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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.
Seok-woo, a cynical, workaholic divorced father in Seoul, agrees to take his young daughter Su-an to see her mother in Busan. They board the KTX train with a mix of other passengers just as a sudden outbreak sweeps the country, and an infected woman slips aboard right before departure.
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.
In Korea under Japanese rule, a swindler calling himself Count Fujiwara schemes to marry the wealthy Japanese heiress Hideko, have her locked away in an asylum and take her fortune. He places Sook-hee, a young pickpocket, in Hideko's isolated country estate as her maid to push her toward the marriage, under the watchful eye of her book-obsessed uncle Kouzuki.
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.
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.
When two North Korean soldiers are shot dead at a guard post inside the Joint Security Area, wounded South Korean sergeant Lee Soo-hyeok escapes back across the border. To calm rising tensions, Swiss Army Major Sophie E. Jean is sent by a neutral commission to investigate, and she soon notices that the stories from both sides do not add up.
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.
Four years after a zombie outbreak overran South Korea and the whole peninsula was sealed off, former marine officer Jung-seok is living as a refugee in Hong Kong. Chinese gangsters hire him, his brother-in-law Chul-min and a pair of fellow refugees to sneak back and recover a truck holding 20 million US dollars, in return for half of it.
Soon after a mysterious Japanese stranger arrives in the mountain village of Gokseong, a strange sickness spreads, driving villagers to violently attack their own families. Police officer Jong-goo starts looking into the killings, and his fear deepens when his young daughter, Hyo-jin, begins showing signs of the illness.
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.
In 1980, Kim Man-seob is a widowed taxi driver in Seoul, raising his child alone and buried in debt. When he overhears another driver boasting about a well-paid fare to Gwangju, he grabs the job for himself. His passenger is Peter, a German journalist hoping to report on the growing unrest there, which Man-seob knows nothing about.
Ko Bum-seok is the police chief of Hope Harbor, a small village of mostly elderly residents near the DMZ. When his cousin asks him to look into a cow with gaping wounds, local hunters blame a stray tiger, but the attacks keep coming, and with wildfires cutting off help, Bum-seok and his rookie deputy must defend the village.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Famed shaman Hwa-rim and her protégé Bong-gil are hired by a wealthy Korean American family whose newborn son has a mysterious illness. Blaming an angry ancestor's spirit, they team up with feng shui master Kim Sang-deok and mortician Yeong-geun to dig up and move the grandfather's grave on a remote mountain, though Sang-deok senses something sinister there.
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.
In 2019, Kim Seo-yeon visits her ill, estranged mother at her run-down childhood home and finds an old cordless phone. Through it she starts getting calls from Oh Young-sook, a frightened young woman living in the same house in 1999. The two begin talking across time, bonding over their troubled relationships with their mothers.
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 1933, with Korea under Japanese rule, resistance captain Yem Sek-jin is tasked with recruiting three unruly independence fighters, Ahn Okyun, Big Gun and Duk-sam. Their mission is to sneak into Seoul and kill a Japanese general, Kawaguchi Mamoru, along with the pro-Japanese businessman Kang In-guk.
In December 2023, a massive earthquake and an extreme cold wave flatten Seoul, leaving just one building standing: Hwang Gung Apartments. Min-sung and his wife, Myung-hwa, live there and try to adjust as residents panic without power, water or any way to communicate, and that night a mother and her child from a collapsed building nearby beg to be let in.
Jin-seok moves into a new house with his parents and older brother Yoo-seok, and they are told that one room holding the previous owner's things is off-limits. That night, Jin-seok watches his brother get kidnapped and dragged into a car. When Yoo-seok returns 19 days later with no memory of what happened, Jin-seok starts to feel something about him is wrong.
Restaurant worker Eun-yi is hired as a live-in nanny for a wealthy couple: Hoon and his wife Hae-ra, who is expecting twins. Her main job is caring for their young daughter Nami, who slowly warms to her, but Hoon soon begins secretly flirting with her behind his wife's back.
In 1970s South Korea, President Park rules with total power through the KCIA. Its director, Kim Gyu-pyeong, is almost the second most powerful man in the country but faces a fierce rival in the president's security chief. When former director Park Yong-gak flees abroad and testifies before the U.S. Congress, pressure inside the government starts to build.
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.
Under President Chun Doo-hwan's military regime, student activist Park Jong-chul dies while being questioned by police. Commissioner Park Cheo-won moves to hide what happened by having the body cremated before any autopsy, but a stubborn prosecutor refuses to sign off. The film is based on real events.
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 1970, a band of young Japanese radicals hijacks a passenger plane and demands to be flown to Pyongyang. Seeing a chance to win favor abroad, the head of South Korea's intelligence agency hands the rescue to a shadowy fixer known only as Nobody, who dreams up a bold scheme to land the plane in Seoul instead.
The crew of a struggling fishing boat, the Jeonjinho, fails to bring in enough fish and agrees to smuggle thirty undocumented migrants into South Korea for money. On the way back, the boat runs into heavy fog and rough seas while being chased by the maritime police. Young crew member Dong-sik finds himself drawn to one of the migrants.
In Berlin, an illegal arms deal involving North Korean agent Pyo Jong-seong falls apart when unknown attackers break it up, and Pyo barely gets away. South Korean agent Jung Jin-soo starts chasing him to learn who he really is, while Pyongyang sends a ruthless fixer who suspects Pyo's wife, an embassy translator, of leaking secrets.
Yeo-hoon, a former mercenary now living a quiet life, is framed for the killing of a well-known CEO. Shot while fleeing, he lands in a hospital, where medical resident Tae-joon helps him slip away from the men chasing him. When Tae-joon's pregnant wife is kidnapped, the two are pulled into a desperate 36-hour race.
At Incheon airport, a strange man named Jin-seok secretly carries a deadly virus onto a passenger flight, hidden in an asthma inhaler. Among those on board are Jae-hyuk and his young daughter Soo-min, while on the ground Detective In-ho starts tracing an online terror threat video back to the man.
In the 1980s, under military rule, intelligence agents Park Pyong-ho and Kim Jung-do lead rival foreign and domestic units. After an assassination attempt in Washington goes badly, they learn that a North Korean mole called Donglim is hiding inside their agency, and the two begin hunting the spy while growing suspicious of each other.
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.
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.
Kim Seung-hyeon, a taekwondo champion, walks away from fighting for good so he can look after his daughter, Sarang. When a ruthless gambling boss kidnaps her, he has no choice but to step into a rigged boxing match in exchange for her release.
A fatal road rage attack puts two brothers on opposite sides. Jae-gyu, a principled surgeon, operates on the victim's badly hurt daughter, while his older brother Jae-wan, a high-earning defense attorney, takes on the driver's case. Their clashing values also shape their family lives, which are soon tested by a violent incident involving their own children.
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.
Former national taekwondo champion Kwon Yoo spends his days at an internet cafe, where his character in an online shooter leads a tight-knit team. After he returns a lost smartphone to its owner's apartment, he is arrested the next day for killing a young girl, and with the evidence stacked against him, he is sentenced to life in prison.
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.
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.
