Nicholas Saputra
Also Known As: Nico, Nicholas Schubring Saputra
Biography: Nicholas Saputra (born Nicholas Schubring Saputra on February 24, 1984, in Jakarta) is an Indonesian actor, model, and film producer. He gained widespread recognition after starring in Ada Apa dengan Cinta? (2002) as Rangga, a role that became an icon in Indonesian cinema. His career continued to flourish with strong performances in various films, including Gie (2005), where he portrayed activist Soe Hok Gie and won the Citra Award for Best Actor at the Indonesian Film Festival (FFI). Other films that solidified his status as a top-tier actor include Janji Joni (2005), 3 Hari untuk Selamanya (2007), Aruna & Lidahnya (2018), and Paranoia (2021). Saputra holds a degree in architecture from the University of Indonesia. As of 2007 Saputra has become a VJ for Channel V Asia, hosting such segments as 'The Ticket' and 'Screentime'. In addition to acting, Nicholas is also active as a producer and has been involved in several documentary projects and environmental advocacy. He is known as an environmental ambassador, actively campaigning for nature conservation, particularly in forest and marine preservation. With his charisma and selectivity in choosing roles, Nicholas Saputra remains one of the most respected and influential actors in the Indonesian film industry.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Jakarta, Indonesia
Adult: No
Birthday: February 24, 1984
Age: 41 years old
Gender: Male
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The Photograph
Overview: Sita is an escort at a karaoke bar who struggles to raise money to send her daughter out of the city to live with her grandmother and settle her debts with her pimp. She moves in with aging photographer Jan and helps him fulfill his last wishes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2007-07-05
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Siapa Dia..
Overview: Layar, a popular film star who feels bored with his career wants to make a musical theater set in a family history that is always linked to Indonesian film history.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: id
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What's Up with Cinta?
Overview: A popular high school girl strains her relationship with her close-knit clique when she begins falling for a reclusive, lower-class schoolmate.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2002-02-08
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Joni's Promise
Overview: A film delivery man promises a beautiful young woman to deliver a film reel on time to a movie theater, but the the whole city seems to conspire against him.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2005-04-26
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Gie
Overview: Indonesian activist Soe Hok Gie experiences a political awakening during the tumultuous regimes of Soeharto and Soekarno.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2005-07-13
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Broken Wings
Overview: In 2018, the headquarters of the Mobile Brigade Command Headquarters in Kelapa Dua, Depok was attacked by terrorists who tried to break into the detention center and killed 5 members of Densus 88.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2022-08-18
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The Stringless Violin
Overview: A woman with a dark past dedicates herself to taking care of multi-handicapped children. When a young musician comes into her life, she is forced to face her history, or it will destroy her future.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2003-03-22
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What They Don't Talk About When They Talk About Love
Overview: As pupils at a school for the visually impaired, best friends Diana and Fitri are living full and complicated lives in spite of their sensory limits.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2013-05-02
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Us vs. Corruption
Overview: An omnibus about fighting corruption in our daily life: in workplace, in our family, in school.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2012-01-26
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Three Days to Forever
Overview: Yusuf and his cousin Ambar spend a wild night out just before heading out of town for a relative’s wedding. When the pair passes out overnight and Ambar misses her flight, the two head off on a three-day road trip. Little do they realize those three days will have a lasting impact on their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2007-06-26
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Postcards from the Zoo
Overview: Little Lana was 3 years old when she was abandoned alone in the zoo. Raised by a giraffe trainer, the zoo is the only world she knows. Until one day, a charming magician arrives and Lana finds her love, for she is ready to leave the zoo. Lana embarks on journey, until one day, she decided to go back to the place where she was abandoned.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2012-07-20
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Someone's Wife in the Boat of Someone's Husband
Overview: Legends abound on the Indonesian island of Sawai, but when a young woman arrives to find out more about a story her grandmother told her, no one knows a thing about Halimah who ran away from her husband to have an affair with the sailor Sukab. She does meet a young traveller called Sukab though. In this modest romance, almost documentary shots of village life are combined with the captivating beauty of jungle and sea. With a small walk-on for a squid. Edwin was invited to shoot this modern fairy tale by the film festival in the Korean city of Jeonju as part of the Jeonju Digital Project which in 2013 had the theme Strangers.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2013-04-26
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The Architecture of Love
Overview: Raia, a famous writer struggling with writer's block, travels to New York to get inspired. There, she meets River and becomes entangled in a love story haunted by the past.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2024-04-30
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Strangers
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Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: ko
Release Date: 2013-04-26
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The Golden Cane Warrior
Overview: A martial arts master angers two of her protégés when she selects a third to take her post and the legendary weapon that comes with it.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2014-12-18
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Kau, Rabu, dan Perkara2 Sepintas Lalu
Overview: Rhun, a well-known novelist, must finish his latest novel soon. Ajeng was chosen by a publisher to read the script before the novel was declared finished. Rhun is captivated by her. But in the end, the woman stopped coming.
