Best movies like Lost in Papua

All sorts of unlikely figures come to prominence in wartime, no matter what the country. Indonesia is no exception. In this comedy, Naga Bonar, a pickpocket who has seized the opportunity of the moment to declare himself a general in the Freedom Forces during the chaos of the Japanese occupying forces’ withdrawal in 1945, as the Dutch attempted to reassert their control over the area. However, soon a mask becomes his true self, and he becomes a true soldier and patriot.

Indah goes through thick and thin in her quest to see her favourite band, Dewa 19.

Adventurer and treasure hunter Mike Yates is hoping to find a cache of Incan treasure lost in the Amazon jungle. While looking for his missing partner, he stumbles across a beautiful jungle girl named Eve. Later on, he comes across Eve's grandfather, who is being swindled by a man and a young woman who is pretending to be his granddaughter Eve. Will Yates be able to expose the swindle, beat the swindlers to the lost treasure (with the help of the real Eve), and reunite Eve with her grandfather before the final credits roll?

A girl who struggles at her new school must team up with a classmate giving her major headaches when trouble finds them both in this musical adventure.

A young woman and her father search for hidden treasure in the African jungle.

An expedition into the interior of Papua New Guinea comes across a tribe of ape-like people who may or may not be ancestors of early man.

Gadis is betrayed when her boyfriend has an affair with her best friend. She becomes withdraw, but a chance meeting with a girl named Rudi leads her on a series of fun and free adventures.

After his mothers death, 12-year-old Jaya (Iqbal S. Manurung) is sent to his father, Johar (Didi Petet), who works as a supervisor on a jermal (a fishing platform perched on log stilts in the middle of the sea). Johar is shocked, never knowing he has a son, and rejects the boy as his kin. Fully aware he cant bring Jaya back to land due to a dark past, Johar is forced to accept the boy as a worker on the site. Faced with constant rejection from his father and relentless bullying by the other boys who work on the jermal, Jaya decides to take fate into his own hands. He gives up hope on being accepted and learns the skills and attitude needed to survive on the jermal. Jaya increasingly becomes like the other boys: a tough, rough survivor; while Johar is forced to gradually face and accept his past. Eventually, both Johar and Jaya learn that they are bound by their past, united by the space in which they move, and connected by the inescapable truth.

Three students, Tommy, Rita, and Robert, and their guides head into the jungle to study primitive tribes separated from civilization. However, the students say the one tribe they visit isn't primitive enough, and they want to find some really savages, and to locate the legendary cannibal tribe supposedly living in the area.

A student from an unruly class is forced to fill the empty seat which was kept empty due superstitious reasons. Strange events begin to happen to the students and teacher of the class.

Two Vietnam vets with nothing to lose are called back into the bloodiest action of their lives. Their assignment: locate and destroy a terrorist base and bring back a General's daughter alive.

Jarot and Ale are friends. They grow up together since childhood -- they have the same life story, but are different in character. With extra members Lukman, Sadat and Jago, they created the gang "Serigala Terakhir" a.k.a "Last Wolves". They dream to be the biggest mafia that they can be.

Duke Mullane, manager of a Malayan tin mine, goes to a little-known island to open a new mine in the jungle. Initially, the natives there are friendly, especially dancer Minyora...who proves to be affianced to local ruler King Kiang. Alas, a series of unfortunate incidents changes Kiang's attitude to hostility, and Duke is stranded with his crew, Minyora, and his old flame Lory...who's now engaged to his boss!

Satrio and Natasha met in an incident. Satrio who is interested in Natasha decides to help her find the owner of a diary of a man named "Boy".

Jaka Swara witnesses the slaughter of his parents by John Da Costa’s gang, a Portuguese who still controls a remote area. Jaka Swara painstakingly learns martial arts to seek revenge. When Fatma, is held captive by Da Costa, it spurs Jaka into action. Rhoma Irama’s rôle as Jaka is somewhat different from his norm due to the nature of the action film. He sings five songs for the romantic scenes.

Trained as soldiers with a sequence of medals, however nothing in their knowledge prepared them for The Mission of their lifestyles. Can they be successful within this seemingly impossible assignment and go back to the USA alive or, after many years in the jungles of Southeast Asia, will they die without ever before seeing their homeland once again?

