Korean movies about killers

List of the best Korean killer movies selected by visitors to our site: To My Star , The Net, Break the Silence: The Movie, Bedevilled, The Chaser, I Saw the Devil, Beautiful, Bloody Reunion, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, Memories of Murder.

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: 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: 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: 7.9
Genredocumentary, music
CountrySouth Korea

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

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:54

A woman subject to mental, physical, and sexual abuse on a remote island seeks a way out.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genreaction, thriller, crime
CountrySouth Korea
Duration02:00

    Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them down, he finds a clue that the vanished girls were all called up by the same client whom one of his girls is meeting with right now.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration02:21

      Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. He has committed infernal serial murders in diabolic ways that one cannot even imagine and his victims range from young women to even children. The police have chased him for a long time, but were unable to catch him. One day, Joo-yeon, daughter of a retired police chief becomes his prey and is found dead in a horrific state. Her fiance Soo-hyun, a top secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises himself that he will do everything in his power to take bloody vengeance against the killer, even if it means that he must become a monster himself to get this monstrous and inhumane killer.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration01:28

      Eun-young is a woman cursed with great beauty. Wherever she goes, she gets unwanted admiration from men and jealousy from women. One day, one of her stalking admirer invades her place.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration01:33

      Mi-ja, who has been taking care of a retired teacher, Ms Park, invites several of her former students to her house 16 years after their graduation. Since the end of her teaching career, Park has been residing in the countryside, suffering from an illness while an ex-student, the kind and pretty Mi-ja cares for her.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration01:52

      After a 13-year imprisonment for the kidnap and murder of a 6 year old boy, beautiful Lee Guem-ja starts seeking revenge on the man that was really responsible for the boy's death. With the help of fellow inmates and reunited with her daughter, she gets closer and closer to her goal. But will her actions lead to the relief she seeks?

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration02:11

      1986 Gyunggi Province. The body of a young woman is found brutally raped and murdered. Two months later, a series of rapes and murders commences under similar circumstances. And in a country that had never known such crimes, the dark whispers about a serial murderer grow louder. A special task force is set up in the area, with two local detectives Park Doo-Man and Jo Young-Goo joined by a detective from Seoul who requested to be assigned to the case.

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      Genrethriller, crime, detective
      CountryKazakhstan, South Korea, Uzbekistan

      USSR Kazakhstan. Sher Sadykhov, who lives with his older sister, starts his internship at a special task force. Sher’s internship begins with the emergence of a serial killer that only kills women. New victims occur and the investigation seems to be at a blind alley. Meanwhile, Sher finds out that his sister is the new target of the serial killer…

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountrySouth Korea

      One day, the only son of famous news anchor HAN Kyung-bae, disappears without a trace. Soon, the kidnapper calls the mother demanding a $100,000 ransom. The police assign a veteran inspector to the case and assemble a top-notch task force to work under his command. But the kidnapper constantly outwits the police and continues calling the parents with yet more instructions for the money drop.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration02:04

      Forensic pathologist Kang is assigned to examine the dismembered corpse of a female murder victim. Detective Min points to a fanatic environmentalist, Lee Sung-ho, as the primary suspect. But when Kang’s daughter is kidnapped, a manipulative game begins between Kang and Lee, who holds secrets about the homicide case.

      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: 6.5
      Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration01:12

      When his wife is murdered, Dong-ho loses the light in his life, breaks down and falls into depression. But he knows that as long as the killer is still around, he can not get out of his loss. Then, one day, he receives a call and can not believe who he is listening to.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrethriller, crime, detective
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration01:24

      Ki-chul, a PE teacher at high school, is dismissed after fighting against the corruption his student had gone through during the boxing match. Transferred to a local girls’ high school, he finds out that one of the students called Yu-jin has been running around day and night, trying to find her missing friend, Su-yeon. While Ki-chul helps Yu-jin solve the case, he is faced with the bigger corruption related with her disappearance.

      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: 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: 6.2
      Genreaction, drama, adventure
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, South Korea, Czech Republic
      Duration02:37

      When an evil emperor executes their leader, his band of knights – bound by duty and honour – embarks on a journey of vengeance that will not come to an end until they've destroyed their mortal foe.

      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: 7.8
      Genredrama, military, history
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration02:06

      Korea, 1950. A child's vow to take care of his family marks the beginning of a lifelong promise spanning sixty years.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrethriller, crime, detective
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration01:23

      After people in his town start turning up dead, a grumpy landlord is visited by a man who recounts an unsolved serial murder case from 30 years ago.

      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.

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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: 6.8
      Genredrama, detective, biography
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration01:32

      A taxi driver is found dead, and Hyun-woo, the only witness, charged with a murder and serves 10 years in prison. While offering pro bono services, a lawyer Junyoung meets Hyun-woo, and they begin their journey to prove his innocence.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genremelodrama, crime, detective
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration00:37

      Kang Chul Soo (Lee Joon Hyuk) is an enthusiastic fireman. He poses as a nude model to make money for his sick friend. He is then targeted as the criminal of an arson-murder case that took place 10 years. Kang Chul Soo and mysterious heiress Han Jin Ah (Jung In Sun) try to find the real culprit.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration01:35

      A former serial killer Byung-su gets diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and when a series of murders occur near his town, he worries whether the killings are his doings. Then, he comes across Tae-ju and realizes that he’s the killer. He reports this to the police, only to learn that Tae-ju is one. Byung-su tries to find evidence against Tae-ju, only to raise the young killer’s interest on him and his dear daughter.

      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: 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: 6.5
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration01:42

      After a traumatic event, a drug trafficker turns sides and conspires with a dangerously ambitious undercover police officer to bring down the mysterious kingpin of a major drug cartel. (Remake of the Chinese film “Drug War,” 2012.)

      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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 6.6
      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: 7.4
      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: 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
      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: 6.3
      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…

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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: 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: 7.1
      Genreaction, thriller, drama
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration01:11

      Amid a coup, a North Korean agent escapes south with the country's injured leader in an attempt to keep him alive and prevent a Korean war.

      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.

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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: 7
      Genredrama
      CountrySouth Korea

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

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genreaction, comedy, western, crime
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration02:05

      The story of three Korean outlaws in 1930s Manchuria and their dealings with the Japanese army and Chinese and Russian bandits. The Good (a Bounty hunter), the Bad (a hitman), and the Weird (a thief) battle the army and the bandits in a race to use a treasure map to uncover the riches of legend.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrethriller, fantasy, detective
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration01:21

      Pastor Park is head of a religious investigation center that exposes cults and cult leaders. While looking into a suspicious new religion called ‘Deer Mount,’ he slowly uncovers clues that connect this cult to a series of mysterious cases of missing teenage girls when a body is found inside a damaged tunnel beams. He begins to uncover dark secrets surrounding this cult and its enforcer Na-han.

      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: 6.5
      Genrethriller, crime, detective
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration01:27

      An ordinary man witnesses a cruel murder and becomes entangled in circumstances out of his control.




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