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Movies that feel likeKPop Demon Hunters (2025)

When K-pop superstars Rumi, Mira and Zoey aren't selling out stadiums, they're using their secret powers to protect their fans from supernatural threats.

If you loved KPop Demon Hunters, the closest films we have are Billy Elliot (2000), Sing 2 (2021) and A Night at the Opera (1935). All three share KPop Demon Hunters' stylish and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is A Mighty Wind (2003).

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Billy Elliot
2000 Β· dir. Stephen Daldry
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7.7drama Β· comedy Β· music

Both land dream logic and style at once

The difference: Trades the whimsy of KPop Demon Hunters for an angle of its own

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering. Caught in the middle of the conflict is 11-year old Billy Elliot, who, after leaving his boxing club for the day, stumbles upon a ballet class and finds out that he's naturally talented. He practices with his teacher Mrs. Wilkinson for an upcoming audition in Newcastle-upon Tyne for the royal Ballet school in London.

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Sing 2
2021 Β· dir. Garth Jennings
πŸ… 72%β˜… 7.3animation Β· comedy Β· familyRent or buy

Both are built on the same subject: musical

The difference: Easier on the dream logic than KPop Demon Hunters

Buster and his new cast now have their sights set on debuting a new show at the Crystal Tower Theater in glamorous Redshore City. But with no connections, he and his singers must sneak into the Crystal Entertainment offices, run by the ruthless wolf mogul Jimmy Crystal, where the gang pitches the ridiculous idea of casting the lion rock legend Clay Calloway in their show. Buster must embark on a quest to find the now-isolated Clay and persuade him to return to the stage.

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A Night at the Opera
1935 Β· dir. Sam Wood
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7.8comedy Β· music

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

The difference: Made in the 1930s, in a different era of the craft

The Marx Brothers take on high society and the opera world to bring two lovers together. A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.

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Yesterday
2019 Β· dir. Danny Boyle
πŸ… 64%β˜… 6.8comedy Β· fantasy Β· music

Both lean on dream logic more than on fantasy

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

A struggling musician realizes he's the only person on Earth who can remember The Beatles after waking up in an alternate reality where the group was forgotten.

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Checkered Ninja
2018 Β· dir. ThorbjΓΈrn Christoffersen
β˜… 7.1animation Β· comedy Β· adventurePrime Video

Whimsical comedy in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to adventure than KPop Demon Hunters does

A possessed Ninja doll teams up with a teenage boy to avenge the murder of a poor child factory worker.

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Slayers Return
1996 Β· dir. Hiroshi Watanabe
β˜… 6.9animation Β· comedy Β· fantasy

Animation built on wit, twice over

Lina Inverse and Naga the White Serpent are back! What begins as a routine bandit-stomping turns into the adventure of a lifetime involving magical golems, an ancient Elven weapon and even someone bent on destroying the world. It's a predicament only Lina and Naga could get themselves in to.

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Secret Magic Control Agency
2021 Β· dir. Alexey Tsitsilin
β˜… 6.2animation Β· comedy Β· fantasyNetflix

Playful music, and it commits to that

The Secret Magic Control Agency sends its two best agents, Hansel and Gretel, to fight against the witch of the Gingerbread House.

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Pitch Perfect
2012 Β· dir. Jason Moore
πŸ… 81%β˜… 7.1comedy Β· music Β· romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: female friendship

The difference: Leans harder into romance than KPop Demon Hunters does

College student Beca knows she does not want to be part of a clique, but that's exactly where she finds herself after arriving at her new school. Thrust in among mean gals, nice gals and just plain weird gals, Beca finds that the only thing they have in common is how well they sing together. She takes the women of the group out of their comfort zone of traditional arrangements and into a world of amazing harmonic combinations in a fight to the top of college music competitions.

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South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
1999 Β· dir. Trey Parker
πŸ… 81%β˜… 7.7animation Β· comedyParamount+

One thread runs through both: demon

The third graders of South Park sneak into an R-rated film by ultra-vulgar Canadian television personalities Terrance and Phillip, and emerge with expanded vocabularies that leave their parents and teachers scandalized. When outraged Americans try to censor the film, the controversy spirals into a call to wage war on Canada and Terrance and Phillip end up on death row, with the kids their only hope of rescue.

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A Mighty Wind
2003 Β· dir. Christopher Guest
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.2comedy Β· music

Music with a pulse of style, in both cases

Three eclectic, never-quite-famous folk bands come together for the first time in decades following the death of their manager to put on an reunion concert in his honor, at the request of his son.

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The Boxtrolls
2014 Β· dir. Graham Annable
πŸ… 78%β˜… 6.8animation Β· comedy Β· familyMaxHulu

Both lean on warmth more than on fantasy

An orphaned boy raised by underground creatures called Boxtrolls comes up from the sewers and out of his box to save his family and the town from the evil exterminator, Archibald Snatcher.

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Waiting for Guffman
1997 Β· dir. Christopher Guest
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.4comedy Β· music

Stylish comedy, and it commits to that

Aspiring director Corky St. Clair and the marginally talented amateur cast of his hokey small-town musical production go overboard when they learn that Broadway theater agent Mort Guffman will be in attendance.

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