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Langitku rumahku (1991)
Character: N/A
This is a story about two boys, Andri and Gempol. Andri is rich, educated but unhappy. Lonely and neglected by his parents, he befriends Gempol whose parents are too poor to send him to school. While Gempol yearns to go to school, Andri envies his freedom and parental love. Andri sneaks food, books, and money to Gempol while Gempol, in return, gives him friendship.
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Kabut Sutra Ungu (1979)
Character: N/A
Miranti is left a widow after her pilot husband dies in an accident. She forces herself to work independently, despite feeling alienated. She soon learns that her brother-in-law Dimas cares greatly for her. Miranti ultimately realises that his feelings are more than just pity, and the two can unite.
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Bunga Desa (1988)
Character: N/A
Rhoma tries to pull Ratna out of her dark life. Ratna’s pimp opposes the attempt. In a fight, Ratna is stabbed with a knife. Rhoma is shaken and advised to go to the village to rest. There, he falls in love with Sumi, the village beauty. Misfortune also falls on her when she is attacked with sulphuric acid that ruins her face. Returning to the village, he is surprised to find a woman who is similar to both Ratna and Sumi.
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Apa yang Kau Tjari, Palupi? (1969)
Character: Chalil
This first Indonesian international award winning film is about a story about a woman with her unhappy life who seeks for something.
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Bilur-Bilur Penyesalan (1987)
Character: Dosen Handoko
Stretching over 21 years, the film begins in Semarang, 1966. And everyone gathers to learn some secrets family history.
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Tak Seindah Kasih Mama (1986)
Character: N/A
Nurhayati’s husband dies in an accident and she is left with four small children. Nur herself knows that she will not live long, as her doctor reveals that she must undergo a heart and lung transplant, with a little chance of survival. After telling the real situation to her father and to her eldest child, Asih, the children are brought to the families she considers as able to raise them. How lucky she is that the three families are eager to accept her children. On a birthday party of her youngest child, she feels at ease and dies.
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Mendung Sendja Hari (1960)
Character: Toto
Kusumo lives happily with his wife and his two kids; Tati and Toto, in Surabaya. Their happiness is interrupted when Kusumo meets Maryati; a widow from Yogya. They meet when she falls victim to some pickpockets when she is shopping. They decide to marry and Kusumo leaves his family, without telling them anything. Sulaiman; a friend of Kusumo, brings him back to his senses and succeeds in persuading Kusumo to return to Surabaya. On the way, Kusumo crashes his car. When his first wife visits him in hospital, he asks for forgiveness before he dies.
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Ratapan Anak Tiri II (1980)
Character: N/A
For this sequel to the unexpectedly successful Ratapan Anak Tiri (Lament of a Stepchild), Susy is bullied by her stepmother, who is her father’s third wife. However, her stepsister Umi, who is the biological daughter of her stepmother, always defends her. Reno, her schoolmate, loves Susy but it is not mutual. On one occasion when he eats at her place and makes the floor dirty, Susy is thrown out of the house, when her stepmother slips, knocks her head and is unconscious. Umi joins Susy and they stay over at a friend’s house. Umi misses her father, so both girls separate. The stepmother, who is looking for Umi, comes across Susy on the streets and verbally abuses her. Susy now dares to fight back and challenges her.
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Dan Bunga-bunga Berguguran (1970)
Character: N/A
Two sisters, Hanifah and Latifah/Ipah have different attitudes toward life in Jakarta. While Hanifah is content working as a teacher, Ipah, who works as a shopkeeper, is obsessed with living a high life. She leaves her boyfriend, Adi, feeling that her sister’s way of thinking is too conservative, and changes her name to Eva. Eva then becomes a runway model and gets famous. She has an affair with an older man named Abas, gets pregnant, has an abortion and becomes a high class prostitute. Meanwhile, her ex-boyfriend, Adi, has an affair with Lily, Abas’ wife. One day, she meets again with Adi who is looking for a prostitute for his friend. Offended, Eva stabs Adi. She is then sentenced to 18 years in prison. Her father and her sister, Hanifah, come to the court and give her a mukena (a kind of hijab used by female Muslims for praying) before she goes to prison.
