Movies like To Live: 20 to watch next
If you loved To Live (1994) — a drama, romance and war film directed by Zhang Yimou — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of To Live most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like child abuse, china and gambling. 2 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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The History of Love 2016★ 6.5
Shares: Drama, Romance, War
The story of a long-lost book that mysteriously reappears and connects an old man searching for his son with a girl seeking a cure for her mother's loneliness.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Christmas Cottage 2008★ 6.3
Shares: Drama, Romance
Inspired by the picturesque paintings of Thomas Kinkade, The Christmas Cottage tells the semi-autobiographical tale of how a young boy is propelled to launch a career as an artist after he learns that his mother is in danger of losing the family home.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Youth 2017★ 7.3
Shares: Drama, War
A group of performing art troupe members each face their own trials and tribulations in Chengdu; from escaping a family scandal to dealing with unrequited love, each experiences rejection that shapes their lives.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Private Peaceful 2012★ 6.6
Shares: Drama, Romance, War
Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feudal family life, the war, and the price of courage and cowardice.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Coco Chanel 2008★ 6.6
Shares: Drama, Romance
Fashion icon Coco Chanel, steeped in wealth and fame, still issues game-changing designs and collections. The audience is taken backwards in time to the woman's upbringing in an orphanage, and traces her path to ubiquity as it winds through poverty, wars, doomed romances, and rather glamorous betrayals.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Gezhi Town 2025★ 6.9
Shares: Drama, War
A group of Chinese refugees and straggler soldiers, led by a machinist, defend their mountain town, "Gezhi," against a surprise attack by Japanese reconnaissance troops in a desperate fight using civilian ingenuity against a trained military force.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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When Nietzsche Wept 2007★ 6.1
Shares: Drama, Romance
Viennese doctor Josef Bruer meets with philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche to help him deal with his despair.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Shanghai Gesture 1941★ 6.2
Shares: Drama, Romance
A gambling queen uses blackmail to stop a British financier from closing her Chinese clip joint.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Not Easily Broken 2009★ 6.3
Shares: Drama, Romance
A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Northanger Abbey 2007★ 6.8
Shares: Romance, Drama
A young woman's penchant for sensational Gothic novels leads to misunderstandings in the matters of the heart.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Jade Dynasty 2019★ 7.4
Shares: Drama, Romance
After the massacre of his village, Zhang Xiaofan is taken in by the Qing Yun Sect where he begins his journey of cultivation. When he finds out the truth behind the deaths of his parents, he succumbs to his rage and demonic tendencies and becomes the enemy of Qing Yun Sect.
Stream in India on Tencent Video
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The Golden Era 2014★ 6.7
Shares: Drama, Romance
The story of writer Xiao Hong comes alive through memories of her great love affair, literary influence and escape from China during World War II.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Lady Chatterley's Lover 2015★ 6.3
Shares: Romance, Drama
An early-20th-century tale of love across class boundaries which tells the legendary and romantic story of Lady Chatterley’s affair with her gamekeeper. Jed Mercurio’s adaptation of DH Lawrence’s classic.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Possession 2002★ 6.0
Shares: Drama, Romance
Maud Bailey, a brilliant English academic, is researching the life and work of poet Christabel La Motte. Roland Michell is an American scholar in London to study Randolph Henry Ash, now best-known for a collection of poems dedicated to his wife. When Maud and Roland discover a cache of love letters that appear to be from Ash to La Motte, they follow a trail of clues across England, echoing the journey of the couple over a century earlier.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Home for Christmas Day 2017★ 5.9
Shares: Romance, Drama
Jane is a single mother dead set on protecting her teenage daughter Betsy from the harsh realities of life. When Betsy falls in love with an enlisted man, Jane tries her best to steer Betsy away from heartache. Little does Jane realize she and her daughter are about to learn important lessons of the heart and that taking chances can sometimes lead to the most extraordinary happy endings.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Shanghai Express 1932★ 7.0
Shares: Drama, Romance, War
A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-packed train journey.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Too Close for Christmas 2020★ 5.9
Shares: Romance, Drama
When Hayley accepts an invitation to spend Christmas with her sister’s new in-laws, her seemingly perfect holiday takes a turn when Paul, Hayley's brother-in-law's brother, unexpectedly shows up. Still harboring a grudge against Paul for ending her last relationship, Hayley reluctantly spends time with Paul and slowly realizes she may have been too quick a judge on Paul
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Brotherhood of Blades 2014★ 6.7
Shares: Romance, Drama
In the late Ming Dynasty, three sworn brothers who serve as the imperial secret police are dispatched to hunt down Wei Zhongxian, a eunuch politician who had been forced to resign from his influential post and exiled from Beijing. The brothers return successfully from their quest, only to find that their task was but the beginning of a strange conspiracy.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Our Daily Bread 1934★ 6.7
Shares: Drama, Romance
John and Mary Sims are city-dwellers hit hard by the financial fist of The Depression. Driven by bravery (and sheer desperation) they flee to the country and, with the help of other workers, set up a farming community - a socialist mini-society. The newborn community suffers many hardships - drought, vicious raccoons and the long arm of the law - but ultimately pull together to reach a bread-based Utopia.
Stream in India on Artiflix
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Waiting for Anya 2020★ 6.3
Shares: Drama, War
During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now