Movies like Mahjong (1996)
The best movies like Mahjong (1996) are Stray Dogs (2014), As Tears Go By (1988) and Bio Zombie (1998). If Mahjong hooked you with its comedy and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedA Brighter Summer Day (1991)8.2/10 from 417 votes
- NewestA Sun (2019)Released 2019
- In ChineseStray Dogs (2014)Also in Chinese
Stray Dogs (2014)
An alcoholic man and his two young children barely survive in Taipei. They cross paths with a lonely grocery clerk who might help them make a better life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAs Tears Go By (1988)
Mid-level gangster Wah falls in love with his beautiful cousin, but must also continue to protect his volatile partner-in-crime and friend, Fly.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBio Zombie (1998)
A group of young shoppers and employees must band together when a zombie outbreak overruns their shopping center.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisGoodbye South, Goodbye (1998)
In this portrait of small-time hoods rendered in rhythm-of-life anecdotal detail, Gao is the leader of a circle of layabouts including his sidekick, Flathead, and their girlfriends, Pretzel and Ling. He is also the originator of petty crime schemes, which promise to get the gang nowhere fast.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Confucian Confusion (1994)
Over the course of a few days, the paths of a group of young friends, lovers, and acquaintances in Taipei intersect, prompting them to arrive at realizations about their lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRebels of the Neon God (1994)
In Taipei, four youths face alienation, loneliness, and moments of existential crisis amidst a series of minor crimes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPushing Hands (1991)
Mr. Chu is an elderly widower who teaches tai chi chuan in Beijing. He moves to America to live with his son's family, but finds the cultural adjustment difficult. Since his daughter-in-law is a white woman who does not speak Chinese, Mr. Chu's son, Alex, must mediate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTerrorizers (1986)
An uncompromising look into urban life from the eyes of a voyeuristic photographer, a rebellious teenager, and a married couple teetering on the edge of adultery.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like this6ixtynin9 (1999)
A woman, fired from a financial corporation during the Asia crisis, returns home with no money. However, she finds a box with a fortune in front of her door, and decides to keep it. However, the people that left it there soon want it back.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Brighter Summer Day (1991)
A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like this15 (2003)
Five troubled teens, abandoned by society and family, form a bond in a world of violence, drugs, and self-destruction, facing harsh realities of modern Singapore.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)
On a dark, wet night in Taipei City, a cavernous old picture palace is about to close its doors forever. A meager audience, the remaining few staff, and perhaps even a ghost or two, watch King Hu’s wuxia classic "Dragon Inn", each haunted by memories and desires evoked by cinema itself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Missing Gun (2002)
After a policeman gets drunk and loses his service weapon, he frantically searches for his revolver and the killer who murdered his former lover.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDaughter of the Nile (1987)
Lin Hsiao-yang tries to keep her family together while working as a waitress at Kentucky Fried Chicken and going to night school. With no mother and her father currently working out of town, it is up to Lin Hsiao-yang to take care of her younger siblings, who are slipping into a life of crime.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
The Great Buddha+ (2017)
Security guard Pickle and his trash collector friend Belly Button kill time together in night shifts watching the American-educated boss's dash-cam recordings of his various sexual encounters with women. Against the buddies' will, something horrifying rather than erotic reveals.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisFrozen Stiff (2002)
The basic plot revolves around drug dealer Limeni and two men, Lemi and Kiza, who are trying to transport their dead grandfather for burial, until their car breaks down and they end up struggling to get him home onboard a train. This is when these two plots intersect and all hell breaks loose.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisYi Yi (2000)
Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries. NJ is morose: his brother owes him money, his mother is in a coma, his wife suffers a spiritual crisis when she finds her life a blank and his business partners make bad decisions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisEbola Syndrome (1996)
A violent fugitive on the run from the law makes his way from Hong Kong to South Africa, where he discovers that he's immune to the Ebola virus, and later returns home to spread the deadly disease.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Sun (2019)
A family of four fractures under the weight of unmet expectations, unexpected tragedy, and uncompromising pride.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Boys from Fengkuei (1983)
Ah-Ching and his friends have just finished school in their island fishing village, and now spend most of their time drinking and fighting. Three of them decide to go to the port city of Kaohsiung to look for work. They find an apartment through relatives, and Ah-Ching is attracted to the girlfriend of a neighbor. There they face the harsh realities of the big city.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisKing of Peking (2017)
When home entertainment enters the market in 90s Beijing, a former projectionist ropes his young son into starting their own pirate movie company, but easy money comes with its own price tag.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
What Time Is It There? (2001)
A street vendor with a grim home-life forges a connection with a young woman on her way to Paris.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisChungking Express (1994)
Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisYou Shoot, I Shoot (2001)
A hired killer pairs up with an amateur filmmaker to provide clients with satisfying footage of enemies getting whacked.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisI Don't Want to Sleep Alone (2006)
A Bangladeshi immigrant living in harsh conditions nurses an injured man back to health, but when the recovering man falls for a waitress, their tender bond is tested by competing affections.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBoat People (1982)
A Japanese photojournalist revisits Vietnam after the liberation to document the nation, and begins following and documenting the young children from a poor Vietnamese family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFind Me Guilty (2006)
Based on the true story of Jack DiNorscio, a mobster who defended himself in court for what would be the longest mafia trial in U.S. history.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThings Change (1988)
Jerry, a misfit Mafia henchman, is assigned the low-level job of keeping an eye on Gino, a shoe repairman fingered by the Mob to confess to a murder he didn't commit. But Gino's mistaken for a Mafia boss, and the two are suddenly catapulted to the highest levels of mobster status. Only friendship will see them through this dangerous adventure alive!
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBottle Rocket (1996)
Upon his release from a mental hospital following a nervous breakdown, the directionless Anthony joins his friend Dignan, who seems far less sane than the former. Dignan has hatched a harebrained scheme for an as-yet-unspecified crime spree that somehow involves his former boss, the (supposedly) legendary Mr. Henry.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Brink's Job (1978)
In 1950, a group of unlikely criminal masterminds commits the robbery of the century. Led by Tony Pino, a petty thief fresh out of prison, and Joe McGinnis, who specializes in planning lucrative capers, the gang robs Brink's main office in Boston of more than $2 million. However, things begin to go awry when the FBI gets involved, the cops start cracking down on the gang and McGinnis refuses to hand over the loot...
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & crime
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Mahjong?
The closest matches to Mahjong are Stray Dogs (2014), As Tears Go By (1988) and Bio Zombie (1998). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Mahjong?
People who watched Mahjong most often go on to Stray Dogs (2014), As Tears Go By (1988) and Bio Zombie (1998).
What is the highest-rated movie like Mahjong?
A Brighter Summer Day (1991), rated 8.2/10 by 417 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Mahjong?
A Sun (2019) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Chinese movies like Mahjong?
Yes: Stray Dogs (2014), Goodbye South, Goodbye (1998) and A Confucian Confusion (1994).
How are movies similar to Mahjong chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Mahjong, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.