01 An isolated river-village community resists eviction by a wealthy landowner who wants their land.
13 Best Indonesian Movies to Watch
By Vlad Zakh · September 5, 2026
Indonesia Action intensethought provoking
The Raid turned Indonesian action cinema into a genuine global export almost overnight, while a very different strand of Indonesian film, led by Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentaries, forced the country to confront its own unpunished mass killings.
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02 A young man travels to New York to reconnect with the mother who left him behind years earlier.
03 A flower seller's love triangle is retold as a full operatic musical drama rooted in Javanese tradition.
04 Teenagers at a school for the blind and deaf navigate first love and jealousy together.
05 A family's deceased mother may not have fully left after her death, and something worse follows.
06 An optometrist confronts the men who murdered his brother during Indonesia's anti-communist purges.
07 Unrepentant death-squad leaders reenact their real 1960s mass killings for the camera, in whatever genre they choose.
08 A widow's violent self-defense against a gang of robbers turns into a strange, darkly comic journey to confess.
09 An undercover cop infiltrates Jakarta's criminal underworld to expose corruption reaching the police themselves.
10 A SWAT team trapped in a gang-controlled apartment tower fights its way down floor by floor.
11 A factory worker discovers he can channel lightning and becomes Indonesia's first costumed superhero.
12 A woman returning to her family's ancestral village discovers a horrifying curse tied to her birth.
13 A bullied high schooler starts a rock band with his friends and unexpectedly becomes a local sensation.
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