Djenar Maesa Ayu
Also Known As: Nai Djenae Maisa Ayu
Biography: Djenar Maesa Ayu (born January 14, 1973 in Jakarta) is an Indonesian novelist, short story writer, actress, screenwriter, and filmmaker.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Jakarta, Indonesia
Adult: No
Birthday: January 14, 1973
Age: 52 years old
Gender: Female
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Opera Jakarta
Overview: Intertwined stories of Joko, a boxer, and Rum, the daughter of a general.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 1985-02-01
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Harlot's Prayer
Overview: Kiran, a Muslim woman, loses her faith and falls into promiscuity after a hard-line Islamic organization, meant to strengthen her faith, ends up depriving her of it.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2024-05-22
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Dealova
Overview: Libby, a female basketball player, is caught in confusion when she is faced with two boys who are quite different in age from her and who both love Libby.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2024-02-22
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Night of Hell
Overview: Trapped in a remote village, three friends must survive attacks from a horde of evil spirits over three nights.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2023-12-07
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Grave Torture
Overview: When a violent act kills her parents, Sita vows to debunk the idea of supernatural torment after death — a fixation that leads her on a dark quest.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2024-04-11
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Ghost Writer 2
Overview: The success of her second novel made Naya famous. Unfortunately she is more labeled as a psychic than a writer. This makes Naya resentful and reluctant to deal with the haunted world again. However, everything changed when her future husband Vino suddenly died.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2022-07-21
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The Corpse Washer
Overview: Lela, a mortician, finds something odd about the body of her mother who died suddenly. Trapped in sacred tension and a tense horror journey, Lela discovers another oddity in the body of the corpse she was bathing.
Genres: Horror Drama Thriller
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2024-02-22
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Melodi
Overview: Ruli and Mili are brother and sister who live in suburb of Jakarta Mega City with his father who became a single parent. They live their life full of joy .. Ruli who have a nice voice works as a waitress at a coffee shop. Mili who like drawing always follow wherever his brother go. In the middle efforts to help his father find additional costs, he met Chika, daughter of Mrs. Waita which became part of the disaster. Unexpectedly encounter them develop into true friendship and deep spiritual relationship until they become trio together with Mili.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2010-06-10
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Mangkujiwo 2
Overview: After Cokrokusumo's death, Uma tries to deal with the trauma while looking for answers to the mystery of the Kuntilanak's involvement in her life. Meanwhile, Brotoseno, Nyi Kenanga and Karmila are taking heinous methods to bring Mangkujiwo to the pinnacle of glory, where blood will again be spilled.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2023-01-26
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Marni: The Story of Wewe Gombel
Overview: After moving her family to a remote village, a busy single mother loses her son, who seems to have been abducted by a vengeful spirit.
Genres: Action Horror Thriller
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2024-06-27
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THE RAGE, Blood From The Sea
Overview: A woman named Rara who experiences a strange incident on the South coast. A murder far from humanity sets in motion a vicious chain of revenge.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller Comedy
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2024-08-05
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The Mediterranean Sea
Overview: After a student's scholarship falls through, her academic dreams lie in a life-changing offer: marry into a family in exchange for tuition.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2024-10-03
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Janji Darah
Overview: Two people who once made a promise to each other, faced a very difficult problem after death separated them, because their promise was to always protect each other wherever they are.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2024-07-04
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Remember The Flavor
Overview: Dimas is busy taking care of his dad's ice cream shop. Melodi is on her way to Jakarta to be a musician. Both of them are best friends since high school and secretly like each other. The film chronicles their story three years later.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2017-02-15
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Kartini: Princess of Java
Overview: A woman of nobility battles patriarchal norms in order to improve educational access for women in early 1900s Indonesian society.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2017-04-19
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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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Kafir: A Deal with the Devil
Overview: After the bizarre death of their father, two siblings must uncover the root cause of their mother's sudden paranormal terror to save her.
Genres: Mystery Horror Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2018-08-02
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Kenapa Harus Bule?
