Movies and TV shows set in cambodia
The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in cambodia ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, captivating, serious, emotional, suspenseful and independent film films and TV shows about / with khmer rouge, survival, cambodian civil war, genocide, violence, hopes, friendship, escape, youth and corruption plots mostly in Drama, War and History genres shot in Cambodia, USA, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as cambodia: First They Killed My Father (2017), The Killing Fields (1984), Same Same But Different (2009), Rice People (1994), Apocalypse Now (1979), The Gate (2014), Funan (2018), In the Life of Music (2018), Holly (2006), Beyond Borders (2003).
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Cambodia, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
A 5-year-old girl embarks on a harrowing quest for survival amid the sudden rise and terrifying reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
Style:
thought provoking, factual, captivating, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
genocide, forced labor, khmer rouge, communism, mass murder, little girl, wartime, cambodian civil war, imperialism, murder, anti war, revolution ...
Time:
70s, 2010s, year 2017, 90s, year 1970
Place:
cambodia, east asia
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
The Killing Fields tells the real-life story of a friendship between two journalists, an American and a Cambodian, during the bloody Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia in 1975, which led to the death of 2-3 million Cambodians during the next four ...
Style:
disturbing, tense, rough, political, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
genocide, journalism, vietnam war, civil war, photographer, war, violence, reporter, photograph, brutality, khmer rouge, mass murder ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1973, 80s, year 1984 ...
Place:
cambodia, vietnam, east asia, asia, new york ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Benjamin Prufer and Sreykeo Solvan. The unexpected and uncertain love story of Sreykeo, a 21 year old bar girl in Phnom Penh and Ben, a young German student traveling to Cambodia on a post graduation summer trip. When Ben ...
Style:
touching, atmospheric, realistic, sentimental, serious ...
Plot:
fall in love, hopes, young lovers, unlikely couple, love affair, interracial relations, life is a bitch, social differences, society, terminal illness, youth, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
cambodia, europe, asia, germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: Cambodia, France, Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A poor, rural Cambodian family slowly disintegrates during the cycle of a single rice crop in this moving, and beautifully photographed European drama adapted from a novel by Shahnon Ahmad. Pouev, his wife Om, and his seven children, live in a small ...
Style:
political, independent film
Plot:
rice, khmer rouge, anthropology, social injustice, cambodian civil war, genocide, agriculture, rural setting, family relations, village, farmer, death of husband ...
Place:
southeast asia, cambodia, east asia, switzerland
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter ...
Style:
bleak, psychological, cult classic, surreal, sexy ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
vietnam war, jungle, insanity, anti war, military, army, secret mission, violence, mission, soldier, violent, river ...
Time:
20th century, year 1979, 60s, year 1969
Place:
vietnam, cambodia, southeast asia, asia, the philippines ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Cambodia, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Two decades after forging an unlikely alliance in Pol Pot's Cambodia, a French ethnologist and a former Khmer Rouge official meet again after the latter is arrested for crimes against humanity.
Style:
disturbing, serious, captivating, rough, bleak ...
Plot:
political repression, khmer rouge, survival, confined, against humanity, captivity, cambodian civil war, ideology, mass murder, communist, international law, crime against humanity ...
Time:
year 2014, 70s, 20th century
Place:
cambodia, asia
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Genre: Animation, Drama, History, War
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Cambodia
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Cambodia, once the ancient kingdom of Funan, April 17th, 1975. The entire country falls under the tyranny of Angkar, the communist party of the Khmer Rouge. The cities are abandoned, the population is thrown to the roads and forced to walk towards ...
Style:
adult animation, anime, disturbing, exciting, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, communism, struggle for survival, khmer rouge, separation from family, little boy, husband wife relationship, leech, cambodian civil war, teenager, labor camp, starvation ...
Time:
70s, 2010s, year 1977, year 1975, year 1978 ...
Place:
cambodia
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Genre: Drama, Family, History, Music, Romance, War
Country: Cambodia, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The story of how one song 'Champa Battambang,' a song made famous by Sinn Sisamuth (the King of Khmer Music), plays a role in the lives of three different generations.
Style:
emotional, thought provoking, captivating, romantic, poignant ...
Plot:
three generations, khmer rouge, genocide, inheritance, society, life, social relations, life is a bitch, generation, music, war, legacy ...
Time:
70s
Place:
cambodia
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, France, Israel, Cambodia
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Shot on location in Cambodia, including many scenes in actual brothels in the notorious red light district of Phnom Penh, HOLLY is a captivating, touching and emotional experience. Patrick, an American card shark and dealer of stolen artifacts, has ...
Style:
disturbing, emotional, psychological, touching, bleak ...
