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- Multiple teams race around the globe for $1,000,000 to 'amazing' locations.
- British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.
- The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.
- Set in colonial India against Gandhi's rise to power, it's the story of 8-year-old Chuyia, who is widowed and sent to a home to live in penitence; once there, Chuyia's feisty presence deeply affects the lives of the other residents.
- Mother Teresa's life is portrayed from the beginning of her ministry to her death. She seeks to serve the poor by creating a new "congregation" in the Church, establishing refuges for the dying and orphaned, and providing some comfort and food. Obstacles abound and she pushes through them to the end.
- The young bride of a rich planter finds herself the only white woman at Elephant Walk tea plantation, British Ceylon.
- An ordinary man goes against all odds and forges his destiny to become a 'Big Shot'.
- A pair of children born within moments of India gaining independence from Britain grow up in the country that is nothing like their parents' generation.
- Set in Thailand and India, a case of mistaken identity leads to love, and a man and his family concoct a grand scheme to win over the hearts of a woman and her greedy, conniving uncles.
- A little girl is told by her parents that she is adopted. Determined to find her real mother, she begs to be taken to Sri Lanka, where her mother works with a militant group of activists.
- The story of a socially popular, powerful and highly respected Protestant priest of St Pauls Church in Colombo, and sought after Exorcist, Father Matthew Peries, who in the late 1970's, conspired with his mistress, to murder his wife and the mistress's husband, by poisoning the victims with gradual over doses of insulin. He evaded detection owing to his standing in the community and continued fearlessly with his nefarious activities.
- Shihab paddles his own canoe when he decides to overcome the loss of his sole source of livelihood and sets sail to India atop a vessel whereupon he defies perils of the sea and woes of World War II.
- A Young man fights for his lost bike with courage. Honest Gangster with his foolish brother who destroyed everything. This is a remake of Tamil movie Polladhavan aka.Ruthless Man (2007)
- This is an extraordinary tale from over 2600 years ago, of a Prince who is endowed with everything he needs and more. Luxury, palaces, and all heart's-desires are provided to him by his father, a warrior King of the kingdom of Sakya. The story unfolds dramatically with the Prince leaving all his luxuries and possessions as well as his caring parents, loving wife, and newborn son, to embark on a journey through the unknown to find the end to human sorrow and suffering.
- Explores Arjie's sexual awakening from a young boy to a teenager who falls in love with a male classmate, just as political tensions escalate between the Sinhalese and Tamils in the years leading up to the 1983 uprisings.
- This is a conspiracy theory period movie based on true events, that led to the eventual assassination of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The movie demonstrates a violent India, at the backdrop of a non-violent Gandhi, and hard-line fanatic mindsets beginning to grow roots in an India divided on the basis of religion. This movie is a story of three police officers in different parts of India, who, well aware of the intelligence that Gandhi's life is under threat, must take key decisions that would eventually either save the Mahatma, or the country.
- A terrorist plants several bombs throughout the city of Colombo, Sri Lanka and threatens to detonate them unless prisoners are released.
- La bonzesse is a light soft porn erotic film, directed by Francois Jouffa and staring the gifted French film writer Sylvie Matton, who with her husband Charles Matton, wrote the excellent film "La lumiere des etoiles morteszzzz'. Filmed in Paris and Sri Lanka, the movie has a pleasant look that enhances the faux seriousness parodied. The highlight of the movie is Matton, then known as Sylvie Meyer playing a young woman on "a spiritual journey from sexual bohemia to Buddhist nun.
- An over confident cricketer who ruins his career must prove his worth by starting all over again
- No Fire Zone: In the Killing Fields of Sri Lanka is an investigative documentary about the final weeks of the Sri Lankan Civil War.
- Talented and ambitious village girl comes to town to be a singer to earn money to save her fathers's life.
- A 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.
- A Love Story of three youth in a Architecture Institute .
- Dada Ima (End of the Hunt) PROLOGUE Rathmalie's tragic story of cheat and deceit which resulted in her untimely death at the hands of her fiance', Priyankara, who ran over her in his car, was screened as the award winning and Internationally acclaimed Sinhala film 'Dadayama' (The Hunt) in 1985 in Sri Lanka (Directed by Wasantha Obeysekara). It was based on a true story which took placed many decades ago in which the accused was found guilty and sentenced to death by Supreme Court in Sri Lanka. MOVIE - 'Dada Ima' (End of the Hunt) Dada Ima is a Sequel Drama genre movie, fictitiously based on 3 decade old 'Dadayama' film. After Rathmalie's demise, the custody of their one-year old son (Ravinath) falls under her sister, Rohini. Rohini without disclosing the truth about his parents to Ravinath, lives with him in Europe after leaving the motherland in 1986. Her reluctance to return to Sri Lanka is governed by her fears and disgust of a haunting past of her sister's catastrophic death. Priyankara, meanwhile, has absconded the legal repercussions by concealing the murder of Rathmalie for 30 years, and was residing in the UK under a false identity. After completing his education there, he now has come back to Sri Lanka as Keerthi Gajanayaka, a well-known President's Counsel. In the background of these past events, three decades of silence is shattered as Ravinath, who is now a renowned pianist is invited to perform at a concert in Sri Lanka. During his stay, he has a fateful encounter with Keerthi Gajanayake. Ravinath not realizing Keerthi to be his father, confronts him following a dream he sees, which is mixed with some past events of his "mother's" brutal murder. When Rohini understands that Priyankara, aka Keerthi is still alive, she decides to join her "son", with the aims of discovering the truth about her sister's murder, and to hide the malevolent past from Ravinath. 'Dada Ima' (End of the Hunt), smoothly unfolds the secrets of the past, and depicts that no one escapes punishment after committing a crime during his lifetime.
- Amila comes from a small village in Sri Lanka. After losing his parents, he moves to Colombo. He works as a construction worker in a Chinese building site and looks after his four siblings. His sister Inoka suffers from a congenital heart defect and the only way to save her is an urgent and expensive surgery to be performed in India. While Amila is trying to find the money he needs, he just meets the wrong person at the right time, and gets caught up in the child trafficking business.