Movies Like This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection (2020)

This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection is a 2020 drama film from Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese with a MovieMagicScore of 7.4/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Calle Malaga and Plan 75.

Drama

Calle Malaga

2025

Maria Angeles, a 79-year-old Spanish woman, lives alone in Tangier, Morocco, and enjoys her daily routine. However, her life is turned upside down when her daughter arrives from Madrid to sell the apartment in which she has always lived. Determined to stay, she does everything she can to get her home and her belongings back and, unexpectedly, rediscovers love and sensuality.

7.2

MagicScore

Plan 75

2022

In a Japan of the near future, the government program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be voluntarily euthanized to remedy a super-aged society. An elderly woman whose means of survival are vanishing, a pragmatic Plan 75 salesman, and a young Filipino laborer face choices of life and death.

6.7

MagicScore

Retirement Home

2022

A story of friendship between a young convict who is forced to work in a retirement home and a group of crazy old people. Together they organize their escape.

5.9

MagicScore

Bride of the Orient

1989

After the death of his mother, a lonely farmer in rural Switzerland considers finally starting a family of his own. Eventually he pays for a bride from Thailand. The couple don't share a language, but being to know each other. However the village neighbors are suspicious of foreigners.

9.6

MagicScore

Uncle

2019

Kris and her partially disabled uncle run a derelict farm together. Their quirky yet loving relationship, is built upon daily routine, and it becomes challenged when Kris finds a romantic interest and asks herself some life-changing questions.

7.5

MagicScore

Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom

2019

A teacher, in search of inspiration, travels to the most remote school in the world, where he ends up realizing how important his job is and appreciating the value of yak dung.

7.4

MagicScore

Hatred

2016

Summer of 1939. Zosia is a young Polish girl who is deeply in love with Ukrainian Petro. Their great love will be put to the test when her father decides to marry her to a wealthy widower Skiba. Right after wedding she is left alone because her husband is drafted to the Polish army for the war with Germany. Meanwhile, tensions grow due to Jews, Poles, and Ukrainians living side by side.

7.3

MagicScore

In the Name of the Land

2019

Pierre is 25 when he returns from Wyoming to his fiancée and take over the family farm. Twenty years later, the farm expanded and so did the family. It's the time of happy days, at least at the beginning. The debts accumulate and Pierre is exhausted at work. Despite the love of his wife and children, he is slowly falling...

7.2

MagicScore

The Crime of Cuenca

1981

Osa de la Vega, Cuenca, Spain, 1913. Gregorio and León, employees on the estate of the village's mayor, a powerful landowner, are arrested and accused of the murder of José María el Cepa, a shepherd who mysteriously disappeared three years earlier.

6.8

MagicScore

#10

Suro

2022

Elena and Ivan are getting ready to enter into a new phase in their life. They are leaving the metropolis of Barcelona to settle in the Catalan countryside, where they are taking over a cork oak plantation. Not only will the business pay for their living, but they also want to exploit the plantation equitably and sustainably. But despite their ideals, Elena and Ivan soon find themselves in a crisis which will endanger not only their project, but also their relationship.

6.5

MagicScore

#11

Fire Will Come

2019

When Amador Coro gets out of prison for having provoked a fire, nobody is waiting for him. He returns to his home town, a small village hidden in the mountains of rural Galicia, to live with his elder mother, Benedicta, and three cows. Life goes on calmly, following the rhythm of the nature. Until the night when a fire devastates the region.

6.4

MagicScore

#12

The Good Earth

1937

China, during the rule of the Qing Dynasty. The arranged marriage between Wang Lung, a humble farmer, and O-Lan, a domestic slave, will endure the many hardships of life over the years; but the temptations of a fragile prosperity will endanger their love and the survival of their entire family.

6.3

MagicScore

#13

The Levelling

2017

Clover is finishing a veterinary course when her brother dies and she is called home to her family's struggling Somerset farm.

6.2

MagicScore

#14

Irresistible

2020

A Democratic political consultant helps a retired Marine colonel run for mayor in a small, conservative Wisconsin town.

6.0

MagicScore

#15

My Grandfather's Demons

2022

Rosa's life, a highly valued professional, is turned upside down when her grandfather Marcelino dies.

5.9

MagicScore

#16

The Stationmaster Meets His Match

1980

The story of Bendegúz, the teenage boy who never succeeds in anything and about whom everybody's first though is "I wish you had been hanged when you were born!" drops out of school and becomes a cowboy. He works for the Stationmaster whose cows he has to graze by the railway. Despite his goodwill and kindheartedness he always manages to spoil everything he touches. No matter his wit, he gets into humiliating situations and regularly fights with the Ugly Witch (the Stationmaster's mother-in-law). However his good spirit and cheerfulness never leave him.

7.7

MagicScore

#17

Modern Life

2008

For ten years, Raymond Depardon has followed the lives of farmer living in the mountain ranges. He allows us to enter their farms with astounding naturalness. This moving film speaks, with great serenity, of our roots and of the future of the people who work on the land. This the last part of Depardon's triptych "Profils paysans" about what it is like to be a farmer today in an isolated highland area in France. "La vie moderne" examines what has become of the persons he has followed for ten years, while featuring younger people who try to farm or raise cattle or poultry, come hell or high water.

7.5

MagicScore

#18

Superman

1978

Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.

7.2

MagicScore

#19

The Sow

1992

After spending three years in captivity in Tunis, Bartolomé returns home Extremadura with the only hope to eat his favorite dish: the pork. Along the way he meets a deserter who is traveling with a sow.

5.8

MagicScore

#20

The Little Switzerland

2019

The discovery of the tomb of William Tell’s son in a town in the Basque Country spurs the village's cantankerous citizens to lobby for Swiss annexation.

4.7

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection?

The top films similar to This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection by MovieMagicScore are Calle Malaga (7.2), Plan 75 (6.7), Retirement Home (5.9). Each shares drama themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection worth watching?

This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection holds a MovieMagicScore of 7.4/10 from 42 viewer ratings, putting it among the better-reviewed titles in its genre.

What kind of movie is This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection?

This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection (2020) is a drama film directed by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, starring Mary Twala, Jerry Mofokeng, Makhaola Ndebele.

Where can I find more recommendations like This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection?

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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This ranked list pairs This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection (2020), a drama film from Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Mary Twala 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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