Movies Similar to Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl

The Way Home(2002)

This is the story of a 7-year-old boy, Sang-woo, born and raised in the big city, and his mute grandmother, who has spent her whole life in a small rural village.

8.0

Dancers(2008)

»Dancers« is centred round a dance school run by the bright and lively Annika and her no-nonsense mother. One day Annika meets Lasse and falls passionately in love. But there is something Lasse hasn't told her, something he has done that is not so easy to forgive. Confronting an unknown darkness in Lasse, and in herself, Annika is forced to recognize the high cost of saying yes to love.

5.1

In Your Hands(2004)

Anna, a young theology graduate, starts work as a prison chaplain. She becomes especially concerned about one inmate, Kate, regarded as difficult and withdrawn, but whom the other inmates credit with mysterious healing powers.

5.9

The Angel(2009)

A drug addict becomes a mother and has to deal with responsibility and self-respect.

6.2

Aftermath(2004)

A young married couple has to deal with their emotional breakdowns after the death of their only daughter.

5.7

Diary for My Father and My Mother(1990)

This story follows a young student, who is orphaned as she grows to adulthood in the shadow of the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Coming from the Communist intelligentsia, she sees her friends and family react differently. Her lover, a married factory manager, supports the patriots and later assists fellow workers in staging a strike. Meanwhile her sister and others express anger at being forced from their homes during the revolution and continue to express a hatred for the rebels afterwards. But in the end they realize that for all people, real life is not possible after the revolt and its brutal suppression by the Soviets and their collaborators.

6.5

Handling the Undead(2024)

On a hot summer day in Oslo, the dead mysteriously awaken, and three families are thrown into chaos when their deceased loved ones come back to them. Who are they, and what do they want?

5.9

Dokyumento: SEX joshi daigaku(1983)

Currently in the spotlight of the media, a sexual clinic in Nishi-Shinjuku, Tokyo called "SEX Women's University" (president: Ikuro Nishikawa, chief professor: Happy Funatsu) is visited with a camera, and patients (male and female) suffering from sex are shown. This is a series of secret shots of the patient's sexual sensitivity enhancement treatment, featuring a young woman, a middle-aged couple, and a young couple. The SEX treatment by the director, the chief professor, and a beautiful nurse is a sight to behold.

2.0

Mindsight(2016)

After the death of his parents, teenager Max discovers in himself an unusual ability to move into other people, penetrating into their minds. The viewer gets acquainted with the grown-up hero, behind whom there are already several journeys into the depths of the human mind, and one of them, the most pleasant for Max, is connected with the beautiful artist Vera. With her help, Max comprehends the true beauty of nature and the harmonious integrity of the world, and also shares his own unique knowledge with the girl. Together, the heroes have to go through a fascinating path, the routes of which lie far beyond the usual perception of reality.

0.0

Dream(2015)

A young girl strives to rekindle her parent's dwindling romance at their desert town's annual carnival, and learns hard lessons about love in the process.

0.0

Gradiva: Esquisse I(1978)

The movie shows a smattering of images from the story of Wilhelm Jensen's Gradiva. The subject is sublimated desire.

5.8

The Bremen Town Musicians(1969)

The adventures of the wandering musicians from Bremen such as Troubadour, Donkey, Dog, Cat and Rooster. In one of the towns Troubadour falls in love with a Princess and makes up a plan how to get the King's confidence.

7.0

The Agent(2009)

It's all in a day's work for high-flying literary agent Alexander; manuscripts to read, deals to be done, celebrity clients to be taken out to lunch, but first there is an author to deal with whose latest book the agent thinks is, frankly, not up to scratch. However he hadn't counted on the author's resourcefulness.

5.5

Twisted Roots(2009)

In this stylish Finnish drama, the secrets and desires of a family can no longer be suppressed. Mikko turns out to have a hereditary illness. Since then he has been worried. How long can he continue to run the family business that he and inherited from his father, just like his illness? And how does he tell his teenage daughter and adult son that they might have the wrong genes? The imaginative eight-year-old Lumi, adopted from China, also cannot get away from her roots.

6.0

Apron Strings(2008)

Celebrity Chef Anita hasn't seen her family for twenty years. That is until her son Michael decides to do some soul searching and track down his aunt.

6.0

Tales(2014)

Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Rakshan Banietemad ends her eight-year hiatus from feature filmmaking with this ingenious, mosaic-like narrative, which knits together the stories of seven characters to create a microcosm of Iranian working-class society.

6.8

The Father(1912)

Film adaptation of August Strindberg's classic marriage drama in which the wife Laura drives the equestrian master into insanity and death.

0.0

The Last Hammer Blow(2014)

When he first enters the Montpellier Opera House, Victor knows nothing about music. Nor does he know his father, Samuel Rovinski, who is there to conduct Mahler’s 6th symphony. To change the course of his suddenly uncertain future, for Nadia his mother, for Luna whom he has fallen in love with, Victor has decided to step out of the shadows. He’ll go as far as he needs to.

6.3

Above the Street, Below the Water(2009)

This is the day when the lives of an intertwined group of people take a new direction. Everything they have taken for granted starts to change. While Anne and Ask's relationship succumbs to 'metal fatigue', Charlotte has to realise that her husband Carl may not be right for her. At the same time Bente has to decide if she is prepared to wait for ever for her lover, while her ex-husband Bjørn must face the pain of finally letting Bente go. The characters and their children are twirled around in an ever-increasing drama which peaks during the opening night of Hamlet. Anne is on stage as Ophelia, and the question remains: to be or not be responsible for one's own happiness.

4.8

The Last Train(2006)

A group of people are imprisoned in a rail car bound from Berlin to a concentration camp in 1945.

7.3