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Sri Lankabhimanya Lester James Peries was a Sri Lankan film director, screenwriter, and film producer. Considered as the father of Sri Lankan cinema, Lester worked as a filmmaker from 1949 to 2006 and was involved in over 28 films, including shorts and documentaries.
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01 September 1990
Awaragira is a 1990 Sri Lankan film directed by Lester James Peries and produced by Dilman Jayaratne for Dil Films.
30 March 1960
Sandesaya (Sinhalese language word meaning The Message) is a 1960 film. The film based on the war between the Sinhalese people and the Portuguese invaders in Sri Lanka.
01 January 1978
Dr. Sarath (Tony Ranasinghe) domineers over his timid wife Vineetha (Sriyani Amarasena). When she is to have a Caesarean delivery of their baby, Sarath refuses to be present even though he himself is a doctor.
28 September 1984
The story follows a seven-year-old girl from an aristocratic family who is brutally murdered and subsequently reborn in a rural village.
20 May 2003
Documentary about Sri Lankan filmmaker Lester James Peries
19 March 1982
This is the sequel to Sri Lankan director Lester James Peries' Changes in the Village made in 1964, about a young couple who grew to love each other after entering into an arranged marriage.
26 June 2012
Indian documentary about Indian film history and P. K. Nair, the founder of the National Film Archive of India and guardian of Indian cinema.
28 December 1956
A sprawling portrait of rural life in Sri Lanka; the story revolves around a boy and his friend--a blind girl who he accidentally 'heals' by giving her sight.
25 September 2002
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.
02 April 1976
Madol Duwa (Mangrove Island) is a 1976 Sri Lankan drama film directed by Lester James Peries and produced by Upasena Marasinghe.
01 January 1980
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.
01 January 1974
Epic tale set in 5th century Sri Lanka, following the battle for the throne between Kassapa and his a
01 January 1972
Nirudaka, a man rejected from the people around him just because he's ugly, falls for a beautiful blind girl, Sundari.
01 April 1969
Dhammi is a mischievous schoolgirl, Sugath a shy and introverted boy new in school. Dhammi is immediately attracted to him and they become friends.
30 November 2003
The calm, dull marriage of a young woman and her much older husband is disturbed when the man's younger brother arrives at their home.
21 July 1963
Piyal is a handsome young teacher who is hired to teach English to Nanda, a member of a high class family.
15 September 2006
Sumanawathie's elder son is a Buddhist monk. Her daughter has run from home and married a man who ignores and quarrels with the daughter.
17 March 1978
The Girls is about the growing up of two schoolgirl sisters and the disappointments to which they are condemned by their impoverished backgrounds.
30 December 1988
A village woman and her young son face various hardships because of the untimely death of her husband.
01 April 1966
The son of a newly rich industrialist becomes embroiled in a murder cover-up.
21 August 1972
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.
05 April 2018
Vaishnavee (The Goddess), (Sinhalese: වෛෂ්ණාවී) is a 2018 Sri Lankan Sinhala drama thriller film directed by veteran director Sumitra Peries and produced by Mano Nanayakkara.
08 August 1978
Weera Puran Appu (වීර පූරන් අප්පු) is a 1979 Sri Lankan film. Directed by H.
30 April 1967
Cyril (Tony Ranasinghe) is dissatisfied with his introverted fiancée Sujatha (Punya Heendeniya). He starts a relationship with the outgoing Sarojini (Anula Karunatilleke) and gets her pregnant.
04 July 1954
A film on Malaria control in Ceylon (aka Sri Lanka).
