Korea’s drama and cinema industry are thriving and we’re all for it. We’ve fallen in love and got our hearts broken with different pairings in K-Dramas and had our minds blown in movies like Parasite. If you can’t seem to get enough of K-content, check out these Korean thriller movies for your next Netflix party! P.S. Try going on a video call with your friends while watching to see their reactions. But tbh, you’ll need that emotional support because these movies will keep you on edge the whole time.
Forgotten
Jinseok, played by Kang Han Neul, is a 21-year-old student who moves into a new home with his family. Just when they’re finally fully adjusted to their new place, his older brother is kidnapped and doesn’t return home after 19 days. As Jinseok’s brother returns to their normal life, Jinseok notices that there’s something wrong with his brother, and discovers something even grimmer along the way.
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Svaha: the Sixth Finger
A pastor is given the task to expose corrupt religious groups while a policeman is trying to solve a series of gruesome murders. Along the way, the two ends up looking into one common religious group: the Deer Mount, which turns out to be a cult.
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The Host
The Host is a 2006 film by Academy Award-winning director Bong Joon Ho. In the year 2000, bottles of formaldehyde were dumped into the Han River in Seoul. Five years later, a monstrous creature emerges from the water and kills hundreds of citizens in the park. The monster captures the daughter of a food stall owner by the river and the family goes out of their way to rescue her, even if it means having to fight the creature themselves.
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The Chase
Starring veteran actors Baek Yoon Shik and Sung Dong Il, The Chase tells the story of a former detective and Ari-dong neighborhood’s nastiest man. Together, they form an unexpected duo who investigates different mysterious cases in their town, including a 30-year-old cold murder case.
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Jo Pil-Ho: The Dawning Rage
In case you’re starting curious to see the other films of Parasite’s cast, include Jo Pil-Ho: The Dawning Rage in your list. Jo Pil-ho is a homicide detective who takes payments from thugs to keep them from getting arrested. He schemes to rob the police warehouse to make quick cash, but on the night of the heist, an explosion happens. Only Jo Pil-ho survives and he becomes the suspect of the explosion. He teams up with a teenage girl, who possesses evidence from the bombing, and discovers that it wasn’t just an explosion.
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Psychokinesis
Shin Seok Heon is your typical security guard working different shifts. However, his life changes when he gains psychokinetic powers after drinking water polluted with meteor matter. While his daughter sets up a restaurant, his ex-wife gets killed by a mob, paid by the company that’s trying to build a shopping center on his daughter’s restaurant. He meets his daughter, tries to save her, and becomes the neighborhood’s new hero.
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Lucid Dream
Choi Dae Ho is an investigative journalist who has been searching for his abducted son for three years. To recall the day his son was kidnapped, he seeks the services of a scientist who helps him recover memories through lucid dreaming. It’s an odd way to solve a crime, but Dae Ho slowly regains bits and pieces of the day his son disappeared, as he’s half-awake.
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The Drug King
Set in the 1970s, The Drug King is a movie boasting a star-studded cast. Lee Doo Sam, played by Kang-Ho Song, is a Busan-based smuggler who joins the illegal drug trade and becomes of the top dealers in Japan. Meanwhile, Kim In-goo, played by Jo Jung Suk, is a prosecutor who’s on a mission to track down the infamous narcotics dealer. Will he succeed?
Watch it here.
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