Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 09, 2026

10 Best Movies Like China Cry

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

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#1
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

The Inn of the Sixth Happiness

1958★ 6.8

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

All her life, Englishwoman Gladys Aylward knew that China was the place where she belonged. Not qualified to be sent there as a missionary, Gladys works as a domestic to earn the m...

#2
The Last Emperor

The Last Emperor

1987★ 7.6

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

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through ...

#3
Empire of the Sun

Empire of the Sun

1987★ 7.5

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

Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor, who lo...

#4
The Left Hand of God

The Left Hand of God

1955★ 6.3

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

A man in priestly robes, seemingly the long-awaited Father O'Shea, arrives at a little-frequented Catholic mission in 1947 China. Though the man seems curiously uncomfortable with ...

#5
Sight

Sight

2024★ 6.4

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

Ming Wang is an impoverished Chinese prodigy who flees Communist China to become a pioneering eye surgeon in America. When tasked with restoring the sight of an orphan in India, wh...

#6
Waiting for the Barbarians

Waiting for the Barbarians

2020★ 5.9

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

At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising, us...

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