Movies Like The Golden Lotus: Love and Desire (1991)

The Golden Lotus: Love and Desire is a 1991 drama, romance film from Li Han-Hsiang with a MovieMagicScore of 6.6/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Raise the Red Lantern and Monsieur Verdoux.

Drama Romance

Raise the Red Lantern

1991

In 1920s China, 19-year-old Songlian becomes a concubine of a powerful lord and is forced to compete with his three wives for the privileges gained.

7.9

MagicScore

Monsieur Verdoux

1947

The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.

7.7

MagicScore

The Last King of Scotland

2006

Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of President Obote. General Idi Amin comes to power and asks Garrigan to become his personal doctor.

7.4

MagicScore

Moolaadé

2004

When a woman shelters a group of girls from suffering female genital mutilation, she starts a conflict that tears her village apart.

7.2

MagicScore

The King and I

1956

Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna and the King have a clash of personalities as she works to teach the royal family about the English language, customs and etiquette, and rushes to prepare a party for a group of European diplomats who must change their opinions about the King.

7.1

MagicScore

Escape from Polygamy

2013

Recently-widowed Leann and her 17-year-old daughter Julina move into an isolated polygamous compound, where the freethinking Julina meets like-minded Ryder, son of the religious compound’s charismatic Prophet, Ervil.

6.8

MagicScore

Martha Marcy May Marlene

2011

After several years of living with a cult, Martha finally escapes and calls her estranged sister, Lucy, for help. Martha finds herself at the quiet Connecticut home Lucy shares with her new husband, Ted, but the memories of what she experienced in the cult make peace hard to find. As flashbacks continue to torment her, Martha fails to shake a terrible sense of dread, especially in regard to the cult's manipulative leader.

6.6

MagicScore

Outlaw Prophet: Warren Jeffs

2014

Cult leader Warren Jeffs rises to power in the polygamist Mormon sect once headed by his late father, but some of his wives fight back to bring him to justice. Based on a true story.

6.0

MagicScore

The Other Lamb

2020

For her entire life, the cult she was born into has been all that teenage Selah has known. Along with a band of similarly cloistered young women she lives seemingly unstuck in time, cut off from modern society in a remote forest commune presided over by a man called Shepherd, a controlling, messiah-like figure with a frightening dark side. But when her insular world is rocked by a series of nightmarish visions and disturbing revelations, Selah begins to question everything about her existence—including her allegiance to the increasingly dangerous Shepherd.

5.7

MagicScore

#10

Eyes of Fire

1983

In 1750, an adulterous preacher is ejected from a small British colony with his motley crew of followers, who make their way downriver to establish a new settlement of their own beyond the western frontier.

5.4

MagicScore

#11

King of the Lost World

2005

In this modern retelling of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fantasy action-adventure classic, a commercial airliner crashes deep in the heart of the Amazon. Now, the survivors must face a mysterious and hostile world inhabited by giant scorpions, dragons, and a simian beast that stands ten stories tall.

4.2

MagicScore

#12

Prophet's Prey

2015

Filmmaker Amy Berg sheds light on the sexual, financial and spiritual abuses heaped upon members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by their former leader, Warren Jeffs.

7.4

MagicScore

#13

Xala

1975

A rich businessman in Senegal is cursed with crippling erectile dysfunction upon the day of his marriage to his third wife; the only cure is brutal public humiliation.

6.8

MagicScore

#14

The Source Family

2013

A feature documentary film set in Hollywood, examining a radical experiment in '70s utopian living. The Source Family were the darlings of the Sunset Strip until their communal living, outsider ideals and spiritual leader Father Yod's 13 wives became an issue with local authorities. They fled to Hawaii, leading to their dramatic demise.

6.0

MagicScore

#15

Manos: The Hands of Fate

1966

A family gets lost on the road and stumbles upon a hidden, underground, devil-worshiping cult led by the fearsome Master and his servant Torgo.

2.1

MagicScore

#16

Drawn Together

2026

After a wealthy Spanish heiress is kidnapped, she falls into a dangerous attraction with the newly hired bodyguard assigned to protect her in a world full of deception.

6.5

MagicScore

#17

Shape of My Heart

2024

A romance about a man and a woman who, due to an unexpected event, end up switching bodies. Despite coming from completely different backgrounds and environments, the two try to overcome the various difficulties that arise from their body swap.

5.2

MagicScore

#18

Mourning Wife

2001

Director Daisuke Goto, the master of the cinematic Pink Eiga, is back with this retelling of the classic film noir, The Postman Always Rings Twice. A married woman, tasked with running her handicapped husband’s failing printing business, meets a drifter and they fall in love. Soon a plan to murder the husband is put into motion and the forces of fate begin to show their hand. Featuring bravura filmmaking, fantastic performances and steamy sex, the Mourning Wife is a worthy follow up for any fan of Daisuke Goto’s masterpiece A Lonely Cow Weeps at Dawn.

4.5

MagicScore

#19

The Last Sunrise

2026

Ry, a college student with a chronic illness, escapes to Mallorca for the summer with her mother, where she unexpectedly falls for a local and begins to embrace living in the moment. But as her condition worsens and long-hidden family secrets come to light, everything she has found before summer's end is threatened.

6.7

MagicScore

#20

Vishwanath & Sons

2026

A celebrated Olympian shooter travels to America looking for a donor to help his sick child — but unexpected romance complicates his search.

7.4

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like The Golden Lotus: Love and Desire?

The top films similar to The Golden Lotus: Love and Desire by MovieMagicScore are Raise the Red Lantern (7.9), Monsieur Verdoux (7.7), The Last King of Scotland (7.4). Each shares drama/romance themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is The Golden Lotus: Love and Desire worth watching?

The Golden Lotus: Love and Desire holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.6/10 from 50 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is The Golden Lotus: Love and Desire?

The Golden Lotus: Love and Desire (1991) is a drama, romance film directed by Li Han-Hsiang, starring Pal Sinn Lap-Man, Charlie Cho Cha-Lee, Yuk Ting Fong.

Where can I find more recommendations like The Golden Lotus: Love and Desire?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more drama recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like The Golden Lotus: Love and Desire

This ranked list pairs The Golden Lotus: Love and Desire (1991), a drama and romance film from Li Han-Hsiang, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Pal Sinn Lap-Man take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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