Discoveries from Thailand World Cinema

A former psychiatric patient seeks vengeance and aims to take down a gang of underworld criminals after a tragic accident sees his beloved family killed.

Set in an ROTC camp with a gaggle of flamboyant gay cadets who keep encountering a couple of ghosts. One of the ghosts is mad at three of the cadets because they ran off when they got caught doing something they shouldn't have been doing. In a 3rd year military course at Khao Chon Kai, two groups of military students are trying to dominate each other. There were many conflicts and bullies between them since they were at their high schools. At their practice on the field, they always make troubles causing their mentors to punish their entire company. Other than the conflicts between the two gangs, there seems to be a mystery along their military course here, especially at night time. Not so long, they have found out that one of their current mentor, sarge Danai, was dead. They need to bare on an extra field practice from the sarge.

Adventure romance about an English backpacker whose world falls apart when he meets and falls in love with a beautiful girl on an exotic Thai island.

Bee is falling in love with her senior surgeon co-worker. But his girlfriend who recently died in an accident isn't quite ready to give him up yet.

An adventure comedy that follows a once-famous singer who returns to his hometown and takes part in a water field drilling contest, hoping to win a large cash prize. But what they do not realise is that a mysterious beast lurks underground.

Tao, a tomboyish university student who supports her studies by writing for her uncle's racy pulp pornographic magazine Sayew, despite the fact that she has never had sex herself. The magazine is struggling financially, so Tao's uncle, Dr. Porn, tells her she needs to spice up her stories or else be sacked.

Tarutao Island is Thailand's version of Alcatraz. This jailbreak movie centers on the elaborate schemes of the beleaguered inmates, assisted by some of the native women, to flee the island prison to get their freedom of the mainland. To do this, they must escape brutal guards, and an ocean full of crocodiles.

Tee Rifle is an assassin with an impotence problem. He crashes into a beautiful woman Chris and falls in love. Chris knows Tee Rifle as Mark, but what they don't know is that Tee is the assassin that killed her father, the man she's out kill.

A downhearted 40-year-old man needs to step outside his safe zone to unlock the mystery which his late girlfriend left to him. While travelling, he meets a lively 20-year-old guesthouse attendant, there she helps him find more clues to the mystery and also to his lonely life.

A romance against huge generation gap between a barely pensioned policeman Daeng and a senior high school girl. The thirty-year gap makes their relationship difficult but they will try to prove their true love together.

The story of a resort owner who already have his boyfriend but unfaithful to him when a Japanese actor "Masaki Koh", come to stay his resort.

After hearing his father's death related to the Green Claw Gang, a young banker leaves for Thailand in order to revenge.

A haunted house, a nightclub fire, a body found in a water tank, and a prison death make up four horror stories pulled from Thailand's newspaper headlines.

An assistant commercial director gets a big break when he has a chance to direct a commercial with a cat. But when a student trainee loses the cat, everything falls apart very quickly.

A group of geologists is attacked by gecko fiends that possess them, transforming them into zombies. Kwan travels there to give lectures and is possessed by the evil gecko spirit, However, her skeptical boyfriend doctor doesn't understand what's happening to her.

Filmed in documentary style, Daughter is the story of four girls who face family problems and turn to heavy drug use in order to cope with their sad realities.

Reports of a sighting of an extraordinary elephant lead the members of the Asian Elephant Conservation group aided by foreign researchers on a dangerous journey deep in the jungle. It takes them on a dangerous route used for smuggling amphetamine. Heading into the jungle, the team starts encountering tragedy after tragedy. Will they find this extraordinary elephant?

Fak, a young Thai man who leaves the monkhood to care for his ailing father. When he returns home, he finds his father has married a much younger woman. She is very beautiful, but she is also mentally unbalanced.

In a tale of drama and adventure, young journalist Andy Cameron (Robert Walker) has to get into Cambodia (it is assumed this is during the genocidal reign of Pol Pot). Cameron has to smuggle out his girlfriend Mieng (Nit Alisa) before she is killed (along with the other two million Cambodians), but he cannot manage this alone. He enlists the aid of an American Vietnam vet and the help of a few Khmer men. Eventually, Cameron makes his way into Cambodia where he encounters many dangers, some human and some inhuman.

