Movies like Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
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Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)
75K
Original name: 복수는 나의 것
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 go horribly wrong, and the situation spirals rapidly into a cycle of violence and revenge.
Style:
disturbing, depressing, psychological, neo noir, bloody, harsh, rough, suspenseful, brutal, bleak ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, revenge, organ donation, gory, violent, suicide, transplant, vigilante, mute or deaf, rape and revenge, vengeance, black market, ransom, layoff, factory worker, violence, danger, loss of loved one, terrorist, dying, serial killer, tragedy, brutality, asian, storytelling ...
Time:
2000s, year 2003, y2k, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
korea, south korea, asia
Keyword:
korean, gangsters, retrospective, order
Most similar movies to Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and disturbing films with plots about violence, murder, death, blood, deadly, revenge and violent mostly in Thriller, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance: Lady Vengeance (2005), Oldboy (2003), Irreversible (2002), I Saw the Devil (2010), Parasite (2019). 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 ⇓
100%
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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 ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
revenge, incest, vengeance, older man younger woman relationship, psychopath, hypnosis, mind game, psychological torture, kidnapping, plot twist, confined, torture ...
Time:
year 2003, 80s, distant future, y2k, near future ...
Place:
south korea, korea, persia, oceania, east asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
75%
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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 ⇓
86%
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It's going to ...
Style:
neo noir, black comedy, dark comedy, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
snow, dark humor, small town, kidnapping, police, murder, greed, crime gone awry, police investigation, violence, satire, winter ...
Time:
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Place:
minnesota, north dakota, usa, minneapolis minnesota, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
On May 9th, a female high school student was brutally murdered. There are 7 suspects and 7 shadows that terrorize them. Who are they and which one of them is you?
Style:
tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, serious ...
Plot:
murder, vigilantism, danger, vengeance, rivalry, terrorist group, investigation, suspect, group of friends, high school student, asian, lovers ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
14K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Shamoto runs a small tropical fish shop. When his daughter Mitsuko is caught shoplifting at a grocery store a man named Murata steps in to settle things between the girl and the store manager. Murata also runs a tropical fish shop and he and Shamoto ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, rough, serious, twisted ...
Plot:
serial killer, sexual pleasure, psychopath, female nudity, slutty wife, perversion, sexual promiscuity, fish, milf, woman on top, sex, cheating wife ...
Time:
year 2010, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
1986 Gyunggi Province. The body of a young woman is found brutally raped and murdered. Two months later, a series of rapes and murders commences under similar circumstances. And in a country that had never known such crimes, the dark whispers about ...
Style:
realistic, neo noir, psychological, bleak, disturbing ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
serial killer, police, rape, police investigation, murderer, murder, twists and turns, investigation, murder mystery, police detective, murder investigation, true crime ...
Time:
year 2003, 80s, y2k, year 1986, 20th century ...
Place:
south korea, east asia, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The quiet life of a beach bum is upended by dreadful news. He sets off for his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance but proves an inept assassin and finds himself in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family.
Style:
neo noir, independent film, atmospheric, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
vengeance, revenge, vigilante, violence, vigilantism, murder, brutality, violent, storytelling, haunted by the past, car, disorder ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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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 ⇓
27%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Kim Sun-woo is an enforcer and manager for a hotel owned by a cold, calculative crime boss, Kang who assigns Sun-Woo to a simple errand while he is away on a business trip; to shadow his young mistress, Heesoo, for fear that she may be cheating on ...
Style:
suspense, bleak, psychological, atmospheric, tense ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
hitman, gunfight, asian gangster, organized crime, revenge, vengeance, mafia, betrayal, gangster, fall in love, brutality, character study ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
south korea, east asia, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A soldier returns home to his small town and exacts a deadly revenge on the thugs who tormented his dimwitted brother while he was away.
Style:
disturbing, tense, bleak, rough, psychological ...
Plot:
revenge, bullying, brutality, vengeance, mental illness, great ending, justice, cruelty, humiliation, execution, drug abuse, heroes ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France, UK, Austria, Germany, Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
When Ann, husband George and son Georgie arrive at their holiday home they are visited by a pair of polite and seemingly pleasant young men. Armed with deceptively sweet smiles and some golf clubs, they proceed to terrorize and torture the ...
Style:
psychological, scary, disturbing, brutal, bad ending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, hostage, torture, psychopath, home invasion, murder, danger, bad guy wins, maniac, brutality, kidnapping, torment ...
Time:
year 2007, year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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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 ⇓
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.
Style:
disturbing, bleak, suspense, psychological, scary ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, sadism, bad guy wins, torment, torture, home invasion, kidnapping, murder, family in danger, evil wins, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
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Place:
austria, germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The Butcher (known from Noe's short film Carne) has done some time in jail after beating up the guy who tried to seduce his teenage mentally-handicapped daughter. Now he wants to start a new life. He leaves his daughter in an institution and ...
Style:
depressing, disturbing, psychological, bleak, controversial ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
loneliness, incest, butcher, revenge, violence, alienation, nihilism, insanity, existentialism, macabre, violent, obsession ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A Russian teenager, living in London, dies during childbirth but leaves clues to a midwife in her journal, that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
Style:
neo noir, disturbing, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
gangster, mob boss, russian mafia, prostitution, murder, male nudity, rape, brutality, death in childbirth, child prostitute, investigation, organized crime ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
england, london, st. petersburg russia, europe, scotland yard ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A young drifter, struggling to makes ends meet, accepts a job to kill a prominent accountant. When he isn't paid for the hit, revenge is now his path.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, serious, tense, rough ...
Plot:
accountant, nightmare, sex scene, vengeance, criminal heroes, kidnapping, murder, violence, torture, painter, desert, drifter ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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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 ...
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, suspense, emotional, twist ending, neo noir ...
Audience:
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Plot:
vengeance, police investigation, murder, sexual abuse, murder mystery, investigation, death in the family, child abuse, loss of child, revenge, tragic event, grief ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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neo noir, atmospheric, surreal, dark, anthology ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids, adult
Plot:
corruption, vengeance, justice, gory, hitman, revenge, dark hero, comic book, redemption, vigilante, killings, distopia ...
Time:
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Place:
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24%
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Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
controversial, bleak, psychological, psychological thriller, disturbing ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
The region where the borders of North Korea, China, and Russia come together, forms a sort of modern day wild west, where more than half of the population relies on illegal activity in order to survive. In Yanbian, on the Chinese side of the border, ...
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Audience:
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24%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A Vietnam veteran, Charles Rane, returns home after years in a POW camp and is treated as a hero. When thugs invade his home to steal the silver coins he received for his service, they mangle his hand and leave him and his family for dead. Rane ...
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Duration: 122 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Bruno Hamel is a thirty eight year old surgeon. He lives in Drummondville with his wife Sylvie, and their eight year-old daughter Jasmine. Like many happy people, he is leading an uneventful life until a beautiful fall afternoon, when his daughter ...
Style:
suspense, serious, tense, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
vengeance, police, revenge, rape, kidnapping, rape and revenge, child killer, torture, vigilante, anger, rape and murder, haunted by the past ...
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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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. ...
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