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Seong Gi-hun is a divorced father buried in gambling debts and living with his elderly mother when he is invited to play children's games for a huge cash prize. He is taken to a remote island with 455 other players who are all desperate for money, and soon learns that losing a game means dying.
The Kim family, Ki-taek, Chung-sook and their grown children Ki-woo and Ki-jung, scrape by in a cramped semi-basement flat in Seoul. When a friend arranges for Ki-woo to tutor the daughter of the wealthy Park family, the Kims see a chance to work their way, one by one, into the rich household.
In 1988, businessman Oh Dae-su is snatched off the street after a night of drunken trouble and locked inside a sealed room with only a television. For fifteen years he has no idea who imprisoned him or why. When he is suddenly set free, he hunts for his captor, crossing paths with a young sushi chef named Mi-do.
Wealthy families live in the luxurious Hera Palace and send their children to the elite Cheong-ah Arts School. Elegant Shim Su-ryeon carries a tragic past and is married to businessman Joo Dan-tae. Oh Yoon-hee, who comes from a humble background, has been at odds since high school with famous soprano Cheon Seo-jin, whose father runs the school.
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.
Park Gang-du is a slow-witted man who sells snacks from a little stand by Seoul's Han River with his father. When a huge creature rises from the water and attacks the riverside park, it carries off his daughter Hyun-seo. After a phone call reveals she is trapped in the sewers, Gang-du and his family escape a government quarantine to search for her.
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.
In 1601, three years after the Imjin War, Crown Prince Lee Chang tries to look into the strange illness that has struck the King. His search drags him into a deadly outbreak that is turning people across Joseon into zombies, while rivals at court plot to seize the throne.
Lee Jong-su, an aspiring novelist doing odd jobs in Seoul, runs into Shin Hae-mi, a childhood neighbor he barely remembers. Before leaving on a trip to Africa, she asks him to feed her cat, and when she returns she introduces him to Ben, a mysterious young man who leaves Jong-su uneasy.
Man-su, a longtime paper-company employee, lives happily in his childhood home with his wife Mi-ri and their two children. When the company is sold and he is laid off, he promises his family he will be back in the paper business within three months, but more than a year later he is still jobless and growing desperate enough to turn on his rivals.
A widow sells medicinal herbs in a small southern town and dotes on her only son, Do-joon, a shy young man with an intellectual disability. When a high school girl is found dead and Do-joon is arrested on flimsy evidence, his mother is sure he is innocent and sets out to find the real killer herself.
After her father's sudden death, Yoon Ji-woo is set on revenge against whoever was responsible. She joins the drug gang Dongcheon, led by Choi Mu-jin, and with his help enters the police force under the fake name Oh Hye-jin, working as the gang's mole in a drug unit alongside Detective Jeon Pil-do.
In 2015, criminal profiler Park Hae-young finds an old walkie-talkie and hears Detective Jae-han, a man somehow speaking from the past who talks to him like an old friend. Working together across time, they crack a 15-year-old kidnapping and murder case, which leads to a cold case team led by Detective Cha Soo-hyun.
After treatment in a mental hospital, teenager Su-mi returns to her family's isolated country house with her father and younger sister Su-yeon. There she clashes again and again with their unsettling stepmother, Eun-joo, as strange and frightening things begin to happen in the house.
Baek Hee-sung keeps his true identity and past hidden from his wife, detective Cha Ji-won. Together with their six-year-old daughter, they seem like an ideal family. But when Ji-won and her team begin looking into a string of unexplained killings, she starts to wonder whether her husband is keeping something from her.
Sang-hyun, a Catholic priest, volunteers for an experiment to find a vaccine for a deadly virus. The trial goes wrong, and although he seems to recover, he is left a vampire who craves human blood. At the same time, he finds himself drawn to Tae-ju, who is married to his childhood friend Kang-woo.
During the reign of King Yeonsan in the late 15th century, street clowns and tightrope walkers Jangsaeng and Gong-gil flee to Seoul and start a new troupe. When their bold skit poking fun at the king gets them arrested, they are given one chance to escape execution: they must make the tyrant himself laugh.
