Malini Fonseka
Oyuncu · 1947 – 2025 · Colombo, Sri Lanka
Wanniarachchige Malini Senehelatha Fonseka, popularly as Malini Fonseka (Sinhala:මාලිනී ෆොන්සේකා) (born 30 April 1947, in Kelaniya) is a Sri Lankan film actress and former member of Sri Lanka Parliament, who became known as the "Queen of Sinhalese cinema". Her cinema career that has spanned seven decades began with Tissa Liyansooriya's Punchi Baba in 1968. She first became widely known when she won the 'Best Actress Award' at the 1969 National State Drama Festival This was followed by Sarasaviya Best Actress Awards for Hingana Kolla in 1980, Aradhana in 1982 and Yasa Isuru in 1983. In 2010, she was named by CNN as one of Asia's 25 greatest film actors of all time.
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Film6.6DramBaddegama 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 in the Jungle" by Leonard Woolf. Silindu is a hunter in a small village where he and his family endure a life of hardships. After facing disease and poverty under colonial rule, the final blow comes when Silindu is tried for murder.
Baddegama
1980 · 7 votes
FilmMüzikDramThe story revolves around a young, aspiring dancer named Shiroshi (played by newcomer Shiroshi Romeshika) who enters a competitive dance world. She is guided and groomed for stardom by Ravindra (played by Ravindra Randeniya), a middle-aged mentor figure.
Dancing Star
2009
Film7.3DramSri Lanka’daki balıkçı köyü Kalpitiya’da, şehirden gelen bir grup girişimci, yerli balıkçılarla çatışır. Victor’un başını çektiği şehirli grup, kapitalist eğilimleriyle yerli halkın lideri konumundaki Anton’un öfkesini kabartır. Victor yerli halktan bir kadına ilgi duyunca, tansiyon yükselir.
Bambaru Awith
1978 · 6 votes
FilmDramA renowned YouTuber and single mother's romance with a celebrity author sparks turmoil in her fractured family, forcing her teenage daughter to confront past wounds—until an unexpected act of sacrifice heals long-broken bonds.
FilmDramRomantikKadira saves Namali from death. Namali is in love with Uku Banda, an arch rival of Kadira. Kadira saves another woman and keeps her safe. Stories spread around the village about Namali and Kadira. One day Namali finds refuge with Kadira.
FilmAbirahasa is the 231st movie in Sinhala cinema.
Film6.5DramA 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.
Film8.0DramSusila lives in a small village with her mother and two brothers. Growing up facing the bitterest realities of life, her coming of age is delayed. But once it happens, she instantaneously attracts the attention of the young men in the village leading to conflict.
Film10.0DramGizem
Film8.0DramAfter 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
Film10.0AileMüzikA woman leaves a convent to become a governess to the children of a Army officer widower.
Film6.5DramVery 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.
FilmDramAileA young girl distraught by her mother's sudden illness finds solace in a beachfront carnival's puppet show run by a mysterious ringmaster.
Film7.0DramLalith is a chief Clarke of a Government Department. He falls in love with Nilanthi, a newly recruited typist. But Nilanthi is attracted to another handsome young Clarke in the same department named Sagara. Lalith detests this. He starts to suspect each and every act of Sagara and Nilanthi. ‘Dahasak Sithivili’ is based on Lalith’s efforts to prevent himself from getting carried away by these endless suspicions.
Film8.0TarihDramThe childhood story of king Pandukabhaya (474 BC - 367 BC), the 6th monarch of Sri Lanka.
Film8.0DramAilePunchi 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 Sriyantha Mendis and Dilani Abeywardana.
Film5.8DramPiyal 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 the same class as them. With economic downturn in Sri Lanka, both families lose their status and Jinadasa leaves to try to make a better life for himself; he never achieves his goal and dies penniless. Piyal and Nanda can now finally come together. They have changed however, and the earlier idylic nature of their relationship is not recaptured.
Film7.0GizemGerilimBased 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.
Film10.0TarihDramThe film centered around the story behind national patriot Veera Puran Appu and his Matale rebellion in 1848 for the freedom from British. Though he was executed by the British by firing squad, his influence to the country's independence has been highly praised and thus Puran Appu is highlighted as a national hero of the Sri Lankan history.