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Rambo(2008)

R
| 1h 32min | Action, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 1,707 votes)

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.

Directed by Sylvester Stallone - With Sylvester Stallone, Julie Benz, Matthew Marsden, Graham McTavish, Jake La Botz, Tim Kang, ...
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The Bridge on the River Kwai(1957)

PG
| 2h 41min | Drama, History, War
3.9/5 (with 945 votes)

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson , the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.

Directed by David Lean - With Jack Hawkins, William Holden, Sessue Hayakawa, Alec Guinness, James Donald, Percy Herbert, ...
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Anna and the King(1999)

PG-13
| 2h 28min | Drama, Romance / Love, History
3.4/5 (with 332 votes)

The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teacher Anna Leonowens during the 1860s. Anna teaches the children and becomes romanced by the King. She convinces him that a man can be loved by just one woman.

Directed by Andy Tennant - With Jodie Foster, Chow Yun-fat, Bai Ling, Tom Felton, Ann Firbank, Randall Duk Kim, ...
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The Burmese Harp(1956)

1h 56min | Drama, Music, War
3.9/5 (with 60 votes)

In 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.

Directed by Kon Ichikawa - With Jun Hamamura, Rentarō Mikuni, Shōji Yasui, Taketoshi Naito, Kō Nishimura

The Purple Plain(1954)

NR
| 1h 38min | Drama, Adventure, War
3.2/5 (with 21 votes)

A RAF airfield in Burma in 1945, during World War II. Canadian bomber pilot Bill Forrester is a bitter man who lives haunted by a tragic past. He has became a reckless warrior, and is feared by his comrades, who consider him a madman. Dr. Harris, the squadron physician, is determined to help him heal his tormented soul.

Directed by Robert Parrish - With Gregory Peck, Maurice Denham, Lyndon Brook, Bernard Lee, Win Min Than, Brenda De Banzie, ...
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Never So Few(1959)

2h 5min | War
2.8/5 (with 26 votes)

A U.S. military troop takes command of a band of Burmese guerillas during World War II.

Directed by John Sturges - With Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lawford, Steve McQueen, Richard Johnson, Paul Henreid, ...
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Beyond Rangoon(1995)

R
| 1h 40min | Drama, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 37 votes)

Dr. Laura Bowman is a young widow who's unwittingly drawn into political turmoil while vacationing in Burma in the late 1980s. Bowman initially left San Francisco with her sister 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.

Directed by John Boorman - With Patricia Arquette, Frances McDormand, Spalding Gray, Heah Hock Aun, Adelle Lutz, U Aung Ko, ...
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Merrill's Marauders(1962)

1h 38min | Action, Drama, War
3.1/5 (with 24 votes)

Brigadier General Frank D. Merrill leads the 3,000 American volunteers of his 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), aka "Merrill's Marauders", behind Japanese lines across Burma to Myitkyina, pushing beyond their limits and fighting pitched battles at every strong-point.

Directed by Samuel Fuller - With Jeff Chandler, Ty Hardin, Andrew Duggan, Claude Akins, Peter Brown, Will Hutchins, ...
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Objective, Burma!(1945)

NR
| 2h 22min | Action, Drama, War
3.5/5 (with 34 votes)

A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they try to rendezvous at an old air-strip to be taken back to their base, they find Japanese waiting for them, and they must make a long, difficult walk back through enemy-occupied jungle.

Directed by Raoul Walsh - With Errol Flynn, James Brown, George Tobias, Henry Hull, William Prince, Mark Stevens, ...
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The Legend of Suriyothai(2001)

3h 5min | History, War, Drama, Action
2.8/5 (with 11 votes)

During 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.

Directed by Chatrichalerm Yugala - With Piyapas Bhirombhakdi

China Girl(1942)

NR
| 1h 35min | Drama, War
2.8/5 (with 5 votes)

Two-fisted newsreel photographer Johnny Williams is stationed in Burma and China in the early stage of WW II. Captured by the Japanese, he escapes from a concentration camp with the aid of beautiful, enigmatic 'China Girl' Miss Young. The two arduously make their way back to friendly lines so that Johnny can deliver the vital military information he's managed to glean from his captors.

Directed by Henry Hathaway - With Gene Tierney, George Montgomery, Lynn Bari, Victor McLaglen, Sig Ruman, Robert Blake, ...

