Korean films about family life

List of the best Korean films about family life, selected by visitors to our site: The Neighbors, Moebius, Jo Pil-ho: The Dawning Rage, Emergency Declaration, Carter, Seobok, Broken, My Annoying Brother, Running Man, The Great Battle.

In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, crime, detective
CountrySouth Korea

A serial killer murders a girl from his neighborhood. The residents begin to suspect him one by one, as he tries to cover his tracks and plans another kill before escape.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genredrama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:29

A wife, overwhelmed with hatred for her husband, inflicts an unspeakable wound on their son, as the family heads towards horrific destruction.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:10

On the run from a dogged internal affairs agent, a corrupt cop reluctantly teams up with a defiant teen to unravel a conspiracy -- before it's too late.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrethriller, drama
CountrySouth Korea

After a terror incident occurs mid-flight, a passenger jet declares an emergency.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genreaction
CountrySouth Korea

Thrown straight into a dangerous mission with none of his memories intact, a man must escape death while trying to figure out who he is, how he ended up here, and who is the mysterious voice in his ear calling him "Carter"?

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrefantastic, action, drama
CountrySouth Korea

A former intelligence agent gets involved with the first human clone, Seo Bok, who others seek, causing trouble.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrethriller, crime, detective
CountrySouth Korea

A man becomes a fugitive from the police after he kills one of the men who raped and murdered his daughter.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, drama, sport
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:17

Doo-Sik (Jo Jung-suk) gets paroled from prison thanks to his younger brother (Do Kyung-Soo) Doo-Young. Doo-Young is a promising judo athlete. After 15 years, Doo-Sik (Jo Jung-suk) suddenly appears in front of Doo-Young and they begin to live together. Doo-Young becomes involved in an accident before the selection for the national team.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, crime, detective
CountrySouth Korea
Duration02:07

Jong-Woo (played by Sin Ha-gyoon) is a poor, beleagured taxi driver with a bad attitude, understandable given the kind of clients he has to deal with. So when one night, a polite, well-dressed man offers an outrageous sum of money to rent the taxi for an extended period, Jong Woo doesn't ask any questions, though he does make rather cheerful and inappropriate conversation with his uninterested charge. It's difficult to blame Jong-Woo for this, given that it takes him some time to realize that he is not the protagonist of a low-brow comedy, but of an action-packed thriller.

Markimdb: 7
Genreaction, military, history
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:34

Kingdom of Goguryeo, ancient Korea, 645. The ruthless Emperor Taizong of Tang invades the country and leads his armies towards the capital, achieving one victory after another, but on his way is the stronghold of Ansi, protected by General Yang Man-chu, who will do everything possible to stop the invasion, even if his troops are outnumbered by thousands of enemies.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrethriller, crime
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:41

A young girl is kidnapped by a serial killer. The serial killer uses manholes to kidnap and kill his victims. The young girl's older sister tries to save her before it's too late.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountrySouth Korea, USA

Jang-bu was an ordinary boy except his special talent; To see every moving thing like a slow motion video. As friends teased him by calling ‘monster eyes’, he decided to stick at home and not to go out. Television has been his only friend. Time passes by, and now grown-up Jang-bu works at the CCTV control center which is the best job for him. When he sees people’s life through camera, he feels he’s sharing their ordinary life that he’s never had. This new job opens his heart to the world and Jang-bu starts to make some friends out of the control center. With his dear friends he receives sense of himself and finally decides to propose a girl that he loved for long from CCTV…

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrehorror
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:31

An internet broadcaster recruits a handful of people for their 'experience the horror' show at Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital, a place selected as one of the '7 freakiest places on the planet'. They are to explore the haunted asylum and stream it live on their online show.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrehorror, action, drama, cartoon
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:43

    Martial law is declared when a mysterious viral outbreak pushes Korea into a state of emergency. Those on an express train to Busan, a city that has successfully fended off the viral outbreak, must fight for their own survival…

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, sport
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:50

    A deadbeat teacher helps an angry, aimless teenager find direction in life during his final year of high school.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:51

