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10 Best Movies Like A Remote Village

If you loved A Remote Village, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Jade Dynasty

Jade Dynasty

2019★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Remote Village for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After the massacre of his village, Zhang Xiaofan is taken in by the Qing Yun Sect where he begins his journey of cultivation. When he finds out the truth behind the deaths of his p...

#2
Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl

Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl

1998★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Remote Village for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). ...

#3
Clan of the White Lotus

Clan of the White Lotus

1980★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Remote Village for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

The Qing emperor releases all detained Shaolin disciples, but the vindictive White Lotus clan decides to exterminate all the disciples. One martial artist survives the onslaught, a...

#4
Under the Hawthorn Tree

Under the Hawthorn Tree

2010★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Remote Village for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The daughter of a right-winger, schoolgirl Jing Qiu is sent to the countryside for reeducation, and tasked to help write a textbook. There she meets Lao San, a young soldier with a...

#5
Buddha Mountain

Buddha Mountain

2011★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Remote Village for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In Chengdu, China, a retired female opera singer named Master Chang takes in a trio of young tenants into her boarding home. The tenants include a rock singer and a college student...

#6
Summer Palace

Summer Palace

2006★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Remote Village for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Yu Hong leaves her home village and starts university in Beijing, where she develops a consuming and compulsive relationship with another student. The student riots from 1989 then ...

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