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The Killing Fields(1984)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 22min | Drama, History, War
3.8/5 (with 310 votes)

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the help of local interpreter Dith Pran and American photojournalist Al Rockoff. When the U.S. Army pulls out amid escalating violence, Schanberg makes exit arrangements for Pran and his family. Pran, however, tells Schanberg he intends to stay in Cambodia to help cover the unfolding story — a decision he may regret as the Khmer Rouge rebels move in.

Directed by Roland Joffé - With Sam Waterston, John Malkovich, Haing S. Ngor, Julian Sands, Craig T. Nelson, Spalding Gray, ...
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First They Killed My Father(2017)

2h 16min | War, Drama, History
3.7/5 (with 292 votes)

A 5-year-old girl embarks on a harrowing quest for survival amid the sudden rise and terrifying reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.

Directed by Angelina Jolie
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Jailbreak(2017)

1h 40min | Action
2.8/5 (with 24 votes)

What started as a simple escort mission will soon turn to chaos as the prisoners of Koh Kla take over the prison grounds. A special task force [Jean-Paul Ly, Dara Our, Tharoth Sam] gets trapped in the prison will have to fight their way out for survival, to protect a key witness [Savin Phillip].

Directed by Jimmy Henderson - With Jean-Paul Ly, Dara Our, Tharoth Sam, Céline Tran
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City of Ghosts(2002)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 56min | Thriller
3.0/5 (with 30 votes)

A con man who is on the run from law enforcement in the U.S. travels to Cambodia to collect his share in an insurance scam but discovers more than he bargained for.

Directed by Matt Dillon - With Matt Dillon, James Caan, Natascha McElhone, Gérard Depardieu, Stellan Skarsgård, Rose Byrne, ...

Demonic Beauty(2002)

1h 45min | Fantasy, Drama, Horror
2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Back to its origin where her story has never been clearly narrated, Kra Sue is a common name calling any lady ghost living on eating waste and flesh - in fresh and bloody raw. Her distinct capability is to take her own head off the body, and fly with bright light shining from her digestive organs to hunt for fresh preys.

Directed by Bin Bunluerit

Diamond Island(2016)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 41min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 10 votes)

Bora, an 18-year-old, leaves his village to work on the construction sites of Diamond Island, a project for an ultra-modern paradise for the rich and a symbol of tomorrow’s Cambodia. He befriends his fellow workers and finds his elder brother, the charismatic Solei, who went missing five years earlier. Solei introduces him into an exciting world, that of an urban and wealthy youth, its girls, nights and illusions.

Directed by Davy Chou

Buoyancy(2019)

1h 33min | Drama, Crime
3.7/5 (with 14 votes)

An innocent Cambodian boy is sold to a Thai broker and enslaved on a fishing trawler. As fellow slaves are tortured and murdered around him, he starts to wonder if his only hope of freedom is to become as violent as his captors.

Directed by Rodd Rathjen

S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine(2003)

1h 41min | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 13 votes)

Documentary of the S-21 genocide prison in Phnom Penh with interviews of prisoners and guards. On the search for reasons why this could have happened.

Directed by Rithy Panh - With Vann Nath, Chum Mey

The Snake King's Child(2001)

1h 48min | Horror, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

In a small village, Nhi comes across a Snake Immortal and falls in love with him. She becomes pregnant by the snake, but does not tell her husband. When he discovers the truth, he kills both Nhi and the Snake Immortal. One of the small snakes escapes from Nhi's abdomen, and is brought up by another immortal. Slowly the snake grows up to be a beautiful woman, who sets out to develop another relationship.

