Movies Like Muoi: The Legend of a Portrait

If you liked Muoi: The Legend of a Portrait (2007), a drama and horror movie directed by Kim Tae-kyung, 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
Warning: Do Not Play (2019)
★ 6.2/10Also horror and mystery
A struggling director makes a desperate bid to dig into the urban legend about a film shot by a ghost, at the risk of her own life.
2
Night of Dark Shadows (1971)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and horror
Recently married, Quentin and Tracy Collins have just moved into Collinwood, a New England estate that has long been in the Collins family and which Quentin has just inherited. They soon find themselves plagued by…
3
Door Lock (2018)
★ 7.4/10Also thriller and mystery
Kyung-min lives alone in a one-room apartment. One day, she finds traces of a stranger breaking into her room and soon a mysterious murder case begins to unravel.
4
Mourning Grave (2014)
★ 7.2/10Also thriller and horror
A boy who can see ghosts moves to a small town, where he befriends a female ghost. The two work together to investigate a masked ghost who is murdering students one by one.
5
Limbo (2023)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and mystery
Travis, a jaded detective, arrives in the remote outback town of Limbo to investigate the cold case murder of local Indigenous girl Charlotte Hayes 20 years ago. As truths about the murder begin to unfold, the…
6
Hickey & Boggs (1972)
★ 5.9/10Also mystery and drama
Two veteran private eyes trigger a criminal reign of terror with their search for a missing girl. | Al Hickey (Cosby) & Frank Boggs (Culp) are two jaded private investigators who get hired to find a missing woman and…
7
The Caveman's Valentine (2001)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and mystery
Romulus, a misunderstood musician turned recluse hiding from personal demons in a New York City cave, finds the frozen body of a young drifter in a tree. The authorities, including his police officer daughter, claim…
8
Rampant (2018)
★ 6.8/10Also horror and drama
Ancient Korea, 17th century. While the paranoid King Lee Jo of Joseon, vassal of the Qing dynasty, feels surrounded by conspirators and rebels, a dark evil emerges from the bowels of a merchant ship and the exiled…
9
Race with the Devil (1975)
★ 6.4/10Also horror and thriller
Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.
10
Point Blank (1967)
★ 7.1/10Also thriller and drama
After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him.
11
The Chase (2017)
★ 6.7/10Also thriller and drama
After people in his town start turning up dead, a grumpy landlord is visited by a man who recounts an unsolved serial murder case from 30 years ago that may hold the clue to what is happening now.
12
The Parts You Lose (2019)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and thriller
An unlikely friendship unfolds between a young deaf boy, Wesley, and a fugitive criminal who takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the family’s rural North Dakota farm.
13
The Unhealer (2021)
★ 5.8/10Also thriller and horror
A botched faith healing bestows supernatural Shaman powers on a bullied teenager. When his lifelong tormentors pull a prank that kills someone he loves, he uses his powers for revenge and goes on a bloody rampage to…
14
The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
★ 5.9/10Also thriller and drama
After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate.
15
The Cat (2011)
★ 6.8/10Also horror and mystery
So-yeon suffers from claustrophobia and inherits a Persian cat when its owner dies. She begins having nightmares and people around her begin dying as she searches for the truth.
16
Voice (2005)
★ 6.7/10Also horror and mystery
While practicing after hours in her high school, an aspiring singer is mysteriously killed and her body vanishes. Her invisible ghost is trapped in the school, but her best friend is able to hear her voice.
17
The House on Carroll Street (1988)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and thriller
A reporter, fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. While working she overhears a noisy argument in the neighboring house…
18
Whispering Corridors (1998)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and drama
The ghost of a student who died at a Korean school comes back to seek vengeance and protect her friends.
19
The Eternal Daughter (2022)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and mystery
An artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets when they return to a former family home, now a hotel haunted by its mysterious past.
20
Montage (2013)
★ 7.3/10Also thriller and drama
A woman's child is kidnapped and killed after paying the ransom. 15 years later, a mysterious figure is seen visiting the site of killing and another kidnapping occurs using the same methods. The woman teams up with a…