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A Common Man (2013)
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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Sankara (2007)
Young Buddhist monk Ananda, arrives at a temple in order to restore its paintings. These paintings depict Thelapaththa Jathakaya, a moral story where Lord Buddha said that a man with a big target in life must not be swayed by passion (Keles), the five senses and especially beautiful wom... Moreen. One day, Ananda picks up a hair pin belonging to a young woman. While attempting to return this object to its owner, his repressed feelings are awoken by the beauty and sensuality of the woman. The young monk's inner spiritual world is plunged into turmoil. Then one day the paintings are destroyed. While restoring them for the second time Ananda begins to realize that he is trapped in a web of his worldly desires and attachments. Less
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/1/
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/1/
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Flying Fish (2011)
The film weaves together three narratives set against the backdrop of the Sri Lankan Civil War.
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5.1
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/20/
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Tommy (2014)
After a year abroad Estelle returns home to collect her husband's share of the loot from a major robbery.
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The Wasps Are Here (1978)
Set in a fishing village named Kalpitiya, this movie explores tradition and exploitation because of capitalism in this small village.
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8.3
/48/
10
/1/

The Way of the Lotus (Devoid of Passions) (1987)
This psychological drama attempts to dwell into the mind of Aravinda, whose Buddhist empathy and detachment are contrasted with his worldly friends and relatives. The English translation of the title, "The Way of the Lotus" implies Aravinda as Lotus-rising above dirt and mud to blossom.
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8.9
/8/

Kadawunu Poronduwa (1947)
Kadawunu Poronduwa, was the first film to be made in the Sinhala language; it is generally considered to have heralded the coming of Sinhala Cinema. The film was produced and filmed in India however, and was highly influenced by South Indian melodrama. It was first shown on January 21, 1947 at the Kingsley Cinema in Colombo. A remake was released in 1982.
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100
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Gharasarapa (2018)
Gharasarapa (The Lurking Serpent) (Sinhalese: ඝරසරප ) is a 2018 Sri Lankan Sinhala supernatural romantic horror film directed by Jayantha Chandrasiri and produced by Arjuna Kamalanath for Isuru Films. It stars Jackson Anthony, Kamal Addararachchi and Sangeetha Weeraratne in lead roles a... Morelong with Sriyantha Mendis , Devnaka Porage and Kavindya Adikari. Music composed by Chintaka Jayakody. Kavindya Adikari, who is the daughter of popular singers Samitha Mudunkotuwa and Athula Adhikari make her debut cinema acting with the film. The film was screened at the Tharanga theatre at the National Film Corporation on 29th of June 2018. The film was officially released on 10 August 2018. Less
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8.4
/70/

Mangrove Island (1976)
Madol Duwa (Mangrove Island) is a 1976 Sri Lankan drama film directed by Lester James Peries and produced by Upasena Marasinghe. The film stars Ajith Jinadasa as Upali, a young rebellious youth who travels to a small island to get away from the restrictive society around him. The film is based on Martin Wickremasinghe's 1947 novel Madol Doova. It was a commercial success
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7.6
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Scent of the Lotus Pond (2015)
Three rural, working class garment factory girls - a pampered prima-Donna (Mangala), a safe runner (Swineetha) and a tormented vixen (Gothami) go through trials and tribulations of their bitter sweet youth in a liberalized industrial zone in the city. Lovelorn Gothami makes life difficu... Morelt for everyone around her and creates her own tragedy by obsessively falling in love with her pretty friend Mangala's sexually frustrated lover, Vipula. The carefree existence of the three girls end in catastrophe and gothami disappears. An accidental meeting of the two girls after several years results in a confession by the ever winning Mangala. the revelation shocks Gothami. Perhaps for the first time Gothami sees life, winning and losing, suffering and salvation in a completely different perspective, which she never thought existed. Less
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67
/4/