Vin, a desperate delivery rider trying to fund his dying mother's medical treatment. His life takes a dangerous turn when an old friend brings him into an underground arena, where fighters bear "God Skin" tattoos.

The king cobra possesses an orb that has a magic. If it's in the hands of the devil, Orb will have the power of evil. But if it's in the hands of a good person, it will have virtue. In the village of 'Phaya Ngu'​, there is a sacred orb worshiping ceremony, But the ceremony was destroyed by the devil, They had taken the orb and did evil things. A child and a young woman are captured and killed, so an investigation is underway to find out what happened and get the orb back.

A band travelling by ship becomes stranded on Mermaid Island, and the locals hunt them down to make their forest goddess happy.

When the clock strikes 3:00 am, dark spirits wreak havoc as they make themselves known in the world of the living.

The story of the band making loud noises that the uncle next door annoyed

A former Silat champion enters amateur MMA to honor his brother lost in a Phuket Tsunami, while underground Muay Thai fighter Somchai is chosen to represent Thailand at the world championship in Jakarta. Two warriors, who will prevail?

The Moment tells the story of three couples in the romantic city of the New York, London and Seoul.

Sanit, a noodle chef that try to fulfilled his dream. To be a boxer. His friend Sab, an old school boxer that suffer injury at his leg. Song, a friend who's thinking that Sanit boxing career will never work out. Sit, an old school musician who teach him about step.

A camera crew travels through Thailand asking villagers to invent the next chapter of an ever-growing story.

When the War between the majestic Garuda and the monstrous Raksod burst into a wide-spread annexation all over the ancient world, the last soldiers of Garuda have the courageous Himmaphan Warriors joining their alliance. Together, they have to fight against the brutal annihilation from the cold-hearted creatures that want to conquer the world.

A collection of short films by five Thai directors imagining their country ten years into the future.

Fak, a young Thai man who leaves the monkhood to care for his ailing father. When he returns home, he finds his father has married a much younger woman. She is very beautiful, but she is also mentally unbalanced.

A man down on his luck is forced to take a role in a TV drama he doesn't like. Unexpectedly, he finds his real life and the Soap opera overlapping.

Pojamarn, a fair lady, moves from her village to study in Bangkok to satisfy her father's antemortem wish. She lives with her aunt, Mom Ampara, in a big mansion called Dokmaithong.

This film featuring Tilda Swinton was shot early 2024, in a abandoned camp of the Kew Thab Yang Forest Preserve in Chiang Rai. The artist made two versions filmed by different cameras, resulting in two expressions. The first version, filmed with a Digital Harinezumi pocket camera, reflects a personal interest in low-resolution imagery as well as memory blending experiments. The second version was filmed on 35mm and is concerned with a playful shot/reverse between Tilda and the shadows of leaves dancing on a nearby wall.

At a luxurious mansion hidden deep within the forest, completely cut off from the outside world, eight siblings are raised under ironclad rules enforced by cruel and inhuman punishments, imposed by their mother, Lady Sokaphiwat. Freedom is the one thing they long for with all their hearts—unaware that the path they choose will bring horrors far greater than the torment they wish to escape.

Risa agrees to organise an Indian wedding, only to find out that the groom-to-be is her ex-partner, Arun. To make things worse, she is forced to hire her other ex, Tim, as the photographer.

This work filmed in the Peruvian jungle pays tribute to the American experimental filmmaker Bruce Baillie, who died in 2020, and whose work inspired Weerasethakul. An almost meditative vision takes in the sun reflected on rippling water, revealing the act of looking and seeing.

It is 1911 when the birth of Aviation happens in Siam. Siam is the first country to start an aviation program in Asia. A program to train Thai pilots to fight in World War I by the side of the Allies, but after having several setbacks, will they prove to be qualified enough to go to war as not everyone in Siam believes in it?

Noo-hin comes from a poor town and decides to move to Bangkok in search of fame and wealth. Noo-hin is a good intentioned young lady who stumbles and bumbles throughout life leaving disaster in her wake. In her mind, she is always doing good deeds, feels somewhat unappreciated and is always wondering why she does not get what she deserves.

