Best award winning movies with true genius from Sri Lanka
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with true genius from Sri Lanka! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with true genius from Sri Lanka, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 Machan (2008)
Two friends, Manoj (Gihan De Chickera), a bartender, and Stanley (Dharmapriya Dias), a fruit vendor, wish to immigrate to the West to seek their fortune, but have difficulties getting their visa applications approved. They come across an application to a handball tournament in Bavaria, and not even knowing what the game is, they submit themselves and a group of friends as the "Sri Lanka National Handball Team". For appearance's sake, they begin minimal training and then seek travel visas from the German Embassy. Their plans to simply escape into the West upon arrival in Germany are thwarted by the quick appearance of the tournament organizers and an arena of fans eager to see the prowess of the Sri Lanka National Handball Team.
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- 2008-09-09 | Drama / Comedy
Cast
- Dharmapriya Dias, Gihan De Chickera
Rating
6.7
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2 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
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5.677
3 Dirty, Yellow, Darkness (2017)
After 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.
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- 2017-02-17 | Drama / Romance
Cast
- Shyam Fernando, Samanalee Fonseka
Rating
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5.8
4 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
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7.6
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5 Sankara (2007)
Young 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.
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- 2007-01-25 | Drama
Cast
- Thumindu Dodantenna, Sachini Ayendra
Rating
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6.3
6 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
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5.6
7 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
Cast
Rating
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4.4
8 The Singing Pond (2015)
A new teacher, Uma (Anasuya Subasinghe), arrives at a school with her first appointment in a remote village near Dambulla in Sri Lanka. The school has few students, with only the principal (Lucian Bulathsinghala) and Uma as the teacher. With the help of Uma the pupils gradually start to dream of bigger things than they ever imagined. One day Upuli, a blind girl, shares her unseen dream with school friends Sukiri and Ukkun. It gradually becomes the dream throughout the village. The children and Uma encounter perils in their venture to realise this dream. The children of the school start to focus on something they have never seen before. This target gives rise to a small revolution.
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- 2015-12-11 | Drama / Family
Cast
- Lucien Bulathsinhala, Jayalath Manoratne
Rating
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8.2
9 Between Two Worlds (2009)
A man washes up on a beach. He saves a foreign woman and together they flee into nature. There they discover that the beauty of the environment only distracts from the growing threat. Behind the serene greenery hides death and destruction. Where did they end up? The present and past of the country merge imperceptibly into one another. This is a battle of all times, with the landscape as a silent witness.
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- 2009-09-07 | Drama
Cast
- Huang Lu, Kaushalaya Fernando
Rating
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5.7
10 This Is My Moon (2000)
Set in 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 goes back to his village. The arrival of the Tamil girl into this predominantly Sinhala village causes a stir within the community, where 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.
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- 2000-12-09 | War
Cast
- Saumya Liyanage, Dilhani Ekanayake
Rating
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4.0