Top 20 movies like A Brighter Summer Day
Top 20 Movies like A Brighter Summer Day
- 1. Yi Yi
- 2. Alexander the Great
- 3. The Joke
- 4. Sprout
- 5. Evidence
- 6. Passage
- 7. Crazy n' the City
- 8. The Idiot
- 9. Blind Mountain
- 10. The Third Part of the Night
- 11. Boyfriends and Girlfriends
- 12. Kings of the Road
- 13. Dust in the Wind
- 14. Dawn of the Beast
- 15. In the Heat of the Sun
- 16. Chasing the Dragon
- 17. White Zombie
- 18. Gettysburg
- 19. The Bandit
- 20. Cria!
1. Yi Yi (一一)
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.
It has an average vote of 7.9 on TMDB.
2. Alexander the Great (Ο Μεγαλέξαντρος)
Alexander, a tribal warlord and former political prisoner, kidnaps British tourists, holding them for ransom until Britain and the Greek puppet government in Athens meet his demand for amnesty for his band of freedom fighters.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
3. The Joke (Žert)
In the 1950s, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he sent to his girlfriend. Fifteen years later, he tries to get his revenge by seducing Helena, the wife of one of his accusers.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
4. Sprout (콩나물)
Little Bo-ri's family has come together – as they do every year – to commemorate her late grandfather. Bean sprouts are missing from their meal and so Bo-ri is sent off to market to fetch some. An unexpected detour takes her to places she has never seen before. During her odyssey, Bo-ri encounters all kinds of people, learns new things and eventually meets a friendly gentleman who could be her grandfather.
It has an average vote of 8.9 on TMDB.
5. Evidence
A haunting look at children watching television.
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
6. Passage (Passage)
Exquisitely filmed in black-and-white, this experimental narrative follows four friends on a road trip as they discover the complicated arena of unseen desire that arises when ecstasy and sexuality mix.
It has an average vote of 8.8 on TMDB.
7. Crazy n' the City (神經俠侶)
Tensions arise when Jack Chan, a spineless constable who regards his work as a job but not a career, is partnered with an energetic and conscientious policewoman, Man Liu. When a serial killer emerges in Hong Kong, Man Liu swears to catch him. Jack is impressed by her bravery and decides to secretly protect her.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
8. The Idiot (白痴)
Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love Kameda, but is loved in turn by Akama. When Akama realizes that he will never have Taeko, his thoughts turn to murder, and great tragedy ensues.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
9. Blind Mountain (盲山)
Young student Bai Xuemei is cheated and sold as a wife by human traffickers to a remote village. Raped and beaten, she leads the life of a sex slave and child-bearer with no hope of escape because of the villagers apathy and selfishness.
It has an average vote of 7.6 on TMDB.
10. The Third Part of the Night (Trzecia część nocy)
Set during the Nazi occupation of Poland, in which Michal witnesses the murder of his mother, wife and child. He is hurled into a life that literally is not his own; a surreal world littered with trapdoors, doppelgängers and wormholes. It also tells the true untold story of a Nazi vaccine laboratory where Jews and members of the resistance were “employed” as feeders for parasites infected with typhus.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
11. Boyfriends and Girlfriends (L'Ami de mon amie)
Middle-class Parisian suburbs: Blanche and Léa, office worker and student, meet and become friends. Léa is going out with Fabien, but is thinking of leaving him. Blanche falls for Léa's handsome and witty friend Alexandre, but is tongue-tied whenever she meets him. Léa goes on holiday and Blanche, still smitten with the dashing Alexandre, begins to get to get know Fabien.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
12. Kings of the Road (Im Lauf der Zeit)
Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander - a doctor who has just been through a break-up with his wife and a half-hearted suicide attempt - travel along the Western side of the East-German border in a repair truck, visiting worn-out movie theaters, learning to communicate across their differences.
It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.
13. Dust in the Wind (戀戀風塵)
A-yuan and A-yun are both from the small mining town of Jio-fen. They move to Taipei, where A-yuan is an apprentice by day and goes to night school, and A-yun works as a helper at a tailors. Everyone thinks they are meant for each other, and so do they. They fail to see time and fate are beyond their control.
It has an average vote of 7.6 on TMDB.
14. Dawn of the Beast
Aiming to find the Bigfoot, a group of graduate students venture deep into an area of the Northeastern wilderness known for its strange creature sightings. Soon, they learn that there is a much more sinister evil lurking in the woods, the Wendigo, and once the spirit knows you’re there, they will come for you. Who will survive in a battle between the two most notorious monsters of the forest?
It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.
15. In the Heat of the Sun (阳光灿烂的日子)
Beijing, 1970s. The Cultural Revolution has driven most adults to the provinces leaving 14-year-old Monkey and his pals have free reign over the city. They hang around, get up to no good, and discover that unsolvable mystery known as "girls."
It has an average vote of 7.7 on TMDB.
16. Chasing the Dragon (追龍)
An illegal immigrant from Mainland China sneaks into the corrupt British-colonized Hong Kong in 1963, transforming himself into a ruthless drug lord.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
17. White Zombie
In Haiti, a wealthy landowner convinces a sorcerer to lure the American woman he has fallen for away from her fiance, only to have the madman decide to keep the woman for himself, as a zombie.
It has an average vote of 5.878 on TMDB.
18. Gettysburg
In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania with the goal of marching through to Washington, D.C. The Union Army of the Potomac, under the command of General George G. Meade, forms a defensive position to confront the rebel forces in what will prove to be the decisive battle of the American Civil War.
It has an average vote of 6.9 on TMDB.
19. The Bandit (Eşkıya)
Baran the Bandit, released from prison after serving 35 years, searches for vengeance against his former best friend who betrayed him and stole his lover, teaming up with a young punk with his own demons along the way.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
20. Cria! (Cría cuervos)
Ana, an eight-year-old girl living in Madrid with her grandmother and two sisters, mourns the death of her mother.
It has an average vote of 7.6 on TMDB.
