Movies Like His Redemption

If you liked His Redemption (2025), a drama and comedy movie directed by Yuan Shichao and Shi Bing, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
A Thousand Words (2012)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and comedy
Jack McCall is a fast-talking literary agent, who can close any deal, any time, any way. He has set his sights on New Age guru Dr. Sinja for his own selfish purposes. But Dr. Sinja is on to him, and Jack’s life comes…
2
Afterlife of the Party (2021)
★ 6.7/10Also fantasy and comedy
A social butterfly who dies during her birthday week is given a second chance to right her wrongs on Earth.
3
Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling (1986)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and comedy
Although Jo Jo Dancer has achieved success as a stand-up comedian, he hasn't found happiness. After receiving severe burns in a narcotics-related incident, Jo Jo remains in a coma, and, while in this state, he looks…
4
Hi, Mom (2021)
★ 7/10Also drama and comedy
Devastated after her mom's serious accident and grief-stricken because she hasn't become the daughter she wanted to be for her mother, a Chinese woman finds herself transported back in time to the year 1981, where she…
5
Landline (2017)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and drama
A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.
6
Nine Days (2021)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and fantasy
A bureaucrat interviews five souls to decide which of them will be given a life on Earth. But he soon faces an existential challenge of his own.
7
The Sun Also Rises (2007)
★ 7.5/10Also fantasy and drama
A polyptych of interconnected stories in different time-zones, shifting between a Yunnan village, a campus, and the Gobi Desert.
8
Resurrection (2025)
★ 7.1/10Also fantasy and drama
In a world where humanity has lost the ability to dream in exchange for eternal life, one creature remains entranced by the fading illusions of the dreamworld. This monster, adrift in reverie, clings to visions no one…
9
A Writer's Odyssey (2021)
★ 7.1/10Also fantasy and drama
Lu Kongwen is the author of a fantasy novel series following a heroic teenager, also named Kongwen, on a quest to end the tyrannical rule of Lord Redmane, under the guidance of a Black Armor. But through a strange…
10
God: Serengeti (2017)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and fantasy
God presides over a prehistoric tribe.
11
Special (2006)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and fantasy
A lonely metermaid has a psychotic reaction to his medication and becomes convinced he's a superhero. A very select group of people in life are truly gifted. Special is a movie about everyone else.
12
Darby and the Dead (2022)
★ 5.8/10Also comedy and fantasy
After Darby Harper suffered a near-death experience as a child, she gained the ability to see ghosts. To combat the existential boredom of high school, she runs a side business counseling local spirits in her spare…
13
Teen Spirit (2011)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and fantasy
Amber, a mean popular girl who gets electrocuted and dies, is not allowed to enter into heaven unless she helps the least popular girl in school become Prom Queen within a week, but things do not go as planned.
14
CQ (2001)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama
A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a new-found infatuation with the sci-fi…
15
I Am Not Madame Bovary (2016)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and drama
Li Xuelian, a woman from the countryside is falsely accused by her husband of having an affair. To defend herself, Li moves from her small town to the big city until she reached the capital.
16
Pegasus 2 (2024)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and comedy
Former champion driver Zhang Chi teaches at a driving school in troubled times, relying on his reputation to make ends meet. A failing automobile factory offers to sponsor Zhang Chi in the last Bayinbrook Rally.
17
The Shepherd (2023)
★ 7/10Also drama and fantasy
On Christmas Eve, a fighter pilot on his way home becomes lost while flying over water and needs a miracle to land safely.
18
Northfork (2003)
★ 6/10Also fantasy and drama
The year is 1955, and a great flood is coming to Northfork, Montana. A new hydroelectric dam is about to be installed in the mountains above the town, ready to submerge the valley in the name of progress. It is the…
19
Big Brother (2018)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and comedy
A soldier-turned-high school teacher uses unusual methods to reach to a class of poor students, while dealing with a greedy entrepreneur and his gang of fighters as well as the government.
20
The Lychee Road (2025)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and comedy
A Tang Dynasty minor official risks everything to deliver lychees across China. Li Shande, middle-aged and struggling, sees this dangerous mission as his last chance for success.