Best award winning movies with a social taboo from Sri Lanka
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a social taboo from Sri Lanka! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a social taboo from Sri Lanka, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 Funny Boy (2020)
A student must navigate issues of sexuality, identity and family amid Sri Lanka's social turmoil of the 1970s and 1980s.
Info
- 2020-11-27 | Drama
Cast
- Arush Nand, Brandon Ingram
Rating
5.0
2 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
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3 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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5.719
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 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
6 With You, Without You (2013)
The 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.
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- 2013-02-03 | Drama
Cast
- Shyam Fernando, Anjali Patil
Rating
-
0.0
7 Saroja (2000)
Story of two small girls, one Sinhala and the other Tamil, amidst war.
Info
- 2000-03-10 | Family / Drama
Cast
- Nithyavani Kandasami, Pramudi Karunarathne
Rating
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7.0
8 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
9 Sinamkol (2020)
Oppression of the Tamil people continues even after the end of Sri Lanka's civil war.
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- 2020-01-03 |
Cast
Rating
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0.0
10 Paangshu (2020)
In a dilapidated rural courthouse a mother seeks justice for her son abducted by paramilitary men during the 1988/89 insurgency in Sri Lanka
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- 2020-08-21 | Drama
Cast
- Nita Fernando, Nadee Kammellaweera
Rating
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0.0
