Best of South Korea: Crime Movies/Thrillers

In a small Korean province in 1986, two detectives struggle with the case of multiple young women being found raped and murdered by an unknown culprit.

After being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must track down his captor in five days.

Things go wrong for a high ranking mobster when he doesn't follow his boss's orders.

After a shooting incident at the North-South Korean border DMZ leaves two North Korean soldiers dead, a neutral Swiss and Swedish team investigates what actually happened.

A disgraced ex-policeman who runs a small ring of prostitutes finds himself in a race against time when one of his women goes missing.

A quiet pawnshop keeper with a violent past takes on a drug-and-organ trafficking ring in hope of saving the child who is his only friend.

A secret agent exacts revenge on a serial killer through a series of captures and releases.

A mother desperately searches for the killer who framed her son for a girl's horrific murder.

A composer and his wife are thrown into turmoil when a housemaid becomes more than they bargained for.

A mysterious person calls a young man and informs him that his estranged father has died in a country village. The curious son travels to the town to discover what happened. From there out the audience is led on a thrilling and hauntingly atmospheric journey into the history of the father and the truth about his relationship to the threatening and violent locals. The film is 2h40m, long even for Korean standards, but it is the magically haunting and at the same time threatening atmosphere in the film that sustains the audience interest. Let yourself be carried away...

A recently laid off factory worker kidnaps his former boss' friend's daughter, hoping to use the ransom money to pay for his sister's kidney transplant.

After being wrongfully imprisoned for thirteen years and having her child taken away from her, a woman seeks revenge through increasingly brutal means.

An undercover cop finds it difficult to play both a cop and a goon.

Soon after a stranger arrives in a little village, a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman, drawn into the incident, is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.

A small time thug collecting debts for the local triad is torn between his criminal aspirations and his devotion to family.

15 years ago, a mother lost her child in a kidnapping case. A similar crime happens again and she won't let him go this time.

Lee Du-Seok publishes an autobiography describing murders he committed after the statute of limitations expires. A detective and one of the victims' mother search for the author while an anonymous person claims to be the real killer.

Korean resistance fighters smuggle explosives to destroy facilities controlled by Japanese forces in this period action thriller.

On the verge of being fired, a corrupt customs official finds a haul of drugs and teams up with a vicious gangster to become the most powerful crime partnership in Busan.

Hiding out in Jeju Island following a brutal tragedy, a wronged mobster with a target on his back connects with a woman who has her own demons.

A recently widowed TV producer is drawn to an isolated cabin in a mysterious woods.

Strange things begin happening to an expedition deep in the Antarctic.

One day, the only son of famous news anchor HAN Kyung-bae, disappears without a trace. Soon, the kidnapper calls the mother demanding a $100,000 ransom. The police assign a veteran inspector to the case and assemble a top-notch task force to work under his command. But the kidnapper constantly outwits the police and continues calling the parents with yet more instructions for the money drop.

South Korean agents Ryu and Lee are tracking a female assassin from North Korea who has mysteriously disappeared. With new killings and the theft of a deadly bomb, time is running out to catch her.

When the attempt to kill a professor goes wrong, a series of violent events are triggered which force a taxi driver to run for his life.