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10 Best Movies Like The Silent Lake

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

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#1
The Boys from Fengkuei

The Boys from Fengkuei

1983★ 7.2

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

Ah-Ching and his friends have just finished school in their island fishing village, and now spend most of their time drinking and fighting. Three of them decide to go to the port c...

#2
Buddha Mountain

Buddha Mountain

2011★ 6.9

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

In Chengdu, China, a retired female opera singer named Master Chang takes in a trio of young tenants into her boarding home. The tenants include a rock singer and a college student...

#3
Taipei Suicide Story

Taipei Suicide Story

2020★ 7.5

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

A receptionist at a suicide hotel in Taipei forms a fleeting friendship over the course of one night with a guest who can’t decide if she wants to live or die....

#4
Babylon

Babylon

1980★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Silent Lake 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...

#5
So Long, My Son

So Long, My Son

2019★ 7.7

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

Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present....

#6
Caught by the Tides

Caught by the Tides

2025★ 6.8

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

Years after her boyfriend left her for the big city and promised to bring her there after he’s settled down, a Chinese woman sets out on a journey to be reunited with him....

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