Movies like Oldboy
If you like "Oldboy" you are looking for bleak, twist ending and intense movies about / with revenge, incest, vengeance, older man younger woman relationship, psychopath, hypnosis and mind game themes of Action, Drama and Mystery genre shot in South Korea.
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Oldboy (2003)
630K
Original name: 올드보이
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate businessman seeks revenge on his captors.
Style:
bleak, twist ending, intense, psychological, neo noir, clever, brutal, atmospheric, depressing, enigmatic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
revenge, incest, vengeance, older man younger woman relationship, psychopath, hypnosis, mind game, psychological torture, kidnapping, plot twist, confined, torture, loneliness, great ending, imprisonment, sin, captive, brother sister incest, notebook, father daughter incest, incestuous relationship, violence, humiliation, mysterious villain, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 2003, 80s, distant future, near future, y2k, 90s, 20th century ...
Place:
south korea, korea, persia, east asia, oceania, asia, new york ...
Keyword:
korean, gangsters, fighting movie, reboot, avant-garde, retrospective, disgust, eye candy
Most similar movies to Oldboy
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, psychological, serious and suspenseful films with plots about death, blood, murder, violence, flashback, cigarette smoking and revenge mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Oldboy: Lady Vengeance (2005), I Saw the Devil (2010), Audition (1999), The Skin I Live In (2011), Mother (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After a 13-year imprisonment for the kidnap and murder of a 6 year old boy, beautiful Lee Guem-ja starts seeking revenge on the man that was really responsible for the boy's death. With the help of fellow inmates and reunited with her daughter, ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, suspense, bloody, atmospheric ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
vengeance, revenge, serial killer, violence, prison, vigilantism, torture, murder, female vigilante, violent, female protagonist, kidnapping ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, y2k, 21st century
Place:
south korea, east asia, asia, korea, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
97%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. He has committed infernal serial murders in diabolic ways that one cannot even imagine and his victims range from young women to even children. The police have chased him for a long time, ...
Style:
bleak, psychological, disturbing, dark, tense ...
Audience:
date night, manly, adult
Plot:
serial killer, revenge, vengeance, murder, psychopath, violence, macabre, extreme violence, gory, mercilessness, brutality, torture ...
Time:
2010s, year 2010, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
south korea, korea, asia, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
89K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Seven years after the death of his wife, company executive Aoyama is invited to sit in on auditions for an actress. Leafing through the resumés in advance, his eye is caught by Yamazaki Asami, a striking young woman with ballet training.
Style:
psychological thriller, scary, disturbing, tense, dark ...
Plot:
torture, femme fatale, psychopath, murder, sadism, macabre, revenge, serial killer, twists and turns, unsettling, violence, obsession ...
Time:
90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, sexy, clever ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, kidnapping, twists and turns, rape, skin, revenge, isolation, insanity, sexual perversion, gender bending, abuse, plastic surgery ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, year 2006, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
spain, ancient greece, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
71K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A mother lives quietly with her twenty-eight-year-old son, Do-joon, providing herbs and acupuncture to neighbors. One day, a girl is brutally murdered, and Do-joon is charged with the killing. Now, it's his mother's call whether to prove ...
Style:
atmospheric, suspense, tense, neo noir, disturbing ...
Plot:
investigation, murder, revenge, family relations, determination, amateur detective, uncover truth, murder mystery, asian, mother, mentally challenged, character study ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 2010s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
south korea, asia, korea, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Films like Shutter Island
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.
Style:
neo noir, harsh, disturbing, tense, psychological ...
Audience:
date night, manly
Plot:
gangster, self defense, revenge, sex scene, violent, small town, mobster, mafia, attempted robbery, organized crime, redemption, twists and turns ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
indiana, philadelphia, usa, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
41K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.
Style:
psychological, surreal, disturbing, bleak, offbeat ...
Plot:
mental illness, schizophrenia, childhood trauma, haunted by the past, paranoia, misfit, insanity, psychopath, mental patient, murder, twists and turns, surrealism ...
Time:
2000s, 1950s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
london, europe, england, britain, africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of.
