Ravindra Randeniya
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Biography: Boniface Perera (born 5 June 1945), popularly known by his stage name Ravindra Randeniya, is a Sri Lankan actor and former politician. He rose to fame in Lester James Peries's film Desa Nisa in 1972, and was a popular actor during the 1970s and 1980s; He won the Sarasaviya Best Actor Award in 1984 (Dadayama), 1985 (Maya), 1989 (Sandakada Pahana), and 1990 (Sri Medura).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 05, 1945
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Sagara Jalaya Madi Handuwa Oba Handa
Overview: Voted for in Sight & Sound's 2022 Greatest Films of All Time poll
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-30
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Mother Teresa: In the Name of God's Poor
Overview: Calcutta, 1946. Violence rages in India. Sister Teresa teaches at a convent, but is haunted by the faces of the starving, the poor and the homeless; the faces of those less fortunate than her. With only her faith in God, she leaves the convent to live in the slums and care for the poor. An surprisingly, even one of the most revered, selfless heroes questioned her purpose.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-05
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Iqbal
Overview: Iqbal is about an Asian boy who gets sold by his father to a small carpentry production company in which child labour is supported. His "master" is a cruel man, imposing a ridiculous behaviour catalogue with strict charges. The children, about 5-10 years of age, have to work all day and they´re not allowed to go to toilet while at work, let alone visit their parents. Iqbal soon realizes that this is a massive injustice, especially when a member of the (unindentified) country´s Communist and Anti-child labour party takes photographs of the children.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-22
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Aradhana
Overview: A village girl who newly joined to the nursing is having a relationship with an civil engineer who works nearby project. The girl gets pregnant before they get married so they decided to abort the child. But it become unsuccessful and they decide to marry before the child is born. Although they both loved their child strongly, later he gets a blood cancer and died. The husband accuse the wife for the death and they become separated. Can they survive without seeing each other?
Genres: Drama Family Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-03
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Les mystères de Sadjurah
Overview: A cabaret singer is dragged into a crazy adventure after being mistaken for an archaeologist who is her look-alike.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-05-21
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Pawana Ralu Viya
Overview: An upper middle class family's struggles as a country struggles between democracy and totalitarianism. The family faces persecution and the ramifications cut across the country's borders.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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A Letter of Fire
Overview: 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...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2005-09-25
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Anantha Rathriya
Overview: Suwisal has turned 40. He's a forgetful businessman, a philanderer, indifferent to life around him, including his young and lovely fiancée. A visit to the house of his childhood triggers memories that continue to cascade when he is called for jury duty to hear the case against Piyum, a servant he seduced and abandoned 20 years before. Now a prostitute, she is on trial for murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: si
Release Date: 1996-01-05
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The Compensation
Overview: An elderly man who regrets certain events in his past life displays his struggle to relieve the bottled-up feelings which had disturbed him throughout his life. Opening with the funeral of the elderly Guneris' wife the film follows the revelation of his past which is filled with a number of tragic events including a triple murder he had committed 52 years ago.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2002-02-22
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Wassanaye Sanda
Overview: Wassanaye Sanda (Moon of the Autumn) (Sinhalese: වස්සානයේ සඳ ) is a 2018 Sri Lankan Sinhala romantic drama film directed by Udayakantha Warnasuriya. It follows the story of two young lovers Mihiri & Sandesh and struggles they face.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2017-10-14
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Mansion by the Lake
Overview: Very loosely based on Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, Lester James Peries's MANSION BY THE LAKE follows a family of formerly wealthy, expatriate Sri Lankan landowners, now impoverished, as they return from England to the magnificent country estate they left behind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2002-09-25
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The God King
Overview: Epic tale set in 5th century Sri Lanka, following the battle for the throne between Kassapa and his father King Dhatusena
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Matha
Overview: Two 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.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2012-01-22
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Gaadi
Overview: 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.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2023-01-20
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The Hunt
Overview: A woman plots her revenge after being duped by a slick, ruthless man who impregnates her and tries to bail her out of marriage.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: si
Release Date: 1984-06-11
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Saroja
Overview: Story of two small girls, one Sinhala and the other Tamil, amidst war.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2000-03-10
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Kusa Pabha
Overview: The love story between beastly-looking prince Kusa and beautiful princess Paba.
Genres: Romance Fantasy History
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2012-01-26
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Abá
Overview: The childhood story of king Pandukabhaya (474 BC - 367 BC), the 6th monarch of Sri Lanka.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2008-08-08
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Bawa Duka - The Sorrow of Existence - Part I
Overview: Set during the British colonial reign in Sri Lanka (1905), this powerful drama follows Peduru who descends from a line of traditional drummers, crossing over to three generations. Peduru's struggle for survival in this harsh rural hamlet exposes the repressive Buddhist institutionalization of the locals, and the hierarchical structure backed by the British colonials.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: si
Release Date: 1997-05-30
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Mille Soya
Overview: Mille 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2004-10-21
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Julia
Overview: Julia, the innocent and naive young woman enjoying the bliss of youth is fascinated, like any other girl of her age, by trendy and handsome young men.Unfortunately for her, the youth who steals her heart is a cunning manipulator by the name of Dilru.With his deceptive good looks and clothes he is sure to attract women at will.And Julia is no exception.She meets Dilru and falls head over heels in love.But she is not aware that the young man is in Sri Lanka after fleeing England as he is suspected of involvement in the murder of a young girl, a Sri Lankan expatriate.Julia's whole life takes a new turn with this fateful meeting.
Genres: Action Romance
Original Language: si
Release Date: 2009-07-18
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