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- DirectorNilendra DeshapriyaStarsMohamed AdamalyKamal AddaraarachchiThumindu DodantenneThree 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.
- DirectorPrasanna VithanageStarsMohamed AdamalyDayadewa EdirisingheDilhani EkanayakeA Silver screen idol of yesteryear a faded star today. In the web of a scandal the limelight is all her again. A long forgotten secret resurfaces making her undertake the most painful journey ever.
- DirectorSanjeewa PushpakumaraStarsKaushalaya FernandoNilanka Sepala DahanayakeChaminda Sampath Jayaweera3 young characters experience painful personal journeys in a civil war trodden Sri Lankan village, surrounded by a backdrop of violence, sexual frustration and political hypocrisy.
- DirectorChandran RutnamStarsSuranga RanawakaAshan DiasAthula PathiranaAt the time of the Sri Lankan civil war, an army officer's routine assignment to pick up a woman informant near Jaffna turns into a nightmare when the LTTE launch a massive attack in the peninsula targeting the camp at Elephant Pass.
- DirectorSarath WeerasekaraStarsDamitha AbeyratneDhammika AluthgedaraJagath BeneragamaAfter the Gonagala massacre by the LTTE, the villagers are about to flee their village. The village monk persuades them to stay, with the support of a schoolteacher who later manages to get the village guards trained by the military.
- DirectorJayantha ChandrasiriStarsYashoda WimaladharmaUddika PremarathnaPubudu ChathurangaVadeesha Devaminda Wickramanayaka is a highly creative and sensitive young music student in his school. A special love letter that he finds accidentally, written by Punya, a women, more mature than him in both age and life, motivates him for some soul searching. He is also haunted by guilt, because he fails to deliver the letter, to who it belongs. His relentless efforts to return the letter to the women to her lover, fail. Sympathy mixed with emotions of love he feels towards this women, leads to him creating a song that captures a cathartic experience. This popular creation and many other songs that he gives birth to, for a period of 20 years, makes him a prominent musician in the country. But however, his memories and nostalgia towards Punya make him a failure in his married life. Although he regains his life by returning the letter to Punya after 20 years by chance, she is now left with a feeling of void her life.
- DirectorMalith HegodaStarsSamadhi LaksiriBimal JayakodiJagath ManuwarnaDinithi tries very hard to communicate with her husband, but he ignores her presence relentlessly. The harder she tries to reach him, the deeper his silence becomes. Their 8 year old daughter watches them. Her parents try to get involved but receive the same silent treatment from him. Dinithi doesn't work anymore. When she steps out of the house, it is only in pursuit of domestic chores, with the same taxi that has been arranged for her by her husband. That driver seems to be very friendly. Even Sanka, Dinithi's young cousin, who's staying with them seems to be overly friendly with her. One day, the husband is drawn into a road accident in which a pedestrian is killed. Dinithi rushes to his side, hoping to be of some help.
- DirectorJayantha ChandrasiriStarsUddika PremarathnaJackson AnthonyKusum RenuDutugamunu also known as Dutthagamani and Gamani Abhaya ("fearless Gamini"), was a Sinhalese king of Sri Lanka who reigned from 161 BC to 137 BC. He is renowned for defeating and overthrowing Elara, the usurping Tamil prince from the Chola Kingdom, who had invaded the Kingdom of Rajarata in 205 BC. Dutugamunu also expanded and beautified the city of Anuradhapura and projected the power of his native Rajarata region across the island of Sri Lanka.
- DirectorPrasanna VithanageStarsRajeena BegumDimuthu ChinthakaPeter D'AlmeidaIra Madiyama is set in Sri Lanka during the mid-1990s and tells three simultaneous stories against the backdrop of the country's savage civil war. Chamari ( is searching for her husband, a Sinhalese Sri Lankan Air Force pilot shot down in flight, whom she believes has been taken prisoner by the Tamil Tigers. Desperate to know the truth, she enlists a sympathetic journalist and sets out on a journey to track him down. Meanwhile, eleven-year-old Tamil Muslim Arfath is struggling to keep his companion and friend, a dog, while the family together with the entire village is forced to evacuate by a rebel army. The third narrative follows Duminda, a young soldier who walks into a brothel to find his sister among the working girls.
- DirectorVimukthi JayasundaraStarsMahendra PereraHemasiri LiyanageNilupili JayawardenaWeary residents (Soma, Lata, Piyasiri) of a war-ravaged country drift through life.
- DirectorPrasanna VithanageStarsJoe AbeywickramaNayana HettiarachchiKumara KarunanandaA great Sinhala movie "drama" of a father (Mr. Joe Abewickrama) who refuses to believe in his son's death at war.
