Parasite

50 Movies Like Parasite (2019) You Need to Watch Next

2019·Bong Joon HoiRank91
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All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.

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Bong Joon-ho's Palme d'Or and Oscar winner starts as a sly con — a poor family infiltrating a wealthy household — before trapdoors open into something darker and more savage. It's class warfare staged as black comedy, thriller and tragedy at once, pivoting on a dime. If its tonal whiplash and razor-sharp social bite grabbed you, look for genre-blurring thrillers and pitch-black satires that turn inequality into suspense, where you never quite know what kind of film you're watching.

If you loved Parasite (2019) by Bong Joon Ho, 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 Unthinkable, The Guilty, Saltburn. 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.

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