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Irisan-irisan Hati (1988)
Character: N/A
Even though he is not a "left wing" student, Nurhadi, nicknamed Hadi, insists on becoming a volunteer in the fight against Malaysia. Wati, his lover, tries to stop him, but fails. She pretends to be pregnant so that Hadi marries her. But Hadi still goes to Malaysia. Hadi’s group is detected by a Malaysian patrol, when they are about to land in Malaysia, which leads to a firefight. Everyone dies except Hadi, who is found unconscious by Latifah at the beach. Hadi is taken care of by Latifah and his father, Somad. He claims that he is a fisherman who has been stranded and is named Mohamad Noor. The confrontation between Indonesia and Malaysia then ends. Wati still believes that her husband is alive and goes to Malaysia to find him. She finds Hadi already married to a pregnant Latifah. Wati goes home in disappointment.
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Gadis Metropolis (1992)
Character: N/A
Set in Jakarta’s upper-middle-class milieu, the film tells the story of three young and stylish female friends, Lisa, Fanny, and Sandra. After a violent break-up with her boyfriend Jacky, Lisa gets involved in a same-sex relationship with Mirna, an older woman. When things go awry between the two, Lisa decides to go back to Jacky. In a fit of jealousy, Mirna attempts to kill Lisa, but luckily her friend Fanny saves the day. The film ends in highly dramatic fashion with Mirna stabbing Jacky to death and subsequently being sent to prison
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Lembah Hidjau (1963)
Character: Tabung
Tabung realises that he must free his fellow villagers from the extortion by loan sharks, Jontro and Sadar. But Tabung, is a cripple, so he gets the help of the Farmer and Fisherman Cooperative Bank. He commutes to the city to handle the villager's credit, and is supported by his neighbour, a war widow. He expects Mardi's assistance, but Mardi is afraid to help for fear of losing his girlfriend, Narsih, who is actually Jontro's daughter. Finally, Tabung establishes the cooperative and the villagers gain the courage to fight off Jontro. Jontro now loses his livelihood so he begins to extort from Mardi, whose parents owe him money. Then Mardi comes to his senses. So does Jontro's right hand, Sadar. In the end, Sadar and Jontro have a face-off, and both are killed in the brawl.
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Nila di Gaun Putih (1981)
Character: N/A
Mrs. Ismail is depressed and blind. Her oldest child dies and the romance of her daughter, Dewi, is opposed by the parents of her boyfriend, Lukman. This happens because Hendry, a Lukman family employee, wants Lukman to marry Rina. Dewi is determined to pay for the education of her younger brother, Johan. Johan later marries Ratih, Hendry’s abandoned daughter. At Ratih’s request, Dewi and her mother live in Johan’s house.
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Bisikan Arwah (1988)
Character: Ulama
A man murdered by villagers for bothering a seductive girl returns in the form or a snake. The spirit then possesses a man to use as an instrument for revenge.
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Arwah Anak Ajaib (1988)
Character: N/A
Wealthy hedonist Budiman turns an inherited property into a brothel, where he rapes girls and turns them into prostitutes when he isn't bartering their services for drugs. An abortion forced upon one of the girls unleashes the spirit of her unborn child, who begins to haunt the establishment.
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Godaan perempuan halus (1993)
Character: N/A
Next time you're having a bad day, just remember: It could ALWAYS be worse! Just look at the case of Marni. For starters, she gets gang raped by some thugs at a campground. And then she goes home to be comforted by her caring boyfriend, who recently confessed his love and took her virginity, only to find him in bed with another woman. When she starts acting out, her parents hand her over to an uncle who also rapes her. She miscarries shortly after finding out she's pregnant and is finally put out of her misery after her rapists murder her and then toss her body in a lake. Unfortunately, in death the poor girl can't even rest in peace and she returns as a vengeance-seeking ghost because her body wasn't properly buried. Now that you know all about Marni, don't you feel better?
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Blood Warriors (1993)
Character: Salin
An ex-Marine finds out a old buddy is leading a private army of mercenaries, and when he refuses to join, a deadly violent battle erupts between the two men!
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Si Buta dari Gua Hantu: Neraka Perut Bumi (1987)
Character: N/A
A psychopathic and brutal Indonesian despot terrorizes and exploits the rural population. The cruel warlord demands sacrifices from the villagers, slaughtering them when they don’t meet his demands.
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Ajian Macan Putih (1982)
Character: N/A
A poor man who's mistreated, about to be evicted (along with his mother) and beaten and left for dead by his landlord and his goons, finds a possible remedy for his problems in a "Whip of Fire" family heirloom.
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Dongkrak Antik (1982)
Character: Paulus
This time, the comedy trio of Warkop DKI is joined by another comedian, Mat Solar. Each have their own quirkiness: Kasino the grumpy, Dono the senile, Indro the stutterer, and Mat Solar, deaf in one ear. They work in a hotel run by Paulus. Their quirkiness is the source of humour and misunderstandings, an old tried-and-tested recipe that is still used to attract movie-goers. The highlight is the hotel’s new year event. They appear as performers and call themselves, Wow, It’s Huge. They sing covers of The Beatles, Rolling Stones, and some folk songs. In the end, the show is still a mess.