Directed by Fai Sam Ang

Redlight(2009)

1h 12min | Documentary
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A powerful feature documentary about child sexploitation, an epidemic happening in every country around the world. Filmed over a four year period, REDLIGHT focuses on the personal stories of young Cambodian victims and two remarkable advocates for change: grass-roots activist Somaly Mam and politician Mu Sochua. Using gritty footage smuggled out of brothels and harrowing testimonials, REDLIGHT follows the plight of several current and former child sex slaves. Some are trying to regain entry into Cambodian society to find some semblance of normality after their horrific experiences. Other stories highlight the plight of victims who are attempting to bring the perpetrators to justice. Their torturous yet ultimately heroic battles to find witnesses and take brothel owners to court are dramatically brought to life in this topical and moving feature documentary.

Directed by Adi Ezroni - With Somaly Mam

Karmalink(2022)

1h 41min | Science Fiction, Adventure, Drama
2.2/5 (with 2 votes)

In this Buddhist sci-fi mystery, a teenage orphan in the slums of Phnom Penh, Cambodia investigates her friend’s past-life visions, uncovering a conspiracy of scientific reincarnation.

Directed by Jake Wachtel

The Snake Man(1972)

2h 44min | Horror, Drama, Fantasy

After an affair with the fabled Snake King, a woman gives birth to a son she names Veasna. After Veasna finds a wife, a witch curses their daughter to be born with snakes instead of hair.

Directed by Tea Lim Koun - With Dy Saveth, Loto, Saksi Sbong
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White Building(2021)

1h 30min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 6 votes)

SAMNANG, 20, faces the demolition of his lifelong home in Phnom Penh and the pressures from family, friends, and neighbors which arise and intersect in this moment of sudden change.

Directed by Kavich Neang

The Last Reel(2014)

1h 45min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

A lost film, buried beneath Cambodia's killing fields, reveals different versions of the truth. A contemporary story about love, family and the ghosts of Cambodia's past.

Directed by Kulikar Sotho

An Ambition Reduced to Ashes(1995)

44min | Drama

A guru and his follower, who have lived in the ruins of Angkor for 150 years, return to the world to save the Cambodian people.

Directed by Norodom Sihanouk - With Mom Soth

The Crocodile(2005)

2h | Horror, Adventure

After a series of deadly crocodile attacks, a farmer decides to become a crocodile hunter.

Directed by Mao Ayuth - With Dy Saveth, Preap Sovath

Inav Bosba(1968)

Romance / Love, Drama

Inav, prince of Daha, refuses an arranged marriage with Bosba, princess of Aden. Things change when another king asks for Bosba's hand in marriage, threatening war if she refuses.

With Kong Som Eun, Saom Vansodany

An Apostle of Non-Violence(1997)

46min | Drama, War

A Buddhist monk tries to preach non-violence to the Khmum-Chachak rebels and the National Army, who are in the midst of a civil war that can dangerously affect innocent civilians.

Directed by Norodom Sihanouk

Enemies of the People(2009)

1h 33min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 5 votes)

The Khmer Rouge slaughtered nearly two million people in the late 1970s. Yet the Killing Fields of Cambodia remain unexplained. Until now. Enter Thet Sambath, an unassuming, yet cunning, investigative journalist who spends a decade of his life gaining the trust of the men and women who perpetrated the massacres. From the foot soldiers who slit throats to Pol Pot's right-hand man, the notorious Brother Number Two, Sambath records shocking testimony never before seen or heard. Having neglected his own family for years, Sambath's work comes at a price. But his is a personal mission. He lost his parents and his siblings in the Killing Fields. Amidst his journey to discover why his family died, we come to understand for the first time the real story of Cambodia's tragedy.

Directed by Rob Lemkin, Thet Sambath

One Evening After the War(1998)

1h 48min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 2 votes)

Set in the newly-pacified Phnom Penh, this film is about the return to civilian life of Cambodian soldiers.

Directed by Rithy Panh

The Burnt Theatre(2005)

1h 22min | Documentary, War
3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

A blend of fact and fiction, based on the actual lives of the actors, the film depicts a troupe of actors and dancers struggling to practice their art in the burned-out shell of Cambodia's former national theater, the Preah Suramarit National Theater in Phnom Penh.

