Movies and TV shows set in thailand

The list contains the best, new and most relevant movies set in thailand ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, suspenseful and exciting films and TV shows about / with love and romance, danger, couples, escapades, family relations, rivalry, nudity, female nudity, blood and society plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in Thailand, USA, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as thailand: Jan Dara (2001), Trade Of Innocents (2012), Teddy Bear (2012), 30 Degrees in February (2012), Wonderful Town (2007), Bitter/Sweet (2009), The Beach (2000), Vinyan (2008), Once Upon A Time in Phuket (2011), Last Life in the Universe (2003).

List of movies set in thailand

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Jan Dara (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Jan Dara grows up in a house lacking in love but abundant in lust. He quickly picks up the sinful way of life of the man who married his mother after she became pregnant from being raped. His 'father's' mistress welcomes the young boy ...
Style: sexy, erotic, serious, realistic, sexual ...
Audience: adult
Plot: incest, half brother half sister relationship, father daughter incest, extramarital affair, aunt nephew relationship, erotica, child born of rape, infidelity, family relations, forbidden love, love triangle, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 1930s
Place: thailand, bangkok thailand
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Trade Of Innocents (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In the back streets of a tourist town in present-day Southeast Asia, we find a filthy cinder block room; a bed with soiled sheets; a little girl waits for the next man. Alex (Dermot Mulroney), a human trafficking investigator, plays the role of her ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, thought provoking, sincere ...
Plot: human trafficking, sex maniac, sex slavery, sex trafficking, sex with a minor, forced prostitution, innocence lost, child sexual abuse, life is a bitch, injustice, society, fighting the system ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand, asia, cambodia, southeast asia
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 7.1
 5K
Teddy Bear (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The 38-year-old bodybuilder Dennis would really like to find true love. He has never had a girlfriend and lives alone with his mother in a suburb of Copenhagen. When his uncle marries a girl from Thailand, Dennis decides to try his own luck on a ...
Style: realistic, touching, captivating, sincere, romantic drama ...
Plot: bodybuilder, mother son relationship, looking for love, love and romance, living with parents, vacation, family disapproval, family relations, fitness, nordic, bear, shyness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand, denmark, asia
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30 Degrees in February (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: ​From International Emmy Award-winning writer Anders Weidemann, compelling ten-part drama 30 Degrees in February follows a group of Swedes who've left the snow and cold of Scandinavia for the warm, sandy beaches of Thailand in the dead of ...
Style: realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot: starting over, family life, hopes, immigrant, society, self discovery, human nature, unfulfillment, family relations, culture clash, follow your dream, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand, asia
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Wonderful Town (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Takua Pa is a small town in the South of Thailand. Ever since the tsunami, people have lost their jobs and remember better times in the past. One day a stranger comes to town. His name is Ton, he is an architect. He rents a room in a small hotel ...
Style: atmospheric, realistic, emotional, captivating, serious ...
Plot: love affair, social relations, fall in love, couples, seaside town, small town, hotel, secret, love and romance, family relations, small town life, handsome man ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand, asia
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 5.5
 323
Bitter/Sweet (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Thailand, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: American businessman Brian Chandler has a perfect life with a great job and beautiful fiancée. When his boss, renegade coffee mogul Calvert Jenkins sends him to Thailand to inspect a crop for purchase, Brian meets Ticha, a beautiful Bangkok ...
Style: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, business trip, cultural difference, coffee shop, self discovery, fall in love, disorder, fish out of water, lifestyle, village, food, estranged father ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand, asia
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 6.6
 253K
The Beach (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.
Style: psychological, scenic, tense, stylized, visual ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: island, travel, adventurer, beach, obsessive quest, exotic island, utopia, tourist, drug, marijuana, jungle, hippie ...
Time: year 2000, 20th century, 90s, 2000s
Place: thailand, bangkok thailand, southeast asia
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 5.3
 6K
Vinyan (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, UK, Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A couple leaves the civilized world behind and descends into a living nightmare in this chilling horror thriller. Six months after losing her only child in the Southeast Asia tsunami, Jeanne (Emmanuelle Beart, Mission: Impossible) is convinced she ...
Style: suspense, psychological, rough, serious, disturbing ...
Plot: stranded, missing child, missing person, husband wife relationship, survival, isolation, danger, orphan, couple relations, jungle, feral child, island ...
Place: thailand, burma, asia
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Once Upon A Time in Phuket (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Life coach Sven travels to Thailand to fulfil his dreams as a writer. He meets Gitte a yoga-practising free spirit from Norway. Then along comes Anja, an editor who works for a Swedish publisher. What does he really want to do with his life, and who ...
