Best movies like Shades of the Heart

A unique, carefully handpicked, selection of the best movies like Shades of the Heart Starring Yeon Woo-jin, Kim Sang-ho, IU, Lee Joo-young, and more. If you liked Shades of the Heart then you may also like: Wind Echoing in My Being, Write or Dance, Marriage Story, Ardor, A Moment to Remember and many more popular movies featured on this list. You can further filter the list even more or get a random selection from the list of similar movies, to make your selection even easier.

Chang-seok's marriage failed. He left his wife and came back to South Korea. He is about to publish a novel based on his own experience. He meets various people, including Mi-young, Yoo-jin, Sung-ha and Ju-eun. Upon meeting these people, Chang-seok changes his mind and starts weaving yet another story.

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Wind Echoing in My Being

A young man living alone in his attic, wishes to publish a book of his dreams. He records his dreams on a small tape recorder while he falls in and out of sleep. Then when he awakens, he writes of these dreams on paper. His dreams consist mainly of memories and recollections of his youth.

Write or Dance

There is ‘Si-hyung’ who wants to be a novelist but has never completed one yet. He promises to write an essay every month to his cousin’s husband ‘Jong-pil’ while drunk. He doesn’t have any source to write, however, he experiences special meetings one day in a month. 7 months and 7 meetings. This is the story of those one day’s.

Marriage Story

This film is a social comedy which depicts women's endeavor to get the right to live free from men's violence in a male dominated society. This Film begins with a newly married couple. They wed against the wishes of family and friends, who thought they weren't a good match. As their marriage progresses, the young couple realize that marriage is not what you see in movies or read in books. They find that love, sex and marriage are very different from what they had dreamed. They also understand why people disagreed with the marriage from the beginning.

Ardor

In revenge for her husband's infidelity, a young beautiful housewife, Mi-heun, starts an affair with an attractive young doctor, In-gyu. Despite her husband's efforts to regain her love and the disapproval by the conservative little town, Mi-huen gradually finds happiness and satisfaction in the affair and decides to turn her back on her quiet life.

A Moment to Remember

A young couple's love is tested when Sun-jin is diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer's disease.

My Wife Got Married

It all started with football. Deok-hoon falls in love with In-ah who shares his love and passion for the sports. They quickly become lovers and he proposes. She refuses at first but they are eventually happily married. Marriage is like a dream until one day In-ah declares her wish to marry another man. She doesn’t want divorce as she loves Deok-hoon all the same, only change is that she loves the new man as much. Leaving Deok-hoon who finds himself unable to leave In-ah in the middle, she goes ahead and marries her new man. And so the bizarre bigamy begins.

Serve the People

Mu-kwang volunteers to be a kitchen police of Sa-taek, the divisional commander, dreaming of success. One day, Mu-kwang meets Su-ryeon by chance, who is a young and beautiful wife of the commander. Soon, he feels a strong attraction by her.

My Love, Don't Cross That River

There live a couple known as "100-year-old lovebirds." As fairy tale's characters, the husband is strong like a woodman, and the wife is full of charms like a princess. They dearly love each other wearing Korean traditional clothes all the time, and still fall asleep hand in hand. However, the death, quietly and like a thief, sit between them. This film starts from this moment, and follows the last moments of 76 years of their marriage.

Love, In Between

Formerly known as "Two Women" or "Freezing Rain". A man who wants all love, a wife who approaches her husband's other woman, and a woman who wants to keep her love. A classy melodrama of these three people and their risky encounter.

The Women Outside

They're called bar women, hostesses, or sex workers and "western princesses." They come from poor families, struggling to earn a decent wage, only to be forced into the world's oldest profession. They're the women who work in the camptowns that surround U.S. military bases in South Korea. In 40 years, over a million women have worked in Korea's military sex industry, but their existence has never been officially acknowledged by either government. In The Women Outside, a film by J.T. Orinne Takagi and Hye Jung Park, some of these women bravely speak out about their lives for the first time. The film raises provocative questions about military policy, economic survival, and the role of women in global geopolitics

Sermon on the Mount

Questions occasionally turn up in the mind about those deeply buried stories that nobody was clear about. Can 8 young people find the real answer? What is the tree of knowledge and the forbidden fruit? Why did God make the fruit and let people pick it and eat it? It is Jesus who suffered for their sins, was resurrected and be-came the way of truth and a virtuous life itself. If people followed the way of Jesus, they would be resurrected and be unified with God and get into Heaven. But the reality is that the human world and God’s world are separated.

My♡Puppy

Min-soo is about to get married when his fiancée suddenly admits that she is allergic to dogs. Now the guy's best friend, the golden retriever Rooney, needs a new family. With the help of his cousin and social media, Min-soo starts looking for a new home for Rooney.

