Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 17, 2026

10 Best Movies Like The Great Buddha

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

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#1
Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt

Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt

2012★ 6.9

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

Jesse finds himself struggling to get his job back as the Paradise police chief, and he is forced to rely on his cop intuition to sort through a maze of misleading clues and hidden...

#2
Winter's Tale

Winter's Tale

2014★ 6.3

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

A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her....

#3
Be Somebody

Be Somebody

2021★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Great Buddha for fans of Mystery & Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

During the Republican era, a group of frustrated people from the movie industry is invited in a luxurious mansion to make a movie out of a gruesome case that has recently rattled t...

#4
Reap What You Sew: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery

Reap What You Sew: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery

2018★ 6.9

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

Internet sensation and old family friend of Aurora Teagarden, Poppy Wilson, has returned to Lawrenceton to start her new embroidery business. But not everyone is happy with Poppy's...

#5
Detective Chinatown

Detective Chinatown

2015★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Great Buddha for fans of Mystery. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

After being rejected from the police college, a mannerly man travels to Bangkok where he and an energetic distant relative must solve a murder case....

#6
The Dead End

The Dead End

2015★ 7.5

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

A "Chinese noir full of sublimated homoeroticism" . The story of three brothers raising a little girl they found as a baby. These sworn brothers are not related by blood, but by a ...

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