Both films involve a love triangle of some sort riddled with high tension, jealousy, and royal scandals.
Recommended by Myth
Both are period pieces with intense emotions. Acting is brilliant in both.
Recommended by pattyrn4
Both sageuk films that feature intense relationships. both films have some scenes not for minors too. Homosexuality is featured in both.
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Both are historical films featuring intimate scenes between two people of the same gender. The acting is also amazing in both. Song Ji Hyo in Frozen Flower has strong presence.
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Both films explore gay love that is set in a historical time period.
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Under the pressure of the Yuan Kingdom, the King of Goryeo is pressured to produce a successor to the throne. But the king is in love with his loyal general Hong Rim. After seriously pondering the issue, the king asks his lover Hong Rim to sleep with the Queen, with unexpected consequences.
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it shows men to men relationship with interesting plot.
Recommended by sweet_angellesley
A very tragic and sad love story, deserves a watch!!
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Both are intense historical and have love triangle. Royal Concubine is more intense, bloody and crazy in my view. I prefer A Frozen Flower because its more enjoyable.
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A man and a woman meet for the first time. The handsome stranger, asked her to spend one day with him. The woman has never taken a dangerous risk in her life. She has been with her lover for seven years and is going to get married next month. For the first time she will experience a level of excitement and intimacy, she has never experienced before with the man she met only today.
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-Korean language films
-LGBTQ+
-Gay period drama
Recommended by Geegee16
Break/Depravity is similar to A Frozen Flower in that it explores gay love set in a historical time period.
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Oh Young is a nameless actor who dreams of becoming a big movie star. Then one day, he makes his breakthrough with a film and becomes a star overnight. He discovers a new hidden world of fame, power, and pleasure, but inevitably all things have a dark side, which puts everyone around him in danger.
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20-year old Deok Yi’s quiet small-town life gets exciting when a former University Professor, Hak Kyu, moves in, running from the scandal of a sexual harassment allegation. He works as a literature instructor at a culture center and she works at an old amusement park. Mutual attraction leads the pair into a lusty affair, but when the fall semester begins, Hak Kyu is reinstated at the university and returns to his family in Seoul, leaving Deok Yi behind. She refuses to let the relationship die, and a confrontation between them turns tragic when Hak Kyu’s wife commits suicide. 8 years later, Hak Kyu is a popular writer, but he is barely able to see, losing his eyesight to a disease, and he's estranged from his daughter Cheong, who blames him for her mother's death. At this time, he befriends Se-Jung, a new neighbor who moves in next door. He gladly accepts her help and Cheong becomes romantically attached to her, neither realizing she is in fact Deok Yi, the woman Hak Kyu betrayed 8 years ago, now on a quest to destroy them. Her plan sets off a vengeance-fuelled chain of events that ultimately sets the three bitter, angry and desperate schemers on a twisting collision course with each other.
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A housewife becomes enraged with jealousy over her husband's affair. Meanwhile, their son sits in the periphery, observing their violent confrontations. One evening, the housewife takes a kitchen knife into their bedroom to exact revenge on the father. The father though is able to repel her attack and throws her out of the bedroom. The mother then goes into the son's room and from there it hovers the family into tragedy.
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