During the Korean War, student volunteer Oh Jang-beom barely survives a brutal battle and is shaken by what he has seen. He is then put in charge of a newly formed unit of untrained student soldiers, joined by a defiant young criminal named Ku Kap-jo, and ordered to hold a key position.
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.
Teenagers Yeo-jin and Jae-yeong are trying to save money for a trip to Europe. Jae-yeong sells herself to men while Yeo-jin sets up the meetings and keeps watch for the police, until one day a police raid goes wrong and their plan unravels with painful results.
Born under a dark curse, Princess Yeon-hee is abandoned as a baby and raised in hiding by the shaman Choi Hyun-seo, shut away in a house surrounded by talismans. When Heo Jun, a young scholar born to a slave mother and a wealthy master, crosses paths with her, the two set out together to break the curse that brings death to anyone she loves.
In 1992, an elite group of North Korean soldiers trains under commander Park Mu-young to slip into South Korea as sleeper agents. Years later, South Korean agent Yu Jung-won and his partner Lee Jang-gil hunt for Lee Bang-hee, a deadly sniper from that unit, while Jung-won keeps the truth about his job from his fiancée Myung-hyun.
In SKY Castle, a luxury enclave outside Seoul where wealthy doctors and professors live, the wives will do anything to push their husbands ahead and get their children into elite universities. Han Seo-jin, married to an ambitious surgeon, is set on her eldest daughter Ye-seo becoming a doctor, so she hires Kim Joo-young, an admissions coordinator with a flawless record.
In an alternate 2009, Korea is still ruled by Imperial Japan. Masayuki Sakamoto, an agent of the Japanese Bureau of Investigation, and his partner Shojiro Saigo stop a hostage crisis at a museum, and Sakamoto grows curious about why the rebels were after a mysterious artifact and the foundation linked to it.
An underachieving lawyer suddenly finds himself caught up in a murder case. Fighting to survive and keep his family safe, he begins to dig into a conspiracy that reaches deep into the country's wealthy and powerful elite.
Fifteen-year-old Lee Soo-yeon is bullied at school because her late father was convicted of murder. She meets Han Jung-woo, the son of a wealthy and powerful family, who stands up for her, and the two grow close and fall in love. Their young bond is shaken when Jung-woo is kidnapped and Soo-yeon, trying to help him, is taken too.
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.
Lee Yeon is a gumiho, a fox spirit more than 1,000 years old, who now lives in the city and hunts supernatural beings that threaten humans. Nam Ji-ah, a bold TV producer, spots him during one of his missions and becomes sure he is not human. Ever since a strange accident on her ninth birthday, she has been searching for her missing parents.
Kang Ma-ru, a bright medical student, is devoted to his slightly older neighbor Han Jae-hee, a TV reporter. When she picks a wealthy CEO and a comfortable life over him, the betrayal changes him completely. Years later, working as a bartender, he crosses paths with Seo Eun-gi, a guarded chaebol heiress being groomed to run her father's company.
Crown Prince Sado, heir to King Yeongjo, sets out on a plot to kill his own father. The film moves back and forth between the crisis that follows and the long story of how father and son reached this point, from a king fixated on his young son's lessons to a boy who would rather paint and socialize.
In 2014, Private Ahn Jun-ho works with Corporal Han Ho-yeol in a Korean military police unit tasked with tracking down soldiers who run away. As they hunt for deserters, their journey exposes an army culture where bullying, hazing and cruel treatment of the weakest recruits are everywhere.
Cha Moo-hyuk, abandoned as a child and mistreated by his adoptive parents, survives by scamming tourists in Australia. After an accident leaves a bullet in his head and little time to live, he returns to Korea to find his birth mother, a famous actress. Feeling betrayed, he plots revenge by working for her son, singer Choi Yoon, and meets Yoon's devoted friend Song Eun-chae.
