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Kanopy
78
7.7
/38010/
77
/1212/
78
/783/
4.2
/77543/
88
/25/
89
/605/
58
/7/

Joint Security Area (2000)
Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an investigation by a neutral body. The sergeant is the shooter, but the lead investigator, a Swiss-Korean woman, receives differing accounts from the two sides.
poster
Kanopy
77
7.0
/2971/
71
/84/
69
/82/
3.8
/10730/
91
/22/
70
/25/
83
/11/

The Day He Arrives (2011)
A film director who no longer makes films arrives in Seoul to meet a close friend. When the friend doesn't show up, he wanders the city aimlessly for three days, grabbing drinks and meeting women, with each day playing out like a version of the last.
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Fandor
75
7.1
/5434/
72
/239/
70
/159/
3.9
/25834/
92
/49/
66
/14/
81
/16/

Right Now, Wrong Then (2015)
By mistake, film director Ham Chunsu arrives in Suwon a day early. With time to kill before his lecture the next day, Chunsu stops by a restored, old palace and meets an artist named Yoon Heejung. Together, they go to Heejung's workshop to look at her paintings, have Sushi with Soju for dinner, and get close. Later, they go to another café and have more drinks with Heejung's acquaintances. When asked if he is married, Chunsu is forced to reveal the fact that he is, and Heejung gets deeply disappointed...
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Kanopy
74
6.5
/586/
60
/27/
69
/20/
3.6
/5870/
100
/32/
79
/11/

In Our Day (2023)
Recently returned to South Korea, an actress in her forties is staying with her friend and her cat. Meanwhile, an aging poet in declining health lives alone after the death of his own cat. One day, each receives a visit from a different young aspiring artist, who come equipped with questions about their careers and life itself.
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Kanopy
74
7.2
/18237/
72
/790/
70
/479/
3.6
/20123/
82
/33/
77
/31/
76
/9/

A Hard Day (2014)
After trying to cover up a car accident that left a man dead, a crooked homicide detective is stalked by a mysterious man claiming to have witnessed the event.
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Kanopy
73
6.7
/1840/
69
/73/
64
/69/
3.7
/8449/
96
/45/
67
/4/
79
/12/

Hotel by the River (2019)
An aging poet summons his estranged sons to the hotel he is staying at because he feels his death is near; meanwhile, he encounters two women staying at the hotel.
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Kanopy
73
6.8
/1569/
69
/52/
66
/58/
3.6
/8940/
92
/26/
68
/4/
77
/8/

Grass (2018)
Areum sits in a small café, typing on her laptop. Around her, customers enact various dramas from their lives. Is she writing what she hears or is she hearing what's been written?
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Rakuten Viki
78
72
7.4
/7183/
77
/410/
73
/207/
3.8
/8664/
100
/21/
83
/18/
69
/6/

The Spy Gone North (2018)
South Korea, 1993. An agent of the National Intelligence Service is sent to Beijing to infiltrate a group of North Korean officials with the ultimate goal of obtaining information about their nuclear program.
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The Roku Channel
71
7.1
/9345/
73
/498/
71
/280/
3.6
/8358/
67
/15/
80
/42/
60
/4/

The Battleship Island (2017)
During the Japanese colonial era, roughly 400 Korean people, who were forced onto Battleship Island 'Hashima Island' to mine for coal, attempt to escape.
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Netflix
70
6.6
/15792/
69
/1345/
68
/509/
3.5
/54652/
79
/34/
82
/24/
67
/10/
cc age 16+

Kill Boksoon (2023)
At work, she's a renowned assassin. At home, she's a single mom to a teenage daughter. Killing? That's easy. It's parenting that's the hard part.
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Kanopy
70
7.5
/80592/
75
/2515/
75
/1608/
4.0
/142272/
53
/58/
84
/2281/
59
/21/

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)
A deaf man and his girlfriend resort to desperate measures in order to fund a kidney transplant for his sister. Things go horribly wrong, and the situation spirals rapidly into a cycle of violence and revenge.
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Kanopy
67
6.9
/2709/
66
/82/
65
/90/
3.7
/9306/
79
/39/
67
/4/
72
/14/

