Best award winning movies with a dense plot from Singapore

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a dense plot from Singapore! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a dense plot from Singapore, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 Rust and Bone (2012)

Put in charge of his young son, Ali leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Ali's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident.

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2012-05-17 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts

Rating

rating icon 7.172
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #145 for
    superb acting
  2. Ranked #191 for
    sad
  3. Ranked #201 for
    jarring sound

Trailer

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2 Ilo Ilo (2013)

During the late 1990s, a busy working-class Singaporean couple hires a Filipino woman as a maid and nanny to their young son.

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2013-08-29 | Drama

Cast

Yeo Yann Yann, Chen Tian Wen

Rating

rating icon 7.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #134 for
    wayward
  2. Ranked #152 for
    dialed down acting
  3. Ranked #183 for
    sepia tone

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3 Yuni (2021)

In her last year of secondary school, a bright Indonesian student is determined to pursue her education and resist getting married, despite the expectations of her community.

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2021-12-09 | Drama

Cast

Arawinda Kirana, Kevin Ardilova

Rating

rating icon 7.091
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #15 for
    with marital problems
  2. Ranked #273 for
    precise directing
  3. Ranked #402 for
    low-key approach

Trailer

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4 Unlucky Plaza (2014)

The lives of an arrogant young motivational speaker in debt to the Chinese mafia, his lookin’-to-get-out girlfriend, and a single father in dire straits fatefully intertwine in this nail-biting thriller from Singapore that is based, almost unbelievably, on a true story.

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2014-12-04 | Comedy / Crime

Cast

Jeffrey Quizon, Adrian Pang

Rating

rating icon 5.8
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #766 for
    shenanigans
  2. Ranked #2220 for
    like Mr. Brooks
  3. Ranked #2716 for
    Black Comedy

Trailer

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5 I Not Stupid Too (2006)

A 2006 Singaporean film and the sequel to the 2002 film, I Not Stupid. A satirical comedy, I Not Stupid Too portrays the lives, struggles and adventures of three Singaporean youths - 15-year-old Tom, his 8-year-old brother Jerry and their 15-year-old friend Chengcai - who have a strained relationship with their parents. The film explores the issue of poor parent-child communication.

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2006-01-26 | Drama

Cast

Shawn Lee, Ashley Leong

Rating

rating icon 8.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #3181 for
    overly convoluted
  2. Ranked #3700 for
    mischievous
  3. Ranked #4217 for
    with daddy issue

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6 The Lion Men (2014)

Shi Shen is the top performer in the Tiger Crane Lion Dance Association, but feels restricted by Master He's traditional mindset. He decides to form his own lion dance troupe, which fuses hip hop and rock with lion dance movements. A major Lion Dance Competition is coming up and Mikey is groomed to be Shi Shen's successor, but he is plagued by a fear of heights. The situation worsens when both Mikey and Shi Shen fall for the Tiger Crane master's daughter, Xiaoyu.

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2014-01-30 | Family / Action

Cast

Tosh Rock Zhang, Wang Wei Liang

Rating

rating icon 10.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #2905 for
    bloated
  2. Ranked #3374 for
    Oscar bait
  3. Ranked #4710 for
    evil tyrant

Trailer

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7 Cyber Wars (2004)

In the near future in the Asian city-state Sintawan, everyone's identity is recorded in the vast CyberLink. The only way around this is using illegal simulated identity implants (sims). A young bounty hunter who makes her living tracking sims, finds herself the unlikely ally of a police detective who suspects the CyberLink is being perverted for an insidious and deadly purpose

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2004-09-15 | Action / Science Fiction

Cast

Genevieve O'Reilly, Luoyong Wang

Rating

rating icon 4.9
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #564 for
    perturbed
  2. Ranked #577 for
    inorganic acting
  3. Ranked #771 for
    close scrutiny

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8 Revenge of the Pontianak (2019)

A newly married couple’s life is shaken by the arrival of a vengeful Pontianak, forcing them down a dark path of betrayal, witchcraft and murder.

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2019-08-29 | Horror / Romance

Cast

Nur Fazura, Remy Ishak

Rating

rating icon 5.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #3152 for
    Urban Legend
  2. Ranked #3989 for
    fakeout
  3. Ranked #4978 for
    vertiginous

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9 Ah Boys To Men (2012)

A privileged and impulsive young man attempts to escape mandatory service in his nation's army so he could study abroad with his girlfriend.

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2012-11-07 | Comedy

Cast

Joshua Tan, Maxi Lim Jun Liang

Rating

rating icon 6.1
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #5269 for
    like The Revenant
  2. Ranked #8932 for
    bloated
  3. Ranked #9299 for
    nuisance voice

Trailer

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10 Sing to the Dawn (2009)

Dawan is a young village girl who harbours the dream of getting out of her village in the lure of the bright lights in the big city, and to do so, has to fight customs and tradition that girls are meant to be bethroned away early at a young age to someone they loathe, and schools for them are an unnecessary part of life. In order to fulfill her dream, she has to go against the wishes of her dad, as well as irk her brother as she out-scores him in a local examination to clinch a scholarship. Also, their village is under threat of an unscrupulous landlord trying to bulldoze his way into profits by driving everyone out of his land.

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2009-09-16 | Animation / Drama

Cast

Gita Gutawa, Patton Otlivio

Rating

rating icon 0.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #4343 for
    off-key acting
  2. Ranked #5330 for
    gun fu
  3. Ranked #5367 for
    stiff acting

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