Three poor sisters, In-joo, In-hye and In-kyung, are each driven by their own hunger for money, independence or love. When a friend of one sister, believed to be dead, leaves behind 70 billion won, the sisters find themselves up against Korea's richest family, who will stop at nothing.
Hee-jin, a woman who does not speak, runs a remote fishing resort of small floating cabins, rowing guests back and forth and quietly supplying whatever they need. When Hyun-shik, a troubled man on the run from the law, arrives at the resort, an unusual and intense bond slowly forms between them, told almost entirely without dialogue.
Seh-hee and Ji-woo have been a couple for two years, and Seh-hee is consumed by jealousy and the fear that he is growing tired of her. Convinced he wants someone new, she vanishes without a word and undergoes cosmetic surgery, planning to win him back with a new face and a different name.
Park Ji-sang is a gifted surgeon at the country's top cancer hospital who is secretly a vampire, holding back his thirst for blood to save patients. He finds himself drawn to Yoo Ri-ta, an arrogant star physician and niece of the chaebol chairman who owns the hospital.
Shim Eun-seok is a top judge with a chilly, aloof manner who is known for disliking young offenders. When she is assigned to a juvenile court in Yeonhwa District, she breaks with custom and handles cases in her own way, balancing her distaste for teen criminals with her firm beliefs about justice and punishment.
After her husband dies in a car accident, Lee Shin-ae moves with her young son Jun to Miryang, her late husband's hometown, hoping for a fresh start. When her car breaks down on the way in, local mechanic Kim Jong-chan comes to her aid, and he keeps helping out as she opens a piano school and settles into the town.
A grim reaper is ordered to hunt down his partner, who has gone on the run. While searching, he gets caught up in a string of unsolved murders from 20 years ago, and his job of guiding the dead to the afterlife grows complicated as he starts breaking the rules against meddling in human lives.
Genius profiler Lee Hyun comes back to Korea when a case stirs up a memory he believed was gone for good. Detective Cha Ji-an, on his new team, has quietly been looking into him, knowing his father was murdered and his brother vanished in connection with a criminal they both want caught.
Yoon Hyun-woo is a loyal senior employee of the chaebol Soonyang Group until a member of the owning family betrays and kills him to hide a tax evasion scheme. He then wakes up in 1987 in the body of Jin Do-jun, the family's youngest grandson, and starts plotting revenge by aiming to seize control of the company.
Hwang Si-mok is a dedicated prosecutor who lost his sense of empathy after surgery for an extreme sensitivity to sound. While investigating a murder, he teams up with police lieutenant Han Yeo-jin, and the two soon find their search for the truth blocked at every turn by powerful interests.
In a dystopian South Korea where people resent their leaders and society has fallen into chaos, trials are broadcast as a live television show. Three judges preside over these courtroom broadcasts, presenting themselves as the ones who will restore justice and peace to a nation in turmoil.
In 1953, ceasefire talks drag on while soldiers keep battling over hills along the 38th Parallel that change hands again and again. When a South Korean company commander at the Aerok Hills is found shot by a southern bullet, counterintelligence officer Kang Eun-pyo is sent to investigate and find a suspected mole.
Yeon is a lonely housewife struggling with depression and anger, and she discovers her husband has been unfaithful. She has been following news about Jin, a notorious prisoner on death row who keeps trying to end his life, and she begins visiting him, treating this stranger as though he were a former lover.
Mo Seok-hee, the only daughter of the MC Group chaebol, was sent to America as a teenager after her mother was murdered. Fifteen years later she returns to Korea when her grandfather falls into a coma, and after a prickly first meeting she hires Heo Yoon-do, an honest neighborhood lawyer with no real office.
Byun Ji-sook, a department store clerk whose family is hounded by loan sharks, meets Seo Eun-ha, a congressman's daughter who looks exactly like her. When Eun-ha dies, the scheming Min Seok-hoon forces Ji-sook to take her place as the bride of lonely chaebol heir Choi Min-woo, who finds his new wife surprisingly different.
