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


Dark Nuns
2025 · 1h 55m
country: South Korea
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.


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.


Youngest Sister Class
2020 · 1h 13m
country: South Korea
Lim Da-yeong, the older sister, intercepted the lover of her younger sister, Lim Da-jeong, who is Yoon Tae-jin. As if this were not enough, Da-yeong imprisoned her younger sister in a mental hospital and lived a happy married life with Tae-jin. Then one day, the Da-jeong escapes from the mental hospital and conspires with helper Jo Yong-hwan, who is her ward friend, to exact cruel revenge on her older sister and her former lover. Both Da-yeong and Tae-jin endure Da-jeong's bloody kidnapping, domesticated slave life and harsh punishments. They look for opportunities to escape with a scary plot in their hearts. What will be the ending for these crazy sisters?


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.


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.


Ad-lib Night
2006 · 1h 39m
country: South Korea
A young girl is asked by strangers to impersonate a prodigal daughter to fulfill a father's dying wish, and in doing so tests the fragility of family bonds.


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.


Untold Scandal
2003 · 2h 4m
country: South Korea
In late 1700s Korea, Lady Cho challenges the playboy Lord Jo-won into seducing and sleeping with her husband's coming young, virgin concubine. Lady Cho agrees to sleep with him if he succeeds.


Memories of Murder
2003 · 2h 11m
country: South Korea
A sadistic serial rapist and murderer of young women terrorizes a small province in 1980s South Korea. To prevent further crimes, three increasingly desperate detectives with conflicting methods race against time to unravel the violent mind of the killer in a futile effort to solve the case.


Exchange Wife 2
2023 · 1h 29m
country: South Korea
Kyeong-soo, an art dealer who specializes in painting, goes to evaluate the requested painting and accidentally damages it. Chang-in, the owner of the painting, suggests one thing from Kyung-soo, who was at a loss.


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.


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 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.


A Tale of Two Sisters
2003 · 1h 55m
country: South Korea
Two sisters return home after a stay in a mental institution, only to face disturbing events and a strained relationship with their stepmother. As eerie occurrences unfold, dark family secrets begin to surface, blurring the line between reality and nightmare.


Humint
2026 · 2h
country: South Korea
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.


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.


The Temptation of the Mature 50s Mother-in-law
2023 · 1h 14m
country: South Korea
A young couple, Wan-jin and So-hee, are living with Wan-jin's single father, Seok-bong. Seok-bong was preying on his daughter-in-law, who was doing the housework and preparing meals for him while her husband was away at work. He pretended to have dementia and attacked her. So-hee, who was suffering from her shame, suggested to Wan-jin to hire his father a caregiver, saying that his father seemed to be suffering from dementia, and so Bok-ja, a sexy and voluptuous caregiver who was about Seok-bong's age, came in. Seok-bong is captivated by Bok-ja's passionate charm and soon begins to share his love with her, and in this way, she takes the place of Wan-jin's new mother.


Actresses: Sex Audition
2020 · 1h 1m
country: South Korea
Cheonbong, a third-class movie director, goes hunting with Dae-do as the newly-established assistant director Mi-young. However, hunting is just an excuse, and Cheonbong's interest is more on Jet-Bob. Chun-bong tries to fill his greed by deceiving Mi-young, who doesn't know the industry. Cheonbong's wife, Eunwoo Son's soccer coach, Together with Seong-gyu, he goes on a journey of deviation. Daebu-do is a place of memories that Cheonbong and Eun-woo enjoyed during their dating. Unfortunately, the couple enjoys an overnight meeting at a neighboring pension. They burn each other's bodies in the same space without knowing each other's existence... The life of a couple in this era of tightrope walking between Eros and Tanatos. Digging secretly into the crack's space.


The Great Flood
2025 · 1h 47m
country: South Korea
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.


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.


Joint Security Area
2000 · 1h 48m
country: South Korea
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.


Idol Sex: LA Korean Women
2020 · 1h 5m
country: South Korea
Typhoon and Taeyang brothers are sharing. The visitor today is Jessica from LA. Applying for an idol audition is her purpose. She is so cheerful and open to the burden. The fatal temptation of a strange woman who appeared one day and the fate of the brothers shaking in front of her.


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.


A Frozen Flower
2008 · 2h 13m
country: South Korea
A despotic king orders his male lover to produce an heir for him with his Queen. But when they instead fall in love, will tragic consequences follow?


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 .


20th Century Girl
2022 · 1h 59m
country: South Korea
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.


The King's Warden
2026 · 1h 57m
country: South Korea
In a remote mountain village of 15th-century Joseon, humble headman Heung-do hears a rumor that any village hosting an exiled nobleman will be blessed with abundance and fortune. Hoping to bring prosperity to his impoverished community, he eagerly submits a petition to host one—unaware that his guest is none other than the fallen monarch, deposed boy-king Danjong.


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.


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.


Bikini Bar: Delicious Service
2020 · 1h
country: South Korea
Minzhu ran a bar, but the business was so bad that she lost all her store deposit, and the landlord kept pressing for rent. Seeing this, Meizhen decided to develop an innovative spirit and began to provide special services in a bikini. Soon, the bar's Business is booming….


The Host
2006 · 2h
country: South Korea
A teenage girl is captured by a giant mutated squid-like creature that appears from Seoul's Han River after toxic waste was dumped in it, prompting her family into a frantic search for her.


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


Sisters Virus
2021 · 1h 18m
country: South Korea
Hyeong-woo is forced to be quarantined with her sisters-in-law for 21 days due to the new virus. Hyeong-woo, who remains with his sister-in-law is shaken by the temptation of prohibition. Eventually, the virus spreads and becomes the beginning of human extinction. However, rumors are circulating that sharing forbidden love can amplify the energy and defeat the new virus, which they cannot help but believe. Their own sex, which began like that, makes them forget even the fear of the virus and makes them unable to break up.


Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
2002 · 2h 9m
country: South Korea
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.
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.
Drama is cinema's widest category and its default setting — character, conflict, and consequence without genre machinery. It's where most awards conversation lives, and where directors go when the story is the effect.