Movies like Justice High (2020)
The best movies like Justice High (2020) are Girl's Revenge (2020), She's on Duty (2005) and Han Gong-ju (2014). If Justice High hooked you with its action and comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedUnstoppable (2018)7.8/10 from 291 votes
- NewestYou Are the Apple of My Eye (2025)Released 2025
- In KoreanShe's on Duty (2005)Also in Korean
Girl'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
She's on Duty (2005)
A boisterous detective goes undercover in a high school in order to befriend the teenage daughter of a notorious gangster.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & action
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
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
Absolute CinemaMovies 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 comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Violent Prosecutor (2016)
After a prosecution lawyer is framed and convicted for murder, he tries to catch the real murderer from jail with the help of a con artist.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & action
Worth the HypeMovies like thisEXIT (2019)
At his mother's 70th birthday party, Yong-nam runs into Eui-joo, who rejected him in college. When the city is engulfed in toxic gas from a terrorist attack, the two must find a way to escape using all the techniques they learned in their college rock climbing club.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Grand Heist (2012)
Ice suddenly becomes a more valuable commodity during the Joseon Dynasty and a gang of eleven professionals are assigned to protect the market situation from irresponsible people.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & action
You 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 comedy
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisAttack the Gas Station! (1999)
A quartet of disaffected Korean youths have robbed a Seoul gas station. After taking the gas station over, their wacky antics ensue; forcing the manager to sing, kidnapping customers that complain about the service, and staging fist-fights between street gang members and gas station employees; all of these reflect their own gripes against society.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMon Mon Mon Monsters (2017)
Shu-wei is an unpopular student who is a constant target for the school bullies, but he ends up joining forces with them when they encounter two demonic sisters who feast on human flesh in the middle of the night. The gang manage to capture one, but the other demon is angry and starts killing anyone wearing a school uniform.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMidnight Runners (2017)
Two apathetic police academy recruits who become best buddies through the tough training together witness a woman being abducted right before their very eyes. As they were taught in the academy, they quickly report the incident to the police, but the police are in no hurry to jump on the case. So the duo decide to take the matter into their own hands and rescue the woman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & action
Worth the HypeMovies like thisUnstoppable (2018)
Dong-chul and Ji-soo are a happily married couple. One day, Dong-chul comes home to find his house in disarray and his wife missing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOnce Upon a Time in High School (2004)
A model student transfers to the notorious Jungmoon High School known for its severe corporal punishment by teachers and power struggles between school gangs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBrave Citizen (2023)
An expelled boxing champion, who now is a high-school teacher, witnesses intolerable violence and throws her first punch to build justice against it, while putting on a mask.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisIntimate Strangers (2018)
A group of people meet for the first time in a long time and play a game that reveals each other's secrets.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisExtreme Job (2019)
A drug squad attempts to take down a criminal organization and they must go undercover to do so, so they begin working at a chicken restaurant, that becomes famous for its delicious chicken. Due to the unexpected popularity, the detectives find themselves in a situation they never expected.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisI, the Executioner (2024)
The veteran detective Seo Do-cheol and his team at Major Crimes, relentless in their pursuit of criminals, join forces with rookie cop Park Sun-woo to track down a serial killer who has plunged the nation into turmoil.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChasing (2016)
Seung-ju, robbed clean of his wallet and phone by four high schoolers! Jung-taek, swept into the chase only to have his gun snatched away by the same teens. An erratic pursuit by two men, stripped of their precious possessions and completely run down and four teenagers, running the grown-ups through a proper drill right in the middle of the night. The furious chase has begun.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
I Want to Know Your Parents (2022)
An eighth grade student kills himself but not before writing the names of the students who victimized him. Their parents are called into the school and a battle goes on regarding the will.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
The Dude in Me (2019)
Dong-hyun is a high school student. One day, he falls from the rooftop and bumps into Pan-soo who is a passerby. Pan-soo is a member of a criminal organization. When the two men wake up in the hospital, they discover that they have switched bodies.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & action
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMy Wife is a Gangster 2 (2003)
Former Scissor Gang leader Eun-jin, who now suffers from amnesia, nevertheless defends Jae-cheol, a restaurateur who employs her, from a gangster who wants his business.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisConfidential Assignment (2017)
When a crime organization from North Korea crosses borders and enters South Korean soil, a South Korean detective must cooperate with a North Korean detective to investigate their whereabouts.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe King (2017)
A young Korean man surpasses his difficult childhood by becoming a powerful prosecutor, but soon learns that real power comes at a price.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action
Worth the HypeMovies like thisVolcano High (2001)
Kim is expelled from his eighth school and finds himself at Volcano High where students fight to possess a treasured ancient document. Kim, who must resist from using his Chi, is caught in the middle.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIf We Were a Season (2017)
Born on the same day and raised side by side, high school students Yoon Hae Rim and Uhm Ki Seok are close friends. They never say it, but they are precious to each other. One day, a transfer student from Seoul comes. Oh Dong Kyung is bold and not afraid to say what he is feeling, unlike Hae Rim and Ki Seok. Is Dong Keung enough to shake up their friendship?
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Detective K: Secret of the Lost Island (2015)
Joseon's top detective Kim Min attempts to track down those responsible for circulating massive amounts of counterfeit silver bullion in Joseon. He also tries to find the missing sibling of a young girl.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Secretly, Greatly (2013)
Three elite North Korean sleeper agents live under cover for so long that they believe their cover stories are their real identities. They are shocked when they are ordered to kill one another or face death at the hands of an elite hit team.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Roundup: No Way Out (2023)
Detective Ma Seok-do changes his affiliation from the Geumcheon Police Station to the Metropolitan Investigation Team, in order to eradicate Japanese gangsters who enter Korea to commit heinous crimes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action
Worth the HypeMovies like thisShark: The Beginning (2021)
A bullied teenager who is locked up at a juvenile detention center due to an unexpected accident, meets a mixed martial arts champion to break through his own limits.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Justice High?
The closest matches to Justice High are Girl's Revenge (2020), She's on Duty (2005) and Han Gong-ju (2014). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Justice High?
People who watched Justice High most often go on to Girl's Revenge (2020), She's on Duty (2005) and Han Gong-ju (2014).
What is the highest-rated movie like Justice High?
Unstoppable (2018), rated 7.8/10 by 291 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Justice High?
You Are the Apple of My Eye (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Korean movies like Justice High?
Yes: She's on Duty (2005), Han Gong-ju (2014) and In Our Prime (2022).
How are movies similar to Justice High chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Justice High, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.