Movies like Right Now, Wrong Then (2015)
The best movies like Right Now, Wrong Then (2015) are Oki's Movie (2010), Like You Know It All (2009) and The Day After (2017). If Right Now, Wrong Then hooked you with its drama and romance, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedIn the Mood for Love (2000)8.1/10 from 3,459 votes
- NewestHere (2024)Released 2024
- In KoreanOki's Movie (2010)Also in Korean
Oki's Movie (2010)
Oki, a film student, gets involved in two relationships as she navigates the advances of a fellow student and grapples with her feelings for her much older professor.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLike You Know It All (2009)
A South Korean art house film director is first invited to serve on the panel of a film festival, then to guest lecture at a film school.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Day After (2017)
On her first day at work, Ahreum replaces a woman who broke up with the boss. The wife of the boss finds a love note, bursts into the office, and mistakes Ahreum for the other woman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOur Sunhi (2013)
Sunhi, a film major graduate, visits her school to ask her Professor Choi for a recommendation letter to study in U.S. Knowing the professor favors her, she expects a good recommendation from him. Out from her shell after a long time, Sunhi also ends up meeting two men from her past: Munsu, her ex-boy friend, and Jaehak, a director who graduated from the same film school. Through the encounters between Sunhi and the three men, they give each other an 'advice on life' with good intentions. The three men who all have strong interests in her are led to guess and define her, unable to tell how she really feels inside. Strangely, the mentioned advices and traits of her are similar and seem to pass from one person to the next. The words of 'advice on life' seem doubtable and slip away as the three men's thoughts on Sunhi become more and more irrelevant.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOn the Beach at Night Alone (2017)
In a foreign city, an actress wanders through a seaside town, reflecting on her relationship with a married man. How important is love in one’s life? Younghee wants to find out.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Woman Who Ran (2020)
While her husband is on a business trip, Gamhee meets three of her friends. She visits the first two at their homes, and the third she encounters by chance at a theater. While they make friendly conversation, as always, several currents flow independently above and below the surface of the sea.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOasis (2002)
A young man released from prison visits the widow of the man he killed drunk-driving and becomes infatuated with his cerebral palsy-stricken daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Day He Arrives (2011)
A film director who no longer makes films arrives in Seoul to meet a close friend. When the friend doesn't show up, he wanders the city aimlessly for three days, grabbing drinks and meeting women, with each day playing out like a version of the last.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFive Senses of Eros (2009)
In this anthology film centered around the theme of "Eros," five seperate stories are presented by five top Korean directors. The main characters from each segment are connected with each other in one way or another.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Gyeongju (2014)
A Beijing professor returns to his stomping grounds for a friend's funeral. Reflecting on the past, he meets a tea shop owner who sparks feelings of love in a time of pain.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Hill of Freedom (2014)
Kwon returns to Seoul from a restorative stay in the mountains. She is given a packet of letters left by Mori, who has come back from Japan to propose to her. Kwon drops and scatters the letters, all of which are undated. When she reads them, she has to make sense of the chronology.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Power of Kangwon Province (1998)
After a breakup, a young woman goes to a mountain resort on vacation and falls for a married policeman. Unbeknownst to her, her ex is also vacationing there.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
In Another Country (2012)
A young woman and her mother run away to the seaside town of Mohang to escape their mounting debt. The young woman begins writing a script for a short film in order to calm her nerves: There are three women named Anne, and each woman consecutively visits the seaside town of Mohang. A young woman tends to the small hotel by the Mohang foreshore owned by her parents. A certain lifeguard can be seen restlessly wandering up and down the beach that lies nearby. Each Anne stays at this small hotel, receives some assistance from the owner's daughter, and ventures onto the beach where they meet the lifeguard.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Novelist's Film (2022)
A novelist visits a bookstore run by a young colleague who's been out of touch, then takes a walk with a film director and his wife. She meets an actress and tries to convince her to make a film together.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIn the Mood for Love (2000)
In 1960s Hong Kong, two neighbors form an intimate bond after making a discovery about their spouses in this visually stunning tale of unrequited love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisHotel by the River (2019)
An aging poet summons his estranged sons to the hotel he is staying at because he feels his death is near; meanwhile, he encounters two women staying at the hotel.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMicrohabitat (2018)
Miso lives from day to day by housekeeping. Cigarettes and whiskey are the two things that get her through the day. As cigarette prices and rent start to rise, Miso decides to give up her house for cigarettes and whiskey, leading her to couch surf with old friends while reconsidering her place in life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPurpose of Reunion (2015)
