Sombat Metanee
Nacimiento : 1937-06-26, Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand
Muerte : 2022-08-18
Historia
Sombat Metanee is a legendary Thai singer, movie idol and director of the 1960-70s with over 2,000 film credits and 200 song credits. Metanee was elected to the Thai senate for a 6 year term by popular vote in April 19, 2006 only to have his term cut short by the Military coupe in Thailand the same year.
In a big city, people lead their own lives with hope and determination. For some, the lives can be sweetened a bit with the flavor of love.
The movie about lives in the big city that sees the intermingles between people from different social statuses and class.
The story of a high fly business man who falls for a girl who he has only heard her voice.
An old man who can not remember anything in his present day while still remember his first love from years ago.
A young boy who lost all hope and found new ones while he decided to jump from a sky bridge.
All of them are connected through the local country songs that tell them of hope and love.
Fa's Father
Mit, a hotel manager in Chiang Mai, is going to Krabi to attend a wedding during Songkran festival. On the way, his car has an accident, so he has to hire Bungern, a bus owner to drive him to Krabi. The bus is tumbledown and Mit has no better choice, he is forced to take this bus. While driving to Krabi, they experience many troubles and later become new buddies who make chaos in Songkran festival.
Chok Dee está inspirada en la historia real de Dida, once veces campeón de Thai boxing. El protagonista, un delincuente de poca monta, acaba en prisión. Allí conoce a Jean, un antiguo campeón de boxeo, quien le adentra en uno de los deportes más violentos del mundo, el Thai boxing, en el que también convergen una serie de valores morales. Al salir de la cárcel Dida marcha a Tailandia y pronto descubre que el aprendizaje de este deporte resulta inaccesible para los extranjeros. Pero su constancia le lleva a aceptar un primer combate cuyo precio es la humillación. Su segundo combate en cambio será muy distinto...
Sombat
The story involves a gifted young rock drummer named Bay who commits a grisly murder and becomes a fugitive from the law. Trained by a monk in a style of drumming called the Drums of the Gods, which treats drumming as a martial art for the forces of good, he must face his opposite drummer from the dark side.
Estamos en 1965 y la provincia tailandesa de Ayutthaya está a punto de convertirse en el salvaje oeste. Un grupo de forajidos planean asaltar una cidad a plena luz del día para robar un valioso cargamento de oro y joyas. Durante el brutal asalto, toman una comisaría de policía y dejan tras de si numerosas víctimas tanto militares como civiles. Las autoridades, para vengarse, crean un grupo especial cuya misión será la de capturar a todos los asaltantes vivos... o muertos.
General Kongkiet and General Banphot are two very senior Royal Thai Police officers. They are also neighbors and they are both after the same woman. Their niece and nephew each urging them on to win her heart. However unknown to all of them is that her daughter in law is a murderer who has killed her son and made it look like a suicide. She didn't get the money she thought she would so she kidnaps her mother in law hoping she can finally get what she thinks she deserves.
A young man named Chob, is caught in bed with In-tu-orn, the daughter of a powerful and wealthy landowner who owns almost ever acre in northern Thailand by her father. He asks Chob to prove his love towards his daughter by taking a seven-day trip upcountry, attempting to quarrel with anyone he meets along the way. If Chob can complete this unusual mission he will grant his daughter’s hand in marriage, along with half of his property. One of the first people Chob meets is a northern girl, Nalin, who is unlucky in love and wants to go home to cure her heartbreak but can't afford to travel.
Crazy Father
Whan, the daughter of a village headman, meets a veterinarian on her way home when he helps fix her broken down car. She takes him home to meet her family. Her father suspects she will get involved with him. As he has hopes for her to marry the district officer's son he does everything he can to prevent this from happening.
Lord Minyesihatu
Film épico que se convirtió en el mayor éxito de cine tailandés de todos los tiempos, superando en su día incluso a "Titanic".
Fai
A homage and parody of 1950s and 1960s Thai romantic melodramas and action films. Dum, the son of a peasant falls in love with Rumpoey, the daughter of a wealthy and respected family. The star-crossed lovers are torn apart for years, but their forbidden love survives. When tragedy strikes, Dum unleashes his rage and becomes the gun-slinging outlaw the "Black Tiger" who will stop at nothing to seek his revenge.
This is the third chapter of Somsri, the robot built by Dr. Bem. Somphorn the other robot is also built to be Somsri’s sister. The fun of this episode is that Somsri and Somphorn were in a beauty contest. Will they win the contest?
