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10 Best Movies Like City of Life and Death

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

#1
Gone with the Bullets

Gone with the Bullets

2014★ 6.0

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

Set in 1920s Shanghai, Ma Zouri and Xiang Feitian establish a notorious beauty pageant called the Flowers Competition. All of the city's elite attend the gala event, but when Wanya...

#2
Perfect Obedience

Perfect Obedience

2014★ 6.5

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

The fictional Father Ángel de la Cruz is based on Legion of Christ founder Marcial Maciel, whose long history of child abuse was not addressed until 2006 and only publicly acknowle...

#3
Fires on the Plain

Fires on the Plain

1959★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to City of Life and Death for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of Leyte....

#4
Servants of War

Servants of War

2019★ 6.5

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

A seasoned detective teams up with a novice cop to solve the mysterious murder of a world-class bone marrow transplant specialist....

#5
Don't call it love... call it x

Don't call it love... call it x

2011★ 5.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to City of Life and Death for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

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#6
Suspect X

Suspect X

2008★ 7.6

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

A male corpse is discovered with a smashed face and burned hands. Strangely, the cause of death is determined to be strangulation. When Detective Kaoru Utsumi attempts to corrobora...