town in the province, were lucky enough to receive a scholarship program from ASO (Agricultural School of the Orient). Hopeful that this could be the start of their family's better future, Pidiong, Manoy, and Tinggoy went to the city only to find out that the school they'll be going to is not at all what they had expected.

Abandoned by her mother, Inday suffers many hardships during her childhood. She tries to despise her mother, Monina, who seems to not care that she left her child years earlier.

An artist is struck with a mysterious condition that fills up her lungs with water. As she is called to her imminent death, her sister serves as her salvation.

Isaac Berg is the only Jew in a small town who miraculously survived during the german occupation. The old man is haunted by one idea - he decided to raise the gravestones with which the nazis paved the road and take them to where his loved ones were killed.

The village as a bastion of traditional values and the power of that tradition has over ordinary individuals caught up in the often unforseeable complexities of daily life.

The story of DOTPEN is about a brother seeking vengeance for his sister and the path he follows. Who gave DOTPEN to whom? Why and how did Brother seek revenge for his sister?

When Miguel is haunted by his dead ex, he is forced to heal emotional wounds by confronting feelings he has been suppressing.

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Vaikundam Soorya Narayana Iyer, a normal business executive leads a normal family life along with his wife and his mother. One day, up on climbing a tall tree in order to capture an escaped pet parrot, Iyer undergoes (fear of heights) giving him the power of clairvoyance.