The Day After (2017)
On her first day at work, Areum replaces a woman who broke up with the boss. The wife of the boss finds a love note, bursts into the office, and mistakes Areum for the other woman.
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Amazon Prime Video
65
6.0
/2299/
56
/106/
64
/69/
3.0
/2650/

Office (2015)
To nab a sales manager who's at large after murdering his family, a detective investigates the man's colleagues, who seem to be hiding something.
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Amazon Prime Video
70
65
7.0
/6669/
70
/213/
70
/195/
3.6
/13901/
72
/113/

The Quiet Family (1998)
A family decides to buy a lodge in a remote hiking area. Their first customer commits suicide and the distraught family buries his body to avoid the bad publicity. But their luck gets worse, the bodies start piling up, and the family becomes frantic to rectify the situation.
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74
63
7.2
/5544/
71
/90/
69
/93/
3.6
/3138/
87
/166/

Friend (2001)
Despite their different family backgrounds, four friends grew up together in the wearisome years of the 70s. But as time goes by, each of them takes a different life path.
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74
59
7.2
/3219/
75
/63/
72
/75/
3.6
/1988/
82
/92/

Crying Fist (2005)
Jobless, besieged by creditors, and abandoned by his wife, the once silver medalist Tae-shik has sunk to street hustling, becoming a human punching bag. Meanwhile, young Sang-hwan's delinquent ways land him behind bars. Both men look to boxing to turn around lives gone astray, aiming for the amateur title, ultimately pitting them against each other, but more importantly, against themselves.
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Amazon Prime Video
69
59
6.8
/7273/
71
/266/
69
/197/
3.2
/3388/
78
/9/
72
/11/
63
/5/

The Suspect (2013)
Betrayed and on the run, a former North Korean agent tries to seek revenge on the man who killed his wife, find his missing daughter, and uncover the secrets hidden inside the eyeglasses of a dead man.
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The Roku Channel
74
58
7.4
/9018/
73
/289/
73
/194/
3.6
/4920/
78
/6/

Montage (2013)
A woman's child is kidnapped and killed after paying the ransom. 15 years later, a mysterious figure is seen visiting the site of killing and another kidnapping occurs using the same methods. The woman teams up with a detective to catch the killer once and for all.
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Kanopy
76
57
6.8
/1688/
65
/73/
65
/44/
3.8
/13853/
100
/29/
71
/4/
83
/10/

The Novelist's Film (2022)
A novelist visits a bookstore run by a young colleague who's been out of touch, then takes a walk with a film director and his wife. She meets an actress and tries to convince her to make a film together.
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Kanopy
62
55
6.2
/6399/
63
/123/
66
/179/
3.3
/5991/
50
/10/
65
/281/

R-Point (2004)
On 07 January 1972, the South Korean base in Nha-Trang, Vietnam, receives a radio transmission from a missing platoon presumed dead.
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73
54
7.1
/2464/
70
/45/
71
/68/
3.6
/1486/
82
/70/

Public Enemy (2002)
A notorious dirty cop makes an honest attempt to catch a serial killer who even murdered his own parents.
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53
6.0
/1230/
67
/128/
63
/53/
3.1
/2789/
93
/27/

The Old Woman with the Knife (2025)
Aging assassin Hornclaw has seen it all, but she never expected to mentor a reckless rookie like Bullfight. As their unlikely bond deepens, cracks form in the underworld they navigate together. When Hornclaw discovers someone wants her dead, she's thrust into a deadly game of deception. With enemies closing in and trust in short supply, survival means staying sharp—both blade and mind.
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Kanopy
73
53
7.1
/1433/
69
/34/
70
/41/
3.8
/3871/
87
/15/
67
/17/
73
/5/

Night and Day (2008)
Kim Seong-nam travels to Paris to escape an arrest, leaving his wife behind in Korea. After he arrives, he meets an ex-girlfriend and is introduced to a small community of Korean artists.
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Rakuten Viki
69
52
6.7
/2440/
71
/124/
69
/107/
3.4
/3938/

