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 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.

Vijaya Kumaratunga
as Babun

Malini Fonseka
as Punchi Menika

Joe Abeywickrama
as Silindu

Arthur C. Clarke
as Leonard Sidney Woolf

Henry Jayasena
as Village Headsman

Tony Ranasinghe
as Fernando

David Dharmakithri
as Mudalithana

Trelicia Gunawardena
as Silindu's Sister

D.R. Nanayakkara
as Exorcist

Asoka Peiris
as Mr. Perera