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10 Best Movies Like Bob Ballard: An Explorer's Life

If you loved Bob Ballard: An Explorer's Life, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice

The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice

1952★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Bob Ballard: An Explorer's Life for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The arranged marriage between a capricious woman from Tokyo high society and a quiet and rustic man is tested by a marital crisis....

#2
The Phantom of Liberty

The Phantom of Liberty

1974★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Bob Ballard: An Explorer's Life for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, ...

#3
The Isle

The Isle

2000★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Bob Ballard: An Explorer's Life for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Mute Hee-Jin is working as a clerk in a fishing resort in the Korean wilderness; selling baits, food and occasionally her body to the fishing tourists. One day she falls in love wi...

#4
Fantozzi in Heaven

Fantozzi in Heaven

1993★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Bob Ballard: An Explorer's Life for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

One by one, with a sweet but inexorable rate, Ugo's colleagues, go to a better life. When Ugo is attending at one of the innumerable funerals, he and the priest remain involved in ...

#5
Monkey Business

Monkey Business

1952★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Bob Ballard: An Explorer's Life for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours th...

#6
The Man Without a Past

The Man Without a Past

2002★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Bob Ballard: An Explorer's Life for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Arriving in Helsinki, a nameless man is beaten within an inch of his life by thugs, miraculously recovering only to find that he has completely lost his memory. Back on the streets...