FILM GUIDE
Good books and films have the power to transport us to a different place and time. You might be preparing for an upcoming trip to Singapore, or simply be full of wanderlust with a dream to one day, some day, turn your desire into a reality.
Our carefully curated recommendations will shine a light on Singapore and help you explore more thoughtfully and deeply once you are here.
Our film recommendations all come with trailers. Please click inside each listing. Enjoy!
DOCUMENTARIES
Extreme Engineering is a documentary TV series that aired on the Discovery Channel and the Science Channel. In this episode, it shows the process of building and constructing one of the greatest Hotel on earth, which is Marina Bay Sands in Singapore.
Follow the team behind the construction of Jewel Changi Airport and catch the opportunity to view the exclusive behind-the-scenes footage of how this architecture marvel was created.
From Singapore-grown strawberries to sustainable urban planning, this National Geographic documentary explores the exciting projects that keep this city buzzing.
Shirkers uses one woman's interrogation of a pivotal personal disappointment to offer affecting observations on creativity, lost opportunity, and coming to terms with the past.
SINGAPORE CINEMA
Singapore’s seven most illustrious directors have gathered their creative storytelling and filmmaking talents in a one-of-a-kind project celebrating Singapore’s 50th year.
A 1998 Singaporean comedy film about three friends with financial problems who start a car polishing business together. The plot revolves around the lives of three close friends: Keong (Jack Neo), a spendthrift white-collar worker, Ong (Mark Lee), a general contractor, and Hui (Henry Thia), a kopi tiam waiter.
A lonely construction worker from China goes missing at a Singapore land reclamation site, and a sleepless police investigator must put himself in the mind of the migrant to uncover the truth beneath all that sand.
Inevitably, a transfer to a maximum-security prison will eventually challenge the integrity and ethics of a young correctional officer on his way to become a chief executioner.
When Loh wins the lottery, his family believes the money will deliver them from their struggles. However, he dies abruptly, pitching the family into a battle where the stakes are the very meaning of life itself.
Singapore, late 90s. The friendship between the maid Teresa and young boy Jiale ignite the mother's jealousy, while the Asian recession hits the region.
Director Royston Tan takes the helm for this colorful and lively tale of two Singapore sisters who form a popular getai band. Qi Yu Yu, Mindee Ong, and Yeo Yann Yann star.
Li-Ann, a single and attractive teacher in a Singaporean girls' school teaches her students about an obscure leap year custom practiced in Ireland, where men cannot refuse a proposal or date from a woman should she do so on February 29; she chances upon Jeremy at Windows Cafe who becomes a major part of her life.
Mee Pok Man is the quintessential film that placed Singapore cinema on the world map after a decade of near silence in the 1980s. It harbours a sense of urgency, rawness and authenticity that defined the defiant face of local filmmaking that emerged during the 1990s.
The first shot-in-Singapore Hollywood honor belongs to this seedy 1979 title that was even banned in Singapore until 2006! The reason — the story subject of an American pimp who opens a brothel at the colorful streets of Bugis. DISCLAIMER: The trailer contains nudity.
MOVIES
Goofy middle-aged Ah Gu is not happy with his money-obsessed bride Lily, who only wants to go out and have fun. At the same house, young Meng is left to look after his siblings, sister Trixie, and baby brother Tee. He acts like an old man, trying to teach them discipline, and subsequently has problems with Trixie's boyfriend.
An irresistibly sexy comedy set to a hot soundtrack of '70s dance hits, That's The Way I Like It offers a decidedly offbeat look at the fun, fashion and flash of the disco culture!
An assassin teams up with a woman to help her find her father and uncover the mysteries of her ancestry A lot of scenes in this movie are shot in Singapore.
This contemporary romantic comedy, based on a global bestseller, follows native New Yorker Rachel Chu to Singapore to meet her boyfriend's family.