Gamani (2011)
Story based on a true incident. Terrorists massacre fifty seven people in a remote village in Sri Lanka. The ill trained, unorganized Home guards could not protect the Village. A brave army Major stationed in area awaiting retirement. A female voluntary teacher convinces the Major about... More his Extra/Additional responsibility and tells what use of his many gallantry medals if people next door sleep in jungle at night or farmers languish in hunger without being able to cultivate. The Major, through army, trains the Home guards, turn them into a formidable force who protect the village when terrorists launch next attack to wipe out village. Less
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5.2
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42
/6/

A Letter of Fire (2005)
A schoolboy and his friend are caught at school looking at pornography on the computer. Punished, they wrongly believe that the police are going to arrest them so they hide in an abandoned building and as the boys feel cornered, and fearing for their lives, one of them accidentally kills a prostitute with a dagger thinking she was a mugger...
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Between Two Worlds (1966)
The son of a newly rich industrialist becomes embroiled in a murder cover-up.
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7.2
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60
/1/

Asandhimitta (2019)
A renowned filmmaker receives a mysterious call from an old college mate in the middle of the night. Asandhimitta, whom he recalls as a large and voluptuous woman, asks him to make a film based on her life. She then confesses that she was recently involved in a triple homicide of three ... Morewomen and is taken into custody shortly afterwards. Intrigued, the filmmaker attempts to piece together her fragmented story for a film while Asandhimitta herself awaits her fate in a local prison. Less
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Saroja (2000)
Story of two small girls, one Sinhala and the other Tamil, amidst war.
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7.5
/36/

In the Name of Buddha (2002)
Siva, a young medical student, arrives undocumented in London Heathrow airport. He is taken into custody and recalls his flight from the civil war in Sri Lanka.
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The Line of Destiny (1956)
A sprawling portrait of rural life in Sri Lanka; the story revolves around a boy and his friend--a blind girl who he accidentally 'heals' by giving her sight. Though the girl believes the boy healed her, in reality the boy has no such powers. The father of the boy fools the village folk... More into believing he's a healer, but ultimately the sham is exposed, causing the village to revolt against the boy and his family. Less
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9.2
/7/

Lethal Bite (2021)
The year 2029, Sri Lanka after the pandemic era of COVID-19 is affected with an incurable deadly virus due to poisonous food.
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6.7
/42/
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Hiripoda Wassa - හිරිපොද වැස්ස (2006)
The story revolves round three teenagers - Prageeth (Roshan), a younger, darker version of Hugh Grant, the son of a business tycoon (Corea), whose fiance is Veena (Anarkali); Sithum (Pubudu), the son of a Postman (Jayalath) is in love with Pooja, (Chathurika) while Ramith who says he co... Moremes from the middle class, and is seduced by his biology teacher who as luck would have it lives in an apartment directly opposite his block of flats, nevertheless, voices every teenagers views of life when he says all he wants to do is to take things easy. Less
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Suhada Koka (2015)
The film starts with a release of peoples' vote of government election, where Rajamanthri (Vijaya) lost his seat and crying with his allies. However, his secretary Sumanasiri (Rodney) revealed that the winning member has been hospitalized after hearing the shocking news of that he won t... Morehe election of the seat. Rajamanthri and crew went to the hospital and finally the winning member died and Rajamanthri won the seat. After winning the seat, he started to celebrate the win, but his fellow ministers (Priyantha and Jayasiri) started to make actions against him. However, with many funny incidents, Rajamanthri pass all the battles with the help of his allies. Meanwhile, Liyana Mahaththaya (Lal), clark (Mihira) and Kalu mudalali (Giriraj) proposed an Awurudu Ulela to impress Chief minister Narendrasinghe (Sathischandra). Less
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8.1
/13/
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/1/

Light in the Yellow Breathing Space (2012)
In one of the most beautiful places on the planet, a father wants his young son to witness his last breath to arrive at a deeper understanding of life.
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7.9
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Him, Here, After (2012)
Returning to his community after defeat in the Sri Lankan civil war, a former Tamil rebel known only as "Him" faces hostility, suspicion and bitter recriminations in Asoka Handagama's beautifully elegiac meditation on the aftermath of war. (TIFF)
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8.1
/16/

