Garuda Film

A study of middle class life in Jakarta.

Lia’s father is imprisoned for murdering his unfaithful wife. Lia is also imprisoned for stabbing her boyfriend, Daniel who refused to take responsibility for her pregnancy. Once out of prison, her fellow inmate, Lucy, persuades Lia to become a prostitute but she refuses. Then Harun, a guy who has been pursuing her, kidnaps her sister, Nina, and asks for ransom. Love happens when Lia meets Handy, a wealthy future doctor. The relationship between Lia and Handy proceeds, although Lia hides her past, and also where she lives. Finally, when Lia pays Nina’s ransom by sleeping with a wealthy man she previously refused, Handy shows up. Handy knows Lia’s activity through Lucy. Together with her sister, she kills Harun, and also Daniel, the other kidnapper. Despite this, Handy still offers his love to Lia.

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.

It tells the story of Rendy's struggle to cure his younger brother who has lost his memory. Rendy then met Nisye who was touched to see the affection between the brothers and was willing to help them.

Dono, Kasino and Indro is a student boarding house parent Nia, the beautiful girl. Dono and his two friends managed to make the robot to be commercialized. They also met with Chintami top singers. This singer together they hold a charity show for the home repair Ayu and orphaned nearly collapsed. When the show is almost underway, Chintami not appeared since detained managers who do not agree with the plan of the show. With witty style, Dono managed to bring Chintami to the venue. Chintami managers chase up on stage and make a show of their own.

A man violates his village's law by seducing and abandoning his childhood sweetheart. Exiled to Jakarta, he learns to love and respect those in the red light district, causing him to return home in an effort to make amends.

Mona from Medan came to Katty`s house to become a housekeeper. After a while, Mona feels like there is something strange about her employer. Things get worse when Katty`s partner begins to feel jealous of Mona. In a completely different and separate situation, Nur is trying to find work for her to do to bring home money to her family. Her husband is a thief, forcing Nur to give him some of her hard-earned money. The situation worsens when her husband is fired from his job because he takes too many days off. Nur just wants things to go back to how they were.

The film tells the story of Fitria, the symbol of Indonesian women who are beautiful, subtle, humble, simple and very flexible in all respects. She always obeys her parents and her husband... and this is where all the problems arise as Fitria finds herself being maddened by what society expects her to be.

Agnes appears to be out of control. Her father is seldom at home while her stepmother is afraid of her. At school, she dares to confront teachers whom she considers as no good. A young teacher, Wing Ganda, tries to understand her and shows her how to use her talent. His effort is fruitful but Agnes falls in love with him. Wing tries to avoid her. When another young man attempts to approach Agnes, she makes a fool out of him. Agnes has to deal with the fact that she cannot conquer everything. Wing is unconquerable and her stepmother secretly cares about her very much. This was one of the more insightful teenage films that understood teenage psychology and was also optmistic in a realistic way.

A group of Javanese villagers are driven to revolt against the Dutch colonialists in this historical drama, which revolves around the themes of loyalty and treachery.

After Ratna is raped in front of her husband, Johan, the newlyweds’ relationship becomes distant. Then, it is found out a week after that Ratna is pregnant. Johan insists that the foetus be aborted though the doctor determines that the baby is not a result of the rape. Efforts and advice from friends and parents fail to mend their relationship and so they separate. Before returning to her hometown, Ratna sees her friend Maya, who she once advised to break free from the bad influence of Patrick, and now lives supported by an old businessman. Maya finds out that the culprit behind the rape is Patrick, who wants revenge against Ratna since she advised Maya to leave him. When he realizes that his secret is known, Patrick kills Maya and intends to do the same to Ratna. In the middle of the struggle, Johan coincidentally comes home and manages to stab Patrick with his own knife and Ratna finishes him off by hitting him with a heavy object. Johan and Ratna are reconciled.