Style: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: love triangle, love and romance, self discovery, yoga, introspection, escapades, rivalry, journey, friendship, couples, sexual content, beach ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand, asia
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Last Life in the Universe (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand, Japan, Netherlands
Duration: 112 min.
Story: An obsessive-compulsive Japanese librarian living in Bangkok spends most of his days contemplating suicide in his lifeless apartment. His life changes when he witnesses the death of Nid, seconds before he was about to jump off a bridge. This brings ...
Style: surreal, atmospheric, lyrical, psychological, serious ...
Plot: suicide attempt, suicide, friendship, self discovery, melancholy, perfectionist, loneliness, relationships, opposites attract, existentialism, couples, destiny ...
Time: 2000s, year 2003
Place: japan, thailand, east asia, bangkok thailand, asia ...
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 6.9
 19K
Chocolate (2008)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An autistic woman with powerful martial art skills looks to settle her ailing mother's debts by seeking out the ruthless gangs that owe her family money.
Style: brutal, rough, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, gangster, debt, muay thai, revenge, fight, hitman, chocolate, sword fight, heroine, female martial artist ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: thailand, asia
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Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Thailand, France, Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min.
Story: 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.
Style: intense, stylized, harsh, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, muay thai, chase, kung fu, one man army, gangster, fighter, martial arts tournament, good versus evil, violence, brutality, master warrior ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: thailand, asia, bangkok thailand
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Butterfly Man (2002)
Genre: Romance
Country: UK, Thailand
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Adventure/romance about an English backpacker whose world falls apart when he meets and falls in love with a beautiful girl on an exotic Thai island.
Style: sentimental, captivating, romantic, suspenseful, semi serious
Plot: opposites attract, fall in love, social differences, couple relations, society, crumbling marriage, couples, vacation, breakup, dating, island, love and romance ...
Place: thailand, asia, bangkok thailand
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 7.5
 242K
The Impossible (2012)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Spain, Thailand, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an incomprehensible nightmare when a terrifying roar rises from the depths of ...
Style: emotional, suspense, heartbreaking, motivational, touching ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, survival, catastrophe, tsunami, ocean, courage, forces of nature, destruction, danger, vacation, family in danger ...
Time: year 2004, year 2012, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: thailand, southeast asia, asia
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Bangkok Hilton (1989)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 270 min.
TV show
Story: The story of Kat Stanton (Kidman), an Australian woman searching for her father who, whilst travelling back from London to Australia via Thailand, makes friends with Arkie Ragan (Ehlers), a photographer. Kat is tricked into carrying some luggage ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, detective, disturbing
Plot: prison, escape, betrayal, injustice, interracial relations, heroin, fighting the system, smuggling, false accusation, prison life, women in prison, life is a bitch ...
Time: 80s
Place: thailand, asia, australia, london, bangkok thailand ...
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Emanuelle in Bangkok (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Emanuelle is sent to Bangkok on a journalism assignment. While there, she embarks on her own exploration of the secrets of sensual pleasure. While learning much, she also reveals several secrets of her own.
Style: erotic, art house, cult classic, grindhouse, realistic ...
Plot: emmanuelle, erotica, lesbian sex, sex, exhibitionist, gang rape, group sex, black emanuelle, sexploitation, rape, fetish, lgbt ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: bangkok thailand, thailand, asia, southeast asia
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 7.0
 49K
Shutter (2004)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young photographer and his girlfriend discover mysterious shadows in their photographs after a tragic accident. They soon learn that you can not escape your past.
Style: scary, twist ending, dark, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: ghost, revenge, supernatural, nightmare, photograph, photographer, car accident, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, suicide, spirit, macabre, secret lover ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s
Place: thailand, bangkok thailand, asia
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Tsunami: The Aftermath (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min.
TV show
Story: Inspired by true accounts, this HBO miniseries focuses on a group of fictional characters caught up in the harrowing aftermath of the tsunami that devastated the coast of Thailand two years ago.
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching
Plot: natural disaster, disaster, survival, tsunami, danger, journalism, society, forces of nature, ocean, weather, climate, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand, asia
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Sacrifice! (1972)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A photographer in the rain forest is captured by wild natives, and after months of living with them, he marries the chief's daughter and helps protect the village from a vicious cannibal tribe.
Style: disturbing, grindhouse, sexy, terrifying, underground horror ...
Plot: jungle, jungle adventure, exploitation, zombie, bare chested male, cannibalism, photograph, photographer, gory, photography, river, sword and sorcery ...
