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10 Best Movies Like 1987: When the Day Comes

If you loved 1987: When the Day Comes, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
May 18

May 18

2007★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 1987: When the Day Comes for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The citizens of Gwangju lead a relatively peaceful life, until one day the military takes over the city, accusing the residents of conspiracy and claiming that they are communist s...

#2
The Attorney

The Attorney

2013★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 1987: When the Day Comes for fans of Drama & History. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Song Woo-seok is a lawyer with no clients. When his friend's son is falsely accused of a crime and tortured, he takes up the case and the course of his life changes for good....

#3
Children...

Children...

2011★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 1987: When the Day Comes for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

On March 26, 1991, five boys set off to the mountain to go frog hunting and never come back to their family. While a documentary producer, detective and professor try to solve the ...

#4
Remember

Remember

2022★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 1987: When the Day Comes for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Pil-ju, an Alzheimer's patient in his 80s, who lost all his family during the Japanese colonial era, and devotes his lifelong revenge before his memories disappear, and a young man...

#5
2009: Lost Memories

2009: Lost Memories

2002★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 1987: When the Day Comes for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

There are breakpoints in the history, the result of a single event may change the whole course. In 1909, an assassination attempt of a Japanese governor fails. Now, in 2009, Korea ...

#6
A Better Tomorrow

A Better Tomorrow

2010★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to 1987: When the Day Comes for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

An idealistic policeman must bring down his estranged older brother, now a powerful gangster in a South Korean port city....

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