15 Movies Like The Day She Returns
Loved The Day She Returns? 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.
#1
Parasite
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.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Day She Returns.
#2
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 The Day She Returns.
#3
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 The Day She Returns.
#4
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 The Day She Returns.
#5
Oligosaccharide The Movie
A truth tale about "Oligosaccharide" written by Crocodile Man. One 'Geun-hyeok' and ten 'Mi-jeongs' put on a sexy adult fantasy! Geun-hyeok and Mi-jeong switch bodies after they have intercourse. Mi-jeong asks Geun-hyeok for something as she's about to get married... Mi-jeong is a call girl who seduces Geun-seok. She's actually a killer. What is she? Tae-sik only drinks black coffee and Mi-jeong likes him. Will they come true? Tae-sik is a loser who uses his wife to rip money off of other men. Geun-hyeok loves her. What will happen to them? What if someone is watching me? Mi-jeong asks detective Geun-hyeok for help... "I have a wife!" Geun-hyeok drinks with his sexy superior Mi-jeong and thing happen. Mi-jeong and her husband have a pile of debt. Mi-jeong goes to her friend Geun-hyeok who can foresee the future. Geun-hyeok is perfect and Mi-jeong loves her husband but she can't help feeling unsteady. Tae-sik leaves on a suicide journey and meets Mi-jeong. They fall in love...
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Day She Returns.
#6
Memories of Murder
A sadistic serial rapist and murderer of young women terrorizes a small province in 1980s South Korea. To prevent further crimes, three increasingly desperate detectives with conflicting methods race against time to unravel the violent mind of the killer in a futile effort to solve the case.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Day She Returns.
#7
Adultery Alumni Association 2
Hye Jin, Hee Kyung, and Han Hee who are among the high school alumni. They met at the alumni meeting and heard that the male alumni who did not have a chance to study during their school days were greatly successful as an investment company. And after seeing the settlement a few days later, I am happy to share my memories, but in fact, their purpose (?) Is separate. They are difficult to afford, and they want to get help from Zhengzhou. Since then, Zhengzhou has been enjoying the love of female alumni.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Day She Returns.
#8
Humint
A South Korean agent hunts a drug ring in Russia and goes head-to-head with a North Korean operative — pulling both into peril and tangled secrets.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Day She Returns.
#9
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 The Day She Returns.
#10
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 The Day She Returns.
#11
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 The Day She Returns.
#12
The Treacherous
The story of Joseon's tyrant king Yeonsan who exploits the populace for his own carnal pleasures, his seemingly loyal retainer who controls him and all court dealings, and a woman who seeks vengeance.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Day She Returns.
#13
Snowpiercer
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer; a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Day She Returns.
#14
Hope
After 8-year-old So-won narrowly survives a brutal sexual assault, her family labors to help her heal while coping with their own rage and grief.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Day She Returns.
#15
The King's Warden
In a remote mountain village of 15th-century Joseon, humble headman Heung-do hears a rumor that any village hosting an exiled nobleman will be blessed with abundance and fortune. Hoping to bring prosperity to his impoverished community, he eagerly submits a petition to host one—unaware that his guest is none other than the fallen monarch, deposed boy-king Danjong.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Day She Returns.