Style:
disturbing, controversial, dark comedy, bloody, splatter ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gory, violence, psychopath, organized crime, gangster, yakuza, massacre, mob boss, danger, rage, insanity, sadism ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
942K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
Style:
suspense, black comedy, dark comedy, psychological thriller, exciting ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
poverty, wealthy family, working class, social satire, class differences, wealth, basement, scam, tutor, poor family, plot twist, unemployment ...
Time:
2010s, year 2019
Place:
south korea, east asia, seoul, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
His only friend called him 'the man from nowhere'... Taesik, a former special agent becomes a loner after losing his wife in a miserable accident and lives a bitter life running a pawnshop. He only has a few customers and a friend named ...
Style:
serious, tense, brutal, exciting, touching ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
revenge, one man army, martial arts, kidnapping, lone hero, assassin, master warrior, organized crime, drug lord, fight scenes, gang, fight ...
Time:
year 2010, y2k, 21st century
Place:
korea, south korea, east asia, asia, seoul
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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Films like Se7en
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that ...
Style:
twist ending, suspense, detective, thought provoking, surprise ending ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, investigation, private detective, twists and turns, moral dilemma, police investigation, missing child, moral ambiguity, tragic event, murder mystery, immorality, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
year 2007, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
boston, massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
1.3M
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Suffering short-term memory loss after a head injury, Leonard Shelby embarks on a grim quest to find the lowlife who murdered his wife in this gritty, complex thriller that packs more knots than a hangman's noose. To carry out his plan, Shelby ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
memory loss, amnesia, vengeance, plot twist, memory, murder, twists and turns, revenge, paranoia, whodunit, psychology, haunted by the past ...
Time:
year 2000, future, year 2001, 90s, 20th century ...
Place:
los angeles, california, iran, america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
This is the story of Ryu, a deaf man, and his sister, who requires a kidney transplant. Ryu's boss, Park, has just laid him off, and in order to afford the transplant, Ryu and his girlfriend develop a plan to kidnap Park's daughter. Things ...
Style:
disturbing, depressing, psychological, bloody, harsh ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, revenge, organ donation, gory, violent, suicide, transplant, vigilante, mute or deaf, rape and revenge, vengeance, ransom ...
Time:
2000s, y2k, year 2003, 21st century
Place:
korea, south korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
1.8M
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. ...
Style:
detective, surprise ending, suspenseful, disturbing, neo noir ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, twists and turns, psychopath, police, psychology, mind game, murder, insanity, police investigation, macabre, maniac ...
Time:
90s, year 1995, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, america, iran, persia, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Sweden, Norway
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
This English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel by Stieg Larsson follows a disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, as he investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, ...
Style:
suspenseful, neo noir, captivating, rough, clever ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
serial killer, hacker, investigation, rape, murder mystery, sexual abuse, missing person, journalist, strong female character, twists and turns, murder investigation, uncover truth ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 60s, year 1966, 21st century
Place:
stockholm sweden, scandinavia, europe, eastern europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Films like Gone Girl
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them down, he finds a clue that the vanished girls were all called up by the same ...
Style:
disturbing, suspense, bloody, suspenseful, detective ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, police investigation, investigation, race against time, revenge, anti hero, police detective, murder, brutality, missing person, violent ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, y2k, 21st century
Place:
south korea, east asia, seoul, korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A recently released patient from a mental institution returns home with her sister, only to face disturbing events between her stepmother and the ghosts haunting their house- all of which are connected to a dark past in the family's history.
Style:
surreal, psychological, scary, mind bending, atmospheric ...
Plot:
mental illness, suicide, ghost, nightmare, losing-it hero, death, tragedy, haunted house, twists and turns, children, guilt, sisters ...
Time:
year 2002, year 2003, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
south korea, east asia, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
214K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of criminals who have kidnapped her child.
Style:
neo noir, surreal, detective, dark, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
surrealism, small town, voyeurism, kidnapping, sadomasochism, sex scene, serial killer, violence, dark humor, sexual humiliation, nightclub, femme fatale ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1986
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
147K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass. Her boyfriend and ex-lover take matters into their own hands by hiring ...
