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 ...
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...
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....
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). ...
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....
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....