Arifin C. Noer

Anna is a private tutor for Frans' two children who have just lost their mother. The mistress of the house died from being poisoned by Renita, her own younger sister. There she was seduced by Danny, Frans' brother-in-law who she initially rejected. However, love began to grow when Danny moved to Jakarta. Unfortunately, their letters were hijacked by Renita. Then there was also a declaration of love from Frans who eventually also died from Renita's poison.

After the Japanese occupation, the Indonesian people began fighting for independence, culminating with the 1 March 1949 general attack on the Dutch-held capital at Yogyakarta, led by Suharto. Amidst this backdrop two families face their own, personal issues.

Jamal, a law student researching the tradition of carok, finds himself caught in a cycle of violence that has long divided his family and community. As a feud fueled by honor, revenge, and personal ambition escalates, Jamal is forced to confront the very tradition he has sought to understand and resist.

The official story of the events surrounding the September 30 to October 1, 1965 attempted coup d'etat in Indonesia by a group calling itself the "30 September Movement", leading to the downfall of the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) and the rise of Suharto's New Order regime.

A young Indonesian leaves her baby in a cab, so the driver takes the infant home, then tries to find the mother.

It tells the story of Jelita, a girl who was stranded on a remote island as a child after a plane crash. She grows up among an isolated tribe, unaware of her origins. When a group of anthropologists arrives to study the island, Jelita reunites with her father, who turns out to be alive. However, conflicts with treasure hunters and the local tribe make their journey full of danger.

A married man has two daughters with his mistress and then abandons her. Years later, the mother is killed in a train accident while the now-grown daughters become involved with prostitution, pimps, rape and incest.

After Tini catches her boyfriend Narno trying to seduce her sister Tina and ends their relationship, she mysteriously dies from a snakebite. Narno's mother then visits a shaman to place a curse on one of Tina's potential suitors. As all of that is going on, a mysterious murderer is lurking around bumping off other members of both Tina and Narno's families.

After the accidental drowning death of their son, a military truck driver begins to doubt the faithfulness of his wife.

Romi and Juli, junior high school friends, are in love with each other. But their parents; Sabar and Komar, are business rivals, and creates obstacles for them. Romi and Juli agree to run away from home and they get lost in a cave. Romi falls ill so Juli has to urgently find medicine. Meanwhile, their parents keep looking for them and finally make peace with each other after their children are found.

Students who come to Yogyakarta to study, also have their first taste of love and sex. Three friends, Benny, Lesmono, and Larso find this out for themselves. Benny, a ladies’ man, introduces his friends to prostitution. Lesmono is secretly in love with Indri, but she falls into the hands of Benny. Benny, who takes life very lightly, manages to smuggle Indri into his room in the lodging house. When he goes home to Jakarta, Indri is anxious because she misses her period. Lesmono helps her to find a shaman who can perform an abortion. But when she goes to see a doctor, she finds out that she is not pregnant after all. Lesmono hopes to get Indri back but his hopes vanish when Benny returns and Indri goes back to him. Attempting to represent the teenagers’ psychological state in relation to love and sex; the film only manages to be jokey and shallow.

A mental hospital becomes a sanctuary for their ex-patients when they feel rejected by a society who thinks that they have an illness that can never be cured. "Everybody wants me to come back here," says Yuyun. But she tries hard to prove that she is cured. She can live normally like other "healthy people", and is able to work well, and even to fall in love.

Parodying the TV police character Kojak, Leman, identifies himself with Kojak by his hat and lollipop, firmly stuck in his cheeks. He tries to help a woman by picking up a package that falls from her bag, and the package is filled with flour that he thinks is morphine. The woman turns out to be a flirtatious widow who wants to become a photo model. All the stories in the film are spoofs, and the suspected bandits reveal themselves as filmmakers.

In a university campus, most of the rich kids are driving sedans, except for the lovely Narti, who rides a rickshaw. Iwan, a friendly and sympathetic guy, rides his motorcycle, and they soon develop an intimate and playful relationship. There are also others such as the shy Hendro, and the disheveled and free-spirited Tari. The drama concerns some conflict between Iwan and his father, and also Narti’s parents’ attitude toward Iwan. The film highlights the young social life on campus and the appeal is in the fresh dialogue, which is sometimes critical.

Director Wim Umboh experiments again and the first third of the movie is filled with a series of images almost without dialogue relating the work of brothers, Johanes and Leo Mokodompis.

Filled with surrealistic dream scenes, this fairy-tale-like film sees Buang, Bernardus, and Bakar, three prisoners who run away during a prison revolt. They meet Bunga, a small lonely girl whose parents are busy with work, and whose house is secluded from the neighbours. This meeting transforms the prisoners, into normal decent persons. Happy to find new friends, Bunga steals food from her house for the three new friends. The fairy tale ends when the three convicts are recaptured.

Suci’s performance is exaggerated when she is with Oom Kapten, Mr. Dawud and Mr. Condro. The three men are her clients and she is mistress to them. But Suci, the prima donna of the people’s theatre (a srimulat troupe, a traditional theatre style from East Java), who performs in a squalid village area, has her own dreams.

Alex is thrown out of his parents’ house. This is a part of an ongoing conflict with his father because he is thought to have inherited his mother’s wild behaviour. Alex makes a mistake of raping his girlfriend, Joice. Later, Alex becomes an accomplished racer. He then receives affection from a friend of his mother. His damaged relationship with Joice is mended even though it doesn’t get family approval. He dates many women. Finally, he dies of a stray bullet in a mass riot.

The film chronologically depicts the birth of the Eleventh March Warrant (Supersemar) in 1966. In an increasingly critical situation, Soekarno gives out authority in the form of Supersemar.

Tells the story of two women with different characters who love the same man. Widuri, does not dare to express her love while Irawati is more aggressive. One time Widuri was raped by Irawati's men until she was pregnant. Then she moved to the village. While Toby was threatened to marry Irawati because Irawati was pregnant due to her promiscuity and because she lent Irawati's father's company money to her friend but could not return it. Toby avoided it by following Widuri to the village and intended to marry her, but Widuri refused. Toby finally had an accident and Irawati died while giving birth.