Best "dalai lama" Movies of All Time

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Seven Years in Tibet(1997)

PG-13

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, ...

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, ...

Wheel of Time(2003)

1h 23min | Documentary

3.3/5 (with 20 votes)

Wheel of Time is Werner Herzog's photographed look at the largest Buddhist ritual in Bodh Gaya, India.

Directed by Werner Herzog - With Tenzin Gyatso, Werner Herzog, Takna Jigme Zangpo

10 Questions for the Dalai Lama(2006)

1h 25min | Documentary

3.7/5 (with 6 votes)

How do you reconcile a commitment to non-violence when faced with violence? Why do the poor often seem happier than the rich? Must a society lose its traditions in order to move into the future? These are some of the questions posed to His Holiness the Dalai Lama by filmmaker and explorer Rick Ray. Ray examines some of the fundamental questions of our time by weaving together observations from his own journeys throughout India and the Middle East, and the wisdom of an extraordinary spiritual leader. This is his story, as told and filmed by Rick Ray during a private visit to his monastery in Dharamsala, India over the course of several months. Also included is rare historical footage as well as footage supplied by individuals who at great personal risk, filmed with hidden cameras within Tibet.

Directed by Rick Ray - With Tenzin Gyatso

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Why Are We Creative?: The Centipede's Dilemma(2018)

1h 24min | Documentary

3.8/5 (with 6 votes)

A 30 years odyssey: the world's most intriguing artists and thinkers from the fields of visual art, music, filmmaking, acting, literature, philosophy, politics, business and science, are asked the same question: "Why are you creative?".

Directed by Hermann Vaske

Seven Years in Tibet(1956)

1h 19min | Documentary

2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian moutain climber, escapes from a British POW camp in India and flees north across the Himalayan mountains into Tibet. There he meets and befriends the young Dalai Lama.

Directed by Hans Nieter - With Heinrich Harrer, Peter Aufschnaiter, Anton Diffring

Compassion in Exile: The Story of the 14th Dalai Lama(1993)

1h | Documentary

A portrait of His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama, which includes historical footage of China's repression of Tibetan Buddhism in 1959.

Directed by Mickey Lemle - With Tenzin Gyatso

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

But Beautiful(2019)

1h 56min | Documentary

3.8/5 (with 3 votes)

In his new film, Erwin Wagenhofer is looking for the good and beautiful in this world.

Directed by Erwin Wagenhofer

Karmapa - Two Ways of Divinity(1998)

58min | Documentary

3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The main characters of the film are two small boys who share the throne of Karmapa, the highest office of one of Tibetan Buddhism's main sects and the third in line after the Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama. As with the Dalai Lama, Karmapa is the same soul which reincarnates in each successor to the office, who is identified by omens, portents and other signs. The Karmapa line actually pre-dates the Dalai Lama's, and their respective importance has alternated in the course of history with either the Karmapa or Dalai Lama holding precedence. Only one of the current Karmapas lives in Tibet, who is recognized by the Dalai Lama but controlled by the Chinese government for political ends. The second Karmapa lives in New Delhi, India and was selected by a Tibetan group in exile. The film was shot in India, Nepal and Tibet and features the Dalai Lama as narrator, providing an incisive spiritual and political view of occupied Tibet.

Directed by Arto Halonen

Buddha Wild: Monk in a Hut(2008)

1h | Adventure, Comedy, Documentary, Kids & Family

5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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 modern monastic Buddhism are examined, from celibacy and the role of women to racism and concerns about the environment.

Journey Into Buddhism: Vajra Sky Over Tibet(2006)

Documentary

This documentary is the third part of The Yatra Trilogy created by John Bush. Vajra is the Sanskrit word signifying the thunderbolt of illumination, and yatra is the word for pilgrimage or spiritual journey. This film offers a cinematic pilgrimage to central Tibet, bearing witness to the indomitable faith of its endangered Buddhist community and the imminent threat to its very survival.

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Merton: A Film Biography(1984)

57min | Documentary

In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social criticism. For nearly 27 years he was a monk of the austere Trappist order, where he became an eloquent spiritual writer and mystic as well as an anti-war advocate and witness to peace. Merton: A Film Biography provides the first comprehensive look at this remarkable 20th century religious philosopher who wrote, in addition to his immensely popular autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain, over 60 books on some of the most pressing social issues of our time, some of which are excerpted here. Merton offers an engaging profile of a man whose presence in the world touched millions of people and whose words and thoughts continue to have a profound impact and relevance today.

The Ring of the Buddha(2003)

1h 32min | Adventure, Documentary, Drama

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Nepal 1950. A mysterious, unexplored country. The Swiss geologist Toni Hagen, was the first European to pass through the "forbidden" kingdom. He doesn't discover any mineral resources there. Yet he does uncover the mysteries of life and penetrates towards a more profound truth which lends a new dimension to his life. In the spring of 1999, Hagen returns to Nepal to keep a promise of almost 50 years: At that time a Buddhist monk had presented him with the gift of a valuable and mystical ring.

Directed by Jochen Breitenstein

Sunrise/Sunset: A Day in the Life of the Dalai Lama(2008)

1h 12min | Documentary

4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The daily life of the Dalai Lama is brought home with remarkable intimacy in SUNRISE/SUNSET. Granted total access to His Holiness for 24 hours, this is a day in the life of the Dalai Lama from when he wakes up at 3 a.m. until his bedtime at dusk.

What Remains of Us(2004)

1h 17min | Documentary

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A Tibetan immigrant returns to her home country to witness the Chinese occupation.

Directed by Hugo Latulippe, François Prévost - With Dalai Lama, Kalsang Dolma, Tenzin Gyatso

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