Time: 70s
Place: thailand, asia, burma
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BKO: Bangkok Knockout (2010)
Genre: Action
Country: Thailand
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A group of martial arts students are enjoying a reunion party when a bomb goes off in the building. When they wake up, some of their friends have been kidnapped and they soon find a group of assassins coming after them. The only way to survive is to ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, master warrior, fight, martial arts tournament, heroic mission, danger, rivalry, escapades, daring rescue, heroes, trapped in a building, competition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand, asia
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Mysterious Object at Noon (2000)
Genre: Documentary, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Thailand, Netherlands
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Mysterious Object at Noon is part fiction, part documentary, and part pseudo-documentary about several unrelated lives in Thailand. The film crew set out on an expedition across Thailand, from the north to the south, documenting several lives along ...
Style: psychological, surreal, contemplative, slow cinema, art house ...
Plot: kidnapping, political unrest, life is a bitch, society, down on your luck, working class, countryside, minimalism, mental disorder, underground, folklore, politics ...
Time: 90s, 2000s
Place: thailand, asia, bangkok thailand, vietnam, cambodia
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Tears of the Black Tiger (2000)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance, Western
Country: Thailand
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A homage and parody of 1950s and 1960s Thai romantic melodramas and action films. Dum, the son of a peasant falls in love with Rumpoey, the daughter of a wealthy and respected family. The star-crossed lovers are torn apart for years, but their ...
Style: serious, surreal, realistic, touching, stylized ...
Plot: betrayal, gunfight, love triangle, rivalry, class society, lovers apart, destiny, social differences, vengeance, gang, gory, revenge ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 50s, 1950s
Place: thailand, asia, bangkok thailand
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The Elephant King (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The story of two brothers who lead totally different lives. Jake Hunt enjoys life to the fullest in Thailand, while his shy brother Oliver deals with his own depressions back home in the USA. Their dominant mother wants Jake back home and for this ...
Style: psychological, realistic, sentimental, captivating, multicultural ...
Plot: fall in love, introspection, family relations, brother brother relationship, american abroad, nightclub, self discovery, depression, lgbt, interracial relations, profanity, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand, usa, asia, manhattan new york city, new york
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Bangkok Adrenaline (2009)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Thailand
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Four backpackers arrive in Thailand to party and drink. A gambling game goes wrong and with their lives on the line they desperately decide to kidnap a billionaires daughter. Things go wrong when her 'father' doesn't play ball and ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, humorous, captivating, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, race against time, crime gone awry, escapades, on the run, confined, gang, fight, kidnapping, blackmail, billionaire, abduction ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand, asia, bangkok thailand
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Ploy (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A husband and wife are locked inside a single hotel room with a stranger named Ploy. Subtle suspicions build up to jealousy as the young woman triggers devastating consequences for the couple.
Style: psychological, atmospheric, realistic, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot: eroticism, jealousy, love triangle, couples, love and romance, unfulfillment, melancholy, dream, depression, hotel room, existential crisis, women ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: thailand
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Tropical Malady (2004)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Thailand, France, Germany, Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A romance between a soldier and country boy splinters into a mythical venture based on Thai folklore.
Style: surreal, slow cinema, serious, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: gay, jungle, shaman, lgbt, friendship, human nature, love and romance, danger, mysticism, lgbtq, folklore, mythology ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: thailand, asia, indiana, bangkok thailand
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You Don't Choose Your Family (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: César Borgnoli, an unsuccessful car salesman from Italy, lives well beyond his means. In order to get out of his financial disaster, he agrees to a deal: he pretends to be the husband of his sister's girlfriend Kim so she can legally adopt a ...
Style: not serious, humorous, captivating, entertaining, exciting ...
Plot: adoption, family relations, unlikely partners, comedy of errors, disorder, dishonesty, partner, nothing goes right, interracial adoption, escapades, love and romance, idiot ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: thailand, france, europe, asia
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ATM (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Sua and Jib are like any other couple in this world except for one exception: for the past 5 years they have kept their relationship a secret since the bank where they are employed has a strict No Fraternization policy. It's not a big deal ...
Style: romantic comedy, funny, disturbing, semi serious, entertaining ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: love story, workplace romance, love and romance, romantic rivalry, relationship vs career, love affair, coworker, rivalry, love interest, male female relationship, couple relations, couples ...
Place: thailand
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 4.1
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Demon Warriors (2007)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Thailand
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Opapatika is a special power that makes one become practically invincible. The power remains alive so long as that person is remains alive. In this film, five Opapatikas, each with their own unique power, are brought together. They meet in the ...
Style: tense, exciting, captivating, suspense, inspirational ...
Plot: good versus evil, curses spells and rituals, danger, supernatural, medieval, superhuman powers, police detective, rivalry, showdown, gory, teaching the ways of the world, deadly creature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand, asia
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Hotel Very Welcome (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: contemplative, realistic, humorous, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot: travel, tourist, self discovery, culture clash, friendship, society, rave, fish out of water, longing, tourism, inspiration, backpacking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand, india, asia
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