List of Thai films
Encyclopedia
This is an incomplete, chronological list of films produced in the Cinema of Thailand
Cinema of Thailand
The cinema of Thailand dates back to the early days of filmmaking, when King Chulalongkorn's 1897 visit to Bern, Switzerland was recorded by Francois-Henri Lavancy-Clarke. The film was then brought to Bangkok, where it was exhibited...

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Please note that many older films from Thailand have been lost.

For an alphabetical listing, see :Category:Thai films.

1923-1949

Title Director Actors Genre Notes
1923
1923 in film
-Events:*April 15 - Lee De Forest demonstrates the Phonofilm sound-on-film system at the Rivoli Theater in New York with a series of short musical films featuring vaudeville performers.-Top grossing films :-Films released in 1923:U.S.A...

Miss Suwanna of Siam
Miss Suwanna of Siam
Miss Suwanna of Siam, or Nang Sao Suwan, was a 1923 romance film written and directed by Henry MacRae, set in Thailand and starring Thai actors. It was one of first feature films to be made in Thailand, and was the first Hollywood co-production in Thailand...

Henry MacRae
Henry MacRae
Henry Alexander MacRae was a Canadian film director, producer and screenwriter during the silent era, working on many film serials for Universal Studios...

 
Drama First feature film made in Thailand.
1927
1927 in film
-Events:*January 10 - Fritz Lang's science-fiction fantasy Metropolis premieres in Germany.*April 7 - Abel Gance's Napoleon often considered his best known and greatest masterpiece, premiers at the Paris Opéra and would demonstrate techniques and equipment that would not be used for years to...

Chok Sawng Chun (Double Luck) First all-Thai feature film.
1941
1941 in film
The year 1941 in film involved some significant events.-Events:Citizen Kane, consistently rated as one of the greatest films of all time, was released in 1941.-Top grossing films :-Academy Awards:...

King of the White Elephant
King of the White Elephant
The King of the White Elephant is a 1940 Thai historical drama film.Based on a novel and produced by Pridi Banomyong and released before Thailand's involvement in World War II, the English-language film carried a propaganda message from anti-war interests in Thailand, that Thailand should remain...

Historical drama English-language feature, and the oldest complete Thai film in still in existence.
1949
1949 in film
The year 1949 in film involved some significant events.-Top grossing films :- Awards :Academy Awards:*Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff, starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello...

Phanthaay Norasingh (Oarsman Norasingh) Bhanu Yukol
Bhanu Yukol
General Major His Royal Highness Prince Bhanu Yukol was a Thai film director, producer and screenwriter, playwright, composer and author.He was a grandson of King Chulalongkorn, the grandfather of Her Royal Highness Princess Soamsavali Kitiyakara and an uncle of director Chatrichalerm Yukol...

Drama Cinematography by Rattana Pestonji
Rattana Pestonji
Rattana Pestonji was a Thai film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer and is regarded as the father of contemporary Thai film. Although his filmography was brief, his films placed Thai cinema on the world stage. He also pushed for innovations, and was one of the first Thai...


1950s

Title Director Actors Genre Notes
1951
1951 in film
The year 1951 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* Sweden - May Britt is scouted by Italian film-makers Carlo Ponti and Mario Soldati-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :Academy Awards:...

Took-gata jaa (Dear Dolly) Rattana Pestonji
Rattana Pestonji
Rattana Pestonji was a Thai film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer and is regarded as the father of contemporary Thai film. Although his filmography was brief, his films placed Thai cinema on the world stage. He also pushed for innovations, and was one of the first Thai...

1954
1954 in film
The year 1954 in film involved some significant events and memorable ones.-Events:*May 12 - The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx divorces wife Marion Benda...

Santi-Weena Tawee na Bangchang Won awards at Asia Pacific Film Festival
Asia Pacific Film Festival
The Asia Pacific Film Festival, first held in 1954, is film festival held annually in an Asian country designated by the Board of Directors of the Federation of Motion Picture Producers in Asia-Pacific.Awards are handed out for:*Best Film*Best Director...

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1955
1955 in film
The year 1955 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* November 3 - The musical Guys and Dolls, starring Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra, debuts.* June 27 - The last ever Republic serial, King of the Carnival, is released....

Chuafah Din Salai (Dying Forever)
1957
1957 in film
The year 1957 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* October 21 - The movie Jailhouse Rock, starring Elvis Presley, opens.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue-Awards:...

Chat Sua (Tiger Instinct) Mitr Chaibancha
Mitr Chaibancha
Mitr Chaibancha was a Thai film actor who made 266 films from 1956 to 1970....

Action Mitr's debut.
Rong ram narok (Country Hotel
Country Hotel
Country Hotel is a 1957 comedy-drama film written and directed by Rattana Pestonji.-Plot:Noi runs a rural bar and guesthouse called the Paradise Hotel. He tends bar and arm wrestles any challengers...

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Rattana Pestonji
Rattana Pestonji
Rattana Pestonji was a Thai film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer and is regarded as the father of contemporary Thai film. Although his filmography was brief, his films placed Thai cinema on the world stage. He also pushed for innovations, and was one of the first Thai...

Comedy-drama
1958
1958 in film
The year 1958 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* February 16- "In the Money" by William Beaudine is released on this date. It would be the last installment of The Bowery Boys series which began back in 1946....

Sawan Meud (Dark Heaven
Dark Heaven
Dark Heaven is a 1958 musical-comedy-romance-drama film directed by Rattana Pestonji and written by Suwat Woradilok.-Plot:A poor orphan girl, Nien, is on the run after stealing some food that a wealthy man had purchased to feed some dogs...

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Rattana Pestonji
Rattana Pestonji
Rattana Pestonji was a Thai film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer and is regarded as the father of contemporary Thai film. Although his filmography was brief, his films placed Thai cinema on the world stage. He also pushed for innovations, and was one of the first Thai...

Drama

1960s

Title Director Actors Genre Notes
1961
1961 in film
The year 1961 in film involved some significant events, with West Side Story winning 10 Academy Awards.-Top grossing films : After theatrical re-issue- Awards :Academy Awards:* Atlantis, the Lost ContinentB...

Banthuek Rak Pimchawee (Love Diary of Pimchawee) Mitr Chaibancha
Mitr Chaibancha
Mitr Chaibancha was a Thai film actor who made 266 films from 1956 to 1970....

, Petchara Chaowarat
Petchara Chaowarat
Petchara Chaowarat is a Thai film actress who starred in around 300 films from 1961 to 1979. An icon of the "Golden Age" of Thai cinema, she was known for her round, pool-like eyes and elaborate hairstyles.Her first film and starring role was in Banthuk Rak Pimchawee , in 1961...

Romance First Mitr-Petchara film.
Phrae Dum (Black Silk
Black Silk
Black Silk is a 1961 Thai crime drama film written and directed by Rattana Pestonji.Considered the first Thai film noir, Black Silk was also among the first Thai films to be exhibited at overseas film festivals, screening at the 11th Berlin International Film Festival in 1961.-Plot:Seni, a club...

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Rattana Pestonji
Rattana Pestonji
Rattana Pestonji was a Thai film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer and is regarded as the father of contemporary Thai film. Although his filmography was brief, his films placed Thai cinema on the world stage. He also pushed for innovations, and was one of the first Thai...

Drama Entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival
11th Berlin International Film Festival
The 11th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from June 23 to July 4, 1961.-Jury:* James Quinn * France Roche* Marc Turfkruyer* Satyajit Ray* Gian Luigi Rondi* Hirosugu Ozaki* Nicholas Ray* Falk Harnack* Hans Schaarwächter...

Roong Petch (Diamond Rainbow) Sombat Metanee
Sombat Metanee
Sombat Metanee is a Thai actor and film director. At one time he held the Guinness World Record for most film appearances . By his own count, he's made more than 2,000 films and television shows, including lakorns...

Ruean Phae (Houseboat) Bhanubandhu Yugala  Maria Jang, So Asanajinda, Chaiya Suriyan, Jinfong Drama
1962
1962 in film
The year 1962 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*May - The Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards are officially founded by the Taiwanese government....

Skao Duen
1963
1963 in film
The year 1963 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* June 12 - Cleopatra starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison and Richard Burton premieres at the Rivoli Theatre in New York City....

Chao Insee (The Eagle) Datchani Mitr Chaibancha
Mitr Chaibancha
Mitr Chaibancha was a Thai film actor who made 266 films from 1956 to 1970....

, Phitsamai Wilaisak
Action
Gao Mungkohn (Nine Dragons) Sombat Metanee
Sombat Metanee
Sombat Metanee is a Thai actor and film director. At one time he held the Guinness World Record for most film appearances . By his own count, he's made more than 2,000 films and television shows, including lakorns...

Ngam-Ngon Sombat Metanee
Sombat Metanee
Sombat Metanee is a Thai actor and film director. At one time he held the Guinness World Record for most film appearances . By his own count, he's made more than 2,000 films and television shows, including lakorns...

Saming Sao Sombat Metanee
Sombat Metanee
Sombat Metanee is a Thai actor and film director. At one time he held the Guinness World Record for most film appearances . By his own count, he's made more than 2,000 films and television shows, including lakorns...

Singh lae Singh (The Lion vs The Lion) Sombat Metanee
Sombat Metanee
Sombat Metanee is a Thai actor and film director. At one time he held the Guinness World Record for most film appearances . By his own count, he's made more than 2,000 films and television shows, including lakorns...

Singh Sang Pa Sombat Metanee
Sombat Metanee
Sombat Metanee is a Thai actor and film director. At one time he held the Guinness World Record for most film appearances . By his own count, he's made more than 2,000 films and television shows, including lakorns...

Tawan Lang Lued (Blood of the Sun) Sombat Metanee
Sombat Metanee
Sombat Metanee is a Thai actor and film director. At one time he held the Guinness World Record for most film appearances . By his own count, he's made more than 2,000 films and television shows, including lakorns...

1964
1964 in film
The year 1964 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* January 29 - The film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is released....

Namtaan Mai Waan (Sugar Is Not Sweet
Sugar Is Not Sweet
Sugar Is Not Sweet is a 1965 Thai romantic comedy film written and directed by Rattana Pestonji. It was the director's final feature film. The film was featured in a retrospective program to the director at the 2005 Pusan International Film Festival....

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Rattana Pestonji
Rattana Pestonji
Rattana Pestonji was a Thai film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer and is regarded as the father of contemporary Thai film. Although his filmography was brief, his films placed Thai cinema on the world stage. He also pushed for innovations, and was one of the first Thai...

Drama
Ngern Ngern Ngern (Money, Money, Money) Mitr Chaibancha
Mitr Chaibancha
Mitr Chaibancha was a Thai film actor who made 266 films from 1956 to 1970....

, Petchara Chaowarat
Petchara Chaowarat
Petchara Chaowarat is a Thai film actress who starred in around 300 films from 1961 to 1979. An icon of the "Golden Age" of Thai cinema, she was known for her round, pool-like eyes and elaborate hairstyles.Her first film and starring role was in Banthuk Rak Pimchawee , in 1961...

Musical comedy Remade in 1985.
1966
1966 in film
The year 1966 in film involved some significant events.-Events:Animation legend Walter Disney, well known for his creation of Mickey Mouse, died in 15 December 1966 of acute circulatory collapse following a diagnosis of, and surgery for, lung cancer...

Phet Tat Phet (Operation Bangkok) Khunawut Phankham, Prakob Kaewprasert Mitr Chaibancha
Mitr Chaibancha
Mitr Chaibancha was a Thai film actor who made 266 films from 1956 to 1970....

, Petchara Chaowarat
Petchara Chaowarat
Petchara Chaowarat is a Thai film actress who starred in around 300 films from 1961 to 1979. An icon of the "Golden Age" of Thai cinema, she was known for her round, pool-like eyes and elaborate hairstyles.Her first film and starring role was in Banthuk Rak Pimchawee , in 1961...

Action
Suek Bang Rajan (The Battle of Bang Rajan
Bang Rajan
The village of Bang Rachan was historically located north of Ayutthaya, the old capital of Siam and the predecessor state to modern Thailand. The village is remembered in Thai history for its alleged resistance against the Burmese invaders in Burmese–Siamese War that ended the Ayutthaya...

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Sombat Metanee
Sombat Metanee
Sombat Metanee is a Thai actor and film director. At one time he held the Guinness World Record for most film appearances . By his own count, he's made more than 2,000 films and television shows, including lakorns...

Action drama Sombat won "Golden Doll" award for best actor.
1967
1967 in film
The year 1967 in film involved some significant events. It is widely considered as one of the most ground-breaking years in film.-Events:* December 26 - The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour airs on British television....

7 Phrakan Charlie Intharavichit Mitr Chaibancha
Mitr Chaibancha
Mitr Chaibancha was a Thai film actor who made 266 films from 1956 to 1970....

Action
Top Secret Mitr Chaibancha
Mitr Chaibancha
Mitr Chaibancha was a Thai film actor who made 266 films from 1956 to 1970....

1968
1968 in film
The year 1968 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* October 30 - The film The Lion in Winter, starring Katharine Hepburn, debuts.* November 1 - The MPAA's film rating system is introduced.-Top grossing films :- Awards :...

Pet Noi (The Duckling) Phanuphan Suthisa Phathanut Drama

1970s

Title Director Actors Genre Notes
1970
1970 in film
The year 1970 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* January 9 - Larry Fine, the second member of The Three Stooges, suffers a massive stroke, therefore ending his career....

Insee Thong
Insee thong
Insee tong is a 1970 Thai action film starring Mitr Chaibancha and Petchara Chaowarat. Chaibancha died while filming the stunt for the final scene in the film.-Plot:...

 (Golden Eagle)
Mitr Chaibancha
Mitr Chaibancha
Mitr Chaibancha was a Thai film actor who made 266 films from 1956 to 1970....

 
Mitr Chaibancha
Mitr Chaibancha
Mitr Chaibancha was a Thai film actor who made 266 films from 1956 to 1970....

, Petchara Chaowarat
Petchara Chaowarat
Petchara Chaowarat is a Thai film actress who starred in around 300 films from 1961 to 1979. An icon of the "Golden Age" of Thai cinema, she was known for her round, pool-like eyes and elaborate hairstyles.Her first film and starring role was in Banthuk Rak Pimchawee , in 1961...

 
Action Mitr Chaibancha was killed while filming a stunt for the final scene.
Khun Suk (The Warrior) Sombat Metanee
Sombat Metanee
Sombat Metanee is a Thai actor and film director. At one time he held the Guinness World Record for most film appearances . By his own count, he's made more than 2,000 films and television shows, including lakorns...

 
Action
Mae Ya Nang Mitr Chaibancha
Mitr Chaibancha
Mitr Chaibancha was a Thai film actor who made 266 films from 1956 to 1970....

, Phitsamai Wilaisak, Sopha Sathaphon 
Drama
Monrak luk thung
Monrak luk thung
Monrak luk thung is a 1970 musical-comedy-romance film directed by Rungsri Tassanapuk and starring Mitr Chaibancha and Petchara Chaowarat. Released on May 15, 1970, the film was an enormous hit, playing in Thai cinemas for six months....

 
Mitr Chaibancha
Mitr Chaibancha
Mitr Chaibancha was a Thai film actor who made 266 films from 1956 to 1970....

, Petchara Chaowarat
Petchara Chaowarat
Petchara Chaowarat is a Thai film actress who starred in around 300 films from 1961 to 1979. An icon of the "Golden Age" of Thai cinema, she was known for her round, pool-like eyes and elaborate hairstyles.Her first film and starring role was in Banthuk Rak Pimchawee , in 1961...

 
Musical comedy
Narok Tarutao (Tarutao, Devil's Island) Sombat Metanee
Sombat Metanee
Sombat Metanee is a Thai actor and film director. At one time he held the Guinness World Record for most film appearances . By his own count, he's made more than 2,000 films and television shows, including lakorns...

 
Action
1971
1971 in film
The year 1971 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 8 - Bob Dylan's hour long documentary film, Eat the Document, premieres at New York's Academy of Music...

Ai Tui (Mr. Tui) Dokdin Kanyamarn  Sombat Metanee
Sombat Metanee
Sombat Metanee is a Thai actor and film director. At one time he held the Guinness World Record for most film appearances . By his own count, he's made more than 2,000 films and television shows, including lakorns...

, Petchara Chaowarat
Petchara Chaowarat
Petchara Chaowarat is a Thai film actress who starred in around 300 films from 1961 to 1979. An icon of the "Golden Age" of Thai cinema, she was known for her round, pool-like eyes and elaborate hairstyles.Her first film and starring role was in Banthuk Rak Pimchawee , in 1961...

 
Musical comedy
Man Ma Kap Khwam Mued (Out of the Darkness
Out of the Darkness (1971 film)
Out of the Darkness is a 1971 Thai science fiction musical action drama film directed by Chatrichalerm Yukol, about an invasion by extraterrestrial beings in Thailand...

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Chatrichalerm Yukol
Chatrichalerm Yukol
His Serene Highness Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol is a Thai film director, screenwriter and film producer. A prolific director since the 1970s, among his films is the 2001 historical epic, The Legend of Suriyothai. A member of the Thai royal family, his official royal title is Mom Chao, or M.C., the...

 
Sorapong Chatree
Sorapong Chatree
Sorapong Chatree is a Thai film actor. He has frequently starred in the films of Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol, as well as in Cherd Songsri's classic romance, Plae Kao....

