Asian Films Like The Brutalist

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A Korean boy born into slavery escapes to America, returns as a US Marine captain, and falls for a noblewoman fighting for independence.

Like The Brutalist, it leans hard into epic scope. At its core, it's about questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same epic energy throughout.

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A Korean-American woman builds an elaborate false identity as a high-society luxury brand executive, targeting the ultra-wealthy elite of Seoul. When her fabricated persona — and t…

Both are built around ambition that starts as a virtue and reveals itself as something else entirely. Same slow burn energy throughout.

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Bulgasal is an immortal creature that cannot be killed — but 600 years ago, a human woman took his ability to feel and his humanity with her when she died. Now she has been reborn,…

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same epic energy throughout.

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The epic true-ish story of Ki Seung-nyang, a Goryeo woman who rises from virtual slave to become Empress of the Yuan dynasty — navigating two men who love her, a throne she was nev…

Both are built around ambition that starts as a virtue and reveals itself as something else entirely. Same epic and ambitious energy throughout.

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Two women — one from wealth, one from poverty — discover as adults that they were accidentally switched at birth. As they navigate reclaiming or abandoning their identities, they b…

Both are built around ambition that starts as a virtue and reveals itself as something else entirely. Same slow burn energy throughout.

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A high-end department store's elite VIP team becomes the backdrop for a slow-burning thriller: Na Jung-sun discovers her husband may be having an affair — with a colleague. What un…

Both are built around ambition that starts as a virtue and reveals itself as something else entirely. Same devastating energy throughout.

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A 21st century woman is transported back to the Goryeo Dynasty during a solar eclipse and wakes up in the body of a court lady. She is drawn into the succession struggle among the …

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same epic and devastating energy throughout.

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Yao Zijin enters the imperial kitchen as a low-ranking palace cook during the Ming Dynasty and rises through skill, creativity, and an unflinching dedication to her craft. Her asce…

Both are built around ambition that starts as a virtue and reveals itself as something else entirely. Same epic energy throughout.

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In a fractured empire, a prophecy names three young men from different backgrounds as the forces that will reshape the world — a half-demon emperor's son, a wandering child of unce…

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same epic and slow burn energy throughout.

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Li Xiaoyao is an innkeeper's lazy, good-humored grandson who gets pulled into an adventure far beyond his pay grade when he accidentally crosses paths with Zhao Ling'er — a forest …

Both are built around questions of who you really are under the person you've been told to be. Same devastating energy throughout.