Best Sri Lankan action movies

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch action films from Sri Lanka, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

  • Poster for A Common Man

    A Common Man 2013

    A terrorist plants several bombs throughout the city of Colombo, Sri Lanka and threatens to detonate them unless prisoners are released.

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  • Poster for Bimba Devi Alias Yashodhara

    Bimba Devi Alias Yashodhara 2018

    Bimba Devi alias Yashodhara is a 2018 Sri Lankan Sinhala language epic, biographical drama film written and directed by professor Sunil Ariyaratne. This historical biographical film film depicts the life of princess Yashodhara, the wife of Prince Siddhartha.

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  • Poster for Pravegaya

    Pravegaya 2015

    A Young man fights for his lost bike with courage. Honest Gangster with his foolish brother who destroyed everything. This is a remake of Tamil movie Polladhavan aka.Ruthless Man (2007)

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  • Poster for Maharaja Gemunu

    Maharaja Gemunu 2015

    Maharaja Gemunu is based on the odyssey of King Gemunu (ruler of Sri Lanka 161–137 BC) who is renowned for defeating and overthrowing King Elara, the usurping Tamil prince from the Chola Kingdom, who had invaded the Kingdom of Rajarata in 205 BC.

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  • Poster for Lion's Pride

    Lion's Pride 2011

    This is a film that showing the epic battle and struggle a group of uneducated villagers went through to get its independence back in 1948 and its discusses a "secret" what happened between 1947 November and to talk about how Sri Lanka got its independence in 1948.

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  • Poster for Kosthapal Punyasoma

    Kosthapal Punyasoma 2014

    A police officer, constable Punyasoma hunts an underworld gangster who is involved in a kidnapping of a rich woman.

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  • Poster for U Turn

    U Turn 2019

    ‘U-Turn’ follows the story of a reporter; Raveena who gets unvoluntary involved in a murder case conducted by the police as she investigates accidents on a flyover.

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  • Poster for Re Daniel Dawal Migel

    Re Daniel Dawal Migel 1998

    Two con artists move to a village that is ruled by tradition and defraud the villagers. When they come under suspicion, they move to the city and try to straighten their lives.

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  • Poster for The Alley in Still

    The Alley in Still 2023

    This is a short story set in an alley where a person kills someone on the top of the building

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  • Poster for Jaya Sikurui

    Jaya Sikurui 1984

    Jaya Sikurui is the 597th movie in Sri Lankan cinema history.

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  • Poster for Nommara 17

    Nommara 17 1989

    Nommara 17 (Sinhala: නොම්මර 17) is a 1989 Sri Lankan Sinhala action thriller film directed by Hemasiri Sellapperuma and produced by Preethiraj Weeraratne for Weeraratne Enterprises. It stars Vijaya Kumaratunga, Sanath Gunathilake and Jeewan Kumaranatunga in lead roles along with Mervyn Jayathunga, Freddie Silva and Sabeetha Perera. The music was composed by Ernest Soysa. It is the 691st film in the Sinhala cinema. The film was screened after the assassination of lead actor Vijaya Kumaratunga, which influenced the fans to come and watch his famous movie star for the last time on the silver screen. Thus recorded as one of the huge blockbuster hit in Sinhala cinema, which also won Sarasaviya Award as well. It successfully passed 200 days at theatres.

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