50 Movies Like Oldboy (2003) You Need to Watch Next
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors.
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If you loved Oldboy (2003) by Park Chan-wook, here are 50 movies that share its content DNA. iRankMovies measures real similarity using cosine similarity across eight weighted dimensions — genre (50%), tone (12%), pace (10%), structure (8%), era (7%), theme (6%), audience (4%) and narrative perspective (3%) — not just the rating. The closest matches according to our analysis are Oldboy, Game of Death, Fist of Fury. Every title is ranked by how closely it matches and backed by the iRank Score, a composite of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDb across 12,000+ analysed titles.
50 Movies Similar to Oldboy
Oldboy
2013 · Spike Lee
A man has only three and a half days and limited resources to discover why he was imprisoned in a nondescript room for 20 years without any explanation.
In common: Action · Drama · Mystery
Game of Death
1978 · Robert Clouse
A martial arts movie star must fake his death to find the people who are trying to kill him.
In common: Action · Drama · Thriller
Fist of Fury
1972 · Lo Wei
During the Japanese occupation of Shanghai, Chen Zhen, the star pupil of a recently-deceased martial arts teacher battles a Japanese dojo which seeks the demise of his fighting school.
In common: Action · Drama · Thriller
Serenity
2019 · Steven Knight
The quiet life of Baker Dill, a fishing boat captain who lives on the isolated Plymouth Island, where he spends his days obsessed with capturing an elusive tuna while fighting his personal demons, is
In common: Drama · Mystery · Thriller
Conspiracy Theory
1997 · Richard Donner
A man obsessed with conspiracy theories becomes a target after one of his theories turns out to be true. Unfortunately, in order to save himself, he has to figure out which theory it is.
In common: Action · Drama · Mystery
In Hell
2003 · Ringo Lam Ling-Tung
A man must survive a prison where hardened criminals battle to the death for the warden's entertainment.
In common: Action · Drama · Thriller
Mulholland Drive
2001 · David Lynch
Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmm
In common: Drama · Mystery · Thriller
John Wick: Chapter 2
2017 · Chad Stahelski
John Wick is forced out of retirement by a former associate looking to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Bound by a blood oath to aid him, Wick travels to Rome and does battle
In common: Action · Thriller
The Bourne Ultimatum
2007 · Paul Greengrass
Bourne is brought out of hiding once again by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation Blackbriar, an upgrade to Project Treadstone, in a series of newspaper columns. Information from the
In common: Action · Drama · Mystery
Bloodsport
1988 · Newt Arnold
An American Army Major goes AWOL to Hong Kong for an outlawed martial arts contest called the Kumite.
In common: Action · Drama · Thriller
Kickboxer
1989 · Mark DiSalle
If your enemy refuses to be humbled... Destroy him. Accompanied by his brother Kurt, American kickboxing champion Eric Sloane, arrives in Thailand to defeat the Eastern warriors at their own sport. Hi
In common: Action · Drama · Thriller
The Man from Nowhere
2010 · Lee Jeong-beom
A reclusive pawnshop owner goes on a brutal rampage to rescue a young girl kidnapped by a criminal organization.
In common: Action · Thriller
Walking Tall
2004 · Kevin Bray
A former U.S. soldier returns to his hometown to find it overrun by crime and corruption, which prompts him to clean house.
In common: Action · Drama
John Wick: Chapter 4
2023 · Chad Stahelski
With the price on his head ever increasing, John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances ac
In common: Action · Thriller
Infernal Affairs
2002 · Alan Mak Siu-Fai
Chan Wing Yan, a young police officer, has been sent undercover as a mole in the local mafia. Lau Kin Ming, a young mafia member, infiltrates the police force. Years later, their older counterparts, C
In common: Action · Drama
Undisputed III: Redemption
2010 · Isaac Florentine
Russian inmate Boyka, now severely hobbled by the knee injury suffered at the end of Undisputed 2. No longer the feared prison fighter he was, he has declined so far that he is now good only for clean
In common: Action · Drama
Undisputed II: Last Man Standing
2006 · Isaac Florentine
Heavyweight Champ George "Iceman" Chambers is sent to a Russian jail on trumped-up drug charges. In order to win his freedom he must fight against the jailhouse fighting champ Uri Boyka in a battle to
In common: Action · Drama
Blood and Bone
2009 · Ben Ramsey
In Los Angeles, an ex-con takes the underground fighting world by storm in his quest to fulfill a promise to a dead friend.
In common: Action · Drama
The Protector
2005 · Prachya Pinkaew
A young fighter named Kham must go to Australia to retrieve his stolen elephant. With the help of a Thai-born Australian detective, Kham must take on all comers, including a gang led by an evil woman
In common: Action · Drama
Payback
1999 · Brian Helgeland
With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months a
In common: Action · Drama
Rebecca
1940 · Alfred Hitchcock
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must
In common: Drama · Mystery
Double Impact
1991 · Sheldon Lettich
Jean Claude Van Damme plays a dual role as Alex and Chad, twins separated at the death of their parents. Chad is raised by a family retainer in Paris, Alex becomes a petty crook in Hong Kong. Seeing a
In common: Action · Drama
Arlington Road
1999 · Mark Pellington
Bedraggled college professor Michael Faraday has been vexed — and increasingly paranoid — since his wife's accidental death in a botched FBI operation. When a seemingly all-American couple set up hous
In common: Drama · Mystery
Inferno
2016 · Ron Howard
After waking up in a hospital with amnesia, professor Robert Langdon and a doctor must race against time to foil a deadly global plot.
