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

Upstream
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mao for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A moment of impulsiveness turns Gao Zhilei into a "stay-at-home" individual, but he never expected his life to take a turn in the opposite direction. A series of changes compel him...

So Long, My Son
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mao for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present....

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

Lighting Up the Stars
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mao for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Having been released after serving his sentence, a funeral director accidentally crosses paths with a girl which brings about an unexpected change in his attitude towards life....

Caught by the Tides
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mao for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Years after her boyfriend left her for the big city and promised to bring her there after he’s settled down, a Chinese woman sets out on a journey to be reunited with him....

All Day and a Night
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mao for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....