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10 Best Movies Like Extraordinary Years

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

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#1
Coming Home

Coming Home

2014★ 7.3

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

Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. He finally returns home onl...

#2
Lust, Caution

Lust, Caution

2007★ 7.3

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

During World War II, a secret agent must seduce and assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai....

#3
Railroad Tigers

Railroad Tigers

2016★ 6.1

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

A railroad worker in China in 1941 leads a team of freedom fighters against the Japanese in order to get food for the poor....

#4
Superintelligence

Superintelligence

2020★ 5.9

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

When an all-powerful Superintelligence chooses to study the most average person on Earth, Carol Peters, the fate of the world hangs in the balance. As the A.I. decides to enslave, ...

#5
Shanghai

Shanghai

2010★ 6.1

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

An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the de...

#6
Yellow Earth

Yellow Earth

1984★ 7.2

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

A communist soldier is sent to a remote region of China in order to collect folk songs. Staying with a peasant family (a widower with two small children), he discovers a community ...

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