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10 Best Movies Like Oldboy

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

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#1
Lady Vengeance

Lady Vengeance

2005★ 7.5

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

Released after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 13 years, a woman begins executing her elaborate plan of retribution....

#2
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

2002★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Oldboy for fans of Drama & Thriller & Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A deaf man and his girlfriend resort to desperate measures in order to fund a kidney transplant for his sister. Things go horribly wrong, and the situation spirals rapidly into a c...

#3
Oldboy

Oldboy

2013★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Oldboy for fans of Drama & Thriller & Mystery & Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A man has only three and a half days and limited resources to discover why he was imprisoned in a nondescript room for 20 years without any explanation....

#4
The Handmaiden

The Handmaiden

2016★ 8.2

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

1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sookee, is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, Hideko, who lives a secluded life on a large countryside esta...

#5
Paths of Glory

Paths of Glory

1957★ 8.3

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

A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916....

#6
Memories of Murder

Memories of Murder

2003★ 8.1

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

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 confl...