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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.