Movies like A Bittersweet Life
If A Bittersweet Life's mix of buried alive, handlanger and revenge stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what A Bittersweet Life's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Night in Paradise
2020 · Directed by Park Hoon-jung · 131 min6.9
Why you'll like itWith Lee Ki-young · Shares: revenge · Also a Korean crime film
An assassin named Tae-goo is offered a chance to switch sides with his rival Bukseong gang, headed by Chairman Doh. Tae-goo rejects the offer that results in the murder of his sister and niece.
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A Company Man
2012 · Directed by Lim Sang-yoon · 96 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: revenge · Also a Korean drama
A contract killer becomes disenchanted with his line of work and spares the lives of his two latest would-be-victims. But the assassination company he works for has no intentions of letting him quit.
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Payback
1999 · Directed by Brian Helgeland · 100 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: revenge · Also action and drama
With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think.
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Gangster No. 1
2000 · Directed by Paul McGuigan · 103 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: revenge · Also action and drama · From the same decade (2000s)
An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood changes and he recalls when he was a young punk and who joined Freddie's gang—a man he both envied and ultimately…