- DirectorDarmasena PathirajaStarsJoe AbeywickramaWimal Kumara de CostaRuby de MelExploes tradition and exploitation because of capitalism in Kalpitiya, a small fishing village.
- DirectorBoodee KeerthisenaStarsDharshan DharmarajDharmapriya DiasThumindu DodantenneTwo lovers, Yoga and Parvathi, meet on the battlefield of the Sri Lankan civil war. As the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam attack the Sri Lankan army and tighten their grip on the Tamil people, Yoga and Parvathi struggle with feelings for each other and their own commitments to the LTTE. Parvathi's family is relocated to a concentration camp and Yoga is sent on a mission to Colombo by a jealous LTTE commander. But they soon meet again in battle and Parvathi becomes pregnant with Yoga's child. In the final days of the war, the Sri Lankan army closes in on the LTTE and rescues the Tamil refugees, and the lovers desperately flee the army and the LTTE for the sake of their baby.
- DirectorBoodee KeerthisenaStarsMahendra PereraSangeetha WeeraratneJackson AnthonyMille 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.
- DirectorPriyankara VittanachchiStarsNilmini BuwanekaJagath ChamilaThesara JayawardaneSam an autistic person and his desire to live and achieve his dreams. Challenges that he has to face from the society and from the family. Overcoming all and living in his dream life.
- DirectorPrasanna VithanageStarsShyam FernandoAnjali PatilMaheshwari RatnamThe film set, in post war Sri Lanka, brings us close to two characters who collide quite accidentally, and through them we experience the deep and seemingly unbridgeable chasm that conflict almost always creates. Will love help them cross the bridge? Or will the past continue to color the present? A man and a woman from the two ends of the thirty-year-old bloody civil war in Sri Lanka discover that the color of love is blue, and life, shades of grey.
- DirectorAsoka HandagamaStarsSaumya LiyanageDilhani EkanayakeJagath ChamilaIn a Northern border village during the Sri Lankan Civil War, a Sinhalese soldier meets a Tamil girl in the battlefield. The soldier leaves the army with the girl and returns to his village. The arrival of the Tamil girl into this predominantly Sinhala village causes a stir within the community, and they collectively decide to send her to a refugee camp. "This is My Moon" is a controversial examination of village life, where rural myths are shattered to reveal a deeper reality of a society torn apart by war.
- DirectorAsoka HandagamaStarsAnoma JanadariGayani GisanthikaMahendra PereraIn order to avoid the gender discrimination prevelent in Sri Lanka, a woman decides to pass as a man and gets a job as a mechanic and even takes a wife.
- DirectorSumitra PeriesStarsVasanthi ChathuraniSanath GunathilakeVijaya Kumaratunga"Ganga Addara" is a classic Sinhala movie released in 1980. It was directed by Sumitra Peiris, written by Tissa Abesekara and produced by Sumathi Films. The movie tells the story of Dr. Sarath Pathirana (Vijaya Kumarathunga). Who is trying out western medications on Sri Lankan patients which he learned during his studies in England. He is then directed by the head doctor (Henry Jayasena) to a special patient. A troubled, young and beautiful girl called Nirmala (Vasanthi Chathurani) who has been mute since her mental breakdown. In order to cure her, Dr. Pathirana questions Nirmala's father, a wealthy but a corrupted man named D.J Atapattu (Tony Ranasinghe). Atapattu's revelation of his secrets enables Dr. Pathirana to find out the causes of Nirmala's sudden mental breakdown
- DirectorAsoka HandagamaStarsDharshan DharmarajSubashini BalasubramaniyamGregory Philip FerminusA Tamil rebel soldier is rehabilitated and comes back home with great hopes of finding work, getting back his lover and getting back to normalcy. The village has turned against him because he had recruited many as rebels and they all were killed except for himself. He finds his lover had been forced into a marriage to an older man to escape being recruited into the force. He becomes a security guard for a smuggler, while forming a strange bond with the wife of the previous security guard.
- DirectorPrasanna JayakodyStarsNadeeka GurugeMichelle HerftJagath ManuwarnaAfter his mother's death, Piyal meets Amanda, and begins seeing her as the woman who is able to fill the void within him.
- DirectorUberto PasoliniStarsDharmapriya DiasGihan De ChickeraDharshan DharmarajA group of sad slum residents, living on the limits of society under immense pressure, find an invitation to a handball tournament in Bavaria.
- DirectorAthula LiyanageStarsDamitha AbeyratneNita FernandoBimal JayakodiAn Ordinary meaningless existence can suddenly change by life and death
- DirectorPrasanna JayakodyStarsThumindu DodantenneSachini AyendraNilua HeenkendaarachchiYoung 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 women. 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.
