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May 2022: #LoveAAPI Movies Too
May is Asian-American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and we're celebrating with a film you can get through us made by folks from every Asian country. Huge thanks to Sophie and Harry for refining this excellent list! If you'd like more films from each of these countries and/or more info about these movies, subscribe to our Patreon!
Afghanistan: Osama (2003, Drama, PG-13)
Armenia: The Color of Pomegranates (1969, Biographical Drama/Music, Unrated)
Azerbaijan: Burnt by the Sun (1994, Drama/War, R)
Bahrain: The Barrier (1990, Drama, Unrated)
Bangladesh: Sincerely Yours, Dhaka (2018, Anthology/Drama, Unrated)
Bhutan: Travelers and Magicians (2003, Drama/Adventure, Unrated)
Brunei: Yasmine (2014, Teen Drama/Martial Arts, Unrated)
Cambodia: Rice People (1994, Drama, Unrated)
China: The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978, Action, R)
Cyprus: Boy on the Bridge (2016, Drama, Unrated)
East Timor: Beatriz’s War (2013, Historical Drama, Unrated)
Georgia: In Bloom (2013, Drama/Coming-Of-Age, Unrated)
India: Lootera (2013, Romance/Drama, Unrated)
Indonesia: Marlina The Murderer in Four Acts (2017, Thriller, Unrated)
Iran: The Wind Will Carry Us (1999, Drama, Unrated)
Iraq: Son of Babylon (2009, Drama, Unrated)
Israel: The Syrian Bride (2004, Drama, Unrated)
Japan: Departures (2008, Drama/Music, PG-13)
Jordan: Theeb (2014, Drama/Historical, Unrated)
Kazakhstan: Kaïrat (1992, Drama, Unrated)
Kuwait: The Message (1976, Drama/Epic, PG)
Kyrgyzstan: The Adopted Son (1998, Drama, Unrated)
Laos: The Long Walk (2019, Drama/Sci-fi, Unrated)
Lebanon: The Insult (2017, Drama, R)
Malaysia: I Don’t Want To Sleep Alone (2006, Drama/Romance, Unrated)
Maldives: Faree (2021, Drama, Unrated)
Mongolia: The Cave of the Yellow Dog (2005, Drama/Family, G)
Myanmar: The Road to Mandalay (2016, Drama/Romance, Unrated)
Nepal: White Sun (2016, Drama/Adventure, Unrated)
North Korea: The Other Side of the Mountain (2012, War Drama/Romance, Unrated)
Oman: The Dawn (Al-Boom) (2006, Drama, Unrated)
Pakistan: Moor (2015, Drama, Unrated)
Palestine: Chronicle of a Disappearance (1996, Drama/Experimental, Unrated)
The Philippines: Barber’s Tales (2013, Historical Drama, Unrated)
Qatar: Clockwise (2010, Adventure/Drama, Unrated)
Russia: Dersu Uzala (1975, Adventure/Drama, G)
Saudi Arabia: Wadjda (2012, Drama/Coming-Of-Age, PG)
Singapore: Shirkers (2018, Documentary, Unrated)
South Korea: The Host (2006, Horror/Drama, R)
Sri Lanka: Death on a Full Moon Day (1997, Drama, Unrated)
Syria: For Sama (2019, Documentary, Unrated)
Taiwan: A Brighter Summer Day (1991, Drama/Romance, Unrated)
Tajikistan: Luna Papa (1999, Comedy/Drama, Unrated)
Thailand: Cemetery of Splendor (2015, Drama/Fantasy, Unrated)
Turkey: Mustang (2015, Drama, PG-13)
Turkmenistan: The Daughter-in-Law (1972, Drama, Unrated)
United Arab Emirates: 10 Days Before the Wedding (2018, Drama/Romance, Unrated)
Uzbekistan: 2000 Songs of Farida (2020, Drama, Unrated)
Vietnam: Goodbye Mother (2019, Romance/Drama, Unrated)
Yemen: 10 Days Before the Wedding (2018, Drama, Unrated)
Imagine your OTP
Imagine your otp having a Star Wars marathon.
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Person A: “Guess what day it is!”
Person B turns around with a Star Wars shirt and and storm trooper glasses
Person A and B: “May the Fourth!”
Imagine Your Favorite Character
Imagine your favorite character and you marathoning Christmas movies with cookies and hot cocoa together leading up to the holidays.
Every year since 2020 I’ve held a month long movie marathon every October (a Halloween Film Frightstival, if you will)
I try to watch 31 Halloween, horror, or thriller movies, one each day (and/or double up on the weekends if I was too busy or got sucked into a nonstop Child’s Play mood). Ideally I watch mostly films I haven’t seen before with some favorites mixed in for funsies
The first year I did it, it was more of a Hallo-weenie marathon (Clue, Hocus Pocus, ParaNorman, Sweeney Todd, you get the gist) because I used to hate horror movies (I’m a little bitch when it comes to jumpscares)
I then started slowly ramping up. I liked Carrie when I watched it for a high school film class, so I tried older, pre 1990 style movies. Fewer jumpscares, more tension, some that toed the line at horror vs thriller vs something else
I learned what I like and don’t like. I fucking love a good slasher (Halloween, Scream, Friday the 13th, anything that has anything to do with my beloved Chucky), I like weird obscure shit no one’s ever heard of not because it’s necessarily good but because I like amused bewilderment (like a New Zealand movie about were-sheep that I forced my mother to watch and we both regretted our lives (me that my mom doesn’t like horror movies and her that she let me live with her), I don’t fuck much with ghosty demony shit (The Babadook I would probably consider the movie that stuck with me the most as scary (love the metaphor but why’d they gotta hurt the puppy?)
By 2022 I was like ‘okay, I’m ready for the big guns, bring it on’ and watched The Exorcist (on Halloween night in the dark I might add, give my balls of steel some credit). When it was over I was like ‘that was it? that was the scariest movie of all time?’ Because like yeah it was fine but it didn’t make me piss myself nor did it make me chef’s kiss and add it to the top of my favorite films list
Now horror movies are one of my favorite genres and this year I’m kind of wondering if I should put on my big boy pants and finally watch some of the movies I’ve purposely been avoiding because the trailers alone scare me, chiefly The Conjuring universe, Paranormal Activity, The Grudge, The Ring, etc
Welcome to my 31 Day Film Frightstival, I’ll probably post what movie I watch each day and maybe some thoughts about it? 🤷♂️
If I don’t post a day you can assume I didn’t watch a movie and have brought dishonor upon my whole family and upon my cow.
If you have any movie suggestions for me, feel free to share them! I have a tentative list but I’ll always take more ideas!
all three seasons of Hemlock Grove came on Saturday! There Will soon be a Hemlock Grove marathon! 😍😍❤️