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10 Best Movies Like Five Girls and a Rope

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

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#1
Buddha Mountain

Buddha Mountain

2011★ 6.9

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

In Chengdu, China, a retired female opera singer named Master Chang takes in a trio of young tenants into her boarding home. The tenants include a rock singer and a college student...

#2
Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl

Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl

1998★ 7.2

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

Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). ...

#3
Tigertail

Tigertail

2020★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Five Girls and a Rope 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....

#4
The Girl in the Book

The Girl in the Book

2015★ 5.8

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

The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present....

#5
Reading Lolita in Tehran

Reading Lolita in Tehran

2024★ 7.2

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

As Islamic morality squads stage arbitrary raids in Tehran and as fundamentalists seize hold of the universities, Azar Nafisi, an inspired teacher, secretly gathers six of her most...

#6
Won't Back Down

Won't Back Down

2012★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Five Girls and a Rope 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...

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