Top 20 movies like The Scent of Green Papaya
Top 20 Movies like The Scent of Green Papaya
- 1. Cyclo
- 2. Buffalo Boy
- 3. The Marvelous Visit
- 4. Mosquito
- 5. Superpower Girl
- 6. Win My Baby Back
- 7. Kilometers and Kilometers
- 8. 10 to 11
- 9. The City of Wild Beasts
- 10. Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
- 11. The Vertical Ray of the Sun
- 12. Drama/Mex
- 13. I Am Not a Witch
- 14. Sleep with Me
- 15. Sullivan's Travels
- 16. Quest for Fire
- 17. Cabaret
- 18. Bitter Moon
- 19. Senna
- 20. The Fall
1. Cyclo (Xích lô)
Follows a young cyclo driver on his poverty-driven descent into criminality in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City. The boy's struggles to scratch out a living for his two sisters and grandfather in the mean streets of the city lead to petty crime on behalf of a mysterious Madame from whom he rents his cyclo.
It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.
2. Buffalo Boy (Mùa len trâu)
Set along the southern coast of Vietnam during the French occupation in the 1940s, water is everywhere, giving life and bringing decay and rot. Kim is 15; his father and step-mother have two buffalo, their lifeline as subsistence rice farmers. During the rainy season, there's no grass and the buffalo are starving. Kim volunteers to take the beasts inland to find food. On this coming-of-age journey, Kim sees men mistreat women, men fight with men, and French taxes rob the poor. He works for Lap, a buffalo herder whose past is entangled with Kim's parents, and he makes friends who will lead him to his place in the world.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
3. The Marvelous Visit
One morning, the rector of a small French village comes across a young man, lying unclothed and unconscious on a deserted beach. Intrigued, the rector has the young man carried back to his home. When he awakes the stranger calmly identifies himself as Jean, an angel who has just arrived on Earth. Naturally, the rector doesn’t believe this, but decides to humour the young man. At first, Jean’s arrival in the village causes no upset. He is a harmless soul, full of good intentions and capable of only the kindest deeds. But then the villagers grow wary of him, and this wariness turns to outright hostility when Jean unwittingly causes an accident...
It has an average vote of 5.1 on TMDB.
4. Mosquito (Mosquito)
Dreaming of great adventures and of standing up for his homeland, a young Portuguese man enlists in the army during World War I and is sent to the front line in Mozambique, Africa. Left behind by his platoon, he sets out on a grueling trek across the mystic Makua native land, walking for over a thousand kilometers, in search of his dream.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
5. Superpower Girl (능력소녀)
“Superpower girl” Mina, is in the top of her class, the center of attention and the envy of everyone. “No-power girl” Juri is the total opposite, as her classmates sometimes forget she even exists. One day, Mina can't seem to close her eyelids, while Juri discovers her hidden powers.
It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.
6. Win My Baby Back (Cua Lại Vợ Bầu)
"Win My Baby Back" is a perfect love story of Trong Thoai and Nha Linh. But life was not as dreaming as Nha Linh's ex-girlfriend Quy Khanh suddenly appeared and caused a series of disturbances in the girl's heart. So where will this love triangle go?
It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.
7. Kilometers and Kilometers (കിലോമീറ്റേഴ്സ് & കിലോമീറ്റേഴ്സ്)
When a debt-ridden man reluctantly agrees to drive an American tourist around India, their stark differences lead to bickering… and unexpected bonding.
It has an average vote of 5.9 on TMDB.
8. 10 to 11 (11'e 10 Kala)
Mithat passionately collects newspapers in his Istanbul flat. The other tenants ridicule him and he lives a lonely life. As the building is to be renovated, Mithat develops a friendship with concierge Ali, another loner, who helps him save his collection. They involuntarily change each other’s fate.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
9. The City of Wild Beasts (La ciudad de las fieras)
Trouble on the mean streets of Medellín, Colombia, leads a teen to the country and the grandfather he’s never known.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
10. Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's role in modern propaganda.
It has an average vote of 7.53 on TMDB.
11. The Vertical Ray of the Sun (Mùa hè chiều thẳng đứng)
Hanoi comes across almost picture-perfect in director Tran Anh Hung's beautiful, elegiac tale about the lives and loves of three Vietnamese sisters. A mood characteristic of Hung's films is set early on with the vivid sounds of birds, insects and water and the way the lighting enhances the subtle use of color. They all combine to gem-like effect here.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
12. Drama/Mex (Drama/Mex)
Two stories unfold over the same long, hot day in Acapulco. The first involves Fernanda, who is forced to deal with the emergence of her ex-lover. Her boyfriend must compete with the sexual tension they share. The second concerns Jamie, a worker attempting suicide, until a girl disrupts his plan.
It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.
13. I Am Not a Witch
Convicted of witchcraft, 8-year-old Shula is brought to live in a penal colony where witches do hard labour in service of the government.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
14. Sleep with Me
Six different writers wrote a scene each of this romantic comedy featuring the marriage and turbulent relationship of Joseph and Sarah, with Joseph's best friend Frank trying hard to cope with letting the love of his life marry his best friend.
It has an average vote of 5.711 on TMDB.
15. Sullivan's Travels
Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey, aiming to "know trouble" first-hand. When all he finds is a train ride back to Hollywood and a beautiful blonde companion, he redoubles his efforts, managing to land himself in more trouble than he bargained for when he loses his memory and ends up a prisoner on a chain gang.
It has an average vote of 7.436 on TMDB.
16. Quest for Fire (La Guerre du feu)
In the prehistoric world, a Cro-Magnon tribe depends on an ever-burning source of fire, which eventually extinguishes. Lacking the knowledge to start a new fire, the tribe sends three warriors on a quest for more. With the tribe's future at stake, the warriors make their way across a treacherous landscape full of hostile tribes and monstrous beasts. On their journey, they encounter Ika, a woman who has the knowledge they seek.
It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.
17. Cabaret
Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force.
It has an average vote of 7.393 on TMDB.
18. Bitter Moon
A passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic's wife.
It has an average vote of 7.093 on TMDB.
19. Senna
The remarkable story of Brazilian racing driver Ayrton Senna, charting his physical and spiritual achievements on the track and off, his quest for perfection, and the mythical status he has since attained, is the subject of Senna, a documentary feature that spans the racing legend's years as an F1 driver, from his opening season in 1984 to his untimely death a decade later.
It has an average vote of 8.12 on TMDB.
20. The Fall
In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances.
It has an average vote of 7.592 on TMDB.
