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Tibetan-language Movies

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Seven Years in Tibet(1997)

PG-13
| 2h 16min | Adventure, Drama, History
3.6/5 (with 1,232 votes)

Austrian mountaineer, Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, the arrogant Harrer falls into Allied forces' hands as a prisoner of war. He escapes with a fellow detainee and makes his way to Llaso, Tibet, where he meets the 14-year-old Dalai Lama, whose friendship ultimately transforms his outlook on life.

Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud - With Brad Pitt, David Thewlis, Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė, Jetsun Pema, Mako, BD Wong, ...
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Kundun(1997)

2h 14min | Drama, History
3.4/5 (with 206 votes)

The Tibetans refer to the Dalai Lama as 'Kundun', which means 'The Presence'. He was forced to escape from his native home, Tibet, when communist China invaded and enforced an oppressive regime upon the peaceful nation. The Dalai Lama escaped to India in 1959 and has been living in exile in Dharamsala ever since.

Directed by Martin Scorsese - With Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong, Yoon C. Joyce, Losang Samten, Tsewang Jigme Tsarong, Tencho Gyatso, Losang Gyatso, ...

Samsara(2001)

2h 18min | Adventure, Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 43 votes)

A love story situated in the Himalayas. A Buddhist monk can't choose between life and the way of the Buddha.

Directed by Pan Nalin - With Jampa Kalsang Tamang, Shawn Ku, Christy Chung

Mountain Patrol(2004)

PG-13
| 1h 25min | Action, Drama
3.6/5 (with 27 votes)

A moving true story about volunteers protecting antelope against poachers in the severe mountains of Tibet.

Directed by Lu Chuan - With Zhang Lei, Tobgyal

Himalaya(1999)

1h 48min | Adventure, Drama
3.7/5 (with 33 votes)

As the denizens of a Tibetan village prepare for their arduous annual trek to exchange salt for grain, the community's allegiances are split between aging chieftain Tinle (Thilen Lhondup) and rebellious young Karma (Gurgon Kyap). Tinle tries to maintain his clout and preserve obedience to ancient customs when Karma challenges the old man's power.

Directed by Éric Valli - With Tsering Dorjee, Gurgon Kyap, Lhakpa Tsamchoe, Jampa Kalsang Tamang, Karma Tensing, Karma Wangel, ...
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Tibetan Dog(2011)

1h 30min | Animation
3.5/5 (with 6 votes)

Jiantan is a young boy who has to leave Xi'an after the death of his mother to go deep into the Tibetan prairies to start living with the father he barely remembers. His dad, LaGeBa, is a busy doctor who decided to depart from the city and reside in Tibet where he is the essential physician of the poor community he lives in. To help his father, Jiantan has to learn how to herd sheep. While trying to learn his new responsibility, he is saved by a stray gold-colored Tibetan Mastiff. Both Jiantan and the big dog help each other as they try to adjust to this new environment.

Directed by Masayuki Kojima

The Horse Thief(1986)

1h 28min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 18 votes)

Devout Buddhists, Norbu and Dolma live with their young son Tashi in a clan in Tibet. Norbu is a highwayman. After Norbu is charged with stealing from the temple, he and his family are banished. Impoverished and marginalized, they can do little when their beloved son becomes ill. Tashi dies of a fever. After a second son is born, Norbu focuses his every action on keeping this child alive, seeking re-admission to the clan for his wife and child, then risking all to save them from isolation and starvation in winter.

Directed by Tian Zhuangzhuang

Travellers and Magicians(2003)

1h 48min | Adventure, Drama
3.3/5 (with 13 votes)

A young government official, named Dondup, who is smitten with America (he even has a denim gho) dreams of escaping there while stuck in a beautiful but isolated village. He hopes to connect in the U.S. with a visa out of the country. He misses the one bus out of town to Thimphu, however, and is forced to hitchhike and walk along the Lateral Road to the west, accompanied by an apple seller, a Buddhist monk with his ornate, dragon-headed dramyin, a drunk, a widowed rice paper maker, and his beautiful daughter, Sonam.

Directed by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche - With Neten Chokling

The Cup(1999)

G
| 1h 33min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 17 votes)

While the World Cup is being played in France, two young Tibetan refugees arrive at a monastery in India. The atmosphere of serene contemplation is soon disrupted by soccer fever, as the two students desperately seek a TV to watch the final.

Directed by Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche - With Orgyen Tobgyal, Neten Chokling, Jamyang Lodro
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Jinpa(2019)

1h 26min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 14 votes)

Stoic truck driver Jinpa picks up a silver dagger wearing hitchhiker in the desolate Kekexili plateau. The stranger suddenly reveals he’s going to kill the man who murdered his father.