Coin Locker Girl (2015)
A child abandoned in a subway coin locker is sold to a ruthless and calculating loan shark and gangster boss dubbed Mother, who runs an organ-harvesting ring in Incheon’s Chinatown. Named Il-Young, the baby girl grows into Mother’s loyal right-hand enforcer and is groomed to be her eventual successor. But when Il-Young’s loyalty to Mother wavers, the clash between the two unleashes a merciless tidal wave of blood-soaked retribution and strife.
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Kanopy
68
51
6.2
/1298/
57
/42/
63
/29/
3.4
/7511/
81
/31/
77
/12/

Introduction (2021)
Youngho is summoned by his father, who is a doctor. Finding him busy with his patients, one of whom is a famous actor, Youngho has to wait. When his girlfriend Juwon moves to Berlin for her studies, Youngho shows up in the city to surprise her. Through her mother, Juwon has found accommodation at the home of an artist whose beauty intimidates her. Some time later, Youngho goes to lunch with his mother who wants to introduce him to a colleague – it is the same man Youngho met at his father’s clinic. Youngho asks his friend Jeongsoo to accompany him, and after lunch they go to the beach. Youngho falls asleep, and dreams of Juwon. When he wakes up, he braves the considerable cold and goes swimming, while Jeongsoo watches.
poster
61
50
6.3
/3773/
62
/92/
63
/85/
3.2
/1771/
57
/124/

Into the Mirror (2003)
Woo Yeong-min retired from the police force after trying to save his partner and causing his death. After a series of mysterious deaths in the shopping mall in which his uncle has allowed him to work as a security guard prior to its reopening, he must face both his own fear of mirrors and the mystery surrounding the fire that closed down the mall.
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60
49
6.4
/2370/
62
/38/
67
/55/
3.4
/2608/
50
/20/
55
/52/
55
/14/

Nowhere to Hide (1999)
Detective Woo is on the trail of the mysterious gangster Sungmin, a master of disguise who always manages to elude his pursuers. Eventually, the cop tracks down and confronts the master-criminal in the suburbs of a coal-mining town.
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70
49
6.9
/1587/
66
/47/
66
/70/
3.7
/7569/
86
/21/
59
/3/
73
/10/

Hill of Freedom (2014)
Kwon returns to Seoul from a restorative stay in the mountains. She is given a packet of letters left by Mori, who has come back from Japan to propose to her. Kwon drops and scatters the letters, all of which are undated. When she reads them, she has to make sense of the chronology.
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Kanopy
73
49
6.8
/1934/
72
/59/
65
/58/
3.6
/6677/
95
/20/
69
/7/

Nobody's Daughter Haewon (2013)
Haewon, a college student, wants to end her secret affair with her professor, Seongjun. Feeling depressed after bidding farewell to her mother who is set to immigrate to Canada the next day, Haewon seeks out Seongjun again after a long time. That day, they run into her classmates at a restaurant and their relationship gets revealed. Haewon gets more agitated and Seongjun makes an extreme suggestion to run away together… Haewon dreams often. Her dreams will be compared to her waking life, but none can be denied as being a part of her life.
poster
67
45
7.0
/1674/
66
/63/
61
/46/
3.6
/6726/

Judgement (1999)
At the identification of a dead body, a couple and a morgue employee both claim to be related to the deceased, and therefore the rightful recipient of an indemnity of at least 520,000.
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Kanopy
65
44
6.7
/1601/
67
/36/
63
/61/
3.7
/4111/
71
/7/
51
/11/

Ha Ha Ha (2010)
Over drinks, two friends agree to swap fond memories of their recent trips to the same seaside town. As the stories unfold in flashback, it becomes evident their accounts take place at the same time and with the same people.
poster
65
43
6.9
/1739/
65
/45/
65
/50/
3.2
/8772/

Bungee Jumping of Their Own (2001)
A likeable, married high school teacher spirals out of control when a student in his class begins unintentionally reminding him of his doomed first love, which ended 17 years earlier.
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The Roku Channel
63
43
6.3
/2589/
65
/112/
65
/101/
3.2
/4546/
62
/11/

Hide and Seek (2013)
Sung-soo has everything a man could want: a beautiful wife and children, a comfortable home and luxury car, and plenty of money in the bank. When he learns that his estranged brother, Sung-chul, has gone missing, haunting memories of their troubled past urge him to visit his brother’s apartment in search of answers.
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Amazon Prime Video
61
43
6.1
/2580/
65
/287/
60
/86/
2.8
/2541/
62
/2/

