15 Movies Like My Boss, My Hero
Loved My Boss, My Hero? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.
Colony
Professor Se-jeong is thrust into a bloody nightmare when a rapidly mutating virus is released during a biotech conference causing authorities to seal the facility. Trapped inside with no escape, Se-jeong along with a small group of survivors must fight to stay alive while the infected undergo horrific transformations.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to My Boss, My Hero.
Parasite
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to My Boss, My Hero.
Revelations
A pastor who believes in divine revelation and a detective haunted by visions pursue a missing person case — exposing their own demons in the process.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to My Boss, My Hero.
Train to Busan
When a zombie virus pushes Korea into a state of emergency, those trapped on an express train to Busan must fight for their own survival.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to My Boss, My Hero.
The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil
After barely surviving a brutal attack by a sadistic serial killer, crime boss Jang Dong-su is left humiliated. Determined to catch the killer known as K, he forms an uneasy alliance with Jung Tae-seok, a relentless and incorruptible detective who often disrupts his illegal business. However, while Jang Dong-su wants K dead, Jung Tae-suk is determined to bring him to justice. With a deal in place—whoever finds K first will decide his fate—the hunt begins, blurring the lines between crime and law.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to My Boss, My Hero.
Humint
A South Korean agent hunts a drug ring in Russia and goes head-to-head with a North Korean operative — pulling both into peril and tangled secrets.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to My Boss, My Hero.
The Roundup
The 'Beast Cop' Ma Seok-do heads to a foreign country to extradite a suspect, but soon after his arrival, he discovers additional murder cases and hears about a vicious killer who has been committing crimes against tourists for several years.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to My Boss, My Hero.
Sex Plate 17
A woman who can make all of one man’s fantasies come true moves in next door .
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to My Boss, My Hero.
Oldboy
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to My Boss, My Hero.
Memories of Murder
A sadistic serial rapist and murderer of young women terrorizes a small province in 1980s South Korea. To prevent further crimes, three increasingly desperate detectives with conflicting methods race against time to unravel the violent mind of the killer in a futile effort to solve the case.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to My Boss, My Hero.
Alienoid
Gurus in the late Goryeo dynasty try to obtain a fabled, holy sword, and humans in 2022 hunt down an alien prisoner that is locked in a human's body. The two parties cross paths when a time-traveling portal opens up.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to My Boss, My Hero.
Love Lesson
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 she's teaching him music. They fall for each other but things get complicated when her life teacher, Joon-ho who taught her about life and music comes back.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to My Boss, My Hero.
Ballerina
Grieving the loss of a best friend she couldn't protect, an ex-bodyguard sets out to fulfill her dear friend's last wish: sweet revenge.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to My Boss, My Hero.
The Witch: Part 2. The Other One
A girl wakes up in a huge secret laboratory, then accidentally meets another girl who is trying to protect her house from a gang. The mystery girl overthrows the gang with her unexpected powers, and laboratory staff set out to find her.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to My Boss, My Hero.
The Treacherous
The story of Joseon's tyrant king Yeonsan who exploits the populace for his own carnal pleasures, his seemingly loyal retainer who controls him and all court dealings, and a woman who seeks vengeance.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to My Boss, My Hero.