Touch by Touch

Seon-mi hands a name card to Joo-hee who is about to get married, saying that she'll be able to feel sexual satisfaction like never before. Joo-hee experiences something new and starts expressing her rising emotions to her fiance despite the time and place. Unlike Joo-hee who is enjoying this, Min-woo is getting tired. He tries to satisfy her to the best of his abilities and even asks for advice from friends but it's not enough. What is that place that has her upside down like this?

The Highway Family

Depicts the process of meeting a family who lives a homeless life like camping along a highway rest area, and a couple who accidentally hold hands and the process of the birth of a new family. The story of a family wandering the streets with the hope that they will meet the warmth and affection, compassion, trust, and hope between people who still exist in the cold reality, is revived with the courage and help of someone.

Me and Me

In a small South Korean village, while investigating the death of two people in strange circumstances, a grumpy policeman will live an overwhelming experience beyond the reality he has known so far.

Planck Constant

Various stories are connected under the theme of fantasy and desire and start a fantastic experience that leads all to one universe.

Come Come Come Upward

This story of two Buddhist nuns is an exploration of the Korean experience of the relationship between hardship and religious salvation. Trainee Soon-nyeo is forced to confront her True Path by walking among the people, while venerable Jinseong must pursue enlightenment through her inner practice.

IU CONCERT : The Golden Hour

Experience IU’s first ever global cinema release, as the first Korean female singer to perform at the iconic Olympic Main Stadium in Seoul, the largest stadium in South Korea and the dream venue for music artists. Starting with a thrilling acapella opening, the setlist is filled with beloved songs from across IU’s career. From the floating strawberry moon balloon, to fireworks and a stunning drone show, the enchanting stage production is a must-see in cinemas. Embrace the happiness of the unforgettable 'Golden Hour' through IU’s legendary performances and a fully-charged live show.

Wol-ha: Very Bad Moon Rising

In the Korean Classic Horror Movie, A Public Cemetery of Wolha 1967, the tombstone of the kisaeng (Korean geisha) Wol-ha, who dies under a false accusation, is found! Set in the 1930s when Korea was under Japanese rule, a story was told about a girl, Wolhyang. She goes from a student to a kisaeng (Korean geisha) to a wife of a bourgeois man and is finally killed under a false accusation. This is a well-known story in Korea from the Korean classic horror movie, A Public Cemetery of Wolha. The movie, Wol-ha 2017, starts with a setting, where the tombstone of Wol-ha is found by an international collector and the whole process of finding the tomb of Kisaeng Wolhyang is recorded by video. The footages are fully of the mysterious and the grotesque...!

The File

The news anchor 'Soo-gyeong' unexpectedly meets up with her childhood friend 'Mi-soo'. Back when they were teenagers, they went to the baseball park and disappeared without a trace leaving only Soo-gyeong's painful memories of Mi-soo. And now, meeting Mi-soo again the once lively young girl has become someone completely different. Passing time together with her boyfriend 'Dong-min' Mi-soo's strange attitude starts to worry Soo-gyeong so that she pushes herself away and worries about how close Mi-soo and Dong-min have become...

Barracks

In an old military bus are Myeong-hoon, his girlfriend Yeong-eun, and survival game friends; they are headed to a private camp to experience army life. Myeong-hoon knows there to be a large population of people to be taking part in this but he shocked to find the camp deserted. It turns out they had arrived a day early due to Myeong-hoon's miscalculation. The instructor and his assistant arrange temporary barracks for them to spend the night in. Myeong-hoon and his friends shower, take a walk or drink after dinner. However, as the day darkens, they start disappearing one by one so Myeong-hoon and Yeong-eun starts looking for them. All they find are gruesome bodies of their friends.

The Shower

A sonagi is a brief but a heavy rain shower that starts suddenly, usually on a hot afternoon. In Hwang’s story, the rain shower symbolizes the short but heart-rending love between the boy and the girl. The story begins with the boy encountering the girl playing by the stream on his way back home. Although many of Hwang’s short stories are notable, “Rain Shower” is cited as his timeless Korean classic by Koreans. Koreans of all ages are acquainted with this story. It is famous for its poignant depiction of the Korean countryside and of innocent adolescent love. The picturesque scenes from this story stir nostalgia for many people.

Mind Memory

Microlove is a sci-fi romance movie about an outgoing wealthy young Thai man, Pat, who works at a Korean software company. He privately develops a software and catches the interest of the president’s daughter, Min Ji and they create a beautiful love story.

An Affair: Cheating Housewives - Director's Cut

A married couple of six years are having trouble. Secretly meeting up with other married people revitalizes their individual passions.

