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10 Best Movies Like Ugly

If you loved Ugly, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Qwerty

Qwerty

2012★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ugly for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The movie is a fictionalized account of a disgruntled cop who has been wrongly implicated in a torture video that went viral. It begins on his last night of duty, as he is about to...

#2
Family Diary

Family Diary

1962★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ugly for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Enrico is a struggling journalist in the Rome of 1945. He receives a phone call informing him that his younger brother Lorenzo has died. Enrico recalls their long and difficult rel...

#3
Radiance

Radiance

2017★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ugly for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story follows the social intercourse between a cameraman, Masaya, with a visual impairment, and Misako who disconnects from the world....

#4
RETURN

RETURN

1985★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ugly for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

8mm work directed by Norihiko Morinaga....

#5
Dormant Beauty

Dormant Beauty

2012★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ugly for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A mosaic of several intertwined stories questioning the meaning of life, love and hope, set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro, a young woman who spent 17 years...

#6
Miracle: Letters to the President

Miracle: Letters to the President

2021★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Ugly for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Dreaming of making a way station for his sister and the villagers who have no choice but to commute along the dangerous train tracks every day, Joon-kyung sends many letters to the...