Movies like Canola (2016)
The best movies like Canola (2016) are Bleak Night (2011), My Lovely Angel (2021) and Innocent Witness (2019). If Canola hooked you with its drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedHope (2013)8.4/10 from 929 votes
- NewestIn Our Prime (2022)Released 2022
- In KoreanBleak Night (2011)Also in Korean
Bleak 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 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
Innocent 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 thisBirthday (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
A 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 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 thisI 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 thisMy 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 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 thisJuror 8 (2019)
Seoul, South Korea, September 21st, 2008. Eight citizens, the first to intervene as jurors in the country's legal history, are randomly selected to examine a matricide case that appears to have been resolved due to the existence of apparently conclusive evidence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
My 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
Little Forest (2018)
A young woman leaves the city to return to her hometown in the countryside. Seeking to escape the hustle and bustle of the city, she becomes self-sufficient in a bid to reconnect with nature.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisKim Ji-young: Born 1982 (2019)
Kim Ji-young, an ordinary woman in her 30s, suddenly shows signs of being inhabited by other women from her life, past and present.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMonster (2014)
Bok-Soon runs a street stall, cares for her younger sister, and is feared by many because of her quick temper. When Tae-Soo murders her sister, rage consumes her completely as she stalks the killer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisSunny (2011)
Seven girls become good friends in high school, then events pull them apart for 25 years. When one of the friends lies dying in a hospital, she wishes to see each of them one last time.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisIn Our Prime (2022)
Ji-woo, an outcast at a prestigious private school, meets Hak-sung, the school janitor who is actually a mathematical genius who defected from North Korea.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisA Distant Place (2021)
A sheep farmer whose remote and quiet life is disturbed by the arrival of both his lover and his twin sister.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
As One (2012)
A unified team representing the two Koreas competed at the 1991 Chiba International Table Tennis Championships. It was the first such sport team since the division of the Korean peninsula. The unified team won the group competition event, beating the front runner, China.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFukuoka (2020)
A bookseller from Seoul travels with a young woman to Fukuoka in Japan to meet a former friend from university. While their reunion is haunted by the conflicts of the past, his travel companion floats through the plot as if moving through a dream.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Ode 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 thisTreeless Mountain (2009)
A Korean woman leaves her two young daughters with her sister-in-law to search for their estranged father.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Little Princess (2019)
Mal-soon is poor 72-years-old granny and enjoys her single life. One day, Gong-ju and her baby sister appear in front of Mal-soon. Gong-ju introduces herself as Mal-soon's granddaughter. Since then, Mal-soon's peaceful life changes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
My Annoying Brother (2016)
A jailed swindler leaps at the chance to earn parole in return for taking care of his estranged brother, an athlete who recently lost his sight.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisHope (2013)
After 8-year-old So-won narrowly survives a brutal sexual assault, her family labors to help her heal while coping with their own rage and grief.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisTunnel (2016)
A man is on his way home when the poorly constructed tunnel he is driving through collapses, leaving him trapped leaving himself for the unexpected whilst emergency services struggle to help.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMiracle: Letters to the President (2021)
Dreaming of making a way station for his sister and the villagers who have no choice but to commute along the dangerous train tracks every day, Joon-kyung sends many letters to the President, but with no reply. Ra-hee, who has a crush on Joon-kyung, does everything she can to help him meet the President.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisVanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned (2016)
Days after her friends disappear during a trip to a mysterious cave, a girl is approached by a grown man claiming to be one of her missing pals.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisEveryone Is There (2020)
Soo Yeon decides to commit suicide to end the bullying she goes through at school, when a savior appears. A woman punishes the bullies on behalf of Soo Yeon and saves her from the reality of hell.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Way Home (2002)
This is the story of a 7-year-old boy, Sang-woo, born and raised in the big city, and his mute grandmother, who has spent her whole life in a small rural village.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Canola?
The closest matches to Canola are Bleak Night (2011), My Lovely Angel (2021) and Innocent Witness (2019). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Canola?
People who watched Canola most often go on to Bleak Night (2011), My Lovely Angel (2021) and Innocent Witness (2019).
What is the highest-rated movie like Canola?
Hope (2013), rated 8.4/10 by 929 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Canola?
In Our Prime (2022) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Korean movies like Canola?
Yes: Bleak Night (2011), My Lovely Angel (2021) and Innocent Witness (2019).
How are movies similar to Canola chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Canola, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.