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Movies Like Ordinary Romance

If you liked Ordinary Romance (2021), a movie directed by Kim Neung-jo and Wang Shimeng, 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. 1The Classic

    The Classic (2003)

    ★ 7.6/10

    Ji-hae's friend is having problems expressing her feelings to the boy she loves, so she asks Ji-hae to write e-mails to him in her name. As the boy falls in love with her letters, Ji-hae discovers the story of her…

  2. 2Tune in for Love

    Tune in for Love (2019)

    ★ 7.7/10

    During the 1990s, hardworking Mi-soo and optimistic Hyun-woo meet at a bakery and fall in love while exchanging stories on a radio station, but while their paths keep crossing, the timing never seems to work out.

  3. 3The Vow

    The Vow (2012)

    ★ 7.2/10

    Happy young married couple Paige and Leo are, well, happy. Then a car accident puts Paige into a life-threatening coma. Upon awakening she has lost the previous five years of memories, including those of her beloved…

  4. 4In the Land of Women

    In the Land of Women (2007)

    ★ 5.9/10

    After a bad breakup with his girlfriend leaves him heartbroken, Carter Webb moves to Michigan to take care of his ailing grandmother. Once there, he gets mixed up in the lives of the mother and daughters who live…

  5. 5Love in the Time of Cholera

    Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)

    ★ 6.6/10

    In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years…

  6. 6Secret Admirer

    Secret Admirer (1985)

    ★ 6.7/10

    An anonymous love letter left in Michael Ryan's locker on the last day of school wreaks havoc on his life and the lives of everyone who comes in contact with it.

  7. 7To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You

    To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You (2020)

    ★ 6.8/10

    Lara Jean and Peter have just taken their romance from pretend to officially real when another recipient of one of her love letters enters the picture.

  8. 8Love & 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…

  9. 9Love Lesson

    Love Lesson (2013)

    ★ 6.6/10

    Korea's most popular song writer Hee-soo runs into a nineteen-year-old boy in the elevator. Hee-soo is inspired by a new song watching him shake at her figure. She starts to tell him about women under the excuse that…

  10. 10Japanese Mom

    Japanese Mom (2017)

    ★ 6.6/10

    "Innocent face, D-cup breasts and perfect intercourse skills! Son, this is not your girlfriend anymore but your mother!" Ki-ho brings Yuki from Japan to marry her. However, he starts cheating on her with his…

  11. 11The Sense of an Ending

    The Sense of an Ending (2017)

    ★ 6.3/10

    A man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him to re-think his current situation in life.

  12. 12Lolita

    Lolita (1997)

    ★ 7.1/10

    Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed…

  13. 13Playing It Cool

    Playing It Cool (2014)

    ★ 5.9/10

    A young man meets and instantly falls in love with an engaged woman.

  14. 14The Girl from the Song

    The Girl from the Song (2017)

    ★ 6/10

    A young musician travels to Burning Man, a psychedelic festival in the middle of the Nevada desert, in an attempt to get the impetuous girl he has fallen in love with.

  15. 1550 First Dates

    50 First Dates (2004)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Henry is a player skilled at seducing women. But when this veterinarian meets Lucy, a girl with a quirky problem when it comes to total recall, he realizes it's possible to fall in love all over again…and again, and…

  16. 16To All the Boys I've Loved Before

    To All the Boys I've Loved Before (2018)

    ★ 7.6/10

    Lara Jean's love life goes from imaginary to out of control when her secret letters to every boy she's ever fallen for are mysteriously mailed out.

  17. 17The Greatest Hits

    The Greatest Hits (2024)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Harriet finds art imitating life when she discovers certain songs can transport her back in time – literally. While she relives the past through romantic memories of her former boyfriend, her time travelling collides…

  18. 18All of You

    All of You (2025)

    ★ 6.3/10

    Laura and Simon have been best friends since college. Over the years, they've realized their bond is more than platonic. Can they—and should they—risk everything to explore a love that has existed all along?

  19. 19It's a Boy Girl Thing

    It's a Boy Girl Thing (2006)

    ★ 6.6/10

    A visit to a natural history museum proves catastrophic for two high school rivals, an overachiever and a jock, when an ancient Aztec statue casts a spell that causes them to switch bodies and see exactly what it's…

  20. 20French Girl

    French Girl (2024)

    ★ 6.3/10

    Sweet Gordon, an affable English teacher in Brooklyn, has beaten the odds; a French Girl has fallen in love with him and he’s fallen even harder back. But their future is thrown into limbo when she interviews for an…

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