Movies like Night Flight (2014)
The best movies like Night Flight (2014) are House of Hummingbird (2019), Heavy Snow (2024) and 2 Cool 2 Be 4gotten (2016). If Night Flight hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedYoung Hearts (2024)8.6/10 from 334 votes
- NewestYou Are the Apple of My Eye (2025)Released 2025
- In KoreanHouse of Hummingbird (2019)Also in Korean
House of Hummingbird (2019)
14-year-old Eun-hee moves through life like a hummingbird searching for a taste of sweetness wherever she may find it. Ignored by her parents and abused by her brother, she finds her escape by roaming the neighborhood with her best friend, going on adventures, and exploring young love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHeavy Snow (2024)
Su-an, a performing arts high school student, becomes close with Seol, an actress and celebrity. During a trip, they realize that they have feelings for each other. However, misunderstandings pile up too much, and Seol leaves Su-an. Su-an later becomes an actress and returns to the winter sea, longing for Seol.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
2 Cool 2 Be 4gotten (2016)
Felix is a friendless achiever in high school whose life changes after the arrival of the half-American Snyder brothers, entangling him in their dark ambitions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
You Are the Apple of My Eye (2011)
A group of close friends who attend a private school all have a debilitating crush on the sunny star pupil, Shen Chia-yi. The only member of the group who claims not to is Ko Ching-teng, but he ends up loving her as well.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisYou Are the Apple of My Eye (2025)
A group of close friends who attend a private school all have a debilitating crush on the sunny star pupil, Sun-ah. The only member of the group who claims not to is Jin-woo, but he ends up loving her as well.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991. High school freshman Charlie is a wallflower, always watching life from the sidelines, until two senior students, Sam and her stepbrother Patrick, become his mentors, helping him discover the joys of friendship, music and love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisEternal Summer (2006)
Three high school students experience the perks and pitfalls of love in director Leste Chen’s sensitive tale of friendship and yearning.
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 thisCry Me a Sad River (2018)
Qi Ming is a handsome boy and he is also a top student at school, but Yi Yao is a so-called bitch on everyone’s lips. Qi and Yi grew up together and they have been maintaining a good relationship. However, everything is interrupted and changed by Tang Xiaomi. Rumors have become a sharp weapon to destroy people. Yi Yao's life falls into darkness, and she suffers all kinds of cruel bullying at school.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Moonlight (2016)
The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisYour Name Engraved Herein (2020)
In 1987, as martial law ends in Taiwan, Jia-han and Birdy fall in love amid family pressure, homophobia and social stigma.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe World of Us (2016)
A bullied girl becomes friends with a new kid during a break, but when classes start up again, their new friendship is nearly ruined when the bullying continues.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWhite Night (2012)
Flight attendant Won-gyu left Korea 2 years ago with painful memories and now comes back. Won-gyu meets Tae-joon, who is a quick service delivery man and has a special night with him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
How to Win at Checkers (Every Time) (2015)
An 11-year-old boy steals money for bribes to remove his gay older brother from Thai military conscription rolls, unaware of the ramifications.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Poetry (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 thisGirl's Revenge (2020)
At a birthday party, a sex video is filmed without consent and Ren Li-cha is the girl in the video. The clip circulates among the students and Li-cha is mocked and bullied as a result. Wu Yun-heng, a transfer student, went to the party with Li-cha. As she cannot stand how much Li-cha is suffering' she is determined to find out about the truth behind the incident, fighting for her best friend. However, as she gets closer to the truth, she is about to shatter the peace in school.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
A boy experiences first love, friendships and injustices growing up in 1960s Taiwan.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisDazed and Confused (1993)
The adventures of a group of Texas teens on their last day of school in 1976, centering on student Randall Floyd, who moves easily among stoners, jocks and geeks. Floyd is a star athlete, but he also likes smoking weed, which presents a conundrum when his football coach demands he sign a "no drugs" pledge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Blue Hour (2015)
A bullied loner finds solace in another boy's arms when they meet at a haunted swimming pool.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Flat Girls (2025)
As Jane prepares to leave a police flat where she was born and raised, she starts to reflect on old memories including a painful story of love and intimacy lost between a handsome young policeman and Ann, the ambitious older girl Jane once secretly loved.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Young Hearts (2024)
14-year-old Elias increasingly feels like an outsider in his village. When he meets his new neighbour of the same age, Alexander, Elias is confronted with his burgeoning sexuality.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisOne Way Trip (2016)
Four friends on a trip rescue a woman who is being beaten by a man, only to be pursued by the police. One of them lapses into unconsciousness following an ensuing car accident and the other three are arrested on suspicion of murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Blue Gate Crossing (2002)
Yueh-chen has an obsession with her classmate Shihao, but is too shy to confess to him directly. She sends in her best friend, Kerou, to act as a go-between, and Shihao ends up falling for Kerou, who is not sure what to think of him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGirlfriend Boyfriend (2012)
Mabel, Liam and Aaron have been friends since childhood. Their bonds of friendship are tested when, years later, they realize their friendship is the only reason they have made it through emotional hardships and extreme tragedies.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisViệt and Nam (2024)
In the depths of the underground coal mines, where danger awaits and darkness prevails, Nam and Việt, both young miners, cherish fleeting moments, knowing that one of them will soon leave for a new life across the sea.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Hot Young Bloods (2014)
A comedy romance movie about the last generation of youths and their passionate romance based in Hongseong, Chungcheong Namdo in the 1980s.
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 thisIlo Ilo (2013)
During the late 1990s, a busy working-class Singaporean couple hires a Filipino woman as a maid and nanny to their young son.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisYoung Adult Matters (2021)
Se-jin, a high school student, becomes pregnant and gets ostracized by her family and school. While wandering the streets, she meets Joo-yeong, an experienced runaway, and tries to get an abortion with Joo-yeong's help.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Night Flight?
The closest matches to Night Flight are House of Hummingbird (2019), Heavy Snow (2024) and 2 Cool 2 Be 4gotten (2016). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Night Flight?
People who watched Night Flight most often go on to House of Hummingbird (2019), Heavy Snow (2024) and 2 Cool 2 Be 4gotten (2016).
What is the highest-rated movie like Night Flight?
Young Hearts (2024), rated 8.6/10 by 334 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Night Flight?
You Are the Apple of My Eye (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Korean movies like Night Flight?
Yes: House of Hummingbird (2019), Heavy Snow (2024) and You Are the Apple of My Eye (2025).
How are movies similar to Night Flight chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Night Flight, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.