The 40 most popular 2020s korean movies, ranked. Click any film for ratings, reviews, trailers, and where to watch.


Hope
2026 · 2h 37m · KR
In the remote South Korean village of Hope Harbor, police chief Bum-seok and officer Sung-ae are called to investigate a mysterious creature wreaking havoc on the community. But all is not as it seems, and perceptions can be misleading. What begins as ignorance plants the seed of disaster, escalating through human conflict into a tragedy of cosmic proportions.


Colony
2026 · 2h 3m · KR
Professor Se-jeong is thrust into a bloody nightmare when a rapidly mutating virus is released during a biotech conference causing authorities to seal the facility. Trapped inside with no escape, Se-jeong along with a small group of survivors must fight to stay alive while the infected undergo horrific transformations.


Peninsula
2020 · 1h 56m · KR
A soldier and his team battle hordes of post-apocalyptic zombies in the wastelands of the Korean Peninsula.


Shock! Eating
2020 · 1h 14m
Sojin and Hyeyoung are about to take the scholarship exam this semester. So-jin and Hye-young, who hate to lose, check each other.


Decision to Leave
2022 · 2h 19m · KR
From a mountain peak in South Korea, a man plummets to his death. Did he jump, or was he pushed? When detective Hae-joon arrives on the scene, he begins to suspect the dead man’s wife Seo-rae. But as he digs deeper into the investigation, he finds himself trapped in a web of deception and desire.


No Other Choice
2025 · 2h 19m · KR
After being laid off and humiliated by a ruthless job market, a veteran paper mill manager descends into violence in a desperate bid to reclaim his dignity.


Dark Nuns
2025 · 1h 55m · KR
Desperation drives two nuns to perform an exorcism no nun should attempt. With a possessed child at the mercy of evil and the opposition of the Catholic Church, they take on the dangerous forbidden rituals themselves, putting their immortal souls in grave danger. They must confront the terrifying cost of their sacrilegious actions, but one goal remains: the boy must be saved at all costs.


Humint
2026 · 2h · KR
A South Korean agent hunts a drug ring in Russia and goes head-to-head with a North Korean operative — pulling both into peril and tangled secrets.


Hidden Face
2024 · 1h 53m · KR
Su-yeon, a cellist in an orchestra led by her fiancé and conductor Sung-jin, disappears one day, leaving behind only a video recording. Sung-jin is devasted over the loss of Su-yeon, but feels a strong attraction to Mi-ju, a cellist who fills in for his fiancée. Then one rainy night, Sung-jin and Mi-ju get swept away by their mutual desires for each other and commit an unforgivable act at Su-yeon's house.


Possible Love
2026 · 2h 45m · KR
A laid-off worker and his wife cross paths with a documentary filmmaker and her spouse and confront their hidden desires.


The Witch: Part 2. The Other One
2022 · 2h 17m · KR
A girl wakes up in a huge secret laboratory, then accidentally meets another girl who is trying to protect her house from a gang. The mystery girl overthrows the gang with her unexpected powers, and laboratory staff set out to find her.


Exhuma
2024 · 2h 14m · KR
After tracing the origin of a disturbing supernatural affliction to a wealthy family's ancestral gravesite, a team of paranormal experts relocates the remains—and soon discovers what happens to those who dare to mess with the wrong grave.


Mom's Friend 2020
2020 · 1h 1m · KR
Tae-hee, can't live without her dead husband, and is living alone without being remarried. Her neighborhood friends, Yeong-ju and Cheol-min still feels sorry for her. However, Yeong-ju's son, Min-ho, secretly takes pictures of Tae-hee, admiring her. One day, Tae-hee and Yeong-ju goes to the grocery when she heads back home, after forgetting her cellphone in Yeong-ju's house. Just in time, Min-ho comes out of the shower and hugs Tae-hee...


Reawakened Man
2026 · 1h 42m · KR
Despite unwavering support from his best friend Young-ha and the unwavering support of his younger sister Ye-rin, job seeker Seok Hwan just can't seem to land a job, repeatedly failing interviews. One night, after yet another disastrous interview, he returns home only to be attacked by a group of strangers and killed. But 72 hours after his death, Seok Hwan suddenly opens his eyes as if nothing happened. He soon discovers that he possesses a special ability: no matter how many times he dies, he comes back to life. But there's little time to process his extraordinary new power before a mysterious figure known as Black, who has discovered Hwan's existence, begins hunting him down. Yet with each resurrection, Seok Hwan grows stronger, unleashing powers beyond anything he could have imagined!


20th Century Girl
2022 · 1h 59m · KR
In 1999, a teen girl keeps close tabs on a boy in school on behalf of her deeply smitten best friend – then she gets swept up in a love story of her own.


Project Wolf Hunting
2022 · 2h 2m · KR
While under heavily armed guard, the dangerous convicts aboard a cargo ship unite in a coordinated escape attempt that soon escalates into a bloody, all-out riot. But as the fugitives continue their brutal campaign of terror, they soon discover that not even the most vicious among them is safe from the horror they unknowingly unleashed from the darkness below deck.


The Roundup
2022 · 1h 46m · KR
The 'Beast Cop' Ma Seok-do heads to a foreign country to extradite a suspect, but soon after his arrival, he discovers additional murder cases and hears about a vicious killer who has been committing crimes against tourists for several years.


