Korean movies thrillers

List of the best Korean thriller movies selected by visitors to our site: Emergency Declaration, Bad Guys, I Saw the Devil, The Chaser, The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil, Montage, Silenced, Bedevilled, A Hard Day, Inside Men.

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

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrethriller, drama
CountrySouth Korea

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

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: 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: 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: 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: 7.4
      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: 8.1
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration02:05

      Based on actual events that took place at Gwangju Inhwa School for the hearing-impaired, where young deaf students were the victims of repeated sexual assaults by faculty members over a period of five years in the early 2000s.

      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: 7.2
      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

      LEE Kang-hee, an editorialist of the influential conservative newspaper puts a congressman, JANG Pil-woo to the position of a leading candidate for President using the power of the press. Behind this, there was his secret deal with the paper’s biggest sponsor. AHN Sang-goo, a political henchman who supported LEE and JANG gets his hand cut as the price when he gets caught pocketing the record on the sponsor’s slush fund. WOO Jang-hoon, an ambitious prosecutor starts to investigate the relationship with JANG and the sponsor believing it is the only chance he can make it to the top. While getting down to the grass roots on the case, WOO meets AHN who has been deliberately planning his revenge. Now the war among the one blind for power, the one hell bent for vengeance, and the one eager for success starts.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrethriller, crime, detective
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration01:48

      While investigating the kidnapping and murder of a little girl, a detective spots a piece of graffiti that depicts the crime scene perfectly—but the graffiti was drawn a month before the crime took place, and that the artist knows more than he is telling.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrethriller, crime, detective
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration01:51

      A blind witness and a runaway help the police find the suspect in a Hit and Run until the culprit realizes that they are close on his trail. The killer tracks her down and Soo-ah realizes that in order to save Gi-sub she would have to risk her life.

      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: 7
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration01:33

      Mute Hee-Jin is working as a clerk in a fishing resort in the Korean wilderness; selling baits, food and occasionally her body to the fishing tourists. One day she falls in love with Hyun-Shik, who is on the run from the police, and rescues him with a fish hook when he tries to commit suicide.

      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: 7.1
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountrySouth Korea

      The destinies of hard-luck lowlifes slowly converge and come crashing down: Jung-man barely gets by working at a sauna and taking care of his sick mother until he finds a bag full of cash in the locker room; Tae-young is in trouble after his girlfriend runs away with the money he borrowed from a loan shark. Soon, a dead body mysteriously turns up; Mi-ran, caught between her husband’s violence and a dead-end job as a bar hostess, she finds a young lover, Jin-tae who offers to kill her husband… And now their dog-eat-dog game starts.

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

      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: 6.6
      Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
      CountrySouth Korea

      Seven years after the roundup in Vietnam, Ma Seok-do joins a new squad to investigate a murder case. He soon starts to dig deeper when he finds out the case involves a synthetic drug and a gang of thugs.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrethriller, comedy, crime
      CountrySouth Korea

      An office worker who is insecure about her looks becomes a masked internet personality by night until a chain of ill-fated events overtakes her life.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountrySouth Korea

      A civilian businessman who has no choice but to cooperate with the secret operation of the National Intelligence Service to arrest the Korean drug lord who has taken control of Suriname in South America.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genreaction, thriller, detective
      CountrySouth Korea

      The International Unit and The Domestic Unit of the Korean Spy Agency are tasked with the mission of uncovering a North Korean Spy known as Donglim who is deeply embedded within their agency.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genreaction, thriller, drama
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration01:59

      A cold-blooded debt collector who never fails to get what he wants meets the beautiful yet mysterious ex-impostor whose every word is nothing but a lie. She has the key to save his life but he discovers that she only puts him into a deeper trouble. Time is running out and he needs to get it done while his heart still beats.

      Markimdb: 3.8
      Genreaction, thriller
      CountryUSA, Bulgaria, China, South Korea

      A man implicated in the triple homicide of three Hollywood starlets begins his own investigation. Needing assistance, he enlists the two detectives on his tail in order to expose a conspiracy more explosive than any of them imagined.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
      CountrySouth Korea

      A man is left in space due to an unfortunate accident while another man on Earth struggles to bring him back safely.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, cartoon
      CountrySouth Korea

      In a society that favors good looks, a high school outcast leads a double life switching between his two bodies that are polar opposites in appearance.

      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: 7.3
      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: 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: 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
      Genrethriller, melodrama, crime, detective
      CountrySouth Korea

      A detective investigating a man's death in the mountains meets the dead man's mysterious wife in the course of his dogged sleuthing.

      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: 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: 7.1
      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: 7.2
      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: 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: 6.3
      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: 6.1
      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: 7.1
      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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 6.7
      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: 6.6
      Genrethriller, crime, detective
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration00:52

      A group of swindlers unite to hunt down an infamous con man who was known dead, amid their hidden motives and deception.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genreaction, thriller
      CountrySouth Korea

      On the day of the U.S. presidential election in 2024, a team of elite mercenaries embark on a secret CIA mission to abduct North Korea's politician in an underground bunker below the Korean Demilitarized Zone. However, they get caught in the crossfire which causes tensions to escalate to the brink of World War III.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genreaction, thriller
      CountrySouth Korea

      Kyung-mi, a girl with hearing impairment lives with her mother. Working at the customer call center, one day she storms out of an unpleasant dinner with the client and drives home after she picks up her mother. Meanwhile, the murderer Do-sik spots Kyung-mi's mother waiting for her daughter who went to park her car but changes his target when another girl So-jung passes him by talking on the phone. So-jung gets stabbed by Do-sik in the back alley and is found by Kyung-mi, who ends up becoming Do-sik’s new prey.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration01:50

      A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration01:48

      Nanami Hoshino, a wealthy entrepreneur, marries Korean potter Kim Jun-ho, and they both live a seemingly happy life. Then, one year after their marriage, Nanami is killed by a biker on her way home. This tragedy leaves Jun-ho completely devastated. At the hospital, Nanami's ghost arises from her body, and upon meeting a ghost child, she realizes that she is a ghost whose presence cannot be seen. She then realizes that her death was no coincidence and Jun-ho is in imminent danger. Unable to communicate with normal humans, Nanami seeks help from the elderly psychic Unten in hopes of saving Jun-ho's life.

      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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