The Treacherous (2015)
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.
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Fandango at Home Free
58
39
5.9
/2138/
64
/50/
59
/71/
2.9
/1092/
52
/63/

The Ghost (2004)
Min Ji-won is suffering from amnesia. Her memory slowly comes back, after she discovers that all her friends mysteriously drowned recently. She begins piecing together her past, revealing the event that caused her memory loss.
poster
72
35
7.0
/968/
64
/17/
67
/25/
3.8
/1351/
85
/22/

My Dear Enemy (2008)
Hee-soo is desperate for money and finds her ex-boyfriend who owes her money. He goes around to various ex-girlfriends to get cash and she trails along to make sure he does not cheat her.
poster
69
34
6.4
/688/
74
/35/
76
/44/
3.2
/1061/

On the Line (2021)
Seo-joon, loses everything to voice phishing and infiltrates a organization in China to meet Kwak Pro, the designer behind this phishing system.
poster
63
34
6.1
/2819/
65
/46/
65
/72/
3.2
/450/

Out Live (2000)
A sweeping, epic tale of a martial arts warrior who attempts to defy a kingdom to be with his love.
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Amazon Prime Video
75
32
6.3
/203/
71
/7/
73
/16/
3.4
/565/
100
/5/

An Old Lady (2020)
Hyo-jeong, a 69-year-old woman, is raped—but few people, including the police, are willing to believe what she says.
poster
66
30
6.4
/422/
65
/14/
62
/21/
3.8
/2140/

Timeless Bottomless Bad Movie (1997)
Children who refuse to live with their families or give up on the streets work at a bar or steal money. When you don't have money, you'd rather starve than give up playing. Several people have to bowl as much as they want, jump out of the window with their lives, and dance with real dancers at a rock cafe.
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Kanopy
56
30
5.7
/1056/
54
/29/
55
/40/
3.4
/858/
47
/36/

Sorum (2001)
A young man moves into a run-down apartment building and soon gets into a relationship with a neighbor. Both the characters and the building have traumatic histories, and over time the ghosts of their past come to light.
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Amazon Prime Video
58
30
5.8
/572/
62
/36/
54
/28/
3.0
/1011/
60

Misbehavior (2017)
Hyo-joo, a temporary teacher at a boys' high school, witnesses Hae-yeong's passionate embrace with a boy, causing her immense humiliation towards her.
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Filmzie
67
27
6.6
/355/
68
/19/
62
/13/
3.7
/3725/

A Distant Place (2020)
A sheep farmer whose remote and quiet life is disturbed by the arrival of both his lover and his twin sister.
poster
54
27
5.5
/1449/
55
/22/
53
/47/
3.1
/360/
45
/58/

Tube (2003)
Burnt-out transit cop Jay forms an unlikely alliance with pickpocket Kay to stop a terrorist hijacker from blowing up a subway car during rush hour.
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The Roku Channel
66
27
6.6
/963/
71
/52/
71
/29/
3.1
/926/
62
/4/

Seondal: The Man Who Sells the River (2016)
In the late Joseon Dynasty, Bongyi Kim Seon-dal is the best conman who sells water from the Taedong River.
poster
The Roku Channel
57
25
5.7
/1499/
64
/22/
52
/49/
3.2
/291/
48
/25/

Sword In The Moon (2003)
Kingdom of Joseon, ancient Korea. A usurper has conquered the throne. His ministers are being systematically eliminated by a mysterious assassin. An arrogant master swordsman is in charge of putting an end to the carnage.
poster
62
23
6.1
/866/
68
/33/
57
/38/
3.1
/443/

The Deal (2015)
A cop catches a serial killer who murdered his sister but never finds her body. The lack of closure torments him and drives his brother-in-law insane, who makes a deal with the mafia for revenge.
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Plex
57
23
6.2
/691/
67
/44/
65
/33/
3.0
/593/
33
/6/
57
/3/

Friend: The Great Legacy (2013)
Joon-seok is sent to prison for his involvement in Dong-soo's death. He meets Dong-soo's son in prison, keeps his identity a secret, and agrees to join forces when he is released. All of their plans fall apart when Sung-hoon finds out the truth.


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