01 A prequel in setting only, trading the modern city for a sprawling martial-arts period epic.
10 Best Thai Movies to Watch
By Vlad Zakh · September 29, 2025
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Thai cinema pulls in two directions at once: Ong-Bak turned Tony Jaa into a global action star on the strength of real, no-wire stuntwork, while Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s dreamlike dramas won Cannes’ top prize with almost the opposite approach entirely.
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02 A dying man's road trip to reconnect with old girlfriends turns more complicated than planned.
03 A soldier's romance splits into a folkloric second half deep in the jungle.
04 A quiet, minimalist romance about memory told almost entirely in static wide shots.
05 A photographer keeps finding something extra in every picture he develops.
06 A candy-colored, deliberately artificial homage to old Thai melodrama and westerns.
07 A brilliant student runs an exam-cheating ring across time zones, tense as any heist film.
08 A young man travels to Sydney to rescue his stolen elephant, one brutal fight at a time.
09 A dying man is visited by ghosts and reincarnated relatives, told at a hypnotic pace.
10 Tony Jaa's breakout, built on stunts performed with no wires and no CGI.
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