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Movies Like When I Was The Prettiest

If you liked When I Was The Prettiest (2012), a drama and romance movie directed by Baek Sang-hoon, 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. 1All My Life

    All My Life (2020)

    ★ 7.7/10Also romance and drama

    It was a chance meeting started by one of Sol’s friends trying to chat up Jennifer. However, in the end, it was those two who hit it off. Sol enjoyed Jen’s smile, her effort, and how silly she could be. Jen enjoyed…

  2. 2Christmas in August

    Christmas in August (1998)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama and romance

    It's a sweltering summer, but Jung-won, a terminally ill, thirty-something photographer, is already in the winter of his life when he begins a tentative romance with a young traffic cop who doesn't know about his…

  3. 3Until Forever

    Until Forever (2016)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama and romance

    Until Forever: The Michael Boyum Story is a powerful, true account of one young man's courageous battle with leukemia and his journey of faith.

  4. 4Five Feet Apart

    Five Feet Apart (2019)

    ★ 8.2/10Also romance and drama

    Seventeen-year-old Stella spends most of her time in the hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient. Her life is full of routines, boundaries and self-control — all of which get put to the test when she meets Will, an…

  5. 5Our Friend

    Our Friend (2019)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and romance

    After learning that his terminally ill wife has six months to live, a man welcomes the support of his best friend who moves into their home to help out.

  6. 6Not Easily Broken

    Not Easily Broken (2009)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and romance

    A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.

  7. 7We Live in Time

    We Live in Time (2024)

    ★ 7.2/10Also romance and drama

    An up-and-coming chef and a recent divorcée find their lives forever changed when a chance encounter brings them together, in a decade-spanning, deeply moving romance.

  8. 8Dying Young

    Dying Young (1991)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and romance

    After she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her, Hilary O'Neil is looking for a new start and a new job. She begins to work as a private nurse for a young man suffering from blood cancer. Slowly, they fall in…

  9. 9April Snow

    April Snow (2005)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and romance

    A man and a woman are brought together after their spouses, who were having an affair, are hospitalized after a car crash.

  10. 10Man in Love

    Man in Love (2014)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and romance

    Tae-il lives a fast life as low level thug. He then learns that he has a terminal illness and not much time left to live. Then, for the first time in his life, he falls in love.

  11. 11Happy End

    Happy End (1999)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and romance

    When a wife becomes the breadwinner of her family after her husband loses his job, adultery becomes part of her life.

  12. 12Ordinary Love

    Ordinary Love (2019)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and romance

    An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife's breast cancer diagnosis.

  13. 13Love Story

    Love Story (1970)

    ★ 6.8/10Also romance and drama

    Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore. Despite their opposite backgrounds, the young couple put their hearts on…

  14. 14R-Rated Idol Seung-ha's Sex Scandal

    R-Rated Idol Seung-ha's Sex Scandal (2020)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and romance

    When they were young, Min-joo and Seo-yeon cared for each other and were closer than brothers and sisters. However, she accidentally learns about Seo-yeon's tutor, Woo-hyeon, and because of this man, their 10-year…

  15. 15A Moment to Remember

    A Moment to Remember (2004)

    ★ 7.8/10Also drama and romance

    A young couple's love is tested when Sun-jin is diagnosed with a rare form of Alzheimer's disease.

  16. 16The Theory of Everything

    The Theory of Everything (2014)

    ★ 7.8/10Also drama and romance

    Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very…

  17. 17American Beauty

    American Beauty (1999)

    ★ 8/10Also drama

    Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.

  18. 18Brief Encounter

    Brief Encounter (1945)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama and romance

    Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during…

  19. 19High Society

    High Society (2018)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    The story of the journey of married couple up the social latter. The husband is professor at Seoul National University who is running for the National Assembly, and his wife is a painter.

  20. 20Freeheld

    Freeheld (2015)

    ★ 7.2/10Also romance and drama

    New Jersey car mechanic Stacie Andree and her police detective girlfriend Laurel Hester both battle to secure Hester's pension benefits after she was diagnosed with a terminal illness.

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