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

Buddha Mountain
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Strange Encounters 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...

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

Bastard Out of Carolina
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Strange Encounters for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer a...

The Rescue
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Strange Encounters for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
A rescue unit within the Chinese Coast Guard are forced to overcome their personal differences to resolve a crisis....

Under the Hawthorn Tree
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Strange Encounters 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...

Return
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Strange Encounters for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes....