10 Best Movies Like Mao
If you loved Mao, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Upstream
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mao for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A moment of impulsiveness turns Gao Zhilei into a "stay-at-home" individual, but he never expected his life to take a turn in the opposite direction. A series of changes compel him...

So Long, My Son
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mao for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present....

Lighting Up the Stars
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mao for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Having been released after serving his sentence, a funeral director accidentally crosses paths with a girl which brings about an unexpected change in his attitude towards life....

Caught by the Tides
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mao for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Years after her boyfriend left her for the big city and promised to bring her there after he’s settled down, a Chinese woman sets out on a journey to be reunited with him....

The Boys from Fengkuei
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mao for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Ah-Ching and his friends have just finished school in their island fishing village, and now spend most of their time drinking and fighting. Three of them decide to go to the port c...

All Day and a Night
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Mao for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....