Best movies like Merantau

In Bangkok, the young Kham was raised by his father in the jungle with elephants as members of their family. When his old elephant and the baby Kern are stolen by criminals, Kham finds that the animals were sent to Sidney. He travels to Australia, where he locates the baby elephant in a restaurant owned by the evil Madame Rose, the leader of an international Thai mafia. With the support of the efficient Thai sergeant Mark, who was involved in a conspiracy, Kham fights to rescue the animal from the mobsters.

After sparing a girl's life during a massacre, an elite Triad assassin is targeted by an onslaught of murderous gangsters.

Deep in the heart of Jakarta's slums lies an impenetrable safe house for the world's most dangerous killers and gangsters. Until now, the run-down apartment block has been considered untouchable to even the bravest of police. Cloaked under the cover of pre-dawn darkness and silence, an elite swat team is tasked with raiding the safe house in order to take down the notorious drug lord that runs it. But when a chance encounter with a spotter blows their cover and news of their assault reaches the drug lord, the building's lights are cut and all the exits blocked. Stranded on the sixth floor with no way out, the unit must fight their way through the city's worst to survive their mission. Starring Indonesian martial arts sensation Iko Uwais.

After fighting his way through an apartment building populated by an army of dangerous criminals and escaping with his life, SWAT team member Rama goes undercover, joining a powerful Indonesian crime syndicate to protect his family and uncover corrupt members of his own force.

Alana discover the truth about her origin: she’s not an ordinary human being. She may be the gift for humanity and become its protector as Sri Asih. Or a destruction, if she can’t control her anger.

Sancaka has lived on the streets since his parents left him. Living a hard life, Sancaka survives by thinking about his own safety. When the condition of the city gets worse and injustice rages throughout the country, Sancaka must decide whether he continues to live to look after himself or rise to become their oppressed hero.

Lung is a talented fighter but prefers to spend his time loafing around and picking fights, despite orders from his grandfather not to fight. Unknown to him, a brutal general has been slaughtering all the people from his grandfather’s clan. When the general recognizes Lung’s style of kung fu during one of his street fights, he hunts down Lung’s grandfather and kills him.

Indonesian activist Soe Hok Gie experiences a political awakening during the tumultuous regimes of Soeharto and Soekarno.

Dom came to Jakarta with a hope of becoming an actor. His encounter with Pingkan and Radit brings him deep into the labyrinth of drug trafficking. Will he abandon his dream?

An indonesian biopic movie on the controversial former Jakarta governor Ahok.

A CIA agent roams the streets of New York haunted by the death of the beautiful woman he fell in love with while on assignment in Jakarta. When he is kidnapped and drugged, the destination is Jakarta once again where he tries to unravel the mystery that is the city which broke him three years earlier.

After the killing of Vishnu in his house, Sarah (Dominique Diyose) his wife, trying to teach martial arts to their daughter, Regis (Belinda Comesi), which is actually really do not like martial arts. Until one day, Paquita (Sarah Carter) and his group hunt them. Sarah is asking for help Captain Roy (Nino Fernandez), a friend of Vishnu in the police, knowing later it turns out they are also hunted by men Oscar (Tio Pakusadewo). Scenes adrenaline rush ensued. Of racing on the main streets of Jakarta, shooting, until the fierce battle between Sarah and Regis with his pursuers.

After being trained in the art of silat, a disciple gets sent on a journey by his mentor to take down a treacherous e-pupil with a villainous plan.

A gang of assassins murder Wendy’s husband, Johan, during their honeymoon. Handoko, the gang leader orders his girlfriend, Hany, who is actually Windy’s friend, to capture her. Later, we see Windy becoming a disciple of Harun the cleric, who is also her father’s teacher. After the tutelage, Windy returns to find her husband’s murderer. She disguises as a taxi driver and helps the police arrest many criminals. Hany, who is actually a police undercover in Handoko’s gang, shows up once again. Both infiltrate Handoko’s headquarters but are captured. When they finally escape, they release Handoko’s prisoners.

After 20 years of living in Washington, D.C., Mark Klein seeks much-needed solace by moving to the remote wilds of West Virginia. To ease his loneliness, he sends regular video updates to members of his OCD-support group back in the city. But Mark gradually realizes that despite his new, isolated setting, he may not be alone. From the endless woods surrounding his home, something else is watching.

A group of young filmmakers from Jakarta arrived in Bantul, Yogyakarta to prepare for a shoot. Things are normal until the second day when they start to experience unexplained phenomenon.

A group of young people from Jakarta left for Cirebon with different destinations. Arla, Jojo, and Maura want to do research on their final assignment, which is assisted by a documentary filmmaker named Umay. Meanwhile, Ajil and Keanu are horror YouTubers who create content to maintain their existence. Their journey becomes wild and uncontrollable after meeting Ute, an indigo who has a secret agenda.

