Barry Prima

Acting

Barry Prima

Born

1954-08-19 (72)

Place of birth

Bandung, West Java, Indonesia

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Hubertus Barry Knoch Prima, better known as Barry prima (born on August 19, 1954, in Bandung, West Java), is an Indonesian actor and martial artist renowned during the 1980s. He is the sixth of ten siblings, with a Dutch father and an Indonesian mother. Barry's film career began with Primitif in 1978. However, he rose to fame after portraying the iconic character Jaka Sembung in Jaka Sembung Sang Penakluk (1981). Throughout his career, Barry has starred in more than 60 films, including Srigala (1981), The Devil's Sword (1984), and Menumpas Teroris (1986). In addition to acting, Barry has a background in martial arts, particularly taekwondo, which supported his roles in various action films…

Known for

Dance of the Damned poster
8.0

Darso, a clown busker, lost his wife and unborn child to thug violence. In grief, he brought his wife's body back to his village. However, the village is in chaos due to a conflict with an evil developer and a curse ritual that summons dark forces. Darso is also caught up in the evil forces connected to the person he loves most.

Dance of the Damned

2026

Sundel Bolong poster
5.3

A newly-married woman and former prostitute whose husband, a ship's captain, has gone to sea, is pressured into returning to her old profession. When she refuses, she is violently gang-raped and left pregnant and despondent. She kills herself while attempting to abort the fetus but returns as a vengeful Sundel Bolong, a ghost with a putrid, rotting hole in her back. When the rapists and conspirers start turning up dead, her husband and the police try to put a stop to the violence, once and for all.

Sundel Bolong

1981

Sunda Emperor poster
NR

An ancient coin from the Sunda Kingdom draws Miheng, Ohim, Ece, and Neng Eti into a dangerous adventure tracing forgotten historical traces, when the small artifact unlocks the secrets of the past and the future.

Sunda Emperor

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Demi Cinta poster
NR

Bagus (Ricky Harun) and Masbin (Tora Sudiro) are two cousins ​​who are willing to sacrifice anything for love. All starts with Bagus who put his heart in Cempaka (Farali Khan), their neighbors in flats. Seeing Cempaka approached by a rich man, Bagus accepts Syamsudin’s offer. To be Toni’s men, they should have experience of crime. The first crime in their lives is done: kidnapping a child. But it all falls apart, because the child is Toni Montana’s from his mistress, Amara (Titi Kamal). They are stuck on a fun and silly runaway. In the process of escape, Bagus falls in love with Sandra (Nasya Marcella), the child’s baby sitter. And Masbin falls in love with Amara (Titi Kamal). Love turns out to put them in a more difficult and complicated situation.

Demi Cinta

2017

The Warrior and the Ninja poster
6.2

Balung Wesi was defeated in battle and is seeking revenge on Ki Sapu Angin, the teacher of Jaka Sembung, The Warrior. In mobilizing power to fight the Dutch, The Warrior makes the acquaintance of Bajing Ireng (Black Ninja).

The Warrior and the Ninja

1985

No artwork available
NR

Verril is a teenage boy who lacks discipline, loves playing video games, and lives without a clear purpose. His life begins to change when he develops a crush on Qiara, his active and high-achieving classmate. To get closer to Qiara and prove that he can change, Verril makes the big decision to join the taekwondo club. Although he initially struggled with the grueling physical training and strict rules, these challenges actually became a turning point for him. Through taekwondo, Verril learned about hard work, sportsmanship, and self-control, which gradually strengthened his mindset. This process of maturing was also supported by improved relationships and communication with his family, coach, and friends around him.

Hubaeboy

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Film credits

2020s · 3 titles

2010s · 8 titles

Demi Cinta poster
NR

Bagus (Ricky Harun) and Masbin (Tora Sudiro) are two cousins ​​who are willing to sacrifice anything for love. All starts with Bagus who put his heart in Cempaka (Farali Khan), their neighbors in flats. Seeing Cempaka approached by a rich man, Bagus accepts Syamsudin’s offer. To be Toni’s men, they should have experience of crime. The first crime in their lives is done: kidnapping a child. But it all falls apart, because the child is Toni Montana’s from his mistress, Amara (Titi Kamal). They are stuck on a fun and silly runaway. In the process of escape, Bagus falls in love with Sandra (Nasya Marcella), the child’s baby sitter. And Masbin falls in love with Amara (Titi Kamal). Love turns out to put them in a more difficult and complicated situation.

