Movies like Hope (2013)
The best movies like Hope (2013) are Silenced (2011), A Girl at My Door (2014) and Han Gong-ju (2014). If Hope hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedSilenced (2011)8.2/10 from 830 votes
- Newest2037 (2022)Released 2022
- In KoreanSilenced (2011)Also in Korean
Silenced (2011)
Based on actual events that took place at Gwangju Inhwa School for the hearing-impaired, where young deaf students were the victims of repeated sexual assaults by faculty members over a period of five years in the early 2000s.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisA Girl at My Door (2014)
Sent from Seoul to serve in a remote coastal village, a policewoman gets involved in the life of a mysterious teenage girl who is abused by both her father and her grandmother.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHan Gong-ju (2014)
After being involved in a traumatic incident, 17-year-old Gong-ju is forced to change schools. Uncared for by her parents, her previous teacher arranges for her to hide away at his mother's place. It takes time for her past to catch up with her, but when it does the revelation is devastating.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Brand New Life (2009)
Abandoned by her father, a girl adjusts to life in an orphanage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisShoot Me in the Heart (2015)
After a young man is forcibly institutionalized, he plans to break out – bringing formerly-passive fellow resident along for the ride!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Miracle in Cell No. 7 (2013)
A story about a mentally ill man wrongfully imprisoned for murder and his relationship with his 6 year old daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisMOTHER (2020)
Shuhei is leading a tough life. His alcoholic mother Akiko can only hook up with bad guys and order Shuhei to go get money from his disapproving grandparents instead of going to school. Except raising the little half-sister, his rock-bottom life seems to have no end.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBleak Night (2011)
The suicide of a former high-school bully puts the boy's father on a quest for answers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPoetry (2010)
A South Korean woman in her sixties enrolls in a poetry class as she grapples with her faltering memory and her grandson's appalling wrongdoing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMy Lovely Angel (2021)
A life-changing story of a man who has lived as a loner his entire life. Jae Shik begins to live together with a child with a hearing-visual disability, as they change each other's lives and try to find a way to communicate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
My First Client (2019)
A success-hungry lawyer finds himself unable to turn his back on a suspicious case involving a child who claims she murdered her brother.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisPieta (2012)
A loan shark is forced to reconsider his violent lifestyle after the arrival of a mysterious woman claiming to be his long-lost mother.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSecret Sunshine (2007)
Shin-ae moves to her recently late husband’s hometown. Despite her efforts to settle in this unfamiliar and too-normal place, she finds that she can’t fit in. After a sudden tragedy, Shin-ae turns to Christianity to relieve her pain, but when even this is not permitted, she wages a war against God.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCoin Locker Girl (2015)
Il-young tries to get away from her adoptive mother because she does not want to get involved in her mother's criminal activities.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMy Brilliant Life (2014)
A couple of teenagers have a son who suffers from progeria, a rare genetic disorder which makes one age exponentially faster than normal. 16 years later, the child has the body of an 80 year old in the final days of his life writing a book about his parents' love story.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Peppermint Candy (2000)
In the spring of 1999, a group of old friends gather to celebrate their 20 year reunion. Among the group is Yeong-ho, a cold, unhappy man, whose demeanor puts a damper on the festivities. The seriousness of Yeong-ho's depression becomes apparent when he climbs a railroad bridge and looks like he might jump. At this crucial moment, memories of seven crucial episodes from Yeong-ho's past flood his mind.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisInnocent Witness (2019)
An old man is found dead, and his housekeeper is charged with the murder. Her defense attorney is surprised to learn the only witness to the crime is a teenage girl with autism.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMiss Baek (2018)
A woman's past as a convict follows her everywhere and because of this she doesn't open up to others. But then she strikes up a friendship with a broken child who has suffered from domestic violence and decides to save the girl from the cruel world. A man who holds feelings for the woman, tries to protect her in his own way.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOde to My Father (2014)
Duk-soo lost his father and younger sister while taking refuge during the Korean War. He leaves for Germany to work as a miner and enters the Vietnam War. He wishes to find his sister.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSnowy Road (2015)
Jong-bun and Young-ae are kidnapped and thrown into the same train. They both do not know where they are headed, but soon experience the horrific reality of comfort women.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Birthday (2019)
Returning from eight years abroad at work and in prison, Jeong-il struggles to reconnect with his wife and their young daughter, Ye-sol, whom he barely knows.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
I Can Speak (2017)
A grumpy old woman befriends a young civil servant and learns English from him. She then reveals to him her shocking past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisCrossing (2008)
Yong-soo is an ex-soccer player who lives in a small coal-mine village in North Korea with his wife and young son, Joon. Although living in extreme poverty like many other families in North Korea, the family is happy just to be with each other. Then one day, Yong-soo's pregnant wife becomes critically ill. Let alone medicine, Yong-soo can't even find food for her in North Korea. So he decides to secretly cross the border to China hoping to find the medicine for his wife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Canola (2016)
A girl who went missing after an accident returns 10 years later and reunites with her grandmother.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisSwing Kids (2018)
Rebellious Ki-soo from North Korea is mesmerized by tap dance in prison camps. Ki-soo joins as a team member of a dance team named 'Swing Kids'. Yet suddenly, their dreams about dancing in prison camps are put in danger.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Attorney (2013)
Song Woo-seok is a lawyer with no clients. When his friend's son is falsely accused of a crime and tortured, he takes up the case and the course of his life changes for good.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTake Care of My Cat (2001)
When one girl from five close school friends moves to Seoul after school is over, the other four try and deal with the loss of her moving and them drifting apart.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGreen Fish (1997)
Returning home and finding his town drastically changed, a former soldier falls in with gangsters.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like this2037 (2022)
Yoon-young, a 19-year-old girl who dreams of becoming a civil servant, is framed as a murderer and imprisoned in a women's prison.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWay Back Home (2013)
Jeong-yoon and Jong-bae own a car body repair shop together that gets in financial trouble. To help cover the losses and take care of her family, Jeong-yoon decides to smuggle thirty kilograms of cocaine.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Hope?
The closest matches to Hope are Silenced (2011), A Girl at My Door (2014) and Han Gong-ju (2014). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Hope?
People who watched Hope most often go on to Silenced (2011), A Girl at My Door (2014) and Han Gong-ju (2014).
What is the highest-rated movie like Hope?
Silenced (2011), rated 8.2/10 by 830 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Hope?
2037 (2022) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Korean movies like Hope?
Yes: Silenced (2011), A Girl at My Door (2014) and Han Gong-ju (2014).
How are movies similar to Hope chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Hope, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.