Directed by Pema Tseden

Balloon(2019)

1h 42min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 16 votes)

On the Tibetan grasslands, Darje and Drolkar live a serene and ordinary life with their three sons and the grandfather. A condom sparks a series of embarrassment and dilemma, breaking the harmony of the family. What matters more in the circle of life and death, soul or reality?

Directed by Pema Tseden - With Sönam Wangmo, Jinpa

Unmistaken Child(2009)

PG
| 1h 42min | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 6 votes)

In Nepal, a venerable monk, Geshe Lama Konchog, dies and one of his disciples, a youthful monk named Tenzin Zopa, searches for his master's reincarnation. The film follows his search to the Tsum Valley where he finds a young boy of the right age who uncannily responds to Konchog's possessions. Is this the reincarnation of the master? After the boy passes several tests, Tenzin takes him to meet the Dali Lama. Will the parents agree to let the boy go to the monastery, and, if so, how will the child respond? Central to the film is the relationship the child develops with Tenzin.

Directed by Nati Baratz
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Milarepa(2006)

1h 30min | Action, Adventure, Drama
3.6/5 (with 8 votes)

Milarepa depicts the humble beginnings of the man who was to become Tibet's greatest saint. A true story based on centuries-old oral traditions, a youthful Milarepa is propelled into a world of sorrow and betrayal after his father's sudden death. Destitute and hopeless, he sets out to learn black magic - and exact revenge on his enemies - encountering magicians, demons, an enigmatic teacher and unexpected mystical power along the way. But it is in confrontation with the consequences of his anger that he learns the most. Photographed in the stunning Lahaul-Spiti region of Northern India, Milarepa offers a provocative parallel to the cycle of violence and retribution consuming today's world.

Directed by Neten Chokling - With Kelsang Chukie Tethong, Jamyang Lodro

Paths of the Soul(2015)

1h 55min | Adventure, Drama, Documentary
3.4/5 (with 11 votes)

A group of Tibetan villagers leave their families and homes to make a "bowing pilgrimage" — laying their bodies flat on the ground after every few steps — along the 2,000-kilometre road to Lhasa. During their months on the road, a baby is born, they meet fellow travellers, and their resolve is put to the test by harsh snowstorms and physical fatigue. But no hardship can deter them from their ultimate goal — not even the threat of death, a very real danger in this high altitude where a common cold can take one's life.

Directed by Zhang Yang
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Valley of Flowers(2006)

2h | Adventure, Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 10 votes)

A Himalayan legend of a love struggling against the inevitability of death, an astonishing tale spanning from the early 19th century mountain existence, to hectic, bustling modern day Tokyo.

Directed by Pan Nalin - With Milind Soman, Mylène Jampanoï, Naseeruddin Shah, Anil Yadav, Jampa Kalsang Tamang

Soul on a String(2016)

2h 22min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

After discovering a sacred stone in the mouth of a deer he just killed, Taibei, a young lonesome Tibetan cowboy, embarks on a long and difficult mission: to bring it back to the holy mountain of Buddha’s handprint. His journey turns sour as an obstinate woman, Joan, and a psychic yet dumb elf, Pu, soon decide to join him. Not to mention the two violent brothers on his tale, who are on a revenge quest.

Directed by Zhang Yang

The Saltmen of Tibet(1997)

1h 48min | Documentary
3.2/5 (with 3 votes)

Four men from a nomadic Tibetan tribe undertake their annual, ritualistic pilgrimage to a sacred salt lake. Salt gathered in this traditional fashion will be sold to provide the economic livelihood of the tribe for the coming year. The journey, necessary for the group's survival, also incorporates a number of rituals necessary for their culture to survive in the modern world.

Directed by Ulrike Koch

Red River Valley(1997)

1h 55min | History, War, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 2 votes)

At the turn of the century, a young Chinese girl escapes from a religious sacrifice, and is rescued by an honorable Tibetan herdsman. The two fall in love, but problems arise when she is ignorant of their time-honored traditions and runs into trouble with a glamorous and proud Tibetan princess. Meanwhile, a British expedition is planning to invade the sacred mountain. Facing the country's enemy, the three set aside their disputes and jealousy, and join the militia force to protect their homeland.

Directed by Feng Xiaoning - With Ning Jing, Paul Kersey

Demon of the Himalayas(1935)

1h 32min | Adventure

Movie about an expedition in search of a mythical demon in the Himalaya mountains.

Directed by Andrew Marton - With Gustav Diessl, Erika Dannhoff, Günter Dyhrenfurth

Butter Lamp(2013)

15min | Kids & Family
3.7/5 (with 9 votes)

A young itinerant photographer and his assistant suggest to Tibetan nomads to photograph them in front of various background.