Style:
art house, bleak, disturbing, surreal, offbeat ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
rape, sexual abuse, revenge, violence, violent, rape and revenge, vengeance, brutality, sex, sexual perversion, sadism, vigilante ...
Time:
year 2002, year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Canada
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of this mystery.
Style:
disturbing, black and white, art house, bleak, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
children, punishment, sexual abuse, priest, physical appearance, suicide, small town, death, child abuse, cruelty, family secret, village life ...
Time:
year 1914, year 2009, 1910s, 90s, 1920s ...
Place:
germany, europe, northern germany, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Law Abiding Citizen similar movies
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has ...
Style:
surprise ending, clever, confusing, philosophical, mind bending ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, family friendly, adult
Plot:
time travel, time loop, plot twist, time machine, twists and turns, time paradox, parallel universe, changing the past or future, existentialism, transgender, intersex, mission ...
Time:
year 1975, future, 2010s, 1940s, year 2014 ...
Place:
usa, new york, peru, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.
Style:
suspense, neo noir, psychological, tense, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
private detective, murder, serial killer, kidnapping, drug dealer, secrets, murder of wife, investigation, violence, faked death, home invasion, hostage ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 20th century, year 1991, year 1999 ...
Place:
usa, new york, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
136K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, France, Sweden, Italy, Poland
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, scary, psychological thriller, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
insanity, depression, cruelty, violence, fear, controversy, woods, masturbation, real sex, witchcraft, nudity, surrealism ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, dark, atmospheric, psychedelic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, incest, surrealism, murder, small town life, small town, mental illness, double life, rape, supernatural, violence ...
Time:
90s, year 1992, near future, 20th century, year 1988 ...
Place:
washington state, canada, philadelphia, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
2.3M
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the ...
Style:
surprise ending, psychological, twist ending, cerebral, philosophical ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, psychology, fight, plot twist, schizophrenia, self destructing, insanity, fighting the system, split personality, losing-it hero, against the rules, nihilism ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1999, year 2013
Place:
delaware, america, los angeles, iran, seattle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Movies similar to Fight Club
426K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a coldhearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad -- a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nearly a nanosecond, ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, suspense, twist ending, neo noir ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
twists and turns, mind game, manipulation, psychology, game, uncover truth, life turned upside down, existentialism, scheme, disorder, life & death, surveillance ...
Time:
20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place:
san francisco, usa, bay area, california, seattle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, confusing ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, plot twist, investigation, mental illness, insanity, psychology, memory, paranoia, mental disorder, psychiatrist, schizophrenia, mental institution ...
Time:
1950s, year 2010, year 1954, 2010s, 2000s ...
Place:
boston, persia, iran, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A traumatized Vietnam war veteran finds out that his post-war life isn't what he believes it to be when he's attacked by horned creatures in the subway and his dead son comes to visit him...
Style:
surreal, twist ending, disturbing, bleak, scary ...
Plot:
nightmare, paranoia, hallucination, memory, delusion, mental illness, haunted by the past, conspiracy, plot twist, psychology, dealing with death, twists and turns ...
Time:
90s, year 1990, 20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place:
new york, vietnam, usa, asia, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An alienated teenager, saddened that he has moved away from London, must find a way to deal with a dark family secret.
Style:
disturbing, bleak, rough, depressing, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
incest, sexual abuse, father daughter incest, dysfunctional family, incestuous relationship, loneliness, mother daughter relationship, brother sister relationship, father daughter relationship, incest rape, small town, innocence lost ...
Time:
year 1999, 20th century, 90s
Place:
england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
45K
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Jin-seok, 21-year-old, moves into a new house with his family. He suffers from a slight schizophrenia but he carries an ordinary life under the warm care of the family. His older brother Yu-seok is a decent college student, a mentor, and role model ...
Style:
twist ending, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
plot twist, brother brother relationship, memory loss, uncover truth, home invasion, delusion, revenge, twists and turns, new house, deception, chase, childhood memory ...
Place:
south korea, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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