Korean films about the 18th century

List of the best Korean films about the 18th century, selected by visitors to our site: The Spy Gone North, Alienoid, Emergency Declaration, Train to Busan, The Outlaws, Children..., Punch, The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil, A Taxi Driver, National Security.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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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: 6.3
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: 6.9
Genrethriller, drama
CountrySouth Korea

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

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: 7.2
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:24

    Ma Seok-do works as a detective squad chief. His team struggles to bust a criminal ring who originally came from Yanbian, China and led by Jang Chen.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration02:06

    The film is based on a true yet unsolved murder case from the early 1990s that is known among Koreans as the "disappearance of the frog children." In 1991, five elementary school students told their parents that they were going to hang out on a nearby mountain to catch frogs, and then they go missing.

    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: 6.9
    Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:22

    In Cheonan, a serial murder case takes place, but the case becomes more and more of a mystery. Only Tae-suk, a cop, immediately senses that all the cases are by the same killer and starts investigation. One day, Dong-soo, a gang boss, got attacked by a suspicious man, and Tae-suk realizes that this man is the serial killer, K. Now, Dong-soo becomes the only witness and a survived victim from K.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:50

    May, 1980. Man-seob is a taxi driver in Seoul who lives from hand to mouth, raising his young daughter alone. One day, he hears that there is a foreigner who will pay big money for a drive down to Gwangju city. Not knowing that he’s a German journalist with a hidden agenda, Man-seob takes the job.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrethriller, drama, biography, history
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:50

    On September 4, 1984, democracy movement leader Kim Jong Tae (Park Won Sang) is arrested and taken to an infamous interrogation facility in Namyeong-dong. For the next 22 days, he would be cruelly and continuously tortured in all manners by interrogators intent on forcing him to confess to communist collaboration.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genredrama
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:12

    A poor North Korean fisherman finds himself an accidental defector, and is groomed to be a spy by an ambitious South Korean military officer.

    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
    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: 6.8
    Genreaction, crime
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:33

    In real life, Kwon Yoo is unemployed, but in the virtual game world he is the best leader. Kwon Yoo is then framed for a murder. With the help of hacker Yeo-Wool, he tries to uncover the truth behind the murder case.

    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
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration02:14

    A corrupt customs official joins forces with a vicious gangster to form the most powerful crime partnership in Busan.

    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: 6.8
    Genredrama, crime
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:08

    Born in a poor family, Tae-su learns that the power is the most important thing in life and decides to become a prosecutor, the biggest symbol of power in the 90’s. After entering the most prestigious law school, experiencing democratic resistance in Korea, Tae-su finally reaches his goal of becoming a prosecutor but his life is no better than a salary man. By chance, he joins a clique of the powerful prosecutors with wealth and authority. He finally gets a taste of a life of the top hierarchy, but as he enjoys the sweetness of supremacy, he also sees the cruel side of it.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genredrama, crime, detective
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:59

    Based on the series by the popular Japanese novelist Keigo Higashino, this is a mystery drama that 'faithfully but freely' adapts the 3rd part in the series, . The story revolves around 3 characters: a woman who unwittingly killed her husband, a math genius next door who sets up a perfect alibi for her out of his attraction toward her, and a detective who closely traces her, finding the alibi suspicious.

    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).

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    Genrethriller, crime, detective
    CountrySouth Korea

    Choi Jong-goo used to be a popular troubleshooter. He is now a bully who lives in a market where merchants turn their backs on him. Jong-goo lives on alcohol and is very violent. His daughter uses bad language and violence against people around her. There are sexual violence cases involving minors around him and his daughter is also involved in the case. Jong-goo is accused of a crime. They're looking for a criminal who sexually assaulted his daughter. At this time, Soo-jin, a woman who lives in pain appears. The veiled Soo-jin is always an angel who does good things and protects children. And she feels unbearable anger towards those who do evil around her. How will Jong-goo and Soo-jin will solve this series of events?

