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10 Best Movies Like The Merciful Buddha

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

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#1
Northfork

Northfork

2003★ 6.0

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

The year is 1955, and a great flood is coming to Northfork, Montana. A new hydroelectric dam is about to be installed in the mountains above the town, ready to submerge the valley ...

#2
The Sun Also Rises

The Sun Also Rises

2007★ 7.4

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

A polyptych of interconnected stories in different time-zones, shifting between a Yunnan village, a campus, and the Gobi Desert....

#3
A Writer's Odyssey

A Writer's Odyssey

2021★ 7.1

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

Lu Kongwen is the author of a fantasy novel series following a heroic teenager, also named Kongwen, on a quest to end the tyrannical rule of Lord Redmane, under the guidance of a B...

#4
Super Me

Super Me

2021★ 7.4

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

Sang Yu is so exhausted from trying to stay awake. Every time he closes his eyes, a demon chases and kills him in his dreams. One night Sang realizes he has a special power: he can...

#5
Painted Skin

Painted Skin

2008★ 6.0

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

Painted Skin is based on one of Pu Songling's classic short stories in Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. Zhou Xun stars as Xiao Wei, a fox spirit that feasts on human hearts i...

#6
Nine Days

Nine Days

2021★ 6.8

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

A bureaucrat interviews five souls to decide which of them will be given a life on Earth. But he soon faces an existential challenge of his own....

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