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10 Best Movies Like Keep Your Chin Up

If you loved Keep Your Chin Up, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Hana Yori Dango: Final

Hana Yori Dango: Final

2008★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Keep Your Chin Up for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Four years have passed since that emotional marriage proposal at Tsukushi Makino's high-school prom, and Tsukasa Dōmyōji announced his engagement to Tsukushi to the entire world. A...

#2
My Rainy Days

My Rainy Days

2009★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Keep Your Chin Up for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Because of her past, 17-year-old Rio lives her days filling the emptiness in her heart with money—until one day, she meets a university professor named Kouki and falls in love....

#3
It Feels So Good

It Feels So Good

2019★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Keep Your Chin Up for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When it rains it pours. Kenji divorced his wife, lost his job and his old squeeze Naoko is getting married back home in the north of Japan, specifically in Akita. He returns there ...

#4
Shara

Shara

2003★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Keep Your Chin Up for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The Aso family live in the old town of Nara. One Day, Kei, one of the Aso's twin boys suddenly disappears. Five years later seventeen-year old Shun, the remaining twin, is an art s...

#5
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41

1972★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Keep Your Chin Up for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners....

#6
Girl in the Box

Girl in the Box

2016★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Keep Your Chin Up for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as ...

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