Movies Like Yellow Nostalgia

If you liked Yellow Nostalgia (1995), a movie directed by Kim Jung-chul, 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
Love Untangled (2025)
★ 8.2/10
A lovestruck teen plans to win the school heartthrob by going from curly to straight hair — until a new transfer student changes everything.
2
John Tucker Must Die (2006)
★ 6.1/10
After discovering they are all dating the same same guy, three popular students from different cliques band together for revenge, so they enlist the help of a new gal in town and conspire to break the jerk's heart…
3
Boys and Girls (2000)
★ 6/10
Ryan and Jennifer are opposites who definitely do not attract. At least that's what they always believed. When they met as twelve-year-olds, they disliked one another. When they met again as teenagers, they loathed…
4
Finding Emily (2026)
★ 6.9/10
When a lovesick musician is given the wrong number for his dream girl, he teams up with a driven psychology student to find her. Together, they spark a hilarious campus-wide frenzy that tests their own hearts and…
5
Lovers' Concerto (2002)
★ 7.2/10
A college student befriends two cute girls his age. He loses contact with them. He tries to find them years later.
6
Larry Crowne (2011)
★ 6/10
When he suddenly finds himself without his long-standing blue-collar job, Larry Crowne enrolls at his local college to start over. There, he becomes part of an eclectic community of students and develops a crush on his…
7
Outside In (2018)
★ 6.2/10
An ex-con struggling to readjust to life in his small town forms an intense bond with his former high-school teacher.
8
Old Fashioned (2014)
★ 6.4/10
A reformed frat boy opens an antique store in a college town and falls for the free-spirited girl who moves into the apartment above his shop. In time, this unlikely pair fall into a traditional courtship.
9
The Prince & Me (2004)
★ 6.2/10
A fairy tale love-story about pre-med student Paige who falls in love with a Danish Prince "Eddie" who refused to follow the traditions of his parents and has come to the US to quench his thirst for rebellion. Paige…
10
You Are the Apple of My Eye (2025)
★ 8.4/10
A group of close friends who attend a private school all have a debilitating crush on the sunny star pupil, Sun-ah. The only member of the group who claims not to is Jin-woo, but he ends up loving her as well.
11
The Longest Ride (2015)
★ 7.6/10
The lives of a young couple intertwine with a much older man as he reflects back on a lost love while he's trapped in an automobile crash.
12
Modern Times (1936)
★ 8.3/10
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time...
13
Jersey Girl (2004)
★ 6.2/10
Ollie Trinke is a young, suave music publicist who seems to have it all, with a new wife and a baby on the way. But life deals him a bum hand when he's suddenly faced with single fatherhood, a defunct career and having…
14
The First Time (2012)
★ 7/10
A spark of attraction smolders, then ignites, between two teens from different high schools who meet by chance at a party.
15
You Only Live Once (1937)
★ 7.1/10
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham…
16
They Live by Night (1949)
★ 6.8/10
An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning.
17
Hitch (2005)
★ 6.6/10
Dating coach Alex 'Hitch' Hitchens mentors a bumbling client, Albert, who hopes to win the heart of the glamorous Allegra Cole. While Albert makes progress, Hitch faces his own romantic setbacks when proven techniques…
18
A Violent Prosecutor (2016)
★ 7/10
After a prosecution lawyer is framed and convicted for murder, he tries to catch the real murderer from jail with the help of a con artist.
19
Beau Hunks (1931)
★ 6.8/10
Stan and Ollie join the French Foreign Legion after Ollie's sweetheart rejects him.
20
Lucas (1986)
★ 6.7/10
A brilliant but socially inept 14-year-old experiences heartbreak for the first time when his two best friends – Cappie, an older-brother figure, and Maggie, the new girl with whom he is in love – fall for each other.