Demi Cinta

2017

Sweet 20 poster
7.5

Adapted from Korean movie, Miss Granny, this movie tells a story of old woman that despise old-age that suddenly transform to a pretty girl with all her youth problems.

Sweet 20

2017

Comic 8: Casino Kings - Part 2 poster
5.4

Eight secret agents assigned to go undercover as stand up comedians in search of a comedian who becomes a liaison to the master criminal named The King, the most spectacular gambling casino owner in Asia.

Comic 8: Casino Kings - Part 2

2016

Comic 8: Casino Kings - Part 1 poster
5.9

Eight secret agents assigned to go undercover as stand up comedians in search of a comedian who becomes a liaison to the master criminal named The King, the most spectacular gambling casino owner in Asia.

Comic 8: Casino Kings - Part 1

2015

London Virginia poster
NR

This is the story of a girl named London (Cheverly Amalia) who has everything in terms of career. London became a model and a top artist who came from a well-off family. However, despite having it all, London has always faced a number of problems. Candra (Gading Marten) likes London and tries to approach her by disguising himself as a gay.

London Virginia

2010

Pintu Harmonika poster
NR

These are three stories about humans who have to live in shophouses. On the top floor of life and on the ground floor of life.

Pintu Harmonika

2013

The Tarix Jabrix 3 poster
NR

After failing to become a hero, Cacing now works at an insurance company. He was asked by his superior to negotiate with his old nemesis, The Road Devils motorcycle gang, to stop causing more riots in Bandung.

The Tarix Jabrix 3

2011

Maju Kena Mundur Kena Returns poster
4.0

Once fired from a job at the hospital, WOW trio eyebrows Wira, Ozie and again working in unison Wulu mini market and have a manager who did not lose gokil, make people nervous and had a face pastel pas'an. To get into the hostel were super tight, WOW trio has their own way to get into the girls dormitory his cross-eyed cross-eyed Ko. The girl ran away from home after breaking the expensive jars owned by his father. Chaos, and until the girl finally get into the dorms and on but thought Anisa. Anisa Mosidik nephew who want to live in a dorm.

Maju Kena Mundur Kena Returns

2016

1990s · 13 titles

No artwork available
9.0

Stranded on a pirate island, Walet Merah (Permatasari), which translates as Red Swallow, hunts for treasure and her missing love, fellow superhero Panji Tengkorak (Prima).

Walet merah

1993

Panther poster
NR

A drug dealer's gang arranges a brutal massacre in the house of the girl's relatives. But her loyal friend comes to the rescue.

Panther

1995

No artwork available
NR

As an adult, Anglingkusumo (Fendy Pradana) refuses to let his father, Anglingdarma (Barry Prima), arrange a marriage for him. He sets off on a journey, accompanied by Klungsur (Kamprets). During his travels, he encounters various incarnations of Anglingdarma, who want him to return home, but to no avail. He then becomes a student of Ki Brojosakti (Baron Hermanto). Upon hearing this, Anglingdarma objects and goes to the school, but is unable to do much. Ki Brojosakti disappears just as his supernatural powers have taken hold of Anglingkusumo, who has become attracted to Srenggono Rento (Murti Sari Dewi). Anglingkusumo then returns home and challenges Anglingdarma to prove that he is ready to be a true knight. Anglingkusumo is eventually crowned king, though his younger brother is unhappy about it.

Prabu Anglingdarma III (Pemburu dari Neraka)

1994

The Warrior and the Ocean Goddess poster
10.0

Jaka Sembung enlists the help of a sea goddess, Nyi Roro Kidul to help fight against the Dutch colonialist from conquering his country.