Withered leaf
A country woman who turns to be a widow and a single mother is forced to choose between life and death by poverty, gender inequality and ignorance of the society
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The Forsaken Land (2005)
A home-guard serviceman assigned the task of standing watch over a barren no-man's-land begins to experience an existential crisis after years of lonely service.
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A Level (2017)
After getting through the O/L Examination with outstanding results, Anuththara with his friends eagerly look forward to experience their final years in school as seniors in the A/L class. They befriend Ahinsa and the other new girls who join their school. Ahinsa draws everyone’s attenti... Moreon for her smartness as well as her cheerful yet mysterious behaviour. Her irregular school attendance and the rumours circulating about her, make the others suspect that there’s a hidden story behind her cheerfulness. Less
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7.0
/52/
75
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55
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The Outcast (1998)
A lonely widowed water-gate keeper is attracted to the lonely young wife of a soldier who is away at the battlefront. Their passionate need for each other is strongly condemned by the hypocritical villagers. The tragedy unfolds as the village is starved of its precious water supply.
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7.9
/21/

Bawa Karma - භව කර්ම
A continuation of “Bawa Duka”; via Peduru’s family, the narrative exposes the social stasis/class discrimination encouraged by the local Sinhalese Buddhist clergy, while the arrival of the Christian missionaries signals a more progressive mindset, though at the cost of conversion to a ... Moremonotheistic faith. Tyranny is not only practiced by the British colonials but equally facilitated by local traditional institutions--thus, the resultant suffering (Duka) of Peduru is a combination of the two. Less
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6.7
/26/
55
/2/

Fire on Ice (1991)
During a Mayoral election in a small town in the Hill Capital, the son of the opposing candidate is missing while on a trip to Worlds End. The opposing candidate who is a leading lawyer has a mistress named Annette, who now becomes the main suspect. A search begins around Worlds End inv... Moreolving the police and the army, thereby involving the media and people to follow the story. Less
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Thaala (2019)
Asela, a young teacher comes to the Hatagala Elementary School situated in a remote rural village. In a short period of time, he is able to create a new educational awakening in the school with attractive, teaching methods.
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6.0
/33/

House of My Fathers (2018)
A surreal and disturbing tale centred on two divided villages in a civil war where women are unable to conceive and a remedy is desperately sought.
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7.2
/170/
57
/3/

August Sun (2003)
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).
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7.5
/56/
66
/3/

Colombo (2021)
The theme of the movie is ‘Colombo is not a city, but a lifestyle’. This movie revolves around the reality in Colombo life. The core of the film is about realizing that even the toughest people involved in various wrongdoings have a good side to them. They are also human with soft hearts.
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7.7
/58/

The Tree Goddess (2018)
Vaishnavee (The Goddess), (Sinhalese: වෛෂ්ණාවී) is a 2018 Sri Lankan Sinhala drama thriller film directed by veteran director Sumitra Peries and produced by Mano Nanayakkara. 1930’s, Sri Lanka. Partly a compelling domestic drama, and a demonic love story, the narrative follows a puppet... More-maker who’s set to be married to a young girl. Unfortunately, the girl elopes with her secret lover. Devastated, the grieving puppet-maker ends up carving a puppet in her likeness, which eventually comes to life, setting in motion a fantastical chain of events. Less
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Thanha Rathi Ranga (2014)
Three friends embark on a journey to a land that was once forbidden but a sudden encounter forces them to return to yet another land of turmoil and terror.
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7.2
/6/

