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- 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.
- DirectorDharmasiri BandaranayakeStarsVasanthi ChathuraniDharmasiri BandaranayakeHenry JayasenaA married man (Nissanka) and woman (Miranda) find their lives disrupted after their affair is exposed by the police. Leaving their respective families, the two decide to live together. Shortly afterwards, Miranda secretly goes back to see her former husband. As paranoia mounts, Nissanka disintegrates psychologically to point where reality and fantasy are blurred.
- DirectorDarmasena PathirajaStarsJoe AbeywickramaWimal Kumara de CostaRuby de MelExploes tradition and exploitation because of capitalism in Kalpitiya, a small fishing village.
- DirectorLester James PeriesStarsPunya HeendeniyaHenry JayasenaWickrema BogodaA girl is forced into a loveless marriage by her family.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorUdayakantha WarnasuriyaStarsJackson AnthonySriyantha MendisPalitha SilvaMainly due to its depiction of the emerge of gang-based violence in the country.
- 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.
- 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.
- DirectorSomaratne DissanayakeStarsJoe AbeywickramaSusantha ChandramaliNita FernandoStory of two small girls, one Sinhala and other Tamil, amidst war
- DirectorGiriraj KaushalyaStarsAnarkali AkarshaSomasiri AlakolangeAnanda AthukoralaA story about a Sri Lankan Matchmaker trying to find a partner for his own daughter.
- DirectorWasantha ObesekaraStarsSwarna MallawarachchiRavindra RandeniyaSomy RatnayakeA woman plots her revenge after being duped by a slick, ruthless man who impregnates her and tries to bail out of marriage. Based on a true story.
- DirectorH.D. PremaratneStarsDaya AlwisJackson AnthonyRazi AnwarNimal and Sirima with their father, live in a village where the passenger transport is only a lorry coverted into a bus. Nimal wants to join police force. He goes to house of the police inspector of the area and works as a house servant. When the rebellion activities arise, he is recruited as a homeguard (A rank junior to constable in SL police). His sister sirima is a village beauty, is in love with Gamini. Gunapala who is in her father's age, a fisherman and their neighbour, tries to attract Sirima with the help of bus driver, who is well in petition writing. They inform to forces that Gamini is a rebel. Gamini is disappeared as a result. During a picnic, Gunapala rapes Sirima. Later he chases his wife away and bring Sirima to his house. Gunapala's wife goes to the police station and tells what happened. Nimal tries to meet police inspector to get leave but inspector is busy with the anti rebellion security activities. Nimal comes out without approved leave with his official gun hidden in a bag. When he reached the village, he kills the bus driver. When he gose home he realizes what happened and kills Gunapala. By the time an armed police team lead by inspector comes searching for Nimal. Inspector asks him to drop the gun and to surrender. With the rage in his mind Nimal shouts lifting the gun up and seargent shoots him.
- 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.
- StarsJoe AbeywickramaDaya AlwisMalkam AndriAndare is a poor village man who comes across a blue sapphire in the jungle. He sells it and becomes a millionaire and moves to Colombo with his family. Hilarious things happen when they try to adapt themselves to life in Colombo with modern amenities.
- DirectorH.D. PremaratneStarsDilani AbeywardenaMenike AttanayakaElson DivituragamaBanda and wife Siriya live in a village by the forest. Cananbis is growm in the forest by the hunter. Sira, a lorry driver working for a timber merchant, comes to the village by the lorry to tranport timber from the forest also with cannabis hidden. He suggests banda to open a boutique. When the paddy field owner rejects to continue the lease of his land with Banda, Banda opens the butique with the objection of the owner of the other boutique in the village. All goods are supplied by Sira. By the time Sira develops an affection on Siriya. One day Sira brings two of his subbordinates Justin and Wilbert. While Sira and Banda are out in the night Wilbert rapes Siriya. When Sira got to know it, he takes Wilbert in to forest and kills him. The boutiqe is bankrupted and Banda commits suicide. Sira takes Siriya and her son to City. Making an arguement with his boss timeber dealer, Sira resigns. He joins with Marcus and Jumbo, a prostitute and start a new business. Sira and marcus send Jumbo with a man and later raid the room stating that the man has taken their sister by force. By treatening that they may disclose this incident, they grabs the man's money. Siriya is not happy with this game, gets well dressed herselt and goes to the street. A luxury vehical stops and takes her in. Sira tries to find her when he got to know that she has gone to the street. But he fails.