Directed by Rithy Panh

Paper Cannot Wrap Up Embers(2007)

1h 30min | Documentary
3.1/5 (with 2 votes)

During the last half-century, Cambodia has witnessed genocide, decades of war and the collapse of social order. Now, documentary filmmaker Rithy Panh looks at an irreparable tragedy that is less visible, yet no less pervasive: the spiritual death that results when young women are forced into prostitution. Angry and impassioned, PAPER CANNOT WRAP UP EMBERS presents the searing stories of poor Asian women whose lives were violated and their destinies destroyed when their bodies were turned into items of sexual commerce.

Directed by Rithy Panh

Apsara(1966)

2h 15min | Romance / Love

Kantha, a classical Khmer ballet dancer, is in love with Phalla, a young air force pilot, but is forced to marry a powerful general.

Directed by Norodom Sihanouk

In the Life of Music(2019)

1h 32min | Drama, Kids & Family, History
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

An intergenerational tale that explores love, war, and a family’s relationship to ‘Champa Battambang,’ made famous by Sinn Sisamouth, "The King of Cambodian Music". Exploring three different decades, it depicts the lives of people whose world is inevitably transformed by the emergence of the Khmer Rouge Regime.

Directed by Caylee So, Sok Visal

The Rice People(1994)

2h 5min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

A poor, rural Cambodian family slowly disintegrates during the cycle of a single rice crop in this moving, and beautifully photographed European drama adapted from a novel by Shahnon Ahmad. Pouev, his wife Om, and his seven children, live in a small rural village in Cambodia. Their whole precarious life depends upon the success of their rice crop. Both husband and wife are worried, but for different reasons. Pouev is concerned because their acreage is shrinking. Om worries about Pouev; what would happen to her and the children if he died or was injured? Her worst fear is manifest after Pouev steps upon a poisoned thorn and dies. Om finds herself heavily burdened with the responsibilities of maintaining the crop and caring for seven youngsters. She suffers paranoia from worrying about whether the children are doing their share and the other villagers lock her up leaving eldest daughter Sokha to bring in the crop.

Directed by Rithy Panh - With Mom Soth

Puthisen and Lady Kong Rey(1968)

1h 40min | Fantasy, Horror

Twelve sisters who escaped at the start of their human-eating mother, are marry at the same time the king. But the ogress craves revenge and deceives the king as an attractive woman. The ogress ensures that the twelve sisters lose their eyesight and are imprisoned in a cave. Where they eat their own children to survive. Only the little Puthisen, the son of the youngest sister, is spared. Puthisen grows then into the cave from child to young man. As a young adult he decides to liberate his mother and the eleven aunts.

Directed by Ly Bun Yim - With Virak Dara, Kong Som Eun

The Last Days of Colonel Savath(1995)

34min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

This is a movie from Cambodia and it was actually directed by King Norodom Sihanouk, the king of Cambodia. It depicts the events of 1975 that ended with the fall of Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge.

Directed by Norodom Sihanouk

Pkah Thgall Meas(1975)

Twin brothers are born on the same day that a murder occurs. The twins separate from each other; one is adopted into a rich family while the other remains poor. Several years pass when the poor twin begins to fall in love with a rich man's daughter named Pkah Thgall Meas. The couple faces many adversities from a cruel wealthy man. It is up to the rich twin to save the life of his poor twin brother and his love Pkah Thgall Meas.

With Vichara Dany

Exile(2016)

1h 40min | Documentary
2.4/5 (with 3 votes)

Exil is a visionary narration of the exile of Cambodians during the Red Khmer regime, during which the country was renamed Democratic Kampuchea.

Directed by Rithy Panh

Twilight(1969)

1h 15min | Drama

An ailing Khmer prince falls in love with Maharani Maya of India, his guest. The government of Cambodia sent him a trained nurse named Sopheap, who served him with devotion. But the prince was totally unaware of the rumblings in her heart.

Directed by Norodom Sihanouk - With Norodom Sihanouk
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