Movies Like Peppermint Candy (2000)

Peppermint Candy is a 2000 drama film from Lee Chang-dong with a MovieMagicScore of 7.5/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with A Taxi Driver and May 18.

Drama

A Taxi Driver

2017

May, 1980. Man-seob is a taxi driver in Seoul who lives from hand to mouth, raising his young daughter alone. One day, he hears that there is a foreigner who will pay big money for a drive down to Gwangju city. Not knowing that he’s a German journalist with a hidden agenda, Man-seob takes the job.

8.0

MagicScore

May 18

2007

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 sympathisers preparing a revolution against the current government. Seeing as the soldiers beat defenceless people, mainly students, to death, the citizens are in for retaliation and form a militia.

6.9

MagicScore

A Petal

1996

A young girl is caught up in the 1980 Gwangju massacre, where Korean soldiers killed hundreds, if not thousands, of protesters who opposed the country's takeover by the military the year before. Flashbacks show the girl seeing her mother shot to death in the massacre. The film spurred the Korean public to demand the truth behind the incident, and their government eventually opened previously classified files on the massacre.

6.8

MagicScore

1987: When the Day Comes

2017

In 1987 Korea, under an oppressive military regime, a college student gets killed during a police interrogation involving torture. Government of officials are quick to cover up the death and order the body to be cremated. A prosecutor who is supposed to sign the cremation release, raises questions about a 21-year-old kid dying of a heart attack, and he begins looking into the case for truth. Despite a systematic attempt to silence everyone involved in the case, the truth gets out, causing an eruption of public outrage.

8.1

MagicScore

Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower

2017

When the Chinese Communist Party backtracks on its promise of autonomy to Hong Kong, teenager Joshua Wong decides to save his city. Rallying thousands of kids to skip school and occupy the streets, Joshua becomes an unlikely leader in Hong Kong and one of China’s most notorious dissidents.

7.3

MagicScore

Tape

2001

Jon, a first-time filmmaker, finds himself in Lansing, Michigan to present his film at a local film festival. Vince, his high school friend who is now a volunteer fireman and small-time drug dealer, also visits the town to support Jon on his big day, or so it seems. After a raucous hello and much backslapping, it appears that there is an undercurrent of tension in the air.

6.9

MagicScore

Peter's Friends

1992

After inheriting a large country estate from his late father, Peter invites his friends from college: married couple Roger and Mary, the lonely Maggie, fashionable Sarah, and writer Andrew, who brings his American TV star wife, Carol. Sarah's new boyfriend, Brian, also attends. It has been 10 years since college, and they find their lives are very different.

6.6

MagicScore

Among Ravens

2014

The story of a group of friends who reunite for their annual 4th of July weekend only to be confronted by Chad, a strange and beautiful nature photographer who begins to change their lives one by one.

4.8

MagicScore

The Long Goodbye

1973

In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.

7.4

MagicScore

#10

Friends: The Reunion

2021

The cast of Friends reunites for a once-in-a-lifetime celebration of the hit series, an unforgettable evening filled with iconic memories, uncontrollable laughter, happy tears, and special guests.

7.9

MagicScore

#11

Coherence

2013

Four couples gather for dinner the night a mysterious and powerful comet passes overhead.

7.2

MagicScore

#12

Brothers

2024

Two young brothers are abandoned by their mother during summer of 1948, they run into the forest and survive there for seven years.

7.1

MagicScore

#13

The Big Chill

1983

Seven old college friends gather for a weekend reunion after the funeral of one of their own.

6.8

MagicScore

#14

I Melt with You

2011

Former college friends meet up for a reunion that leads them to face the apparent disillusionment that defines their lives. After a week of excessive drug and alcohol abuse, events lead them to contemplate fulfilling a self destructive pact they made when they were young.

5.3

MagicScore

#15

The Deer Hunter

1978

A group of working-class friends decide to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos -- not the noble venture they imagined. Before they left, Steven married his pregnant girlfriend -- and Michael and Nick were in love with the same woman. But all three are different men upon their return.

8.0

MagicScore

#16

Mean Creek

2004

Teenagers living in small-town Oregon take a boat trip for a birthday celebration. When they get an idea to play a mean trick on the town bully, it suddenly goes too far. Soon they're forced to deal with the unexpected consequences of their actions.

6.9

MagicScore

#17

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

2003

After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers.

6.3

MagicScore

#18

26 Years

2012

26 years ago, state troops were ordered to open fire on civilians in the city of Gwangju who were demonstrating as apart of a democratic movement. Thousands of civilians were killed. Now, a shooter from the national team, a gang member, a policeman, CEO from a large company and director of a private security outfit get involved in a plan to convict the person responsible for the massacre.

6.8

MagicScore

#19

The Attorney

2013

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.

7.8

MagicScore

#20

National Security

2012

On September 4, 1984, democracy movement leader Kim Jong Tae is arrested and taken to an infamous interrogation facility in Namyeong-dong. For the next 22 days, he would be cruelly and continuously tortured in all manners by interrogators intent on forcing him to confess to communist collaboration.

7.4

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Peppermint Candy?

The top films similar to Peppermint Candy by MovieMagicScore are A Taxi Driver (8.0), May 18 (6.9), A Petal (6.8). Each shares drama themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Peppermint Candy worth watching?

Peppermint Candy holds a MovieMagicScore of 7.5/10 from 266 viewer ratings, putting it among the better-reviewed titles in its genre.

What kind of movie is Peppermint Candy?

Peppermint Candy (2000) is a drama film directed by Lee Chang-dong, starring Sul Kyung-gu, Moon So-ri, Kim Yeo-jin.

Where can I find more recommendations like Peppermint Candy?

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About movies like Peppermint Candy

This ranked list pairs Peppermint Candy (2000), a drama film from Lee Chang-dong, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Sul Kyung-gu take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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