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Original Language: id
Release Date: 2022-10-06
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(s)Aya
Overview: AYA (25), is an influencer who is slowly losing her popularity. She decides to go on a holiday to an exotic coast resort, far from the demands of her work in Jakarta. Although she is far from the city, her manager, ANDHIKA (33), sends her a few products to review. Aya is then trapped in a contract, which obliges her to work.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2022-11-27
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Drupadi
Overview: Adapted from the ancient Indian epic Mahabharata, this movie depicts the story of Drupadi, the wife of five brothers known as the Pandawas.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2008-12-08
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What's Up with Cinta 2
Overview: 14 years after their budding romance in high school, Rangga and Cinta reunite in Yogyakarta to have their closure after Rangga had left Cinta with no explanation years prior.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2016-04-28
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Borderless Fog
Overview: A big-city detective investigates a series of gruesome murders along the Indonesia-Malaysia border — forcing her to confront ghosts from her past.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2024-07-31
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Interchange
Overview: Haunted by somber visions, forensics photographer Adam retreats from the world, staying home and taking photos of his neighbors until he is dragged into another investigation by his best friend, the detective Man, who asks his help to solve a series of macabre ritual murders. At the same time, Adam’s seemingly innocuous pastime soon turns darker when he spies Iva, a young woman from Borneo. Smitten by her, he is soon entangled in her web of mystery and murder. As Adam is dragged further into Iva’s tribal world and Man delves deeper into his investigation, they discover the city’s mystical underground of shamans and supernatural beings.
Genres: Fantasy Thriller
Original Language: ms
Release Date: 2016-08-05
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3 Wishes 3 Loves
Overview: Huda, Rian, and Syahid are friends living in Islamic boarding school. They lost someone in their family and aspire to different things in their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2008-10-01
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Aruna & Her Palate
Overview: A food-loving epidemiologist Aruna has to go to the countryside to investigate the avian flu outbreak. A chef and a food critic also accompany her—this could turn out to be a food trip!
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2018-09-27
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Asian Three-Fold Mirror 2018: Journey
Overview: This omnibus film consists of three films made by three directors from three countries. With “Journey” as the theme, each of these films tells about a journey. “The Sea” is a film by Degena Yun (China), telling about mother and child’s trip to the sea from Beijing. “Hekishu,” a film by Daishi Matsunaga (Japan), tells about the journey of a Japanese businessman involved in infrastructure development in Yangon. The film depicts the entrepreneur’s emotional feelings in the face of Yangon residents who lost their homes due to the construction of the new infrastructure. The last is a film titled “Variable No. 3” by Edwin (Indonesia), which tells the story of a couple’s journey to Tokyo. There they meet a mysterious man. The man who works as a tour guide and rents out the inn, gives a strange advice to the husband and wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-10-26
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Motel Acacia
Overview: In the cold west, Motel Acacia is tasked with exterminating immigrants by the government through a BED, haunted with the spirit of a Filipino tree demon, that eats men and impregnates women. A young Filipino man, JC, is groomed by his tyrannical caucasian Father to take over the business.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-03-11
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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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Paranoia
Overview: Dina runs away with her teenage daughter Laura after her abusive husband Gion gets imprisoned. However, Gion is released from the prison due to the pandemic and Dina is panicking because not only she took Laura but also took Gion’s valuable antique statue away. Raka, a mysterious man appears and makes things even more complicated.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2021-11-11
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Hulahoop Soundings
Overview: Was it black magic that took him from her? Or the vision of her rival's swaying hips? Lana works at a phone sex company, and hula-hoops when calling her customers to make moaning sounds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Love From Wamena
Overview: Litius, Tembi and Martha are three friends who live in Wamena, Papua. They have a dream to go to school. This dream led them to Wamena, where they could go to school for free. But there, their friendship and dreams are tested with a permissive lifestyle, and the AIDS epidemic that afflicts young Papuans. Their life journey also took them to different directions and places, from Papua to Jakarta, where a meeting with a musician made Litius search again for the lost friendship.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2013-06-13
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I Am Into You
Overview: An Indonesian couple run away to be with each other. However, not having the necessary documents and letters, they cannot get married. The groom wants to bribe the officials, but the bride refuses. After all, the very reason they ran away is because her father is involved in a corruption case.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2013-05-02
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Tukar Takdir
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Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: id
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