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In October 1986, two women are found murdered on the edge of a small town, and the poorly equipped local police are soon overwhelmed. Detectives Park Doo-man and Cho Yong-koo rely on violence and fake evidence, while Seo Tae-yoon, a better-trained detective from Seoul, joins the hunt as more killings follow.
Tae-suk is a loner who rides around on his motorbike, slipping into homes whose owners are away, where he quietly washes clothes and fixes broken things. In one large house, he is watched by Sun-hwa, a former model mistreated by her husband. After seeing the husband's cruelty firsthand, Tae-suk leaves with her, and the two begin a wordless bond.
After 13 years in prison for the kidnapping and murder of a young boy, a crime she did not commit, Lee Geum-ja walks free, praised as a model of reform. But her gentle behavior behind bars was only a cover. Calling in favors from former inmates, she sets out to take revenge on the real killer.
After his fiancée Joo-yun is brutally murdered, secret agent Kim Soo-hyun vows to make her killer pay. Working outside the law, he sets out to hunt down the man responsible, a school bus driver named Jang Kyung-chul who has killed before, and his quest for vengeance turns into a vicious contest between the two men.
Insomniac Busan detective Jang Hae-jun, who sees his wife only on weekends, looks into the death of a retired immigration officer found dead below a mountain he liked to climb. Suspicion falls on the man's much younger widow, Song Seo-rae, a Chinese emigrant who cares for the elderly, and as Hae-jun watches her closely, he begins to develop feelings for her.
Cha Tae-sik is a quiet man who runs a pawnshop, and his only friend is So-mi, the little girl who lives next door. When So-mi's mother steals drugs from a gang and hides them in a bag she leaves with Tae-sik, the gangsters come for the drugs and take So-mi, pulling him into a violent fight to get her back.
Kim Sun-woo is a top enforcer who has served crime boss Kang loyally for years. Before leaving on a business trip, Kang asks him to keep watch over his young mistress, Hee-soo, whom he suspects of seeing another man. When Sun-woo catches her with her lover, he chooses to spare them, a decision that turns his boss against him.
Joong-ho, a former detective now running call girls, is losing money because two of his women have vanished. Convinced a certain client is selling them off, he sends Mi-jin, who is sick, to meet the man and text back his address. That night turns into a desperate race through Seoul's streets as Joong-ho hunts for her.
Lee Ja-sung is a police officer who has spent eight years working undercover inside Goldmoon International, a crime syndicate run like a giant corporation. Chief Kang keeps putting off his promised transfer, and when Goldmoon's chairman dies in an accident, a fierce fight over who will replace him puts Ja-sung in even greater danger.
In the Chinese city of Yanji, ethnic Korean taxi driver Gu-nam is buried in gambling debt and tormented by worries about his wife, who went to work in South Korea and has not been in touch. After losing his job, he accepts an offer from a local gangster to cross into South Korea and kill a professor for money.
In 2004 Seoul, detective Ma Seok-do and his captain work to keep the peace as two Chinese-Korean gangs fight over Chinatown. The fragile balance breaks when Zhang Qian, the brutal head of a loan-shark gang, arrives with his henchmen to take the area for himself.
After cat burglar Yenicall and her partners pull off an art gallery theft in Seoul, a visit from a detective convinces them to lie low abroad. They join a job led by master thief Macau Park, alongside a Chinese crew, to steal a 20-million-dollar diamond called the Tear of the Sun from a dangerous crime lord's mistress at a Macau casino.
Jang Dong-soo, a feared crime boss, survives a brutal attack by a seemingly random serial killer. Detective Jung Tae-suk, whose superior dismisses his serial killer theory, wants Dong-soo's help, and the two very different men end up joining forces to hunt the killer, each for his own reasons.
After President Park Chung-hee is assassinated in October 1979, martial law is declared and Major General Chun Doo-gwang is put in charge of the investigation. As he quietly gathers power, the principled Major General Lee Tae-shin is reluctantly appointed to command the capital's defense, setting the two men on a collision course.
In 1990, detective Choi Hyeong-goo corners a serial killer who has murdered ten women, but the man gets away after a brutal fight that leaves Choi scarred. Fifteen years later, as the statute of limitations runs out, a man publishes a book titled I Am the Murderer, claiming the crimes as his own.
In 2010, with a presidential election looming, a driven prosecutor named Woo Jang-hoon is ordered to investigate the hidden slush fund of front-running candidate Jang Pil-woo. Gangster Ahn Sang-goo, meanwhile, grabs the key evidence for Lee Kang-hee, an influential newspaper editor he trusts, only to be betrayed and maimed, leaving him set on revenge.
Four years after his crackdown in Garibong-dong, detective Ma Seok-do heads to Ho Chi Minh City with Captain Jeon Il-man to bring back a Korean suspect. There they stumble onto the trail of Kang Hae-sang, a vicious criminal who kidnaps and murders Korean tourists and then extorts their families.
Byun Jae-wook is a hot-tempered prosecutor known for his rough investigations. When a suspect dies during his questioning, the evidence points at him and he is sent to prison for 15 years. Inside, he wins over inmates and guards with his legal know-how, then teams up with a young con man, Chi-won, to strike back at the people who framed him.
Gil Bok-soon is a contract killer working for an agency run by Min-kyu, but at home she is a mother quietly raising her daughter, Jae-young. Unsure how to talk with her daughter about the changes in her life, she finds her two worlds harder and harder to keep apart.
