
Movies that feel like To Live (1994)
If you loved To Live, the closest films we have are The Flowers of War (2011), Battle for Sevastopol (2015) and Ashes and Diamonds (1958). All three share To Live's contemplative and bleak feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.
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If To Live hit the spot, these will too

Both are Zhang Yimou's work, and they rhyme
The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

The same mix in both: stillness, then romance
The difference: None of the dread To Live is built on

Tender where it counts, bleak underneath
The difference: 36 years apart, and the 1950s show

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

Romantic romance in both cases

Two things both keep coming back to: china and cultural revolution

War built on tenderness, twice over

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

Romantic romance, and it commits to that

Both keep coming back to the same thing: 1950s

War with a pulse of bleakness, in both cases

Common ground: 1960s
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