Plot:
innocence lost, child prostitution, going straight, lifestyle, young heroes, hopes, life is a bitch, society, redemption, social decay, danger, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
cambodia, asia
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Beyond Borders is an epic tale of the turbulent romance between two star-crossed lovers set against the backdrop of the world's most dangerous hot spots. Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie stars as Sarah Jordan, an American living in London in ...
Style:
touching, romantic, captivating, romantic drama, thought provoking ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
charity, love, love story, love affair, desert, border, war, starvation, un, survival, brutality, life & death ...
Time:
80s, year 1988, year 1993, year 1995, year 1984 ...
Place:
africa, cambodia, london, england, europe ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Cambodia, France, Germany, Switzerland, Thailand
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Bora, an 18-year-old, leaves his village to work on the construction sites of Diamond Island, a project for an ultra-modern paradise for the rich and a symbol of tomorrow’s Cambodia. He befriends his fellow workers and finds his elder brother, the ...
Style:
tense, psychological, suspenseful, contemplative, captivating ...
Plot:
18 year old, brother brother relationship, teenager, friendship, construction worker, poverty, long lost brother, coming of age, sick mother, friends, escapades, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
cambodia, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An innocent Cambodian boy is sold to a Thai broker and enslaved on a fishing trawler. As fellow slaves are tortured and murdered around him, he starts to wonder if his only hope of freedom is to become as violent as his captors.
Style:
disturbing, serious, rough, suspense
Plot:
sea, slave, slavery, revenge, teenage boy, murder, fishing boat, human trafficking, bare chested male, gay, running away from home, child trafficking ...
Place:
cambodia
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Genre: Action, War
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A rag tag group is assembled for a secret mission into Cambodia, led by legendary special forces commando Richard Harrison.
Style:
action packed, intense, suspense, retro, independent film ...
Plot:
vietnam war, special forces, jungle warfare, military, dangerous mission, espionage, secret mission, violence, survival, rescue attempt, ruse, manhunt ...
Time:
60s
Place:
cambodia, vietnam
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A young Japanese man named Kota Tanaka (Osamu Mukai) works to raise money and then build an elementary school in Cambodia.
Style:
inspirational, dramatic, captivating, exciting, emotional ...
Plot:
charity, determination, education, fund raising, japanese man, teamwork, male protagonist, youth, young man, job, social work, life ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
cambodia, southeast asia
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Genre: Thriller, War
Country: Cambodia, Singapore, Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Cambodia 1975: The capital Phnom Penh is a city under siege. Only the presence of the last remaining US troops is keeping Khmer Rouge guerrilla forces from overrunning the town's fragile defenses. Inside this dark, dystopian setting a stunning ...
Style:
intense, suspenseful, tense, noir, neo noir ...
Plot:
khmer rouge, nightclub, love triangle, deception, survival, escape, collapse, chaos, betrayal, singer, moral ambiguity, siege ...
Place:
cambodia, indochina
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Four friends lose themselves in a carefree South-East Asian holiday. Only three come back. Dave and Alice return home to their young family desperate for answers about Jeremy's mysterious disappearance. When Alice's sister Steph returns ...
Style:
psychological, serious, tense, captivating, twisted ...
Plot:
missing person, tourist, holiday, uncover truth, marijuana, inspiration, age difference, struggle, mobster, backpacking, pregnant wife, profanity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, cambodia, asia
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman (Peter O'Toole) lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Based on Joseph Conrad's novel written in 1900.
Style:
tense, art house, sad, epic, serious ...
Plot:
guilt, ocean, literary, arson, fortress, court martial, honor, cowardice, shame, religious, american civil war, revolution ...
Time:
19th century, turn of the century, victorian era, year 1900, 80s
Place:
southeast asia, cambodia, indonesia, oceania, pacific ocean
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: Thailand, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In a tale of drama and adventure, young journalist Andy Cameron (Robert Walker) has to get into Cambodia (it is assumed this is during the genocidal reign of Pol Pot). Cameron has to smuggle out his girlfriend Mieng (Nit Alisa) before she is killed ...
Style:
dark, suspense, political thriller, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
khmer rouge, vietnam war, rescue, genocide, escape, violence, human rights, political conflict, danger, war veteran, trauma, survival ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
cambodia, southeast asia, thailand
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Cambodia, France
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Cannes Special Screening 2016
Style:
bleak, political, emotional, poignant, realistic ...
Plot:
exile, trauma, genocide, loss, political oppression, khmer rouge, haunting, mourning, memory, survival, totalitarianism, identity ...