 
Science fiction Chatrichalerm's debut feature and the first Thai science-fiction film.
1973
1973 in film
The year 1973 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx divorces his second wife, Barbara Blakely. Blakely would later marry actor/singer Frank Sinatra....

Dr. Karn (Khao Chue Karn) Chatrichalerm Yukol
Chatrichalerm Yukol
His Serene Highness Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol is a Thai film director, screenwriter and film producer. A prolific director since the 1970s, among his films is the 2001 historical epic, The Legend of Suriyothai. A member of the Thai royal family, his official royal title is Mom Chao, or M.C., the...

 
Drama
Maimee Kamtob Jak Sawan (There’s No Answer from Heaven)
Nai Suan Rak (Love Garden) Ruj Ronaphop
Petchakat Rak (Killer of Romance)
1974
1974 in film
The year 1974 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 7 - Blazing Saddles is released in the USA.*August 7 - Peter Wolf, lead singer of The J...

The 6 Ultra Brothers vs. the Monster Army
The 6 Ultra Brothers vs. the Monster Army
, known in Thailand as Hanuman and the 6 Ultramen is a tokusatsu SF/kaiju/superhero film produced in 1974 by Tsuburaya Productions of Japan and Chaiyo Productions of Thailand...

 
Sompote Sands
Shohei Tôjô 
Ko Kaeoduendee
Choompae  Sombat Metanee
Sombat Metanee
Sombat Metanee is a Thai actor and film director. At one time he held the Guinness World Record for most film appearances . By his own count, he's made more than 2,000 films and television shows, including lakorns...

 
Action
The Colonel (Mai Rak Pen Pan To) Chatrichalerm Yukol
Chatrichalerm Yukol
His Serene Highness Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol is a Thai film director, screenwriter and film producer. A prolific director since the 1970s, among his films is the 2001 historical epic, The Legend of Suriyothai. A member of the Thai royal family, his official royal title is Mom Chao, or M.C., the...

 
Ron Rittichai Action
Hotel Angel
Hotel Angel
Hotel Angel is a 1974 Thai drama film directed by Chatrichalerm Yukol, about a young woman who becomes involved in the sex trade in Bangkok.-Plot:...

 
Chatrichalerm Yukol
Chatrichalerm Yukol
His Serene Highness Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol is a Thai film director, screenwriter and film producer. A prolific director since the 1970s, among his films is the 2001 historical epic, The Legend of Suriyothai. A member of the Thai royal family, his official royal title is Mom Chao, or M.C., the...

 
Drama
Tipchang Sombat Metanee
Sombat Metanee
Sombat Metanee is a Thai actor and film director. At one time he held the Guinness World Record for most film appearances . By his own count, he's made more than 2,000 films and television shows, including lakorns...

 
1975
1975 in film
The year 1975 in film involved some significant events, with Steven Spielberg's thriller Jaws topping the box office.-Events:*March 26 - The film version of The Who's Tommy premieres in London....

Dangerous Modelling Chatrichalerm Yukol
Chatrichalerm Yukol
His Serene Highness Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol is a Thai film director, screenwriter and film producer. A prolific director since the 1970s, among his films is the 2001 historical epic, The Legend of Suriyothai. A member of the Thai royal family, his official royal title is Mom Chao, or M.C., the...

 
Last Love (Kaum Rak Krang Suthai) Chatrichalerm Yukol
Chatrichalerm Yukol
His Serene Highness Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol is a Thai film director, screenwriter and film producer. A prolific director since the 1970s, among his films is the 2001 historical epic, The Legend of Suriyothai. A member of the Thai royal family, his official royal title is Mom Chao, or M.C., the...

 
Drama
Nuk Leng Tewada (The Holy Hoodlum) Sombat Metanee
Sombat Metanee
Sombat Metanee is a Thai actor and film director. At one time he held the Guinness World Record for most film appearances . By his own count, he's made more than 2,000 films and television shows, including lakorns...

 
Action
The Violent Breed (Thewada Doen Din) Chatrichalerm Yukol
Chatrichalerm Yukol
His Serene Highness Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol is a Thai film director, screenwriter and film producer. A prolific director since the 1970s, among his films is the 2001 historical epic, The Legend of Suriyothai. A member of the Thai royal family, his official royal title is Mom Chao, or M.C., the...

 
1976
1976 in film
The year 1976 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*March 22 - Filming begins on George Lucas' Star Wars science fiction film...

Angel Who Walks on the Ground Chatrichalerm Yukol
Chatrichalerm Yukol
His Serene Highness Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol is a Thai film director, screenwriter and film producer. A prolific director since the 1970s, among his films is the 2001 historical epic, The Legend of Suriyothai. A member of the Thai royal family, his official royal title is Mom Chao, or M.C., the...

 
Magnum Killers Sombat Metanee
Sombat Metanee
Sombat Metanee is a Thai actor and film director. At one time he held the Guinness World Record for most film appearances . By his own count, he's made more than 2,000 films and television shows, including lakorns...

 
Sao 5 (Saturday Five) Winit Phakdiwichit  Sorapong Chatree
Sorapong Chatree
Sorapong Chatree is a Thai film actor. He has frequently starred in the films of Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol, as well as in Cherd Songsri's classic romance, Plae Kao....

 
Action
S.T.A.B. Sombat Metanee
Sombat Metanee
Sombat Metanee is a Thai actor and film director. At one time he held the Guinness World Record for most film appearances . By his own count, he's made more than 2,000 films and television shows, including lakorns...

 
Wai Onlawon  Piak Poster  Drama
1977
1977 in film
The year 1977 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*In the Academy Awards, Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight win Best Actor and Actress and Supporting Actress awards for Network....

Louie Sombat Metanee
Sombat Metanee
Sombat Metanee is a Thai actor and film director. At one time he held the Guinness World Record for most film appearances . By his own count, he's made more than 2,000 films and television shows, including lakorns...

 
Plae Chow (The Scar) Cherd Songsri
Cherd Songsri
Cherd Songsri was a Thai film director, screenwriter and film producer. A maker of period films that sought to introduce international audiences to his vision of Thai culture, his best-known work is the 1977 romance film Plae Kao , which earned more box-office receipts than any Thai film before it...

 
Sorapong Chatree
Sorapong Chatree
Sorapong Chatree is a Thai film actor. He has frequently starred in the films of Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol, as well as in Cherd Songsri's classic romance, Plae Kao....

, Nantana Ngaograjang
Drama
Taxi Driver (Citizen I) Chatrichalerm Yukol
Chatrichalerm Yukol
His Serene Highness Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol is a Thai film director, screenwriter and film producer. A prolific director since the 1970s, among his films is the 2001 historical epic, The Legend of Suriyothai. A member of the Thai royal family, his official royal title is Mom Chao, or M.C., the...

 
Drama
Tongpan
Tongpan
Tongpan is a 1977 Thai 16 mm black-and-white docudrama that re-creates a seminar that took place in Northeast Thailand in 1975 to discuss the proposed Pa-Mong Dam on the Mekong. Interwoven are sequences depicting a poor farmer, Tongpan, who had lost his land to another dam some years before,...

 
Docu-drama Was banned in Thailand on its initial release.
Yeh Nuat Sua (Operation Black Panther) Sombat Metanee
Sombat Metanee
Sombat Metanee is a Thai actor and film director. At one time he held the Guinness World Record for most film appearances . By his own count, he's made more than 2,000 films and television shows, including lakorns...

 
Sombat Metanee
Sombat Metanee
Sombat Metanee is a Thai actor and film director. At one time he held the Guinness World Record for most film appearances . By his own count, he's made more than 2,000 films and television shows, including lakorns...

 
Action
1978
1978 in film
The year 1978 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* February 1 - Bob Dylan's film Renaldo and Clara, a documentary of the "Rolling Thunder Revue" tour premieres in Los Angeles, California....

First Wife (Mia Luang) Vichit Kounavudhi
Vichit Kounavudhi
Vichit Kounavudhi was a Thai film director and screenwriter. His works include the docudrama Son of the Northeast.-Early career:...

 
Drama
Karma Chatrichalerm Yukol
Chatrichalerm Yukol
His Serene Highness Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol is a Thai film director, screenwriter and film producer. A prolific director since the 1970s, among his films is the 2001 historical epic, The Legend of Suriyothai. A member of the Thai royal family, his official royal title is Mom Chao, or M.C., the...

 
1979
1979 in film
The year 1979 in film involved some significant events.- Major events :* March 5 - Production begins on Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.* May 25 - Alien, a landmark of the science fiction genre, is released....

The Adventure of Sud Sakorn  Payute Ngaokrachang  Animation/Fantasy First Thai animated feature.
Phra Rod Meree
Phra Rod Meree
Phra Rod Meree is a 1979 Thai fantasy film. The only Bright colour feature film ever made in Thailand, the film is one of the most successful Thai fantasy films ever made. Since then, it has occasionally been seen at Chayo film classic collections for sale.The story is based on Nang Sib Song, a...

 
Ampha Phusith, Toon Hirunyatrub, Supansa Nuerngpirom  | Romance/Action/Fantasy
Mountain People (Khon Phukao) Vichit Kounavudhi
Vichit Kounavudhi
Vichit Kounavudhi was a Thai film director and screenwriter. His works include the docudrama Son of the Northeast.-Early career:...

 
Drama

1980s

Title Director Actors Genre Notes
1980
1980 in film
- Events :* May 21 - Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is released and is the biggest grosser of the year ....

Golden Triangle Sombat Metanee
Sombat Metanee
Sombat Metanee is a Thai actor and film director. At one time he held the Guinness World Record for most film appearances . By his own count, he's made more than 2,000 films and television shows, including lakorns...

 
Action
Ka Kee
Ka Kee
Ka Kee or Unfainthful is a 1980 Fantasy drama film based on Thai folktale. The film is directed by Nerramitr and is One of the famous Thai fantasy film of the year.-Plot:...

 
Nerramitr  Sorapong Chatree
Sorapong Chatree
Sorapong Chatree is a Thai film actor. He has frequently starred in the films of Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol, as well as in Cherd Songsri's classic romance, Plae Kao....

, Ampha Poosith
Fantasy/Drama
Luang ta
Luang ta
Luang ta is a 1980 Thai film directed by Permphol Cheyaroon. It was entered into the 31st Berlin International Film Festival....

 
Permphol Cheyaroon  Entered into the 31st Berlin International Film Festival
31st Berlin International Film Festival
The 31st annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 13 to 24 February 1981.-Jury:* Jutta Brückner * Denis Héroux* Astrid Henning-Jensen* Irina Petrovna Kuptschenko* Peter Bichsel* Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi...

Siang Sueng Thi San Sai (Banjo on the Sandbar) Ban Saksri  Sombat Metanee
Sombat Metanee
Sombat Metanee is a Thai actor and film director. At one time he held the Guinness World Record for most film appearances . By his own count, he's made more than 2,000 films and television shows, including lakorns...

 
Drama
The Yellowing of the Sky (Before the Storm) Chatrichalerm Yukol
Chatrichalerm Yukol
His Serene Highness Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol is a Thai film director, screenwriter and film producer. A prolific director since the 1970s, among his films is the 2001 historical epic, The Legend of Suriyothai. A member of the Thai royal family, his official royal title is Mom Chao, or M.C., the...

 
1982
1982 in film
-Events:* March 26 = I Ought to Be in Pictures, starring Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret and Dinah Manoff is released. Manoff would not appear in another movie until 1987's Backfire.* June = PG-rated film E.T...

If You Still Love Chatrichalerm Yukol
Chatrichalerm Yukol
His Serene Highness Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol is a Thai film director, screenwriter and film producer. A prolific director since the 1970s, among his films is the 2001 historical epic, The Legend of Suriyothai. A member of the Thai royal family, his official royal title is Mom Chao, or M.C., the...

 
Drama
Son of the Northeast
Son of the Northeast
Son of the Northeast is a 1982 historical drama film set in 1930s Isan, or northeastern Thailand. The film is directed by Vichit Kounavudhi and is based on a S.E.A. Write Award-winning book by Kampoon Boonthavee. Filmed in a documentary style, the story follows a tight-knit group of Isan...

 (Look Isan)
Vichit Kounavudhi
Vichit Kounavudhi
Vichit Kounavudhi was a Thai film director and screenwriter. His works include the docudrama Son of the Northeast.-Early career:...

 
Drama
1983
1983 in film
-Events:*February 11 - The Rolling Stones concert film Let's Spend the Night Together opens in New York*May 25 - Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, the final film in the original Star Wars trilogy, is released. Like the previous films, it goes on to become the top grossing picture of...

Gunman
Gunman (film)
Gunman is a 1983 Thai crime film directed by Chatrichalerm Yukol and starring Sorapong Chatree as an amputee assassin.-Plot:As the opening credits roll, the scene is from the point of a man on a motorcycle at night...

 (Meu Peun)
Chatrichalerm Yukol
Chatrichalerm Yukol
His Serene Highness Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol is a Thai film director, screenwriter and film producer. A prolific director since the 1970s, among his films is the 2001 historical epic, The Legend of Suriyothai. A member of the Thai royal family, his official royal title is Mom Chao, or M.C., the...

 
Sorapong Chatree
Sorapong Chatree
Sorapong Chatree is a Thai film actor. He has frequently starred in the films of Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol, as well as in Cherd Songsri's classic romance, Plae Kao....

 
Drama
1984
1984 in film
-Events:* The Walt Disney Company founds Touchstone Pictures to release movies with subject matter deemed inappropriate for the Disney name.* Tri-Star Pictures, a joint venture of Columbia Pictures, HBO, and CBS, releases its first film....

Detective, Section 123 Chatrichalerm Yukol
Chatrichalerm Yukol
His Serene Highness Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol is a Thai film director, screenwriter and film producer. A prolific director since the 1970s, among his films is the 2001 historical epic, The Legend of Suriyothai. A member of the Thai royal family, his official royal title is Mom Chao, or M.C., the...

 
Crime drama
Freedom of Taxi Driver (Citizen II) Chatrichalerm Yukol
Chatrichalerm Yukol
His Serene Highness Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol is a Thai film director, screenwriter and film producer. A prolific director since the 1970s, among his films is the 2001 historical epic, The Legend of Suriyothai. A member of the Thai royal family, his official royal title is Mom Chao, or M.C., the...

 
Sorapong Chatree
Sorapong Chatree
Sorapong Chatree is a Thai film actor. He has frequently starred in the films of Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol, as well as in Cherd Songsri's classic romance, Plae Kao....

 
Drama
1985
1985 in film
-Events:* 3 December - Roger Moore steps down from the role of James Bond after twelve years and seven films. He is replaced by Timothy Dalton.* The Academy Award for Best Picture was won by Out Of Africa, while the highest grossing film was Back to the Future.* Bliss wins AFI Award for best Movie...

Butterfly and Flowers
Butterfly and Flowers
Butterfly and Flowers is a 1985 Thai drama film directed by Euthana Mukdasanit, set in Muslim-majority southern Thailand. The film was screened at the 1985 Hawaii International Film Festival, one of the earliest Thai films to gain exposure outside Thailand.The film is adapted from a 1978 novel of...

 
Euthana Mukdasanit
Euthana Mukdasanit
Euthana Mukdasanit is a Thai film director and screenwriter. As a contemporary of Chatrichalerm Yukol, Euthana was among a group of directors that during the 1970s made films that focused on social problems...

 
Her Name is Boonrawd Vichit Kounavudhi
Vichit Kounavudhi
Vichit Kounavudhi was a Thai film director and screenwriter. His works include the docudrama Son of the Northeast.-Early career:...

 
Drama
1986
1986 in film
-Events:*April 12 - Actor Morgan Mason marries The Go-Go's Belinda Carlisle.*April 26 - Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger marries television journalist Maria Shriver.*May - Actress Heather Locklear marries Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee....

Somsee Chatrichalerm Yukol
Chatrichalerm Yukol
His Serene Highness Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol is a Thai film director, screenwriter and film producer. A prolific director since the 1970s, among his films is the 2001 historical epic, The Legend of Suriyothai. A member of the Thai royal family, his official royal title is Mom Chao, or M.C., the...

 
1987
1987 in film
-Events:*January 31 - The Cure for Insomnia premieres at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois, to officially become the world's longest film according to Guinness World Records....

The Elephant Keeper (Khon Liang Chang) Chatrichalerm Yukol
Chatrichalerm Yukol
His Serene Highness Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol is a Thai film director, screenwriter and film producer. A prolific director since the 1970s, among his films is the 2001 historical epic, The Legend of Suriyothai. A member of the Thai royal family, his official royal title is Mom Chao, or M.C., the...

 
Sorapong Chatree
Sorapong Chatree
Sorapong Chatree is a Thai film actor. He has frequently starred in the films of Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol, as well as in Cherd Songsri's classic romance, Plae Kao....

 
Drama

1990s

Title Director Actors Genre Notes
1990
1990 in film
The year 1990 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* CGI technique is expanded with motion capture for CGI characters, used in Total Recall .* The first digitally-manipulated matte painting is used, in Die Hard 2....

Song for Chao Phya Chatrichalerm Yukol
Chatrichalerm Yukol
His Serene Highness Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol is a Thai film director, screenwriter and film producer. A prolific director since the 1970s, among his films is the 2001 historical epic, The Legend of Suriyothai. A member of the Thai royal family, his official royal title is Mom Chao, or M.C., the...

