Joko Anwar
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Biography: Joko Anwar (born January 3, 1976 in Medan, Indonesia) is a writer-director who started his career as a journalist and film critic. His works include "The Forbidden Door" (2009), which received the top prize at the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, and "A Copy of My Mind" (2015), which competed at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival. His film "Satan's Slaves" (2017) was the highest grossing horror of all time in Indonesia.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Medan, Indonesia
Adult: No
Birthday: January 03, 1976
Age: 49 years old
Gender: Male
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A World Without
Overview: Founded by the power couple, Ali and Sofia Khan, The Light is a training center that claims to be a self-betterment organization, focused on helping youths take charge of their life for a brighter future. But when three best friends join this organization, they soon realize that dark shadows lurk behind The Light and must find a way to escape.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2021-10-14
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Mika
Overview: This film is an adaptation of the novel written by Indi. The story begin when Indi (Velove Vexia), who suffered from scoliosis, her activities became increasingly limited. After being told that she is no longer allowed to participate in sports activities, Indi became even more so quiet. Everything changed when she met Mika (Vino G. Bastian). Indi's spirit start growing. She became more willing to overcome her illness. Mika, who has an optimistic view of life, successfully make Indi to be cheerful once more. In fact, Mika himself has AIDS.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2013-01-17
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Demi Ucok
Overview: Mak Gondut wants her daughter to marry a nice Batak man, but Gloria has other plans—pursuing her dream of filmmaking while racing against time to fund her passion before tradition catches up with her.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2013-01-03
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Filosofi Kopi 2: Ben & Jody
Overview: After starting their traveling coffee business, friends Ben and Jody reopen their shop in Jakarta, where new opportunities and challenges begin to brew.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2017-07-13
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Langit Biru
Overview: Three first year junior high school teenagers lives closely in a housing complex since childhood.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2011-11-17
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Love
Overview: Love is a 2008 Indonesian anthology romance film directed by Kabir Bhatia as a remake of the 2006 film Cinta . In Jakarta, five couples of varying ages and backgrounds experience the different stages of romantic love, from its giddy start to its painful end.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2008-02-14
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Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly
Overview: Linda is a young woman of Chinese heritage whose mother converted to Christianity after gaining some fame as a badminton player. Her friend Cahyono is tired of anti-Chinese prejudice and now tells people he’s from Japan. Together, they try to make sense of their place in the Indonesian society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2008-05-18
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Love for Share
Overview: Three women from three different social, economic, and ethnic groups discuss their lives in polygamous household.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2006-03-23
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Satan's Slaves 2: Communion
Overview: After moving from their home to an apartment building, a new terror awaits Rini’s family.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2022-07-30
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The Lost Suitcase
Overview: Yahya, a low-class employee, finds a suitcase on an empty street. The suitcase is suspected to contain robbed money from a bank. This results in everybody giving the once invisible Yahya the royal treatment, with the hope to get a little reward in return. But Yahya is determined to keep the suitcase, until a series of events in his life prompt him to consider his decision.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2006-08-31
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Melancholy Is a Movement
Overview: A lost and disillusioned film director finds himself stuck in creative limbo. A way out presents itself in the form of a peculiar film project.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2015-04-02
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Three Sassy Sisters
Overview: A musical drama inspired by the 1956 classic, Tiga Dara. It tells the story of three sisters—Gendis, Ella, and Bebe—who live with their father and grandmother after their mother passed away. Each of them has a different personality, but they are all independent and focused on their careers. However, their grandmother becomes worried because her granddaughters are still unmarried. She then tries to find them suitable partners, which leads to various comedic situations, family conflicts, and questions about love and freedom.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2016-09-01
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3Sum
Overview: 3Sum like as omnibus films about love, life and death and action, thriller dan drama genres.
Genres: Thriller Drama Action Horror
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2013-01-31
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Before the Morning Repeated
Overview: Yan (55) is an honest government official. His wife, Rachel (55) is a philosophy professor at a leading university. They have three children who are very different in character. The oldest, Firman, the weakest, just get divorced and in idle condition. The second, Satria, a young contractor, has big ambitions to grow his business. Satria certainly be the golden boy of the family. And the last is Dian, the youngest, beloved of all family members, has been engaged to Hassan, a member of Parliament who is young, hungry and has a lot of connections to government officials. Stress due to rumors around him, Yan decides to resign. Soen does not understand what is going with his son. She also gets stress and then is hospitalized. Soen finally died. Family’s life is changed quickly and become more gloomy and not as warm as before. Money change all: the family’s values begin to collapse and reveal the falsity around them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2014-05-08
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The Underdogs
Overview: A group of four friends decide to try and become Youtubers stars to overcome their unpopularity. Their differences put a strain on their friendship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2017-08-16
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My Generation
Overview: Four high school friends must face the consequences of their video critics after the principal forbid them to have their annual vacation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2017-11-09
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Daysleepers
Overview: It tells the story of two people who choose to live on slightly different frequencies from other people. Andrea (Dinda Kanyadewi) has a unique and highly specialized job that requires her to work alone from night to morning in a near-empty office building. Leon (Khiva Iskak) is a writer, who goes out at night after his son falls asleep to write at his favorite coffee shop across from Andrea’s building. The two could begin to notice each other’s presence to their respective windows and they start to wonder about each other and themselves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2018-03-14
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Galih & Ratna
Overview: Two teenagers face demands from their families that do not care about what they want. They only have each other to encourage and pursue their dreams.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2017-03-09
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Mereka Bilang, Saya Monyet!
