12 titles, most popular first
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 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.
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.
Kang In-gu is an ordinary businessman who is left with no choice but to help a secret National Intelligence Service operation. The target is Jeon Yo-hwan, a South Korean drug lord who has seized control in Suriname, and helping to catch him puts In-gu's life in serious danger.
Two North Korean agents, travelling on Japanese passports under the names Shinichi and Mayumi, are sent on a mission to bomb a passenger plane headed for Seoul. The film draws on the real bombing of Korean Air Flight 858 and the life of the woman agent involved.
In the fictional city of Iltan, a string of murders blamed on a killer nicknamed Gap-dong goes unsolved. Detective Yang Cheol-gon pursues local man Ha Il-sik, who dies insisting he is innocent, and Ha's son Moo-yeom grows up to become a police officer to clear his father's name. Seventeen years later, new crimes echoing Gap-dong's begin.
Kang Tae-joo, once a star detective, has been demoted and sent back home to Gangseong, but he still refuses to bend to injustice. He sees the town's serial murder case as a way to win back his reputation, yet he keeps clashing with prosecutor Cha Si-young, who bullied him back in school.