Yesterday's Enemy(1959)

NR
| 1h 35min | Drama, War
3.6/5 (with 16 votes)

Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage and endurance of the soldiers struggling at close quarters against the enemy. The film examines the moral dilemmas ordinary men face during war, when the definitions of acceptable military action and insupportable brutality become blurred and distorted.

Directed by Val Guest - With Stanley Baker, Gordon Jackson, Guy Rolfe, Leo McKern, Philip Ahn, Bryan Forbes, ...
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Twilight Over Burma(2015)

1h 40min | Drama, History
3.9/5 (with 2 votes)

The U.S. scholarships Austrian student Inge and young mining student from Burma Sao Kya Seng fall in love. But it's only at the lavish wedding ceremony that Inge discovers her husband is the ruling prince of the Shan state of Burma. After a coup staged by the Burmese military, Sao is imprisoned. Inge does everything she can to free him. Base on the true story of Inge Sargent.

Directed by Sabine Derflinger - With Maria Ehrich, Daweerit Chullasapya, Simon Schwarz, Pauline Knof, Sahajak Boonthanakit, Dom Hetrakul, ...

Bombs Over Burma(1942)

1h 2min | Action
2.5/5 (with 3 votes)

The film tells the story of Chinese guerrillas fighting for the Allied cause in Burma during Early in World War II, Chungking schoolteacher Lin Yang is recruited to help with the dangerous mission of protecting the Allied supply line from Burma into China. In spite of the danger involved, her determination to help is strengthened when one of her young students is killed in a Japanese air raid. Some time later, she is part of a group of Allied representatives departing from Lashio, on a bus traveling the Burma Road back to China. A bridge outage forces them to spend the night in a monastery along the way, and during the night they watch in horror as a supply convoy of trucks is bombed by Japanese planes. The timing and accuracy of the raid brings them to realize that either one of their group, or perhaps the priest in the monastery, is really an enemy agent.

Directed by Joseph H. Lewis - With Anna May Wong

The Long and the Short and the Tall(1961)

NR
| 1h 50min | War, Drama
3.6/5 (with 9 votes)

Based on a play by Willis Hall. A troop of British soldiers are out in the jungle to record jungle noises and troop noises in the jungle so that the recordings can be played back by other troops to divert the enemy to their whereabouts. As they progress to what they think is closer to the base camp they find themselves farther and farther from radio range until the only channel they can get clearly is that of a Japanese broadcast. They now realize they are probably only 10 to 15 miles from a Japanese camp! The tension is added to by rowdy and openly admitted "non-hero" Private Bamforth who has nothing good to say about anyone and especially Corporal Johnstone (who holds an equal dislike for Bamforth). When a Japanese soldier is taken as their prisoner, the true colours of each man comes to the surface.

Directed by Leslie Norman - With Richard Todd, Richard Harris, Laurence Harvey, Ronald Fraser, David McCallum, John Meillon, ...
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Saltwater: The Battle for Ramree Island(2021)

1h 22min | War, Action, Horror, History
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

During the last desperate months of World War II, an Allied mission to regain Ramree Island off the coast of Burma ends in horror when an embattled group of soldiers find themselves trapped in dense swampland infested with deadly saltwater crocodiles. As the men are picked off one by one by the hungry reptiles, those that remain resort to increasingly desperate measures to survive the onslaught of carnage and get off the island alive.

Escape to Burma(1955)

NR
| 1h 27min | Adventure
3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

A fugitive in British Burma hides on a tea plantation, thanks to a mutual attraction with owner Gwen Moore.

Directed by Allan Dwan - With Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, David Farrar, Gavin Muir, Murvyn Vye, Reginald Denny, ...

The Hasty Heart(1949)

NR
| 1h 42min | Drama, Romance / Love, War
3.3/5 (with 6 votes)

In the final days of World War II, in a MASH unit in Burma, a severely wounded corporal watches in dismay as fellow soldiers pack-up to return home but a caring nurse and five remaining soldiers bring him solace.

Directed by Vincent Sherman - With Richard Todd, Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal, Alfie Bass
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Burma Convoy(1941)

1h 12min | Adventure, Action

A truck convoy traveling the Burma Road is menaced by a group of smugglers.

Directed by Noel M. Smith - With Charles Bickford

Under the Radar: Burma(2010)

Documentary

While traveling undercover throughout Burma, Henry Rollins exposes the country's repressive military dictatorship.

