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10 Best Movies Like Yi Yi

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

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#1
Three Times

Three Times

2005★ 6.9

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

In three separate segments, set respectively in 1966, 1911, and 2005, three love stories unfold between three sets of characters, under three different periods of Taiwanese history...

#2
The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz

The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz

1955★ 7.3

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

A bizarre black comedy about a man whose overwhelming ambition in life is to be a renowned serial killer of women, and will stop at nothing to achieve it - but not everything goes ...

#3
Crying Fist

Crying Fist

2005★ 7.3

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

Jobless, besieged by creditors, and abandoned by his wife, the once silver medalist Tae-shik has sunk to street hustling, becoming a human punching bag. Meanwhile, young Sang-hwan'...

#4
Youth of the Beast

Youth of the Beast

1963★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Yi Yi for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence....

#5
Wild Tango

Wild Tango

1993★ 6.3

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

A biopic based on the life of one of the pioneer argentine rock stars 'Tanguito'. The movie tells the story of his rise and fall from grace, encompassed in violent times of a milit...

#6
Little Big Women

Little Big Women

2020★ 7.1

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

A story about a karaoke-addicted old woman struggling with her self-worth and a sense of betrayal at her long-lost husband's funeral where she encounters his younger and more sophi...