Movies like Brave Citizen (2023)
The best movies like Brave Citizen (2023) are Shark: The Beginning (2021), Fists of Legend (2013) and Start-Up (2019). If Brave Citizen hooked you with its action and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedEXIT (2019)7.6/10 from 331 votes
- NewestI, the Executioner (2024)Released 2024
- In KoreanShark: The Beginning (2021)Also in Korean
Shark: 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 & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFists of Legend (2013)
Three men who share a past participate in a mixed martial arts reality show where they have to fight against other contestants to win the prize money.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisStart-Up (2019)
Two boys are becoming real adults during a turbulent time as they experience a world that doesn't go their way.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & action
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Man of Reason (2023)
After spending a decade in prison, a hitman learns that he has a daughter and just wants a chance at a normal life. But his former mob boss wants him back at any cost, sending merciless assassins after him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSecretly, 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 & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisEscape (2024)
After completing his required decade of military service and being honored as a hero, a North Korean sergeant makes a sudden shocking attempt to defect to the South, risking life and limb for the chance to finally determine his own destiny.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
Worth the HypeMovies 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 thisJustice High (2020)
Today is righteous Chae-young’s first day of her transferred school after beaten a bully to nothing. Despite the dad’s warning, she saves her classmate Jong-gu from bullies again. Fascinated by her, Jong-gu asks how to be strong like her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & comedy
A 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 thisThe Childe (2023)
Han, a Filipino-Korean boxer hits the final punch against his opponent at an illegal game and returns home with a few dollars to pay for his mother's surgery.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisInseparable Bros (2019)
Se-ha who is physically handicapped and Dong-gu who is mentally handicapped are not their own brothers. But while living 20 years together, the two became indispensable to each other. One day, the mother of Dong-gu suddenly visits him and acts as his guardian.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Absolute CinemaMovies 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 thisDecibel (2022)
A former Naval officer with a dark past must face off against an insurgent with a sound sensitive bomb.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & 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 & comedy
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisMy 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 & comedy
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisPhantom Detective (2016)
Hong Gil-dong is an infallible private detective with an exceptional memory and quirky personality. While chasing the only target he failed to find, he gets entangled in a much bigger conspiracy than he bargained for.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
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 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 & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Terror Live (2013)
A newsman discovers he's been rigged with a bomb after he has an exclusive interview with a terrorist who blew up a bridge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies 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 action
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDerailed (2016)
When two men find their lives derailed, they meet challenges that force them to face a fierce battle to protect their loved ones.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action
Popcorn FlickMovies like this2037 (2022)
Yoon-young, a 19-year-old girl who dreams of becoming a civil servant, is framed as a murderer and imprisoned in a women's prison.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRansomed (2023)
In Beirut 1986, during the Lebanese civil war a Korean diplomat is taken hostage without a trace. Two years pass and long forgotten, a young diplomat Min-jun receives a phone call proving that the hostage is still alive. With the given mission, Min-jun is sent to Beirut to save the hostage with a bag of ransom money.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisShe'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 thisThe Target (2014)
At the same time as murder suspect Yeo-hoon is brought unconscious to the emergency room following a shooting incident, an assailant breaks into the house of Tae-jun, the emergency room's doctor in charge, and kidnaps his wife. The kidnapper calls the doctor and tells him to bring Yeo-hoon to him. To retrieve his wife, Tae-jun has no option but to save the patient and sneak him away before the police can notice.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action
Worth the HypeMovies like thisJo Pil-ho: The Dawning Rage (2019)
On the run from a dogged internal affairs agent, a corrupt cop reluctantly teams up with a defiant teen to unravel a conspiracy before it's too late.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both action & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDefendor (2009)
A crooked cop, a mob boss and the young girl they abuse are the denizens of a city's criminal underworld. It's a world that ordinary Arthur Poppington doesn't understand and doesn't belong in, but is committed to fighting when he changes into a vigilante super-hero of his own making, Defendor. With no power other than courage Defendor takes to the streets to protect the city's innocents.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & action
Popcorn FlickMovies 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: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWho Is Cletis Tout? (2001)
With a hitman’s gun aimed at him, Finch tells the story of how he broke out of jail, fell in love, and took the identity of a man wanted by the Mafia.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both action & comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Brave Citizen?
The closest matches to Brave Citizen are Shark: The Beginning (2021), Fists of Legend (2013) and Start-Up (2019). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Brave Citizen?
People who watched Brave Citizen most often go on to Shark: The Beginning (2021), Fists of Legend (2013) and Start-Up (2019).
What is the highest-rated movie like Brave Citizen?
EXIT (2019), rated 7.6/10 by 331 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Brave Citizen?
I, the Executioner (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Korean movies like Brave Citizen?
Yes: Shark: The Beginning (2021), Fists of Legend (2013) and Start-Up (2019).
How are movies similar to Brave Citizen chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Brave Citizen, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.