The 40 most popular 2010s korean movies, ranked. Click any film for ratings, reviews, trailers, and where to watch.


Parasite
2019 · 2h 13m
country: South Korea
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.


Descendants of Adultery
2016 · 1h 32m
country: South Korea
Soo-ji is a skin specialist who experiences retaliatory driving on her way to work and Captain Kwon helps her. Later, they meet at the hospital and start to feel attracted to each other. Soo-ji is tired of living a pretentious marriage life with her cheating husband and falls in love with Kwon...


Suspicious Practice Room: Special Treatment of Mother's Friend
2018 · 1h 3m
country: South Korea
A sick hospitalization life in a hospital run by a mother's friend. Shin, who injured her leg in an accident, is admitted to the hospital of her mother's friend Ayumi. Unable to bear the cravings accumulated in the increasingly prolonged hospital life, God secretly masturbates and gets caught by nurse Koharu. Rather than being surprised, Koharu covets God's secret place as an excuse for massage. Moreover, it turns out that Ayumi also has a secret secret.


Train to Busan
2016 · 1h 58m
country: South Korea
When a zombie virus pushes Korea into a state of emergency, those trapped on an express train to Busan must fight for their own survival.


The Handmaiden
2016 · 2h 25m
country: South Korea
1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sook-hee, 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 steal her fortune.


Obsessed
2014 · 2h 12m
country: South Korea
A secret, passionate affair happens in the summer of 1969 between Colonel Jin Pyeong, trapped in a loveless marriage with Soo Jin, and Jong Ga Heun, the Chinese-Korean wife of Captain Kyung Woo Jin.


Adultery Alumni Association 2
2019 · 1h 13m
country: South Korea
Hye Jin, Hee Kyung, and Han Hee who are among the high school alumni. They met at the alumni meeting and heard that the male alumni who did not have a chance to study during their school days were greatly successful as an investment company. And after seeing the settlement a few days later, I am happy to share my memories, but in fact, their purpose (?) Is separate. They are difficult to afford, and they want to get help from Zhengzhou. Since then, Zhengzhou has been enjoying the love of female alumni.


Snowpiercer
2013 · 2h 7m
country: South Korea
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer; a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.


Love Lesson
2013 · 1h 20m
country: South Korea
Korea's most popular song writer Hee-soo runs into a nineteen-year-old boy in the elevator. Hee-soo is inspired by a new song watching him shake at her figure. She starts to tell him about women under the excuse that she's teaching him music. They fall for each other but things get complicated when her life teacher, Joon-ho who taught her about life and music comes back.


The Wailing
2016 · 2h 36m
country: South Korea
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.


Hope
2013 · 2h 2m
country: South Korea
After 8-year-old So-won narrowly survives a brutal sexual assault, her family labors to help her heal while coping with their own rage and grief.


The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil
2019 · 1h 50m
country: South Korea
After barely surviving a brutal attack by a sadistic serial killer, crime boss Jang Dong-su is left humiliated. Determined to catch the killer known as K, he forms an uneasy alliance with Jung Tae-seok, a relentless and incorruptible detective who often disrupts his illegal business. However, while Jang Dong-su wants K dead, Jung Tae-suk is determined to bring him to justice. With a deal in place—whoever finds K first will decide his fate—the hunt begins, blurring the lines between crime and law.


The Treacherous
2015 · 2h 13m
country: South 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.


My Wife's Sister 3
2019 · 1h 11m
country: Unknown
A sexual film about a younger sister who lives with her boyfriend before marriage and an older sister who opposes and monitors it.


The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature
2017 · 1h 31m
country: Canada
When the evil mayor of Oakton decides to bulldoze Liberty Park and build a dangerous amusement park in its place, Surly Squirrel and his ragtag group of animal friends need to band together to save their home, defeat the mayor, and take back the park.


Burning
2018 · 2h 28m
country: South Korea
Deliveryman Jong-su is out on a job when he runs into Hae-mi, 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 Jong-su an enigmatic young man named Ben, who she met during her trip. One day Ben tells Jong-su about his most unusual hobby.


I Saw the Devil
2010 · 2h 24m
country: South Korea
Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. Soo-hyeon, a top-secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises himself that he will do everything in his power to take vengeance against the killer, even if it means that he must become a monster himself.


The Legendary Lighter
2019 · 1h 49m
country: South Korea
A man who used to be called Lighter cleans up his act from his days as a gangster and struggles to start over.


The Man from Nowhere
2010 · 1h 59m
country: South Korea
A reclusive pawnshop owner goes on a brutal rampage to rescue a young girl kidnapped by a criminal organization.


Scarlet Innocence
2014 · 1h 51m
country: South Korea
A university professor gradually succumbing to blindness is entranced by an obsessive love, in this modern-day adaptation of a classic Korean fairy tale.


Buddy's Mom
2015 · 1h 41m
country: South Korea
20-year-old Kyeong-soo is a man who's full of assumptions. He learned about sex from Internet porn, but nothing about the real thing. He's only had crushes and has never even kissed before. He got embarrassed when he confessed his feelings to Ji-yeon, his crush. He comforted himself from the shame with Japanese girls in his room with his right hand. One day, he has a fight with his father and remembers his friend Baek-hyeon had invited him over to Gangwon-do. There he falls in love with his friends' mother.


The Servant
2010 · 2h 4m
country: South Korea
A servant falls in love with a girl whom his master also desires. Although the girl loves the servant, she also longs to improve her station in life.