Directed by Hu Wei

Pawo(2016)

2h 2min | History, Drama
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Since 1950, Tibet has been occupied by China. Dorjee, a young Tibetan, grew up in peace 40 years later. After the death of his father, it all comes to a point, where he realizes that his wings are already cut, what it means to be Tibetan in a country which is called "China". Inside Tibet and in exile, a last cry for freedom starts.

Directed by Marvin Litwak, Sonam Tseten

Dreaming Lhasa(2007)

1h 30min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.5/5 (with 3 votes)

Karma, a Tibetan filmmaker from New York, goes to Dharamsala, the Dalai Lama's exile headquarters in northern India, to make a documentary about former political prisoners who have escaped from Tibet. She wants to reconnect with her roots but is also escaping a deteriorating relationship back home.One of Karma's interviewees is Dhondup, an enigmatic ex-monk who has just escaped from Tibet. He confides in her that his real reason for coming to India is to fulfill his dying mother's last wish, to deliver a charm box to a long-missing resistance fighter. Karma finds herself unwittingly falling in love with Dhondup even as she is sucked into the passion of his quest, which becomes a journey into Tibet's fractured past and a voyage of self-discovery.

Directed by Ritu Sarin

Blindsight - Vertraue Deiner Vision(2006)

1h 44min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 5 votes)

Six blind Tibetan teenagers climb the Lhakpa-Ri peak of Mount Everest, led by seven-summit blind mountain-climber Erik Weihenmayer.

Directed by Lucy Walker - With Erik Weihenmayer, Sabriye Tenberken

Escape from Tibet(2012)

1h 45min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

On the roofs of a Tibetan monastery two boys let fly a kite, but suddenly a shot rips the relaxed silence, and one of the two guys gets shot, the "Golden Boy" which is the fictitious successor to the Dalai Lama. The monks act immediately and bring him out of Tibet to secure his body. In the meantime, the Berlinese mountaineer Johanna and her Swiss friend travel to the monastery to stay there for some days...

Directed by Maria Blumencron - With Hannah Herzsprung, Yangzom Brauen, David Lee McInnis, Carlos Leal, Mona Petri

Old Dog(2011)

1h 28min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

A story of an aged sheepherder, his gruff grown son (who’s having trouble conceiving a child with his wife) and the old man’s Tibetan mastiff hound – a highly prized breed, much sought after by urban Chinese – whose existence is imperiled from all sides.

Directed by Pema Tseden

Bringing Home Tibet(2014)

1h 22min | Documentary

When New York based Tibetan artist Tenzing Rigdol's father passes away in exile with an unfulfilled wish to take his last breath in Tibet, Tenzing realizes that his father's dream to return home to his lost nation is shared by all exiles. Driven by this realization, the artist embarks on a mission to reunite the Tibetan land with its people, literally, through an art project that involves smuggling 20,000 kilograms of native Tibetan soil to India.

Directed by Tenzin Tsetan Choklay - With Tenzing Rigdol

The Silent Holy Stones(2005)

1h 42min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

A young Tibetan monk goes back home for the New Year's celebrations. Fascinated by television, he wants to bring his family's television to the monastery to show it to his master.

Directed by Pema Tseden

Once Upon a Time in Tibet(2010)

1h 37min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Set during the Second Sino-Japanese War(1937-1945), the US army brings supplies to China by flying over the Himalayas. A love story then ensues between an American pilot and a Tibetan girl who saved his life when his airplane crashed.

Directed by Dai Wei - With Peter Ho

My Reincarnation(2011)

1h 22min | Documentary
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Filmed over twenty years by acclaimed documentarian Jennifer Fox (FLYING: CONFESSIONS OF A FREE WOMAN), MY REINCARNATION chronicles the epic story of the high Tibetan Buddhist Master, Choegyal Namkhai Norbu, and his western-born son, Yeshi. The film follows Namkhai Norbu's rise to greatness as a Buddhist teacher in the West, while his son, Yeshi, recognized at birth as the reincarnation of a famous spiritual master, breaks away from his father's tradition to embrace the modern world. Can the father convince his son to keep the family's threatened spiritual legacy alive? Never before has a high Tibetan Master allowed such complete access to his private life and it is doubtful that another ever will. With her signature intimate entry to both family and icons including the Dalai Lama, Fox expertly distills a decades-long drama into a universal story about love, transformation, and destiny.

Directed by Jennifer Fox - With Namkhai Norbu

The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet's Struggle for Freedom(2010)

1h 19min | Documentary
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Fifty years after the fall of his country, can the Dalai Lama make a breakthrough in his efforts to find a solution to the Tibet question?

Directed by Ritu Sarin, Tenzing Sonam - With Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, Tenzin Tsundue
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