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10 Best Movies Like The Message

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

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#1
Appleseed

Appleseed

2004★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Message for fans of Animation. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

In a utopian society created at the end of the third world war, a female warrior who has been plucked from the badlands begins to see cracks in this new facade. And what does this ...

#2
A Simple Life

A Simple Life

2012★ 7.5

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

After suffering a stroke, an altruistic maid announces that she wants to quit her job and move into an old people's home....

#3
Moon Man

Moon Man

2022★ 6.8

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

Working as a maintenance crew member on the moon, Duguyue is left behind after the evacuation mission forgets about him. A meteorite then destroys planet Earth, leaving him as the ...

#4
Perhaps Love

Perhaps Love

2005★ 6.7

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

A love triangle develops between the male and female leads and the director during the making of a musical in Mainland China....

#5
Painted Skin

Painted Skin

2008★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Message for fans of 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
Copying Beethoven

Copying Beethoven

2006★ 6.4

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

A fictionalised exploration of Beethoven's life in his final days working on his Ninth Symphony. It is 1824. Beethoven is racing to finish his new symphony. However, it has been ye...