The Warrior and the Ocean Goddess

1990

Jampang II poster
NR

After burying his brother, Jampang renews his fight against oppression. He starts to defend people who are forced to sell their land, by tackling Kisima, the extortionist. Kisima, who wants money to open a gambling house is furious at Jaka’s intervention. So Kisima brings in another champion, Kosim and his teacher, Komeng. Jampang defeats all of them including Kisima, who is thrown into a river full of crocodiles.

Jampang II

1990

Jaka Tuak poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Jaka Tuak

1990

Gairah Membara poster
NR

Fights between children in a "mafia" family, Leo (Baron Hermanto) and Carmen (Sony Dewantoro) want to get rid of Rigo (Barry Prima), the family's stepson who is loved by his father, the head of the "mafia".

Gairah Membara

1998

Burning Passion poster
10.0

Natasha finds difficulty in collecting her property, the legacy of her father, since it involves a corrupt international syndicate. For this purpose, she seeks help from Jack. (courtesy: Film Indonesia)

Burning Passion

1996

Permainan Membara poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Permainan Membara

1998

No artwork available
NR

Ki Debleng and his wife married their respective students, Rawing and Saraswati. However, the young warrior couple's household was shaken by the presence of Kartika who admitted that she was carrying Rawing's baby in her womb. Rawing didn't admit it. Saraswati, who is also pregnant, runs away and deepens her knowledge of the golden whip warrior, the Bridal Goddess. Meanwhile, Kartika asks for help from Ki Rembong who leads the Uharani group, a security intruder in the martial arts world. Dewi Pengantin, who didn't like Ki Rembong's actions, passed on her knowledge to Rawing and Saraswati. With this additional knowledge, this pair of young warriors succeeded in defeating Ki Rembong and his gang.

Jurus Dewa Kobra (Si Rawing III)

1994

No artwork available
NR

Tells the story of Bratasena's ambition to take power, but meets resistance from Banyu Biru and Jaka Pratama. Bratasena did everything she could to make her wish come true, and vice versa. Banyu Biru and Jaka Pratama are ready to sacrifice their lives to defend the truth.

The Master Sword

1993

No artwork available
NR

A hit man is released from prison after serving 10 years. He holds a grudge against the police officer that shot him and causes his impotence. He wants revenge although the syndicate boss has forbid him. The syndicate has developed an organization where some business can be executed legally. He ends up killing the head of the syndicate, to take his path of revenge.

Against Passion

1999

Tarzan: Treasure Watcher poster
7.5

This is the second Indonesian Tarzan film with Barry Prima. The previous one was Tarzan Raja Rimba made in 1989.

Tarzan: Treasure Watcher

1990

1980s · 28 titles

Sundel Bolong poster
5.3

A newly-married woman and former prostitute whose husband, a ship's captain, has gone to sea, is pressured into returning to her old profession. When she refuses, she is violently gang-raped and left pregnant and despondent. She kills herself while attempting to abort the fetus but returns as a vengeful Sundel Bolong, a ghost with a putrid, rotting hole in her back. When the rapists and conspirers start turning up dead, her husband and the police try to put a stop to the violence, once and for all.

Sundel Bolong

1981

The Warrior and the Ninja poster
6.2

Balung Wesi was defeated in battle and is seeking revenge on Ki Sapu Angin, the teacher of Jaka Sembung, The Warrior. In mobilizing power to fight the Dutch, The Warrior makes the acquaintance of Bajing Ireng (Black Ninja).

The Warrior and the Ninja

1985

The Devil's Sword poster
5.1

A legendary warrior embarks on a deadly quest to retrieve the cursed Devil’s Sword, a mystical weapon with dark powers capable of unleashing unimaginable destruction. When the sword falls into the wrong hands, chaos, and bloodshed follow. Now, it’s up to our hero to confront an army of evil warriors, deadly assassins, and supernatural creatures in a battle for the fate of the world.

The Devil's Sword

1984

Pancasona poster
NR

Indonesian fantasy / action.

Pancasona

1989

Jampang poster
NR

Jampang is against oppression in the Cemara village. He kills Frans when the latter tries to rape and kill Rabiah. Even Ibnu, his own brother, is not spared when he commits a crime.