Newly promoted, Detective Ma Seok-do and his team move up to the Metropolitan Investigation Unit. Their first big case is the suspicious death of a woman, Go Sun-hee, whose autopsy shows a powerful new drug called Hiper in her body. The trail leads to a nightclub and a yakuza member bringing the drug in through Incheon.
In the Philippines, former special forces soldier Baek Chang-gi runs a brutal online gambling ring and kills a worker who tries to flee. Back in Korea, Detective Ma Seok-do is looking into that worker over suspected money laundering and starts to realize the case reaches much deeper than it first seemed.
Lee Na-mi works as a marketer at a start-up and helps out at her father's cafe. One night she leaves her smartphone on a bus, and the stranger who finds it, Oh Jun-yeong, arranges to return it through a repair shop. While fixing its cracked screen, he secretly installs spyware, opening a window into every part of her life.
Three desperate people chase a way out of their troubles. Joong-man, stuck in a thankless job and caring for his sick mother, finds a huge bag of cash in a sauna locker; customs officer Tae-young, deep in debt to a criminal, plots a scam; and Mi-ran, trapped with an abusive husband, sees an escape when a client offers to kill him.
Min Soo-ah, once a promising police cadet, lost her sight in a car accident that ended her career. When she comes forward as a witness in a hit-and-run that seems tied to a missing university student, Detective Jo doubts her at first, until her sharp senses convince him to work with her.
Yoon Ji-wook is a tough homicide detective, a legend on the force and feared by gangsters. Behind that hard image, Ji-wook has longed to live as a woman since adolescence and finally decides to have gender-affirming surgery. But a gang Ji-wook once cracked down on is set on revenge, throwing those plans into chaos.
Byeong-soo, a small-town veterinarian, hides a violent past as a killer and now lives with Alzheimer's after a head injury. He records his days in a memoir while looking after his daughter Eun-hee. When two young women are murdered nearby, he cannot tell whether he did it, and a chance car crash puts a stranger under his suspicion.
Tae-gu is a mobster who turns down an offer to defect to the rival Bukseong gang. In retaliation, his sister and niece are killed, and after taking bloody revenge on the rival boss, he flees to Jeju Island, where he meets Jae-yeon, a woman with a terminal illness, and her uncle Kuto, an arms dealer.
Ham Dae-gil enters the world of gambling, only to be set up as the fall guy in a rigged deal. Bent on revenge, he joins one last high-stakes game in which losing could cost him his life.
Ji Hyeong-do is one of the most skilled killers at a metal fabrication company that secretly runs an assassination business. After a job, he is ordered to get rid of his young partner Ra-hun, who asks him to pass money to his family. When Hyeong-do visits, he meets Ra-hun's mother Yu Mi-yeon, a former singer, and falls for her.
Kim Byung-doo is a small-time gangster in his late 20s who can't raise enough money to save his family from eviction. Desperate, he goes over the head of his boss, Sang-chul, and takes a dangerous job straight from President Hwang, the man above them. Meanwhile, he reunites with childhood friend Min-ho, now a director making a gangster film.
Homicide detective Han Do-kyung takes money to handle dirty work behind the scenes for corrupt mayor Park Sung-bae, needing cash for his wife's hospital bills. When prosecutors Kim Cha-in and Do Chang-hak find his weak spot, they force him to help them build a case against the mayor, leaving him trapped between both sides.
In Joseon, detective Ahn and his protégé Namsoon are tracking a gang of counterfeiters flooding the land with fake coins. During a street show, a masked swordsman kills a government official and escapes, and Namsoon, a skilled fighter with twin long knives, duels him and catches a glimpse of his sad eyes.
Soon-ho is a lawyer weighed down by his father's debts. He takes on a case in which a housekeeper, Mi-ran, is accused of killing her employer, though she says she simply found him dead. The only witness is Ji-woo, a teenage girl with autism, and Soon-ho sets out to befriend her, hoping to show her account cannot be trusted.
Mantis, a top assassin, returns from a holiday to discover the world of hired killers in chaos after the fall of MK, the leading company. As he tries to start his own firm, he runs into Jae-yi, his old training partner and rival, and Dok-go, a well-known killer, now retired, who once mentored him at MK.
Sohee, a high school student on a vocational track, is sent for field training at a subcontracted call center. The pressure and harsh work culture there weigh heavily on her. The film also follows detective Oh Yoo-jin, who becomes caught up in what happens to Sohee.
After a 2017 transfer of Korean criminals from the Philippines ends in a deadly bombing, police try again five years later by moving a new group of dangerous convicts to Busan aboard a cargo ship. Once the ship sets out to sea, the prisoners slip free of their cuffs and brutal violence breaks out on board.
A South Korean artist sets out, one by one, to find and kill the people he sees as his enemies, whether they are real or only imagined. The film follows his violent path as it unfolds in real time.
After a failed attempt to prosecute a powerful chairman, prosecutor Han Ji-hoon is demoted to the legal support office of the NIS. He jumps at an assignment to inspect the agency's secret black ops base in Shenyang, China, where he runs into team leader Ji Kang-in and his ruthless Black Team.
Jung-hoon is the top student at his school, and his rival Tae-gyu constantly attacks him with words and fists. After someone sees Jung-hoon pull a knife on Tae-gyu, he comes back during fourth period to find Tae-gyu stabbed to death, and classmate Da-jung catches him holding the knife. She believes him, and they have 40 minutes to find the real killer.
Art professor Jung Ji-woo is looking for a nude model for a video she plans to show at her exhibition. Her student Hee-jin suggests Yoon Ji-woo, and the three women head to the beach to film. As they spend time together, Yoon Ji-woo opens up about her past relationship with Kang Ji-woo.
