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Movies Like Beautiful 2012

If you liked Beautiful 2012 (2012), a movie directed by Kim Tae-yong and Gu Changwei, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Call Me Crazy: A Five Film

    Call Me Crazy: A Five Film (2013)

    ★ 7/10

    A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.

  2. 2Lucky Them

    Lucky Them (2013)

    ★ 6/10

    More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine’s editor: a no-stone-unturned search to discover what…

  3. 3The Safety of Objects

    The Safety of Objects (2002)

    ★ 6.5/10

    In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband…

  4. 4Buddha Mountain

    Buddha Mountain (2011)

    ★ 6.7/10

    In Chengdu, China, a retired female opera singer named Master Chang takes in a trio of young tenants into her boarding home. The tenants include a rock singer and a college student who has run away from home.

  5. 5The Trials of Cate McCall

    The Trials of Cate McCall (2013)

    ★ 6.4/10

    In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.

  6. 6I Believe in Unicorns

    I Believe in Unicorns (2015)

    ★ 6.6/10

    Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.

  7. 7Holy Lands

    Holy Lands (2019)

    ★ 6.1/10

    When lapsed Jew and former cardiologist Harry suddenly decides to spend his retirement as a pig farmer in Nazareth, Israel, the move deeply shocks his family and his new neighbours. Back in New York, Harry’s ex-wife…

  8. 8Love, Marilyn

    Love, Marilyn (2013)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Using the book 'Fragments', which collects Marilyn Monroe's poems, notes and letters, and with participation from the Arthur Miller and Truman Capote estates who have contributed more material, each of the actresses…

  9. 9Bastard Out of Carolina

    Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)

    ★ 7.1/10

    A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as…

  10. 10Iron Jawed Angels

    Iron Jawed Angels (2004)

    ★ 6.8/10

    Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.

  11. 11Hounddog

    Hounddog (2008)

    ★ 6.5/10

    A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.

  12. 12Petals on the Wind

    Petals on the Wind (2014)

    ★ 6.6/10

    This sequel to Flowers in the Attic picks up 10 years after Cathy, Chris and Carrie managed to escape Foxworth Hall.

  13. 13In the Realms of the Unreal

    In the Realms of the Unreal (2004)

    ★ 7.2/10

    In the Realms of the Unreal is a documentary about the reclusive Chicago-based artist Henry Darger. Henry Darger was so reclusive that when he died his neighbors were surprised to find a 15,145-page manuscript along…

  14. 14Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

    Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction (2013)

    ★ 6.9/10

    An impressionistic portrait of the iconic actor Harry Dean Stanton comprised of intimate moments, film clips from some of his 250 films and his renditions of American folk songs.

  15. 15Strange Weather

    Strange Weather (2016)

    ★ 5.9/10

    Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.

  16. 16Finding Mr. Right

    Finding Mr. Right (2013)

    ★ 6.5/10

    When Jiajia, a young woman in Beijing who lives a luxurious life provided by her wealthy boyfriend, gets pregnant, she goes to the United States, hoping that the baby will be born an American citizen. There she meets…

  17. 17Love & Sex

    Love & Sex (2000)

    ★ 6.2/10

    When her rather explicit copy is rejected, magazine journalist Kate is asked by her editor to come up with an article on loving relationships instead, and to do so by the end of the day. This gets Kate thinking back…

  18. 18Heart of a Dog

    Heart of a Dog (2015)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Musician and performance artist Laurie Anderson reflects on the deaths of her husband Lou Reed, her mother and her beloved dog.

  19. 19The Girl in the Book

    The Girl in the Book (2015)

    ★ 5.8/10

    The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.

  20. 20Normal

    Normal (2003)

    ★ 6.7/10

    A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.

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