Portrait of a beauty

One imagines the pitch meeting involved someone saying, "like Yentl, but make it art." A young woman disguises herself as her dead brother to continue the family's court-painting business. It's a steamy costume drama that hits every note you expect.

Streaming availability changes weekly. Check the Where to watch panel above — we re-pull TMDB's JustWatch index every week. If nothing's listed, the film is between licence windows.

Our similarity graph picks 6 films based on shared director, keywords, mood-cluster overlap, and MovieLens user co-rating — niche-biased away from blockbusters. Full list: /like/portrait-of-a-beauty-2008/.

Jeon Yun-su directed Portrait of a beauty in 2008. See Jeon Yun-su's full filmography, where to start with Jeon Yun-su, or where to go after you've seen everything by Jeon Yun-su.

Portrait of a beauty was released in 2008 (KO original-language production), with a runtime of 108 minutes.