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

Waiting for the Barbarians
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Last Emperor for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising, us...

The Railway Man
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Last Emperor for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A victim from World War II's "Death Railway" sets out to find those responsible for his torture. A true story....

To Write Love on Her Arms
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Last Emperor for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The story follows 19-year-old Renee who has always loved fairy tales: the idea of a princess, a hero and a happily ever after. But Renee’s life is that of a darker tale: she’s a yo...

Girl, Interrupted
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Last Emperor for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wond...

Neverwas
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Last Emperor for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Zach Riley is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, Millwood. What he doesn't reveal at the time o...

Shanghai
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Last Emperor for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the de...