Hao and Mad, two homeless kids living on the streets, grow up in a city where they have witnessed the atrocities of the Eagle gang led by Phad and the King Cobra gang led by Kriang. Living large, these two gangs rule the city by their huge manpower, collecting protection fees from merchants, gambling dens and prostitutes. One day. Tubtimtuay (Captain 9 lives) recruits Hao and Mad to elp the police and trains them to fight and kill with martial eapons. Afterward Thapthimthuai has each of them each gang, Hao in Phad's Eagles and Mad in Kriang's King Cobras, with the goal of pitching the two gangs against one another so they kill off each other until their numbers are low enough for the captain to take them down.

Five kids fled from a mafia who abused them as beggars. They ended up meeting the great kung fu master who adopted them and taught them how to fight. Now, the kids are grownups and become the magnificent five kung fu fighters who have only one mission: to avenge the mafia who destroyed their lives.

The controversial Thai Buddhist temple "Dhammakaya" is in crisis as its abbot was charged with money-laundering and receiving stolen property. The film reflects the clash between politics and faith in modern Thai society.

A courageous teacher leads a group against a real estate developer who is determined to evict hundreds to make way for a construction project.

A man down on his luck is forced to take a role in a TV drama he doesn't like. Unexpectedly, he finds his real life and the Soap opera overlapping.

"In the hands of a small boy of pure heart, a space warrior doll magically comes to life and flies to join other warriors of the Galaxy Council. In outer space they battle hideous alien monsters who are bent on destroying the planet Earth." - Cinema Shares Trade Description. An English re-edit of "Hanuman and the Eleven Ultramen" (หนุมาน พบ 11 ยอดมนุษย์, 1984). Hanuman and the Eleven Ultramen is a reissue of Hanuman and the Seven Ultramen (1974) that uses footage from "ULTRAMAN ZOFFY" (1984)

Siyama is the story of three Thai youths who are transported back in time to an ancient village in the last period of Ayutthaya kingdom. They find themselves in the midst of a vicious war with Burma before Ayutthaya is burned down (in April 1767).

"We Are Here" is a Sci-Fi Horror film about “Eve” a girl who survived an attack which murdered her parents. She was adopted by American couple and after many years, she returns to her parents’ house to find out what really happened.

When his son and heir is injured by rivals, a mob kingpin finds his son's long-lost twin, whose personality defies gangster clichés and expectations.

Strange things start happening when separate twists of fate bring each of three friends, Big, Dan and Beam, into contact with three strangers – an old woman who tells prophecies, a little girl who sells garlands on the street and a young woman named Aom.

Over 2,500 years ago, one man showed the world a way to enlightenment. This beautifully produced Buddhist film by the BBC meticulously reveals the fascinating story of Prince Siddhartha and the spiritual transformation that turned him into the Buddha.

A family’s faith and resilience are tested when their daughter is kidnapped, leading to an intense journey of discovery and justice.

Sanit, a noodle chef that try to fulfilled his dream. To be a boxer. His friend Sab, an old school boxer that suffer injury at his leg. Song, a friend who's thinking that Sanit boxing career will never work out. Sit, an old school musician who teach him about step.

Denied the coaching job he really wanted, a star footballer accepts his wealthy aunt's offer to assemble a ragtag team in a neighboring country.

Jeab and Wan, a young couple looking forward to their impending marriage. All that changes, however, when Wan is struck by a car and is brought to the hospital near death. When Jeab goes to a temple to pray, a mysterious monk tells him that in her past life, Wan murdered five people, and now is fated to die early in this life.

A group of freshmen on a road trip survive an accident, only to end up in an abandoned town where they are hunted down and killed one by one.

Nava, a brilliant botany student, searches for the origin of a plant called "Chalawan", and to do so he organizes a team of friends to travel through the jungle. There, they encounter a huge man-eating crocodile.

Lah is a mahout who works his elephant at an illegal logging site in Burma. When they're about to get busted, he sends his son Saeng and his elephant to relatives in Bangkok. Saeng ends up begging the streets of Bangkok with his elephant and he comes in contact with the local mafia who wants their cut or else.

Jer, a smart dog that has been adopted by a nice family. But things turn bad when the baby of the family gets kidnapped. Jer makes it his duty to find and return the baby.