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Bebas Aturan Main (1994)
Character: Ayah Lisa, Nela, Yuli
Dono, Kasino and Indro lose their pants while they are defecating in a public toilet at an entertainment spot. As a last resort to cover up his embarrassment, Dono steals the pants of the man in the stall next to him. As it turns out, this man is the father of three young women that Dono, Kasino and Indro start going out with. The story, which is little more than a bunch of skits wrapped up together, starts from here.
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Mana Bisa Tahan (1990)
Character: Sulaiman/ Bapak Windy
In this Warkop DKI comedy, Dono has two girlfriends, Windy and Cindy, so he finds it difficult to arrange dates and they often misunderstand. His sidekicks, Kasino and Indro, are jealous. They ruin Dono’s dating life by degrading Dono in front of the two girls’ parents. Then Dono seeks revenge by tricking the two of them.
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Semua Karena Ginah (1985)
Character: N/A
Although she is only an herbalist, Ginah is very attractive. She looks graceful and her friendliness results in many crushes on her.
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Barang Titipan (1991)
Character: N/A
Unang, Miing and Didin (members of the Bagito comedy troupe) own a motorcycle-based delivery company that is not doing very well. They hope to do better business by hiring young women to deliver the things consigned to them.
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Dorce Sok Akrab (1989)
Character: Boss Restauran
Coincidentally, Sugeng and Slamet both have twin children and gave both sets of twins the same names, Dorce and Donny. Both sets of twins then go separately to Jakarta, while Rudi, son of Koco, is sent to pick up Sugeng’s twins, but instead, picks up Slamet’s children, who have arrived first. Then Sugeng’s twins also go to Koco’s house where they meet the other pair of twins to create confusion and silliness. Finally Sugeng and a talent seeker arrive and the misunderstanding is resolved.
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Jangan Bilang Siapa-siapa (1990)
Character: N/A
Newlyweds Merry (Lydia Kandou) and Andi (Ray Sahetapy) have to say goodbye to Anita’s parents who are going abroad for a holiday. Aunt and Uncle (Zainal Abidin, Ida Kusumah) have been asked to watch over them. While Merry and Andi are at the airport to see the parents off, a sweet looking girl comes up and kisses Andi and gives him a message for another young woman. Confusion ensues. Merry becomes suspicious. In the midst of this atmosphere of suspicion, Andi has to take part in an office meeting in Puncak. Even worse, after the meeting, Andi’s boss invites him to a party and after that Andi has to go to Bandung on business. Andi calls Merry, who has taken Andi’s joking around with his servant Kadir about women seriously, to inform her of these plans, and she tells him that she wants to separate from him.
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Pintar-pintaran (1992)
Character: N/A
Kadir and Doyok come to Jakarta looking for jobs. They run up against massive challenges due to their own lack of abilities. After they fail a magicians. They try becoming salesmen, then house painters, and then parking attendants. Finally, Rosa (Baby Zelvia), Kadir’s cousin, tries to help them, but, as usual, the whole thing comes to naught.
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Plin Plan (1992)
Character: N/A
Kadir and Doyok are irritated at the behavior of their gossiping wives Yurike and Chintami. The two men work out a strategy designed to get their wives to stop gossiping. Unfortunately, their strategy boomerangs on them. Things get really crazy when Yurike’s old flame, Mamik, comes around when Kadir is out. Trying to convince Mamik that she is really married, Yurike asks Doyok to pretend to be her husband. They make a big show of going into the bedroom together. When all of this is going on, Kadir’s parents arrive for a visit from Madura and witness Doyok and Yurike go into the bedroom together. Major chaos.
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Gejolak Kawula Muda (1985)
Character: N/A
For disturbing public order, a group of breakdancing teenagers are arrested by the police. Hence, Chicha’s father forbids her to breakdance and Chicha’s boyfriend, Rico, is asked to go his own way. Then parents and teenagers meet to discuss the issue. Chicha continues to breakdance and is even planning a show with her friends. Initially, her father opposes this but finally changes his mind after he sees the successful show. Almost half of the film consists of breakdancing scenes that were popular and polemical in the news at that time.
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Godaan Membara (1994)
Character: Pak Joyo (as Pietrajaya Burnama)
A murdered pregnant woman possesses her sister's body to get revenge.