 
Sorapong Chatree
Sorapong Chatree
Sorapong Chatree is a Thai film actor. He has frequently starred in the films of Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol, as well as in Cherd Songsri's classic romance, Plae Kao....

 
Drama
1991
1991 in film
The year 1991 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*April 28 - Bonnie Raitt marries actor Michael O'Keefe in New York* Terminator 2: Judgment Day, became one of the landmarks for science fiction action films with its groundbreaking visual effects from Industrial Light & Magic.*November...

Powder Road Chatrichalerm Yukol
Chatrichalerm Yukol
His Serene Highness Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol is a Thai film director, screenwriter and film producer. A prolific director since the 1970s, among his films is the 2001 historical epic, The Legend of Suriyothai. A member of the Thai royal family, his official royal title is Mom Chao, or M.C., the...

 
Drama
1992
1992 in film
The year 1992 in film involved many significant films. -Top grossing films:-Awards:Academy AwardsGolden Globe AwardsNational Film Awards...

The Magic Show (Rawng Tah Laep Plaep) Prachya Pinkaew
Prachya Pinkaew
Prachya Pinkaew is a Thai film director, film producer and screenwriter. His films include Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior and Tom-Yum-Goong, both martial arts films starring Tony Jaa.-Biography:...

 
Tat Na Takuatung, Bawriboon Chanreuang  Drama
1993
1993 in film
The year 1993 in film involved many significant films, including the blockbuster hits Jurassic Park, The Fugitive and The Firm. -Events:...

Salween
Salween (film)
Salween is a 1994 Thai action-drama film directed by Chatrichalerm Yukol and starring Sorapong Chatree and Chatchai Plengpanich. Sombat Metanee's son, Siricoup Metanee, also stars as a young police lieutenant, newly arrived at a rough-and-tumble post in a Thai-Myanmar border town on the Salween...

 (Gunman II)
Chatrichalerm Yukol
Chatrichalerm Yukol
His Serene Highness Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol is a Thai film director, screenwriter and film producer. A prolific director since the 1970s, among his films is the 2001 historical epic, The Legend of Suriyothai. A member of the Thai royal family, his official royal title is Mom Chao, or M.C., the...

 
Siricoup Metanee  Drama
1994
1994 in film
1994 was a significant year in film.The top grosser worldwide was The Lion King, which to date stands as the highest-grossing traditionally-animated film of all time...

Blackbirds at Bangpleng
Blackbirds at Bangpleng
Blackbirds at Bangpleng is a 1994 Thai science fiction horror film. Though it is based on a novel by the famous Thai writer and politician Kukrit Pramoj, the story closely mirrors The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham, which itself was adapted into the 1960 film, Village of the Damned.-Plot:A...

 
Niratisai Kanjareuk Science fiction
1996
1996 in film
Major releases this year included Scream, Independence Day, Fargo, Trainspotting, The English Patient, Twister, Mars Attacks!, Jerry Maguire and a version of Evita starring Madonna.-Events:...

Daughter (Sia Dia) Chatrichalerm Yukol
Chatrichalerm Yukol
His Serene Highness Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol is a Thai film director, screenwriter and film producer. A prolific director since the 1970s, among his films is the 2001 historical epic, The Legend of Suriyothai. A member of the Thai royal family, his official royal title is Mom Chao, or M.C., the...

 
Drama
Sunset at Chao Phraya  Euthana Mukdasanit
Euthana Mukdasanit
Euthana Mukdasanit is a Thai film director and screenwriter. As a contemporary of Chatrichalerm Yukol, Euthana was among a group of directors that during the 1970s made films that focused on social problems...

 
Bird McIntyre
Bird McIntyre
Thongchai "Bird" McIntyre is a Thai pop singer who released his debut album in 1986. He is also sometimes known as Bird Thongchai, Pe Bird or simply Bird....

 
Drama
1997
1997 in film
-Events:* The original Star Wars trilogy's Special Editions are released.* Production begins on Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.* Titanic becomes the first film to gross US$1,000,000,000 at the box office making it the highest grossing film in history until Avatar broke the record in 2010.*...

Daughter 2 (Sia Dia 2) Chatrichalerm Yukol
Chatrichalerm Yukol
His Serene Highness Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol is a Thai film director, screenwriter and film producer. A prolific director since the 1970s, among his films is the 2001 historical epic, The Legend of Suriyothai. A member of the Thai royal family, his official royal title is Mom Chao, or M.C., the...

 
Drama Thailand's selection for Best Foreign Language Film
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...

.
Fun Bar Karaoke
Fun Bar Karaoke
Fun Bar Karaoke is a 1997 crime-comedy directed by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang. The film had its world premiere at the 1997 Berlin Film Festival for which Pen-Ek was credited as "Tom Pannet". It screened in the festival's Forum section.-Plot:...

 
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang is a Thai film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his arthouse work, Last Life in the Universe, and is considered to be one of Thai cinema's leading "new wave" auteurs, alongside Wisit Sasanatieng and Apichatpong Weerasethakul...

 
Ray MacDonald
Ray MacDonald
Ray MacDonald is a Thai actor of Scottish descent. He won Best Actor awards at the Thailand National Film Association Awards in 1997 and 1998 for his roles in Fun Bar Karaoke, the debut feature by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, and O-Negative, which co-starred Tata Young...

 
Crime comedy Debut film by Pen-Ek; premiered at Berlin Film Festival.
Ta fa likit (Who Is Running?) Oxide Pang
The Pang Brothers
The Pang Brothers are Danny Pang Fat and Oxide Pang Chun , twin-brother screenwriters and film directors, born in 1965 in Hong Kong. Among their films is the hit Asian horror film, The Eye, which has spawned two sequels, as well as a Hollywood remake and a Hindi remake...

 
Drama Thailand's selection for Best Foreign Language Film
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...

 in 1998.
1998
1998 in film
-Events:* February 14 - Sharon Stone marries Phil Bronstein.* Former child star Gary Coleman is charged with assaulting a young female bus driver at a California shopping mall.-Top grossing films:...

Fah
FAH
FAH may refer to:*Folding@home, a powerful distributed computing project performing disease-relevant protein folding*The FAH gene, fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase *First Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical University...

 
Wych Kaosayananda
Wych Kaosayananda
Wych Kaosayananda is a Thai film director.He is the son of famous Thai diplomat "Kaosayananda". He lived and studied in Pakistan, where his father was posted in Islamabad as an ambassador....

 
Drama
O Negative (Rak awk baep mai dai) Pinyo Roothum Ray MacDonald
Ray MacDonald
Ray MacDonald is a Thai actor of Scottish descent. He won Best Actor awards at the Thailand National Film Association Awards in 1997 and 1998 for his roles in Fun Bar Karaoke, the debut feature by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, and O-Negative, which co-starred Tata Young...

, Chakrit Yamnam
Chakrit Yamnam
Chakrit Yamnam is a Thai film and television actor.His films include O-Negative with Tata Young, directed by Yuthlert Sippapak. His latest film is Bangkok Dangerous with Nicolas Cage....

, Tata Young
Tata Young
Amita Marie Young , better known under her stage name Tata Young, is a Thai singer, model actress and dancer....

Drama
1999
1999 in film
The year 1999 in film involved several noteworthy events and has been called "The Year That Changed Movies". Several significant feature films, including Stanley Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut, Pedro Almodóvar's first Oscar-winning film All About My Mother, science fiction The Matrix, Deep...

6ixtynin9  Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang is a Thai film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his arthouse work, Last Life in the Universe, and is considered to be one of Thai cinema's leading "new wave" auteurs, alongside Wisit Sasanatieng and Apichatpong Weerasethakul...

 
Lalita Panyopas
Lalita Panyopas
Lalita Panyopas is a Thai film and television actress. She is best known in Thailand for her roles in lakorn . She made a string of feature films in the late 1980s and also was the lead actress in many Thai lakorns in the late 1980s to early 2000s...

 
Crime drama Thailand's selection for Best Foreign Language Film
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...

.
Bangkok Dangerous
Bangkok Dangerous
Bangkok Dangerous is a 1999 Thai crime film written and directed by the Pang Brothers. Stylishly edited, the story of a deaf and mute hitman was the debut film for the twin-brother team of filmmakers. A 2008 remake of the same name also directed by the Pangs, stars Nicolas Cage...

 
The Pang Brothers
The Pang Brothers
The Pang Brothers are Danny Pang Fat and Oxide Pang Chun , twin-brother screenwriters and film directors, born in 1965 in Hong Kong. Among their films is the hit Asian horror film, The Eye, which has spawned two sequels, as well as a Hollywood remake and a Hindi remake...

 
Crime drama Hong Kong-Thailand co-production, debut film by the Pangs.
Dang Bireley's and Young Gangsters
Dang Bireley's and Young Gangsters
Dang Bireley's and Young Gangsters is a 1997 crime drama film about young Thai gangsters in 1950s Thailand...

 (2499 Antapan Krong Muang)
Nonzee Nimibutr
Nonzee Nimibutr
Nonzee Nimibutr is a Thai film director, film producer and screenwriter. Best known for his ghost thriller, Nang Nak, he is generally credited as the leader among a "New Wave" of Thai filmmakers that also includes Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, Wisit Sasanatieng and Apichatpong...

 
Jesdaporn Pholdee
Jesdaporn Pholdee
Jesadaporn Pholdee , is a Thai actor, model, and presenter....

 
Drama Debut film by Nonzee.
Nang Nak
Nang Nak
Nang Nak is a romantic tragedy and horror film directed by Nonzee Nimibutr in 1999 through Buddy Film and Video Production Co. in Thailand, based on a legend. It features the life of a devoted ghost wife and the unsuspecting husband.-Plot:...

 
Nonzee Nimibutr
Nonzee Nimibutr
Nonzee Nimibutr is a Thai film director, film producer and screenwriter. Best known for his ghost thriller, Nang Nak, he is generally credited as the leader among a "New Wave" of Thai filmmakers that also includes Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, Wisit Sasanatieng and Apichatpong...

 
Intira Jaroenpura
Intira Jaroenpura
Intira Jaroenpura is a Thai actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Mae Nak in the 1999 Thai horror film, Nang Nak. In 2007, she was featured in a prominent role as the warrior Princess Lurkin in part two of King Naresuan.-Early career:...

 
Horror

2000

Title Director Actors Genre Notes
2000
2000 in film
The year 2000 in film involved some significant events.The top grosser worldwide was Mission: Impossible II. Domestically in North America, Gladiator won the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor ....

Bang Rajan
Bang Rajan (film)
Bang Rajan is a 2000 Thai historical drama film depicting the battles of the Siamese village of Bang Rajan against the Burmese invaders in 1767, as remembered in popular Thai culture...

 
Thanit Jitnukul  Winai Kraibutr
Winai Kraibutr
Winai Kraibutr is a Thai actor. He has appeared in a number of films that have achieved significant success at the Thai box office. He is considered a bankable star in Thailand and has achieved minor international exposure through the international release of Bang Rajan...

 
War "Presented by Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone
William Oliver Stone is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Stone became well known in the late 1980s and the early 1990s for directing a series of films about the Vietnam War, for which he had previously participated as an infantry soldier. His work frequently focuses on...

" in US.
Fah Talai Jone (Tears of the Black Tiger
Tears of the Black Tiger
Tears of the Black Tiger is a 2000 Thai western film written and directed by Wisit Sasanatieng. The story of a tragic romance between Dum, a fatalistic, working-class hero, who has become an outlaw, and Rumpoey, the upper-class daughter of a provincial governor, it is equal parts homage to and...

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Wisit Sasanatieng
Wisit Sasanatieng
Wisit Sasanatieng is a Thai film director and screenwriter of Chinese descent...

 
Chartchai Ngamsan
Chartchai Ngamsan
Chartchai Ngamsan is a Thai actor. His most notable role is as Sua Dum in Tears of the Black Tiger, a 2000 Thai western film. Before that, he had a supporting role in Dang Bireley's and Young Gangsters, also playing a character named Dum, who was a sidekick to Puu Bottlebomb, portrayed by...

 
Western Director's debut feature; first Thai film at Cannes
2001 Cannes Film Festival
The 2001 Cannes Film Festival started on May 14 and ran until May 25. The Palme d'Or went to the Italian film The Son's Room by Nanni Moretti.-Jury:* Liv Ullmann, President * Mimmo Calopresti * Charlotte Gainsbourg...

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The Iron Ladies
The Iron Ladies (film)
The Iron Ladies is a Thai comedy film from the year 2000. The movie follows the true events of a men's volleyball team, composed mainly of gay and kathoey athletes...

 (Satree lek)
Youngyooth Thongkonthun  Jesdaporn Pholdee
Jesdaporn Pholdee
Jesadaporn Pholdee , is a Thai actor, model, and presenter....

 
Comedy
Mysterious Object at Noon
Mysterious Object at Noon
Mysterious Object at Noon is a 2000 Thai independent experimental documentary film directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul.-Production:The film is unscripted and uses the exquisite corpse party game as a concept, with the film crew traveling across Thailand, interviewing people and asking each...

 (Dokfa nai meuman)
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Apichatpong "Joe" Weerasethakul is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, and film producer. His feature films include Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, winner of the prestigious 2010 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or prize; Tropical Malady, which won a jury prize at the 2004...

 
Art film Director's debut feature.

2001

Title Director Actors Genre Notes
2001
2001 in film
The year 2001 in film involved some significant events, including the first of the Harry Potter series and also the first of The Lord of the Rings trilogy...

Bangkok Haunted
Bangkok Haunted
Bangkok Haunted is a 2001 Thai horror film compilation, directed by Oxide Pang and Pisut Praesangeam. It is a trio of ghost stories, as told by three people sitting around in a darkened Bangkok bar.-Legend of the Drum:...

 
Oxide Pang Chun, Pisut Praesangeam
Pisut Praesangeam
Pisut Praesangeam is a Thai actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter. His films include Bangkok Haunted and Thai Thief.-As director:*Bangkok Haunted *Thai Thief -As screenwriter:...

 
Horror
Body Jumper
Body Jumper
Body Jumper is a 2001 Thai horror/comedy film directed by Haeman Chatemee and written by Pakphum Wonjinda.-Plot:In 1932 Siam, a ravenous female ghost named Pop is ravaging the village of Sam Kotr, Roi Et, killing all the men...

 
Haeman Chatemee
Haeman Chatemee
Haeman Chatemee is Thai film director. His debut film was the horror-comedy Body Jumper in 2001.- Filmography :*Body Jumper *Love to Death...

 
Horror
Goal Club  Kittikorn Liasirikun Drama
Jan Dara
Jan Dara
Jan Dara is a 2001 Thai erotic-period-drama film directed and co-written by Nonzee Nimibutr and co-starring Hong Kong cinema actress Christy Chung. It is based on a novel by Utsana Phleungtham. The film premiered at the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival...

 
Nonzee Nimibutr
Nonzee Nimibutr
Nonzee Nimibutr is a Thai film director, film producer and screenwriter. Best known for his ghost thriller, Nang Nak, he is generally credited as the leader among a "New Wave" of Thai filmmakers that also includes Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, Wisit Sasanatieng and Apichatpong...

 
Suwinit Panjamawat
Suwinit Panjamawat
Suwinit Panjamawat is a Thai actor. His roles include the teenaged title character in Jan Dara by director Nonzee Nimibutr and as the youthful Dum in Tears of the Black Tiger by Wisit Sasanatieng. He also appears in Nonzee's segment in the Asian cinema horror film collaboration, "The Wheel"....

, Christy Chung
Christy Chung
Christy Chung is Chinese-Canadian actress. She was born in Montreal to a Chinese father and a Vietnamese mother.Chung grew up in Brossard, Quebec, a suburb of Montreal, with French and Vietnamese as mother-tongues...

 
Drama
Khang Lang Pap (Behind the Painting) Cherd Songsri
Cherd Songsri
Cherd Songsri was a Thai film director, screenwriter and film producer. A maker of period films that sought to introduce international audiences to his vision of Thai culture, his best-known work is the 1977 romance film Plae Kao , which earned more box-office receipts than any Thai film before it...

 
Drama
Killer Tattoo
Killer Tattoo
Killer Tattoo is a 2001 Thai action-comedy film written and directed by Yuthlert Sippapak...

 
Yuthlert Sippapak
Yuthlert Sippapak
Yuthlert Sippapak is a Thai film director, screenwriter and producer. He's best known for his genre-blending films Killer Tattoo and Buppah Rahtree .-Biography:...

 
Suthep Po-ngam
Suthep Po-ngam
Suthep Po-ngam , also known by his stage name Thep Po-ngam, is a Thai comedian, actor, film director and screenwriter. He played the leader of a gang of inept hitmen in Killer Tattoo...

 
Action comedy
Mae bia
Mae bia
Mae bia is a 2001 Thai romance-horror film directed by Somching Srisuparp and starring Napakpapha Nakprasitte and Akara Amarttayakul.-Plot:...

Somching Srisuparp Napakpapha Nakprasitte
Napakpapha Nakprasitte
Napakpapha Nakprasitte is a Thai film actress. She is sometimes credited as Napakapa Nakprasit....

, Akara Amarttayakul
Akara Amarttayakul
Akara Amarttayakul is a Thai film and television actor. His films include Jom kha mung wej and Muay Thai Chaiya. His nickname is "Gof" or "Golf".-Biography:...

Horror romance
Monrak Transistor
Monrak Transistor
Monrak Transistor is a 2001 Thai film directed by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang. Blending several genres, including comedy, romance, musical and crime, it is the story of a young man named Pan and his odyssey after he goes AWOL from the army and tries to make it as a luk thung singing star.-Plot:The story...