    On the way to his mother’s funeral, a detective accidentally hits a person with his car. He takes the body with him and puts it into his mother’s coffin. The moment he feels relieved, he receives a call. This caller insists that he saw the detective’s hit-and-run, but instead of asking for money, he wants to know about the body’s whereabouts, leading to a do-or-die showdown of the witness and detective.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrefantasy, drama, adventure, detective
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration02:00

    Having died unexpectedly, firefighter Ja-hong is taken to the afterlife by 3 afterlife guardians. Only when he passes 7 trials over 49 days and proves he was innocent in human life, he’s able to reincarnate, and his 3 afterlife guardians are by his side to defend him in trial.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genredrama, family
    CountrySouth Korea

    A life-changing story of a man who has lived as a loner his entire life. Jae Shik begins to live together with a child with a hearing-visual disability, as they change each other's lives and try to find a way to communicate.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genredrama
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:28

    A three-tiered story centered on a trio of French tourists visiting the same seaside resort.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genredrama
    CountrySouth Korea

    Whatever she does, Eunhee feels like an outsider. Then her new Chinese teacher turns out to be so utterly different from everybody else. A compassionate and meticulously told narrative of a seemingly regular summer that leaves nothing unchanged.

    Seo-joon, loses everything to voice phishing and infiltrates a organization in China to meet Kwak Pro, the designer behind this phishing system.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genredrama
    CountrySouth Korea

    When a young mother reconsiders abandoning her baby, she discovers a scheme selling foundlings for adoption.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:55

    The Plan Man is about a man who lives everything according to plan until he meets a woman who wasn't a part of it.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredocumentary, music
    CountryUSA, South Korea

    Record-shattering Korean girl band BLACKPINK tell their story — and detail the hard fought journey of the dreams and trials behind their meteoric rise.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genreaction, thriller, drama
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:23

    Jae-Hyeok lives with his mother, his sister-in-law and nephew Min-Jae in a small Korean town. He is dating Yeon-Joo, while working at the local nuclear power plant. Meanwhile, Pyung-Sub works at the same nuclear power plant. He is worried about conditions there, but nobody in the government listens to him. An earthquake strikes the small town where Jae-Hyeok lives and causes explosions at the nuclear power plant. The situation quickly spirals out of control, leading the entire nation to panic. To prevent another nuclear disaster, Jae-Hyeok and his co-workers return to the nuclear power plant.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:20

    A man receives a wedding invitation from his first love who he met in high school.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genreaction, thriller, fantasy, detective
    CountrySouth Korea

    A teenage girl who has the ability to bring death by using Hanja (Chinese characters), names, photos, and belongings; and a just social issues reporter, fighting against the massive evil hidden behind an IT conglomerate. The film for the series "The Cursed".

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountrySouth Korea

    A group of people meet for the first time in a long time and play a game that reveals each other's secrets.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
    CountrySouth Korea

    Joo Joong-won is the arrogant, greedy CEO of Kingdom, a conglomerate that includes a supermall and a hotel. "Ghost whisperer” Tae Gong-shil, is a misunderstood outcast who can't keep a boyfriend or a job since a near death experience left her seeing needy ghosts. She feels compelled to help them resolve their earthly issues so they can move on to the afterlife... and he feels compelled to think she's crazy. Soon their lives merge into a complicated web of hijinx, misunderstandings, and... yes, love.

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    Genredrama
    CountrySouth Korea

    Seong-cheol is a high school student who grew up neglected. In order to make money in a harsh society that abandoned him, he teamed up with Gi-joon, who is two years younger than him, to use his status as a minor to make money and seek a big blow. A father who left home, a sick brother and a mother whose cares for him. Seong-cheol, who was abandoned in hellish reality, starts a desperate survival in his own way.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrethriller, drama, biography, history
    CountrySouth Korea

    In the 1970s, Korea is under the absolute control of the President Park who controls the KCIA, the organization with an edge over any branch of government. The director of KCIA, KIM Gyu-pyeong, is the seemingly most prospective second-in-command. In the midst of reign of fear, a former KCIA director, PARK Yong-gak who knows all about the government’s obscure operations, exiles to the U.S. where the investigation of ‘Koreagate’ is underway. As the tension escalates, the stifling political maneuvering by the all second-in-command’s unfolds.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:59