Dongchul, who is managing a small bar, is always enthusiastic about his school reunions. One day, Yujin, who has never showed up to a reunion, shows up at his bar. Her baby face and vitality make her unlike other married women and all the men fall for her, especially Dongchul. They start a relationship but it abruptly flames out due to the sudden arrival of Dongchul’s wife. As they get to know each other's secrets, will their love be allowed to grow?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (2000)
When filmmaker Young-soo introduces writer Soo-jung to his friend Jae-hoon, he unintentionally creates a love triangle. While Jae-hoon pursues Soo-jung, Young-soo clashes with his crew. Yet, just as the story appears to end, it starts all over again, this time with plenty of variations.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisYourself and Yours (2016)
While a South Korean man wanders the city in search of the woman he just broke up with, she successively meets and flirts with two men who claim to have met her before.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIntroduction (2021)
Youngho is summoned by his father, who is a doctor. Finding him busy with his patients, one of whom is a famous actor, Youngho has to wait. When his girlfriend Juwon moves to Berlin for her studies, Youngho shows up in the city to surprise her. Through her mother, Juwon has found accommodation at the home of an artist whose beauty intimidates her. Some time later, Youngho goes to lunch with his mother who wants to introduce him to a colleague – it is the same man Youngho met at his father’s clinic. Youngho asks his friend Jeongsoo to accompany him, and after lunch they go to the beach. Youngho falls asleep, and dreams of Juwon. When he wakes up, he braves the considerable cold and goes swimming, while Jeongsoo watches.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
3-Iron (2004)
A drifter lives in people's houses while they are away and repays them by doing chores for them. His life changes when he meets a beautiful woman who wants to escape her unhappy marriage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHere (2024)
In Brussels, a construction worker crosses paths with a bryologist.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Night and Day (2008)
Kim Seong-nam travels to Paris to escape an arrest, leaving his wife behind in Korea. After he arrives, he meets an ex-girlfriend and is introduced to a small community of Korean artists.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWoman Is the Future of Man (2004)
As the first snow falls in Seoul, two old friends reunite; one is a successful college professor, and the other, a struggling filmmaker recently returned from the United States. After their reminiscences, they finally decide to go in search of the young woman each had romanced years earlier.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTune in for Love (2019)
During the 1990s, hardworking Mi-soo and optimistic Hyun-woo meet at a bakery and fall in love while exchanging stories on a radio station, but while their paths keep crossing, the timing never seems to work out.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Eighth Sense (2023)
A shy art student joins a surfing club—and falls for the senior who teaches him more than just how to ride the waves.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
In Front of Your Face (2021)
She has never lived in a high-rise apartment, and she wonders how her sister can live at this height every day. A few days ago she kind of burst in to stay with her sister, and she is now becoming re-accustomed to life in Korea. While seeming to keep a grave secret to herself, she manages life one day at a time with a sense of mindfulness. Meanwhile a certain director, some years younger than her, has asked her to join his project, and after a polite refusal, they have agreed to meet for the first time today. Downtown Seoul is filled with narrow alleys that harbor tiny old bars, and that's where they meet. As they are getting drunk, there is sudden rainfall and thunder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGrass (2018)
Ahreum sits in a small café, typing on her laptop. Around her, customers enact various dramas from their lives. Is she writing what she hears or is she hearing what's been written?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBoth Sides of the Blade (2022)
Jean and Sara have been living together for 10 years. When they first met, Sara was living with François, Jean’s best friend and an admirer from back when he played rugby. Jean and Sara love each other. One day, Sara sees François in the street. He does not notice her, but she is overtaken by the sensation that her life could suddenly change. François gets back in touch with Jean. For the first time in years. He suggests they start working together again. From here on, things spiral out of control.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Right Now, Wrong Then?
The closest matches to Right Now, Wrong Then are Oki's Movie (2010), Like You Know It All (2009) and The Day After (2017). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Right Now, Wrong Then?
People who watched Right Now, Wrong Then most often go on to Oki's Movie (2010), Like You Know It All (2009) and The Day After (2017).
What is the highest-rated movie like Right Now, Wrong Then?
In the Mood for Love (2000), rated 8.1/10 by 3,459 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Right Now, Wrong Then?
Here (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Korean movies like Right Now, Wrong Then?
Yes: Oki's Movie (2010), Like You Know It All (2009) and The Day After (2017).
How are movies similar to Right Now, Wrong Then chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Right Now, Wrong Then, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.