Movies like Memento Mori (1999)
The best movies like Memento Mori (1999) are Whispering Corridors (1998), Wishing Stairs (2003) and Girl's Revenge (2020). If Memento Mori hooked you with its horror and romance, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Man Who Laughs (1928)7.4/10 from 234 votes
- NewestGirl's Revenge (2020)Released 2020
- In KoreanWhispering Corridors (1998)Also in Korean
- Same seriesWhispering Corridors (1998)Whispering Corridors
Whispering Corridors (1998)
The ghost of a student who died at a Korean school comes back to seek vengeance and protect her friends.
Why it matches: Same series: Whispering Corridors · both horror & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWishing Stairs (2003)
A staircase leading to a schoolgirls' dormitory usually has 28 steps, but sometimes a 29th step appears. Any wish you make while standing on this step comes true, even if it must come true in the most horrific way possible.
Why it matches: Same series: Whispering Corridors · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies 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
Voices (2007)
Ga-in, a high school student, witnesses the deaths of her relatives who die from a curse. Once she finds out that she is the next target, she asks her boyfriend to help her break the spell.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Blood Pledge (2009)
Four friends pledge to commit suicide together but while standing on the ledge, only one of them actually jumps. Her ghost begins to haunt the remaining friends until the pledge is fulfilled.
Why it matches: Same series: Whispering Corridors · both horror & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisEpitaph (2007)
A man and his wife investigate a string of murders, a medical student sees visions of a dead girl, and a child is haunted by her dead parent's ghosts.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Phone (2002)
Soon after getting a new phone, a woman notices strange things starting to happen. When she investigates, she discovers that everyone who has had her phone number before her has died suddenly and mysteriously.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisShutter (2004)
When Jane and Tun run over a girl in a car accident, they speed away immediately from the crime scene. However, Tun, a photographer, soon discovers strange shadows in his photos, which unsettles them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDon't Worry, I'm a Ghost (2012)
A man wakes up in the hospital after an accident with no memory of his name, family, or home. After the police identify him as Lee Mungi, he returns home, only to wake up and find a girl watching him. She claims to be a ghost. Mungi dismisses her as a hallucination until he finds her photo at a funeral and learns her name is Kim Yeonhwa. When he asks if she wants him to find her killer, Yeonhwa says the police can handle that and reveals that he has a more important task. The reason she came to him lies within his lost memories.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Voice (2005)
While practicing after hours in her high school, an aspiring singer is mysteriously killed and her body vanishes. Her invisible ghost is trapped in the school, but her best friend is able to hear her voice.
Why it matches: Same series: Whispering Corridors · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBloody Reunion (2006)
Mi-ja, who has been taking care of a retired teacher, Ms. Park, invites several of her former students to her house 16 years after their graduation. Since the end of her teaching career, Park has been residing in the countryside, suffering from an illness while an ex-student, the kind and pretty Mi-ja cares for her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCello (2005)
10 years ago, Mi-ju lost her ambition to become a cellist when her entire family was brutally murdered. Due to the trauma, she now leads a quiet life as a teacher with her husband and children. However, dreadful events begin to occur.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Red Shoes (2005)
A woman who finds a pair of pink high heels on a subway platform soon realizes that jealousy, greed, and death follow them wherever they go.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisInto the Mirror (2003)
Woo Yeong-min retired from the police force after trying to save his partner and causing his death. After a series of mysterious deaths in the shopping mall in which his uncle has allowed him to work as a security guard prior to its reopening, he must face both his own fear of mirrors and the mystery surrounding the fire that closed down the mall.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWhite: Melody of Death (2011)
When each member of Pink Dolls falls into a horrible accident, Eunju realizes that their hit song "White" is cursed and attempts to reveal the secret.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
Two sisters return home after a stay in a mental institution, only to face disturbing events and a strained relationship with their stepmother. As eerie occurrences unfold, dark family secrets begin to surface, blurring the line between reality and nightmare.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
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 thisThe Wig (2005)
Su-hyeon, a patient with terminal cancer, gets a wig as a present from her sister, Ji-hyeon. Strange things happen as Su-hyeon wears the wig and horror starts to sweep over Ji-hyeon as she watches her sister getting slowly possessed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies 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 thisThe Cat (2011)
So-yeon suffers from claustrophobia and inherits a Persian cat when its owner dies. She begins having nightmares and people around her begin dying as she searches for the truth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJu-on: The Grudge (2002)
When a social worker is sent to check on a traumatized elderly woman whose family have moved in at the site of a notorious murder case, she unwittingly unleashes a cycle of terror that transmits via its victims.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Ghost (2004)
Min Ji-won is suffering from amnesia. Her memory slowly comes back, after she discovers that all her friends mysteriously drowned recently. She begins piecing together her past, revealing the event that caused her memory loss.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Silenced (2015)
A sickly girl Ju-ran transfers to a new sanitorium boarding school to regain health. But she discovers that students are disappearing and notices abnormal changes happening to her body. She suspects the school for what's happening and tries to discover what secret is hidden.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Swimmers (2014)
After falling pregnant to her boyfriend's best friend, a young woman commits suicide. She returns to haunt her unborn child's father while her friend seeks revenge on the person who drove her to her fate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisArang (2006)
Veteran detective So-young and her rookie partner Hyun-gi happen onto an incendiary homicide case. They discover that the present case is somehow related to the mysterious death of a girl ten years previously.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisCinderella (2006)
With a renowned plastic surgeon for a mother, Hyun-soo is always surrounded by girls in line for beauty consultations. But her happiness comes to an end as her friends who have received facial surgery from her mother start to commit mysterious suicides by cutting out their faces.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Doll Master (2004)
Five people are invited to a remote doll museum and one by one they are mysteriously killed. The survivors find out the truth: dolls have spirits, and they have come to settle scores.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like this0.0MHz (2019)
The members of a supernatural exploration club called 0.0MHz explores a haunted house to prove the existence of frequencies that attract ghosts.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDetention (2019)
In the 1960s, two classmates go looking for their missing friends and teachers, all of whom took part in an illegal book club, only to come face to face with ghosts and deformed monsters that have taken over their school.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Man Who Laughs (1928)
When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Memento Mori?
The closest matches to Memento Mori are Whispering Corridors (1998), Wishing Stairs (2003) and Girl's Revenge (2020). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Memento Mori?
People who watched Memento Mori most often go on to Girl's Revenge (2020), Voices (2007) and Epitaph (2007).
What is the highest-rated movie like Memento Mori?
The Man Who Laughs (1928), rated 7.4/10 by 234 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Memento Mori?
Girl's Revenge (2020) is the most recent release on this list.
Is Memento Mori part of a series?
Yes. It belongs to Whispering Corridors, which includes Whispering Corridors (1998), Wishing Stairs (2003), A Blood Pledge (2009) and Voice (2005).
Are there Korean movies like Memento Mori?
Yes: Whispering Corridors (1998), Wishing Stairs (2003) and Voices (2007).
How are movies similar to Memento Mori chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Memento Mori, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.