Overview: Adjeng lives alone in an apartment paid for by her boyfriend, a rich businessman. A writer of children's stories, she wishes to write short stories for adults; in this, she is mentored by Asmoro with whom she is also having sex. Meanwhile, Adjeng's mothe handles various aspects of her life, constantly calling her and making surprise visits. This has led Adjeng's friends, Venny and Andien, to tease her about her overbearing mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2007-12-28
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Nay
Overview: Nay, who's pregnant for about 11 weeks now, has to face life's adversities and the true nature of the people around her: her boyfriend Ben, her manager Ajeng, Ben's mother, and Pram - who she thinks is dependable. Shot entirely in a car.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2015-11-19
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Satan's Slaves
Overview: After dying from a strange illness that she suffered for three years, a mother returns home to pick up her children.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2017-09-28
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Ave Maryam
Overview: A devoted nun who cares for her elder sisters must choose between upholding her vows or pursuing her forbidden feelings for a fascinating pastor.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2019-04-11
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27 Steps of May
Overview: Eight years ago, 14 year old May was raped by a group of men. May’s father is devastated, blaming himself for not being able to keep his daughter safe. Traumatized significantly by this incident, May withdraws completely from life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2019-04-27
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Parts of the Heart
Overview: 8 stories about Peter, a gay man living in Jakarta from the age of 10 to 40 and his experiences with love that help to shape the man he is today.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2012-02-01
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Sing to the Dawn
Overview: Dawan is a young village girl who harbours the dream of getting out of her village in the lure of the bright lights in the big city, and to do so, has to fight customs and tradition that girls are meant to be bethroned away early at a young age to someone they loathe, and schools for them are an unnecessary part of life. In order to fulfill her dream, she has to go against the wishes of her dad, as well as irk her brother as she out-scores him in a local examination to clinch a scholarship. Also, their village is under threat of an unscrupulous landlord trying to bulldoze his way into profits by driving everyone out of his land.
Genres: Animation Drama Music
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2009-09-16
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Madame X
Overview: Threatened by Kanjeng Badai and his militant and homophobic political party, a country's safety depends on Adam, a hairdresser.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2010-10-07
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Filosofi Kopi
Overview: The level-headed owner of a struggling coffee shop finds his future at risk when his partner -- a talented but cocky barista -- makes a major bet.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2015-04-08
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Love Potpourri
Overview: Eight stories are interwoven including the story of a child who works hard just to get a bottle of clean water and a pair of roller skates. Then there are siblings who sell pirated DVDs and start fighting each other when the younger one only wants to drink Starbucks coffee. The third story is about the daughter of a prostitute who has a crush on her moral studies teacher. Then we meet a Japanese man who is hungry for true love and meets a karaoke girl and we hear the story of a lowly-paid television director who is looking to escape the pressures from his wife and boss. Then there is the story of a female kindergarten principal who is trying to apply the Islamic way of life to defuse the temptations of the material world; or the tale of an expatriate’s former chauffeur who gets into trouble after receiving a farewell gift from the boss.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2008-10-16
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The Gathering
Overview: Between divorce, bad relationships and coming out as gay, a group of affluent friends realize that none of their lives are as easy as they seem.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2003-12-10
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Reunion Z
Overview: A B-list actor reconnects with his high school bandmates at a reunion that soon unravels when a group of attendants turns into zombies.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2018-04-12
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Because of Soccer
Overview: After losing a World Cup bet, two hapless buddies must use their wits to pay off their debt to a big Jakarta bookie.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2008-08-13
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Macabre
Overview: Six friends are captured and tortured by a murderous family after giving a ride home to a desperate stranger.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2009-10-08
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1000 Balon
Overview: A film created and shot by 50 children, about an adventure to find a hidden treasure.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2013-12-25
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Tales of the Uncanny
Overview: A detailed look at the history of horror anthology films.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-31
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Fly By Night
Overview: Unfolding the life of a taxi driver that uses his services as a front for extortion rackets and other criminal activities. When his hot-headed younger brother's impulsive behaviour lead the cops and triad to their doorstep. As the eldest, he stops at nothing to protect them all.
Genres: Crime Action Mystery Thriller
Original Language: zh
Release Date: 2019-04-11
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Suzzanna: The Queen of Black Magic
Overview: A documentary about Suzzanna, "the Queen of Indonesian horror" - an actress who starred in many of the country's most iconic and beloved horror pictures.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-10-12
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The Siege at Thorn High
Overview: Edwin promised to his sister on her death bed to find her son she gave up long time ago. Edwin's quest brought him to become a substitute teacher in Duri High School, Jakarta, a school for juvenile delinquents. There he must face the most violent students to find his nephew. When he eventually finds the boy, a city-wide riot erupts and Edwin is trapped im the school with the cruel kids out for his blood.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2025-04-17
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