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10 Best Movies Like Ju Dou

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

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#1
Sleeping with the Enemy

Sleeping with the Enemy

1991★ 6.5

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

A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband....

#2
The Stoning of Soraya M.

The Stoning of Soraya M.

2009★ 7.7

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

In 1986 Iran, Sahebjam, whose car breaks down in a remote village, enters into a conversation with Zahra, who relays to him the story about her niece, Soraya, whose arranged marria...

#3
Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl

Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl

1998★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ju Dou 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). ...

#4
The Last Emperor

The Last Emperor

1987★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ju Dou 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 ...

#5
Addicted

Addicted

2014★ 5.9

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

A gallerist risks her family and flourishing career when she enters into an affair with a talented painter and slowly loses control of her life....

#6
Curse of the Golden Flower

Curse of the Golden Flower

2006★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ju Dou for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as his wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest. Now his control over his dom...

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