Movies Like Castaway on the Moon

If you liked Castaway on the Moon (2009), a drama and comedy movie directed by Lee Hae-jun, 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
Happiness for Beginners (2023)
★ 6.2/10Also romance and comedy
At a crossroads after her divorce, a schoolteacher ventures toward a fresh start in life — and love — when she signs up for a grueling group hiking trip.
2
Failan (2001)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and romance
After losing both her parents, Failan emmigrates to Korea to seek her only remaining relatives. Once she reaches Korea, she finds out that her relatives have moved to Canada well over a year ago. Desperate to stay and…
3
To All the Boys: Always and Forever (2021)
★ 7.5/10Also romance and comedy
Senior year of high school takes center stage as Lara Jean returns from a family trip to Korea and considers her college plans — with and without Peter.
4
Love 911 (2012)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and romance
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.
5
Sometimes I Think About Dying (2024)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and comedy
Fran likes to think about dying. It brings sensation to her quiet life. When she makes the new guy at work laugh, it leads to more: a date, a slice of pie, a conversation, a spark. The only thing standing in their way…
6
Life in a Year (2020)
★ 8.2/10Also drama and romance
A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.
7
Elizabethtown (2005)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and drama
Drew Baylor is fired after causing his shoe company to lose hundreds of millions of dollars. To make matters worse, he's also dumped by his girlfriend. On the verge of ending it all, Drew gets a new lease on life when…
8
I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (2006)
★ 7/10Also drama and comedy
Young-goon, mentally deranged and frequently electro-charging herself with a transistor radio, has been admitted into a mental institution. Firmly believing herself to be a cyborg, she refuses to consume like a human…
9
The World of Love (2025)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and comedy
Jooin, a 17-year-old student confused by love, unleashes chaos with some words spoken in a moment of anger. Anonymous notes questioning her actions begin to arrive, altering her quiet life.
10
Blast from the Past (1999)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and romance
Following a bomb scare in the 1960s that locked the Webbers into their bomb shelter for 35 years, Adam now ventures forth into Los Angeles to obtain food and supplies for his family, and a non-mutant wife for himself.
11
Lost in Translation (2003)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and comedy
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from…
12
It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and drama
A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.
13
Smart People (2008)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama
Professor Lawrence Wetherhold might be imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed and an intellectual giant -- but when it comes to solving the conundrums of love and family, he's as downright flummoxed as the…
14
Love in Taipei (2023)
★ 6.8/10Also romance and comedy
A young American woman is sent by her parents to a cultural immersion program in Taipei where she begins a new journey of self-discovery and romance.
15
Chéri (2009)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and comedy
The son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways of love.
16
The Lost Husband (2020)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and romance
Trying to put her life back together after the death of her husband, Libby and her children move to her estranged Aunt's goat farm in central Texas.
17
Purple Hearts (2022)
★ 8/10Also romance and drama
An aspiring musician agrees to a marriage of convenience with a soon-to-deploy Marine, but a tragedy soon turns their fake relationship all too real.
18
The Sun Is Also a Star (2019)
★ 6.9/10Also romance and drama
Two young New Yorkers begin to fall in love over the course of a single day, as a series of potentially life-altering meetings loom over their heads - hers concerning her family’s deportation to Jamaica, and his…
19
He Said, She Said (1991)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama
Womanising, right-wing Dan Hanson and quiet, liberal Lorie Bryer work for the Baltimore Sun. Rivals for the job of new writer of a vacant column, the paper ends up instead printing their very different opinions…
20
Just Like Heaven (2005)
★ 7/10Also comedy and romance
Shortly after David Abbott moves into his new San Francisco digs, he has an unwelcome visitor on his hands: winsome Elizabeth Masterson, who asserts that the apartment is hers -- and promptly vanishes. When she starts…