Five friends embark on a mission to climb the highest peak in Java, overcoming obstacles on the way and discovering the true meaning of friendship.

Based on a true story, this film tells of an expedition into the Amazon jungle to find an archaeologist who had vanished three years previously. They run into a tribe of warlike headhunters, who are determined to add the expedition members' heads to their collection (in the real story, the archaeologist was found to have been murdered by a tribe of Brazilian headhunters).

Clyde Beatty, an animal trainer and circus star, leads a search for his missing girlfriend and her father who were on an expedition looking for a lost tropical island. Using a dirigible as his mode of transportation, Beatty and his band head off in search of the missing explorers only to crash their airship on the same island their friends are located. Battling wild animals and a gang of greedy men searching for gold, Beatty and his party must rescue his girlfriend and father all the while trying to escape their jungle island. Feature version of the same-title serial of the same year, with refilmed sequences substantially altering the plot and characters of the original chapterplay.

City students come to the village for KKN with all their arrogance and pretentiousness, led by a fat student named Joe (Didi Petet). Many problems arise, starting from Budi (James Lapian) and Imam (Leroy Oesmani) who are not doing KKN well, but instead competing for a beautiful village flower named Neneng (Deasy Ratnasari). Likewise with Pinky (Meriam Bellina) and May (Sylvana Herman) who went down to the village as if they were going to shop at an elite shop. Their arrival also made the village hoodlums feel angry, so that the KKN activities were disturbed.

The story of a family that is not harmonious: Amang or father (Cok Simbara) and his three unfilial children. Out of love for her children, Amang uses an unusual way to change their lives forever.

In his now well-known role of narrator of wildlife expeditions, Attenborough accompanies a government-sponsored trek into the central New Guinea highlands to make contact with a group of natives never before seen by Europeans.

When a young man leaves home to fulfill the wishes of his late father, he meets and falls in love with a woman from a very different background.

The film about a love story between Rangga, loyal supporter of Persija soccer club with Desi, Persib supporters. Rangga willing to do anything to get love Desi, even eloped to another city that is not related to Persija and Persib.

In this high school musical, a talented teen tries to change his reputation by running for student council president against his ambitious friend.

Pras wants to realize his dreams of having a significant life and career as a journalist, but Jakarta changes everything.

This film about the life of a man named Tansen inherited prickly bread dough that was about 70 years old by his grandfather. On that Tansen's life changed because it had to process the bakery Madre which has long been inactive. and Tansen met with bakeries also named May and they fell in love.

An outbreak occurs in the infamous Area 51 leading a group of survivors to an underground bunker.. only to learn.. they are not alone.

A year after the disappearance of his son, Thomas Mathews, an investigative journalist, still has no information and begins his own obsessive search. However, the obsession has him losing his house and job so his boss sends him on special assignment in Brazil. In Brazil, Mathews investigates close encounter sightings that have taken place in the small cities of Quixada and Quixeramobim-also known as Area Q. While there, he realizes he will face the biggest discovery of his life.

A university student receives a music box for her birthday and terrible events start. A friend dies in a accident, another drowns in a swimming pool.

During her study in Japan, Viona falls in love with Yamada, a Japanese photographer. Their relationship is soon ruined when her long lost crush comes back into her life.

Two friends who are bored with their respective partners decide to do a crazy idea that challenges their love story.

Novi and Dafi are campus sweethearts, who meet in college and continue dating till they graduate. But the relationship is not as smooth as everyone thinks. After accepting an offer from his boss, Amara, Dafi is promoted at the law firm. Then Dafi starts to change and ends his relationship with Novi, who is heartbroken. Her brothers, Pipit, Henry, and Asep are worried. Then, Novi hears a radio interview with Miss Elza from www.heart-break.com, a special heartbreak agency. Miss Elza agrees to help Novi and sends Rama and his team in a mission to get Dafi back.

Jonathan Drake, while attending his brother's funeral, is shocked to find the head of the deceased is missing. When his brother's skull shows up later in a locked cabinet, Drake realizes an ancient curse placed upon his grandfather by a tribe of South American Jivaro Indians is still in effect and that he himself is the probable next victim.