 
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang is a Thai film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his arthouse work, Last Life in the Universe, and is considered to be one of Thai cinema's leading "new wave" auteurs, alongside Wisit Sasanatieng and Apichatpong Weerasethakul...

 
Supakorn Kitsuwon
Supakorn Kitsuwon
Supakorn Kitsuwon is a Thai film and stage actor. Among his starring roles are as Pan in Monrak Transistor and Khun Krabi in SARS Wars...

 
Comedy drama
Som and Bank: Bangkok for Sale  Oxide Pang
The Pang Brothers
The Pang Brothers are Danny Pang Fat and Oxide Pang Chun , twin-brother screenwriters and film directors, born in 1965 in Hong Kong. Among their films is the hit Asian horror film, The Eye, which has spawned two sequels, as well as a Hollywood remake and a Hindi remake...

 
Drama
Suriyothai
The Legend of Suriyothai
The Legend of Suriyothai is a 2001 Thai film directed by Chatrichalerm Yukol, telling the story of Queen Suriyothai, who died in a battle in 1548 against Burmese invaders...

 
Chatrichalerm Yukol
Chatrichalerm Yukol
His Serene Highness Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol is a Thai film director, screenwriter and film producer. A prolific director since the 1970s, among his films is the 2001 historical epic, The Legend of Suriyothai. A member of the Thai royal family, his official royal title is Mom Chao, or M.C., the...

 
Historical drama Re-edited for US release by Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors...


2002

Title Director Actors Genre Notes
2002
2002 in film
The year 2002 in film involved some significant events. The first significant releases of sequels took place between The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Men in Black II, Analyze That, Spy Kids 2: The Island of...

1+1=0 (Nothing to Lose
Nothing to Lose (2002 film)
Nothing to Lose is a 2002 Thai crime-comedy-drama film written and directed by Danny Pang of the Pang Brothers. It is Danny Pang's solo directorial debut, and is part of the loose "Bangkok Trilogy" by the Pangs that also includes Bangkok Dangerous and One Take Only .-Plot:Somchai , a debt-ridden...

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Danny Pang Arisara Wongchalee, Pierre Png Crime Solo directorial debut by Danny Pang.
999-9999
999-9999
999-9999 is a 2002 Thai horror film directed by Peter Manus and starring Sririta Jensen and Julachak Jakrapong. The story, about the deadly consequences of receiving a telephone call from the number 999-9999, is similar in premise to Final Destination or 976-EVIL.-Plot:A young woman who was given...

 
Peter Manus  Sririta Jensen
Sririta Jensen
Sririta "Rita" Jensen, , born 27 October 1981 in Thailand, is a Danish-Thai model and actress.-Biography:Sririta Jensen's career began with guest roles on Thai television series. She became more well known in Thailand as a model in various national advertising campaigns and was featured on numerous...

, Julachak Jakrapong, Paula Taylor
Paula Taylor
-Personal life:Paula was born in Chulalankorn hospital, Bangkok Thailand. Two weeks after she was born, the family returned to Australia. Her father is of English descent and her mother is of Thai descent...

 
Horror
Blissfully Yours
Blissfully Yours
Blissfully Yours is a 2002 Thai romance film directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. It won the Un Certain Regard prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...

 (Sud sanaeha)
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Apichatpong "Joe" Weerasethakul is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, and film producer. His feature films include Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, winner of the prestigious 2010 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or prize; Tropical Malady, which won a jury prize at the 2004...

 
Romance drama Won the Un Certain Regard
Un Certain Regard
Un Certain Regard is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's Official Selection. It is run at the Salle Debussy, parallel to the competition for the Palme d'Or.This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob...

 Prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival
2002 Cannes Film Festival
The 2002 Cannes Film Festival started on 15 May and ran until 26 May. The Palme d'Or went to the Polish-French-German-British co-produced film The Pianist directed by Roman Polanski.-Jury:* David Lynch * Sharon Stone* Michelle Yeoh...

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Butterfly Man
Butterfly Man
Butterfly Man is a 2002 Thai-British adventure-romantic drama film directed and written by Kaprice Kea. The film stars Stuart Laing and Napakpapha Nakprasitte.-Plot:...

 
Kaprice Kea  Napakpapha Nakprasitte
Napakpapha Nakprasitte
Napakpapha Nakprasitte is a Thai film actress. She is sometimes credited as Napakapa Nakprasit....

, Stuart Laing
Stuart Laing
Stuart Laing is an English actor. He is probably best known for his role of Rob Minter in the popular BBC soap opera EastEnders.Laing trained at Drama Centre, London, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London....

 
Drama English language.
Goodman Town  Sakchai Sribonnam  Action
Chalerm Wongpim  Ponpat Wachirabunjong, Erich Fleshman  Action-comedy
I-San Special
I-San Special
I-San Special is a 2002 Thai experimental independent drama film directed by Mingmongkol Sonakul and based on an idea by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Set aboard a ramshackle inter-city bus traveling from Bangkok to Isan, the audio of a Thai radio soap opera is acted out by the passengers. However,...

 
Mingmongkol Sonakul
Mingmongkol Sonakul
Mom Luang Mingmongkol Sonakul is a Thai film producer and independent film director. As the head of her own production company, Dedicate Ltd., she has produced films by Apichatpong Weerasethakul ; Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, including Invisible Waves; Pimpaka Towira's One Night Husband and The Tin Mine by...

 
Drama Won FIPRESCI
FIPRESCI
The International Federation of Film Critics is an association of national organizations of professional film critics and film journalists from around the world for "the promotion and development of film culture and for the safeguarding of professional interests." It was founded in June 1930 in...

 prize at Singapore International Film Festival
Singapore International Film Festival
The Singapore International Film Festival was launched in 1987. The festival is an annual film event, held around April/May each year, and screens about 300 films from over 45 countries...

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Khon hen phi (The Eye
The Eye
The Eye, was the debut album of the Icelandic post-punk group KUKL. This album was released in September 1984, through Crass Records and was recorded at Southern Studios in January 1984. The album peaked at number 6 in the UK Independent albums chart...

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The Pang Brothers
The Pang Brothers
The Pang Brothers are Danny Pang Fat and Oxide Pang Chun , twin-brother screenwriters and film directors, born in 1965 in Hong Kong. Among their films is the hit Asian horror film, The Eye, which has spawned two sequels, as well as a Hollywood remake and a Hindi remake...

 
Angelica Lee
Angelica Lee
Angelica Lee Sin-Jie is a Malaysian Chinese film actress and pop singer. She started her career in singing and later moved on to acting in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Lee starred in The Eye, the hit Asian horror film by the Pang Brothers, winning her the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress, Best Actress...

 
Horror Hong Kong-Singapore-Thailand co-production
Kwan Riam  Romance
Mekhong Full Moon Party
Mekhong Full Moon Party
Mekhong Full Moon Party is a 2002 Thai comedy-drama about the Naga fireballs that arise from the Mekong at Nong Khai on the full moon in October...

 (Sibha kham doan sib ed)
Jira Maligool
Jira Maligool
Jira Maligool is a Thai film director, screenwriter and producer. He's directed two films, Mekhong Full Moon Party and The Tin Mine, and was the screenwriter behind the international hit, The Iron Ladies....

 
Anuchit Sapanpong Comedy drama
Saving Private Tootsie
Saving Private Tootsie
Saving Private Tootsie is a Thai film. The film is directed by Kittikorn Liawsirikul.In the film several katoeys survive a plane crash in the jungle of an neighbouring country and several soldiers come to rescue them.The film was sold for remake rights in the United States.-External links:* ...

 (Prom Chompoo)
Kittikorn Kiasirikun Comedy drama
Three  Nonzee Nimibutr
Nonzee Nimibutr
Nonzee Nimibutr is a Thai film director, film producer and screenwriter. Best known for his ghost thriller, Nang Nak, he is generally credited as the leader among a "New Wave" of Thai filmmakers that also includes Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, Wisit Sasanatieng and Apichatpong...

 
Horror Thai-Korean-Hong Kong anthology film.

2003

Title Director Actors Genre Notes
2003
2003 in film
The year 2003 in film involved some significant events. Releases of sequels took place with movies like The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, Pokémon Heroes, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,...

The Adventure of Iron Pussy
The Adventure of Iron Pussy
The Adventure of Iron Pussy is a 2003 Thai musical-action-comedy film written and directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Michael Shaowanasai and starring Shaowanasai as the main protagonist – a transvestite Thai secret agent whose alter ego is a gay male 7-Eleven clerk...

 (Hua Jai Tor Ra Nong)
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Apichatpong "Joe" Weerasethakul is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, and film producer. His feature films include Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, winner of the prestigious 2010 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or prize; Tropical Malady, which won a jury prize at the 2004...

, Michael Shaowanasai
Michael Shaowanasai
Michael Shaowanasai, , is a Thai-American artist and actor who lives in Bangkok. His works includes performance art, photography, video, film and installations....

 
Michael Shaowanasai
Michael Shaowanasai
Michael Shaowanasai, , is a Thai-American artist and actor who lives in Bangkok. His works includes performance art, photography, video, film and installations....

, Krissada Terrence
Krissada Terrence
Krissada Terrence. is a Thai-American pop singer and actor. He is member of the Thai pop band Pru...

 
Musical Action Comedy Only in Limited Theaters.
Angulimala
Angulimala (film)
Angulimala is a 2003 Thai fantasy-adventure-drama film based on the Buddhist-scripture story of Angulimala as interpreted by the director and actors of the film. The film is directed by Sutape Tunnirut and stars Peter Noppachai Jayanama as Angulimala, Stella Malucchi as Nantha, John Rattanaveroj...

 
Suthep Tanniratana Nopachai Jayanama Fantasy drama
Buppah Rahtree
Buppah Rahtree
Buppah Rahtree is a 2003 Thai comedy-horror film written and directed by Yuthlert Sippapak. With its comic references to The Exorcist and Audition, Buppah Rahtree gained a cult following through screenings at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival and the Fantasia Festival...

 (Rahtree: Flower of the Night)
Yuthlert Sippapak
Yuthlert Sippapak
Yuthlert Sippapak is a Thai film director, screenwriter and producer. He's best known for his genre-blending films Killer Tattoo and Buppah Rahtree .-Biography:...

 
Horror comedy drama
Butterfly in Grey
Butterfly in Grey
Butterfly in Grey is a 2002 Thai drama film.-Cast:*Srungsuda Lawanprasert as Dao-sawai*Kanokwan Losiri as Arunwan*Pitchanart Sakakorn as Iad*Patharawarin Timkul as Malee-External links:*...

 (Khang Paed)
Sananjit Bangsapan  Drama
Cheerleader Queens
Cheerleader Queens
Cheerleader Queens is a 2003 Thai film directed by Poj Arnon.- Plot :Four kathoey—Mod, Som, Kam-pang and Wa-wa—move from a rural town to attend St. Mary's High School in Bangkok. Once there they try to join the school's cheerleading team, only to be rejected because of their sexuality...

 
Poj Arnon
Poj Arnon
-Career:Poj began his career in the 1980s as an advertising sales manager for Ter-Kab-Chan Magazine, eventually becoming the magazine's chief editor. His work on the magazine enabled him to scout out and groom many of the Thai teen movie stars of the era....

 
Fake (film)
Fake (film)
Fake is a 2003 Thai romance-drama film, directed by Thanakorn Pongsuwan. It starred Leo Putt , Ray MacDonald, Tah Barby and Patcharapha Chaichua...

 
Thanakorn Pongsuwan Romance
Fan Chan
Fan Chan
Fan Chan is a 2003 Thai romantic film offering a nostalgic look back at the childhood friendship of a boy and girl growing up in a small town in Thailand in the 1980s. It was the debut film by six young screenwriter-directors, Vitcha Gojiew, Songyos Sugmakanan, Nithiwat Tharathorn, Witthaya...

 (My Girl)
Vitcha Gojiew, Songyos Sugmakanan
Songyos Sugmakanan
- Filmography :* My Elephant - short film* Fan Chan - co-directed* Dorm * Hormones...

, Nithiwat Tharathorn
Nithiwat Tharathorn
Nithiwat Tharathorn is a Thai film director. He made his directorial debut alongside five other directors on the 2003 childhood romantic comedy Fan Chan and his solo debut with the romantic comedy Seasons Change in 2006.-External links:...

, Witthaya Thongyooyong, Adisorn Trisirikasem, Komgrit Triwimol 
Charlie Trairat
Charlie Trairat
Charlie Trairat or 'NAK' is a Thai film actor. He is the youngest son of 6 siblings. He started his movie career since he was not even 1 y/o in the movie Once Upon A Time directed by Thai classic director 'Bhandit Rittakol.' He became well known after his co-starring role in Fan Chan , the Thai...

, Focus Jirakul 
Comedy drama
February
February (2003 film)
February is a 2003 Thai romance-drama film, written and directed by Yuthlert Sippapak. The involves a young Thai woman with a terminal illness who goes to New York City to live her final months, is hit by a car and then develops amnesia, forgetting that she's in need of medical care....

 
Yuthlert Sippapak
Yuthlert Sippapak
Yuthlert Sippapak is a Thai film director, screenwriter and producer. He's best known for his genre-blending films Killer Tattoo and Buppah Rahtree .-Biography:...

 
Drama
Last Life in the Universe
Last Life in the Universe
Last Life in the Universe is a 2003 Thai film directed by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang. The film is notable for being trilingual; the two main characters flit from Thai to Japanese to English as their vocabulary requires...

 (Ruang rak noi nid mahasan)
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang is a Thai film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his arthouse work, Last Life in the Universe, and is considered to be one of Thai cinema's leading "new wave" auteurs, alongside Wisit Sasanatieng and Apichatpong Weerasethakul...

 
Tadanobu Asano
Tadanobu Asano
, born is a Japanese actor. He is known for his roles as Dragon Eye Morrison in Electric Dragon 80.000 V, Kakihara in Ichi the Killer, Mamoru Arita in Bright Future, Hattori Genosuke in Zatoichi, Kenji in Last Life in the Universe, Aman in Survive Style 5+, Ayano in The Taste of Tea, and Temudjin...

 
Comedy drama
Last Love Chatrichalerm Yukol
Chatrichalerm Yukol
His Serene Highness Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol is a Thai film director, screenwriter and film producer. A prolific director since the 1970s, among his films is the 2001 historical epic, The Legend of Suriyothai. A member of the Thai royal family, his official royal title is Mom Chao, or M.C., the...

 
Romance Remake of 1975 film, also by Chatrichalerm.
OK Baytong
OK Baytong
OK Baytong is a 2003 Thai drama film about Buddhist-Muslim relations in southern Thailand. It is written and directed by Nonzee Nimibutr.-Plot:Tum is a young man who has been a monk living in a Buddhist temple in Thailand since he was 5 years old...

 
Nonzee Nimibutr
Nonzee Nimibutr
Nonzee Nimibutr is a Thai film director, film producer and screenwriter. Best known for his ghost thriller, Nang Nak, he is generally credited as the leader among a "New Wave" of Thai filmmakers that also includes Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, Wisit Sasanatieng and Apichatpong...

 
Comedy drama
Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior
Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior
Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior , also known in the United States as Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior is a 2003 Thai action film. It was directed by Prachya Pinkaew, featured stunt choreography by Panna Rittikrai and starred Tony Jaa. Ong-Bak proved to be Jaa's breakout film, with the actor hailed...

 
Prachya Pinkaew
Prachya Pinkaew
Prachya Pinkaew is a Thai film director, film producer and screenwriter. His films include Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior and Tom-Yum-Goong, both martial arts films starring Tony Jaa.-Biography:...

 
Tony Jaa
Tony Jaa
Tatchakorn Yeerum , formerly Panom Yeerum , better known in the West as Tony Jaa, in Thailand as Jaa Panom, is a Thai martial artist, actor, choreographer, stuntman, director, and monk...

 
Martial arts
One Night Husband
One Night Husband
One Night Husband is a 2003 Thai thriller film directed by Pimpaka Towira and co-written by Pimpaka and Prabda Yoon. It was the debut feature film for Pimpaka, an independent film director and one of the few female directors working in the Thai film industry...

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Pimpaka Towira
Pimpaka Towira
Pimpaka Towira is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter and film producer. Her films include One Night Husband and The Truth Be Told: The Cases Against Supinya Klangnarong.-Career:...

 
Nicole Theriault
Nicole Theriault
Nicole Theriault , known as Nikki, is a Thai singer who became popular with her hit albums Ka-Po-Lo Club and Funny Lady.- Biography :Born in California, Nicole Theriault is the daughter of an American father and a Thai mother. Her father is a radio announcer, her mother a business woman...

, Siriyakorn Pukkavesh
Siriyakorn Pukkavesh
Siriyakorn Pukkavesa is a Thai actress, model, presenter, designer and magazine publisher. She is best known by her nickname, Oom ....

 
Drama
Sayew
Sayew
Sayew is a 2003 Thai comedy film about a naive female college student who works as a writer of erotic stories for a pornographic magazine.-Plot:...

Kongdej Jaturanrasamee
Kongdej Jaturanrasamee
Kongdej Jaturanrasamee is a Thai screenwriter and film director. His screenplays include The Letter, Tom-Yum-Goong, Noo Hin: The Movie and Me ... Myself. His own films include Sayew and Midnight My Love.-Education, early career:...

