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List of Malay Film Productions films

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionAug 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ111952612 ↗
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The Malay Film Productions (MFP), also known as the Shaw Studio, is a former film studio located on Jalan Ampas in Balestier, Singapore. The studio operated from 1947 to 1969 with more than 150 movies produced, and was a major contributor to the Golden Age of Malay Cinema. Many of the films are critically acclaimed, a significant number of which involved P. Ramlee as actor, director, writer or composer.

The following is an incomplete list of films produced by MFP (1947–1969). Also included are early Malay films (1937–1941) produced under the Shaw Brothers banner before they formed MFP. A few Malay films were shot in Hong Kong after the Jalan Ampas studio in Singapore closed in 1967.

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