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10 Best Movies Like May 18

If you loved May 18, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
1987: When the Day Comes

1987: When the Day Comes

2017★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to May 18 for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In January 1987, a 22-year-old college student dies during a police interrogation. Under the orders of Director Park, the police request the body to be cremated in order to destroy...

#2
26 Years

26 Years

2012★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to May 18 for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Three relatives of victims come together to get revenge on a murderer twenty-six years after the massacre. The man had killed groups of people in the 1980 Gwangju murders....

#3
The Attorney

The Attorney

2013★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to May 18 for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Song Woo-seok is a lawyer with no clients. When his friend's son is falsely accused of a crime and tortured, he takes up the case and the course of his life changes for good....

#4
The Face Reader

The Face Reader

2013★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to May 18 for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An exceptionally talented face reader becomes entangled in a bloody power struggle between a child king and his uncle who plans to usurp the throne....

#5
Oranges and Sunshine

Oranges and Sunshine

2010★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to May 18 for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovers one of the most significant social scandals in recent times – the forced migration of children from t...

#6
Radium Girls

Radium Girls

2020★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to May 18 for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Young women toiling in a factory are exposed to hazardous material which takes a disastrous toll on their health....

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