, Kiat Songsanant 
Pimpaporn Leenutapong Comedy drama
The Iron Ladies 2 (Satree lek 2) Youngyooth Thongkonthun  Comedy
Sung horn
Sung horn
Sanghorn is a 2003 Thai suspense film. It was written by the Pang Brothers and starred Kawee Tanjararak , Panrawat Kittikorncharoen and Worrawech Danuwong - all members of a popular Thai boyband at the time, D2B.-Plot:Strange things start happening when separate twists of fate bring each of...

 (Omen)
Thammarak Kamuttmanoch  Drama
Tawipop (The Siam Renaissance) Surapong Pinijkhar  Romance
Tropical Malady
Tropical Malady
Tropical Malady is a 2004 Thai romantic psychological drama film directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. It is a film in two segments – the first part a romance story about two homosexual men, and the second a mysterious tale about a soldier lost in the woods, bedeviled by the spirit of a shaman...

 (Sud Pralad)
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Apichatpong "Joe" Weerasethakul is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, and film producer. His feature films include Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, winner of the prestigious 2010 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or prize; Tropical Malady, which won a jury prize at the 2004...

 
Sakda Kaewbuadee, Banlop Lomnoi Romance drama Won the Jury Prize at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival
2004 Cannes Film Festival
The 2004 Cannes Film Festival started on May 12 and ran until May 23. The Palme d'Or went to the American film Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore.-Jury:* Quentin Tarantino, President * Emmanuelle Béart * Edwidge Danticat * Tilda Swinton...

, the first Thai film to be in the main competition at Cannes.

2004

Title Director Actors Genre Notes
2004
2004 in film
The year 2004 in film involved some significant events. Major releases of sequels took place. It included blockbuster films like Shrek 2, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, The Passion of the Christ, Meet the Fockers, Blade: Trinity, Spider-Man 2, Alien vs. Predator, Kill Bill Vol...

Ai-Fak
Ai-Fak
Ai-Fak is a 2004 Thai drama film. It is based on the S.E.A. Write Award-winning novel by Chart Korbjitti, Khamphiphaksa .-Plot:...

 (The Judgement)
Pantham Thongsangl Pitisak Yaowananon Drama Based on novel by Chart Korbjitti
Chart Korbjitti
Chart Korbjitti is a Thai writer.He first came to prominence with the publication of his novel Khamphiphaksa in 1981. Named as Book of the Year by Thailand's Literature Council, the book won him the S.E.A. Write Award. He received a second S.E.A. Write Award in 1994 for Wela...

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Art of the Devil
Art of the Devil
Art of the Devil is a 2004 Thai horror film directed by Tanit Jitnukul. It has two titular sequels, Art of the Devil 2 and Art of the Devil 3 , but these films feature a different story with new characters.-Plot:...

 (Khon Len Khong)
Tanit Jitnukul
Tanit Jitnukul
Tanit Jitnukul is a Thai film director, screenwriter and producer. Among his films is the 2000 historical battle epic, Bang Rajan. His nickname is "Pued".-Biography:...

 
Arisa Wills, Supakson Chaimongkol, Krongthong Rachatawan, Tin Settachoke, Somchai Satuthum, Isara Ochakul, Nirut Sutchart, Krittayod Thimnate Horror
(Bangkok Loco
Bangkok Loco
Bangkok Loco is a 2004 Thai comedy-musical-fantasy film directed by Pornchai Hongrattanaporn, written by Sompope Vejchapipat and starring Krissada Terrence. The story involves a gifted young rock drummer named Bay who commits a grisly murder and becomes a fugitive from the law...

) Tawan Young Wan Yoo
Krissada Terrence
Krissada Terrence
Krissada Terrence. is a Thai-American pop singer and actor. He is member of the Thai pop band Pru...

 
Krissada Terrence
Krissada Terrence
Krissada Terrence. is a Thai-American pop singer and actor. He is member of the Thai pop band Pru...

 
Musical comedy
Beautiful Boxer
Beautiful Boxer
Beautiful Boxer is a Thai biographical sports film by Singapore-based director Ekachai Uekrongtham. It tells the life story of Nong Thoom, a famous kathoey , Muay Thai fighter, actress and model...

 
Ekachai Uekrongtham
Ekachai Uekrongtham
Ekachai Uekrongtham is a Thai theatre and film director. Based in Singapore, Ekachai is the founding artistic director of ACTION Theatre, a Singapore professional theatre company....

 
Asanee Suwan Drama Biography of transsexual boxer Nong Thoom
Nong Thoom
Parinya Kiatbusaba or Parinya Jaroenphon , more popularly known as Nong Thoom, Nong Toom or Nong Tum , is arguably the best-known kathoey in Thailand. She is a former Muay Thai champion and has also worked as a model and actress.- Early Life :As a child, she was already aware of her female...

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The Bodyguard
The Bodyguard (2004 film)
The Bodyguard is a 2004 wire fu action-comedy written and directed by Thai comedian and actor Petchtai Wongkamlao and featuring martial-arts choreography by Panna Ritikrai...

 
Petchtai Wongkamlao
Petchtai Wongkamlao
Petchtai Wongkamlao, , is a Thai comedian, actor and film director. He is best known in Thailand by his stage name, Mum Jokmok ; and is a popular Thai television personality...

 
Petchtai Wongkamlao
Petchtai Wongkamlao
Petchtai Wongkamlao, , is a Thai comedian, actor and film director. He is best known in Thailand by his stage name, Mum Jokmok ; and is a popular Thai television personality...

 
Action comedy
Citizen Dog
Mah Nakorn
Citizen Dog is a 2004 Thai romance film, directed by Wisit Sasanatieng and based on a story by Wisit's wife, Koynuch , which was illustrated by him...

 
Wisit Sasanatieng
Wisit Sasanatieng
Wisit Sasanatieng is a Thai film director and screenwriter of Chinese descent...

 
Comedy drama
The Eye 2
The Eye 2
The Eye 2 is a 2004 Hong Kong horror film directed by the Pang brothers. It is the sequel to The Eye , though the two storylines are not related in any way except for seeing ghosts.-Plot:...

 
The Pang Brothers
The Pang Brothers
The Pang Brothers are Danny Pang Fat and Oxide Pang Chun , twin-brother screenwriters and film directors, born in 1965 in Hong Kong. Among their films is the hit Asian horror film, The Eye, which has spawned two sequels, as well as a Hollywood remake and a Hindi remake...

 
Horror
Kerd ma lui
Kerd ma lui
Born to Fight is a 2004 Thai action film directed by Panna Rittikrai. It followed Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior, on which Panna served as martial arts choreographer, and featured more of his "no strings attached" stuntwork. Many of the actors in Born to Fight were Thai national athletes...

 (Born to Fight)
Panna Rittikrai
Panna Rittikrai
Panna Rittikrai is a Thai martial arts action choreographer, film director, screenwriter and actor...

 
Dan Chupong
Dan Chupong
Chupong Changprung is a Thai martial arts film actor. He is also known by his Westernized name, Dan Chupong...

 
Martial arts
Hom rong (The Overture
The Overture
The Overture is a 2004 Thai musical-drama film. A fictionalised account based on the life story of Thai palace musician Luang Pradit Phairoh , it follows the life of a Thai classical musician from the late 19th century to the 1940s...

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Ittisoontorn Vichailak Anuchit Sapanpong Musical drama Official selection for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
The Letter (Jod mai rak) Pa-oon Chantornsiri Anne Thongprasom  Romance drama Remake of 1997 South Korean film, Pyeon ji.
The Sisters (Pee Chong Air) Tiwa Moeithaisong 
Pisaj
Pisaj
Pisaj is a 2004 Thai horror film directed by Mae-deaw Chukiatsakwirakul.-Plot:After her parents are killed in a drive-by shooting, a young woman named Oui has no place else to go...

 (Evil)
Chukiat Sakweerakul  Pumwaree Yodkamol Horror
Sai Lor Fah
Sai Lor Fah
Sai Lor Fah is a 2004 Thai crime-comedy written and directed by Yuthlert Sippapak. Filmed on location in Pattaya, it is the story of friends who become mixed up in an escalating series of crimes.-Plot:...

 (Pattaya Maniac)
Yuthlert Sippapak
Yuthlert Sippapak
Yuthlert Sippapak is a Thai film director, screenwriter and producer. He's best known for his genre-blending films Killer Tattoo and Buppah Rahtree .-Biography:...

 
Choosak Eamsuk  Comedy drama
Sars Wars
SARS Wars
SARS Wars is a 2004 Thai horror-comedy directed and co-written by Taweewat Wantha....

 (Khun krabii hiiroh)
Taweewat Wantha Supakorn Kitsuwon
Supakorn Kitsuwon
Supakorn Kitsuwon is a Thai film and stage actor. Among his starring roles are as Pan in Monrak Transistor and Khun Krabi in SARS Wars...

, Suthep Po-ngam
Suthep Po-ngam
Suthep Po-ngam , also known by his stage name Thep Po-ngam, is a Thai comedian, actor, film director and screenwriter. He played the leader of a gang of inept hitmen in Killer Tattoo...

 
Science fiction comedy
Shutter  Banjong Pisonthanakun, Parkpoom Wongpoom Ananda Everingham
Ananda Everingham
Ananda Everingham is a Laotian-Australian film actor who was born in Thailand. Working primarily in Thai films, he is best known for his lead role in the 2004 horror film, Shutter.-Biography:...

 
Horror
The Sin
The Sin (2004 film)
The Sin is 2004 Thai erotic film aka Jara Dara 2 directed by Ong-Art Singlumpong....

 (Choo)
Ong-Art Singlumpong
Ong-Art Singlumpong
-Filmography:*Dreamers *Friendship Breakdown *The Sin -External links:*...

 
Sorapong Chatree
Sorapong Chatree
Sorapong Chatree is a Thai film actor. He has frequently starred in the films of Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol, as well as in Cherd Songsri's classic romance, Plae Kao....

, Helen Nima, Nirut Saosudchart, Andy Tangkaprasert 
Thriller
Zee-Oui  Buranee Rachjaibun, Nida Suthat Na Ayutthaya  Thriller

2005

Title Director Actors Genre Notes
2005
2005 in film
- Highest-grossing films :Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2005...

Andaman Girl  Tanit Jitnukul
Tanit Jitnukul
Tanit Jitnukul is a Thai film director, screenwriter and producer. Among his films is the 2000 historical battle epic, Bang Rajan. His nickname is "Pued".-Biography:...

 
Comedy
Art of the Devil 2
Art of the Devil 2
Art of the Devil 2 is a 2005 Thai horror film directed by Kongkiat Khomsiri, Art Thamthrakul, Yosapong Polsap, Putipong Saisikaew, Isara Nadee, Pasith Buranajan and Seree Pongniti...

 (Long khong)
Pasith Buranajan, Kongkiat Khomsiri
Kongkiat Khomsiri
-Film career:He graduated from the Faculty of Mass Communications at Bangkok University and started his career as a crew member on Mysterious Object at Noon, the first feature film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul...

, Isara Nadee, Seree Phongnithi, Yosapong Polsap, Putipong Saisikaew, Art Thamthrakul 
Napakpapha Nakprasitte
Napakpapha Nakprasitte
Napakpapha Nakprasitte is a Thai film actress. She is sometimes credited as Napakapa Nakprasit....

 
Horror-thriller
Ahingsa-Jikko mee gam
Ahingsa-Jikko mee gam
Ahingsa-Jikko mee gam is a 2005 Thai karmic-crime-comedy-drama written and directed by Kittikorn Kiasirikun .-Plot:Ahingsa is a young man who's haunted by his karma, which takes the form of a mysterious red-haired man who dishes out abuse when Ahingsa runs afoul of morality...

 (Ahimsa ... Stop to Run)
Kittikorn Kiasirikun Boriwat Yuto Comedy drama Official selection for Academy Awards for 2006.
Beautiful, Wonderful, Perfect (Err Rer) Poj Arnon
Poj Arnon
-Career:Poj began his career in the 1980s as an advertising sales manager for Ter-Kab-Chan Magazine, eventually becoming the magazine's chief editor. His work on the magazine enabled him to scout out and groom many of the Thai teen movie stars of the era....

 
Choosak Eamsuk  Comedy drama
Buppah Rahtree Phase 2: Rahtree Returns
Buppah Rahtree Phase 2: Rahtree Returns
Buppah Rahtree Phase 2: Rahtree Returns is a 2005 Thai comedy-horror film written and directed by Yuthlert Sippapak. It is a sequel to the 2003 film, Buppah Rahtree.-Plot:...

 
Yuthlert Sippapak
Yuthlert Sippapak
Yuthlert Sippapak is a Thai film director, screenwriter and producer. He's best known for his genre-blending films Killer Tattoo and Buppah Rahtree .-Biography:...

 
Comedy horror
Crying Tigers (Suea Rong Hai) Santi Taepanich  Documentary
Dear Dakanda (Phuen Sanit) Komgrit Triwimol  Romantic comedy
Dek Daen 
Ghost of Mae Nak
Ghost of Mae Nak
Ghost of Mae Nak is a 2005 Thai horror film thriller about a protecting ghost directed and written by British director Mark Duffield. The film stars Pataratida Pacharawirapong, Siwat Chotchaicharin and Porntip Papanai as the ghost.-Synopsis:...

 
Mark Duffield  Horror
Ghost Variety (Variety phee chalui) Adirek Wattaleela Petchtai Wongkamlao
Petchtai Wongkamlao
Petchtai Wongkamlao, , is a Thai comedian, actor and film director. He is best known in Thailand by his stage name, Mum Jokmok ; and is a popular Thai television personality...

 
Comedy horror
Innocence
Innocence (2005 film)
Innocence , is a 2005 Thai independent documentary film directed by Areeya Chumsai and Nisa Kongsri about a boarding school for hill tribe children in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand....

 
Areeya Chumsai
Areeya Chumsai
-Early life and education:Areeya Chumsai was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the United States, the daughter of Thai immigrants. She spent her childhood and adolescent years in the state of Michigan and received a degree in journalism from Michigan State University in 1993.Her original surname was...

, Nisa Kongsri
Documentary Acclaimed independent film about hill tribe schoolchildren in northern Thailand.
The Holy Man
The Holy Man
The Holy Man is a 2005 Thai comedy film. One of the top films at the Thai box office that year, it starred popular Thai television comedian, Pongsak Pongsuwan as a Buddhist monk.-Synopsis:...

 (Luang phii theng)
Note Chern-Yim 
The King Maker
The King Maker
The King Maker The King Maker The King Maker (Thai: กบฎท้าวศรีสุดาจันทร์ , or The Rebellion of Queen Sudachan, is a 2005 Thai historical drama film set during the Ayutthaya kingdom. With a storyline that shares many similarities to 2001's The Legend of Suriyothai, The King Maker's plot focuses on a...

 
Lek Kitaparaporn  Gary Stretch
Gary Stretch
Gary Stretch is a British boxer, male model, and an actor.-Early life:Gary Stretch was brought up in the Haresfinch area of St. Helens, the son of a plumber...

 
Historical drama English language.
Midnight My Love
Midnight My Love
Midnight My Love is a 2005 Thai romantic-drama written and directed by Kongdej Jaturanrasamee and starring Petchtai Wongkamlao and Woranut Wongsawan....

(Cherm)
Kongdej Jaturanrasamee
Kongdej Jaturanrasamee
Kongdej Jaturanrasamee is a Thai screenwriter and film director. His screenplays include The Letter, Tom-Yum-Goong, Noo Hin: The Movie and Me ... Myself. His own films include Sayew and Midnight My Love.-Education, early career:...

 
Petchtai Wongkamlao
Petchtai Wongkamlao
Petchtai Wongkamlao, , is a Thai comedian, actor and film director. He is best known in Thailand by his stage name, Mum Jokmok ; and is a popular Thai television personality...

 Pongsak Pongsuwan
Comedy
Necromancer (Jom kha mung wej) Piyapan Choopetch
Piyapan Choopetch
Piyapan Choopetch is a Thai film director and screenwriter. His films include Necromancer and Vow of Death.- Director :# Necromancer # Vow of Death # My Ex...

 
Chatchai Plengpanich
Chatchai Plengpanich
Chatchai Plengpanich is a Thai film and television actor. He has appeared in many lakorns and feature films.-Biography:Chatchai was born in Kanchanaburi Province. Having a police officer as a father meant that the family relocated around Thailand constantly throughout his childhood...

 
Fantasy
The Remaker (Kon raruek chat) Mona Nahm Drama Remake of Oxide Pang's Who Is Running?
Scared (Rab Nong Sayong Kwan) Pakphum Wonjinda
Pakphum Wonjinda
Pakphum Wonjinda, , is a Thai film director and screenwriter. His first screenplay was for the horror-comedy, Body Jumper, which was based on a Thai ghost folktale. He made his directorial debut in 2004 with the musical-horror-comedy, Formalin Man...

 
Horror
The Tiger Blade
The Tiger Blade
-Plot:A gang of criminals with supernatural powers, led by Mahesak, break a rebel Karen warlord Kaoyot out of prison, and plan to steal the national treasury of Thailand in order to fund Kaoyot's continuing fight. A secret police unit, led by Yosthana engages the criminals in various battles. Among...

