27 Films & TV Shows Set In Pakistan During The 20th Century
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Romeo Akbar Walter
🇮🇳 India 🇵🇰 Pakistan The 1970sOur Hero. Their Spy. — Prior to the India-Pakistan war of 1971, the RAW (Research and Analysis Wing) trains an Indian banker in espionage and martial arts, and sends him to Pakistan for an undercover operation where he finds himself sinking between emotions and violence.
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Operation Gold Fish
🇮🇳 India 🇵🇰 Pakistan The 1980sOperation Gold Fish is an upcoming Telugu action thriller film written and directed by Sai Kiran Adivi.
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Manto
🇮🇳 India 🇵🇰 Pakistan The 1940sIn Bombay's seedy-shiny film world, Manto and his stories are widely read and accepted. But as sectarian violence engulfs the nation, Manto makes the difficult choice of leaving his beloved Bombay. In Lahore, he finds himself bereft of friends and unable to find takers for his writings.
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1971: Beyond Borders
🇮🇳 India 🇵🇰 Pakistan The 1970sSet against the backdrop of 1971 Indo-Pak war, the movie is inspired by real incidents and the protagonists are inspired by Param Vir Chakra recipients. The movie shows what consequences of war are on the lives of soldiers on either side of the border.
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Neerja
🇵🇰 Pakistan The 1980sFear Gave Her Courage — Neerja is a portrayal on the life of the courageous Neerja Bhanot, who sacrificed her life while protecting the lives of 359 passengers on the Pan Am flight 73 in 1986. The flight was hijacked by a terrorist organization.
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Saka: The Martyrs of Nankana Sahib
🇵🇰 Pakistan The 1920sBased on the 1921 Nankana Sahib massacre and the events that led up to it.
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Bridge of Spies
🇩🇪 Germany New York District of Columbia 🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇷🇺 Russia The 1960s The 1950sIn the shadow of war, one man showed the world what we stood for. — During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping to win the young man's freedom through a prisoner exchange. If all goes well, the Russians would get Rudolf Abel, the convicted spy who Donovan defended in court.
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Shah
🇵🇰 Pakistan The 1980sAfter Every Fall, I Rise — This film covers the story of this Legend's journey from homeless child in the streets of Layari,Karachi to become Olympian for his country PAKISTAN.
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Manto
🇵🇰 Pakistan The 1950s The 1930sThe controversial and troubled Indo-Pakistani writer Saadat Hasan Manto finds his artistic choices challenged by censors.
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Kya Dilli Kya Lahore
🇮🇳 India 🇵🇰 Pakistan The 1940sIn 1948, a cross-fire erupts at an isolated stretch of Indo-Pak border, leaving only two soldiers alive. One is an Indian soldier of Pakistani origin while the other happens to be a Pakistani soldier of Indian origin. An ironic story of pride and survival begins when - in an attempt to evade danger, they bump into each other. And amidst continuous exchange of bullets, altercations and murkier situations, it evolves into a journey of human connection with an unforeseeable end.
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Iron Man 3
Tennessee California Florida Kentucky 🇨🇭 Switzerland 🇵🇰 Pakistan The 1990s The 2000s The 2010sUnleash the power behind the armor. — When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution.
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Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇮🇹 Italy Victoria The 1960s The 1950sNow you will see his Real Story. — The true story of the "Flying Sikh" world champion runner and Olympian Milkha Singh who overcame the massacre of his family, civil war during the India-Pakistan partition, and homelessness to become one of India's most iconic athletes.
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Nanga Parbat
🇵🇰 Pakistan The 1970sDrama about the tragic Nanga Parbat expedition by the two Messner brothers in 1970, on which Reinhold Messners younger brother Günther died.
