20 best movies like When I Was The Prettiest (2012)

List of the best movies like When I Was The Prettiest (2012): Golden Rainbow, Lovers Vanished, Love Lesson, Endings, Beginnings, Gabi, Like for Likes, Slow Video, Ojakgyo Family, Two Weddings and a Funeral, Never Ending Story.

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Markimdb: 7.7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountrySouth Korea

A drama about seven siblings, all of them are orphans and not blood-related, love each other more than real siblings. They will go through many hardships together. Baek Won is the leader of seven orphans who band together to make their own family. Meanwhile, Do Young is the prosecutor who falls in love with her.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genremelodrama
CountrySouth Korea

An escaped convict and a woman, who both contracted HIV from the same man, fall in love.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genremelodrama, drama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:40

Korea's most popular song writer Hee-soo (Kim Seon-yeong) runs into a nineteen-year-old boy in the elevator. Hee-soo is inspired by a new song watching him shake at her figure. She starts to tell him about women under the excuse that she's teaching him music. They fall for each other but things get complicated when her life teacher, Joon-ho who taught her about life and music comes back...

Markimdb: 5.6
Genremelodrama
CountryUSA, South Korea

An artist dumps her longtime boyfriend, but her attempt to take a break from dating ends when she quickly finds herself in two passionate romances.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genreaction, melodrama, history
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:55

Set towards the end of the 19th century, when coffee was first introduced to Korea, Russian sharpshooter Illichi and Joseon's first barista Danya are manipulated by Japanese officer Sadako into an elaborate plan to assassinate King Gojong.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:10

A notoriously shrewish TV drama writer and a Korean wave star who fight like cats and dogs every time they meet; a spinster flight attendant landlady and a nosy chef tenant who build a sense of camaraderie; a genius relationship-virgin composer who harbors a secret admiration for a scatterbrained producer. As they crash-land into each other's lives, will there be love?

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountrySouth Korea, USA

Jang-bu was an ordinary boy except his special talent; To see every moving thing like a slow motion video. As friends teased him by calling ‘monster eyes’, he decided to stick at home and not to go out. Television has been his only friend. Time passes by, and now grown-up Jang-bu works at the CCTV control center which is the best job for him. When he sees people’s life through camera, he feels he’s sharing their ordinary life that he’s never had. This new job opens his heart to the world and Jang-bu starts to make some friends out of the control center. With his dear friends he receives sense of himself and finally decides to propose a girl that he loved for long from CCTV…

Markimdb: 8.2
Genremelodrama
CountrySouth Korea

The story of a family with four sons who live together with their relatives on a farm near Seoul. Hwang Tae Hee is the third son and a policeman who falls in love with a girl named Baek Ja Eun. Baek Ja Eun is a haughty young woman who only believes in her pretty looks and is quick to flare up in anger.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea

A gay man and a lesbian pretend to be in love to appease their parents.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genremelodrama, drama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:54

A man and a woman who is only given so much time to live fall in love and resolves heart aching love into a bright and cheerful one.

Markimdb: 8
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration00:30

Cha Eun Ho is a genius writer and the youngest chief editor ever at his publishing company. He is smart and handsome. He is also even tempered at work, but he has a warm heart and a reasonable personality. Kang Da Ni used to be a popular copywriter, but she is not anymore. She is now broke and unemployed. Even though she tries to find a job, due to her impressive career and excellent educational background, she is unable to find a new job. Finally, Kang Da Ni gets a job at a publishing company by lying about her background. Cha Eun Ho is the chief editor at that publishing company. They begin to develop romantic feelings for each other.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genremelodrama, drama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration00:31

Kang Hye Soo is a single mom. Her husband dies in an accident and she raises her little daughter alone. Afterwards, She learns that she has brain tumor. She then signs a Marriage Contract with a rich man, Han Ji Hoon in order to find a guardian for her daughter.

Markimdb: 7
Genremelodrama
CountrySouth Korea

The arrival of an intimate letter prompts a young woman to bring her mother on vacation to a small Japanese town, where someone special resides.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:44

After losing his family when he was young, Nam-soon feels no pain. He cannot feel physical pain and is emotionally barren until he meets Dong-hyeon, who calls herself a vampire because she suffers from hemophilia. Unlike Dong-hyeon, when Nam-soon is injured, she bleeds from even the smallest wound. As the two grow closer, Dong-hyeon suddenly begins to lose his lifelong insensitivity to pain and the hurt of a lifetime washes over him.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrethriller, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea

As a child, Park Hoon and his dad were kidnapped and taken to North Korea. He grew up there, learning to be a doctor just like his father. When Park Hoon escapes back to South Korea and begins work at a prestigious hospital, he makes it his goal to earn enough money to go back to North Korea to rescue his true love. He'll do anything to find her, but then he meets and falls for a mysterious woman who looks exactly like her.

Markimdb: 4.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea

Gyun-woo is having difficulty forgetting the sassy girl. He then reunites with his childhood sweetheart, an elementary school classmate from China who was often teased about her broken Korean. They marry despite family opposition, and Gyun-woo has no idea what marriage has in store for him.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genreaction, melodrama, drama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:48

Cheol-Min, a man with a dark, picks up a part-time night job as a parking lot attendant. He sits in the tiny pay booth in the parking lot and stares at the small television. A woman named Jung-Hwa walks into the booth. Cheol-Min realizes the woman is blind and she is confusing him for the parking attendant who worked there previously. Nevertheless, the woman comes back on another night to watch the same television drama series. Cheol-Min starts becoming attached to Jung-Hwa and they find out they are connected by the same incident in the past.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration02:04

Na-mi, a transfer student, becomes a laughingstock on her first day of school because of her strong southern dialect. Six girls jump in to help the new kid adapt to the new environment, and the girls come to call their circle of friends "Sunny."

Markimdb: 5.3
Genreaction, comedy, melodrama
CountryChina, South Korea, Hong Kong
Duration01:06

Lee Shan and Ayo are ex-Interpol agents who are now bounty hunters, chasing fugitives for cash rewards. When the two of them are framed for a hotel-bombing, they join hands with a legendary bounty hunter named Cat, along with her teammates, to find the real bomber.

Markimdb: 9.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration00:24

There are five families living in the same neighbourhood of Ssangmundong, Dobong District, Northern Seoul. The neighbourhood is filled with warmth and love because everyone shares and cares for each other. Being the second daughter in the family with an elder sister and a younger brother, Sung Deok Sun often feels that she is being neglected by her parents. She finds out later that family is her only source of support when she is being harmed.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountrySouth Korea, Hong Kong, China, USA
Duration02:08

Anna learns in prison that her mother has passed away in Seattle. Prison officials grants Anna a three day furlough to attend her mother's funeral. Anna embarks on a long trip to Seattle. Hoon is a Korean immigrant who works as a gigolo. Hoon is now on the run from a wealthy client's furious husband. These two seemingly lost souls are about to share three memorable days together.

Markimdb: 7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:35

A seasoned actor and a pop star are cast as leads in a gay romantic play. As the actor teaches the pop star method acting, the line between fiction and reality is blurred and they become drawn to each other.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:11

A comic and romantic story about top dating consultant Kwon Tae Joon, whose comfortable life as a cold and unattached playboy with a cynical view of love is thrown into chaos when he is irresistibly drawn to his first female client Lee Jin Yi, while matching her with her target Choi Chul Woo.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountrySouth Korea, China
Duration01:54

My Lucky Star is a 2013 Chinese romance film directed by Dennie Gordon and starring Zhang Ziyi and Leehom Wang. The film also serves as a prequel to the 2009 film Sophie's Revenge.




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