Danai’s and Chalit’s girlfriends are sisters, daughters of a powerful man living up north from Thailand. Their boyfriends go to see the father and ask for permission to marry his daughters. The man changes his mind and flatly refuses to let his daughters marry the two men. So Danai and Chalit ask the sisters to run away with them. Somehow in the middle of the night Danai and Chalit get separated, but both escape with the wrong girl. They still have to run anyway because the father and his men are in hot pursuit.
Klom
Boonchu and Molee are getting married. But they both have a special task to accomplish as to prove their true love to Manee, Molee's sister. They have to rebuild their newlywed home and to help clean the polluted canal attached to the home. Of course, the mission could not leave alone all his friends to join him and Molee win this game.
Ghost story based on a legendary Thai folk tale.
Thai action film directed by Kom Akkadej (Som Kit). It was made into a TV series which aired from Dec. 4, 2010 to Jan. 7, 2011.
Thai filmmaker Sompote Sands returns with a sequel to "Krai Thong", in which a man can turn himself into a horrific man-eating crocodile.
An SOS message is sent out when a plane carrying gold worth $200 million dollars belonging to the free world is brought down somewhere in Thailand, and Robert Ginty is called upon to team up with his old flame Claudia Dubois. Together, they head up a small crack group of six undercover agents who are given the mission to infiltrate enemy lines and recover the gold.
A story about a man that can transform from human to crocodile and has magical powers that make people adore him.
A crimelord takes a group of schoolchildren hostage in an attempt to extort the parents and local police.
Based on the true story in The King Rama VI reign about the cruel murderer who was the last death row inmate with cutting throat. Boonpeng (Pairoj) loves gambling and using love potion with women. He lives with Mae Plik. He is famous from using love potion. Many girls infatuated with him. Boonpeng likes a girl, so he kills his wife and robs all her assets. How will Boonpeng escape from the law with his spell? How does he relate to the iron chest? Stay tunes. This October.
Shalawan
A giant crocodile wanders around a Thai village and devours its residents.
Plew, a professional killer, comes back to Thailand to find out who killed his father. He is forced by Bunpot to kill Slavut, but instead he accidentally helps Slavut get away. While on the run from Bunpot, he meets Jack; they decide to get out of the country. Later they come back to help one of his best friends and kill Bunpot and all of his men.
When Sergeant Kruy is released from prison, a hitman is dispatched to kill him by Yan Yomarat, a kingpin in Korat. However, Kruy was a former mercenary himself, so he takes care of the hitman. He then decides to personally destroy Yan Yomarat's cartel...
Hin, a monk who, one day receives a letter from his younger niece announcing that his parents have been killed by gangsters, their house burnt and cattle stolen.
Sakao
A mysterious killer dons a succession of masks to do his dirty work.
Director
A mysterious killer dons a succession of masks to do his dirty work.
Phi Mak
Remake of the 1960 ghost film of the same name. This was remade yet again two years later.
Insp. Lo
Various distinguished members of Hong Kong high society were being blackmailed by mysterious and attractive lady Chang Siu Juen, who seems to know the secrets of their past and present illegal activities. Millionaire Cheng Yung Seng knew that it would be his turn next. He thus planned to eliminate Chang first but the plan did not work out and Chang was saved by private detective Fang Dai Kuen...
Yet another version of the famous Thai ghost tale. There are dozens of these.
Thai action film starring Sombat Metanee.
Singa
After a powerful mob boss dies, a number of his underlings fight for power.
Karucha
Mateson gets divorced from Atisak after she finds out he has a mistress. When trying to make a living supporting herself and her daughter Pheung, she gets involved with a drug gang, and she and her daughter gets raped by the gang. She then goes on an atrocious killing spree seeking revenge leading her into madness.
Mai
In order to really see justice done, Mai (Sombat Metanee) leave his work as a lawman, and funds his activities with some thievery of his own. Many elephants serve as co-stars in the action, as he achieves supremacy in crime but cannot escape his status as a wanted man. Eventually, pursued by criminals and the police alike, he takes his wife and children to Cambodia.
(listed as Sung Pa)
Sombat Metanee stars as an army captain who teams up with a coalition of spook agencies to bust open a global heroin ring run by bad gangsters who think nothing of blowing up an army base to secure an opium route through the mountains.
Chiao Chi (as Chai Song)
A misguided youth falls into the bad company of an underground brothel syndicate but redeems himself on discovering that his mother was murdered by the syndicate's female boss.
Doctor
Years after being banished from her village, a young woman who was accused of being possessed by a tiger devil spirit returns. Partial remake of a 1969 film.
Sheriff Peth
Pherg, the renowned leader of a famous gang of armed thieves, returns to his home town on a quest for revenge. Years earlier Pherg's father was killed by Sergeant Tom, a corrupt former cop turned arms dealer, extortionist and all around Mafioso and Pherg was forced to flee for his life but he goes back now to set things right.
