15 Movies Like Covet: Island of Desire

Loved Covet: Island of Desire? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.

Obsessed
#1

Obsessed

A secret, passionate affair happens in the summer of 1969 between Colonel Jin Pyeong, trapped in a loveless marriage with Soo Jin, and Jong Ga Heun, the Chinese-Korean wife of Captain Kyung Woo Jin.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Covet: Island of Desire.

The Handmaiden
#2

The Handmaiden

1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sook-hee, is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, Hideko, who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle Kouzuki. But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese Count to help him seduce the Lady to steal her fortune.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Covet: Island of Desire.

Buddy's Mom
#3

Buddy's Mom

20-year-old Kyeong-soo is a man who's full of assumptions. He learned about sex from Internet porn, but nothing about the real thing. He's only had crushes and has never even kissed before. He got embarrassed when he confessed his feelings to Ji-yeon, his crush. He comforted himself from the shame with Japanese girls in his room with his right hand. One day, he has a fight with his father and remembers his friend Baek-hyeon had invited him over to Gangwon-do. There he falls in love with his friends' mother.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Covet: Island of Desire.

Japanese Mom
#4

Japanese Mom

"Innocent face, D-cup breasts and perfect intercourse skills! Son, this is not your girlfriend anymore but your mother!" Ki-ho brings Yuki from Japan to marry her. However, he starts cheating on her with his ex-girlfriend in Korea. Min-cheol comforted Yuki and thought of her as his daughter-in-law, but one day he realizes he is looking at her as a woman. In the end, Yuki and Min-cheol have intercourse without Ki-ho knowing...

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Covet: Island of Desire.

Love Lesson
#5

Love Lesson

Korea's most popular song writer Hee-soo runs into a nineteen-year-old boy in the elevator. Hee-soo is inspired by a new song watching him shake at her figure. She starts to tell him about women under the excuse that she's teaching him music. They fall for each other but things get complicated when her life teacher, Joon-ho who taught her about life and music comes back.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Covet: Island of Desire.

Scarlet Innocence
#6

Scarlet Innocence

A university professor gradually succumbing to blindness is entranced by an obsessive love, in this modern-day adaptation of a classic Korean fairy tale.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Covet: Island of Desire.

20th Century Girl
#7

20th Century Girl

In 1999, a teen girl keeps close tabs on a boy in school on behalf of her deeply smitten best friend – then she gets swept up in a love story of her own.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Covet: Island of Desire.

Sex Plate 17
#8

Sex Plate 17

A woman who can make all of one man’s fantasies come true moves in next door .

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Covet: Island of Desire.

Even If This Love Disappears Tonight
#9

Even If This Love Disappears Tonight

A high school girl wakes up each day with no memory of yesterday. When she agrees to date a shy classmate, can their love grow with every new beginning?

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Covet: Island of Desire.

Sex Is Zero
#10

Sex Is Zero

Eun-sik tries to pass the state exam while studying in college after his military service. One day, he meets a beautiful woman Eun-hyo, and his life changes.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Covet: Island of Desire.

Young Mother
#11

Young Mother

Nineteen-year-old, Jin-goo enjoys an erotic moment to himself while thinking about his pretty English tutor. Then one day, he is caught in the middle of an embarrassing moment and becomes awkward with her. However, this becomes an opportunity and she starts teaching him sex. Their replationship becomes an uncontrollable romance. However, she quits the tutoring and the relationship to get married. Time goes on and Jin-goo is a grown up. He's used to thoughtless sex. However, his partner of benefit gets pregnant so he meets his future-mother-in-law to talk about marriage. However, she's so beautiful and sexy. He moves in with the in-laws but soon breaks out of the marrige due to his wife's fling. The mother-in-law doesn't know how to make it up to him for what her daughter has done. Jin-goo suggests something dangerous...

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Covet: Island of Desire.

You Are the Apple of My Eye
#12

You Are the Apple of My Eye

A group of close friends who attend a private school all have a debilitating crush on the sunny star pupil, Sun-ah. The only member of the group who claims not to is Jin-woo, but he ends up loving her as well.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Covet: Island of Desire.

The Servant
#13

The Servant

A servant falls in love with a girl whom his master also desires. Although the girl loves the servant, she also longs to improve her station in life.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Covet: Island of Desire.

Eungyo
#14

Eungyo

A reclusive elderly poet feels the fire of his youth when gamine schoolgirl Eun-gyo enters his life, to the chagrin of the old man's assistant.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Covet: Island of Desire.

One Night Only
#15

One Night Only

Three 20-year-old-men visit Seoul after their college entrance exam ends. They expect to have some fun with gay people in Itaewon. Meanwhile, in Jongno, two gay men, Han-jae and Ji-hoon, struggle to solve their problems.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Covet: Island of Desire.