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Unmistaken Child

Unmistaken Child

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Film Age rating: 2 Year: 2009 IMDB Rating: 7.5

In Nepal, a venerable monk, Geshe Lama Konchog, dies and one of his disciples, a youthful monk named Tenzin Zopa, searches for his master's reincarnation. The film follows his search to the Tsum Valle...

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Travellers and Magicians

Travellers and Magicians

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Film Age rating: 8 Year: 2003 IMDB Rating: 7.4

A young government official, named Dondup, who is smitten with America (he even has a denim gho) dreams of escaping there while stuck in a beautiful but isolated village. He hopes to connect in the U....

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Broken Blossoms

Broken Blossoms

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Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1919 IMDB Rating: 7.2

The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal and harsh place to live.

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Angulimala

Angulimala

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1960 IMDB Rating: 6.6

The tyrannical Angulimal (Bhushan), a bandit wearing a garland of severed human fingers and who engages in bloody mystical rituals to achieve divine power, eventually succumbs to the Buddha’s teac...

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Aśoka

Aśoka

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Film Age rating: 13 Year: 2001 IMDB Rating: 6.4

A young Prince Asoka works to perfect his skills in battle and also deals with family conflict. During a struggle with one of his step-brothers, his mother urges Asoka to escape to stay alive. While a...

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Karmalink

Karmalink

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Film Age rating: 13 Year: 2022 IMDB Rating: 6.3

In this Buddhist sci-fi mystery, a teenage orphan in the slums of Phnom Penh, Cambodia investigates her friend’s past-life visions, uncovering a conspiracy of scientific reincarnation.

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Golden Kingdom

Golden Kingdom

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Film Age rating: 4 Year: 2015 IMDB Rating: 6.2

Story of four young monks left alone in their remote monastery in Myanmar. Shot entirely in newly-opened Myanmar with non-actors, the film bridges spirit, cinema, and traditional Burmese storytelling...

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Youth Without Youth

Youth Without Youth

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Film Age rating: 13 Year: 2007 IMDB Rating: 6.1

A love story wrapped in a mystery. Set in Europe before WWII, professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 70 to 40 in a week, attracting the worl...

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Psycho

Psycho

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Film Age rating: 15 Year: 2020 IMDB Rating: 6.1

Based on the Buddhist tale of Angulimala, a dreaded serial killer, Psycho tells the story of a blind man who gets involved in a murder mystery. trying to save his lover from a psychopath who has kidna...

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The Golden Child

The Golden Child

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Film Age rating: 10 Year: 1986 IMDB Rating: 5.9

After a Tibetan boy, the mystical Golden Child, is kidnapped by the evil Sardo Numspa, humankind's fate hangs in the balance. On the other side of the world in Los Angeles, the priestess Kee Nang seek...

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