#Alive
2020 · 1h 38m · KR
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.


The Great Flood
2025 · 1h 47m · KR
When a raging flood traps a researcher and her young son, a call to a crucial mission puts their escape — and the future of humanity — on the line.


The Roundup: No Way Out
2023 · 1h 45m · KR
Detective Ma Seok-do changes his affiliation from the Geumcheon Police Station to the Metropolitan Investigation Team, in order to eradicate Japanese gangsters who enter Korea to commit heinous crimes.


Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy
2025 · 2h · KR
Kim Dok-ja, an ordinary man in his 20s, is the only reader of an obscure web novel titled "Three Ways to Survive the Apocalypse". After having read the last chapter, the novel suddenly becomes reality, and its omnipotent hero Yu Jung-hyeok appears before Kim. As the only person who knows how to survive in this world, Kim and his companions strive to save the world by writing his own, new ending.


Husbands in Action
2026 · 1h 50m · KR
A detective teams up with his ex-wife's new husband to chase down her kidnappers. Can this unlikely duo put aside their differences for one wild rescue?


Love Untangled
2025 · 1h 59m · KR
A lovestruck teen plans to win the school heartthrob by going from curly to straight hair — until a new transfer student changes everything.


Even If This Love Disappears Tonight
2025 · 1h 46m · KR
A high school girl wakes up each day with no memory of yesterday. When she agrees to date a shy classmate, can their love grow with every new beginning?


Broker
2022 · 2h 9m · KR
When a young mother reconsiders abandoning her baby, she discovers a scheme selling foundlings for adoption.


Pavane
2026 · 1h 53m · KR
Three lonely strangers meet at their department store jobs and find solace in each other's company while they explore connection and the nature of love.


Ballerina
2023 · 1h 33m · KR
Grieving the loss of a best friend she couldn't protect, an ex-bodyguard sets out to fulfill her dear friend's last wish: sweet revenge.


Mantis
2025 · 1h 53m · KR
The secret society of contract killers falls into chaos, unleashing a new breed of assassins. With old rules in ruins, who dares claim the shadows?


Holy Night: Demon Hunters
2025 · 1h 32m · KR
When a devil-worshipping criminal network plunges Seoul into chaos, the police turn to Holy Night—a trio of supernatural demon hunters—to restore order and defeat the rising evil.


Serve the People
2022 · 2h 26m · KR
Mu-kwang volunteers to be a kitchen police of Sa-taek, the divisional commander, dreaming of success. One day, Mu-kwang meets Su-ryeon by chance, who is a young and beautiful wife of the commander. Soon, he feels a strong attraction by her.


Concrete Utopia
2023 · 2h 10m · KR
The world has been reduced to rubble by a massive earthquake. While no one knows for sure how far the ruins stretch, or what the cause of the earthquake may be, in the heart of Seoul there is only one apartment building left standing. It is called Hwang Gung Apartments. As time passes, outsiders start coming in to Hwang Gung Apartments trying to escape the extreme cold. Before long, the apartment residents are unable to cope with the increasing numbers. Feeling a threat to their very survival, the residents enact a special measure.


Alienoid
2022 · 2h 22m · KR
Gurus in the late Goryeo dynasty try to obtain a fabled, holy sword, and humans in 2022 hunt down an alien prisoner that is locked in a human's body. The two parties cross paths when a time-traveling portal opens up.


Badland Hunters
2024 · 1h 47m · KR
After a deadly earthquake turns Seoul into a lawless badland, a fearless huntsman springs into action to rescue a teenager abducted by a mad doctor.


Aunt
2021 · 1h 36m
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The Roundup: Punishment
2024 · 1h 49m · KR
'Monster Cop' Ma Seok-do investigates an illegal online gambling business led by a former STS Baek and an IT genius CEO Chang. Ma proposes an unexpected alliance to Jang and begins hunting down the criminals.


Squid Game: Making Season 2
2025 · 28m · KR
From set designs to character arcs, get exclusive cast and director interviews on how Season 2 of the globally most-watched series was brought to life.


母女汽车中心
2021 · 1h 27m
Yeon Ja, a working mother, runs a car center after divorce and is raising her daughter all by herself. Her daughter, Ah Jung, started helping her when she became an adult, however, the customers don't trust weak-looking women to touch machines and the business at the car center is slow. Thanks to Ah Jung's punk boyfriend, Sung Hoon, they came up with an idea to turn the car center into a sexy car center.


Love and Leashes
2022 · 1h 58m · KR
Love never hurt so good for two co-workers who enter a contractual relationship as partners in consensual play, pleasure and pain.


The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep
2025 · 1h 32m · PL
When human sailors are attacked by mysterious creatures of the deep, only one person can stop the war between land and sea: the Witcher, Geralt of Rivia.


Space Sweepers
2021 · 2h 16m · KR
When the crew of a space junk collector ship called The Victory discovers a humanoid robot named Dorothy that's known to be a weapon of mass destruction, they get involved in a risky business deal which puts their lives at stake.
The 2020s opened with theatrical exhibition in crisis and streaming absorbing much of the mid-budget film. What's emerged is a split market: event spectacle in cinemas, and almost everything else finding its audience at home.
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.