Southeast Asian Colonial period (16th-20th century)

A band of Indonesian men bond together as cadets, survive a massacre, and fight on as guerrilla soldiers against the Dutch despite their conflicts and deep differences in social class.

Axel Heyst lives on a secluded island near the Dutch East Indies port of Surabaya. The year is 1913. While on personal business to the port, he visits the hotel owned by racist German Schomberg. An all-woman orchestra plays in the hotel each night, and orchestra owner, San Giacomo agrees to "sell" one of the girls, Alma, to Schomberg. She asks Heyst to save her from the villains and they escape to his island and live there with native servant Wang. Schomberg points sinister Mr. Jones and his two fellow bandits to that island, saying that the fortune lies ahead of them there.

Two married anthropologists go to an island off of Papua New Guinea for field research.

An idealistic Dutch colonial officer posted to Indonesia in the nineteenth century is convinced that he can make the kinds of changes that will actually help the local people of whom he is in charge.

Malaysia, second half of 1800. Sandokan is a young prince who as a child lost his kingdom due to the English invasion. He is now the captain of a band of pirates that constantly attacks the British army.

After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself.

Eliane adopts Camille, whose Vietnamese parents were friends. In 1930, a French navy officer is interested in Eliane (owns 60km2 plantation) and later in Camille. There's an uprising in Vietnam against French colonial power.

In 1929 French Indochina, a French teenage girl embarks on a reckless and forbidden romance with a wealthy, older Chinese man, each knowing that knowledge of their affair will bring drastic consequences to each other.

An old British reporter vies with a young U.S. doctor for the affections of a beautiful Vietnamese woman.

Borneo, 1942: An American soldier escapes WWII and becomes the king of the headhunters in the jungle. Two British soldiers are parachuted into the area to find local support for the battle against the Japanese.

During WWII, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural divides between a British POW and the Japanese camp commander in order to avoid bloodshed.

Hali (Rusdi Ramli), Salmi (Maya Karin), Rafik (Adlin Aman Ramlie), Ani (Sharifah Amani) and Ang Lee (Douglas Lim), represent the young generation of Malaysia who come from different backgrounds and thoughts, trying to publish a picture book 1957 - Hati Malaya. In that search, they found love, friendship, loyalty and understanding the struggle of 1957. They really delved into and embodied the characters and events with full of emotion and took them to the time when the spirit of the Malay people rose up to demand independence - ordinary poor and backward people in British colonial era who wanted to be a first class nation in their own land. They fell in love and found love for the country beyond their personal emotional feelings.

France employs local secret agents in Vietnam 1922 to eliminate resistance. The rebel leader's pretty daughter gets captured. Later an agent seems to have fallen in love with her and helps her escape. He flees, too. Lots of martial arts.

In 1883, ship captain Hanson plans a shipwreck salvage mission in The Dutch East Indies to retrieve a cargo of pearls but an unexpected volcano eruption and a state-ordered transport of convicts upset his plans.

Set at the turn of the 20th century during the Filipino revolution against the Spaniards and, later, the American colonizers, it follows a naive peasant through his leap of faith to become a member of an imagined community.

The story begins in Central Visayas during the pre-colonial period, where natives and diwatas (gods) live together in harmony, harvesting the earth's and sea's bounties, guided and loved by Laon (the Creator). Ynaguiguinid, the goddess of war, falls in love with a tribesman; they marry and soon welcome their demigod child, but they face a pitiful separation when chaos, destruction, and death come with the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors who aim to spread Christianity and take control of the strategic trade routes and control the archipelago's resources. Due to wounds from a battle to defend the settlement, Ynaguiguinid transfers all of her powers to her lifeless son; he re-animates, she perishes. The baby is later found and raised by native couple Tarong and Linang, who name him Malaya after a Tagalog word that means "Free". Being a half-human, half-diwata, Malaya's supernatural abilities, incredible strength, and invulnerability increase steadily as he grows. With help from Magayon, the goddess of all flying creatures, Malaya finds out his true identity, his roots, and the ultimate task he must fulfill: save and protect the commoners from the abuses of the Spanish colonial government. An unfortunate turn of events then separates him from his adoptive parents and he lands in the custody of Juancho Sanreal, a despotic encomendero. Upon discovering the child's extraordinary abilities and seeing him as a great asset in fulfilling his dream of becoming a Governor-General, Juancho adopts Malaya, gives him a new name--Simeon--and does everything to get the child's sympathy--for him to be able to use the child and his powers for his own personal intentions. Blinded by Juancho's false compassion, Simeon treats him as his master and will do anything he commands. Many years later, Simeon maintains a strong relationship and unrelenting devotion for Juancho, until he uncovers his manipulation and deceit, including the oppression of the common people--and Juancho's involvement in the death of Rosa, the love of Simeon's life. Finally Simeon embraces his mission and begins the battle for peace and freedom.

The story of the romance between the King of Siam and widowed British schoolteacher, Anna Leonowens, during the 1860s.

In 1862, a young Englishwoman becomes royal tutor in Siam and befriends the King.

Pith-helmeted Buck is a Great White Hunter who here (unlike the real one from the 1940s) works out of the Raffles Hotel bar in Singapore during the 1930s fighting all kinds of bad guys in pre-war Malaya.

A woman seeking a quiet life in post-World War II British Malaya finds love and a common interest in gardening with a mysterious Japanese man.