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10 Best Movies Like Great Cold

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

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#1
Red Sorghum

Red Sorghum

1988★ 7.2

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

An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu'er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as "my Grandpa" by the narrator, take over the winery and ...

#2
Empire of the Sun

Empire of the Sun

1987★ 7.5

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

Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who lo...

#3
The Flowers of War

The Flowers of War

2011★ 7.4

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

A Westerner finds refuge with a group of women in a church during Japan's rape of Nanking in 1937. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety....

#4
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

1958★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Great Cold for fans of War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

All her life, Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Not qualified to be sent there as a missionary, Gladys works as a domestic to earn the m...

#5
Waiting for the Barbarians

Waiting for the Barbarians

2019★ 5.9

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

At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising, us...

#6
From Here to Eternity

From Here to Eternity

1953★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Great Cold for fans of War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love....

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