Best award winning movies with nothing special from Sri Lanka

Check out today’s highest ranked movies with nothing special from Sri Lanka! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with nothing special from Sri Lanka, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 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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2013-06-30 | Action / Thriller

Cast

Ben Kingsley, Ben Cross

Rating

rating icon 5.677
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #127 for
    direct-to-DVD
  2. Ranked #188 for
    B movie
  3. Ranked #230 for
    like The Equalizer

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2 Matangi / Maya / M.I.A. (2018)

Drawn from a never before seen cache of personal footage spanning decades, this is an intimate portrait of the Sri Lankan artist and musician who continues to shatter conventions.

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2018-09-21 | Music / Documentary

Cast

M.I.A., Diplo

Rating

rating icon 7.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #65 for
    with cockney accent
  2. Ranked #260 for
    Rockumentary
  3. Ranked #849 for
    hagiography

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3 Funny Boy (2020)

A student must navigate issues of sexuality, identity and family amid Sri Lanka's social turmoil of the 1970s and 1980s.

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2020-11-27 | Drama

Cast

Arush Nand, Brandon Ingram

Rating

rating icon 5.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #549 for
    vomit-inducing
  2. Ranked #839 for
    blasphemous
  3. Ranked #2200 for
    with cockney accent

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4 Flying with One Wing (2002)

In 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.

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2002-09-27 | Drama

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Rating

rating icon 4.4
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #46 for
    grease monkey
  2. Ranked #2863 for
    vertiginous
  3. Ranked #3821 for
    intolerant

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5 Saroja (2000)

Story of two small girls, one Sinhala and the other Tamil, amidst war.

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2000-03-10 | Family / Drama

Cast

Nithyavani Kandasami, Pramudi Karunarathne

Rating

rating icon 7.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1749 for
    with mercenaries
  2. Ranked #4366 for
    aimed for children
  3. Ranked #4927 for
    incorruptible character

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6 Gaadi (2023)

In 1814, a nobleman from the Kandian Kingdom of Sri Lanka helped the British army to revolt against the king of Southern India, but was driven to a traitor. His wives have to choose between committing suicide or marrying outcasts. Instead of suicide, young and beautiful Tikiri chooses to marry an untouchable, named Vijaya.

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2023-01-20 | History / Drama

Cast

Sajitha Anuththara Anthony, Dinara Punchihewa

Rating

rating icon 0.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #5698 for
    travelogue
  2. Ranked #7187 for
    redemption arc
  3. Ranked #7490 for
    glorifying

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7 Gajaman (2023)

Gajaman is a henchman of the local politician Magodisthuma. Gajaman's life is turned upside down when Magodisthuma asks him to pick up his daughter and her friend from the airport. The trouble is, Gajaman falls in love with Magodisthuma's daughter immediately as he sees her. Magodisthuma becomes furious when he finds out about this. Gajaman is exiled from his village and he tries to sneak back in with the help of his friend Amdan. The movie revolves around the classic Sri Lankan characters Gajaman and Magodisthuma created by Camillus Perera from newspaper cartoons in the 60s.

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2023-01-20 | Animation / Comedy

Cast

Gaminda Priyaviraj, Suneth Chithrananda

Rating

rating icon 7.6
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #90 for
    trending now
  2. Ranked #1192 for
    face palm
  3. Ranked #1270 for
    popular

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8 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...

Info

2005-09-25 | Drama

Cast

Isham Samzudeen, Piyumi Samaraweera

Rating

rating icon 4.167
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #5384 for
    arthurian
  2. Ranked #5575 for
    iconoclast
  3. Ranked #6170 for
    self-improvement

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9 Guerilla Marketing (2005)

Thisara, 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.

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2005-04-13 | Drama / Mystery

Cast

Yashoda Wimaladharma, Sangeetha Weeraratne

Rating

rating icon 0.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #525 for
    vomit-inducing
  2. Ranked #2300 for
    freak show
  3. Ranked #3888 for
    pernicious

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10 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-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.

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2018-04-05 | Drama / Romance

Cast

Yashoda Wimaladharma, Thumindu Dodantenna

Rating

rating icon 0.0
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #14837 for
    rotoscoping
  2. Ranked #18265 for
    properly handled plot
  3. Ranked #19396 for
    photorealistic

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