In common: Action · Mystery · Thriller
Under Siege
1992 · Andrew Davis
A disgruntled ex-CIA operative, his assistant and their assembled group of terrorists seize a battleship with nuclear blackmail in mind. They've planned for every contingency but ignore the ship's coo
In common: Action · Thriller
Eraser
1996 · Chuck Russell
A Witness Protection specialist becomes suspicious of his co-workers when dealing with a case involving high-tech weapons.
In common: Action · Mystery · Thriller
Eagle Eye
2008 · D.J. Caruso
Jerry Shaw and Rachel Holloman are two strangers whose lives are suddenly thrown into turmoil by a mysterious woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and family, the unseen caller uses ever
In common: Action · Mystery · Thriller
Abduction
2011 · John Singleton
For many years, Nathan Harper has had the uneasy feeling that life with his family isn't quite what it seems. As he draws closer to uncovering the truth, he is hunted by assassins, forcing him to flee
In common: Action · Mystery · Thriller
Unknown
2011 · Jaume Collet-Serra
A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, (not even his wife), believes him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is.
In common: Action · Mystery · Thriller
Non-Stop
2014 · Jaume Collet-Serra
Bill Marks is a Federal Air Marshall for whom every day is the same until this one. On this plane ride, he starts receiving text messages from someone claiming to be on the flight and threatening to k
In common: Action · Mystery · Thriller
The Specialist
1994 · Luis Llosa
May Munro is a woman obsessed with getting revenge on the people who murdered her parents when she was still a girl. She hires Ray Quick, a retired explosives expert, to kill her parents' killers. Whe
In common: Action · Thriller
The Commuter
2018 · Jaume Collet-Serra
A businessman, on his daily commute home, gets unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy that threatens not only his life but the lives of those around him.
In common: Action · Mystery · Thriller
Mile 22
2018 · Peter Berg
An elite group of American operatives, aided by a top-secret tactical command team, must transport an asset who holds life-threatening information to an extraction point 22 miles away through the host
In common: Action · Thriller
Shutter Island
2010 · Martin Scorsese
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a
In common: Drama · Mystery · Thriller
Road House
2024 · Doug Liman
Ex-UFC fighter Dalton takes a job as a bouncer at a Florida Keys roadhouse, only to discover that this paradise is not all it seems.
In common: Action · Drama · Thriller
Eyes Wide Shut
1999 · Stanley Kubrick
After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends
In common: Drama · Mystery · Thriller
Shooter
2007 · Antoine Fuqua
A top Marine sniper, Bob Lee Swagger, leaves the military after a mission goes horribly awry and disappears, living in seclusion. He is coaxed back into service after a high-profile government officia
In common: Action · Drama · Thriller
Man on Fire
2004 · Tony Scott
Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by
In common: Action · Drama · Thriller
The Invisible Guest
2017 · Oriol Paulo
Barcelona, Spain. Adrián Doria, a young and successful businessman accused of murder, meets one night with Virginia Goodman, an expert interrogation lawyer, in order to devise a defense strategy.
In common: Drama · Mystery · Thriller
Rear Window
1954 · Alfred Hitchcock
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
In common: Drama · Mystery · Thriller
Rambo: Last Blood
2019 · Adrian Grünberg
After fighting his demons for decades, John Rambo now lives in peace on his family ranch in Arizona, but his rest is interrupted when Gabriela, the granddaughter of his housekeeper María, disappears a
In common: Action · Drama · Thriller
The Fugitive
1993 · Andrew Davis
Wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to death, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to find the real killer and clear his name.
In common: Action · Drama · Thriller
Enemy of the State
1998 · Tony Scott
When the videotape of the murder of a congressman unknowingly ends up in the hands of labor lawyer and dedicated family man Robert Clayton Dean, he is framed for the murder. With the help of the myste
In common: Action · Drama · Thriller
The Game
1997 · David Fincher
In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a cold-hearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad: a gift certificate to play
In common: Drama · Mystery · Thriller
White House Down
2013 · Roland Emmerich
Capitol Policeman John Cale has just been denied his dream job with the Secret Service protecting President James Sawyer. Not wanting to let down his little girl with the news, he takes her on a tour
In common: Action · Drama · Thriller
Captain Phillips
2013 · Paul Greengrass
The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
In common: Action · Drama · Thriller
The Marksman
2021 · Robert Lorenz
Jim Hanson’s quiet life is suddenly disturbed by two people crossing the US/Mexico border – a woman and her young son – desperate to flee a Mexican cartel. After a shootout leaves the mother dead, Jim
In common: Action · Drama · Thriller
Snitch
2013 · Ric Roman Waugh
Construction company owner John Matthews learns that his estranged son, Jason, has been arrested for drug trafficking. Facing an unjust prison sentence for a first time offender courtesy of mandatory
In common: Action · Drama · Thriller
Joint Security Area
2000 · Park Chan-wook
Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an investigation by a neutral body. The sergeant is the shooter, but the lead investigator, a Swiss-Kor
In common: Action · Drama · Thriller
Ice Road: Vengeance
2025 · Jonathan Hensleigh
Big rig ice road driver Mike McCann travels to Nepal to scatter his late brother’s ashes on Mt. Everest. While on a packed tour bus traversing the deadly 12,000 ft. terrain of the infamous Road to the
In common: Action · Drama · Thriller