Korean movies

List of the best Korean movies selected by visitors to our site: Bad Guy, The Handmaiden, Train to Busan, I Saw the Devil, Sweet & Sour, Parasite, The Chaser, A Hard Day, Marvel's Runaways, Hot Young Bloods.

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

Markimdb: 6.6
Genredrama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:40

A criminal who runs a brothel becomes obsessed with a beautiful college student. When she rejects him he sets her up by introducing her to a loan shark and when she can't pay, she is forced into working in the brothel. But when she gets the chance to escape she realizes she cannot return to her former life.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective, history
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:01

    1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl (Sookee) is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress (Hideko) who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle (Kouzuki). But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese Count to help him seduce the Lady to elope with him, rob her of her fortune, and lock her up in a madhouse. The plan seems to proceed according to plan until Sookee and Hideko discover some unexpected emotions.

    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: 7.8
      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: 6.7
        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: 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: 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: 7.2
          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.

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          Genredrama
          CountrySouth Korea

          Every teenager thinks their parents are evil. What if you found out they actually were? Six diverse teenagers who can barely stand each other must unite against a common foe – their parents.

          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: 7.6
          Genredrama
          CountrySouth Korea

          In the spring of 1999, a group of old friends gather to celebrate their 20 year reunion. Among the group is Yeong-ho, a cold, unhappy man, whose demeanor puts a damper on the festivities. The seriousness of Yeong-ho's depression becomes apparent, however, when he climbs a railroad bridge and looks like he might jump. At this crucial moment, memories of seven crucial episodes from Yeong-ho's past flood his mind.

          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: 6.8
          Genredrama
          CountrySouth Korea

          Painter Youngsoo hears secondhand that his girlfriend, Minjung, has recently had drinks with an unknown man. This leads to a quarrel that seems to end their relationship. The next day, Youngsoo sets out in search of her, at the same time that Minjung—or a woman who looks exactly like her and may or may not be her twin—has a series of encounters with strange men, some of whom claim to have met her before.

          Markimdb: 7.7
          Genreaction, melodrama, drama
          CountrySouth Korea
          Duration01:48

          Cheol-Min, a man with a dark, picks up a part-time night job as a parking lot attendant. He sits in the tiny pay booth in the parking lot and stares at the small television. A woman named Jung-Hwa walks into the booth. Cheol-Min realizes the woman is blind and she is confusing him for the parking attendant who worked there previously. Nevertheless, the woman comes back on another night to watch the same television drama series. Cheol-Min starts becoming attached to Jung-Hwa and they find out they are connected by the same incident in the past.

          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: 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.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genrefantastic, thriller, melodrama
          CountrySouth Korea
          Duration01:08

          In 1983, high school teacher Ji-hwan is attacked by a pickpocket. In 2015, homicide detective Gun-woo is shot during a chase and loses consciousness. Both men are taken to the same hospital in different time periods, and both their hearts stop and miraculously start again at the same time. A mysterious force binds them together, allowing them to see through each other’s lives in their dreams. Soon realizing that the women they love strikingly resembles each other and that they are in fatal danger, the two men must team up to trace the past and change her destiny.

          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: 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: 7.5
          Genreaction, drama, crime
          CountrySouth Korea
          Duration02:00

          Kim Sun-woo is an enforcer and manager for a hotel owned by a cold, calculative crime boss, Kang who assigns Sun-Woo to a simple errand while he is away on a business trip; to shadow his young mistress, Heesoo, for fear that she may be cheating on him with another, younger man, with the mandate that he must kill them both if he discovers their affair.

          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: 6.8
          Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, detective
          CountryUSA, China, Japan
          Duration01:56

          Husband and wife Gabe and Adelaide Wilson take their kids to their beach house expecting to unplug and unwind with friends. But as night descends, their serenity turns to tension and chaos when some shocking visitors arrive uninvited.

          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: 7.8
          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountrySouth Korea
          Duration02:09

          A mother lives quietly with her son. One day, a girl is brutally killed, and the boy is charged with the murder. Now, it's his mother's mission to prove him innocent.

          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: 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: 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: 7.6
          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: 6.2
          Genreaction, comedy
          CountrySouth Korea

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

          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: 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: 6.3
          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
          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: 7.1
          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.

          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: 7.2
          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: 7.7
          Genredrama, history
          CountrySouth Korea
          Duration02:07

          In the early 1980s, South Korea is torn by student protests over the lack of representation in the government. Song Woo-Seok is a successful attorney in Busan specializing in tax law. His views regarding civil liberties are changed by student activist Park Jin-woo. When Jin-Woo is brutally tortured and put on trial for his activism, Woo-seok decides to defend Jin-woo as his client.

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genrethriller, detective
          CountrySouth Korea

          Seo-jin is a widower still grieving his wife’s death. Then he receives the news that her long-lost younger sister, Yoo-jin, who went missing 25 years ago, has turned up. Unlike the rest of his family, who welcome her into their arms, Seo-jin feels that Yoo-jin is a 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: 6.9
          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, 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: 7.5
          Genrethriller, drama, detective
          CountrySouth Korea
          Duration01:22

          Deliveryman Jongsu is out on a job when he runs into Haemi, a girl who once lived in his neighborhood. She asks if he'd mind looking after her cat while she's away on a trip to Africa. On her return she introduces to Jongsu an enigmatic young man named Ben, who she met during her trip. And one day Ben tells Jongsu about his most unusual hobby...

          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: 6.5
          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: 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: 7.3
          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: 7.1
          Genreaction, military, biography, history
          CountrySouth Korea
          Duration02:06

          The film mainly follows the famous 1597 Battle of Myeongryang during the Japanese invasion of Korea (1592-1598), where the iconic Joseon admiral Yi Sun-sin managed to destroy a total of 133 Japanese warships with only 13 ships remaining in his command. The battle, which took place in the Myeongryang Strait off the southwest coast of the Korean Peninsula, is considered one of the greatest victories of Yi.

          Markimdb: 7.8
          Genreaction, thriller, crime
          CountrySouth Korea
          Duration01:59

          His only friend called him 'the man from nowhere'... Taesik, a former special agent becomes a loner after losing his wife in a miserable accident and lives a bitter life running a pawnshop. He only has a few customers and a friend named Somi, a little girl next door. As Taesik spends more and more time with Somi, he gets attached to her. Then Somi is kidnapped by a gang, and as Taesik tries to save Somi by becoming deeply associated with the gang his mysterious past is revealed...

          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: 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.




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