Movies: Pearlly Chua

  • 2017
    The Sleep Curse

    The Sleep Curse (2017)

    The Sleep Curse

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    In 1990, Neurologist Lam Sik-ka and his former flame suffer from the generational sleep curse that rooted in their both families war engagement during World War Two. Lam Sik-ka tries to save her flame from the grudge....

    The Sleep Curse
  • 2006
    I Don't Want to Sleep Alone

    I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (2006)

    I Don't Want to Sleep Alone

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    Rawang, an immigrant from Bangladesh living in awful conditions, takes pity on a Chinese man, Hsiao-kang, who is beaten up and left in the street. Rawang lovingly nurses him on a mattress he found. When he is almost healed, Hsiao-kang meets the waitr...

    I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
  • 2011
    Claypot Curry Killers

    Claypot Curry Killers (2011)

    Claypot Curry Killers

    6.52011HD

    Mrs. Chew and her three daughters run a small but flourishing restaurant. Most of the customers come for the house specialty: Homemade Curry - cooked from an old family recipe. Nobody suspects that the special ingredient that turns Mrs Chew's curry f...

    Claypot Curry Killers
  • 2022
    Blood Flower

    Blood Flower (2022)

    Blood Flower

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    A young apprentice healer tries to suppress his supernatural abilities so he can fit in with the other kids, but when a malicious spirit breaks out in his apartment, he decides to use his abilities while dark family secrets are revealed....

    Blood Flower
  • 2021
    The Story of Southern Islet

    The Story of Southern Islet (2021)

    The Story of Southern Islet

    6.42021HD

    Cheong, a Chinese man, falls sick after a row with his neighbour. His wife Yan is desperately looking for a remedy to cure her husband. Throughout the journey, Yan endures strange encounters and unearthly experiences. Finally, Yan is convinced that s...

    The Story of Southern Islet
  • 2023
    Snow in Midsummer

    Snow in Midsummer (2023)

    Snow in Midsummer

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    For 49 years, Ah Eng and Dou E were trapped in the "513" timeline. In 1969, post-election tensions gripped Kuala Lumpur when the Cantonese street opera "Snow in June" showcased Dou E, portrayed by the troupe master. Amid a riot, Ah Eng and her mother...

    Snow in Midsummer
  • 2019
    Fly By Night

    Fly By Night (2019)

    Fly By Night

    5.22019HD

    Unfolding the life of a taxi driver that uses his services as a front for extortion rackets and other criminal activities. When his hot-headed younger brother's impulsive behaviour lead the cops and triad to their doorstep. As the eldest, he stops at...

    Fly By Night
  • 2019
    Kill-Fist

    Kill-Fist (2019)

    Kill-Fist

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    Zhang, a middle aged man struggling with a dead end job as an insurance sales person, on the verge of divorce with his wife, losing custody of her daughter, and on top of all this he has to take care of his father who is suffering from Alzheimer's. U...

    Kill-Fist
  • 1995
    My New Friends

    My New Friends (1995)

    My New Friends

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    Tsai interrupted his pre-production for The River to make this pioneering documentary for Taiwan's nascent AIDS-awareness campaign. Ignoring instructions to 'play down the gay angle', he centres the film on his own very candid conversations with two ...

    My New Friends
  • 2014
    River of Exploding Durians

    River of Exploding Durians (2014)

    River of Exploding Durians

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    When a rare earth plant is being built near a coastal town, its inhabitants fall into despair, fearful of its radioactive effects....

    River of Exploding Durians
  • 2009
    Madame Butterfly

    Madame Butterfly (2009)

    Madame Butterfly

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    Free interpretation of the myth. Tsai Ming-liang propels a woman neglected by her lover in the mob of the bus station of Kuala Lumpur....

    Madame Butterfly
  • 2024
    Pavane For An Infant

    Pavane For An Infant (2024)

    Pavane For An Infant

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    Set in a baby hatch where dedicated female social workers provide a safe haven for distressed women and vulnerable infants....

    Pavane For An Infant
  • 2012
    If It's Not Now, Then When?

    If It's Not Now, Then When? (2012)

    If It's Not Now, Then When?

    6.22012HD

    If It’s Not Now, Then When? mostly takes place in an apartment inhabited by three members of a family (though never at the same time): mother Pearlly Chua (from Tsai Ming-liang’s I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone), daughter Tan Bee Hung and young son Kenny...

    If It's Not Now, Then When?
  • 2010
    The Tiger Factory

    The Tiger Factory (2010)

    The Tiger Factory

    5.82010HD

    Ping Ping is 19 and wants to go to Japan to work in a car parts company. She's under the guardianship of her aunt, Madame Tien, who shuffles her between two jobs - working in a pig farm, and cleaning dishes in a rundown restaurant. Tien is also invol...

    The Tiger Factory
  • 2024
    Ah Ma

    Ah Ma (2024)

    Ah Ma

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    An elderly Chinese woman living alone in a village prepares for the Qing Ming festival. The grief of losing her husband parallels the pain of missing her grandson who had left to work in the city. Her daily routine navigates a transitional loop of im...

    Ah Ma
  • 2022
    Dayang Bersiong - The Sinful Cook

    Dayang Bersiong - The Sinful Cook (2022)

    Dayang Bersiong - The Sinful Cook

    02022HD

    1986, in a Malaysia-Thailand border village, a recently widowed Siamese woman still cooks her husband's favourite dish. After her son brings the husband's ancestral tablet home, the durian tree starts bearing its fruits while red spinach grows under ...

    Dayang Bersiong - The Sinful Cook
  • 2021
    Posterity

    Posterity (2021)

    Posterity

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    Discovering a severed bird that is missing its body, Ah Ger decides to make a mock body for the poor creature and give it a proper burial. Her intentions prompt an unexpected visit by the ghost of her late grandmother appearing in the form of the dea...

    Posterity