Swarna Mallawarachchi

Voted for in Sight & Sound's 2022 Greatest Films of All Time poll

Three young men have to face the realities of adult life as they move on from youthful frolicking to battle issues of unemployment, restlessness and...

Suwisal has turned 40. He's a forgetful businessman, a philanderer, indifferent to life around him, including his young and lovely fiancée. A...

When an alluring young undergrad becomes infatuated with her nearly retired professor, she stirs up the man's humdrum home life in a most unusual way.

A married man (Nissanka) and woman (Miranda) find their lives disrupted after their affair is exposed by the police. Leaving their respective...

A Sri Lankan movie

Dharmesena Pathiraja's only Tamil language film, Ponmani (Younger Sister) is about a starkly different socio-economic culture and political climate....

Set in the dry zone of Sri Lanka, Suddi is married to a notorious criminal in the village, Romiel. Convicted for a murder Romiel is jailed. Miserable...

A woman plots her revenge after being duped by a slick, ruthless man who impregnates her and tries to bail her out of marriage.

A semi-autobiographical account of a move from Sri Lanka to Britain, which explores "being inbetween East/West, mother/father, male/female". The...

Three friends embark on a journey to a land that was once forbidden but a sudden encounter forces them to return to yet another land of turmoil and...

Sath Samudura is a landmark Sri Lankan film directed by professor Siri Gunasinghe and released in 1967. This film was critically acclaimed and is...

An illiterate and sexually frustrated young man finds himself attracted to a chic woman from the city who has come to his rural village as a school...

Set during the British colonial reign in Sri Lanka (1905), this powerful drama follows Peduru who descends from a line of traditional drummers,...

Chanchala Reka is a Sri Lankan sinhala film released in 1981.