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10 Best Movies Like Clean Up

If you loved Clean Up, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Maundy Thursday

Maundy Thursday

2006★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Clean Up for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Yu-jeong is suicidal, yet she reluctantly goes to prison for volunteer work. There, she meets a prisoner who is waiting for death penalty. The two quickly fall in love despite thei...

#2
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Clean Up for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....

#3
A Brand New Life

A Brand New Life

2009★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Clean Up for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Young Jin-hee is taken by her father to an orphanage near Seoul. He leaves her there never to return, and she struggles to come to grips with her fate. Jin-hee desperately believes...

#4
Inseparable Bros

Inseparable Bros

2019★ 8.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Clean Up for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Se-ha who is physically handicapped and Dong-gu who is mentally handicapped are not their own brothers. But while living 20 years together, the two became indispensable to each oth...

#5
In Front of Your Face

In Front of Your Face

2021★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Clean Up for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

She has never lived in a high-rise apartment, and she wonders how her sister can live at this height every day. A few days ago she kind of burst in to stay with her sister, and she...

#6
The Unforgivable

The Unforgivable

2021★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Clean Up for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past....

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