Voice Over the Bridge(2023)

24min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

For the first time, traditional Burmese singers Khing Zin Shwe and Shwe Shwe Khaing are recording an album that introduces people around the world to the Maha Gita (Great Songs), which have been sung in South Asia for 700 years. They also introduce viewers to life in Myanmar, a Buddhist country of great beauty.

Moon Over Burma(1940)

NR
| 1h 16min | Adventure, Romance / Love
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The managers of a teak lumber camp in Burma compete for the affections of a beautiful American entertainer who gets stranded in Rangoon.

Directed by Louis King - With Dorothy Lamour, Robert Preston, Addison Richards, Albert Bassermann, Doris Nolan, Frederick Worlock, ...

The Hope Diamond Mystery(1921)

5h | Action, Adventure

The true story of Lord Francis Hope who inherits the Hope Diamond and marries showgirl May Yohe. Lord Francis Hope gambles away the family fortune and May Yohe leaves him. Another suspected curse of owning the Hope Diamond.

Directed by Stuart Paton - With Grace Darmond

Raise the Bamboo Curtain: Vietnam, Cambodia, and Burma(1996)

1h 35min | Documentary

This is the original version of the much heralded "Raising The Bamboo Curtain" narrated and produced by legendary travel filmmaker Rick Ray. (Rick later sold partial rights to this program to another producer who hired Martin Sheen to narrate - that cut down and rewritten version is not the same). Sneaking his cameras past Burmese and Cambodian customs officials and getting around the country to produce one of the best travel docs ever made, Rick has outdone himself - again!

Operation Bottleneck(1961)

1h 17min | War, Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

WWII Burma...Six paratroopers undertake an extremely dangerous mission against the Japanese. It will ultimately cost them their lives, except for one "lucky" survivor.

Directed by Edward L. Cahn - With Ron Foster, Miiko Taka, Norman Alden, John Clarke, Ben Wright
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Child's Dream - Zwei Banker Auf Sinnsuche(2012)

52min | Documentary

Two young Swiss bankers decide to break out of their gilded cage. They leave their promising careers as managers behind and found a relief organisation for underprivileged children in Southeast Asia. In order to finance their humanitarian projects, they put to use not only their know-how from the world of finance, but also the international network they developed as bankers. The glamour world of European metropolises meets the jungle in the Mekong Delta. A reflection on the meaning of life and happiness in life.

Fists of Pride(2011)

1h 3min | Documentary

Fists of Pride follows Little Tiger and his fellow fighters as their Thai coaches prepare them for the annual Water Festival competition. In a boxing camp on the Thai-Burmese border the children of mostly illegal migrant workers fleeing Burma live and train for prize fights. In a region where combat sports have always been a matter of honor and money, the film reveals their daily struggles. Bets are open and as the hope of prize money rizes, the young boxers contemplate what it could mean for them and their families.

Directed by Helene Choquette
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Burma Soldier(2010)

1h 10min | Documentary, History

The story of Myo Myint, a political prisoner, who made the transformation from being a soldier in Burma's junta to a pro-democracy activist.

Moving to Mars(2009)

1h 30min | Documentary

Moving to Mars charts the epic journey made by two Burmese families from a vast refugee camp on the Thai/Burma border to their new homes in the UK. At times hilarious, at times emotional, their travels provide a fascinating and unique insight not only into the effects of migration, but also into one of the most important current political crises - Burma.

Directed by Mat Whitecross

Art as a Weapon(2014)

NR
| 59min | Adventure, Documentary
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Street art, creativity and revolution collide in this beautifully shot film about art’s ability to create change. The story opens on the politically charged Thailand/Burma border at the first school teaching street art as a form of non-violent struggle. The film follows two young girls (Romi & Yi-Yi) who have escaped 50 years of civil war in Burma to pursue an arts education in Thailand. Under the threat of imprisonment and torture, the girls use spray paint and stencils to create images in public spaces to let people know the truth behind Burma's transition toward "artificial democracy." Eighty-two hundred miles away, artist Shepard Fairey is painting a 30’ mural of a Burmese monk for the same reasons and in support of the students' struggle in Burma. As these stories are inter-cut, the film connects these seemingly unrelated characters around the concept of using art as a weapon for change.

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