Korean movies about forbidden love

List of the best Korean films about forbidden love according to visitors: The Taste of Money, 365 Days, Blue Is the Warmest Color, It Follows, The Silent Storm, The Tribe, The Flu, To My Star , Vagabond, Miracle in Cell No. 7.

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: 5.7
Genrethriller, drama
CountrySouth Korea

Young-jak who is a private secretary of madam BAEK, the center power of Korean conglomerate, deals with immoral private issues of her wealthy family. As his desire for money and power grows, he endures whatever he’s ordered to do and letting people around him get hurt is not a concern for him. Meanwhile, Young-jak reports to madam BAEK that madam BAEK’s husband, Mr. YOON is having an affair with a Filipino nanny, Eva. Madam BAEK is now despaired, then greedily seducing Young-jak for her sexual desire. On the other hand, he begins to feel conflicted by madam BAEK’s daughter, the only family member who approaches him with the true heart. Lost between his morality and shortcut to successful life, he has to make the biggest decision he’s ever made to choose whom he will hang on to, in order to survive in this harsh world.

Markimdb: 3.3
Genremelodrama
CountryPoland

Massimo Torricelli, a young and handsome boss of a Sicilian Mafia family, has no other option but to takeover after his father has been assassinated. Laura is a sales director in a luxurious hotel in Warsaw. She has a successful career, but her private life lacks passion. She is taking one last shot to save her relationship. Together with her bone-headed boyfriend Martin and some other friends, she takes a trip to Sicily. She does not expect that Massimo, the most dangerous man on the island, will get in her way, kidnap her, hold her captive and give her 365 days - to fall in love with him.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryFrance, Belgium, Spain
Duration02:59

Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrehorror
CountryUSA
Duration01:40

For 19-year-old Jay, fall should be about school, boys and weekends out at the lake. But a seemingly innocent physical encounter turns sour and gives her the inescapable sense that someone, or something, is following her. Faced with this burden, Jay and her teenage friends must find a way to escape the horror that seems to be only a few steps behind.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom

An enigmatic outsider living on a remote Scottish island finds herself caught between her minister husband and the delinquent who is sent to live with them.

Markimdb: 7
Genredrama, crime
CountryNetherlands, Ukraine
Duration02:06

Deaf mute Sergey enters a specialized boarding school for deaf-and-dumb. In this new place, he needs to find his way through the hierarchy of the school’s network dealing with crimes and prostitution, the Tribe. By taking part of several robberies, he gets propelled higher into the organization. Then he meets one of the Chief’s concubines Anya, and unwillingly breaks all the unwritten rules of the tribe.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrefantastic, action, thriller
CountrySouth Korea
Duration02:02

A case of the flu quickly morphs into a pandemic. As the death toll mounts and the living panic, the government plans extreme measures to contain it.

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.

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: 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: 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: 6.4
Genredrama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:28

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

Markimdb: 7.1
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: 7.9
Genredocumentary, music
CountrySouth Korea

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

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

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: 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: 6.7
    Genreaction, drama
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:36

    A contract killer becomes disenchanted with his line of work and spares the lives of his two latest would-be-victims. But the assassination company he works for has no intentions of letting him quit.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genremelodrama, drama, music, history
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:27

    Two best friends, So-yool and Yeon-hee, dream of becoming the top artists in Seoul together. But their friendship doesn't last long as Yoon-woo, So-yool's first love and songwriter, falls in love with Yeon-hee and her voice. So-yool's feeling of jealousy and inferiority towards Yeon-hee grows by the day, and she eventually makes a drastic decision to bring the two lovers down.

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

    Chief of the ‘Special Crime Unit’, OH Gu-tak, looks for the former gangster, PARK Woong-chul, whom he had worked with before, and recruits a con artist, KWAK No-soon, and a convicted cop, KO Yoo-sung in the new team. With new blood, the ‘Bad Guys’ have become stronger and tougher. As they dig deeper into the case, they sense that a much bigger crime organization is behind it all and they begin the hunt for bad guys…

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, drama
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration02:01

    On Christmas Eve at Tower Sky, an ultra-luxurious building complex, a White Christmas party is held to dazzle its equally high-end tenants and VIP guests. Dae-ho, the manager of the building and single father, is forced to cancel plans with his daughter Hana to work the event. His Christmas is saved when Yoon-hee, the food mall manager with a secret crush on Dae-ho, offers to babysit Hana during the party. Meanwhile, Young-ki the legendary fire chief of Yoido Station has finally promised his first holiday date night to his long suffering wife. The party is in full swing with the spectacular sight of two helicopters flying overhead just to spray snow on the partygoers and make everything perfect. When unthinkable disaster strikes, Dae-ho and Young-ki must summon all their strength and courage to save the lives of thousands but at what cost to themselves and their loved ones?

    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.

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    Genredrama
    CountrySouth Korea

    Taysan, a young homeless man in dust-riddled Seoul, begins a series of illustrations over dusty surfaces. Through his Dust Art, Taysan starts the process of recovery from the pains of his past.

    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: 6.8
    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: 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: 6.6
    Genreaction, drama, crime
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration02:05

    A transgender cop's retirement plans are interrupted by a gang seeking revenge for their arrest.

    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: 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: 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
    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: 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: 7.3
    Genreaction, drama, military, history
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration02:13

    In 1951 ceasefire is declared, but two remaining armies fought their final battle on the front line Towards the end of the Korean War, a South Korean battalion is fiercely battling over a hill on the front line border against the North in order to capture a strategic point that would determine the new border between two nations. The ownership of this small patch of land would swap multiple times each day. Kang is dispatched to the front line in order to investigate the tacit case that’s been happening there. But he gets spiraled into the war that’s more terrifying than death itself when he meets his friend Kim, who has transformed into a war machine, and his unit. As the countdown for ceasefire begins, both sides become more vicious, resulting in deaths of countless lives until the last man could claim the land.

    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: 7.2
    Genreaction, thriller, history
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:34

    Assassination is set in Korea and Shanghai in the 1930's during the Japanese occupation. The government resistance assigns a secret commando group with killing collaborators.

    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: 6.3
    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: 6.7
    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: 5.5
    Genremelodrama
    CountryUSA, South Korea
    Duration01:47

    A pair of star-crossed dancers in New York find themselves at the center of a bitter rivalry between their brothers' underground dance clubs.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountrySouth Korea

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

    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: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration02:01

    A comedy romance movie about the last generation of youths and their passionate romance based in Hongseong, Chungcheong Namdo in the 1980s.

    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: 6.7
    Genreaction, drama, crime
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:56

    Gon, a Korean hitman bred in the United States where he works for a Chinese triad, usually flawless in taking out his targets, makes a terrible mistake in fulfilling a mission. Swamped by feelings of regret, Gon no longer wants to be a hitman, but, in order to tie up loose ends, his boss forces him to do another job in Korea.

    Markimdb: 8.5
    Genrethriller, comedy, drama
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:07

    All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genreaction, thriller
    CountrySouth Korea

    When an illicit arms deal goes bad, North Korean spy Pyo Jong-seong finds himself targeted not just by the South Koreans but also his own bosses.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, drama, military, history
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration02:04

    In this true story from 2002, South Korean patrol boats engaged in a deadly battle with North Korean patrol boats who crossed the maritime border known the Northern Limit Line and attacked.

    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: 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: 6.2
    Genreaction, comedy
    CountrySouth Korea

    Stagnant since 1903, at an elevation of 9000', a volcano erupts on the mythical and majestic Baekdu Mountain.




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