Bawa’s Garden (2022)
Bawa's Garden is a road movie in search of the work of renowned Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa. The film follows a protagonist scouring the island for the 'lost' garden of Lunuganga. Finding the treasure might be the goal, yet her search is the catalyst for encounters with a series ... Moreof characters and rarely visited buildings that reveal the story of Bawa's life and work. Less
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Death on a Full Moon Day (1997)
Drama about a father who refuses to believe in his son's death at war.
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The Newspaper (2020)
A small poor family in a remote village at dry zone who faced a series of miseries due to a wrong news report published in the national media stating that their son is involved in a suicide bomb blast carried by L.T.T.E terrorists.
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Bulletproof Children (2020)
It's the 17th of March 1996. Wills Cricket World Cup Final between Australia and Sri Lanka is about to commence at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. Meanwhile, in Colombo, a man and his wife board a bus carrying a strange cardboard box. Joined by an eloping young couple, several other inte... Moreresting passengers aboard, they take off on a long night's journey. The seemingly peaceful bus ride shifts its pace when it enters a chase with a Defender jeep. An accident unexpectedly reveals the contents of the cardboard box promising the passengers a journey unlike any they have taken before. Less
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Fire & Water (2002)
This story is set in the year 1664. Rajasinghe the Second the King of the Kandyan Kingdom, is hemmed in by the Dutch who controlled the maritime provinces of the Sri Lankan. A rebel - Ambanwala Rala, threatens him within his own kingdom. Ambanwala Rala enjoys some support from influent... Moreial Kandyan chiefs as well as those who wield considerable civil power in the villages. The film revolves around the lives of this exorcist, his assistant, a woman called Kirimenike and her man Herath. The story unfolds against the backdrop of this political turmoil, the rebellion and counter rebellion weaving in and out of the inter-play among these characters and the cultural ethos that surrounds them. In the final denouement, the protagonists discover themselves and each other; partly as a result of the tumult they live through. Less
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Pawana Ralu Viya (1995)
An upper middle class family's struggles as a country struggles between democracy and totalitarianism. The family faces persecution and the ramifications cut across the country's borders.
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Whirlwind (2009)
Podi Eka, a village teenager without any education living with his poverty-stricken mother and sister. He cannot even write Amma (mother) Akka (sister) mama (me). Instead he draws three crosses on the wall in charcoal depicting the threesome. He works for his stepfather carrying water t... Moreo the illicit brewery and experiences the rape of his sister by the stepfather, the bootlegger and the consequent suicide of his sister. He murders his stepfather in vengeance and spends 17 years in jail, returning to the village as an adult to help his uncle in farming and cattle rearing. He is still called Podi Eka. His attempts to start a new life fail on account of the tragic death of his mother and his own brutish desires. Less
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Surabidena (1993)
In exchange for money, a poor farmer's wife reluctantly agrees to be a surrogate mother for a rich planter and his wife. After the child is born she refuses to give it up.
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7.7
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Tentigo (2023)
An embarrassing problem emerges in a quiet household somewhere in a province of Sri Lanka. The patriarch of a lovely family suddenly dies in front of the TV one fateful night. He experienced something soulfully romantic before his last breath and the most sensitive part of his deceased ... Morebody still functions without pulse or blood pressure. His two grown sons and a mourning mother are eager to bend down the standing organ to avoid shameful reactions at the funeral. Less
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Sarigama (2016)
A woman leaves a convent to become a governess to the children of a Army officer widower.
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The Wind Birds (2003)
Rathi is pregnant and waits for her boyfriend, who is a soldier. In one of his visits on leave, Rathi tells him about her pregnancy. Soon after, she finds out that he is actually married, has no intent to take care of the child and simply tells her to perform an abortion.
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A Space of Our Own - The Lanka Comic Con Documentary (2018)
A Documentary about the Lanka Comic Con, history of how it started, and its community.
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Kolamba Sanniya Returns (2018)
Kolamba Sanniya Returns (Sinhala: කොළඹ සන්නිය Returns) is a 2018 Sri Lankan Sinhala comedy film directed by Harsha Udakanda and co-produced by Sahan Abeywardena, Shermal Dilshan and Dinith Cornett. It stars Sarath Kothalawala and Menaka Maduwanthi in lead roles along with Rajitha Hiran ... Moreand Kumuduni Adikari. Music composed by Gayan Udawaththa. It is the remake of 1976 film Kolamba Sanniya by Manik Sandrasagara. It is the 1312th Sri Lankan film in the Sinhala cinema. Less
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12:21:21 (2017)
A Psychologically ill person with schizophrenia who is undergoing constant medical treatments recalls his past reminiscences.He distinguishes the reality and illusion from a different perspective.


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