Movies like Following (2024)
The best movies like Following (2024) are Don't Buy the Seller (2023), Toxic Desire: Addiction (2014) and You Will Die in 6 Hours (2024). If Following hooked you with its thriller and mystery, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedOldboy (2003)8.2/10 from 10,403 votes
- NewestThe Housemaid (2025)Released 2025
- In KoreanDon't Buy the Seller (2023)Also in Korean
Don't Buy the Seller (2023)
Soo-hyun, who has recently moved into a new house, buys a used washing machine through a second-hand app but finds out it doesn’t work. Annoyed by the seller’s irresponsibility, she leaves a comment calling the seller a con man, and reports it to the police. Little does she know that the seller is a psychopathic serial killer who uses an online second-hand market to lure his victims. Her comment renders his hunt for a new victim all but impossible so she becomes his next target. She starts receiving obscene phone calls, countless unwanted food deliveries, and strange men knocking on her door looking for a good time. A trip to the sender’s address proves deadly serious when the police and Soo-hyun find a man’s dead body.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisToxic Desire: Addiction (2014)
Psychiatrist Joon-sang is a well-known doctor. He is level-headed with his patients, but he's got a painful past. He'd witnessed his wife kill herself because she was raped. He'd suffered insomnia along with guilt and sadness until a beautiful girl Ji-soo comes along. She tells him every man who's loved her died and that someone was watching her. She seduces Joon-sang. A detective suspects Ji-soo to be involved with a recent murder case and asks Joon-sang for her medical records... Falling in love with something dangerous and the end of which is unknown!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
You Will Die in 6 Hours (2024)
Jung-yoon was approached by a random stranger named Jun-woo, who told her she'd be dead in six hours. As she follows him for answers, she begins to question whether he's her savior or the one trying to put her in danger.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBurning (2018)
Deliveryman Jong-su is out on a job when he runs into Hae-mi, a girl who once lived in his neighborhood. She asks if he'd mind looking after her cat while she's away on a trip to Africa. On her return, she introduces to Jong-su an enigmatic young man named Ben, who she met during her trip. One day Ben tells Jong-su about his most unusual hobby.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPerfect Number (2012)
A brilliant math teacher formulates the perfect cover-up after his neighbor murders her abusive ex-husband.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOldboy (2003)
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisGone Girl (2014)
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Housemaid (2025)
Trying to escape her past, Millie Calloway accepts a job as a live-in housemaid for the wealthy Nina and Andrew Winchester. But what begins as a dream job quickly unravels into something far more dangerous—a sexy, seductive game of secrets, scandal, and power.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Neighbors (2012)
A serial killer murders a girl from his neighborhood. The residents begin to suspect him one by one, as he tries to cover his tracks and plans another kill before escape.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Plot (2024)
The story is about a hitman named Brain who suffers an accident during a murder and struggles to survive while suspecting everyone around him to find out who is behind the accident after barely surviving.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Hide and Seek (2013)
Sung-soo has everything a man could want: a beautiful wife and children, a comfortable home and luxury car, and plenty of money in the bank. When he learns that his estranged brother, Sung-chul, has gone missing, haunting memories of their troubled past urge him to visit his brother’s apartment in search of answers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisConfession (2022)
Min-ho's adulterous lover Se-hee is murdered in a hotel where only the two of them were present, and Min-ho is immediately singles out as the prime suspect. Insisting on his innocence, Min-ho hires the talented lawyer Shin-ae to defend him, and confesses to her that a car accident on the day before may be connected to Se-hee's murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisIntruder (2020)
Seo-jin is a widower still grieving his wife's death. Then he receives the news that his long-lost younger sister, Yoo-jin, who went missing 25 years ago, has turned up. Unlike the rest of his family, who welcome her into their arms, Seo-jin feels that Yoo-jin is a stranger.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHidden Face (2024)
Su-yeon, a cellist in an orchestra led by her fiancé and conductor Sung-jin, disappears one day, leaving behind only a video recording. Sung-jin is devasted over the loss of Su-yeon, but feels a strong attraction to Mi-ju, a cellist who fills in for his fiancée. Then one rainy night, Sung-jin and Mi-ju get swept away by their mutual desires for each other and commit an unforgivable act at Su-yeon's house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisRecalled (2021)