Jampang

1989

The Snake Queen poster
7.5

A wealthy businessman gains his fortune through Nyi Blorong, sacrificing his wife and child in return, and later offers his daughter's boyfriend to satisfy her demand for more. His daughter, learning the truth in a dream, seeks help from a cleric to destroy Nyi Blorong.

The Snake Queen

1982

Carok poster
NR

Jamal, a law student researching the tradition of carok, finds himself caught in a cycle of violence that has long divided his family and community. As a feud fueled by honor, revenge, and personal ambition escalates, Jamal is forced to confront the very tradition he has sought to understand and resist.

Carok

1985

The Warrior poster
6.4

Barry Prima plays Jaka Sembung, a Robin Hood figure who possesses mystical powers. Captured, tortured and left for dead, he returns even more powerful than before. In desperation the invaders resurrect an evil wizard and set him against Jaka Sembung in a fierce fight to the death.

The Warrior

1981

Special Silencers poster
6.2

Special Silencers are large red pills, obtained from a forest dwelling mystic, which aid in meditation. However, if used by the untrained they cause a huge tree to grow in the stomach, and burst its way through the skin.

Special Silencers

1982

Shadow Angel poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Shadow Angel

1988

Srigala poster
5.5

People on an island are brutally murdered one by one by a mysterious stranger in this Indonesian Friday the 13th rip-off.

Srigala

1981

Ferocious Female Freedom Fighters poster
5.1

Spoof based (loosely) on an old Indonesian film, which has had the old foreign soundtrack removed and replaced by an over-dubbed English track. Central character is a female wrestler who has decided that she no longer wants to wrestle, but whose mother (a former wrestler herself) wants her to keep wrestling to make money so her brother can have the operation (his seminal vessels run to his skull, rather than his groin, which purportedly will cause his head to explode if he gets too excited). During the course of her story (in which a number of brawls ensue), she is befriended by a Elvis-impersonating martial artist. This recut/redubbed version is 72 minutes long.

Ferocious Female Freedom Fighters

1982

Thousand Centipedes poster
9.5

Swordfights, disturbing midgets, kung fu, black magic, killer centipedes, zombies, special effects rivalling the Turkish Evil Dead.

Thousand Centipedes

1987

No artwork available
NR

Samboja, a thug who controls an area, catches Ceking and his friends who are trying to rape two girls, Dyah Setiowati and Marlina. Samboja tries to help and is stabbed. Samboja is thought to be the rapist and is arrested. One of the victims, Dyah Setiowati, defends him to the police and he is released. But this incident makes him an enemy of the drug syndicate, who the rapist Ceking works for. Although his friend, Leo, who also works for the syndicate, defends him, the drug boss orders his men to kill Samboja. Dyah, the daughter of a cultural attaché, sympathises with him, especially when she finds out that he visits the daughter of Astri, the prostitute, in the orphanage.

Preman

1985

Hijacked to Hell poster
3.8

Released directly to video, this action film features John Phillip Law as Ted Barner, a low-level employee of a corporation in Indonesia who is charged with testing a new laser weapon. Accompanied by an engineer who works for the corporation and a friend, Barner heads out to the test site with the laser in tow. Before the three can get very far, they must outrun an evil Texas industrialist who intends to grab the laser for himself. They are joined by a female reporter and end up at the site of the test, where their problems are just beginning.

Hijacked to Hell

1984

The Fighters poster
NR

Renny Basuki is a young woman and a former judo champion who, after her father's demise, tries to look after her impoverished family. When her younger brother is diagnosed with a deadly disease, she is desperate to afford his surgery costs. One day, Indra, a professional wrestling manager, offers Renny and her friend Mia to join a female wrestling troupe. They agree but Renny's mother disapproves her wrestling career.

The Fighters

1982

The Warrior and The Blind Swordsman poster
7.5

Dutch colonial army in West Java holds a martial arts tournament to select the best warrior to confront local warrior-freedom fighter Parmin (nicknamed Jaka Sembung). The winner is an obscure blind swordsman and the Dutch commander De Mandes (Gino Makasutji) commissions him. However, the swordsman is sympathetic with Jaka Sembung's cause and things get more complicated when magician seductress Dewi Magi as well as her guru (W. D. Mochtar) intervene on behalf of the Dutch.

