Movies like The Woman Outside the Window (1980)
The best movies like The Woman Outside the Window (1980) are Eungyo (2012), Mood of the Day (2016) and Special (2006). If The Woman Outside the Window hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
The Woman Outside the Window
Quick picks
- Highest rated¿Quieres ser mi hijo? (2023)8.4/10 from 378 votes
- NewestThe Rule of Jenny Pen (2025)Released 2025
- In KoreanEungyo (2012)Also in Korean
Eungyo (2012)
A reclusive elderly poet feels the fire of his youth when gamine schoolgirl Eun-gyo enters his life, to the chagrin of the old man's assistant.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMood of the Day (2016)
A train ride brings two unlikely souls together as Bae, a committed partner of a serious 10-year relationship, sees her world turned upside down by the charming playboy Kim. Seated together on a business trip from Seoul to Busan, the two find themselves on an adventure to remember.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSpecial (2006)
A lonely metermaid has a psychotic reaction to his medication and becomes convinced he's a superhero. A very select group of people in life are truly gifted. Special is a movie about everyone else.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNovocaine (2025)
When the girl of his dreams is kidnapped, everyman Nate turns his inability to feel pain into an unexpected strength in his fight to get her back.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like this¿Quieres ser mi hijo? (2023)
Lu, a conformist woman in her forties, learns that her 15-year partner has been having extramarital affairs. Starting from scratch, she gets involved in an unexpected relationship with a young womanizer.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisVampire's Kiss (1989)
A publishing executive is visited and bitten by a vampire and starts exhibiting erratic behavior. He pushes his secretary to extremes as he tries to come to terms with his affliction.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Rule of Jenny Pen (2025)
Confined to a secluded rest home and trapped within his stroke-ridden body, a former Judge must stop an elderly psychopath who employs a child's puppet to abuse the home's residents with deadly consequences.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWhat's New Pussycat? (1965)
A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisScarlet Innocence (2014)
A university professor gradually succumbing to blindness is entranced by an obsessive love, in this modern-day adaptation of a classic Korean fairy tale.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLittle Fish (2021)
A couple fights to hold their relationship together as a memory loss virus spreads and threatens to erase the history of their love and courtship.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBarefoot (2014)
The "black sheep" son of a wealthy family meets a young psychiatric patient who's been raised in isolation her entire life. He takes the naive young woman home for his brother's wedding an improbable romance blooms, as she impresses everyone with her genuine, simple charms.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSecretary (2002)
A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMozart and the Whale (2005)
A love story between two savants with Asperger's syndrome, a kind of autism, whose conditions sabotage their budding relationship.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSeoul Station (2016)
When a zombie virus erupts from Seoul Station, a young woman fights to survive on the streets while her boyfriend and father track her down.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSpellbound (2011)
A magician makes an assistant out of a strange girl with the ability to see ghosts, and the two achieve success with their shows, through thick and thin. However, another kind of magic might be brewing behind the scenes of their act... love!
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisStalked by My Doctor (2015)
When a teenage girl is miraculously saved by a heart surgeon, the doctor begins to flirt with her. Her father doesn’t believe her and unbeknownst to all, the doctor is obsessed with the girl.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOde to Joy (2019)
Charlie suffers from a serious disease that causes acute narcolepsy whenever he is happy. Although he develops a variety of techniques to deny himself pleasure and deal with his sleep issues, they’re put to the test when he falls in love.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPanic (2000)
Alex is going through a midlife crisis and it has become a very difficult time for him. His marriage is struggling, he's worried about his son, and his job of killing people for his family has become the most stressful part of his life. He seeks the help of a therapist and meets a woman in the waiting room that he connects with.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Neon Demon (2016)
When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBadland Hunters (2024)
After a deadly earthquake turns Seoul into a lawless badland, a fearless huntsman springs into action to rescue a teenager abducted by a mad doctor.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Woman Outside the Window?
The closest matches to The Woman Outside the Window are Eungyo (2012), Mood of the Day (2016) and Special (2006). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Woman Outside the Window?
Start with Eungyo (2012), the closest match to The Woman Outside the Window.
What is the highest-rated movie like The Woman Outside the Window?
¿Quieres ser mi hijo? (2023), rated 8.4/10 by 378 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Woman Outside the Window?
The Rule of Jenny Pen (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Korean movies like The Woman Outside the Window?
Yes: Eungyo (2012), Mood of the Day (2016) and Scarlet Innocence (2014).
How are movies similar to The Woman Outside the Window chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Woman Outside the Window, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.