Korean Cinema

Best Korean Thriller Movies

Name: Best Korean Thriller Movies
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The finest thriller films from South Korea — masters of tension, twists, and revenge.

Best Korean Thriller Movies — 15 entries in the korean cinema category, sortable by Title, Year, Director. Every row is ranked by community votes, giving you a crowd-sourced perspective you won't find on Wikipedia or IMDb.

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Title↕	Year↕	Director↕	IMDB Rating↕	Genre↕	Country↕	Runtime (min)↕	Overview↕
Parasite	2019	Bong Joon Ho	8.5	Comedy, Thriller, Drama	South Korea	133	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.
Oldboy	2003	Park Chan-wook	8.2	Drama, Thriller, Mystery, Action	South Korea	120	With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors.
The Handmaiden	2016	Park Chan-wook	8.2	Thriller, Drama, Romance	South Korea	145	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 ...
Memories of Murder	2003	Bong Joon Ho	8.1	Crime, Drama, Thriller	South Korea	131	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.
I Saw the Devil	2010	Kim Jee-woon	7.8	Thriller, Horror	South Korea	144	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 Chaser	2008	Na Hong-jin	7.8	Crime, Thriller, Action	South Korea	125	Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp, who's 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 wi...
The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil	2019	Lee Won-tae	7.8	Crime, Action, Thriller	South Korea	110	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, whi...
Train to Busan	2016	Yeon Sang-ho	7.7	Horror, Thriller, Action, Adventure	South Korea	118	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 Man from Nowhere	2010	Lee Jeong-beom	7.7	Action, Thriller, Crime	South Korea	119	A reclusive pawnshop owner goes on a brutal rampage to rescue a young girl kidnapped by a criminal organization.
Lady Vengeance	2005	Park Chan-wook	7.5	Drama, Thriller	South Korea	115	Released after being wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for 13 years, a woman begins executing her elaborate plan of retribution.
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance	2002	Park Chan-wook	7.5	Action, Drama, Thriller	South Korea	129	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.
The Flu	2013	Kim Sung-soo	7.5	Action, Science Fiction, Thriller	South Korea	122	A case of the flu quickly morphs into a pandemic. As the death toll mounts and the living panic, the government plans extreme measures to contain it.
Decision to Leave	2022	Park Chan-wook	7.3	Thriller, Mystery, Romance	South Korea	139	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.
Thirst	2009	Park Chan-wook	7.1	Drama, Horror, Thriller	South Korea	134	A respected priest volunteers for an experimental procedure that may lead to a cure for a deadly virus. He gets infected and dies, but a blood transfusion of unknown origin brings him back to life. Now, he’s torn between faith and bloodlust, and has a newfound desire for the wife of a childhood f...
Peninsula	2020	Yeon Sang-ho	6.7	Horror, Action, Thriller, Adventure	South Korea	115	A soldier and his team battle hordes of post-apocalyptic zombies in the wastelands of the Korean Peninsula.

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