 (Seua Khaap Daap)
Theeratorn Siriphunvaraporn  Action
The Tin Mine
The Tin Mine
The Tin Mine is a 2005 Thai biographical drama film directed by Jira Maligool. It is adapted from short stories by Ajin Panjapan and his semi-autobiographical account of growing up in a mining camp in southern Thailand during the post-World War II years...

 
Jira Maligool
Jira Maligool
Jira Maligool is a Thai film director, screenwriter and producer. He's directed two films, Mekhong Full Moon Party and The Tin Mine, and was the screenwriter behind the international hit, The Iron Ladies....

 
Historical drama Official submission for Academy Award.
Tom-Yum-Goong
Tom-Yum-Goong
Tom-Yum-Goong Tom-Yum-Goong Tom-Yum-Goong (Thai: ต้มยำกุ้ง, is a 2005 Thai Martial arts Action film starring Tony Jaa. The film was directed by Prachya Pinkaew, who also directed Jaa's prior breakout film Ong-Bak. As with Ong-Bak, the fights were choreographed by Jaa and his mentor, Panna Rittikrai...

 
Prachya Pinkaew
Prachya Pinkaew
Prachya Pinkaew is a Thai film director, film producer and screenwriter. His films include Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior and Tom-Yum-Goong, both martial arts films starring Tony Jaa.-Biography:...

 
Tony Jaa
Tony Jaa
Tatchakorn Yeerum , formerly Panom Yeerum , better known in the West as Tony Jaa, in Thailand as Jaa Panom, is a Thai martial artist, actor, choreographer, stuntman, director, and monk...

 
Martial arts Release in US as The Protector.
Wai Onlawon 4: Tum & Oh Return (Oops ... There's Dad) Rutaiwan Wongsirasawad  Sequel to hit 1976 teen romantic comedy.
Werewolf in Bangkok  Viroj Thongsiew  Choosak Eamsuk  Comedy horror
Yam Yasothon
Yam Yasothon
Yam Yasothon is a 2005 Thai musical romantic comedy film, written, directed by and starring Petchtai Wongkamlao.-Plot:...

 (Hello Yasothon)
Petchtai Wongkamlao
Petchtai Wongkamlao
Petchtai Wongkamlao, , is a Thai comedian, actor and film director. He is best known in Thailand by his stage name, Mum Jokmok ; and is a popular Thai television personality...

 
Petchtai Wongkamlao
Petchtai Wongkamlao
Petchtai Wongkamlao, , is a Thai comedian, actor and film director. He is best known in Thailand by his stage name, Mum Jokmok ; and is a popular Thai television personality...

 
Musical comedy

2006

Title Director Actors Genre Notes
2006
2006 in film
- Highest-grossing films :Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2006...

13 Beloved
13 Beloved
13 Beloved is a 2006 Thai horror comedy/psychological thriller film written and directed by Chukiat Sakveerakul and starring Krissada Sukosol Clapp...

 
Chukiat Sakveerakul Krissada Terrance  Thriller
Chai Lai
Chai Lai
Chai Lai is a 2006 Thai action film about five female top-secret crimefighters, each with the codename of a flower, Lotus, Hibiscus, Rose, Spadix and Crown of Thorns...

 (Dangerous Flowers)
Poj Arnon
Poj Arnon
-Career:Poj began his career in the 1980s as an advertising sales manager for Ter-Kab-Chan Magazine, eventually becoming the magazine's chief editor. His work on the magazine enabled him to scout out and groom many of the Thai teen movie stars of the era....

 
Bongkoj Khongmalai
Bongkoj Khongmalai
Bongkoj Khongmalai , nickname "Tak" , is a Thai film actress. Films she has appeared in include Tom-Yum-Goong. She portrayed a young Thai woman forced into prostitution in Australia who comes to the aid of the film's hero, Tony Jaa. Alternate spellings of her name include Bongkot Kongmalai and...

 
Action comedy
Colic: The Movie
Colic: The Movie
Colic: The Movie is a 2006 Thai horror film directed by Patchanon Thammajira.-Plot:Prae and Pong are young couple enjoying their lives and careers. Prae works as a graphic artist, while her boyfriend, Pong, directs television commercials. One day, Prae collapses at work, and it turns out she is...

 
Patchanon Thammajira Horror
Delivery Sexy Love (Phaanjit Bit Raboet Rak) Simon Chotianund  Romantic comedy
Dek hor
Dek hor
Dek hor is a 2006 Thai horror-drama film.-Plot:In Thailand, young Ton Chatree is sent to a boarding school by his father to get good grades and not tell his mother about his father having an affair. Once in the school, Ton feels like an outcast and misses his family and friends...

 (Dorm)
Songyos Sugmakanan
Songyos Sugmakanan
- Filmography :* My Elephant - short film* Fan Chan - co-directed* Dorm * Hormones...

 
Charlie Trairat Horror thriller
Dynamite Warrior
Dynamite Warrior
Dynamite Warrior is a 2006 Thai martial arts film directed by Chalerm Wongpim and starring Dan Chupong .-Plot:The story is set in 1890s Siam. Siang is a young Muay Thai warrior and rocketry expert who steals back water buffalo taken from poor Isan farmers by unscrupulous cattle raiders...

 (Kon fai bin or Tabunfire)
Chalerm Wongpim  Dan Chupong
Dan Chupong
Chupong Changprung is a Thai martial arts film actor. He is also known by his Westernized name, Dan Chupong...

 
Martial arts
Invisible Waves
Invisible Waves
Invisible Waves is a 2006 crime film by Thai director Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, with screenplay by Prabda Yoon, cinematography by Christopher Doyle, and starring Tadanobu Asano – all people that Pen-Ek had worked with on his previous film, Last Life in the Universe...

 
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang is a Thai film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his arthouse work, Last Life in the Universe, and is considered to be one of Thai cinema's leading "new wave" auteurs, alongside Wisit Sasanatieng and Apichatpong Weerasethakul...

 
Tadanobu Asano
Tadanobu Asano
, born is a Japanese actor. He is known for his roles as Dragon Eye Morrison in Electric Dragon 80.000 V, Kakihara in Ichi the Killer, Mamoru Arita in Bright Future, Hattori Genosuke in Zatoichi, Kenji in Last Life in the Universe, Aman in Survive Style 5+, Ayano in The Taste of Tea, and Temudjin...

 
Thriller
Khan Kluay
Khan Kluay
Khan Kluay is a 2006 Thai computer-animated feature film set during Ayutthaya-era Siam about an elephant who wanders away from his mother and eventually becomes the war elephant for King Naresuan...

 
Kompin Kemgumnird  Historical comedy drama First Thai computer-animated feature.
Khao Chon Kai
Khao Chon Kai
Khao Chon Kai is a 2006 Thai teen comedy drama film directed by Withid Kamsrakeaw.-Plot:Khao Chon Kai is a military training camp where Thai boys will face the challenge of the training during their senior year of high school. A group of boys meet at the camp and begin their training together,...

 
Withit Kamsrakaew  Comedy
Krasue Valentine
Krasue Valentine
Krasue Valentine is a 2006 Thai romance-horror film written and directed by Yuthlert Sippapak. The film concerns the krasue ghost legend that is common in Southeast Asian countries.-Plot:...

 
Yuthlert Sippapak
Yuthlert Sippapak
Yuthlert Sippapak is a Thai film director, screenwriter and producer. He's best known for his genre-blending films Killer Tattoo and Buppah Rahtree .-Biography:...

 
Comedy horror
Legend of Sudsakorn
Legend of Sudsakorn
Legend of Sudsakorn is a 2006 Thai fantasy film. It is based on a story from Phra Aphai Mani, an epic poem by Sunthorn Phu. Charlie Trairat, the young male lead from Fan Chan, portrays the title character, a boy who is the son of a mermaid who is sent on a magical quest to find his father, a prince...

 
Charlie Trairat
Charlie Trairat
Charlie Trairat or 'NAK' is a Thai film actor. He is the youngest son of 6 siblings. He started his movie career since he was not even 1 y/o in the movie Once Upon A Time directed by Thai classic director 'Bhandit Rittakol.' He became well known after his co-starring role in Fan Chan , the Thai...

 
Historical fantasy Based on story by Sunthorn Phu
Sunthorn Phu
Phra Sunthorn Vohara, known as Sunthorn Phu, is Thailand’s best-known royal poet. He was active in the Rattanakosin era....

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The Letters of Death (Khian Pen Song Daai) Kapon Thongphlap  Horror thriller
Loveaholic
Loveaholic
Loveaholic is a 2006 Thai romantic comedy film directed by Ping Lumpraploeng and starring Thai comedian Udom Taephanit.- Synopsis :Rong, a comedy screenwriter, finds out his wife, Daeng, has had an affair with a physician. Rong's and Daeng's relationship had grown routine and boring, which was...

 (Khoht-rak-eng-loei)
Ping Lumpraploeng  Romantic comedy drama
Mercury Man
Mercury Man (film)
Mercury Man is a 2006 Thai superhero martial arts action film. It is directed by Bhandit Thongdee with martial arts choreography by Panna Rittikrai of Ong-Bak, Tom-Yum-Goong and Born to Fight....

 
Bhandit Thongdee
Bhandit Thongdee
Bhandit Thongdee is a Thai film director, screenwriter and producer. His films include Mercury Man and The Unborn.- Director :* Hoedown Showdown * Soul Under Bed...

 
Superhero action
Metrosexual
Metrosexual (film)
Metrosexual is a 2006 Thai romantic-comedy about four women who believe their best friend is about to marry a man who is gay. The film was directed by Yongyooth Thongkongtoon, who also directed The Iron Ladies...

 (Gang chanee gap ee-aep)
Youngyooth Thongkonthun  Romantic comedy drama
Mor 8  Yongyuth Pinitpong  Comedy
Navy Boys (Nam prik lhong rua) Worapoj Pothineth  Comedy
Noodle Boxer (Sab Sanit) Rerkchai Paungpetch  Comedy
Noo Hin: The Movie
Noo Hin: The Movie
Noo Hin: The Movie is a 2006 comedy film based on a popular Thai comic book and graphic novel series about a plucky domestic worker from Isan who's working for an upper class family in Bangkok...

 
Komgrit Triwimol  Comedy
Nong Teng Nakleng-pukaotong
Nong Teng Nakleng-pukaotong
Nong Theng Nakleng-pukhaothong is a 2006 Thai comedy film starring Pongsak Pongsuwan and Choosak Eamsuk.-Plot:In 1920s Siam, Bunteng, a member of a likay performing troupe, is faced with the prospect of his art dying when he and his family are threatened with eviction by a businessman who hopes to...

 
Panich Sodsee  Comedy
The Last Song
The Last Song
UK limited edition 7" green vinyl* Side A: "The Last Song" * Side B: "Time Stands Still" -Composition:According to lead singer Tyson Ritter in a 2003 interview with MTV about the new single, he said the song came to being after he "got inspired to write something that wasn't about an all-girl...

 (Phleng sudthai)
Phisan Akraseranee  Drama
The Passion (Ammahit Phitsawat) Sarunyu Wongkrachang  Bongkoj Khongmalai
Bongkoj Khongmalai
Bongkoj Khongmalai , nickname "Tak" , is a Thai film actress. Films she has appeared in include Tom-Yum-Goong. She portrayed a young Thai woman forced into prostitution in Australia who comes to the aid of the film's hero, Tony Jaa. Alternate spellings of her name include Bongkot Kongmalai and...

 
Thriller
The Possible
The Possible
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: The Possible by Joey Boy was released by GMM Grammy in December 2006 to accompany the film. Many of the tracks are cover versions of Western pop songs, except with Thai lyrics that are specific to the characters and situations depicted in the film.The album cover...

 (Kao ... Kao)
Witthaya Thongyooyong  Joey Boy
Joey Boy
-Biography:Born into a Thai-Chinese family, Joey Boy started listening to hip hop when he was 14 years old and skateboarding. In 1994, he was signed to Bakery Music. His first release was a self-titled EP. He recorded nine more albums with the label....

 
Musical comedy
Ruk Jung
Ruk jung
Ruk Jung is a 2006 Thai romantic-comedy film directed by Haeman Chatemee and starring "Film" Ratchaphoom Tokongsup and Paula Taylor.- Plot :...

 (The Memory)
Haeman Chatemee
Haeman Chatemee
Haeman Chatemee is Thai film director. His debut film was the horror-comedy Body Jumper in 2001.- Filmography :*Body Jumper *Love to Death...

 
Paula Taylor
Paula Taylor
-Personal life:Paula was born in Chulalankorn hospital, Bangkok Thailand. Two weeks after she was born, the family returned to Australia. Her father is of English descent and her mother is of Thai descent...

 
Romantic comedy
Seasons Change
Seasons Change (film)
Seasons Change is 2006 Thai romantic comedy film directed by Nithiwat Tharathorn.-Plot:The story takes place at the College of Music, Mahidol University over one year and covers the three seasons that Bangkok typically experiences – summer, winter and monsoon...

 
Romantic comedy
Thai Thief
Thai Thief
Thai Thief is a 2006 Thai action comedy film, directed by Pisut Praesangeam and starring Todsaporn Rottakij and Sahatchai "Stop" Chumrum. It was distributed by RS Film and released on April 12, 2006. The film is set during World War II in Thailand.-Plot:...

 (Thai Theep)
Pisut Praesangeam
Pisut Praesangeam
Pisut Praesangeam is a Thai actor, film director, film producer and screenwriter. His films include Bangkok Haunted and Thai Thief.-As director:*Bangkok Haunted *Thai Thief -As screenwriter:...

 
Suthep Po-ngam
Suthep Po-ngam
Suthep Po-ngam , also known by his stage name Thep Po-ngam, is a Thai comedian, actor, film director and screenwriter. He played the leader of a gang of inept hitmen in Killer Tattoo...

 
Comedy
The Gig  Theeratorn Siriphunvaraporn  Romantic comedy
The Unseeable
The Unseeable
The Unseeable is a 2006 Thai horror film directed by Wisit Sasanatieng. The first film of another writer's screenplay by the director, the writer is Kongkiat Khomsiri, one of the "Ronin Team" credited with directing the 2005 Thai horror film Art of the Devil 2.-Plot:Set in 1934 Siam, the story...

 
Wisit Sasanatieng
Wisit Sasanatieng
Wisit Sasanatieng is a Thai film director and screenwriter of Chinese descent...

 
Horror thriller
Vengeance (Phairii Phinaat Paa Mawrana) Preaw Sirisuwan  Horror fantasy
The Victim
The Victim (2006 film)
The Victim is a 2006 Thai horror-thriller film written and directed by Monthon Arayangkoon. The film stars Pitchannart Sakakorn as a struggling young actress who takes a job working for the police department, re-enacting crime scenes, but starts to have frightening experiences when she takes on...

 
Monthon Arayangkoon
Monthon Arayangkoon
Monthon Arayangkoon is a Thai film director, screenwriter and producer. His credits include Garuda, the first all-digital Thai film production. His other films include The Victim and The House...

 
Pitchanart Sakakorn
Pitchanart Sakakorn
Pitchanart Sakakorn is a Thai actress. Her starring film roles include Pattaya Maniac, Buppah Rahtree Phase 2: Rahtree Returns and The Victim.She has a Bachelor's degree from Assumption University.-Filmography:* Butterfly in Grey...

Thriller

2007

Title Director Actors Genre Notes
2007
2007 in film
This is a list of major films released in 2007.-Top grossing films:Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the USA in 2007...

Alone
Alone (2007 film)
Alone is a 2007 Thai horror film directed by Banjong Pisanthanakun and Parkpoom Wongpoom, a duo whose debut film, Shutter, was a box-office smash in Thailand and other Asian countries. Alone stars Thai-German pop singer Marsha Wattanapanich in her first film role in 15 years.-Plot:Pim was born as...

 
Banjong Pisanthanakun
Banjong Pisanthanakun
Bangjong Pisanthanakun is Thai filmmaker and screenwriter. With Parkpoom Wongpoom, he co-directed and co-wrote the hit 2004 Thai horror film, Shutter, and the 2007 horror film, Alone.-Education and early career:...

, Parkpoom Wongpoom
Parkpoom Wongpoom
Parkpoom Wongpoom is a Thai filmmaker and screenwriter. With Banjong Pisanthanakun, he co-directed and co-wrote the hit 2004 Thai horror film, Shutter, and the 2007 horror film, Alone.-Education and early career:...

 
Marsha Wattanapanich
Marsha Wattanapanich
Marion Ursula Marsha Vadhanapanich born 24 August 1970, is a Thai pop singer and actress. Her mother is German and her father is Thai. She is a Buddhist, and has one son with her first husband, Thai singer Amphol Lumpoon.-External links:* * *...

 
Horror thriller
Bangkok Love Story
Bangkok Love Story
Bangkok Love Story is a 2007 Thai film written and directed by Poj Arnon. A gay romantic crime action drama, it is the story of a man who falls in love with a gunman assigned to kill him.-Plot:...

 
Poj Arnon
Poj Arnon
-Career:Poj began his career in the 1980s as an advertising sales manager for Ter-Kab-Chan Magazine, eventually becoming the magazine's chief editor. His work on the magazine enabled him to scout out and groom many of the Thai teen movie stars of the era....

 
Drama
Bedside Detective  Komgrit Treewimol  Romantic comedy
Body
Body (2007 film)
Body is a Thai horror-thriller film. It is produced by GTH, the same production company that made the hit Thai horror film, Shutter. Body is directed by Paween Purijitpanya and co-written by Chukiat Sakweerakul, who had previously directed the thriller, 13 Beloved.Body has parallels to an actual...