- DirectorD.B. NihalsingheStarsH.A. PereraAnoja WeerasingheVeena JayakodyPoojitha the politician is forced by his family to marry Samara, although he is deeply in love with Ranjini. Many years later the ex-lovers meet and they start their affair again in secret. Ranjini gets pregnant and refuses to have an abortion which Poojitha suggests that she has. The baby is born and the wife, Samara finds out all the secrets. One of the women will die a painful death to save the politician's career.
- DirectorDharmasiri BandaranayakeStarsKamal AddaraarachchiNeil AllesJackson AnthonyA 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 signal a more progressive mindset, though at the cost of conversion to a monotheistic 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.
- 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.
- DirectorSomaratne DissanayakeStarsAjit AdhikariSomasiri AlakolangeDulanjali AriyathillakeA street kid is faced with the decision of whether to continue with his family's street performing profession, as his father becomes increasingly invalid and his family, helpless.
- DirectorPrasanna VithanageStarsSwarna MallawarachchiRavindra RandeniyaYashoda WimaladharmaSUWISAL is a successful, middle-aged company director, but he has a melancholic personality and is very forgetful. His beautiful young fiancée finds herself having to remind him of daily appointments, special occasions and routine things. Suwisal is a reluctant husband-to-be. He has casual relationships with other women and appears to be troubled by something deep in his psyche- something he tries to forget in order to maintain emotional stability. This stability is suddenly upset when he is called to serve on a jury at a murder trial. The defendant is a young sex-worker accused of murdering a client. Suwisal recognizes her as PIYUM, the young servant from his aunt's house, whom he knew twenty five years ago. He had a sexual encounter with her and made her pregnant, but refuse to see her again and help her through the difficulties. Suwisal is not sure if Piyum recognizes him, She says nothing. He is advised to remain in the jury and he votes with the majority to find her guilty as charged. she is sentenced to ten years imprisonment. But we see that it is Suwisal who has been sentenced to lifetime of guilt, remorse and despair. He now feels he should share some responsibility for the life Piyum was forced to lead. He tries to lodge an appeal of her behalf but he is advised against this because of the adverse consequences if his past becomes public knowledge. Suwisal gets angry. Nobody seems to understand his need to rectify the wrongdoing of twenty five years ago. He is accused of acting like a child, and of only wanting to satisfy his conscience because he can never change what he did. But Suwisal persists. He visits Piyum in prison and offers her help. Did Piyum recognized him at the trail? Does she accept his help? Is Suwisal released from his lifetime of torment? We are given the answer in the last few frames of the film.
- DirectorDharmasiri BandaranayakeStarsNeil AllesJackson AnthonyTissa BandaranayakeSet during the British colonial reign in Sri Lanka (1905), this powerful drama follows Peduru who descends from a line of traditional drummers, crossing over to three generations. Peduru's struggle for survival in this harsh rural hamlet exposes the repressive Buddhist institutionalization of the locals, and the hierarchical structure backed by the British colonials.
- DirectorWasantha ObesekaraStarsSangeetha WeeraratneKamal AddaraarachchiRavindra RandeniyaUnable to bear the bitterness and torment of betrayed love, a female former soldier turns to revenge and murder.
- DirectorSumitra PeriesStarsGamini FonsekaJoe AbeywickramaKamal AddaraarachchiPunna is a beautiful girl who is suddenly thrust into hardships after her father dies suddenly and her lover is discovered to be an impostor. She joins a garment factory belonging to Marasinghe Mudalali. Her job being the only way out to support her mother and siblings she goes on to become the mistress of Marasinghe. One day a surprise visitor from her past makes a visit to ask her for forgiveness.
- 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.
- DirectorWasantha ObesekaraStarsDharmasiri BandaranayakeMercy EdirisingheDhammi FonsekaSarath is employed under Gunadasa in a printing press. He elopes one day with Gunadasa's daughter Kusum. Unable to find employment, the lovers lead a hard life in a shanty hut. Kusum begins an affair with the handsome Tennyson. During a passionate love making session between Sarath and Kusum, a name uttered by mistake will leave one of them dead and the others life shattered.
- DirectorH.D. PremaratneStarsSanath GunathilakeDenavaka HamineSabeetha PereraSaman is a school teacher. He marries his cousin Sujatha after a long love affair. On the wedding night, she couldn't prove her virginity. Therefore, her in-laws harass her. Saman also suspects. Thus she leaves her husband's house and goes to her parents. But Saman brings her back. But Saman's mother and his unmarried old aunt make her to leave the home again. When she is leaving, Saman comes and stop her.
