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- An assassin teams up with a woman to help her find her father and uncover the mysteries of her ancestry.
- Serangoon Road is a detective noir series set against the tumultuous backdrop of 1960s Singapore.
- In 90s Singapore, the friendship between Filipino nursemaid Teresa and her young charge Jiale makes waves in a family, while the Asian recession hits the region.
- The legend of Yamashita's Gold lures a treasure hunter and his group deep into the Indonesian jungle. Once they are trapped in an abandoned World War II Japanese bunker, they face the terrifying reality that the only way out is to go further in.
- "Every year, for thirty days during the lunar seventh month, the Chinese believe that the gates of hell are thrown open. Vengeful spirits or hungry ghosts wander among the living, seeking revenge and justice before the gates of hell are closed again for another year." The eighteen years old Rosa Dimaano arrives in Singapore from Philippines to give support to her family working as a maid in the house of the artists of a Chinese opera troupe Mr. and Mrs. Teo on the first day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar. She is welcomed by the family and introduced to their friends and their retarded son Ah-Soon. Later, Mrs. Teo advises her about their beliefs and how the dead should be respected and honored along the seventh month. However, Rosa sweeps their offer on the sidewalk breaking a basic rule and offending the spirits, and she is haunted by ghosts everywhere. When Ah-Soon calls her Esther Santos and she finds some belongings of the unknown Esther in the house, she discloses a dark and scary secret about the past of her masters.
- The Red Army aims to assassinate the Daka Lama in Singapore. Ling May, with a rare blood type, encounters them. Terrorists strike. Authorities seek a donor match as Ling's boyfriend and a conman intervene, racing against time.
- Against the wishes of his parents, Tae goes to Singapore to become a dancer. His teacher Emi yearns to return to competition and finds a kindred spirit in Tae. Their closeness inspires jealousy in Emi's controlling boyfriend Cheng.
- "Be with Me" consists of three stories of love vs. solitude : 1) An aging, lonesome shopkeeper doesn't believe in life anymore, ever since his wife died. But he is saved from desperation by reading an autobiographical book and meeting its author, a deaf and blind woman of his own age. 2) Fatty, a security guard in his fifties, lives for two things: good food and love for a pretty executive living in his block of flats. But, if it is easy to satisfy his first need, winning the heart of the distant belle is a horse of another color. 3) Two teenage schoolgirls get to know each other on the Internet. Soon they fall in love.
- Story about life of 3 EM3's student in Singapore, who struggling with their education and personal life.
- Fast, frenetic, and furious, 15 is story of five Singaporian teenagers who, abandoned by system.
- In a future Singapore, CyberLink is used for communication (sometimes virtual reality), monetary transaction and records of all citizens. Headhunter Dash is commissioned to find Edward Chan. Why are so many interested in him?
- Marian (Bea Alonzo) and Manuel (John Lloyd Cruz) have been best friends since childhood. Manuel wants to profess his deeper feelings for Marian, but it looks like she is in love with Lance (Sam Milby), a famous musician. Manny is disheartened but, hindered by their long friendship, he cannot express his true feelings. "Close to You" is a Filipino romantic comedy film from Star Cinema.
- Hock, an ordinary underachiever, discovers disco when his favorite kung fu movie is replaced by "Forever Fever," a low-budget Saturday Night Fever (1977) knockoff. Amazingly, the movie's main character comes to life and becomes Hock's guardian angel.
- An estranged family goes through the painful process of healing their wounds in this drama set in modern-day Singapore.
- An assassin is hired to kill the men responsible for kidnapping an important man's son. With every death, the killer gets closer to the last kidnapper's name.
- A painfully shy noodle-shop owner and a prostitute have a chance encounter when destiny arrives in the form of a car accident.
- A freak accident causes a blue collar worker (Singh) and his supervisor (Wong) to swap souls.
- A romance between two opposites.
