buddhist temple movies

The Steel Helmet (1951)
6.954 / 10

Action, Drama, War

A ragtag group of American stragglers battles against superior Communist troops in an abandoned Buddhist temple during the Korean War.

Fancy Dance (1989)
6.636 / 10

Comedy, Drama, Music

Yohei, a punk rocker, becomes a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Though initially rebelling against the tough monastic...

Conflagration (1958)
7 / 10

Drama

Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological...

The Burning Buddha Man (2013)
3.2 / 10

Horror, Animation, Thriller, Fantasy

There is a series of Buddha statue thefts in Kyoto. Beniko, a high school girl, gets the Buddha statue at her family's temple stolen and has her...

Come Come Come Upward (1989)
6.9 / 10

Drama

This story of two Buddhist nuns is an exploration of the Korean experience of the relationship between hardship and religious salvation. Trainee...

An Artisan's Legacy: Tsunekazu Nishioka (2012)
6 / 10

Drama, History, Family, Documentary

In-depth look at the twilight years, spent training apprentices, of temple builder Nishioka Tsunekazu, who was called the "devil" as he devoted his...

The Shadowless Pagoda (1957)
5 / 10

Drama, History

On the eighth of April of King Gyoeng-deok's 10th year of the reign of the Unified Silla Period, Guseulagi, a daughter of Yu Jong, joins the king's...

Buddha Wild: Monk in a Hut (2008)
10 / 10

Adventure, Comedy, Documentary, Family

Buddhist monks open up about the joys and challenges of living out the precepts of the Buddha as a full-time vocation. Controversies swirling within...

From one gompa to another (1979)
7 / 10

Animation

Tempelriddaren (2014)
8 / 10

Documentary, TV Movie

Miracles of Luang Pu Suk (2013)
6.5 / 10

Drama

About the merits of Luang Pu Suk, a Buddhist monk who lived from 1847-1923.