Movies: Salleh Melan

Based on a historical figure recorded in the 17th century Malay Annals. Political intrigue and jealousy within Sultan Mahmud Shah’s court sees Tun Fatimah losing her family, including her beloved father Datuk Bedahara and husband Tun Ali. Unwillingly...

Datuk Karim Jaya death is good news to Datuk Bandung and his followers who want to seize power....

A secret agent travels to Singapore in search of a secret formula. Just about everyone he trusts ends up betraying him....

"'Jiran Sekampung' is an ambitious [social-realist] ensemble film that ties together overlapping story-strands. (...) It seeks to function like a microcosm of contemporary Malay society. There's envy and backbiting, but also love and understanding. P...

Rahimah is forced into prostitution by her stepfather. While she solicits at a bar, it is raided by the police. But Rahimah is able to escape thanks to Nor, a sympathetic policeman who takes her into his home. A romance soon blossoms between them, an...

Tells the story of two warriors, Mahfuz and Mahadi who survived when their ship was attacked by pirates. They are both stranded on a beach and later meet a fortune teller. The fortune teller told them that Mahfuz would be a powerful man in the state....

During an outing to the beach, Ali falls ill suddenly, seemingly struck by a wicked spell. Keeping watch by his bedside, his wife is at a loss as he begins to tell of a long feverish dream set in a legendary (and supernatural) time and place where an...