Overview: Pipin Kartika is obsessed to get a foreigner / "bule", to be her husband. Frustrated of meeting many jerk bules in Jakarta, Pipin decided to move to Bali to find love.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2018-03-09
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Something In Between
Overview: Tormented by vivid dreams, a man tries to follow his visions to find the whereabouts of a high school couple he can't stop thinking about.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2018-09-27
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Dancing in the Rain
Overview: Banyu, a boy with autism spectrum disorder, starts a beautiful friendship with Radin and Kinara. When they all grown up, a tragic event occurred, putting their friendship on the edge of destruction.
Genres: Drama Romance Family
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2018-10-18
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Asih
Overview: Years after a woman tragically takes her own life and drowns her baby, a couple expecting a child finds themselves terrorized by a sinister ghost.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2018-10-11
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Keira
Overview: It tells a story about a girl with dissociative identity disorder and how it affects her life and those around her.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2018-11-15
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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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Gundala
Overview: Sancaka has lived on the streets since his parents left him. Living a hard life, Sancaka survives by thinking about his own safety. When the condition of the city gets worse and injustice rages throughout the country, Sancaka must decide whether he continues to live to look after himself or rise to become their oppressed hero.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2019-08-29
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Lampor: The Flying Casket
Overview: Edwin and Netta with their two children, Adam and Sekar going to Netta's hometown at Temanggung. Netta were suspected as the cause of Lampor terror at her hometown, a demon who bring a flying casket.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2019-10-31
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Purple Love
Overview: A heartbroken man gets a boost of new (but familiar) feelings when his buddies ask a woman who runs a motivational agency to pull him out of a slump.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2011-05-12
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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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SAIA
Overview: SAIA is a picture of a woman who holds trauma due to unpleasant mental and physical experiences. Every day Saia, a 35-year-old woman, peeks at a man's sexual assault against a woman who happens across her room through a window and records it with a video camera. Every development of the situation witnessed affects the psychological and physical side. Until one day he saw a murder happen, and after that there was no more activity. After a while of waiting, he approached the room. Turns out empty. There was no woman, and the corpse of the man killed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Mangkujiwo
Overview: After being removed from his position at the Keraton by Cokrokusumo, Brotoseno intends to take revenge. Brotoseno invites a woman named Kanti who is also filled with hatred for Cokrokusumo.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2020-01-30
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Tersanjung: The Movie
Overview: After growing up in a tumultuous household, Yura finds herself in a love triangle with two close friends as she faces a personal and financial crisis.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2021-04-01
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Di Bawah Umur
Overview: A new student, Lana comes to the most favorite high schools in Jakarta. Her innocent and fresh beauty catches the eyes of the young guys there, especially the school’s bad boy, Aryo.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2020-11-13
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Bidadari Mencari Sayap
Overview: Reza and Angela are trapped in differences in beliefs and culture. Reza is Moslem and of Arab descent married Angela is Chinese descent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2020-10-02
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Anak-anak Borobudur
Overview: The movie takes place in a village near the Borobudur Temple in the Central Java. The village people make their living by digging up stones and carving them. Amat (Adadiri Tanpalang), a ten-year-old boy is an intelligent and mature boy who helps his mute father with stone carving. One day, his teacher requests him to participate in a stone carving competition. He never finishes it; instead his father does it for him. He wins but he returns the prize to the school because he felt that he doesn’t deserve it. He claims that his father is the one who finished the statue for competition for him. While his friend, Siti (Acintyaswati Widianing) is the one who sent the stone carving to the competition.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2007-07-05
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Chased by Satan
Overview: Three teen couples are making an amateur horror movie titled "Dikejar Setan", for an indie film festival. To capture audience attention, they want a real ghost in the scenes. So they hire a ghost whisperer in the film production. Slowly, reality and hallucination haunt them, blurring the boundaries between the past, and present. Then they are all implicated in a crime event that took place some time ago, that had many victims. The terror of "death" is now after them.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2009-06-25
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Death Knot
Overview: Hari, a young psychologist and his sister Eka, goes back to their village for the funeral of their estranged mother who committed suicide by hanging. There they are confronted with the superstitious beliefs of the locals which is behind their mother’s death.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2021-06-30
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Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash
Overview: Ajo Kawir is a fighter who fears nothing, not even death. His raging urge to fight is driven by a secret: his impotence. When he crosses paths with a tough female fighter named Iteung, Ajo gets beaten black and blue, but he also falls head over heels in love. Will Ajo’s path lead him to a happy life with Iteung, and, eventually, his own peace of mind?
