Ashoka the Great Similar Movies

Movie | India | 10/26/2001 | Drama | Buddhism

In India, about 260 BC in the Empire of Magadha, the Prince Asoka (Shah Rukh Khan) survives to many betrayals of his brothers, leaded by the evil Susima (Ajit Kumar), who wants to kill him to inherit the throne. His mothers orders Asoka to leave Magadha, and while traveling, he meets Princess Kaurwaki (Karriena Kapoor) and her brother, Prince Aryan (Sooraj Balaji) from Kalinga, who are undercover and protected by General Bheema (Rahul Dev). Asoka and Kaurwaki falls in love for each other, but the mother of Asoka calls him back to Magadha. When he returns, he does not find Kaurwaki, who was attacked by traitors of Kalinga. When Asoka's mother is killed by a man of Susima, Asoka becomes mad, kills all his evil brothers but Sugatra, who escapes to Kalinga. Asoka decides to conquer Kalinga, but in the end, he concludes that he has not built an empire, but conquered only corpses and destroyed everything, and he decides to spread love and the Buddhism.

Starring

Shah Rukh Khan, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Ajith Kumar, Danny Denzongpa, Rahul Dev, Hrishitaa Bhatt, Sooraj Balaji

Directed by

Santosh Sivan

Produced by

Sanjiv Chawla

6.4/10

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rotten tomatoes

Seven Years in Tibet

Movie | United States | 09/12/1997 | Drama | Buddhism

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, the arrogant Harrer falls into Allied forces' hands as a prisoner of war. He escapes with a fellow detainee and makes his way to Llaso, Tibet, where he meets the 14-year-old Dalai Lama, whose friendship ultimately transforms his outlook on life.

7.1/10

58%

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Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring

Movie | South Korea | 09/19/2003 | Drama | Buddhism

This South Korean film takes place on an isolated lake, where an old monk lives in a small floating temple. The monk has a young boy living with him, learning to become a monk. We watch as seasons and years pass by.

8.1/10

94%

Little Buddha

Movie | United Kingdom | 12/01/1993 | Drama | Buddhism

Little Buddha is a movie about the life of Siddhartha starring Keanu Reeves and Bridget Fonda and directed by Bernardo Bertolucci.

6.0/10

Samsara

Movie | India | 01/01/2001 | Drama | Buddhism

A love story situated in the Himalayas. A Buddhist monk can't choose between life and the way of the Buddha.

Kundun

Movie | United States | 12/25/1997 | Drama | Buddhism

The Tibetans refer to the Dalai Lama as Kundun, which means The Presence. He was forced to escape from his native home, Tibet, when communist China invaded and enforced an oppressive regime upon the peaceful nation of Tibet. The Dalai Lama escaped to India in 1959 and has been living in exile in Dharamsala ever since.

7.0/10

Black

Movie | India | 02/04/2005 | Drama | Bollywood

Black is an adaptation of Helen Keller's autobiography. Black revolves around a blind and deaf girl, and her relationship with her teacher who himself later develops Alzheimer's disease.

8.1/10

67%

Amma Cheppindi

Movie | India | 07/28/2006 | Drama | Disability

A mentally under-developed boy stays with his family. He is looked down to be dumb in the residential township until he saves them all from a bomb threat in a rocket center during a prominent event.

7.2/10

Veer-Zaara

Movie | India | 11/12/2004 | Drama

Squadron Leader Veer Pratap Singh, a pilot in the Indian air force, rescues the stranded Zaara, a woman from Pakistan, following a bus accident, and their lives are forever bound.

7.8/10

93%

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Gangaajal

Movie | India | 08/29/2003 | Drama

An SP Amit Kumar who is given charge of Tezpur police station in Bihar. The area is full of corruption, inefficiency, bribery, nepotism, favoritism and crime with help from the local police. Gradually Amit realizes that the local politician Sadhu Yadav is the one who benefits the most out of it. Amit arrests Sunder Yadav...

7.8/10

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Main Hoon Na

Movie | India | 04/30/2004 | Drama | Buddies

An army major goes undercover as a college student. His mission is both professional and personal: to protect his generals daughter from a radical militant, and to find his estranged half-brother.

7.0/10

Swades: We, the People

Movie | India | 12/17/2004 | Drama | Cry movie

Set in modern day India, Swades is a film that tackles the issues that development throws up on a grass root level. It is to this India, which is colorful, heterogeneous and complex that Mohan Bhargava (Shah Rukh Khan), a bright young scientist working as a project manager in NASA, returns on a quest to find his childhood nanny.

Mounam Pesiyadhe

Movie | India | 12/13/2002 | Drama

Gautham, who runs a restaurant, falls in love with his friend Kannan's cousin, Sandhya. Problems arise when Gautham learns that Kannan's parents want Kannan to marry Sandhya.

7.7/10

Kannathil Muthamittal

Movie | India | 02/14/2002 | Drama | Family Ties

A little girl is told by her parents that she is adopted. Determined to find her birth mother, her family eventually agrees to take her to Sri Lanka, where they are abducted by the terrorist group known as the Tamil Tigers.

8.4/10

Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi

Movie | India | 12/22/2003 | Drama | Relationship

Set against the backdrop of the Indian Emergency, the movie tells the story of three youngsters in the 70s, when India was undergoing massive social and political changes. The movie's title is taken from the couplet of Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib.

8.0/10