Films featuring Pencak Silat

The most brutal film of the Indonesian wave. Silat is combined with knives and machetes; the slaughterhouse scene is among the harshest in the genre. Not an introduction to Pencak Silat but its extreme edge.

The muddy prison-yard brawl and the kitchen duel are among the genre's most technically complex scenes. Alongside silat, Filipino blades and hammers appear as character signatures.

Iko Uwais and Yayan Ruhian are genuine silat practitioners who choreographed the film themselves. The style is Pencak Silat Harimau — low stances and crouched fighting that make sense in narrow corridors.

Gareth Evans' first film with Iko Uwais and the purest depiction of Harimau silat on screen — without The Raid's pace, but with attention to the cultural context the style comes from.