Time:
70s, year 1975
Place:
cambodia
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Cambodia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In Cambodia still haunted by the crimes of the Khmer Rouges, a 45 years old French crossdresser, Mirinda, lives as a prostitute in the backstreets of Phnom Penh. Meeting a young trafficked girl, he gradually discovers the feeling of fatherhood.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, suspenseful
Plot:
gender, youth, danger, transvestism, redemption, hopes, chases and races, on the run, child in peril, transvestite, male nudity, drug ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
cambodia
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Singapore
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Jeremy Oden returns to Cambodia four years after his fiance disappeared from the streets.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, exciting ...
Plot:
investigation, missing person, kidnapping, amateur detective, private detective, life is a bitch, prostitute, drug abuse, addiction, immigrant, prostitution, sex ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
cambodia, thailand, laos, bangkok thailand
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Genre: Action
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A military group led by Henry Silva and Woody Strode are bound by their honor, to execute their orders to kill as many enemies as possible.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, retro, poliziottesco
Plot:
kgb, covert operation, spy, cold war, military, violent, espionage, infiltration, conspiracy, hand to hand combat, assassination, undercover ...
Time:
80s
Place:
thailand, cambodia
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: UK, France, Thailand
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Two tigers are separated as cubs and taken into captivity, only to be reunited years later as enemies by an explorer (Pearce) who inadvertently forces them to fight each other.
Style:
sincere, compassionate, scenic, captivating, sad ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, girls' night, pre-teens, adult
Plot:
jungle, tiger, animal, survival, animal abuse, sibling relationship, nature, danger, getting home, captivity, coming of age, human animal relationship ...
Time:
year 2004, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
cambodia, france, indochina, thailand
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Genre: Drama
Country: Cambodia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A lost film, buried beneath Cambodia's killing fields, reveals different versions of the truth. A contemporary story about love, family and the ghosts of Cambodia's past.
Style:
historical drama, reflective, poignant, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot:
flashback, post war, memory, genocide, trauma, khmer rouge, investigation, identity, family secret, haunting, ghost, love story ...
Place:
cambodia
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Cambodia, Belgium
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The film centers around a young French widow and her two adolescent children attempt to carve out a meager life for themselves by farming rice fields alongside the ocean in French Indo-China in the 1930's. Their efforts are hampered each year ...
Style:
sentimental, atmospheric, realistic, serious, sexual ...
Plot:
nudity, corruption, dam, lack of money, landowner, social differences, righting the wronged, fighting the system, parents and children, interracial relations, teenage life, rich and poor ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
cambodia, indochina, asia
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The story of a young couple, Pierre and Geraldine, and their desire for a child, which leads them on a journey of initiation to Cambodia. On their difficult and transformative adventure, they must contend with obstructive authorities and the ...
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, sincere
Plot:
interracial adoption, adoptive father, bribery, couple relations, society, babies and infants, politics, friendship, adoptive mother, bureaucracy, male female relationship, child abandonment ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
cambodia
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: Thailand
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After seeing his parents and grandmother killed by the Vietnamese, a 12 year old Khmer boy flees with his baby sister in an attempt to reach safety in Thailand. On the way he befriends a group of Khmer fighters.
Style:
political, tragic
Audience:
kids
Plot:
khmer rouge, child soldier, violence, brutality, armed conflict, conflict, escape, survival, trauma, loss, atrocity, realism ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s
Place:
thailand, cambodia, southeast asia, indochina, vietnam
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 180 min.
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Story:
An American nurse is determined to smuggle a group of orphans out of Cambodia in the late 1970s, assisted by an Australian boat operator.
Style:
emotional, suspense, period piece, tension, historical drama ...
Plot:
compassion, survival, evacuation, refugee, resilience, human rights, dangerous mission, female protagonist, sacrifice, moral dilemma, post war, smuggling ...
Time:
70s
Place:
cambodia, australia
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Genre: Horror
Country: Thailand
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Ghost Game tells the story of 11 contestants who sign up for a scary reality show which forces them to confront the supernatural and their innermost fears. They're brought to an ancient war museum in Cambodia, which was used as a Khmer Rouge ...
Style:
tense, psychological, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
game, ghost, fictional reality show, fictional game show, supernatural horror, paranormal activity, spirit, money, paranormal phenomena, paranormal, haunted, mysticism ...
Place:
cambodia
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Cambodia, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In this Buddhist sci-fi mystery, a teenage orphan in the slums of Phnom Penh, Cambodia investigates her friend’s past-life visions, uncovering a conspiracy of scientific reincarnation.
Style:
thought provoking, philosophical, detective, non-linear, futuristic ...
Plot:
buddhist, spirituality, karma, multiple storylines, destiny, wisdom of life, life philosophy, philosophy, justice, human nature, identity, reincarnation ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
cambodia
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