10 Best Movies Like Chicken Poets
If you loved Chicken Poets, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Summer Palace
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Chicken Poets 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 ...

Buddha Mountain
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Chicken Poets 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...

Almost Friends
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Chicken Poets for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
A man in his mid-20s, still living at home with his mother and stepfather, puts all his eggs in one basket: the girl who works at his local coffee shop. The problem is, she has a s...

CQ
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Chicken Poets for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
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 n...

Love Don't Co$t a Thing
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Chicken Poets for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
A high school outcast pays a cheerleader to pose as his girlfriend so he can be considered cool....

Big Shot's Funeral
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Chicken Poets for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Don Tyler, a famous film-maker, falls ill on the sets of his movie. Fascinated by the funereal traditions of China, he requests a cameraman named Yoyo to arrange a grand, comedic f...