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West Is West
England 🇵🇰 Pakistan The 1970sSame family. Different country. A lot more baggage. — Comedy sequel to "East Is East". Manchester, North of England, 1975. The now much diminished, but still claustrophobic and dysfunctional, Khan family continues to struggle for survival. Sajid, the youngest Khan, the runt of the litter, is deep in pubescent crisis under heavy assault both from his father's tyrannical insistence on Pakistani tradition, and from the fierce bullies in the schoolyard. So, in a last, desperate attempt to 'sort him out', his father decides to pack him off to Mrs Khan No 1 and family in the Punjab, the wife and daughters he had abandoned 35 years earlier. It is not long before Ella Khan (Mrs Khan No2) with a small entourage from Salford, England, swiftly follows to sort out the mess, past and present.
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Charlie Wilson's War
Nevada District of Columbia Texas 🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇦🇫 Afghanistan 🇪🇬 Egypt The 1980sBased on a true story. You think we could make all this up? — The true story of Texas congressman Charlie Wilson's covert dealings in Afghanistan, where his efforts to assist rebels in their war with the Soviets had some unforeseen and long-reaching effects.
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The Kite Runner
🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇦🇫 Afghanistan The 1970s The 1980s The 1990sThere is a way to be good again. — After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.
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Black Friday
🇮🇳 India 🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates The 1990sThe shocking truth behind the '93 Bombay blasts — Bombs tear through Bombay, wreaking havoc and polarising the citizens. With perpetrators at large, the state launches a massive drive to unmask the truth behind these events.
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Pinjar
🇵🇰 Pakistan The 1940sBeyond boundries — In the days leading up to Partition, a Hindu woman is abducted by a Muslim man. Soon, she finds herself not only forced into marriage, but living in a new country as the borders between India and Pakistan are drawn
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The Legend of Bhagat Singh
🇵🇰 Pakistan The 1930sBorn in British India, Bhagat Singh witnesses numerous atrocities during his childhood and grows up to become one of the most fearless freedom fighters in the country.
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Shaheed-E-Azam
🇵🇰 Pakistan The 1930sThe film, based upon the life of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, caused some controversy as the Punjab and Haryana High Court issued a notice to the producers calling for a ban of the movie.It was released in 2002. In the same year two other movies on Bhagat Singh were also released named '23d march 1931 Shaheed' and 'The Legend of Bhagat Singh'.
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23rd March 1931: Shaheed
🇵🇰 Pakistan The 1930sBhagat Singh, a freedom fighter, is arrested for killing the British official responsible for the death of his mentor Lala Lajpatrai. He is ultimately hanged for his misdeed.
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Shaheed-E-Mohabbat Boota Singh
🇵🇰 Pakistan The 1940sThe film is set in 1947. The exodus has begun after Partition. A Sikh ex-military man in his thirties finds a 16-year-old Muslim girl alone in a nearby village and brings her home. But the villagers tell him he should either marry her or leave her in a camp where people bound for Pakistan are located. But he decides that since he is far older, he would better leave her at the camp. As he is about to send her off with a man bound for the camp and who is prepared to marry her there, she asks Buta Singh, if he is so poor that he cannot even feed her two Rotis per day to keep her alive...
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Earth
🇵🇰 Pakistan The 1940sIt's 1947 and the borderlines between India and Pakistan are being drawn. A young girl bears witnesses to tragedy as her ayah is caught between the love of two men and the rising tide of political and religious violence.
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Jinnah
🇮🇳 India 🇵🇰 Pakistan The 1940sHe fought for justice, and made Pakistan. — Biography of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of modern Pakistan is told through flashbacks as his soul tries to find eternal rest. The flashbacks start in 1947 as Jinnah pleads for a separate nation from the Muslim regime, infuriating Lord Mountbatten. Mountbatten then tries to enlist Gandhi & Nehru to persuade Jinnah to stop his efforts. Gandhi sides with Jinnah, which upsets Nehru. However, Jinnah turns down the offer to become prime minister and the film takes another slide back to 1916, which reveals all of the political implications that have occurred.
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Ghazi Shaheed
🇮🇳 India 🇵🇰 Pakistan The 1970sThe film covers a story of mysterious loss of Pakistani submarine PNS Ghazi. She has participated in second and third Indo-Pakistani wars (1965 and 1971) and has been sunk in December 1971 nearby Indian coast.
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