Movies: Malini Fonseka

Baddegama or, more correctly, Beddegama is a 1980 award winning Sinhalese language film directed by Lester James Peries that follows the lives of village people in British Colonial Sri Lanka. The film is based on the 1913 book titled as "The Village ...

After getting in a car accident, a pregnant woman discovers a deadly secret about her life that begins to destroy everything and everyone she loves until she decides to escape her present and journey out digging deep hoping to find answers...

Set in a fishing village named Kalpitiya, this movie explores tradition and exploitation because of capitalism in this small village....

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Piyal is a handsome young teacher who is hired to teach English to Nanda, a member of a high class family. They fall in love, but can't elope because Piyal is of a lower class. Nanda's parents instead push her into a marriage with Jinadasa, who is of...

A Silver screen idol of yesteryear a faded star today. In the web of a scandal the limelight is all her again. A long forgotten secret resurfaces making her undertake the most painful journey ever....

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 estat...

The childhood story of king Pandukabhaya (474 BC - 367 BC), the 6th monarch of Sri Lanka....

A young owner of a tea plantation falls in love with a gypsie woman and they face many obstacles in their way....

Punchi Suranganavi (Little Angel) is a 2002 Sri Lankan Sinhala children's film directed by Somaratne Dissanayake and produced by Renuka Balasooriya. It stars two child artists Tharaka Hettiarachchi and Nithyavani Kandasami in lead roles along with Sr...

Based on a short story written by G.B. Senanayake in one of his short story collection known as "The Revenge," the film revolves around a murder committed for the purpose of gaining access to a hidden treasure....

Abirahasa is the 231st movie in Sinhala cinema....