Riri, will be free from her stepmother when she marries Leo and leaves for Jakarta. But Leo is a supplier of women, for a high-class brothel, owned by Mama Rosa. Thus Riri is "forced" to be a resident of the brothel. Ferdi, her friend from the village, who opens a tyre shop near the brothel, abuses her. Ferdi is drunk, and forces Riri to have sex with him. Then, Ferdi is tortured by the brothel bouncers, until he is burning for revenge. He then becomes a waiter at a kick-boxing club, and becomes an amateur boxer, while Riri still continues her profession. One day, they meet each other in a shopping center and Ferdi asks Riri to run away with him. When the men of Mama Rosa finds them, Ferdi knocks them out one by one with a broken beer bottle. He is thrown into jail while Riri waits for him.

The film tells a story about a husband that becomes the homemaker of the household by taking care of the child, cooking, washing, and others because his wife has a job with a higher pay than his previous job as a teacher

Yanti, has to deal with major changes when her parents divorce. Yanti chooses to live with her mother, but a shock awaits her when her mother is remarried to Bambang, a man whose character is far from the image of a father. She does not feel easy at home, loses her motivation to go to school, prefers to hang out with her friends and gives her virginity to her boyfriend, Frans. When Bambang tries to rape her, she runs away from home and stays with Frans. But it doesn’t last long since the widow who supports Frans gets out of jail. So Yanti goes to her old friend, Irma, and becomes a bartender of a brothel in Tandes. One day, her stepfather comes to the brothel and sees Yanti. Yanti avoids him by leaving with one of the guests from the bar. Then Frans comes to take her out of the place. But Bambang confronts Frans so Yanti takes a knife and stabs Bambang. Yanti goes to jail but she gets married inside the prison.

Badrowi disturbs a married woman he's in love with on her wedding night and kills her husband. He's then severely beaten by villagers and his body is thrown into a ravine. There, he gains supernatural powers from a spider and then starts terrorizing the village.

Dono, Kasino, Indro all find girlfriends through a dating agency. Although the relationships didn't do well for the three of them. And Dono is almost fired when he overuses the company’s phone to call his girlfriend, Rita, whose suddenly disappears and leaves a baby under Dono’s care. Comedy is then focused around the baby, reminiscent of the film, “Three Men and a Baby”.

Reminiscent of the Rocky film starring Sylvester Stallone, Rio has to use his fists to make a living as an illegal parking man. When the parking area is taken over by the local government, Rio loses his livelihood. Mursali then helps him by offering his taxi for driving at night. Again he has to use his fists on this new job, but when he meets Lia, she advises Rio to become a boxer. So he goes to Oom Eddy’s boxing gym and his career takes off. But Lia distracts him from his training and his fights. He also forgets about his girlfriend in the village, Sinta (Ayu Azhari). His losing streak begins and then Lia dies during an abortion. So Rio goes back to his village. Oom Eddy and Rio’s friends try to lift his spirit up again. Then Rio returns to the boxing ring, and is victorious once more.

Suryani, helps Iskandar find a job and gives him love. But the happiness doesn't last long when Aminah, Iskandar's wife, and child come to see him. Then Suryani disappears while carrying Iskandar's baby in her womb. Six years later, Iskandar, assisted by his secretary Sri, finds Suryani and his daughter, Atik, in a village. Although she is reluctant in the beginning, she finally agrees to go with him to the city. Then Suryani avoids Iskandar and forbids her daughter from seeing Iskandar. When Iskandar's company is about to go bankrupt, Suryani comes to help by selling her house and the shop that Iskandar gave. Then the salvaged company is given to Aminah and her child, while Iskandar goes away to repent.

After her husband passes away, Dameria is forced to give up her daughter, Sari, to be adopted by her aunt, the spinster/lawyer, Purwanti. Dameria remarries to Zainal and lives a good life. Later, she yearns for Sari who is now a grown up. Sari knows about her intention. Dameria visits her at school, takes her for walks and lunches. Ten years later, when Purwanti is overseas for business, Sari leaves for Medan to meet her biological mother. When she returns, Purwanti goes straight to Medan. A confrontation ensues but Purwanti lets Sari decide. The girl eventually chooses to stay with her biological mother. But as time goes by, Sari feels uncomfortable with the new atmosphere and finally returns to her aunt’s home.