Movies like Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)
The best movies like Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003) are Vive L'Amour (1994), What Time Is It There? (2001) and Millennium Mambo (2001). If Goodbye, Dragon Inn hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedA Brighter Summer Day (1991)8.2/10 from 417 votes
- NewestDays (2021)Released 2021
- In ChineseVive L'Amour (1994)Also in Chinese
Vive L'Amour (1994)
Three lonely young denizens of Taipei unknowingly share an apartment: May, a real estate agent who uses it for her sexual affairs; Ah-jung, her current lover; and Hsiao-kang, who's stolen the key and uses the apartment as a retreat.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWhat Time Is It There? (2001)
A street vendor with a grim home-life forges a connection with a young woman on her way to Paris.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMillennium Mambo (2001)
In 2011, Vicky looks back on her life a decade earlier, recalling her turbulent relationship with her controlling boyfriend Hao Hao and her growing connection to a compassionate gangster amid the neon haze of Taipei's nightlife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisYi Yi (2000)
Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries. NJ is morose: his brother owes him money, his mother is in a coma, his wife suffers a spiritual crisis when she finds her life a blank and his business partners make bad decisions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe River (1997)
A young man develops severe neck pain after swimming in a polluted river for a movie shoot, but nobody can provide him any relief.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Boys from Fengkuei (1983)
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 city of Kaohsiung to look for work. They find an apartment through relatives, and Ah-Ching is attracted to the girlfriend of a neighbor. There they face the harsh realities of the big city.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAngel Heart (1995)
Having spent a harrowing time in prison, Miao Wei looks up both former, casual lovers but also his childhood sweetheart Wennie. It's not long until they're married and off on a perfect path together but Miao Wei takes scars from his prison time into his intimate moments with Wennie. Claiming he loves her too much, the relationship begins falling apart in dangerous ways...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Time to Live and the Time to Die (1985)
An autobiographical film based on Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien's memories of his youth growing up in Taiwan after emigrating from mainland China.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRebels of the Neon God (1994)
In Taipei, four youths face alienation, loneliness, and moments of existential crisis amidst a series of minor crimes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisStray Dogs (2014)
An alcoholic man and his two young children barely survive in Taipei. They cross paths with a lonely grocery clerk who might help them make a better life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDays (2021)
Kang lives alone in a big house, Non in a small apartment in town. They meet, and then part, their days flowing on as before.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI Don't Want to Sleep Alone (2006)
A Bangladeshi immigrant living in harsh conditions nurses an injured man back to health, but when the recovering man falls for a waitress, their tender bond is tested by competing affections.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Brighter Summer Day (1991)
A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisFlowers of Shanghai (1998)
At the end of the 19th century, Shanghai is divided into several foreign concessions. In the British concession, a number of luxurious “flower houses” are reserved for the male elite of the city. Since Chinese dignitaries are not allowed to frequent brothels, these establishments are the only ones that these men can visit. They form a self-contained world, with its own rites, traditions and even its own language. The men don’t only visit the houses to frequent the courtesans but also to dine, smoke opium, play mahjong and relax. The women working there are known as the “flowers of Shanghai”.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTaipei Story (1985)
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 that combines baseball and traditional loyalty that leads him to squander his nest egg bailing her father out of financial trouble.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCafé Lumière (2004)
In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a writer investigating the life of a modernist composer of the 1930s. She is pregnant by a man she does not want to marry and has found a kindred spirit in a used bookstore owner who aids her research.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA City of Sadness (1989)
The story of a family embroiled in the "White Terror," the Kuomintang government's anti-communist political repression that was wrought on the Taiwanese people from 1947-1987.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGoodbye South, Goodbye (1998)
In this portrait of small-time hoods rendered in rhythm-of-life anecdotal detail, Gao is the leader of a circle of layabouts including his sidekick, Flathead, and their girlfriends, Pretzel and Ling. He is also the originator of petty crime schemes, which promise to get the gang nowhere fast.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThree Times (2005)
In three separate segments, set respectively in 1966, 1911, and 2005, three love stories unfold between three sets of characters, under three different periods of Taiwanese history and governance.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDaughter of the Nile (1987)
Lin Hsiao-yang tries to keep her family together while working as a waitress at Kentucky Fried Chicken and going to night school. With no mother and her father currently working out of town, it is up to Lin Hsiao-yang to take care of her younger siblings, who are slipping into a life of crime.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Boat People (1982)
A Japanese photojournalist revisits Vietnam after the liberation to document the nation, and begins following and documenting the young children from a poor Vietnamese family.
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Worth the HypeMovies like thisThat Day, on the Beach (1983)
Two friends who haven't seen each other for thirteen years reunite. One is a successful concert pianist just back from a European tour and the other has just started a new business.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRitual (2000)
A disillusioned filmmaker has an encounter with a young woman who has a ritual of repeating "Tomorrow is my birthday" everyday. He tries to communicate with her through his video camera.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Vertical Ray of the Sun (2000)
Hanoi comes across almost picture-perfect in director Tran Anh Hung's beautiful, elegiac tale about the lives and loves of three Vietnamese sisters. A mood characteristic of Hung's films is set early on with the vivid sounds of birds, insects and water and the way the lighting enhances the subtle use of color. They all combine to gem-like effect here.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDust in the Wind (1986)
A-yuan and A-yun are both from the small mining town of Jio-fen. They move to Taipei, where A-yuan is an apprentice by day and goes to night school, and A-yun works as a helper at a tailors. Everyone thinks they are meant for each other, and so do they. They fail to see time and fate are beyond their control.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisIn Our Time (1982)
Four vignettes, each set in different decades from the 1950s through the 1980s, deal with protagonists at different stages of life between childhood and young adulthood.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
A Confucian Confusion (1994)
Over the course of a few days, the paths of a group of young friends, lovers, and acquaintances in Taipei intersect, prompting them to arrive at realizations about their lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Hole (1998)
In the final days of the year 1999, almost everyone in Taiwan has died from a strange plague that ravished the island. As rain pours down relentlessly, a single man is stuck with an unfinished plumbing job and a hole in his floor. This results in a very odd relationship with the woman who lives below him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Sun (2019)
A family of four fractures under the weight of unmet expectations, unexpected tragedy, and uncompromising pride.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTerrorizers (1986)
An uncompromising look into urban life from the eyes of a voyeuristic photographer, a rebellious teenager, and a married couple teetering on the edge of adultery.
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Goodbye, Dragon Inn?
The closest matches to Goodbye, Dragon Inn are Vive L'Amour (1994), What Time Is It There? (2001) and Millennium Mambo (2001). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Goodbye, Dragon Inn?
People who watched Goodbye, Dragon Inn most often go on to Vive L'Amour (1994), What Time Is It There? (2001) and Millennium Mambo (2001).
What is the highest-rated movie like Goodbye, Dragon Inn?
A Brighter Summer Day (1991), rated 8.2/10 by 417 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Goodbye, Dragon Inn?
Days (2021) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Chinese movies like Goodbye, Dragon Inn?
Yes: Vive L'Amour (1994), What Time Is It There? (2001) and Millennium Mambo (2001).
How are movies similar to Goodbye, Dragon Inn chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Goodbye, Dragon Inn, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.