Buddhism Movies

Wendell is trying to make peace with his earthly deterioration in the face of late-stage cancer. His son Josh is fighting it, fleeing it, denying it....

Hong lives simply with his wife and his daughters Ngek and Gim. Japanese invade Thailand and the village is bombed and Hong's house goes up in flames...

A Buddhist anarchist detective thriller set in the shadows of the Lower East Side of New York City. Many greedy hands close a black market deal; a...

M (Yossawat Sittiwong), a young man who wishes to have a better life, has decided to go to India for a pilgrimage at the four main Holy sites of...

The film details the personal experiences of five young Western men who were identified in childhood as being tulkus, or reincarnated Tibetan...

An actuality film showing a Buddhist festival in Kyoto. The procession includes Buddhist monks, geishas, and others dressed coordinately to the...

Tibetan Buddhist nuns from the Thupten Choling monastery in the Himalayan foothills discuss their mentruation practices.

A documentary film tells the true story of the locals in southern of Thailand through the life of 4 families that live in different provinces, but...

The story of Anthony "Amp" Elmore.

About the merits of Luang Pu Suk, a Buddhist monk who lived from 1847-1923.

A documentary on Buddhist stupas

In a temple in Thailand, an order of Buddhist monks are performing a ceremony for people who headed there to get re-incarnated. There, we meet Tarn,...

I enjoy religion, I appreciate belief systems and how they offer structure to people's lives. I also appreciate how spirituality manifests itself in...

Filmmaker Ryusei Iizuka Rivas (they/them) captures the spiritual and creative rebirth of Tokyo-born artist Maya Hirasawa Brauer (they/them). Filmed...

In the last fifty years the culture of Zen has spread far beyond Japan. Zen centers and zen retreats have sprung up throughout America and Europe. ...

A beautiful documentary film set around Dzogchen monastery in Tibet. It focuses on Kjabje Dzogchen Pema Kalsang Rinpoche, who has been instrumental...

All the gist of Buddhism, the very words of Buddha loaded on to a visual circus where every image has an act for itself. The director is an old...

Tears of the Buddha: Spirituality and Emotions explores the spiritual path through the lens of emotion. Director Joel Lesko interviews modern...

A film following a western monk and his lifestyle in the Thai forest monastery, Wat Pa Nanachat, in the 1990s.