Sung Shao Chong (Billy Chong) traverses the Arizona desert, helping those in need on the way to meet his old friend Kum (Lam Hak-Ming) in a small western town. Once there, he runs into a group of men who terrorize the town and extort the local businesses. Meanwhile, a trio of three bank robbers need a place to hide until the heat dies down from a recent heist. They pick the home of a black farming family and subsequently kill them, leaving only the severly injured eldest son Tommy (Carl Scott) to escape. Tommy is found by Chong and Kum and is brought to the home of Doctor Ko (Leung Siu-Chung), who heals his injuries. Eventually Tommy learns kung fu from Ko, and sets out for payback. Luckily for Tommy, Chong is also bent on revenge after the bandits hire the local troublemakers and some Japanese samurai to kill him.

Baron is reluctant to move from Jakarta to Balikpapan. In the new town, he chooses to play with his RC car, instead of making new friends. Despite his behavior, Baron is chosen to represent his school in a boy-scout camp with his schoolmate, the overtly optimistic Rusdi. Together with other friends, the fire expert Anton and the temperamental Aldi, and a strong girl they meet in a camp named Sindai, they stumble into an unexpected adventure.

Rianti, a young painter, shuts out the outside world in her daily life, including the sincere attention given by Wisnu, a curator who always helps to sell Rianti’s paintings. Wisnu doesn’t know that Rianti is trying to conceal her ability to see the future. At the same time, a British professor, Anthony, is searching for the answer to the disappearance of his wife, Laras, and child, Mariah. They were kidnapped when he arrived late for his child’s birthday.

A young man washes ashore, his memory gone - but his past comes back to haunt him after he is nursed back to health and his killing ability is needed when he takes on a powerful drug lord.

Nora is that girl: the one who works overtime, helps out her family by all means, and leaves little for herself. She can’t even fathom a love interest. With her one free hour a day, she takes out life’s hardships at the local mixed martial arts gym, but what happens when that comfort in violence extends outside of the gym?

Cast into a violent and bloody world of murder, Hereward, a novice monk, must deliver the Holy Gospel of Lindisfarne - a book of great beauty and power - to the safety of the Iona monastery, while being pursued by a Viking death squad hell- bent on its capture. On his way to the monastery, he meets a fierce and skilled swordsman who answers his prayers and dedicates his life to protecting Hereward while he delivers the book. In the midst of their journey, they are confronted by Vikings ready to kill in order to get what they want, leaving Hereward and his protector at their mercy.

Jakarta 2036. Alif, Lam and Mim are three friends from martial art school Al-Ikhlas. Alif chooses to become state apparatus. He is determined to eradicate all forms of crime and searching for the killers of his parents. Lam, becomes a journalist. While Mim chooses to serve as a teacher in their school. All three are reunited after the explosion of a bomb in a cafe.

A young man travels to Jakarta to seek answers about his past and becomes embroiled in a feud involving the woman he loves.

Fight: City of Darkness is an Indonesian action film which was released on September 15, 2011 and directed by Nayato Fio Nuala and starring Thunder Triyoga and Volland Humonggio. The story about of true friendship of four young men, in the face of the harshness of life, and challenges problems which they live. They are Reno, Sherina, David, and Galan

Young man travels to Indonesia to visit relatives and learns the art of karate.

Fed up with her parents pressuring her to get married, a hotel manager hires an actor to play her boyfriend—but he doesn't quite follow the script.

After several years of being in relationship, Yusuf knew at what point he had to be brave to take his relationship to the next level with Zulaikha. Their love is pure and sincere and both hope this will become a solid foundation for both of them in the future. But the future is indeed unpredictable. Their love is hindered by caste differences. Zulaikha, who is descended from Bugis aristocrats, is not allowed to marry Yusuf, who, although he is well off, is from the common people of Makassar. History repeated itself because in the past, Yusuf's father, Dirham faced a similar polemic. Unlike his father, Yusuf was bolder against custom. He chose to fight for his love and asked Zulaikha to run with him.

Gaspar, a detective works on a mass slaughter case involves government where he encounters a informant who gives hint towards disappearance of his childhood friend Kirana, which points him towards Wan Ali, a human-trafficking crook.

The new romance between a beauty salon worker and a subtitle writer for pirated DVDs gets pulled into danger when they view a forbidden recording.

Right before tsunami happen in Indonesia, there was a time glitch in various parts of the world, including in Jakarta. At that time, three friends who back to Cibubur, West Java suddenly moved to Bukittinggi, West Sumatra.

Lila is an idealistic, serious lawyer who defends tortured women. In contrast to her, Andre with his flirtatious attitude, is a corporate lawyer with big clients. Then Lila represents her client, Dr. Gatot, who wants to divorce his wife, Angel, a dangdut singer. Both parents want to custody of their only child. This case brings Lila and Andre together as the latter is Angel’s lawyer. Their relationship develops into romance. Love makes Andre neglect the interest of his client, Angel, while Lila doubts the sincerity of his love.

The village still holds many mysteries. Piece by piece of mystery is revealed, including the terror of the most feared entity, namely, Badarawuhi.