Genres: Action Romance Comedy
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2021-12-02
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Pesan di Balik Awan
Overview: Breaking up with her boyfriend on her anniversary, Kirana challenges fate to find her a partner by flying a message in a balloon.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-08-20
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The Women Crowned with Crescent Moon
Overview: When Bete Kaebauk, who lives in Atambua, NTT, started getting her period, she was “introduced” by her own father, Fritz Manek, that she was ready for a marriage proposal. Emilio was the first man Bete fell in love with. They both like it. But Emilio wanted to be a priest. Alfredo's presence for a moment made him happy. Despite having different social classes and Alfredo being unable to pay the dowry for his marriage, Bete decides to elope with Alfredo. Bete's life is not as beautiful as he imagined. He gets violent treatment from Alfredo. Bete forced to return home pregnant. On the way, the baby died in her womb. He rages like a madman and keeps him locked up in his house. Emilio who has become a brother returns to his village and tries to treat Bete as one of his congregation. He put Bete in the rectory, and took care of her. Alfredo did not accept it and together with several residents went to the rectory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2021-11-18
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Gowok: Javanese Kamasutra
Overview: Set in 1960s Java, A female Javanese Traditional Kamasutra Guru involves in a plot of revenge for her ex-lover who left her behind in the past by seducing her ex lover's son during his pre-wedding sexual study period.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2025-06-05
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Pamali: The Offering
Overview: The village where Putri lives often experiences mysterious events. Some women suddenly disappeared without a trace. Money theft often occurs that can't be explained logically. One day, Putri's mother suddenly disappeared mysteriously. Putri decided to trace the available clues to find her mother again, starting from walking through a haunter forest, an abandoned factory, until arriving at an old house which turned out to be inhabited by "tuyul" and the terrifying black "kuntilanak".
Genres: Horror
Original Language: id
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Suri
Overview: Suri (a representation of Mahsuri and ‘penunggu’) submits her whole being to an old yet charming kampong house and vows to remain devoted for better or worse. Every once a month, Suri performs a ritual that she believes will strengthen the bond between her and the house. In return, the house blesses her with beauty and grace. As she ages, Suri loses her sense of identity and starts to give in to temptations. The story then follows how Suri battles between facing her personal desires and tending to the house.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-07-21
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Sammi, Who Can Detach His Body Parts
Overview: Sammi has the ability to remove parts of his body and give them to those he loves and wants to help. After his death, Sammi’s mother goes in search of the pieces of her son.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2025-02-15
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Sumur Jiwo 1977
Overview: Ardi, Ferry, and Rara, struggling filmmakers, are given one week by their boss Fabian to create a hit concept. Desperate, they visit a shaman, Mbah Upit, who gives them a magical book with spells and clues to a 1977 murder in Sumur Jiwo Village. Trapped in the past and haunted by Pocong and Kuntilanak, they struggle to find a way back to 2025.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: id
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The Book of Sijjin and Illiyyin
Overview: As a child, Yuli witnessed her parents die at the hands of a mysterious force after her mother became possessed. Branded a cursed, unwanted child, she survived and grew up under the roof of her father's other wife Ambar and her daughter Laras, enduring constant humiliation. But everything changes when Ambar whispers a final secret into Yuli’s ear. Fueled by vengeance, Yuli performs a forbidden ritual. As the dark magic takes root, the world around her begins to unravel.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: id
Release Date: 2025-07-17
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Trinity of Tales
Overview: From drama, comedy, to horror, every genre has become a space for expressions of love for film, fashion and photography artists. Three short films in three different genres that show the character and characteristics of their respective aesthetic views, are a form of respect for various styles of storytelling from different perspectives.
Genres: Drama Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-04-18
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