36 Films & TV Shows Set In Sri Lanka
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Jagame Thandhiram
🇱🇰 Sri LankaWhen a clever, carefree gangster is recruited to help an overseas crime lord take down a rival, he is caught off guard by the moral dilemmas that follow.
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Funny Boy
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka The 1970s The 1980sLove was an act of war. — A student must navigate issues of sexuality, identity and family amid Sri Lanka's social turmoil of the 1970s and 1980s.
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Methagu
🇱🇰 Sri Lankathe true events that happened in Tamileelam to suppress Tamil ethnicity and why Tamil leader Prabhakaran emerged in the Tamil freedom struggle in the Indian Ocean Island nation Srilanka.
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Sinamkol
🇱🇰 Sri LankaOppression of the Tamil people continues even after the end of Sri Lanka's civil war.
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Thanimai
🇱🇰 Sri LankaA drama film directed by S Sivaraman, starring Sonia Agarwal in the lead role.
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Demons in Paradise
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sSri Lanka 1983, Jude Ratman is five years old. On a red train, he feels the massacre of the Tamils instigated by the Pro-Sinhalese majoritarian government. Now a filmmaker, he takes the same train from South to North. As he advances, the traces of the violence of the 26-year-old war and the one which turned the Tamil's fight for freedom into a self-destructive terrorism pass before his eyes. Reminiscing the hidden souvenirs of fighters and Tamil Tigers, he unveils the repressed memories of his compatriots, opening the door to a new era and making peace possible again. DEMONS IN PARADISE is the result of ten years of work. For the first time, a Tamil documentary filmmaker living in Sri Lanka is seeing the Civil war from the inside.
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A Private War
🇱🇰 Sri LankaThe Most Powerful Weapon Is The Truth — One of the most celebrated war correspondents of our time, Marie Colvin is an utterly fearless and rebellious spirit, driven to the frontlines of conflicts across the globe to give voice to the voiceless.
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Dheepan
🇫🇷 France 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka The 2000sWhen the war continues to rage in your heart and mind — Three people who have lost everything, a soldier tired of fighting, a young woman and a little girl, pose as a family to escape the civil war in Sri Lanka. They emigrate to France and settle in a chaotic neighborhood on the outskirts of Paris, where apparently the law no longer exists; but they, who barely know each other, struggle to survive there, even when the ghosts of war begin to haunt them again.
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Madhura Naranga
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates 🇱🇰 Sri LankaJeevan (Kunchacko Boban) and Salim (Biju Menon) are taxi drivers in Gulf.They live in a small apartment which they share with Kumar (Neeraj Madhav). A Sri Lanka Native Thamara Enters their life and they are forced to accommodate her in their apartment . The events happened in their life is the plot of Madhura Naranga.
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Inam
🇱🇰 Sri LankaA Story from Ceylon — Rajini, a Sri Lankan Tamil girl, narrates the horrific tale of why she had to leave her homeland and become a refugee in India.
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Pulipaarvai
🇱🇰 Sri LankaPulipaarvai, also called Puli Paarvai, is a Tamil film about Balachandran Prabhakaran directed by Praveen Gandhi. It is based on the real life of the 12 year old youngest son of the LTTE leader ,Velupillai Prabhakaran who disappeared after the destruction of the LTTE and the death of his father during the end of the Ealam war is widely believed to be executed after he surrendered to the Sri Lankan Army. Praveen Gandhi was inspired make the movie after seeing documentaries about Balachandran Prabhakaran's execution in Channel 4 and BBC.
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A Common Man
🇱🇰 Sri LankaNo Justice. No Peace. — A terrorist plants several bombs throughout the city of Colombo, Sri Lanka and threatens to detonate them unless prisoners are released.
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Madras Cafe
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka The 1990sIntercept The Truth — An Indian intelligence agent journeys to a war-torn coastal island to break a resolute rebel group and meets a passionate journalist.
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Ravana Desam
🇱🇰 Sri LankaRavana Desam is an tamil dramtic movie written, directed and acted in by Ajay Nuthakki. The others in the cast are Jennifer (heroine), Allu Ramesh, Santhosh, Koutalya, Bharathi Rao, Serisha and Prabhakar. The camera has been handled by V.K. Ramraj, R. Sivan has scored the music, Karthika Srinivas has edited the film and P.S. Varman has taken care of art direction.
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Flying Fish
🇱🇰 Sri LankaThe film weaves together three narratives set against the backdrop of the Sri Lankan Civil War.
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Uchithanai Muharnthaal
🇱🇰 Sri LankaPunithavadhi, a thirteen-year-old girl, is raped and impregnated by Sri Lankan military soldiers. The girl's mother tries to save her with the help of a professor.
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The Road from Elephant Pass
🇱🇰 Sri LankaA terrorist. A soldier. A journey. — The Road from Elephant Pass is a 2008 action thriller film produced, screen played and directed by Chandran Rutnam based on the novel The Road from Elephants Pass by Nihal De Silva
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Prabhakaran
🇱🇰 Sri LankaPrabhakaran is a 2008 bilingual Sri Lankan movie about LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran directed by Thushara Pieris
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Lanka
🇱🇰 Sri LankaSravan, a captain of the naval wing, is sent to Sri Lanka to protect the Indian prime minister. Soon, Sravan has an affair with a woman who turns out to be from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
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Aanivaer
🇱🇰 Sri LankaAanivaer is a Tamil independent film directed by Indian Tamil film director John Mahendran. The film was shot in Sri Lanka with a story and screenplay revolving around a love story amid the ongoing Civil War in Sri Lanka.
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Mille Soya
🇱🇰 Sri LankaMille Soya, is a film depicting a dangerous and hazardous journey by a young Sri Lankan group to rich Europe. They are subject to deceptions by the intermediaries, betrayals by friends, arrests while crossing the borders and even death.
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August Sun
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka The 1990sSet in Sri Lanka during the mid-1990s, August Sun tells three simultaneous stories against the backdrop of the country's savage civil war (1983 – 2009).
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Kannathil Muthamittal
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka 🇮🇳 IndiaA little girl is told by her parents that she is adopted. Determined to find her birth mother, her family eventually agrees to take her to Sri Lanka, where they are abducted by the terrorist group known as the Tamil Tigers.
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Little Angel
🇱🇰 Sri LankaLittle Angel — Punchi Suranganavi (Little Angel) is a 2002 Sri Lankan Sinhala children's film directed by Somaratne Dissanayake and produced by Renuka Balasooriya. It stars two child artists Tharaka Hettiarachchi and Nithyavani Kandasami in lead roles along with Sriyantha Mendis and Dilani Abeywardana.
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