Best award winning movies with a strong character from Sri Lanka
Check out today’s highest ranked movies with a strong character from Sri Lanka! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best movies with a strong character from Sri Lanka, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 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
4.0
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2 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
3 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
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0.0
4 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
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6.7
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5 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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7.616
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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5.0
7 Asandhimitta (2019)
A renowned filmmaker receives a mysterious call from an old college mate in the middle of the night. Asandhimitta, whom he recalls as a large and voluptuous woman, asks him to make a film based on her life. She then confesses that she was recently involved in a triple homicide of three women and is taken into custody shortly afterwards. Intrigued, the filmmaker attempts to piece together her fragmented story for a film while Asandhimitta herself awaits her fate in a local prison.
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- 2019-03-22 | Drama
Cast
Rating
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0.0
8 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
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0.0
9 August Sun (2003)
Set in Sri Lanka during the mid-1990s, August Sun tells three simultaneous stories against the backdrop of the country's savage civil war (1983 – 2009).
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- 2003-09-05 | Drama
Cast
- Peter D'Almeida, Nimmi Harasgama
Rating
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5.7
10 The Further Adventures of Tennessee Buck (1988)
Ken Manchester and his beautiful rich wife Barbara Manchester hire the drunk adventurer Buck Malone to take them on a hunting expedition in the jungle. However, the true purpose of the expedition was not just hunting.
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- 1988-04-29 | Action / Adventure
Cast
- David Keith, Kathy Shower
Rating
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4.2