47 Films & TV Shows Set In Myanmar
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Jiu Jitsu
🇲🇲 MyanmarFrom the darkness, the ultimate fighter rises. — Every six years, an ancient order of jiu-jitsu fighters joins forces to battle a vicious race of alien invaders. But when a celebrated war hero goes down in defeat, the fate of the planet and mankind hangs in the balance.
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Rangoon
🇲🇲 Myanmar The 1940sLove. War. Deceit — Julia travels to the Indo-Burma border to perform for the troops during the World War II, on the insistence of Billimoria, her lover. She finds herself in love with Jemadar Malik, a soldier there.
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Night
🇲🇲 MyanmarA group of friends decides to tease the weakest of the group on April fools day. What starts as an innocent joke quickly turns nasty, the teasing becomes cruel, and soon the victim seeks revenge. Elsewhere, another group of teens (including a trio of lovers) has its own problems relating to jealousy and betrayal. The two groups meet one night. That very night, or Nya, becomes the backdrop of the film.
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Hard Target 2
Nevada 🇲🇲 Myanmar 🇹🇭 Thailand The 2010sIt's hunting season again... — Forced into a deadly cat-and-mouse game, a disgraced mixed martial arts fighter is hunted through the jungles of Southeast Asia.
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The Gemini
🇲🇲 MyanmarThe very first ever film to explore homosexuality in ultra conservative Myanmar, it traces a relationship, unexpected and awkward, yet filled with unimaginable pains, regrets and secrets, between two men.
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Anegan
🇲🇲 Myanmar The 1980s The 1960s The 2010sGame Begins. — Madhumitha is convinced that she and her colleague Ashwin were lovers in their past lives and have been brought together by fate. Is there any truth to this or is she merely hallucinating?
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Golden Kingdom
🇲🇲 MyanmarDrama — Story of four young monks left alone in their remote monastery in Myanmar. Shot entirely in newly-opened Myanmar with non-actors, the film bridges spirit, cinema, and traditional Burmese storytelling to open a view onto an unseen world.
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Siam Burma Death Railway
🇲🇲 Myanmar The 1940sThis is a documentary film about the Asian Labourers (Indian Tamils, Burmese and Javanese) who worked like slaves at Siam (Thailand) - Burma death railway line during WWII. The names of the above Labourers are unknown to the world till date. The Books and memoirs written by the Australian and British POWs are the main evidences to trace the root of Asian Labourers pathetic history.
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The Railway Man
🇲🇲 Myanmar 🇹🇭 Thailand The 1980s The 1940sRevenge is never a straight line. — A victim from World War II's "Death Railway" sets out to find those responsible for his torture. A true story.
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Ninja: Shadow of a Tear
🇯🇵 Japan 🇲🇲 Myanmar 🇹🇭 ThailandAn ancient hero returns with a vengeance. — Fight everyone and trust no one: it's the code of survival practiced by martial-arts master Casey Bowman after his life of domestic bliss is shattered by a savage act of violence. Vowing revenge, the fearless American stealthily tracks the killer from Osaka to Bangkok to Rangoon with the help of a wise and crafty sensei. His only clues: a series of victims whose necks bear the distinctive mark of strangulation by barbed wire. Fighting to avenge as well as to survive, Casey must sharpen his razor-like responses and take his battle skills to the next level, even using deep meditation to fake his own death. His target: the sinister drug lord Goro, who is flooding the streets with deadly meth cooked at his remote jungle factory. To prepare for his ultimate confrontation, Casey must finally become an invisible warrior worthy of the name Ninja. But just when his prey is cornered, an unexpected twist shows Casey that his battle is only beginning: he truly can trust no one.
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Largo Winch II
🇨🇭 Switzerland 🇭🇰 Hong Kong 🇲🇲 Myanmar 🇹🇭 ThailandThe Burma Conspiracy — Propelled to the head of the W Group after the death of his adoptive father, Largo Winch decides, to everyone's surprise, to sell it, and use the proceeds to create an ambitious humanitarian foundation. But on the very same day, he finds himself accused of crimes against humanity by a mysterious witness. To prove his innocence, Largo will have to retrace the steps of his past life, in the heart of the Burmese jungle.
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The Lady
🇲🇲 Myanmar The 1980s The 1990sFrom House Arrest to Parliament — The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris.
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Rambo
Arizona 🇲🇲 Myanmar 🇹🇭 ThailandHeroes never die... They just reload. — When governments fail to act on behalf of captive missionaries, ex-Green Beret John James Rambo sets aside his peaceful existence along the Salween River in a war-torn region of Thailand to take action. Although he's still haunted by violent memories of his time as a U.S. soldier during the Vietnam War, Rambo can hardly turn his back on the aid workers who so desperately need his help.
