Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 09, 1933
Deathday: March 14, 1975
Popularity:
1961-11-10
Overview: This is the heroic story of Mochamad Toha, who successfully blew up a Dutch ammunition depot in Bandung and ruined their defences. Set in Bandung at the time of transition, between the departing Japanese and the incoming Dutch (who are supported by the British), Indonesians had to fight for their independence. Toha emerged as a leader of the common people, who saw injustice and oppression, and who sacrificed himself by blowing up the ammunition depot.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1961-11-10
Popularity:
1960-04-12
Overview: Amir, the son of a businessman, Yahya, is more interested in music than in having a position as president of the company. Yahya is totally against this, and even his brother, Ismed is not allowed to help him. Instead, help comes from Norma, his father’s private secretary, and some young musicians. A music festival that Amir organizes is a huge success. In the end, Yahya makes peace with Amir and retires happily. The company is handed over to Ismed while Norma goes off to help Amir. The film featured the Imam Band that was popular at that time. The members were Eka Djaja Combo, Dolok Martimbang, Teruna Ria, Kinantan, Irama Agung and Idris Sardi and his orchestra.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1960-04-12
Popularity:
1960-06-15
Overview: Hamsah is always preoccupied with his business while his wife is busy with her social life. Their daughters; Tuti and Lina, are neglected by them. Lina suffers the most as she is paralyzed, and the doctor does not think that she will improve. So a private teacher is hired for Lina, a university student named Arman. They get along well as Arman is also suffering from the loss of his mother and sister, who died during the revolution. The seeds of love begin to grow, but it happens that Tuti likes him too. Then Arman resolves problem by reuniting Tuti with her ex-boyfriend, Anwar. In the end, Hamzah and his wife realise their mistakes, while Lina and Arman find their “private palace.”
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1960-06-15
Popularity:
1970-01-01
Overview: Supinah, a prostitute, is picked up by a kindly rich man, Budi. They fall in love and she recounts how she, as a naive willage woman, was lured into prostitution when she came to Jakarta in search of her husband, who in turns out remarried. Budi wants her to quit her job but her vicious pimp has other ideas.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1970-01-01
Popularity:
1965-01-01
Overview: Herman, a customs officer assigned to eradicate smuggling, often loses his temper. When a smuggler’s ship is reported, he immediately orders a search-and-destroy but it’s a reckless act that results in the easy escape of other ships. Then Herman is posted to the mainland as punishment. Here, he reunites with an old friend, Rusli, who offers him a bribe. Herman is now a suspect as several of smuggling ships are able to escape. But it is Herman’s strategy to gain Rusli’s trust so that he can eradicate smuggling at its root. He is reposted back to sea.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1965-01-01
Popularity:
1970-11-10
Overview: At the Jakarta Fair, there is a rumour that a major tycoon from Makassar will come looking for new machines and a business partner. There is a flurry of excitement as everyone tries to get the tycoon’s employees to drop by their stands. Mansur, one of business owners in the fair, asks his secretary, Sinta, to find Andi Rachmat Syah, the tycoon. Sinta then approaches Andi, a handsome man employed by the tycoon, to find out about his boss. The man promises to tell Sinta on one condition, that she has to take him around the fair. Samiaji, Mansur’s business competitor, who has a crush on Sinta, is jealous when he finds out about it. Till the end of the story, nobody knows that Andi takes Sinta home after nights of going around the Jakarta Fair.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1970-11-10
Popularity:
1970-12-30
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1970-12-30
Popularity:
1971-10-08
Overview: Parmin is always rejected by his wife, Sinta, when he wants to have sex. Sinta was traumatized by her half-sister and stepfather, so she married Parmin to cover up her pregnancy. Sinta falls into a lesbian relationship with Sumiyati, who is a lesbian because all her sisters are women, and her relationships with men are strictly monitored by her parents. Sumiyati already has another girlfriend, Novita, a wife who has a husband with another sexual disorder: sadism. Sumiyati was "raped" by her sister-in-law, and started to have feelings for men, especially when she also played with Parmin, instead of introducing Sinta to Novita. Sum also then falls in love with young man Arman. Sinta-Novita's relationship didn't last long, because her husband, who was abroad, returned home. Sinta speeds off using Novita's gift car and dies.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1971-10-08
Popularity:
1960-01-01
Overview: Devoted to the heroes who fought for their homeland’s freedom in the 1947 Indonesian war of liberation.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1960-01-01
Popularity:
1974-01-01
Overview: After the accidental drowning death of their son, a military truck driver begins to doubt the faithfulness of his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1974-01-01
Popularity:
1961-05-15
Overview: This war drama finds a group of rebels grappling with their imprisonment while in the custody of Dutch colonialists.With several of their comrades recently executed, the soldiers are left to contemplate their fates – and plan a possible escape – as the threat of their impending mortality closes in.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1961-05-15
Popularity:
1969-05-01
Overview: This first Indonesian international award winning film is about a story about a woman with her unhappy life who seeks for something.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1969-05-01
Popularity:
1971-01-01
Overview: Lono is a thief who steals from the corrupt on behalf of the poor.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-01
Popularity:
1970-02-23
Overview: Si Bego (WD Mochtar) and his two friends (Dicky Zulkarnaen and Anny Kusuma) face the Black Cat gang who kidnapped a bride and her father. Then they also face the landlord who extorts the people, who turns out to also be supported by the Black Cats.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1970-02-23
Popularity:
1974-09-03
Overview: Irma, who thinks Bobby is shy, ignores Bobby's feelings for Irma. Until Irma realizes Bobby's feelings and gets involved so much that her school falls apart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1974-09-03
Popularity:
1974-03-20
Overview: A comedy film about two twins who were separated since childhood. Napi and Pinarto. Funny and silly incidents occur because of many misunderstandings.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1974-03-20
Popularity:
1955-09-24
Overview: Thanks to the success of the film "Crisis", produced by Perfini, there is a tendency to make similar stories. There are no main characters in this film, except for the somewhat prominent ones, namely the patient teacher (A. Hamid Arief) and his talkative wife (Tina Melinda). It also depicts the lives of several families in a house like in "Crisis".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1955-09-24
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