We Want Now

A man who protects the island and his woman, Soo-hee, live on a remote island that is nothing more than an uninhabited island. And Bok-soon, who lost her mind after being abandoned by the man she loved. This is an island where only three people live, even if they die. Then one day, a photographer who seems to be holding something secret comes to the island. However, the man who guards the island misunderstands the visitor and kills him because of it. Bok-soon, who loved the dead photographer, commits suicide upon seeing the photographer's death. A man who has gone mad after killing someone hears a story from Soo-hee, who lives with him, and only later finds out all the secrets...

The ESP Couple

A college boy Su-min is looking around paintings in a gallery when he hears someone screaming for help. That’s where he first meets a high school girl, Hyun-jin. They soon meet again in a park, and she realizes he is gifted; he can read people’s mind.

Veil

Yeong-sik is a personal tax accountant. Two years into his marriage, he feels his wife is not like before. He coincidentally sees his wife meeting with another man so he puts a tail on her only to come back empty. Frustrated, Yeong-sik tails her himself but there's nothing out of the ordinary. A while later, So-yeon's body is found in an isolated area and the police call in Yeong-sik and Oh Min-soo, the man So-yeon met for investigation. Oh Min-soo denies he did anything and that he even had an affair with So-yeon. Yeong-sik calls the police and asks how his investigation went but the police say he just denied it and that they'll call them when the case is closed. But what he wants to know how he testified about his wife, who the criminal is and what the relationship between So-yeon and Oh Min-soo is...

Swapping: Perfect Neighbor

Couple Jin-goo and Joo-hee have been experiencing a lover's slump after their marriage. Meanwhile, a new couple in the neighborhood, Hyun-jin and Yoo-jeong came to the other couple's house to introduce themselves. They're attracted with each other's husbands and wives, and in the end, crosses the line that is not supposed to be crossed within neighbors. After that day, two couples' passion intensifies...

Sex Girl 7

Three childhood friends finally gathered. From the first meeting, it's not so bad. Na-yeong enters the house, angry at Min-hyeok and Jin-woo who broke their promise. After living apart for several years, they lived in one house. Three people who are childhood friends but not ordinary friends. When one person disappears, the secret between the two is revealed... Who can develop from a friend to a lover... The unknown story begins now.

Sleepless Sex 2

Jeong Mi-rae has had an outstanding ability in writing since she was young. She's realistic and she gets a lot of job offers. However, this is only when she was young and now that she's been at it for 10 years, she doesn't get as much work as she used to. Now, she gets offers for adult comics or erotic movie scenarios. She starts working on them so that she can make a living but as realistic as she is, she needs to experience eroticism herself to write anything about it. She tries out different positions on her own and even on younger men who are easy to seduce. However, the production company doesn't like what she wrote and Mi-rae's ego is hurt. So, she plans doing something that will surprise them.

Imprisonment

Ha-ni was searching for the whereabouts of the people around her. Weirdly, she finds that the writings of Yeong-cheol, a web novelist, started all of this. Sang-her is upset with her husband… Through a friend's recommendation, they find a place to heal, though it is difficult to tell whether it is a dream or a reality. Dong-seok is the husband who found such behaviors as strange… He follows her wife's navigation to see what she's up to. He is also experiencing strange phenomena. In addition, Yeong-jun who had a death experience, has a strange experience of moving in the space of others. Ha-ni and Yeong-cheol's conflict to exhaust the boyfriend and the people around them, and Dong-seok's favor to Yeong-jun to find his wife, they can't tell if it's a dream or reality…

Meeting Conditions of a Virgin

Ji-won is an erotic writer, but she has not had sex yet, so she cannot write realistically. Eun-sik and Seong-gook compete for their first sex under the pretext that Ji-won is a virgin for her work, and Seong-gook's plan goes up in smoke when his wife Hyeon-hee returns home. On the other hand, Hyeon-hee is curious about Eun-sik and approaches him because his previous job is adult learning and mastering. In this situation, will Ji-won be able to finish her first sex safely and write a huge masterpiece?

Condition of a Mom: Sugar Mom

It's hard to believe Hee-jeong is old enough to have a son (Seong-bin) in university. She needs some kind of stimulant in life, so she starts meetings under conditions. Yeon-hee, Hee-jeong's friend who runs a café, is a killer for younger men. Hee-jeong sends her son Seong-bin to work in Yeon-hee's café... Yeon-hee thinks of her friend's son as meat... Hee-jeong ends up meeting with her son's friend and fate decides to play a game.

18 Year Old Seungha's Easy Piece of Cake

Min-soo, who just started living in a new home, calls his friends Woo-hyeon and Ji-yeong. The two kiss while Min-soo is away from home. Unfortunately, Min-soo also secretly had sex while sleeping. And Min-soo is watching them... Ji-yeong is provoking Min-soo after learning that he saw her having sex with Woo-hyeon. Who will Ji-yeong fall in love with after having sex with these two people? The sweet and bloody story of a woman and two men is just beginning.

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