Asian Films Like The Brutalist

Based on Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. At a brutal reform school in Florida in the 1960s, two Black teenagers — idealistic Elwood and pragmatic Turner — forge a …

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same devastating energy throughout.

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An epic multigenerational saga spanning 1910s colonial Korea to 1980s Japan to modern-day New York, following a Korean family's sacrifices, ambitions, and survival over four genera…

Like The Brutalist, it leans hard into immigrant story. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same epic and devastating energy throughout.

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In 1920s Oklahoma, the Osage Nation becomes the wealthiest people per capita in the world after oil is discovered beneath their land. Then they start dying — poisoned, shot, blown …

Same epic and devastating energy throughout.

The story of Bob Dylan's meteoric rise in the New York folk music scene of the early 1960s, from his arrival as an unknown 19-year-old to his explosive decision to go electric at t…

Both are built around ambition that starts as a virtue and reveals itself as something else entirely.

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Willis Wu is a background character in his own life — a 'Generic Asian Man' in a cop show set in Chinatown, dreaming of a bigger role. When a real murder disrupts the fiction, he m…

Both navigate the same emotional territory: immigration and ambition.

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Set 100 years after the original Vikings, following legendary Norse explorer Leif Eriksson, his sister Freydis, and the ambitious warrior Harald Sigurdsson as they forge new paths …

Both are built around ambition that starts as a virtue and reveals itself as something else entirely. Same epic energy throughout.

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Dev, a 30-year-old actor in New York, navigates career uncertainty, modern dating, family, food, and what it means to be a first-generation American. Aziz Ansari's semi-autobiograp…

Both navigate the same emotional territory: immigration and ambition.

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Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same slow burn energy throughout.

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A lighthouse keeper in deep space maintains a beacon that guides ships through a dangerous sector — until a stranger arrives claiming the beacon is more important than either of th…

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same slow burn energy throughout.

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A wealthy aristocrat and a poor artist fall in love aboard the ill-fated RMS Titanic on its maiden voyage.

Like The Brutalist, it leans hard into survival. Same epic energy throughout.