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10 Best Movies Like Modern Boy

If you loved Modern Boy, 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

2006โ€ขโ˜… 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Modern Boy for fans of Romance & 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
Fighter in the Wind

Fighter in the Wind

2004โ€ขโ˜… 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Modern Boy for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

An account of karate competitor Choi Yeung-Eui who went to Japan after World War II to become a fighter pilot but found a very different path instead. He changed his name to Masuta...

#3
Man in Love

Man in Love

2014โ€ขโ˜… 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Modern Boy for fans of Romance & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Tae-il lives a fast life as low level thug. He then learns that he has a terminal illness and not much time left to live. Then, for the first time in his life, he falls in love....

#4
Remember

Remember

2022โ€ขโ˜… 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Modern Boy for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Pil-ju, an Alzheimer's patient in his 80s, who lost all his family during the Japanese colonial era, and devotes his lifelong revenge before his memories disappear, and a young man...

#5
Love, Lies

Love, Lies

2016โ€ขโ˜… 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Modern Boy for fans of Romance & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Two best friends, So-yool and Yeon-hee, dream of becoming the top artists in Seoul together. But their friendship doesn't last long as Yoon-woo, So-yool's first love and songwriter...

#6
Out Live

Out Live

2000โ€ขโ˜… 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Modern Boy for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A sweeping, epic tale of a martial arts warrior who attempts to defy a kingdom to be with his love....

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