- DirectorJayantha ChandrasiriStarsKamal AddaraarachchiJackson AnthonyUpathissa BalasooriyaThisara, the owner of an advertising firm, gets a contract to make a propaganda campaign for the opposition leader Gregory Mahadikaram at the next presidential elections.
- DirectorSomaratne DissanayakeStarsJackson AnthonySajitha AnuththaraDasun MadushankaA secret friendship is developed between the two boys, a young disciple and a son of a hunter in a remote village.
- DirectorBennett RathnayakeStarsJoe AbeywickramaJackson AnthonySusil GunarathnaAn elderly man who regrets certain events in his past life displays his struggle to relieve the bottled up feelings which had disturbed him throughout his life.Opening with the funeral of the elderly Guneris' wife the film follows the revelation of his past which is filled with a number of tragic events including a triple murder he had committed 52 years ago.
- DirectorJayantha ChandrasiriStarsYashoda WimaladharmaJackson AnthonyKamal AddaraarachchiThe film revolves around the lives of this exorcist, his assistant, a woman called Kirimenike and her man Herath.
- DirectorSomaratne DissanayakeStarsJoe AbeywickramaSusantha ChandramaliNita FernandoStory of two small girls, one Sinhala and other Tamil, amidst war
- DirectorAsoka HandagamaStarsLanka BandaranayakeShamila Nimanthi FrenandoGamini HettiarachchiA poor child, having grown up with his mother, is suddenly recognized by everyone in the city after his astounding speech on the difference of monetary values of different people from a child's perspective. His story, as it unfolds under excruciating circumstances, is the story of a simple child with big dreams.
- DirectorSatyajit MaitipeStarsKaushalaya FernandoDilani AbeywardenaDuminda De SilvaThree 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 difficult 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.
- DirectorIndika FerdinandoStarsJagath ChamilaJayani SenanayakeDayadewa EdirisingheOne day, a new teacher, Uma, arrives at a primary school in a remote little village in Sri Lanka. With Uma's help, her little pupils learn not to be afraid of dreaming big. One morning, little Upuli, who is blind, shares her unseen dream with her friends. It becomes the unseen dream, not only in the eyes of the little ones, but also in the eyes of the entire village. The perils that the children and Uma encounter in their venture to realize this dream, and their determination to triumph, is portrayed through the innocence of childhood and the harsh reality of village life. This single dream gives rise to a little revolution, stirring up the quiet village, as it has never experienced before.
- DirectorChathra WeeramanBharatha HettiarachchiStarsUddika PremarathnaDilhani EkanayakeRoshan Ravindra"Aloko Udapadi" ("Light Arose") is an Epic Film of the unswerving human effort to record for all time, a unique spiritual heritage. In 89 BC, King Walagamba of Sinhala kingdom (present day Sri Lanka), was troubled by power-hungry forces from within and from outside, which compelled him to abandon throne and flee with a hope of returning back to power. A severe drought and a subsequent famine assailed the land for 12 unbroken years. Buddhist Monks who perpetuated Lord Buddha's word by oral tradition, could not survive the harsh conditions. The monks were troubled both by the enemy and the famine. In these dark days, the loyal subjects protected their King. Enemy leaders killed each other for power and wealth. Well armed, the King dealt a deadly blow and regained the rule and brought back the freedom the natives lost. In peace and prosperity, the monks facing the challenge wrote down the oral tradition. The Buddha's compassionate teaching became an irreducible component of the whole of human culture. It is a story of how a smaller nation arose together to face off the darkest days of the history of the land.
- DirectorSunil AriyaratneStarsUddika PremarathnaAruni RajapakshaPooja UmashankarKannagi (Pooja) born in the Chola kingdom, one of the three kingdoms in South India around 1,500 years ago, is happily married to Kovalan (Uddika), a millionaire. Kovalan attends the crowning ceremony of the Chola dancing queen, Princess Madhavi (Aruni). Pleased with he performance the king wants Madhavi to indicate whom she would pick to become her husband from among the wealthy male guests present. She selects Kovalan. Spellbound by Madhavi's beauty and her dancing skills, Kovalan too likes Madhavi. The happy marriage crashes. Kovalan spends all his wealth on Madhavi. Broken-hearted, the weeping Kannagi bears up the agony. She resists overtures by young men and lives a solitary life maintaining her chastity. Being a professional dancer, Madhavi has to perform whenever important personalities visit her. Kovalan is irritated by her behaviour and this leads to constant arguments. How does the love triangle between Kovalan, Kannagi and Madhavi end..? How does Kannagi who aspires for Buddhahood become Goddess Paththini..?
- DirectorGiriraj KaushalyaStarsAnarkali AkarshaSomasiri AlakolangeAnanda AthukoralaA story about a Sri Lankan Matchmaker trying to find a partner for his own daughter.