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10 Best Movies Like Crying to the Blue Sky

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

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#1
Family Romance, LLC

Family Romance, LLC

2019★ 6.2

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

Love is a business at Family Romance, a company that rents human stand-ins for any occasion. Founder Yuichi Ishii helps make his clients’ dreams come true. But when the mother of 1...

#2
Shara

Shara

2003★ 6.5

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

The Aso family live in the old town of Nara. One Day, Kei, one of the Aso's twin boys suddenly disappears. Five years later seventeen-year old Shun, the remaining twin, is an art s...

#3
Blood and Bones

Blood and Bones

2004★ 6.6

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

In 1923, teenager Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island, in South Korea, to Osaka, in Japan. Along the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kama...

#4
Tigertail

Tigertail

2020★ 6.7

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

A man reflects on the lost love of his youth and his long-ago journey from Taiwan to America as he begins to reconnect with his estranged daughter....

#5
Won't Back Down

Won't Back Down

2012★ 6.1

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

Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix their community's broken...

#6
Return

Return

2011★ 6.4

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

Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes....

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