The Warrior and The Blind Swordsman

1983

Daredevil Commandos poster
5.5

The Indonesian rebels want to get rid of the evil Dutch occupiers, but they are too strong so they have to create a super commando unit with their best soldiers.

Daredevil Commandos

1985

Deadly Angels Strike Back poster
NR

Rina dan Pinky plans to avenge their friend, Windy, who was sexually assaulted by Herman.

Deadly Angels Strike Back

1981

Hell Raiders poster
7.3

The story of Indonesia's fight for independence from the Dutch.

Hell Raiders

1982

Fire of Vengeance poster
5.0

A gang of assassins murder Wendy’s husband, Johan, during their honeymoon. Handoko, the gang leader orders his girlfriend, Hany, who is actually Windy’s friend, to capture her. Later, we see Windy becoming a disciple of Harun the cleric, who is also her father’s teacher. After the tutelage, Windy returns to find her husband’s murderer. She disguises as a taxi driver and helps the police arrest many criminals. Hany, who is actually a police undercover in Handoko’s gang, shows up once again. Both infiltrate Handoko’s headquarters but are captured. When they finally escape, they release Handoko’s prisoners.

Fire of Vengeance

1982

Calon Arang the Powerful Queen poster
8.0

The evil witch Calon Arang uses black magic and strikes fear in the population in Bali during the 1000's. Her daughter Manggali, who can not find a man because everyone is afraid of her mother, instead of being nice to people and use their magic for good purposes.

Calon Arang the Powerful Queen

1985

Bloody Vengeance poster
10.0

A self-defense trainer laid off from the police station & left alone by his wife tries to find work in the tea garden.

Bloody Vengeance

1985

Nyi Ageng the Decoy Queen poster
NR

Increasingly jaded by how men treat women (including how her own mother is casually abused by her father), Nyi Ageng (Suzanna) decides that's not going to be the path for her. She's forced to marry a wealthy man who later dies under mysterious circumstances.

Nyi Ageng the Decoy Queen

1983

Demon Monkey poster
3.5

A biology research group, lead by Johan Giru and his wife Sofia, go to Lavayetty Island and encounter evil monkeys rotting from the inside out and becoming worm infested, a primitive tribe and a supernatural creature.

Demon Monkey

1988

Tertembaknya Seorang Residivis poster
7.0

Wawan is an orphan who grows up in the midst of squalour and thieves. Like his friends, he has to pay tribute to their mean boss who enjoys torturing them if the money is too little. This memory is remembered in his adult years, although he works for another boss. He commits no more petty crimes. He has temperance and he won’t kill anybody. But he forgets this restraint when he robs the house of a gold trader. The daughter of the trader who is hiding in the room suddenly runs out when she hears a siren. Wawan panics and kills her. This incident begins to haunt him. With the help of his girlfriend, Suci, whom he meets in the brothel, Wawan intends to give up crime. He works as a labourer in a construction project. His friends worry that he would betray them so they want to kill him. When they attack him, his fellow worker, Daniel, helps him. Daniel, who is a Surabayan thug, invites him to join the gang.

Tertembaknya Seorang Residivis

1985

Tarzan: King of the Jungle poster
9.0

The Story about Tarzan

Tarzan: King of the Jungle

1989

To Burn The Sun poster
8.0

There is a robbery in a village far from the city, and the robbers not only steal, they also kill. Yanti is raped and is taken to Jakarta. Both her parents and her younger sibling are murdered by the robbers. Rachman, who really loves Yanti, finds her in a night club. Although she has become a prostitute, Rachman still loves her. They escape the brothel and marry in the village. Yanti receives martial arts lesson from Rachman’s grandfather and decides to take revenge on the robbers and the pimp who trapped her in prostitution. With numerous tactics and great fights, Yanti and Rachman manage to defeat the criminals and the pimp.

To Burn The Sun

1981

Undated · 3 titles