Movies like Cemetery of Splendor (2015)
The best movies like Cemetery of Splendor (2015) are Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010), Tropical Malady (2004) and Blissfully Yours (2002). If Cemetery of Splendor hooked you with its drama and fantasy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedAfter Life (1999)7.2/10 from 309 votes
- NewestA Useful Ghost (2025)Released 2025
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)
Suffering from a kidney disease and sure of his death, Uncle Boonmee assembles his relatives in the countryside. He reminisces about his past lives and plans to visit a place before dying.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTropical Malady (2004)
A romance between a soldier and country boy is ruptured by the boy’s sudden disappearance. Their story turns into a mythical venture based on Thai folklore.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlissfully Yours (2002)
In Thailand, an illegal immigrant from Myanmar with a mysterious skin rash, his girlfriend, and her friend visit the doctor's before spending the afternoon on individual and collective adventures.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSyndromes and a Century (2006)
A story about director Apichatpong Weerasethakul's parents who were both doctors, and his memories of growing up in a hospital environment.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSupernatural (2014)
Science fiction about a future Thailand. Futuristic, experimental, homo-erotic and with elements of a political essay. With a richness of themes and impressions that wouldn't get past the censor in Thailand. The maker doesn't mince his words and isn't afraid to look reality in the eye.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Mysterious Object at Noon (2000)
A camera crew travels through Thailand asking villagers to invent the next chapter of an ever-growing story.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDie Tomorrow (2017)
Die Tomorrow entails six short segments about the impermanence of life, all inspired by deaths reported in Thai daily newspapers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Holy Motors (2012)
We follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary assassin moving from hit to hit. In each of these interwoven lives, the being possesses an entirely distinct identity: sometimes a man, sometimes a woman, sometimes youthful, sometimes old. By turns murderer, beggar, company chairman, monstrous creature, worker, family man.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisKaili Blues (2016)
Chen Sheng goes off in search of his nephew who has been abandoned by his father. Along the way, he encounters numerous people from his past and also those from his future.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPastoral: To Die in the Country (1974)
A director faces creative block while working on his latest film – a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBoro in the Box (2014)
A fantasized portrayal of Polish auteur Walerian Borowczyk, Boro discovers a cruel and obscene world. He experiences banal yet colorful adventures, caressing erotic birds and organic cameras in a phantasmagorical alphabet.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & fantasy
Mekong Hotel (2012)
Shifting between fact and fiction in a hotel situated along the Mekong River, a filmmaker rehearses a movie expressing the bonds between a vampire-like mother and daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Farewell to the Ark (1984)
A surreal, isolated village sees its inhabitants gradually leave behind their mutual traditions and superstitions as they leave for the city. Among them are two cousins who love each other and who get into a quarrel with other villagers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & drama
36 (2012)
A young location scout meets the art director of her project in a day they will keep in their memories for a while, each for their own reasons.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Dear Dakanda (2005)
Recovering from an accident, an artist is torn between the nurse who is helping him recover and a college friend for whom he secretly longs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee (2009)
A filmmaker captures images that characterize the violence and repression as well as the hope of rebirth and remembrance in northeastern Thailand.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
After Life (1999)
On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office. Their task is to interview the recently deceased, record their personal details, then, over the course of the week, assist them in choosing a single memory to keep for eternity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBy the Time It Gets Dark (2016)
Film-maker Ann has an upcoming project about the 1976 massacre of Thai students. She interviews Taew, a survivor, at a mountain retreat only to have her perspective change as the project progresses.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Malila: The Farewell Flower (2018)
Former lovers Pich and Shane reconnect through Thai floral art, but Pich's illness leads Shane to seek peace by becoming a monk.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
A Useful Ghost (2025)
Worried about her husband being allergic to dust, Nat, a recently-dead woman, returns as a ghost possessing a vacuum cleaner to clean the house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMemoria (2021)
After hearing a loud 'bang' at daybreak, a Scottish woman begins experiencing a mysterious sensory syndrome while traversing the jungles of Colombia.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Returned (2004)
The lives of the residents of a small French town are changed when thousands of the recently dead inexplicably come back to life and try to integrate themselves into society that has changed for them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & fantasy
SnoozefestMovies like thisMetamorphoses (2014)
A girl is approached by a strange boy outside her high school. He asks her to follow him to hear stories where gods fall in love with human beings.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & fantasy
The Dance of Reality (2013)
'Having broken away from my illusory self, I was desperately seeking a path and a meaning to life.' This phrase perfectly sums up Alejandro Jodorowsky’s biographical project: reconstituting the incredible adventure of his life. He was born in 1929 Tocopilla, a coastal town on edge of the Chilean desert, where he discovered the fundamentals of reality, as he underwent an unhappy and alienated childhood as part of an uprooted family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLast Life in the Universe (2003)
An obsessive-compulsive Japanese librarian living in Bangkok spends most of his days contemplating suicide in his apartment. His life changes when he witnesses the death of a young girl and becomes acquainted with her elder sister.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDry Wind (2020)
The area around Catalan in Brazil’s state of Goiás is dry, very dry. Sandro’s life here is somewhat monotonous. He works in a fertiliser factory, goes swimming and spends his evenings doing jigsaw puzzles of landscapes. When Maicon, a man straight out of a Tom of Finland illustration, shows up in their small town and flirts with Ricardo, Sandro’s burgeoning feelings of jealousy set a change in motion.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & fantasy
Homestay (2018)
When a spirit inhabits the body of a teen named Min, he begins to settle into his life until he's forced to find out who caused Min's mysterious death.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & fantasy
The Long Walk (2019)
An old Laotian hermit discovers that the ghost of a road accident victim can transport him back in time fifty years to the moment of his mother's painful death.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Buoyancy (2019)
An innocent Cambodian boy is sold to a Thai broker and enslaved on a fishing trawler. As fellow slaves are tortured and murdered around him, he starts to wonder if his only hope of freedom is to become as violent as his captors.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Northfork (2003)
The year is 1955, and a great flood is coming to Northfork, Montana. A new hydroelectric dam is about to be installed in the mountains above the town, ready to submerge the valley in the name of progress. It is the responsibility of a six-man Evacuation Committee to relocate the townsfolk to higher ground. Most have duly departed, but a few stubborn stragglers remain – among them a priest caring for a sickly orphan, a boy whose fevered visions are leading him to believe he is a member of a roaming band of lost angels desperately searching for a way home.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Cemetery of Splendor?
The closest matches to Cemetery of Splendor are Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010), Tropical Malady (2004) and Blissfully Yours (2002). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Cemetery of Splendor?
People who watched Cemetery of Splendor most often go on to Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010), Tropical Malady (2004) and Blissfully Yours (2002).
What is the highest-rated movie like Cemetery of Splendor?
After Life (1999), rated 7.2/10 by 309 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Cemetery of Splendor?
A Useful Ghost (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to Cemetery of Splendor chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Cemetery of Splendor, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.