 (Body Sop 19)
Paween Purikitpanya  Horror
The Bodyguard 2
The Bodyguard 2
The Bodyguard 2 is a 2007 Thai action-comedy film written, directed by and starring Petchtai Wongkamlao. A prequel to his 2004 film, The Bodyguard, The Bodyguard 2 tells the origins of Petchtai's bodyguard character, and like the first film, it features a host of cameo appearances by Thai...

 
Petchtai Wongkamlao
Petchtai Wongkamlao
Petchtai Wongkamlao, , is a Thai comedian, actor and film director. He is best known in Thailand by his stage name, Mum Jokmok ; and is a popular Thai television personality...

 
Petchtai Wongkamlao
Petchtai Wongkamlao
Petchtai Wongkamlao, , is a Thai comedian, actor and film director. He is best known in Thailand by his stage name, Mum Jokmok ; and is a popular Thai television personality...

 
Action comedy
Final Score
Final Score (film)
Final Score is a 2007 Thai documentary film directed by Soraya Nagasuwan and produced by Jira Maligool. The film follows four Mattayom 6 students for one year as they take their university entrance exams.-Synopsis:...

 
Soraya Nagasuwan  Documentary
Ghost Station
Ghost Station (film)
Ghost Station is a 2007 Thai comedy-horror film directed by Yuthlert Sippapak as a spoof of Brokeback Mountain.-Plot:Udd and Yai are a gay couple who love cowboy movies and move from the city to a rural area to have a more intimate, rustic setting for their relationship. They buy an abandoned...

 
Yuthlert Sippapak
Yuthlert Sippapak
Yuthlert Sippapak is a Thai film director, screenwriter and producer. He's best known for his genre-blending films Killer Tattoo and Buppah Rahtree .-Biography:...

 
Comedy horror
Haunting Me
Haunting Me
Haunting Me is a 2007 Thai horror-comedy film directed by Poj Arnon. In this movie, four drag queens attempt to exorcise ghosts.-External links:*...

 (Hor Taew Tak)
Poj Arnon
Poj Arnon
-Career:Poj began his career in the 1980s as an advertising sales manager for Ter-Kab-Chan Magazine, eventually becoming the magazine's chief editor. His work on the magazine enabled him to scout out and groom many of the Thai teen movie stars of the era....

 
Comedy horror
The Haunted Drum
The Haunted Drum
The Haunted Drum is a Thai 2007 horror drama film.- Plot :Ping wishes to become a musician. He becomes a student of Master Duang, a famous master musician. Master Duang owned the mysterious drum called Peung Mang, which is said to have been made by the skin of a beautiful woman named Thip...

 
Woranut Wongsawan
Woranut Wongsawan
Woranut Bhirombhakdi , née Woranut Wongsawan , or usually known by her nickname Noon , , is a Thai actress in Thai soap operas and films. Her First lakorn role is Pob Pee Fa which is the scariest role of all her lakorn. She made her feature-film debut in the 2005 Thai film Choem , or Midnight My...

 
Horror Drama
In Country Melody (Isam Samawang) Note Chern-Yim  Musical comedy
The Life of Buddha
The Life of Buddha
The Buddha is a 2007 Thai animated feature film about the life of Gautama Buddha, based on the Tripitaka. The film was released on December 5, 2007, in celebration of Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej's 80th birthday.-Production:...

 
Drama Release expected on December 5; would be the third feature-length animated film in Thai cinema history.
The Love of Siam
The Love of Siam
The Love of Siam is a 2007 Thai gay-themed romantic-drama film written and directed by Chookiat Sakveerakul. A multi-layered family drama, a groundbreaking element of the story is a gay romance between two teenage boys....

 
Chukiat Sakveerakul Mario Maurer, Witwisit Hiranyawongkul Romantic drama
King Naresuan
King Naresuan (film)
The Legend of King Naresuan is a Thai biographical historical drama film about King Naresuan the Great, who ruled Siam from 1590 until his death in 1605....

 
Chatrichalerm Yukol
Chatrichalerm Yukol
His Serene Highness Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol is a Thai film director, screenwriter and film producer. A prolific director since the 1970s, among his films is the 2001 historical epic, The Legend of Suriyothai. A member of the Thai royal family, his official royal title is Mom Chao, or M.C., the...

 
Historical drama Trilogy of films.
Kung Fu Tootsie
Kung Fu Tootsie
Kung Fu Tootsie is a 2007 Thai action-comedy film written and directed by Jaturong Mokjok.-Title:The English title of the film is an allusion to the 1982 American comedy film Tootsie. A Thai slang term for transvestite or effeminate man, toot , comes from the first syllable of Tootsie...

 
Jaturong Mokjok Sittichai Pabchompoo, Pokchut Tiumchai Comedy
Lullabye Before I Wake  Nate Pantumsinchai  Dean Shelton, Maiara Walsh
Maiara Walsh
Maiara Walsh is a Brazilian American actress and singer known for playing Ana Solis on the sixth season of the hit ABC show, Desperate Housewives, and as Meena Paroom on the Disney Channel sitcom Cory in the House...

 
Romantic drama Screened only at Lido Theaters.
Ma Mha  Pantham Thongsangl Comedy drama First Thai live-action film with an all-animal cast.
Me ... Myself
Me ... Myself
Me ... Myself or Khaw hai rak jong jaroen) is a 2007 Thai romantic drama film directed by Pongpat Wachirabunjong. Ananda Everingham stars as a gay male dancer in a transvestite cabaret who suffers amnesia after being struck by a car.-Plot:...

 
Pongpat Wachirabunjong
Pongpat Wachirabunjong
Pongpat Wachirabunjong is a Thai singer, actor and film director.He is well-known in Thailand for his role in the action films Heaven's Seven and Seven Street Fighters, as the red-shorts-clad Sergeant Dab Jampoh....

 
Ananda Everingham
Ananda Everingham
Ananda Everingham is a Laotian-Australian film actor who was born in Thailand. Working primarily in Thai films, he is best known for his lead role in the 2004 horror film, Shutter.-Biography:...

 
Romantic drama Directorial debut by actor Pongpat.
Muay Thai Chaiya
Muay Thai Chaiya
Muay Thai Chaiya or Chaiya is a 2007 Thai drama film about two talented muay Thai boxers, boyhood friends whose lives take divergent paths after they arrive in Bangkok...

 
Kongkiat Khomsiri
Kongkiat Khomsiri
-Film career:He graduated from the Faculty of Mass Communications at Bangkok University and started his career as a crew member on Mysterious Object at Noon, the first feature film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul...

 
Akara Amarttayakul, Thawatchai Penpakdee, Sonthaya Chitmanee Muay Thai boxing drama Premiered as closing film at 2007 Bangkok International Film Festival
2007 Bangkok International Film Festival
The 2007 Bangkok International Film Festival was held from July 19 to July 29, 2007, at SF Group's SF World Cinema at CentralWorld. The fifth consecutive year for the festival, organizers planned a program of about 100 films, with an emphasis on Asian cinema....

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Nong Teng kon maha hia  Pongsak Pongsuwan
Pongsak Pongsuwan
Pongsak Pongsuwan is a Thai comedian and actor. He is best known in Thailand by his stage name, Theng Therdtherng .A popular comedian in Thai nightclubs and on television, Theng made his feature-film debut in Killer Tattoo, a 2001 action-comedy that was the directorial debut for Yuthlert Sippapak...

, Choosak Iamsuk 
Pongsak Pongsuwan
Pongsak Pongsuwan
Pongsak Pongsuwan is a Thai comedian and actor. He is best known in Thailand by his stage name, Theng Therdtherng .A popular comedian in Thai nightclubs and on television, Theng made his feature-film debut in Killer Tattoo, a 2001 action-comedy that was the directorial debut for Yuthlert Sippapak...

, Choosak Iamsuk 
Comedy
Opapatika
Opapatika
Opapatika is a 2007 Thai fantasy-action film. It is directed by Thanakorn Pongsuwan and stars Pongpat Wachirabanjong, Leo Putt, Somchai Kemklad, Chakrit Yaemnam, Ray MacDonald, Athip Nana, Nirut Sirichanya and Khemupsorn Sirisukha-Plot:...

 
Thanakorn Pongsuwan Pongpat Wachirabanjong, Leo Putt
Leo Putt
Putthipong Sriwat , born April 1, 1976) is a Thai singer and actor. His films include Fake, Dynamite Warrior and The Sperm.-Filmography:* Goodbye Summer * Fake * The Story of X-Circle * Dynamite Warrior...

, Somchai Kemklad, Chakrit Yaemnam, Ray MacDonald
Ray MacDonald
Ray MacDonald is a Thai actor of Scottish descent. He won Best Actor awards at the Thailand National Film Association Awards in 1997 and 1998 for his roles in Fun Bar Karaoke, the debut feature by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, and O-Negative, which co-starred Tata Young...

, Athip Nana, Nirut Sirijanya
Nirut Sirijanya
Nirut Sirijanya is a Thai actor. He is best known for his role as Lauren's father Fong in the 2011 sequel The Hangover Part II.-Early life:...

, Khemapsorn Sirisukka
Fantasy
Pleasure Factory
Pleasure Factory
Pleasure Factory is a 2007 docudrama film set in Geylang, the red-light district of Singapore. Directed by Ekachai Uekrongtham, the film was selected for the Un Certain Regard competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival....

 
Ekachai Uekrongtham
Ekachai Uekrongtham
Ekachai Uekrongtham is a Thai theatre and film director. Based in Singapore, Ekachai is the founding artistic director of ACTION Theatre, a Singapore professional theatre company....

 
Yang Kuei-mei
Yang Kuei-Mei
Yang Kuei-Mei is a Taiwanese actress. She has had starring roles in Eat Drink Man Woman, Vive L'Amour and The Hole.-Career:Yang has received several awards for her acting...

, Ananda Everingham
Ananda Everingham
Ananda Everingham is a Laotian-Australian film actor who was born in Thailand. Working primarily in Thai films, he is best known for his lead role in the 2004 horror film, Shutter.-Biography:...

 
Drama Premiered at 2007 Cannes Film Festival
2007 Cannes Film Festival
The 2007 Cannes Film Festival, the sixtieth, ran from 16 to 27 May 2007. Wong Kar-wai's My Blueberry Nights opened the festival, and Denys Arcand's The Age of Ignorance closed...

, official selection, Un Certain Regard, Singaporean
Cinema of Singapore
Despite having a flourishing Chinese and Malay film industry in the 1950s and 1960s, Singapore's film industry declined after independence in 1965. There were a few films that featured Singaporean actors and were set in Singapore, including Saint Jack and They Call Her Cleopatra Wong...

 co-production
Ploy
Ploy
Ploy is a 2007 Thai film written and directed by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang. The film premiered during the Directors' Fortnight at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival....

 
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang is a Thai film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his arthouse work, Last Life in the Universe, and is considered to be one of Thai cinema's leading "new wave" auteurs, alongside Wisit Sasanatieng and Apichatpong Weerasethakul...

 
Lalita Panyopas
Lalita Panyopas
Lalita Panyopas is a Thai film and television actress. She is best known in Thailand for her roles in lakorn . She made a string of feature films in the late 1980s and also was the lead actress in many Thai lakorns in the late 1980s to early 2000s...

 
Drama Premiered at Director's Fortnight at 2007 Cannes Film Festival
2007 Cannes Film Festival
The 2007 Cannes Film Festival, the sixtieth, ran from 16 to 27 May 2007. Wong Kar-wai's My Blueberry Nights opened the festival, and Denys Arcand's The Age of Ignorance closed...

, had to be re-edited for release in Thailand because of censorship concerns about the sex scenes.
Ponglang Amazing Theater (Ponglang Sading Lumsing Sai Na) Rerkchai Paungpetch Ponglang Sa-on Comedy-horror Released November 29.
Seven Days to Leave My Wife (Yang Ngai Gaw Rak) Torpong Tunkamhang Comedy drama
Sick Nurses
Sick Nurses
Sick Nurses is a 2007 Thai horror film, written and directed by Piraphan Laoyont and Thodsapol Siriwiwat.-Plot:In a run-down, suburban Bangkok hospital, young Dr. Tar and seven nurses have been running a scheme to sell dead bodies on the black market. However, one nurse, Tahwaan , has found out...

 (Suay Laak Sai)
Piraphan Laoyont, Thatsaporn Siriwat  Horror comedy
The Screen at Kamchanod (Phee Jang Nang) Songsak Mongkolthong Achita Pramotch Na Ayuthaya, Pakramai Potrananda, Namo Tongkumnerd Horror Based on a true story. Released December 5.
The Sperm
The Sperm
The Sperm is a 2007 Thai science fiction comedy film directed by Taweewat Wantha.-Plot:A young, struggling Bangkok rock musician, Sutin, constantly dreams about having almost sex with sexy model-actress La-mai, but always wakes up before he can actually have sex...

 (Asujaak)
Taweewat Wantha  Leo Putt
Leo Putt
Putthipong Sriwat , born April 1, 1976) is a Thai singer and actor. His films include Fake, Dynamite Warrior and The Sperm.-Filmography:* Goodbye Summer * Fake * The Story of X-Circle * Dynamite Warrior...

 
Science fiction
Spiritual World (Winyarn Loke Khon Tai) Horror
Syndromes and a Century
Syndromes and a Century
Syndromes and a Century is a 2006 Thai drama film written and directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. The film was among the works commissioned for Peter Sellars' New Crowned Hope festival in Vienna to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...

 
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Apichatpong "Joe" Weerasethakul is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, and film producer. His feature films include Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, winner of the prestigious 2010 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or prize; Tropical Malady, which won a jury prize at the 2004...

 
Nantarat Sawaddikul, Jaruchai Iamaram, Sophon Pukanok, Jenjira Pongpas Romantic drama Premiered at the 2006 Venice Film Festival
Venice Film Festival
The Venice International Film Festival is the oldest international film festival in the world. Founded by Count Giuseppe Volpi in 1932 as the "Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica", the festival has since taken place every year in late August or early September on the island of the...

. Withdrawn from 2007 release in Thailand by director, due to cuts requested by Board of Censors
Censorship in Thailand
Freedom of speech in Thailand was guaranteed in the articles 39, 40, 41 in the 1997 Constitution.According to those articles, censorship may be imposed to preserve national security, maintain public order, preserve the rights of others, protect public morals, and prevent criticism of the royal...

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VDO Clip  Pakphum Wonjinda
Pakphum Wonjinda
Pakphum Wonjinda, , is a Thai film director and screenwriter. His first screenplay was for the horror-comedy, Body Jumper, which was based on a Thai ghost folktale. He made his directorial debut in 2004 with the musical-horror-comedy, Formalin Man...

 
Slasher horror
Vow of Death  Comedy horror

2008

Title Director Actors Genre Notes
2008
2008 in film
This is a list of all major films made in 2008.-Highest-grossing films:Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the USA in 2008...

4bia
4bia
4bia or Phobia is a 2008 Thai horror film in four parts, directed by Youngyooth Thongkonthun, Banjong Pisanthanakun, Parkpoom Wongpoom, and Paween Purijitpanya.-Title:The title is a pun on the word "phobia"...

 (See Prang)
Youngyooth Thongkonthun, Banjong Pisanthanakun
Banjong Pisanthanakun
Bangjong Pisanthanakun is Thai filmmaker and screenwriter. With Parkpoom Wongpoom, he co-directed and co-wrote the hit 2004 Thai horror film, Shutter, and the 2007 horror film, Alone.-Education and early career:...

, Parkpoom Wongpoom
Parkpoom Wongpoom
Parkpoom Wongpoom is a Thai filmmaker and screenwriter. With Banjong Pisanthanakun, he co-directed and co-wrote the hit 2004 Thai horror film, Shutter, and the 2007 horror film, Alone.-Education and early career:...

, and Paween Purikitpanya
Laila Boonyasak, Maneerat Kham-uan, Apinya Sakuljaroensuk
Apinya Sakuljaroensuk
Apinya Sakuljaroensuk is a Thai actress born on 27 May 1990.Her first movie was Ploy directed by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang. The movie was premiered at the International Film Festival in Cannes in 2007...

, Witawat Singlampong, Pongsatorn Jongwilat
Horror
The 8th Day Thriller
Art of the Devil 3
Art of the Devil 3
Art of the Devil 3 is a 2008 Thai horror film directed by Kongkiat Khomsiri, Art Thamthrakul, Yosapong Polsap, Putipong Saisikaew, Isara Nadee, Pasith Buranajan and Seree Pongniti...

Ronin Team Napakpapha Nakprasitte
Napakpapha Nakprasitte
Napakpapha Nakprasitte is a Thai film actress. She is sometimes credited as Napakapa Nakprasit....

, Supakorn Kitsuwon
Supakorn Kitsuwon
Supakorn Kitsuwon is a Thai film and stage actor. Among his starring roles are as Pan in Monrak Transistor and Khun Krabi in SARS Wars...

Horror
Busaba Bold and Beautiful Supakorn Kitsuwon
Supakorn Kitsuwon
Supakorn Kitsuwon is a Thai film and stage actor. Among his starring roles are as Pan in Monrak Transistor and Khun Krabi in SARS Wars...

, Suvanant Kongying
Suvanant Kongying
Suvanant Kongying is a Thai actress. She was the lead actress in many Thai lakorns in the 1990s-2000s. She has appeared in several lakorns , including Dao pra sook with Sornram Teppitak, in which she played Dao, the main character. She has been voted people's choice winner for top actress for many...

