Sophan Sophiaan
Arini is "misled" by a close friend, Ira, who wants to marry her husband, Helmi. Eventually she finds out this plan, so she asks for a divorce and leaves her son, who later is discovered to have kidney failure. She leaves for the U.S. where she meets Nick, a student who wants to escape from his conservative, and troubled family. Nick really loves Arini, but the latter is still involved in many matters related to her ex-husband. The director, Sophan Sophiaan, who has a political activist family background, always uses his films to criticise social and political issues. Only this time, he does it in a more subtle way.
Iwan, a high school student, loses his bajaj-driver father because the jeep of Dance Lintang, a famous singer, runs him down. Iwan’s pregnant mother has to work hard. Iwan has been singing on the streets for money, and now he gets help from his younger siblings who sell newspapers. But his mother passes away when she gives birth to her last child so Iwan vows to raise his siblings. But when he cannot afford it, he puts his siblings in the orphanage. Then when his girlfriend Tia yells at him for doing that, he instinctively runs off with his siblings. He is imprisoned as a result but a journalist, Miftah, who knows his talent, bails him out. Iwan decides to quit school and Miftah manages to record him. Dance is furious when he hears that Iwan is making a record. He approaches the producer and destroys the recording tape. Then Dance gets arrested for narcotics while Iwan’s record is a major hit, so he brings his siblings home from the orphanage.
The story of Tantini from the Sanca Bachtiar family who is kidnapped and later adopted by the Arnold van Dyk family. They change her name into Tinneke. Sanca finds out about her daughter’s whereabout several years after the child is declared dead. He tries hard and eventually succeeds on getting Tinneke back.
Non has been depressed for some time, as she is not accepted by the family of her husband, Hans Tobing, though they already have three children. Just when Non is finally being accepted in her husband’s family, her happiness is threatened by ovarian cancer. It traumatises the family. Hans has to sacrifice everything that he can to save his wife’s life. Fortunately, Non gets her spirit back when she realises that her children still need her. That spirit is the most important element in the process of her recovery.
Failing a suicide attempt, Arni is rescued and treated in a house. Living next door is a journalistic photographer, Baron. Both of them fall in love with each other. In the end it is discovered that Arni is the wife of a famous businessman who is having an affair with a famous fashion model
After her mother’s death, Yeyen’s father remarries and she now has a stepmother. Yeyen is then carried away by dreams and stories about stepmothers, and one day, after seeing an interesting event, she is so moved that she does not want to go home. She befriends homeless people and sees the joys of street life. Then the parents of her friend, Yoyo, help her realise that a stepmother is still a mother. She is advised to return home as her father, who accuses the stepmother of doing something bad to her, is frantic with worry. Yeyen finally goes home.
A man is murdered, his wife is kidnapped and their young son is thrown into a ravine. The child grows up with a deformity and is known around the village as Si Bongkok ("The Hunchback"). After receiving martial arts training, he seeks revenge on the man who killed his father.
Mas Tok, son of a rich family, is studying in Holland when he meets Inge, a staff of Nitou travel agency. They marry but cannot have a child due to Mas Tok’s illness. When they return to Indonesia, his parents disapprove of his marriage as they intended him to marry another girl. Mas Tok then returns to Europe to treat his illness. Meanwhile, Inge is made to leave by her parents-in-law when she is found pregnant and thought to be unfaithful. Mas Tok comes home to find his wife gone and blames his parents because the baby is his son. Mas Tok meets Inge again under a snow fall, much like when they first meet, only this time his parents are there to witness.
A Cape Fear-style psycho-thriller told in flashback mode. The peace of legal prosecutor Johan Arifin’s family is broken by the arrival of various fears in the form of a flirtatious waiter, threatening letters and calls. The culprit is Barman and his motive is revenge as Johan’s testimony put him in jail. The climax is the kidnapping of Johan’s wife and son.
Choo died in South America and left a legacy of US Dollars two million to the younger daughter, Pei Fun, of his old friend Chang in Hongkong. The second beneficiary in the will, should Pei Fun die, was Nana, the young widow. Nana returned to Hongkong and conspired with her lover Johnny to wrest the fortune from the Chang family...
Two sisters, Hanifah and Latifah/Ipah have different attitudes toward life in Jakarta. While Hanifah is content working as a teacher, Ipah, who works as a shopkeeper, is obsessed with living a high life. She leaves her boyfriend, Adi, feeling that her sister’s way of thinking is too conservative, and changes her name to Eva. Eva then becomes a runway model and gets famous. She has an affair with an older man named Abas, gets pregnant, has an abortion and becomes a high class prostitute. Meanwhile, her ex-boyfriend, Adi, has an affair with Lily, Abas’ wife. One day, she meets again with Adi who is looking for a prostitute for his friend. Offended, Eva stabs Adi. She is then sentenced to 18 years in prison. Her father and her sister, Hanifah, come to the court and give her a mukena (a kind of hijab used by female Muslims for praying) before she goes to prison.
A love triangle develops between two brothers: Dimas, a painter and Anton, a scholar, when they fall in love with Amalia. Anton dates Amalia before Dimas, because they are friends from college. But then Amalia likes Dimas better, feeling that she has a better connection with him. Anton is angry and Dimas and Amalia are judged before their entire family. The feud between the two brothers continues, until one of their house staff, Mr. Leman, tells Dimas that he was adopted. Dimas runs away from the family and he joins a ship crew. Since Dimas is gone and Amalia is pregnant, Anton marries Amalia. Two years later, Amalia is going to meet Dimas in the harbour. In a meeting between Anton and Dimas, who is currently dating a singer named Nana, Anton explains everything. Dimas rushes to meet Amalia and his child but before they can meet, a heavy load falls onto Dimas, and it kills him instantly.
Andi and Erna have been married for 13 years but Andi’s parents still disapprove of their marriage. Andi’s lawyer father once prosecuted Erna’s father. Erna’s brother, Tato, also dislikes their marriage, as tried to bribe someone to help his father and goes to jail because of it. After his release from prison, Tato wants to take revenge on Andi. Erna still tries to ask Andi’s father for his blessings, but the father is adamant, though his wife has grown to care about grandson, Ari, who is found to have a brain tumour that requires surgery. When he knows about the condition, Andi’s father starts to soften and so does Tato. Ari’s operation fails, so he asks that his eyes be given to a blind girl.
Bram Bahrumsyah, a career diplomat, has a wife, Marsya, a successful interior designer. Marsya’s higher financial success makes Bram depressed. Even though he has a good career, he is financially dependent on Marsya. But Marsya’s business ambition is merely to help her husband’s career. In this state of mind, Bram meets Romina who is also in a similar state of depression. Both of them have an affair.
