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10 Best Movies Like The Blue Kite

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

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#1
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Blue Kite 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....

#2
One Second

One Second

2020★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Blue Kite 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....

#3
Escape from Sobibor

Escape from Sobibor

1987★ 7.2

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

The true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners....

#4
Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl

Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl

1998★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Blue Kite 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). ...

#5
Assembly

Assembly

2007★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Blue Kite for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Follows a soldier trying to gain recognition for comrades who died in 1948, at a turning point in the civil war between the communists and the nationalist forces of the Kuomintang....

#6
Tigertail

Tigertail

2020★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Blue Kite 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....

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