    A kidnapper disappeared 15 years ago without a trace. Five days before the case's statute of limitations expires, someone anonymously leaves a flower at the crime scene. A few days later, another kidnapping takes place using the same method on a similar target.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrehorror, action, fantasy
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:39

    After waking up with mysterious wounds on his hands, a champion fighter finds himself in an otherworldly battle against evil forces that wreak havoc in the human world.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:54

    A magician meets a weird girl and offers her to work together in his magic show. It's only until a year later that he starts to know her personally and develops a feeling towards her despite her own problems.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrehorror
    CountrySouth Korea

    After moving into a new house, a young girl begins displaying strange and disturbing behavior until, one day, she disappears behind a closet. While the devastated father is left with no clue about his daughter’s disappearance, an exorcist shows up to help.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrehorror, action
    CountrySouth Korea

    As a grisly virus rampages a city, a lone man stays locked inside his apartment, digitally cut off from seeking help and desperate to find a way out.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:29

    Ja-yoon is a high school student who struggles with memory loss after she endured some unknown trauma during her childhood. While trying to uncover the truth, she is unwittingly dragged into a world of crime and finds herself on a journey that will awaken many secrets hidden deep within.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genrecomedy, drama, family
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration02:07

    A story about a mentally ill man wrongfully accused of murder and his relationship with his lovingly adorable 6 year old daughter.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:21

    A story of the Jangsan Tiger, who mimics human voices to lure them close, and a family affected by the creature.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrefantasy, drama
    CountryUSA, South Korea
    Duration02:13

    Tells the story of Jesus Christ at age seven as he and his family depart Egypt to return home to Nazareth. Told from his childhood perspective, it follows young Jesus as he grows into his religious identity.

    Markimdb: 7

    A bullied teenager who is locked up at a juvenile detention center due to an unexpected accident, meets a mixed martial arts champion to break through his own limits.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:32

    A shady cop finds himself in over his head when he gets caught between Internal Affairs and the city’s corrupt mayor, in this scintillating crime drama from Korean maestro Kim Sung-soo (The Warrior).

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:40

    South Korea, 1993. An agent of the National Intelligence Service is sent to Beijing with the assignment of infiltrating a group of North Korean officials with the ultimate goal of obtaining information about the North Korean nuclear program.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryTurkey, South Korea

    Receiving important news about her father, whom she has not met for years, Nisan returns to her father's house with her husband and daughter. There are strange things happening in this mansion where she escaped away years ago. What is happening in the mansion.What is the mystery of the woman in the picture. Encountering her nightmares, Nisan has to illuminate this mystery as soon as possible in order to protect herself and her family.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration02:15

    An undercover cop has his loyalties tested when the boss of the corporate gang he's spent years infiltrating dies.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:12

    A son to a high-ranked official in North Korea commits a series of murders going across the countries around the world. The movie depicts the following events as South Korea, North Korea and Interpol start chasing down after him.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
    CountrySouth Korea

    To combat rising violent crimes, the Police Chief asks Detective Oh Goo Tak to form a team consisting of criminals. He is currently suspended from the police force for using excessive force. He then gathers team members: Park Woong Chul who is a gangster, Lee Jung Moon who is the youngest serial killer with extraordinary intelligence and Jung Tae Soo who is a contract killer. Police Inspector Yoo Mi Young also joins the team and she tries to have these guys work as a team by dealing with them rationally and sometimes emotionally.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
    CountrySouth Korea

    Stuntman Cha Dal-geon gets involved in a tragic airplane crash and ends up discovering a national corruption scandal in the process. Go Hae-ri, the oldest daughter of a deceased marine, decides to work for the National Intelligence Service as a secret ops agent in order to support her mom and younger siblings, although all she wanted to do is to become a civil servant.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure
    CountrySouth Korea

    The door of time opens between the swordsman who wants to seize the legendary divine sword at the end of the Goryeo Dynasty and those who chase after an alien prisoner imprisoned in a human body in 2022.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountrySouth Korea

    After his career takes a turn for the worse, superstar actor Kang Seo Joon is afraid he’s hit rock bottom. But after a chance meeting brings the talented chef Han Ji Woo into his life, Seo Joon is certain his luck is about to change.




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