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10 Best Movies Like My Brilliant Life

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

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#1
Badland Hunters

Badland Hunters

2024★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to My Brilliant Life for fans of Action. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

After a deadly earthquake turns Seoul into a lawless badland, a fearless huntsman springs into action to rescue a teenager abducted by a mad doctor....

#2
Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story

Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story

2003★ 7.3

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

Based on a true story. Liz Murray is a young girl who is taken care of by her loving, but drug-addicted parents. Liz becomes homeless at 15 and after a tragedy comes upon her, she ...

#3
Monster

Monster

2014★ 6.6

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

Bok-Soon runs a street stall, cares for her younger sister, and is feared by many because of her quick temper. When Tae-Soo murders her sister, rage consumes her completely as she ...

#4
Night Flight

Night Flight

2014★ 6.9

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

Yong-ju, Gi-woong and Gi-taek used to be best friends in middle school, but in high school, Gi-woong becomes a member of the gang that bullies Gi-taek. As Yong-ju tries to fix this...

#5
Hwang Jin Yi

Hwang Jin Yi

2007★ 6.5

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

Although born a daughter of an aristocratic family, Jin-yi discovers the secret behind her birth and enters into a life in a brothel as a gisaeng....

#6
My Girl and I

My Girl and I

2005★ 6.6

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

Su-ho is a plain high school boy, and Su-eun is a bright and beautiful girl in the same school. For some unknown reason, Su-eun has a crush on the boy, and for equally mysterious r...