Thai film directed by Kom Akkadej and starring Sombat Metanee.
Tarutao Island is Thailand's version of Alcatraz. This jailbreak movie centers on the elaborate schemes of the beleaguered inmates, assisted by some of the native women, to flee the island prison to get their freedom of the mainland. To do this, they must escape brutal guards, and an ocean full of crocodiles.
Thai action movie
This ain't no circus! From the depths of Thai film history comes Kom Akadej’s forgotten masterpiece about cops, gangsters, a house-crushing story of love, and killer elephants! Who or what is killing rhinos in the Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Reserve? Killer Elephants reveals how human intervention drastically altered the behavior of male elephants, turning them uncharaceristically violent. This startling film reveals an unseen side to the docile creature we know, but also the consequences of the unnatural habitation of animals.
A woman seeks revenge against a group of gangsters who have taken ownership of her father's company, and hires a man to carry out the task.
Small-town life appeals to home-comer Richard, until he finds out that everything isn't running as smoothly as it seems.
A Thai military outpost in the town of Phu Kham in Laos, lead by General Wangpo, is under attack from Karen insurgents. The General's baby son is entrusted to Sergeant Khem to take him back across the border to safety.
Sa Ai
Thai action movie
Thai Police Officer
A Thai army undercover drug agent infiltrates an opium ring in the Golden triangle, but falls in love with the woman ring leader.
Anan
Seeking vengeance, a man is directed by a sorcerer to cut his child out of his pregnant wife so he can create a miraculous 'ghost child'. Overhearing this conversation, his wife flees into the forest where she ends up giving birth to twins with the help of a kindly woman living there. Afraid her husband is chasing her, the wife flees further into the forest with just one of her children, but dies when she falls off a cliff after being chased by wolves. The wolves raise the child as one of their own, whilst her twin sister is raised by the kindly woman living in the forest.
Hang Seuk and his gang terrorize villagers.
A plane transporting gold is hijacked in Thailand during the Viet Nam war. A team of Thai mercenaries is hired by the C.I.A. to bring it back.
Tah Tien is ostensibly a retelling of an old Thai folk tale about a battle between two giants, Yuk Wud Jaeng and Yuk Wud Pho
Boonmuang
Before her death, a grandmother gives her granddaughter a magical ring that'll give her dead spirit power over her. The spirit manifests itself when her head detaches from her body at night and flies away with guts dangling under it, seeking blood to drink or raw flesh to devour.
Nam investigates the death of her sister, which leads her on dangerous journey surrounded by shady characters.
Un hijo, largo tiempo ausente, regresa a su casa para apoyar a su hermano en la lucha que éste mantiene contra sus poderosos vecinos. Pero el mayor peligro con que se enfrentan es el amor que ambos sienten por la hermana de su amigo.
Tui
A story of Tui, the son of the chief and Priaw, the millionaire of the district. One day, villagers were preparing to welcome Priaw back to the village while some criminals were planning to get in. Tui had to do something to protect Priaw.
Paduempun
The scenery of Samui in 1969 is the background of the musical love story between the couples from the rival families. Sombat Mathanee stars the playboy, Paduempun against Arunya Naamwong who plays the business girl, Napaporn. They came to Paradise Island to take care of their family coconut orchards. They bet who could work more successful. If the guy won, the girl must have married him. If he lost, he gave up his business to her. In the midst of controversy, he fell in love with her. Meanwhile, she began to be confused because she might be in love with him as well.
A black magic curse is cast for love and backfires.
A young woman accused of being possessed by a demonic tiger spirit (วิญญาณเสือสมิง) is asked to move away from her Thai village to Burma or else. She and her grandmother return years later and a series of mysterious killings begin. This was remade in 1976 (as The Tiger Devil) and several times after.
Despite the title, this appears to be a vampire film influenced by Western vampire mythology. It was remade as a horror-comedy in 1984.
This movie is about Bang Rajan village. This village is located north of Ayutthaya, the old capital of Siam, predecessor state to modern Thailand. The village played a famous role related to its resistance against the Burmese in the war that saw the destruction of Ayutthaya city in 1767. Tap is a Siamese soldier leader. Siamese people have internal conflicts while they are also fighting with Burma.
Chaokun Jaroenkesa, the owner of 'Kesajaroen', a shop that sells hair loss treatment, wants to pay back his debt of kindness to his dear Indian friend, whose formula is responsible for the company's prosperity, by hiring Manas, his good-for-nothing son, to marry Nam Tan (Sugar), the daughter of his dear friend, for two-million baht.
A Thai soap drama about love, mistrust, and corrupted marriage.