Movies like Platform
If Platform hooked you with its drama and history, these are the films to watch next. Every pick says why it matches.
Lan Yu (2001)
A love story between a country boy in Beijing to study and a wealthy businessman set against the backdrop of the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like this24 City (2008)
As a decades-old state-run aeronautics munitions factory in downtown Chengdu, China is being torn down for the construction of the titular luxury apartment complex, director Jia Zhangke interviews various people affiliated with it about their experiences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHibiscus Town (1987)
Based on a novel by the same name written by Gu Hua, a melodrama about the life and travails of a young woman who lives through the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & history
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisBlind Shaft (2003)
Two Chinese miners, who make money by killing fellow miners and then extorting money from the mine owner to keep quiet about the "accident", happen upon their latest victim. But one of them begins to have second thoughts.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAsh Is Purest White (2018)
Set in China's underworld, this tale of love and betrayal follows a dancer who fired a gun to protect her mobster boyfriend during a fight. On release from prison 5 years later, she sets out to find him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStill Life (2006)
A town in Fengjie county is gradually being demolished and flooded to make way for the Three Gorges Dam. A man and woman visit the town to locate their estranged spouses, and become witness to the societal changes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Touch of Sin (2013)
Four people in different provinces are driven to violent ends: An angry miner is enraged by corruption in his village. A migrant discovers the possibilities of owning a firearm. A receptionist is pushed beyond her limits by an abusive client. A young factory worker goes from one job to the next.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Blue Kite (1994)
A young man recalls his childhood growing up in a poor alley in Beijing during the 1950s and 1960s.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCrosscurrent (2016)
A voyage between a woman searching for the meaning of life and a man holding a book of poems on the longest river of Mainland China.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Comrades, Almost a Love Story (1996)
Jun arrives in Hong Kong from mainland China, hoping to be able to earn enough money to marry his girlfriend back home. He meets the streetwise Qiao and they become friends. As friendship turns into love, problems develop, and although they seem meant for each other they somehow keep missing out.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLast Train Home (2009)
A family embarks on an annual tormenting journey along with 130 million other peasant workers to reunite with their distant family, and to revive their love and dignity as China soars as the world's next super power.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSo Long, My Son (2019)
Two married couples adjust to the vast social and economic changes taking place in China from the 1980s to the present.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBlack Coal, Thin Ice (2014)
Two former cops start investigating the series of murders that tanked their careers when the killings begin again.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBack to 1942 (2012)
In 1942, Henan Province was devastated by one of the most tragic famines in modern Chinese history, resulting in the deaths of at least three million men, women and children. Although the primary cause of the famine was a severe drought, it was exacerbated by locusts, windstorms, earthquakes, epidemic disease and the corruption of the ruling Kuomintang government.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Story of Qiu Ju (1992)
When her husband is kicked in the groin by the village head, Qiu Ju, a peasant woman, despite her pregnancy, travels to a nearby town, and later a big city to deal with its bureaucrats and find justice.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe King of Masks (1995)
Wang Bianlian is an aging street performer known as the King of Mask for his mastery of Sichuan Change Art in a true story. His wife left him with and infant son over 30 years ago. The son died from illness at age 10. This left Wang a melancholy loner aching for a male descendent to learn his rare and dying art.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFarewell My Concubine (1993)
In an epic tale of theater, gender, love and class, two Beijing opera actors navigate political turmoil as their friendship evolves over decades.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisBalzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002)
During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor's beautiful granddaughter and discover a suitcase full of forbidden Western novels.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe World (2004)
At Beijing World Park, a bizarre cross-pollination of Las Vegas and Epcot Center where visitors can interact with famous international monuments without ever leaving the city’s suburbs, a security guard betrays his dancer girlfriend by pursuing another woman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisUnknown Pleasures (2002)
Two disaffected, unemployed Chinese youth drift through life on the streets of their industrial town, their paths crossing with that of a local young singer and dancer working for a liquor company as a spokesmodel.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPickpocket (1997)
A small town pickpocket whose friends have moved on to higher trades finds himself bitter and unable to adapt.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Flowers of War (2011)
A Westerner finds refuge with a group of women in a church during Japan's rape of Nanking in 1937. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & history
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAn Elephant Sitting Still (2018)
In the northern Chinese city of Manzhouli, they say there is an elephant that simply sits and ignores the world. Manzhouli becomes an obsession for the protagonists of this film, a longed-for escape from the downward spiral in which they find themselves.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSoulMate (2016)
The film spans two decades, as the story unfolds in a series of flashbacks that begin when Qiyue and Ansheng were just thirteen. The two became inseparable, until they met a boy who ended up tearing their lives apart.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMountains May Depart (2015)
The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPostmen in the Mountains (1999)
An old postman has spent his whole life delivering mail to the mountain of Hunan and is about to retire, his only son due to take over his duties.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Crossing I (2014)
At the end of the World War II and the middle of the Chinese Revolution, three couples from different backgrounds with different nationalities flee from China to the island of Taiwan.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisSummer Palace (2007)
Yu Hong leaves her home village and starts university in Beijing, where she develops a consuming and compulsive relationship with another student. The student riots from 1989 then ensue and take a toll on their lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOur Time Will Come (2017)
In Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, a school teacher and her would-be-fiancé link up with Chinese guerrilla fighters, forging their own path to freedom.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & history
In the Heat of the Sun (1994)
Beijing, 1970s. The Cultural Revolution has driven most adults to the provinces leaving 14-year-old Monkey and his pals with free rein over the city. They hang around, get up to no good, and discover that unsolvable mystery known as "girls."
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Platform?
The closest matches to Platform are Lan Yu, 24 City, Hibiscus Town.
How are movies similar to Platform chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Platform, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.
Are there Chinese movies like Platform?
Yes: Lan Yu, 24 City, Hibiscus Town.