Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 09, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Buddha

If you loved Buddha, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Buddha 2: The Endless Journey

Buddha 2: The Endless Journey

2014★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Buddha for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

2500 years ago, in India, Siddhartha was born as a prince of the Shakya clan, but he gives up his position as a prince to see the world. He meets a strange boy named Assaji, who ca...

#2
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Buddha for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound system, loses his job, struggles wi...

#3
Skin

Skin

2009★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Buddha for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era....

#4
Farming

Farming

2018★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Buddha for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Based on the writer/director's childhood, FARMING tells the story of a young Nigerian boy, 'farmed out' by his parents to a white British family in the hope of a better future. Ins...

#5
Cardboard Boxer

Cardboard Boxer

2016★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Buddha for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl....

#6
Samurai Rebellion

Samurai Rebellion

1967★ 8.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Buddha for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped by the lord. Her husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to rescue her....

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