- "4:30" traces the relationship between Xiao Wu, an eleven year old Chinese Boy and his tenant Jung, a thirty-something Korean man. Told entirely from the perspective of the boy, Xiao Wu, this story of two very different characters is less about friendship than about a shared experience and appreciation of solitude. "4:30" starts with Xiao sneaking to the room of Jung in the early hours of the morning, and stealing from the Korean man. Just as getting intoxicated is a habit for Jung, who only staggers back to his rented room when drunk, soon stealing for Xiao Wu becomes equally as compulsive. We soon realize that Jung's true intention for staying in Singapore is suicide. It is only through Xiao's encounter with Jung failing in his bid to die that he begins to understand his true fascination with Jung.
- Fearing her son could be gay, a conservative mother takes in a French foreign exchange student, who ends up teaching the family a lot about life, acceptance, and love.
- 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.
- Three ex-convicts face difficulties after release from prison.
- A story about young men who had to go war to protest their country. Each of them has his own story.
- Liang Po Po, the feisty 80-year-old granny, decides to join the Triads after leaving an old folks home.
- A group of underdogs form an amateur football team to play in a local league. The prize for the winners: a trip to the 2002 World Cup Finals. The team include a common man's hero who raises his two children single-handedly after his wife passes away, an ex-con with major anger management problems, a lounge singer struggling against his deadly nemesis - the karaoke machine, and a tender but tough tomboy. The story is built around the team struggle against the odds from no-hopers to title contenders. Through the game of football, the team learns not just sportsmanship, but life lessons that help them to mature as individuals, and ultimately, help each other to become better human beings.
- Anna & Anna is a movie about a Singaporean arts saleswoman / alpha female and her subdued doppelganger. Anna One (the arts saleswoman) is very successful in her job, and gets posted to Shanghai, where she used to live before. There, by a coincidence, she finds another woman who not only like her but IS her - Anna Two. This Anna has finished her studies, become a painter, and stayed with Oulang, a depressed musician - the life as Anna One's could have been, had she made another decision at one point of her life.
- A truck driver falls in love with, and is rejected by, a white-collar career woman. Competition arrives from a dashing male colleague.
- Episodes in the life of ordinary Singaporeans living in one HDB flat.
- A pathologist develops a bond with a nine-year-old boy whose mother is arrested twice for her suspected involvement in the death of her first and her second husband.
- Two highschool girls try to find their true loves among the guys who are wooing them.
- The story revolves around the lives of five teenage girls in Singapore, between 14 and 17 years of age from different family backgrounds. It tells of their experiences during this rebellious phase of their lives, when they seek to assert their independence from family, school and society. They do so by forming a gang and living by the rules of the Gang. They hang out at discos for fun, fight with other gangs when their interests are threatened and steal for a living.
- Caught transporting explosives, Kang is facing the gallows if Sam cannot track down and get the truth from a leading trade unionist, Lim Chee Kit, whose organisation is suspected of being involved in a recent bombing.
- Sam is on the brink of discovering the truth behind the murder of Patricia's husband - a murder that involves a secret deal between James Lim, Kay Song and the CIA.
- When the Cheng Detective Agency is hired by the CIA to investigate the murder of a US sailor, Sam is asked to help out as a favour to the widowed owner, Patricia.
- When a newborn baby is left on the doorstep of the Cheng Detective Agency, Patricia and Sam have to figure out what they're meant to do with him.
- Sam's old friend Robert Collier is arrested for murdering his date, bartender and aspiring reporter Angelica Warnock. Convinced of his innocence, Sam tries to clear his name-but even Robert himself can't remember what happened that night.
- When Feng, arrives from China looking for the husband she hasn't seen since the war, no-one but she is even certain that he is still alive. But Sam knows what it's like to lose family and Patricia knows what it's like to lose a husband: both will move heaven and earth to solve the mystery of what happened to Feng's husband - but the case becomes even more immediate and mysterious when Feng is poisoned.