10 Best Movies Like Rootless in the City
If you loved Rootless in the City, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.
Buddha Mountain
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Rootless in the City 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...
One Second
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Rootless in the City for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A movie fan escapes from a labour camp during the Chinese Cultural Revolution and strikes up a relationship with a homeless female vagabond....
The Boys from Fengkuei
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Rootless in the City 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...
Inside I'm Dancing
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Rootless in the City for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Michael is a 24-year-old who has cerebral palsy and long-term resident of the Carrigmore Residential Home for the Disabled, run by the formidable Eileen. His life is transformed wh...
Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Rootless in the City 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). ...
The Kindness of Strangers
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Rootless in the City for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who get...