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Preman (1985)
Character: Wahab
Samboja, a thug who controls an area, catches Ceking and his friends who are trying to rape two girls, Dyah Setiowati and Marlina. Samboja tries to help and is stabbed. Samboja is thought to be the rapist and is arrested. One of the victims, Dyah Setiowati, defends him to the police and he is released. But this incident makes him an enemy of the drug syndicate, who the rapist Ceking works for. Although his friend, Leo, who also works for the syndicate, defends him, the drug boss orders his men to kill Samboja. Dyah, the daughter of a cultural attaché, sympathises with him, especially when she finds out that he visits the daughter of Astri, the prostitute, in the orphanage.
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Goyang Sampai Tua (1978)
Character: Bos Komplotan
An oplet (a small taxi) driver, Tarno, never feels that he earns enough in his village. So he decides to try his luck in the city and leaves his wife and child at home. His luck doesn’t change much until he starts working as a personal driver. But he then realises that he is working for the boss of a drug syndicate. As he refuses his boss’s order to sleep with Mira, he is locked up. Luckily his friend, who brought him into the syndicate, helps him to escape. Meanwhile, Rose takes her child to look for him to Jakarta. She wanders aimlessly and leaves her child in an orphanage. Fortunately, she is found by a group of street musicians who stumble upon her when she is about to be raped. Rose joins the group because she has a singing ability. Then the leader of The Brims Band discovers her and she becomes an even more popular singer.
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Cinta Anak Muda (1990)
Character: Karna
The Ganda family has one child named Ari who has graduated from the university and is engaged to a young woman named Mia. Karna, who has to go to Singapore for some time, leaves his daughter Ira with the Ganda family. Initially Ari see Ira as a little sister, but Mia sees her as a threat to her relationship with Ari. Mia then persuades her older brother Leo to rape Ira. The attempted rape is foiled by Ari, who begins to fall in love with Ira. Mr. Ganda, who realizes Afri’s attraction to Ira, decides to take action because he has a business relationship with Mia’s father, Brata. Mr. Ganda expels Ira from their family home and forbids Ari to continue the relationship. Ari leaves home to follow Ira, and rejects a job offer from Brata’s company. He begins working as a coolie in a new plaster factory. In the end, Karna accepts him as his son-in-law. • Initially titled "Nyanyian Cinta".
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Oh Baby (2008)
Character: N/A
Baby is a beautiful, energetic orphan who dreams of becoming a dancer to pay for her grandfather’s medical bill. Secretly, Baby quits school and enters a high school dance competition, wearing a mask and a new identity, Phantom. Her amazing performance enthralls the audience and jusy. But everyone wonders about Phantom’s mysterious identity. The organizer of the competition, Wizard, tells Baby that she can only participate in the Grand Finals if she goes to the Pekerti Luhur high school. Wizard will pay all fees. Pekerti Luhur is an elite private school lead by a young, strict and disciplined principal, Mr. Yudo. His son, Benny, is head of PHP (Supervisors of Education Harmony) whose duty is to make sure that no student breaks the rules. Zarro, the coolest boy in school, who is also a participant in the dance competition’s Grand Finals, really hates Benny. Baby and Zarro both quickly become enemies, especially when it is known that Baby is his competitor in the dance competition.
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Kekasih (2008)
Character: Kakek Maria
Jiwo (Angga Dwisaputra), a village boy, meets Maria (Vonny Kristianda), the daughter of a nobleman, when they are in junior high school. But Maria had to separate from Jiwo because forced by her parents. A few years later, they met again with the same question: will their love last this time?
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Cinta (1975)
Character: N/A
Sarah is a lounge singer who works to support her husband, Paul Lasut, a gambler. In an intersection, her car nearly runs into the car of David Panggabean, the director of a bank. The event leads to them falling in love. Lasut is shot and dies on the gambling table. Sarah thinks that Lasut dies because of the money that David gave him. Sarah avoids David, who still persistently visits her place of work. David also has problems with his work, due to his assistant. All the problems are finally resolved when David and Sarah are married.
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Rindu Purnama (2011)
Character: N/A
Purnama, a street child who lives in a halfway house. He was affected by amnesia due to being hit by the car of Mr. Surya, a businessman who is a workaholic and still lives alone.
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Gadis Hitam Putih (1986)
Character: N/A
The story begins with a commotion in court during the trial session of a wild girl who was involved with pornographic photos when a former nurse appeared to reveal that the girl was the daughter of a famous tycoon in Jakarta. Meanwhile, the rich man's daughter who had just gotten married was the biological child of the wild girl's mother, who was a prostitute. The two were exchanged when their newborns were in the hospital.