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Vinyan
🇲🇲 Myanmar 🇹🇭 Thailand The 2000sSix months after losing her only child in the Southeast Asia tsunami, Jeanne is convinced she sees him in a film about orphans living in the jungles.
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Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country
🇲🇲 MyanmarGoing beyond the occasional news clip from Burma, the acclaimed filmmaker, Anders Østergaard, brings us close to the video journalists who deliver the footage. Though risking torture and life in jail, courageous young citizens of Burma live the essence of journalism as they insist on keeping up the flow of news from their closed country.
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King Naresuan 1
🇲🇲 Myanmar 🇹🇭 Thailand The 16th CenturyThe film concerns the life of King Naresuan, who liberated the Siamese from the control of Burma. Born in 1555, he was taken to Burma as a child hostage; there he became acquainted with sword fighting and became a threat to the Burmese empire.
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Stealth
Washington Nevada District of Columbia Alaska 🇷🇺 Russia 🇹🇯 Tajikistan 🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) 🇰🇷 South Korea 🇲🇲 Myanmar 🇹🇭 Thailand Pacific OceanFear The Sky — Deeply ensconced in a top-secret military program, three pilots struggle to bring an artificial intelligence program under control ... before it initiates the next world war.
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Pudhukottaiyilirundhu Saravanan
🇲🇲 Myanmar 🇲🇾 Malaysia 🇸🇬 Singapore 🇹🇭 ThailandSaravanan comes to Singapore for a job but lands in trouble, loses his passport and is on the run. Desperate to get back home, he accepts the job of taking a girl to India in return for a hefty sum.
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Anonymously Yours
🇲🇲 MyanmarAnonymously Yours — "Anonymously Yours" is the outcome of a daring filmmaking operation on sex-trafficking in a military state where nothing is as it seems. Four Burmese women's strikingly different life experiences come together to reveal an institution that enslaves them and as many as forty#million women worldwide in the fastest growing industry on earth: human sales. Clandestinely shot deep in the uncharted world of Southeast Asian sex trafficking, the film chronicles the merchandising of women commonplace in a land afflicted with staggering poverty and widespread corruption.
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To End All Wars
🇲🇲 Myanmar The 1940sBased on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest Gordon (Ciaran McMenamin), Lt. Jim Reardon (Kiefer Sutherland) and Maj. Ian Campbell (Robert Carlyle) are among the military officers kept imprisoned and routinely beaten and deprived of food. While Campbell wants to rebel and attempt an escape, Gordon tries to take a more stoic approach, an attitude that proves to be surprisingly resonant.
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The Legend of Suriyothai
🇲🇲 Myanmar 🇹🇭 Thailand The 16th CenturyDuring the 16th century, as Thailand contends with both a civil war and Burmese invasion, a beautiful princess rises up to help protect the glory of the Kingdom of Ayothaya. Based on the life of Queen Suriyothai.
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Beyond Rangoon
🇲🇲 Myanmar The 1980sTruth has a witness — Patricia Arquette stars as American widow Laura Bowman, a young doctor who's unwittingly drawn into political turmoil while vacationing in Burma in the late 1980s, in this fictionalized drama based on actual events. Bowman initially left San Francisco with her sister (Frances McDormand) in an attempt to escape painful memories of her husband and son's violent deaths. But her fight to escape to Thailand could prove just as harrowing.
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A Home Too Far
🇲🇲 Myanmar The 1950sA Home Too Far — In 1950s, Chinese Civil War ends with the defeat of Republic of China and the establishment of Communist China. The 93rd Division's soldiers take their families with them, exit southwestern China and enter northern Burma (Myanmar). The hike through forest is full of disasters and short of supplies, but the survivors reach and settle within border of Burma. They build a village, and ally with local armed gang to resist Burmese government's attacks. Later, the relocated government of Republic of China offers to take the soldiers and dependents to Taiwan, but some are disappointed with the government and decide to stay.
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Return from the River Kwai
🇲🇲 Myanmar The 1940sA group of war prisoners has spilt blood, sweat and tears to construct a bridge over the river Kwai in Thailand. Just when the bridge is ready, an American bomber arrives and destroys it. Camp commander Tanaka wants to set an example and orders that some of the prisoners must be executed. Just in time major Harada arrives with orders that the healthiest prisoners must be transported to Japan by train and boat. A treacherous journey since the allied forces keep a close eye on railroads and practically own the seas.
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The Burmese Harp
🇲🇲 Myanmar The 1940sIn the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.
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