Movies like Spellbound (2011)
The best movies like Spellbound (2011) are Whatcha Wearin'? (2012), The Beauty Inside (2015) and A Werewolf Boy (2012). If Spellbound hooked you with its horror and comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Beauty Inside (2015)7.6/10 from 293 votes
- NewestThe Princess and the Matchmaker (2018)Released 2018
- In KoreanWhatcha Wearin'? (2012)Also in Korean
Whatcha Wearin'? (2012)
Yoon-jung accidentally calls a stranger, instead of her boyfriend, and has phone sex with the unknown man. When Yoon-jung's relationship with her boyfriend turns sour, Yoon-jung meets Hyun-seung, the stranger she had phone sex with.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Beauty Inside (2015)
Woo-jin, a furniture designer who wakes up in a different body every day, falls for Yi-soo, a woman he meets through his work.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Werewolf Boy (2012)
An unexpected phone call brings an elderly woman to her childhood country cottage, and memories of an orphan boy she knew 47 years ago come flooding back to her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFinding Mr. Destiny (2010)
A man sets up the First Love Agency to help people locate their long-lost first love. But then he ends up falling in love with his first client.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy Sassy Girl (2001)
A young man’s world is turned upside down when a female force of nature takes his life by storm in this outrageous and uplifting ode to true love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLove 911 (2012)
A doctor tries to woo a grieving, widowed firefighter in her attempt to get him to testify on her behalf in a medical malpractice case.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Plan Man (2014)
The Plan Man is about a man who lives everything according to plan until he meets a woman who wasn't a part of it.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Penny Pinchers (2011)
Ji-woong is a loser who can't find a job so he lies to his mother for money, but one day she abruptly cuts him off and he becomes homeless. That same day, salvation arrives in the form of Hong-sil who's extremely stingy. Her hobby is visiting the bank to make savings deposits, and her specialty is selling empty glass bottles and old newspapers for cash.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisYou Are My Pet (2011)
A woman finds a man in a box in front of her home and takes him in. She jokingly says she wants to keep him as her pet since the man reminds her of her childhood dog. The man agrees. Later the woman discovers that the man is a dance prodigy. Complications arise when her old flame from college returns.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy Dear Desperado (2010)
Dong-chul, a thug who cannot fight but acts like a tough guy, meets Han Se-jin, his new neighbor. Dong-chul is intrigued by her spitfire personality, and the bickering duo realize they may be perfect for each other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
All About My Wife (2012)
A man asks a womanizer to seduce his wife in order to catalyze a divorce.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBA:BO - Miracle of Giving Fool (2008)
Seung-ryong owns a small toast shop, who is sick from taking in briquette gas in the past after his parents died. One day, his first love comes back to Korea, and they become close. However, he finds out that his little sister is sick.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Architecture 101 (2012)
When Seung-min was on his first year at the Academy of Architecture, he met Seo-yeon. She was a musician student, and Seung-min totally fell in love with her. Years have passed, and now he meets Seo-yeon again - she asks him to rebuild her father's old house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Magician (2015)
A Princess in the Joseon Dynasty travels to the Qing Dynasty to marry. On the way to there, she meets a young magician and falls in love with him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & fantasy
The Perfect Couple (2007)
Young cop with debilitating phobia meets a hyperactive young journalist who complicates his life and career by always managing to do the wrong thing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Love Forecast (2015)
Whenever elementary school teacher Kang Joon-soo falls in love, he always gives too much of himself to the relationship. Yet despite that, he ends up being the one getting dumped by his girlfriends. Joon-soo has been friends for 18 years with Kim Hyun-woo, a weather forecaster whose beauty belies her witty tongue and aggressive manner.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDaisy (2006)
A painter in Amsterdam receives flowers from a mysterious admirer, while a hitman and cop find themselves in conflict.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWindstruck (2004)
Kyung-jin, a police officer who finds herself chasing down a suspected bag-snatcher on her day off. However, the man she catches turns out to be Myungwoo, a passer-by who was himself trying to apprehend the real criminal.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Princess and the Matchmaker (2018)
Refusing to allow fate to decide whom she must marry, Princess Songhwa decides to find her own husband. She seeks the help of a man to interpret her marital harmony with four men she wishes to marry.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMy Tutor Friend (2003)
A touching story of two completely different students from two completely different worlds. One is a rich male repeating his third year of high school and the other a poor girl in her second year of university struggling to make ends meet.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisForbidden Quest (2006)
A noble, high-class scholar starts to write erotic novels in 18th century of Chosun dynasty and falls in love with a king's woman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
Don'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 comedy & horror
My Little Bride (2004)
A teenage girl tries to continue her normal social and school life, after her grandfather forces her into an arranged marriage with a man in his twenties.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies 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 comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWoochi: The Demon Slayer (2009)
Spanning four centuries in Korea, this epic action-adventure concerns a powerful pipe and a trio of wizards who will do anything to protect it.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSalut d'Amour (2015)
Sung-chil works at the Jang-soo Store which is owned by Jang-soo. Sung-chil is stubborn and has a bad temper, but he changes after meeting Geum-nim. Geun-nim runs a flower shop and her daughter Min-jung does not like her meeting Sung-chil.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Hello Ghost (2010)
A man's failed suicide attempt enables him to see ghosts, who later keep following him everywhere. It is now up to him to fulfill their wishes to make them go away.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Tale of Legendary Libido (2008)
A monk gives an impaired man the secret to a strong arousal. The man had been teased and tortured until the travelling man decides to help him out.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & fantasy
SnoozefestMovies like thisHigh Spirits (1988)
When a hotelier attempts to fill the chronic vacancies at his castle by launching an advertising campaign that falsely portrays the property as haunted, two actual ghosts show up and end up falling for two guests.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisOnce Bitten (1985)
Mark wants to lose his virginity, but his girlfriend wants to wait. Unfortunately for both of them, a 400-year-old vampire Countess needs to turn a virgin into a vampire before Halloween in order to preserve her own youthful appearance, and when she finds Mark, she turns his life upside-down.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Spellbound?
The closest matches to Spellbound are Whatcha Wearin'? (2012), The Beauty Inside (2015) and A Werewolf Boy (2012). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Spellbound?
People who watched Spellbound most often go on to Whatcha Wearin'? (2012), The Beauty Inside (2015) and A Werewolf Boy (2012).
What is the highest-rated movie like Spellbound?
The Beauty Inside (2015), rated 7.6/10 by 293 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Spellbound?
The Princess and the Matchmaker (2018) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Korean movies like Spellbound?
Yes: Whatcha Wearin'? (2012), The Beauty Inside (2015) and A Werewolf Boy (2012).
How are movies similar to Spellbound chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Spellbound, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.