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Gundala Putra Petir (1981)
Character: Dewa Petir
The story of a man who attempts to make his body anti-lightning and succeeded. This success interest the drug syndicate who later kidnaps him to make heroin concoction. The mastermind turns out to be a friend of the man. The man determines to defeat them all.
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Perempuan Bergairah (1982)
Character: N/A
Renny Basuki is a young woman and a former judo champion who, after her father's demise, tries to look after her impoverished family. When her younger brother is diagnosed with a deadly disease, she is desperate to afford his surgery costs. One day, Indra, a professional wrestling manager, offers Renny and her friend Mia to join a female wrestling troupe. They agree but Renny's mother disapproves her wrestling career.
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Bergola Ijo (1983)
Character: N/A
A continuation of the Jaka Sembung series. The event takes place in the Gegesik village near Cirebon, in 1827. The village head, Subah, faces two enemies - the Dutch and Ki Dungu. The Dutch use Ki Dungu to destroy the village, as he has an old grudge against the people plus he possesses the powerful skill of Bergola Ijo. But Ningsih, the wife of Fajar, both of whom are Subah's children and disciple respectively, face Ki Dungu with their own martial arts.
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Tapak-Tapak Kaki Wolter Monginsidi (1982)
Character: N/A
This is the story of one of the heroes of independence from South Sulawesi - Wolter Monginsidi. Monginsidi is portrayed as a flamboyant young man, brave and daring yet emotional at times. He and his troops always ambush the Dutch until they are finally caught. His father is persuaded to sign the clemency form, which turns out to be a trap, set up by the Dutch. He receives the death sentence instead.
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Rimba panas (1988)
Character: Malod
Two groups of treasure hunters encounter dangerous animals, bloody thirsty cannibals, and unexpected love as they search a jungle for a long lost treasure.
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Max Havelaar of de koffieveilingen der Nederlandsche-Handelmaatschappij (1976)
Character: Djaska
An idealistic Dutch colonial officer posted to Indonesia in the 19th century is cohvinced that he can make the kinds of changes that will actually help the local people he is in charge of, but circumstances soon make him realize just how out of touch he really is, and it doesn't take long for things to go from bad to worse.
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Perawan Rimba (1982)
Character: N/A
Abused women rush off into the jungle to oppose their oppressors.
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Perempuan Bergairah (1982)
Character: N/A
Spoof based (loosely) on an old Indonesian film, which has had the old foreign soundtrack removed and replaced by an over-dubbed English track. Central character is a female wrestler who has decided that she no longer wants to wrestle, but whose mother (a former wrestler herself) wants her to keep wrestling to make money so her brother can have the operation (his seminal vessels run to his skull, rather than his groin, which purportedly will cause his head to explode if he gets too excited). During the course of her story (in which a number of brawls ensue), she is befriended by a Elvis-impersonating martial artist. This recut/redubbed version is 72 minutes long.
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Pedjuang (1960)
Character: N/A
Devoted to the heroes who fought for their homeland’s freedom in the 1947 Indonesian war of liberation.
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Tjoet Nja' Dhien (1988)
Character: Panglima Laot
Set in 1896, "Tjoet Nja' Dhien" celebrates one of Indonesia's great heroes who fought for independence from the Dutch. The pious Muslim people of Aceh, a city that had flourished since ancient times as a trade port, enter into a fierce war with the Dutch. Tjoet Nja' Dhien, the widow of a rebel leader operating in Aceh in Sumatra, assumes the leadership when her husband Teuku Uma is killed in an ambush. Dhien's charismatic presence and power of survival motivate the locals to join and later continue their opposition to the Dutch. Despite personal obstacles, she remained in the thick of the struggle for ten years.
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Lady Dragon (1992)
Character: Grand Father
An ex-CIA agent living in Indonesia tracks the arms dealer who killed her husband. Along the way, she meets a young boy and his grandfather, who teach her in the ways of the Lady Dragon.
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Opera Jakarta (1985)
Character: Bos Sasana Tinju
Intertwined stories of Joko, a boxer, and Rum, the daughter of a general.
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Puisi Tak Terkuburkan (2000)
Character: Lelaki Anakku
The poet Ibrahim Kadir plays himself in a political drama about his arrest and incarceration in Aceh in the 1960s. Kadir survived the mass murder of suspected communists by the Indonesian government that cost between 500,000 and two million lives.
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