- DirectorPrasanna VithanageStarsDilani AbeywardenaSanath GunathilakeVeena JayakodyDuring 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 involving the police and the army, thereby involving the media and people to follow the story. The story is entwined in these circumstances and surroundings.
- DirectorWasantha ObesekaraStarsThamara DilrukshiSatischandra EdirisingheRamani FonsekaThis film begins with the death of a newly-wed couple in a car crash. Adverse social reactions to their romance were expressed in unfounded slander, gossip and insinuations. Both emotional and cultural incompatibility rocked their nest of love. Despite this, they were able to marry, albeit amidst a show of protest from many people. Was their death suicide, homicide, or an accident?
- DirectorWasantha ObesekaraStarsKamal AddaraarachchiPurna Sampath de AlwisRamani FonsekaA girl falls in love with student at the university who had already engaged with left for divorce, employment abroad man.
- DirectorI.N. HewawasamStarsDamitha AbeyratneDaya AlwisSanath GunathilakeGunapala abducts Yamuna after laying eyes on some pornographic material. He wants to try out what he has seen with her but later regrets his vile actions and this causes him to take drastic and deadly actions.
- DirectorH.D. PremaratneStarsKamal AddaraarachchiMenike AttanayakaRobin FernandoDescriptionSaptha Kanya is a 1993 Sinhalese language drama romantic film directed and produced by H.D. Premaratne. The film stars Kamal Addararachchi and Sangeetha Weeraratne in the leading roles. Playback singing was by Damayanthi Jayasooriya, Kamal Addararachchi, Rookantha Gunathilake, Dhammika Valpola and Morris Wijesinghe.
- 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.
- DirectorPrasanna JayakodyStarsSemini IddamalgodaSarath KothalawalaRukmal NiroshThree men transport the body of a woman, who was raped and murdered, in an old van. One of the men will find out that the woman is his estranged wife.
- DirectorAnura HoratiousStarsTony RanasingheDilhani EkanayakeMahendra PereraThe story revolves around Kamal, a soldier with the Special Task Force. He is the father of a child. When he learns of an extramarital affair of his wife Samanthi, he leaves them behind. Samanthi, now helpless, lives a footloose life, but she is determined to ensure a prosperous future for her daughter.
- DirectorJackson AnthonyStarsAnoja WeerasingheKamal AddaraarachchiMahendra PereraDevinda is an actor married to Saroja. Devinda starts an illicit affair with an actress Anjali. When Anjali becomes possessive and jealous of the life he leads with his wife he tries to break away from her. Anjali tries to commit suicide but is saved. She eventually loses her mind and is put in a mental hospital. Devinda helps her to get cured and she is released. Devinda comes to see Anjali one day thinking she is cured but events take place that will lead to one of them dying a tragic death.
- DirectorJayantha ChandrasiriStarsYashoda WimaladharmaJackson AnthonyKamal AddaraarachchiThe film revolves around the lives of this exorcist, his assistant, a woman called Kirimenike and her man Herath.
- DirectorLester James PeriesStarsSomapala DharmapriyaMyrtle FernandoShesha PalihakkaraA 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 into believing he's a healer, but ultimately the sham is exposed, causing the village to revolt against the boy and his family.
- DirectorLester James PeriesStarsK.L. Coranelis AppuhamyKumarasinghe AppuhamySaman BokalawalaThis film chronicles the tale of Willie Abeynayake (Gamini Fonseka) and his effort to uncover a treasure, which can only be attained by sacrificing a virgin girl with four birthmarks. Willie finds his girl, but in a twist of events he falls in love with her. But after losing his job, ensuing economic complications force him to reconsider sacrificing her for the treasure.
- DirectorJackson AnthonyStarsNeil AllesSenaka Titus AnthonyDulani AnuradhaThe childhood story of king Pandukabhaya (474 BC - 367 BC), the 6th monarch of Sri Lanka.
- DirectorUdayakantha WarnasuriyaStarsRoshan RanawanaPubudu ChathurangaJanith WickremageThe 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 comes 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.
- DirectorSenesh Dissanaike BandaraStarsRoshan RavindraChathurika PeirisPradeep SenanayakaA middle class boy from the highlands who falls in love with an upper class girl in Colombo.They are both high school students.The girl's arranged marriage and her illness make life difficult for the young couple.They challenge cultural conventions to succeed.
