5 Films & TV Shows Set In Sri Lanka During The 20th Century

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  Funny Boy

  🇱🇰 Sri Lanka The 1970s The 1980s

  Love 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.

  Released in 2021 • 109 minutes
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  Demons in Paradise

  🇱🇰 Sri Lanka The 1980s The 1990s The 2000s

  Sri 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.

  Released in 2018 • 94 minutes
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  Madras Cafe

  🇱🇰 Sri Lanka The 1990s

  Intercept The Truth — An Indian intelligence agent journeys to a war-torn coastal island to break a resolute rebel group and meets a passionate journalist.

  Released in 2013 • 130 minutes
• August Sun

  🇱🇰 Sri Lanka The 1990s

  Set 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).

  Released in 2003 • 108 minutes
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  Penn

  🇮🇳 India 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka 🇲🇲 Myanmar The 1950s

  The action revolves around two friends played by Vyjayanthimala and Anjali Devi. In Tamil.

  Released in 1954 •