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:37

    Hyeong-min, a prominent police detective, and Tae-oh, a killer who has confessed to multiple murders, maintain a fierce psychological confrontation.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrethriller, crime, detective
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:50

    Jin-seok, 21-year-old, moves into a new house with his family. He suffers from a slight schizophrenia but he carries an ordinary life under the warm care of the family. His older brother Yu-seok is a decent college student, a mentor, and role model for Jin-seok. One night, his beloved brother is kidnapped by unidentified assailants before Jin-seok’s eye. Jin-seok can’t recognize their faces, but can remember only the VIN that matches with no car. After long silence of 19 days, suddenly Yu-seok returns home, but remembers nothing which had happened in the meantime. And soon Jin-seok feels Yu-seok is a total stranger…

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountrySouth Korea

    Faced with real-world opportunities and challenges, a couple endures the highs and lows of trying to make a long-distance relationship survive.

    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: 7
    Genreaction, comedy
    CountrySouth Korea

    When an unknown toxic gas strikes Seoul in an unprecedented act of terror, Yong-nam has just met Eui-ju from college by chance at his mother's birthday banquet. The city falls under sudden noxious gas attack and together, they must escape the panic-stricken city.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration00:55

    Dae-ho, an investigative journalist, seeks to track down the whereabouts of his son who was abducted three years ago. With the help of a detective and a psychiatrist friend, he will retrace his memory of the incident through the use of lucid dreaming techniques.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genreaction, comedy, drama
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration02:04

    As a North Korean sleeper cell agent, Ryu-han infiltrates the South and assumes the role of a village idiot in a rural town. He observes the townsfolk and waits patiently for his mission. One day, after 2 years of playing the role of the village idiot, fellow elite spies Hae-rang, posed as a rock star and Hae-jin, posed as an ordinary student, are dispatched to the same town as Ryu-han. He helps the other two spies settle in and teach them how to adjust in the South. There is a sudden drastic political power shift in the North and all three spies receive an urgent and ultimate mission.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:50

    A bad guy, a cruel guy, a lame guy, a cowardly guy and the meanest woman gets involved in a beautiful university student's murder case.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountrySouth Korea

    Nicknamed after a human-devouring spirit, the ruthless leader of an overseas black ops team takes up a dangerous mission in a city riddled with spies.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, crime, detective
    CountrySouth Korea

    Soo Jin, a woman suffering from post-traumatic memory loss, returns to her daily life with her husband after an accident. But her recovery takes an unexpected turn when she starts experiencing eerie visions: One day, she sees a vision of a child living in the same building being hit by a car. Shortly after almost risking her life to save the child, she has yet another chilling vision about a girl living on the 7th floor being harassed by a man, and does what she can to help the girl. She runs into her former boss at an art school, and learns that learns that her husband may not be telling the truth about everything. Meanwhile, detective Ki-sang finds Soo Jin’s husband on the surveillance footage of a crime scene and starts to investigate him. Soo Jin’s suspicion grows as she sees a vision of her husband killing a neighbor. While searching for the truth about her husband, she stumbles upon a wedding photo of her with a strange man other than her husband…

    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: 6.1
    Genrethriller, drama, biography, history
    CountrySouth Korea

    The story of Joseon's tyrant king Yeonsan who exploits the populace for his own carnal pleasures, his seemingly loyal retainer who controls him and all court dealings, and a woman who seeks vengeance.

    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: 7.9
    Genredocumentary, music
    CountrySouth Korea

    K-pop sensation BTS embark on their 2019 'Love Yourself: Speak Yourself' Tour.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genredrama
    CountrySouth Korea

    TV producer Da-hye lived through a miserable childhood. Her parents fought all the time and finally divorced. Da-hye then found her prince charming and was engaged to marry him. Then on a rainy night, the day before her birthday, Da-hye's friend Ji-seok calls and asks for a ride from her fiancé. When her fiance arrives, he finds out that Ji-seok has already gotten a ride from his sister Ji-min. As Da-hye's fiancé walks back to his car he is hit by a motorcycle. The driver of the motorcycle then turns around and fatally runs over her fiance.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genredrama
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:12