- DirectorJackson AnthonyStarsKamal AddaraarachchiJackson AnthonyAkhila DhanuddharaThe lives of a hoodlum, businessman, a law student and a woman are deeply affected by the greed for power.
- DirectorShameera RanganaStarsDasun PathiranaSamanalee FonsekaVeena JayakodyRangana is a young musician from the working classes who dreams big. His aim is to rise above his station, even as he toils the low-rent barroom circuit with his band, playing night after night to under-appreciative crowds to make a frugal living. Tanya is the love of his life, the woman whom all this will be worth achieving. She is just finishing school. As he toils through the nights, his need of a mode of transport - a motor bicycle - becomes more and more apparent. He dreams of one day collecting enough money to buy one, finally buying a second hand motorbike despite his mother's great protest. He now wants to taste his new found freedom with his beloved Tanya, along the city streets of Colombo. As Rangana and Tanya embark on this motorbike journey across the city, questions about their present, challenges to their future and the very essence of their lives is brought to the fore, in "Motor Bicycle."
- DirectorNishantha De AlwisStarsDilhani EkanayakeLinton SemageNilmini ThennakoonA fast-paced movie that deals with corrupt politicians, rape, and forced marriages. A politician will be stabbed and another person's leg will be cut off.
- DirectorWijaya Dharma SriStarsPalitha SilvaAsoka PeirisYashoda WimaladharmaMr. Sooriyabandara gives his garment factory to his sons, Anura and Kithsiri. The two come across many discrepancies in the accounts of the factory and find that their uncle Gunapala has been helping himself to the profits. Mr. Sooriyabandara will ultimately face death all by himself.
- DirectorH.D. PremaratneStarsJoe AbeywickramaRazi AnwarSanath GunathilakeDotty, a beautiful woman is condemned to a life of adversity when her husband, Solomon, is imprisoned for murder. Left alone to support her son, Somasiri, she falls for the fatal charm of Willie, a thug who takes advantage of her vulnerability. Under his influence, Dotty takes to drinks and drugs. Somasiri, disgusted with her transformation and degradation, is compelled to kill Willie to save her.
- 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.
- DirectorKalpana AriyawansaVindana AriyawansaStarsShyam FernandoSamanalee FonsekaSuranga RanawakaAfter his wife leaves him, a man with a severe case of OCD who fears that his own urine is contaminating everything around him, admits himself to a mental hospital for treatment to overcome his fear and win his wife back.
- DirectorSarath KothalawalaKumara ThirimaduraStarsJayantha AmarasingheAnanda AthukoralaSarath ChandrasiriA 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.
- DirectorJayantha ChandrasiriStarsYashoda WimaladharmaJackson AnthonySangeetha WeeraratneIn 1980, A Sinhala boy, Sandaras Edirisinghe, and a Tamil girl, Vidya, fall in love "It's love at first sight" on their way to the church at Gadagama. The girl, possessed by the Kalu Kumaraya/Gharasarpa Sri Lankan folklore version of Incubus, can only be healed by Rev. Camillus Dabare.
- DirectorHerbert Ranjith PeirisStarsMalini FonsekaRavindra RandeniyaJoe AbeywickramaMala, the daughter of a poor food supplier does not want to fall in love with Sarath. Sarath has been in many love affairs previously and this makes her think twice about his proposal. Mala gets married to a middle aged lorry driver who becomes a good friend to Mala. After the marriage, the memory of Sarath starts haunting her mind. This leads to a number of problems in their married life.
- DirectorD.B. NihalsingheStarsJoe AbeywickramaGamini FonsekaSuwineetha AbeysekeraAn intense, cat-and-mouse drama between newly appointed ASP Randeniya and a local thug (Goring Mudalali). Randeniya's life gradually falls apart as he wages war against Goring Mudalali's crime syndicate, erupting in a shocking climax. The first film shot in Cinemascope in Sri Lanka.
- DirectorLester James PeriesStarsSunila AbeysekeraSuwineetha AbeysekeraTissa AbeysekeraThe son of a newly rich industrialist becomes embroiled in a murder cover-up.
- DirectorDharmasiri BandaranayakeStarsWasantha KotuwellaIndira AbeysenaWinston SerasingheA mentally disturbed individual identified as Percy and his marriage to Princy and the chain of tragic events that their marriage sets off