Soo-jin, who lost her memories due to a horrible incident, starts suspecting her husband. She is confused between reality and illusion, truth and lies.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStreaming (2025)
No.1 subscribed live streamer, Woo Sang, specializes in criminal profiling and covering crime-related mystery cases. One day, Woo Sang streams about an unsolved serial murder case and ends up unveiling the truth to some dark secrets through his channel.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
The Gift (2015)
Simon and Robyn are a young married couple whose life is going as planned until a chance run-in with Simon's high school acquaintance sends their world into a tailspin.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSearching (2018)
After David Kim's 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where all secrets are kept today: his daughter's laptop.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSocialphobia (2015)
A woman is attacked by Internet users after posting provocative remarks online. Using her personal information, they go to her place but what they find is her body; she took her own life. Who made her kill herself? Or, was she killed by someone else?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
Forgotten (2017)
Jin-seok, 21-year-old, moves into a new house with his family. He suffers from a slight schizophrenia but he carries an ordinary life under the warm care of the family. His older brother Yu-seok is a decent college student, a mentor, and role model for Jin-seok. One night, his beloved brother is kidnapped by unidentified assailants before Jin-seok's eye. Jin-seok can’t recognize their faces, but can remember only the VIN that matches with no car. After long silence of 19 days, suddenly Yu-seok returns home, but remembers nothing which had happened in the meantime. And soon Jin-seok feels Yu-seok is a total stranger.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisOrdinary People (2018)
A gym teacher and his female student look for her missing friend. But as they investigate, they find that her disappearance is a part of a larger conspiracy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Hard Day (2014)
After trying to cover up a car accident that left a man dead, a crooked homicide detective is stalked by a mysterious man claiming to have witnessed the event.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDecision to Leave (2022)
From a mountain peak in South Korea, a man plummets to his death. Did he jump, or was he pushed? When detective Hae-joon arrives on the scene, he begins to suspect the dead man’s wife Seo-rae. But as he digs deeper into the investigation, he finds himself trapped in a web of deception and desire.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOne on One (2014)
On May 9th, a female high school student was brutally murdered. There are 7 suspects and 7 shadows that terrorize them. Who are they and which one of them is you?
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChristmas Carol (2022)
On a Christmas Eve, a lifeless body of teenage boy is found. The victim's revenge-driven twin brother checks himself into a juvie to hunt down the suspects.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Marionette (2017)
A mystery crime thriller about a man who calls himself Master and sends mysterious texts with images of young women that they don't remember taking. A teacher and a former detective become involved in the escalating series of crimes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
The Seven-Ups (1973)
A tough detective who is part of an elite New York City unit is trying to find out who killed his partner, but uncovers a plot to kidnap mobsters for money.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOffice (2015)
To nab a sales manager who's at large after murdering his family, a detective investigates the man's colleagues, who seem to be hiding something.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOverdrive (2017)
Master car thieves square off against French gangsters in the South of France with money, women and lives all on the line.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNight Watch (1973)
A woman recovering from a nervous breakdown tries to convince her husband and and the local London police that she has witnessed a murder in the abandoned house next door.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both mystery & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Following?
The closest matches to Following are Don't Buy the Seller (2023), Toxic Desire: Addiction (2014) and You Will Die in 6 Hours (2024). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Following?
People who watched Following most often go on to Don't Buy the Seller (2023), Toxic Desire: Addiction (2014) and You Will Die in 6 Hours (2024).
What is the highest-rated movie like Following?
Oldboy (2003), rated 8.2/10 by 10,403 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Following?
The Housemaid (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Korean movies like Following?
Yes: Don't Buy the Seller (2023), Toxic Desire: Addiction (2014) and You Will Die in 6 Hours (2024).
How are movies similar to Following chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Following, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.