
10 Best Movies Like Ceylon
If you loved Ceylon, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Kannathil Muthamittal
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ceylon for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A 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 encounter the milit...

The One That Got Away
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ceylon for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War....

The Scarlet and the Black
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ceylon for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large th...

Waiting for Anya
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ceylon for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain....

Cast a Giant Shadow
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ceylon for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
An American Army officer is recruited by the yet to exist Israel to help them form an army. He is disturbed by this sudden appeal to his Jewish heritage. Each of Israel's Arab neig...

Goodnight, Mister Tom
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ceylon for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A shy and quiet World War II evacuee is housed by a disgruntled old man, and they soon develop a close bond....