Comedy
Chocolate
Chocolate (2008 film)
Chocolate , also known as Zen, Warrior Within, is a 2008 Thai martial arts film starring Yanin "Jeeja" Vismistananda in her debut film performance. It is directed by Prachya Pinkaew, with martial arts choreography by Panna Rittikrai...

 
Prachya Pinkaew
Prachya Pinkaew
Prachya Pinkaew is a Thai film director, film producer and screenwriter. His films include Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior and Tom-Yum-Goong, both martial arts films starring Tony Jaa.-Biography:...

 
Nitcharee Wismitanant Martial arts Debut film for Nitcharee.
First Flight Tanit Jitnukul
Tanit Jitnukul
Tanit Jitnukul is a Thai film director, screenwriter and producer. Among his films is the 2000 historical battle epic, Bang Rajan. His nickname is "Pued".-Biography:...

Sornram Teppitak
Sornram Teppitak
Sornram Teppitak is a Thai actor and Thai pop singer. He has appeared in several notable lakorns, including: Dao pra sook with Suvanant Kongying which he played the role of Phak. He began acting at an adolescent age. His films include Garuda and First Flight. He is the highest paid Thai actor...

Historical drama Based on the formation of the Royal Thai Air Force
Royal Thai Air Force
The Royal Thai Air Force or RTAF is the air force of the Kingdom of Thailand. Since its establishment in 1913, as one of the earliest air forces of Asia, the Royal Thai Air Force had engaged in many major and minor battles. During the Vietnam war era, the air force has been developed with USAF-aid...

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Ghost-in-Law (Saphai Breu... Aw Aw) Tanit Jitnukul
Tanit Jitnukul
Tanit Jitnukul is a Thai film director, screenwriter and producer. Among his films is the 2000 historical battle epic, Bang Rajan. His nickname is "Pued".-Biography:...

, Seree Phongnithi 
Comedy horror
The Ghost and Master Bo Jaturong Jokmok Comedy horror
The Happiness of Kati Drama Based on S.E.A. Write Award
S.E.A. Write Award
The S.E.A. Write Award, or Southeast Asian Writers Award, is an award that has been presented annually since 1979 to poets and writers in Southeast Asia....

-winning novel by Ngarmpun Vejjajiva
Ngarmpun Vejjajiva
Ngarmpun Vejjajiva is a Thai novelist and translator. She was the recipient of the S.E.A. Write Award for Thailand in 2006 for her first novel, The Happiness of Kati. A wheelchair user, she has had cerebal palsy since birth and finds comfort in immersing herself in the imaginary world of reading...

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Happy Birthday Pongpat Wachirabunjong
Pongpat Wachirabunjong
Pongpat Wachirabunjong is a Thai singer, actor and film director.He is well-known in Thailand for his role in the action films Heaven's Seven and Seven Street Fighters, as the red-shorts-clad Sergeant Dab Jampoh....

Romantic drama
Handle Me With Care
Handle Me With Care
'Handle Me With Care aka. 三手仔手記 aka. 一路上有手 is a 2008 Thai romantic drama film directed by Kongdej Jaturanrasamee.-Plot:...

 (Kod)
Kongdej Jaturanrasamee
Kongdej Jaturanrasamee
Kongdej Jaturanrasamee is a Thai screenwriter and film director. His screenplays include The Letter, Tom-Yum-Goong, Noo Hin: The Movie and Me ... Myself. His own films include Sayew and Midnight My Love.-Education, early career:...

Kiatkamol Lata
Kiatkamol Lata
Kiatkamol Lata is a Thai singer, actor. He first gained notice by winning Thailand's True Visions Academy Fantasia Season 3, a famous American Idol-liked reality show in Thailand...

, Supaksorn Chaimongkol
Supaksorn Chaimongkol
Supaksorn Chaimongkol on December 2, 1982, in Bangkok, Thailand is a Thai model and actress. Her nickname is Kratae .Her film roles include Kunpan: Legend of the Warlord, Art of the Devil and Andaman Girl, all under director Thanit Jitnukul.In 2007, she starred in the spy-action comedy, Chai Lai,...

Hormones
Hormones (2008 film)
Hormones is a 2008 Thai romantic comedy film directed by Songyos Sugmakanan. The literal meaning of the Thai title is 'restless hearts during school break' or 'school break, hearts aflutter'.-Plot:...

 (Pid Term Yai Huajai Wawun)
Songyos Sugmakanan
Songyos Sugmakanan
- Filmography :* My Elephant - short film* Fan Chan - co-directed* Dorm * Hormones...

Charlie Trairat, Focus Jirakul Romantic comedy
Mum Deaw Petchtai Wongkamlao
Petchtai Wongkamlao
Petchtai Wongkamlao, , is a Thai comedian, actor and film director. He is best known in Thailand by his stage name, Mum Jokmok ; and is a popular Thai television personality...

Comedy
Nak Petchtai Wongkamlao
Petchtai Wongkamlao
Petchtai Wongkamlao, , is a Thai comedian, actor and film director. He is best known in Thailand by his stage name, Mum Jokmok ; and is a popular Thai television personality...

 (voice)
Animated adventure Adaptation of Mae Nak Phra Nakhon ghost story.
Ong Bak 2
Ong Bak 2
Ong Bak 2: The Beginning is a 2008 Thai martial arts film co-directed by and starring Tony Jaa. It is a follow-up to Jaa's 2003 breakout film Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior. Initially claimed to be a sequel to Ong-Bak: Muay Thai Warrior, Ong Bak 2 was then announced to be a prequel to its predecessor...

 
Tony Jaa
Tony Jaa
Tatchakorn Yeerum , formerly Panom Yeerum , better known in the West as Tony Jaa, in Thailand as Jaa Panom, is a Thai martial artist, actor, choreographer, stuntman, director, and monk...

 
Tony Jaa
Tony Jaa
Tatchakorn Yeerum , formerly Panom Yeerum , better known in the West as Tony Jaa, in Thailand as Jaa Panom, is a Thai martial artist, actor, choreographer, stuntman, director, and monk...

 
Martial arts Directorial debut by Tony Jaa.
Queens of Langkasuka
Queens of Langkasuka
Queens of Langkasuka is a 2008 Thai historical fantasy adventure film directed by Nonzee Nimibutr, and written by two-time S.E.A. Write Award winner Win Lyovarin.Known as "Pirates Of Langkasuka" in the UK.-Plot:...

Nonzee Nimibutr
Nonzee Nimibutr
Nonzee Nimibutr is a Thai film director, film producer and screenwriter. Best known for his ghost thriller, Nang Nak, he is generally credited as the leader among a "New Wave" of Thai filmmakers that also includes Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, Wisit Sasanatieng and Apichatpong...

 
Dan Chupong
Dan Chupong
Chupong Changprung is a Thai martial arts film actor. He is also known by his Westernized name, Dan Chupong...

, Ananda Everingham
Ananda Everingham
Ananda Everingham is a Laotian-Australian film actor who was born in Thailand. Working primarily in Thai films, he is best known for his lead role in the 2004 horror film, Shutter.-Biography:...

 
Historical fantasy Written by two-time S.E.A. Write Award
S.E.A. Write Award
The S.E.A. Write Award, or Southeast Asian Writers Award, is an award that has been presented annually since 1979 to poets and writers in Southeast Asia....

 winner Win Lyovarin
Win Lyovarin
Win Lyovarin , is a Thai writer. He is a two-time winner of the S.E.A...

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Salad Ta Diaw Tanit Jitnukul
Tanit Jitnukul
Tanit Jitnukul is a Thai film director, screenwriter and producer. Among his films is the 2000 historical battle epic, Bang Rajan. His nickname is "Pued".-Biography:...

Narawan Techaratanaprasert Action comedy
Siyama: Village of Warriors Preecha Songsakul  Historical fantasy-action
Soul's Code Nattakorn Devakula Crime thriller-horror
Valentine (Kris ka Ja) Chakrit Yamnam
Chakrit Yamnam
Chakrit Yamnam is a Thai film and television actor.His films include O-Negative with Tata Young, directed by Yuthlert Sippapak. His latest film is Bangkok Dangerous with Nicolas Cage....

Comedy
Where the Miracle Happens Siripakorn Wongchariyawat Princess Ubolratana Rajakanya Drama Acting debut of Princess Ubolratana.
Woh Mah Ba Maha Sanook Bunjong Sinthanamongkolkul Anuwat Tarapan comedy

2009

Title Director Actors Genre Notes
2009
2009 in film
The year 2009 saw the release of many films. Seven made the top 50 list of highest-grossing films, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that as of this year, their Best Picture category would consist of ten nominees, rather than five .- Highest-grossing films :Please note...

Khan Kluay 2 Historical comedy drama
Nymph
Nymph (film)
Nymph is a 2009 Thai drama film directed by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang. It competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.- Plot :...

 
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang is a Thai film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his arthouse work, Last Life in the Universe, and is considered to be one of Thai cinema's leading "new wave" auteurs, alongside Wisit Sasanatieng and Apichatpong Weerasethakul...

 
Competing in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival
2009 Cannes Film Festival
The 62nd annual Cannes Film Festival was held from May 13 to May 24, 2009. French actress Isabelle Huppert was the President of the Jury. It was announced on March 19, 2009, that Pixar's film Up would open the festival...

Power Kids
Power Kids
Power Kids is a 2009 Thai action film directed by Krissanapong Rachata. The film is about a group of children who team up to fight against a group of terrorists who have seized the hospital moments before their friend is about to go in for surgery...

 
Krissanapong Rachata Johnny Nguyen, Nanthawut Boonrubsub, Sasisa Jindamanee Action film
Secret Sunday
Secret Sunday
Secret Sunday , a 2010 Thai horror film, is a directorial debut from screenwriter Saranyu Jiralaksanakul and stars Siraphun Wattanajinda and James Alexander.-Plot:...

 
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Pen-Ek Ratanaruang is a Thai film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his arthouse work, Last Life in the Universe, and is considered to be one of Thai cinema's leading "new wave" auteurs, alongside Wisit Sasanatieng and Apichatpong Weerasethakul...

 
James Alexander
James Alexander
James Alexander may refer to:*James Alexander, 1st Earl of Caledon *James Alexander, 3rd Earl of Caledon *James Alexander, 4th Earl of Caledon *James Alexander James Alexander may refer to:*James Alexander, 1st Earl of Caledon (1730–1802)*James Alexander, 3rd Earl of Caledon (1812–1855)*James...

, Siraphun Wattanjinda
Horror film

2010

Title Director Actors Genre Notes
2010
2010 in film
The year 2010 saw many new films released worldwide. 2010 saw a dramatic increase and prominence in the use of 3D-technology in filmmaking and film releases after the success of Avatar in the format, with releases such as Alice in Wonderland, Clash of the Titans, Jackass 3D, all animated films and...

The Intruder
The Intruder (2010 film)
The Intruder is a 2010 Thai horror film directed by Thanadol Nualsuth and Thammanoon Sakulboonthanom. Based on a story by filmmaker Poj Arnon, the plot involves an apartment complex in Thailand being overrun by vicious cobras....

Thanadol Nualsuth, Thammanoon Sakulboonthanom Akara Amarttayakul
Akara Amarttayakul
Akara Amarttayakul is a Thai film and television actor. His films include Jom kha mung wej and Muay Thai Chaiya. His nickname is "Gof" or "Golf".-Biography:...

, Kwankao Svetamaia, Apinya Sakuljaroensuk
Apinya Sakuljaroensuk
Apinya Sakuljaroensuk is a Thai actress born on 27 May 1990.Her first movie was Ploy directed by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang. The movie was premiered at the International Film Festival in Cannes in 2007...

Horror
Ong Bak 3
Ong Bak 3
Ong-Bak 3 is a 2010 Thai martial arts film directed, produced and written by Tony Jaa and Panna Rittikrai. The film's story is a follow-up to Ong Bak 2, where Tien is brutally beaten before being put to death by Lord Rajasena 's men. His body is recovered by his Master Bua who revives him...

Tony Jaa
Tony Jaa
Tatchakorn Yeerum , formerly Panom Yeerum , better known in the West as Tony Jaa, in Thailand as Jaa Panom, is a Thai martial artist, actor, choreographer, stuntman, director, and monk...

, Panna Rittikrai
Panna Rittikrai
Panna Rittikrai is a Thai martial arts action choreographer, film director, screenwriter and actor...

 
Tony Jaa
Tony Jaa
Tatchakorn Yeerum , formerly Panom Yeerum , better known in the West as Tony Jaa, in Thailand as Jaa Panom, is a Thai martial artist, actor, choreographer, stuntman, director, and monk...

, Dan Chupong
Dan Chupong
Chupong Changprung is a Thai martial arts film actor. He is also known by his Westernized name, Dan Chupong...

, Kessarin Ektawatkul
Kessarin Ektawatkul
Kessarin Ektawatkul , nicknamed "Nui", is a Thai film actress. A former national champion in taekwondo, she has been featured in three martial arts films, Born to Fight, Dangerous Flowers and Somtum.-External links:...

 
Martial arts
The Red Eagle
The Red Eagle
The Red Eagle is a 2010 Thai superhero film directed and written by Wisit Sasanatieng.-Plot:In the year 2013 in Bangkok, the Liberal Party leader Direk Damrongprapa campaigns during an election on an anti-corruption platform with the support of his fiancee Vasana Tienpradap , a Harvard educated...

Wisit Sasanatieng
Wisit Sasanatieng
Wisit Sasanatieng is a Thai film director and screenwriter of Chinese descent...

Ananda Everingham
Ananda Everingham
Ananda Everingham is a Laotian-Australian film actor who was born in Thailand. Working primarily in Thai films, he is best known for his lead role in the 2004 horror film, Shutter.-Biography:...

, Yarinda Bunnag, Pornwut Sarasin
Superhero film
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives is a 2010 Thai film directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. It won the Palme d'Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:The film centers on the last days in the life of its title character...

Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Apichatpong "Joe" Weerasethakul is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, and film producer. His feature films include Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, winner of the prestigious 2010 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or prize; Tropical Malady, which won a jury prize at the 2004...

 
Won the Palme d'Or
Palme d'Or
The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival and is presented to the director of the best feature film of the official competition. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee. From 1939 to 1954, the highest prize was the Grand Prix du Festival International du...

 at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival
2010 Cannes Film Festival
The 63rd annual Cannes Film Festival was held from May 12 to May 23, 2010, in Cannes, France. The Cannes Film Festival, hailed as being one of the most recognized and prestigious film festivals worldwide, was founded in 1946. It consists of having films screened in and out of competition during the...

First Love (A Little Thing Called Love)
First Love (A Little Thing Called Love)
First Love , better known as Crazy Little Thing Called Love, is a 2010 Thai romantic comedy film and also a 2011 Asian sleeper hit film starring Mario Maurer and Pimchanok Luevisadpaibul.-Supporting cast:* Sudarat Budtporm as Teacher Inn* Tangi namonto as Teacher Phol*...

Puttipong Pormsaka Na-Sakonnakorn, Wasin Pokpong Mario Maurer
Mario Maurer
Mario Maurer is a Thai of German and Chinese descent model and actor. He is best known for his lead roles in the 2007 film, The Love of Siam and the 2010 sleeper hit, First Love .-Biography:...

, Fern Pimchanok Leuwisedpaiboon 
Comedy, Romance "Laugh Category Uminchu Prize Grand Prix" - 2011 (3rd) Okinawa International Movie Festival - March 18 - 27, 2011
The Vanquisher Manop Udomdej Sopita Sribanchuen, Kessarin Ektawatkul
Kessarin Ektawatkul
Kessarin Ektawatkul , nicknamed "Nui", is a Thai film actress. A former national champion in taekwondo, she has been featured in three martial arts films, Born to Fight, Dangerous Flowers and Somtum.-External links:...

, Pete Thongchua 
Action

2011

Title Director Actors Genre Notes
2011
2011 in film
The year 2011 is notable for containing the release of the most film sequels in a single year, at 27 sequels. The following tables list films that are in production or have completed production and will be released in the United States and Canada at some point in 2011.- Highest-grossing films :...

Sudkhet Salet Pet Reukchai Puangpetch Arak Amornsupasiri, Khom Chuan Chuen, Koeti Aramboy, Ramita Mahapreukpong Comedy
Suck Seed Chayanop Boonprakob Jirayu La-ongmanee, Natcha Nuanjam, Pashorn Jiratiwat, Thawat Pornrattanaprasert Musical, Comedy

See also


External links

  • Thai films at the Internet Movie Database
    Internet Movie Database
    Internet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...

     – Links to index of the Thai-language titles
  • Thai Film Database
  • Thailand box office results at Box Office Mojo
    Box Office Mojo
    Box Office Mojo is a website that tracks box office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way. Brandon Gray started the site in 1999. In 2002, Gray partnered with Sean Saulsbury and they grew the site to nearly two million readers when, in July 2008, the company was purchased by Amazon.com through...

  • (Thai) Thailand movies lineup at SiamZone
  • Movie release schedule in Thailand 2007 at Pantip.com
    Pantip.com
    Pantip.com is a popular Thai-language website and discussion forum. As of April 2008, Pantip.com was one of the top 10 websites in Thailand, along with rival Thai portal Sanook.com...

    , with archives going back to 1999
  • MovieSeer – Current showtimes in Thailand
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