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10 Best Movies Like Single Cycle

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

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#1
Caught by the Tides

Caught by the Tides

2025★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Single Cycle 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....

#2
Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl

Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl

1998★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Single Cycle 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
Dearest

Dearest

2014★ 7.1

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

A story centered around a divorced couple living in a southern Chinese city Shenzhen and dealing with the disappearance of their missing son....

#4
An Unmarried Woman

An Unmarried Woman

1978★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Single Cycle for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman....

#5
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

2004★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Single Cycle for fans of Sci-Fi. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he re...

#6
Taipei Story

Taipei Story

1985★ 7.4

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

A young woman urgently seeks to navigate the maze of contemporary Taipei and find a future. She hopes that her boyfriend Lung is the key to the future, but Lung is stuck in a past ...

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