    A journey of a Korean girl who wanders around Europe to find her boyfriend.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:00

    Achiara is a quiet, peaceful village with hardly any crime. But on her first day of school there, English language instructor Kim So-yoon discovers a buried corpse. As the townspeople speculate on the identity of the dead person and the reason she was killed, So-yoon and policeman Park Woo-jae become determined to solve the mystery.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genredocumentary, biography
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, South Korea, USA

    Adopted from South Korea, raised on different continents & connected through social media, Samantha & Anaïs believe that they are twin sisters separated at birth.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrehorror, thriller, crime, detective
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:31

    After his parents are murdered, Bin is taken into the care of relatives. He begins to act strangely, the new occupants of his house experience horrific nightmares, and a mystery unfolds as a terrible secret is revealed.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration00:58

    Lee Jae-In possesses a good appearance, he is smart and comes from a wealthy family, but he is also arrogant. His grandfather orders Jae-In to enter into a 10 month contract engagement with a female school teacher that he has never met in his life. Lee Jae-In slowly falls in love with her.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genreaction, drama, history
    CountrySouth Korea

    Set in the 19th century, when lowly butcher Dol Moo-Chi refuses to carry out an assignment, his failure causes tragedy to unfold upon his family and himself. As Dol Moo-Chi is about to be executed, a group of righteous thieves known as Kundo arrive.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, crime
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:12

    A young girl is raised as a killer in the Yanbian province of China. She hides her identity and travels to South Korea where she hopes to lead a quiet life but becomes involved with two mysterious men.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genredrama, crime
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration02:19

    Grandmother Mi Ja works part-time as a caretaker, and struggles to raise a teen grandson by herself. Despite her tough situation, she speaks softly, dresses fashionably, and approaches the world with child-like curiosity. Enrolling in a poetry class, she endeavors to capture life in verse form, but her simple dream of completing a poem is stalled by the early signs of Alzheimer's disease and the heavy financial and emotional burden of her grandson's shocking wrongdoing.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genreadventure, family, cartoon
    CountrySouth Korea, USA
    Duration01:25

    Being teased for his color, Johnny the white koala joins a traveling carnival with Hamish, a Tasmanian devil, and Higgens, a photographer monkey as talent agents. On the way through the Australian outback desert, the trailer they are in comes loose and crashes. Johnny must live up to the hero status Hamish presents him as while the outback locals try to rescue a kidnapped koala from Bog, a giant crocodile and his dingo lackeys.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrefantasy, drama, adventure, detective
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:35

    Along With the Gods: The Last 49 Days follows the journey of 3 Afterlife Guardians and Su-hong as they journey through their 49th trial in order to gain their reincarnations and how the Guardians slowly recover their forgotten memories through Household God in the living world.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrefantastic, thriller
    CountrySouth Korea

    In the not-so distant future, researchers at a deep-sea laboratory have finally invented a time machine. Head researcher Woo-seok is promised funding from a mega-corporation if he completes a test flight. He and Young-eun carry out the mission and travel to 11 A.M. the next day, only to find the base on the verge of collapse. All the researchers are gone and someone is out to kill them.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrethriller, drama, history
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration03:43

    In 1925 Korea, Japanese rulers demand the last remaining tiger be killed. The tiger easily defeats his pursuers until a legendary hunter takes him on.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountrySouth Korea

    A national cussing battle audition is the nation's hype. People from all over the country audition in becoming the "Cussing King." However, redundant cussing auditioners cause viewership to drop dramatically. The producer decides to revive the show by introducing a regular looking grandmother...

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountrySouth Korea, Japan
    Duration02:00

    Ishigami comes home from work and discovers his wife dead. Just then, he receives a phone call from his wife and falls in utter confusion. Unexplainable things keep happening as Ishigami struggles to find his wife. Gradually, Ishigami realizes all his memories are gone and finds himself acting like someone else. What is his true identity?




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