10 Best Movies Like The Back
If you loved The Back, 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 The Back 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 ...
All Day and a Night
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Back 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....
Upstream
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Back 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...
Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Back for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). ...
Caught by the Tides
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Back 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....
So Long, My Son
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Back 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....