Eungyo
2012 · 2h 9m
country: South Korea
A reclusive elderly poet feels the fire of his youth when gamine schoolgirl Eun-gyo enters his life, to the chagrin of the old man's assistant.


My Girlfriend's Mother 3
2019 · 1h 10m
country: Unknown
The man was originally very loving with his girlfriend, and often did some exciting love, including in public places. However, when the man went to his girlfriend's house to see the future mother-in-law, things began to reverse, and the first rushed into it. The mother-in-law’s bathroom made the man’s heart yy, and all this has just begun, because the mother-in-law also discovered his huge genitals...


Sex Plate 17
2017 · 2h 1m
country: Unknown
A woman who can make all of one man’s fantasies come true moves in next door .


Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum
2018 · 1h 35m
country: South Korea
The crew of a horror web series travels to an abandoned asylum for a live broadcast, but they encounter much more than expected as they move deeper inside the nightmarish old building.


The Story of Ong-nyeo
2014 · 1h 34m
country: South Korea
Ong-nye had a world of men wrapped around her finger, until, one day, a horrific injury leaves her handicapped, and she retreats to the mountains. But one man may break her loneliness.


My Student's Mom 3
2018 · 1h 21m
country: South Korea
The middle school teacher, Zhu Xi, suddenly goes to the studio by leaving her husband and son because of sudden local issue. She is stressed because of the overworked environment and the changed environment. After a lonely night without a wife, the husband finally winds up with his son’s young, sexy tutor …


Young Mother 4
2016 · 1h 23m
country: South Korea
Woo-jin, who is a repeater of college entrance exam, and Taek-sik's friend, Kang-hee come and visit Woo-jin's hometown on a small island. Woo-jin's mom, Hyeon-sook operates a small sashimi restaurant and a bed and breakfast to make a living on the island. Although Hyeon-sook has sex with Bong-seong, she rejects his proposals. One day, Woo-jin is terribly shocked to accidentally see his mom Hyeon-sook and Bong-seong having sex.


The Concubine
2012 · 2h 2m
country: South Korea
Living a torturous life of poverty and barely able to survive, Hwa-yeon decides to offer herself as one of the king’s concubines. Once inside the royal palace, two men are immediately seized by the woman - the Grand Prince Seong-won, a megalomaniacal ruler drunk with power and lust, and Kwon-yoo, who has everything to lose if his desire for Hwa-yeon is exposed.


Young Aunt
2018 · 1h 20m
country: South Korea
Jung-hoon manages to get into a university in the outskirst of the city after years of trying, but he can't find a place to stay so he stays at his aunt's house. Ji-hyun runs a shopping mall with her friend Eun-young. Jung-hoon arrives at Ji-hyun's house with just an address and runs into Eun-young who happens to be completely naked.


The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion
2018 · 2h 6m
country: Hong Kong
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.


Bed-Rella
2016 · 1h 30m
country: South Korea
Min-cheol goes down to the countryside to focus on the foundation project. He meets Gyu-ri, a scenario writer. They fall in love and spend a hot night together but the next day she disappears. Will he be able to find the 'perfect size'?


The Outlaws
2017 · 2h 1m
country: South Korea
In Chinatown, law and order is turned upside down when a trio of feral Chinese gangsters arrive, start terrorizing civilians, and usurping territory. The beleaguered local gangsters team up with the police, lead by the badass loose cannon Ma Seok-do, to bring them down. Based on a true story.


Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds
2017 · 2h 19m
country: South Korea
Having died unexpectedly, firefighter Ja-hong is taken to the afterlife by 3 afterlife guardians. Only when he passes 7 trials over 49 days and proves he was innocent in human life, he’s able to reincarnate, and his 3 afterlife guardians are by his side to defend him in trial.


A Taxi Driver
2017 · 2h 18m
country: South Korea
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.


Senior Couple and Exchange Sex
2019 · 1h 26m
country: South Korea
Local college couple Won-young and Jun-seok have a long time to graduate, but the two who Jun-seok already got a job and had nothing to do until graduation graduated from vacation and lived in Tokyo. Let's go to the house of a close senior couple, Ari and Sungho. One day before they came, Ari and Seong-ho fought out loud. I greet you welcomingly, but I feel a cold atmosphere for some reason. Seong-ho tells Jun-suk about the couple's fight the other day, and after having sex that night, Jor explains to the young couple the situation of Seong-ho's husband and procrastinates to do it next time. In the end, Won-young can't tolerate her sexual desires and goes to Seong-ho to tempt her. What will happen to the love of the two couples?


Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs
2019 · 1h 32m
country: South Korea
Princes who have been turned into Dwarfs seek the red shoes of a lady in order to break the spell, although it will not be easy.


Nice Sister-In-Law
2019 · 1h 21m
country: South Korea
Young-cheol, faced with boredom, keeps looking at his younger and sexy sister-in-law than his wife who doesn't want him. The only two living together with my sister-in-law started with my wife's runaway! Young-cheol falls helplessly in front of her sticky temptation.


Ashfall
2019 · 2h 8m
country: South Korea
A group of unlikely heroes from across the Korean peninsula try to save the day after a volcano erupts on the mythical and majestic Baekdu Mountain.
The 2010s belonged to the franchise: shared universes, legacy sequels, and a superhero cycle at peak cultural saturation. It was simultaneously a strong decade for independent film, as streaming money found the margins.
South Korean cinema spent the 2000s building a reputation for genre films that refuse to stay in their lane — thrillers that turn into family dramas, revenge stories with slapstick. Parasite's Best Picture win in 2020 confirmed what festival audiences had known for two decades.